They'd give up everything to dance on stage but could they lose each other? London's East End 1934. Eighteen-year-old twins Marie & Vesta Haskins work at the local shoe factory to bring in a few pennies for the family but they've never given up on their dream of treading the boards in the West End. When a brand new East End club opens its doors the girls audition for the show & are over the moon to land two nights a week with their cabaret act. But little do they realise that the villainous Scoresby brothers are using the club as a front for a very different line of business. Seeing what is going on behind the smoke & lights of the stage sensible Marie vows to leave her job at the club before it is too late but headstrong Vesta has fallen for the Scoresby's handsome right-hand man Teddy & unwittingly leads her whole family into the Scoresby's clutches. Will Marie be able to save her family from disaster? Or will Vesta's determination to become a star tear the Haskins family apart? ...

We all have a dark side... Elizabeth Greene is devastated when her boyfriend of ten years leaves her for someone else. After a night of drowning her sorrows leads to an unexpected one-night stand Elizabeth finds herself pregnant alone & vulnerable. Helen has just discovered she has a sister she didn't know she had. Bored with her privileged life in France & driven by a need to gain her parents' approval Helen sets out to find her sister & reunite her with her long-lost mother. When her search leads her to Elizabeth the two women become closely linked. But their connection to one another is founded on a dark deception with the truth having extreme consequences... ...

It is 83 years after the last of the thinking machines were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin after Faykan Butler established himself as the first Emperor of a new imperium. War hero Vorian Atreides has turned his back on Salusa Secundus flying off to parts unknown. Abulurd Harkonnen convicted of cowardice was sent away to live on gloomy Lankiveil & his descendants continue to blame Vor for the downfall of their fortunes. Raquella Berto-Anirul has formed the Bene Gesserit School as the first Reverend Mother. Descendants of Aurelius Venport & Norma Cenva have built a powerful transportation company using mutated Navigators who fly spacefolder ships". Gilbertus Albans has established a school on bucolic Lampadas teaching humans to become Mentats. Even so decades after the defeat of the thinking machines anti-technology fervor continues to sweep across the human-settled planets with powerful fanatical groups imposing violent purges..." ...

It is 83 years after the last of the thinking machines were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin after Faykan Butler established himself as the first Emperor of a new imperium. War hero Vorian Atreides has turned his back on Salusa Secundus flying off to parts unknown. Abulurd Harkonnen convicted of cowardice was sent away to live on gloomy Lankiveil & his descendants continue to blame Vor for the downfall of their fortunes. Raquella Berto-Anirul has formed the Bene Gesserit School as the first Reverend Mother. Descendants of Aurelius Venport & Norma Cenva have built a powerful transportation company using mutated Navigators who fly spacefolder ships". Gilbertus Albans has established a school on bucolic Lampadas teaching humans to become Mentats. Even so decades after the defeat of the thinking machines anti-technology fervor continues to sweep across the human-settled planets with powerful fanatical groups imposing violent purges…" ...

Following the success of The Shell House Linda Newbery again demonstrates her brilliance at weaving thought-provoking subjects into a wholly satisfying & sensitively drawn novel. Hilly's German grandmother Heidi Gran comes to live with her family after she gets Alzheimer's disease; but as her mind becomes more muddled secrets buried in her past start to emerge. Why does Heidi Gran keep talking about a girl called Rachel? & why does she make racist remarks about Hilly's friend Reuben? As Hilly struggles to cope with revelations about her family's past she encounters racism & prejudice for herself when a friend becomes the victim of a mindless attack; she also falls in love for the first time. This is a wonderfully evocative novel exploring the recurring prejudices that affect every generation. ...

Candy
- its the only the name she needs
- is blazing her way through Paris New York & Tokyo as fashions latest international

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Two sisters. Two special agents. One War. Sisters Secrets & Sacrifice is the incredible true story of British special agents Eileen & Jacqueline Nearne two sisters who risked everything to fight for our freedom during the Second World War. The death of an eccentric recluse is rarely an event to be given more than a few lines in a local newspaper. But when in September 2010 police were called to a tiny cluttered flat in Torquay & discovered the body of local 'cat lady' Eileen Nearne they also found a small bundle of possessions that told an amazing story. For Eileen Nearne had been an agent for the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War going undercover in Nazi-occupied France to send wireless messages of crucial importance to the Allies. Astonishingly Eileen was not the only special agent in the family
- her sister Jacqueline had also been an SOE. Rarely had two members of the same family sacrificed so much to such dangerous work. Sisters Secrets & Sacrifice pays tribute to these fiercely patriotic women with hearts of courage who fought for freedom at much personal cost. While Jacqueline narrowly avoided capture several times tirelessly couriering secret documents for the resistance Eileen was arrested & tortured by the Gestapo before being incarcerated at Ravensbruck concentration camp. She was only 23. This is a true story of triumph & tragedy of two sisters who sacrificed themselves to defend our freedom who stood shoulder to shoulder during the darkest of days.
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Welcome to my World. Its weird but kind of wonderful... Ally knows Linn finds her chaotic family a bit.. .exasperating. Super efficient Linn with her super tidy room & super perfect hair sometime doesnt seem like a Love Child at all. But when Linn falls for Q lead singer in Chazzas band all her sensible sef-controlled ways go to pieces. Everyone else can see Qs a creep
- but does Ally have the courage to burst Linns heart-shaped bubble?
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Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. Across 1000 miles of Oregon desert his assassins the notorious Eli & Charlies Sisters ride
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After the shocking ending of The Everafter War this book picks up with Sabrina Daphne & Puck stuck in the Book of Everafter where all the fairy tales are stored & enchanted characters can change their destinies. The girls (and Puck) must chase the Master through a series of stories where theyre willing to change what they need in order to save their baby brother. Soon however they are confronted by the Editor-the books guardian-who along with an army of tiny monsters known as Revisers threatens the children with dire consequences if they dont stick to the stories. As they chase their quarry & dodge the Revisers they meet Alice Mowgli Jack the Giant Killer Hansel & Gretel the Headless Horseman & more. But will they find their brother in time? ...