Sadie Smith born with a degenerative hip is unable to walk. Sent to a Dr Barnardo's home for treatment she is so excited that she fails to realise she will never see her beloved family again. In 1927 once fully cured Sadie is offered the opportunity of a lifetime; to start a new life in Canada. But when she arrives at the Trikhardts' farm in the heart of Ontario her new life seems far from perfect. Worked from dawn to dusk she treasures the scarlet ribbons her mother gave her & seeks solace in her friendship with fellow orphan cheeky-faced Robbie. A freak hurricane finally provides Sadie with a lucky escape. From Canadian parlourmaid to pilot in Britain's Air Transport Auxillary from office clerk to managing director Sadie has to draw on her courage & strength in a determined struggle to find the lasting happiness that had eluded her as a child. ...

She was a madam in a brothel then a gangster's moll. Now Annie Carter owns the East End of London & God help anybody that crosses her... It's 1970 London & there's a killer on the loose. When gang boss Annie Carter gets a call suddenly it's personal. A close friend of hers is the latest victim & another is in the frame for the murder. With the hated Delaney gang still causing trouble & NY mob boss Don Constantine Barolli's family making no secret of the fact that they hate her she senses a feud blowing up in all their faces very soon. To save her old friend Annie has to try to find out who's been targeting the girls. Before long she's diving head-first into the seedy underbelly of the streets. How long before the killer strikes again? & who will be the next victim? ...

Scarlett" by Cathy Cassidy is an lovely addictive page-turner for girls aged 9+. I'll be different I won't break the rules.. .I promise' Scarlett has got herself in trouble so often her Mum no longer believes her promises. Sent off to stay with Dad the message is behave or else! Can Scarlett mend her ways or will she die of boredom? Perhaps gorgeous & mysterious local boy Kian can supply some of the answers.. ." Touching tender & unforgettable". (" Guardian"). " Cassidy's characters have real heart". (" Sunday Telegraph"). " Cathy Cassidy.. .is way better than Jacqueline Wilson". (Courtney aged 10). Cathy Cassidy wrote her first picture book for her little brother when she was eight or nine & has been writing fabulous stories ever since. Cathy is the bestselling author of " Dizzy" " Driftwood" " Indigo Blue" " Scarlett" " Sundae Girl" " Lucky Star" " Gingersnaps" & " Angel Cake". " The Chocolate Box Girls" is a sumptuous series starring sassy sisters super-cool boys & one of Cathy's biggest loves
- chocolate. Cathy lives in Scotland with her family & of all the jobs she's had writing has to be the best
- it's the perfect excuse to daydream after all."

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Disaster has struck Fairyland! Jack Frost has stolen all the jewels from Queen Titania's crown. Without them the fairies' magic dust is losing its power. Rachel & Kirsty have to help India the Moonstone Fairy Scarlett the Garnet Fairy Emily the Emerald Fairy Chloe the Topaz Fairy Amy the Amethyst Fairy Sophie the Sapphire Fairy & Lucy the Diamond Fairy to get the jewels back before it's too late...in this book Rachel & Kirsty must help Scarlett find her magical garnet before the goblins use its powers to cause chaos in the human world! ...

THE BEAST Strange twisted carvings & hideous gargoyles adorn the palazzo of the great Scarletti family. But a still more fearful secret lurks within its storm-tossed turrets. For every bride who enters its forbidding walls is doomed to leave in a casket. THE BRIDE Mystical & unfettered Nicoletta has no terror of ancient curses & no fear of marriage.. .until she looks into the dark mesmerising eyes of Don Scarletti. She had sworn no man would command her had thought her gift of healing set her apart but his is the right to choose a bride from among his people. & he has chosen her. THE BARGAIN Compelled by duty drawn by desire she gives her body into his keeping & prays the powerful tormented don will be her hearts destiny & not her souls demise. ...

Leaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured patient in a psychiatric ward. The handcuffed & chained patient Oscar Bane has specifically asked for her & when she literally has her gloved hands on him he begins to talk
- & the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard. He says his injuries were sustained in the course of a murder.. .that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true & it is he who is being spied on followed & stalked by the actual killer? The only thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured & murdered
- & that more violent deaths will follow...

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It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of dramatic & unsettling events. She is asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr who has vanished & is presumed dead. Moments later during the same broadcast she receives a startling call-in from a former psychiatric patient of Benton Wesley's. When she returns after the show to the apartment where she & Benton live she finds a suspicious package
- possibly a bomb
- waiting for her at the front desk. Soon the apparent threat on Scarpetta's life finds her embroiled in a deadly plot that

Includes:: a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime & the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom Scarpetta's niece Lucy seems to have shared a secret past...



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It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York Citys Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of dramatic & unsettling events. She is asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr who has vanished & is presumed dead. Moments later during the same broadcast she receives a startling call-in from a former psychiatric patient of Benton Wesleys. When she returns after the show to the apartment where she & Benton live she finds a suspicious package
- possibly a bomb
- waiting for her at the front desk. Soon the apparent threat on Scarpettas life finds her embroiled in a deadly plot that

Includes:: a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime & the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom Lucy seems to have shared a secret past...



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CAUGHT IN A MIDNIGHT TRYST! Can a reclusive & distrustful lord scarred by betrayal & raised without love learn to trust a pampered society beauty who seems to have the whole world at her elegantly shod feet? When Alexander Forthin Earl of Calvercombe clashes with Persephone Seaborne it seems not... But a series of mysterious disappearances links their two families forcing the embittered soldier & the toast of St James into an unlikely alliance
- one that starts the gossips' tongues wagging... Especially after they are caught in a secret midnight tryst!
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Your battle wounds are scars upon my heart wrote Vera Brittain in a poem to her beloved brother four days before he died in June 1918. The rediscovery of TESTAMENT OF YOUTH has reminded a new generation of the bitter sufferings of women as well as men in the terrible madness of the First World War. This the first anthology of women war poets for over sixty years will come as a surprise to many. It shows for example that women were writing protest poetry before Wilfred Owen & Siegfried Sassoon & that the view of the women at home ignorant & idealistic was quite false. Many of these poems come out of direct experiences of nursing the victims of trench warfare or the pain of lovers brothers sons lost. Poets include: Nancy Cunard Rose Macaulay Charlotte Mew Alice Meynell Edith Nesbit Edith Sitwell Marie Stopes Katharine Tynan. Here as elsewhere the poetry is in the pity
- a moving record of womens experience of war.
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