The new girl in Jiggys class sneezes a lot. & the ocean of runny stuff that comes out of her nose isnt your ordinary run-of-the-mill snot. It tells the future
- & its not looking good. Lucky the Snottle is around. Future Snot is his favourite meal!
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Returning to Turkey from exile in the West the secular poet Ka is driven by curiosity to investigate a surprising wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden by the government to wear their head scarves in school. But the epicentre of the suicides the bleak impoverished border city of Kars is also home to the beautiful Ipek a friend of Kas youth whom he has never forgotten & whose spirited younger sister is a leader of the rebellious schoolgirls. As a fierce snowstorm descends cutting them off from the world violence between the military & local Islamic radicals begins to explode & Ka finds his sympathies drawn in unexpected & dramatic directions. ...

The new Adam Roberts novel is a story of global apocalypse old hatreds & new beginnings. It is his best novel to date. & this is how the world will end.. . The snow started falling on the sixth of September soft noiseless flakes filling the sky like a swarm of white moths or like static interference on your TV screen
- whichever metaphor nature or technology you find the more evocative. Snow everywhere all through the air with that distinctive sense of hurrying that a vigorous snowfall brings with it. Everything in a rush busy-busy snowflakes. & simultaneously paradoxically everything is hushed calm as quiet as cancer as white as death. & at the beginning people were happy. But the snow doesnt stop. It falls & falls & falls. Until it lies three miles thick across the whole of the earth. Six billion people have died. Perhaps 150 000 survive. But those 150 000 need help they need support they need organising governing. & so the lies begin. Lies about how the snow started. Lies about who is to blame. Lies about who is left. Lies about what really lies beneath.
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As the snow begins to fall just days before Christmas Grandad helps Sara build an igloo in the garden with a small snow bear to watch over it. & when Sara wakes in the middle of the night it looks very different outside. She sets out on an enchanted journey through a world of ice but will she ever find her way home... ...

Snow Blind" is yet another top ten bestseller from the chilling PJ Tracy. " The Dead of Winter"... Minneapolis winters first white flakes; a park full of snowmen. But the layers of packed snow hide a goulish surprise... First the bodies of two cops are found inside the snowmen & then a day later in the countryside to the north Sheriff Iris Rikker makes a similarly shocking discovery. Soon Detectives Gino & Magozzi are sent north through the worst blizzard Minnesotas seen for years to find what else links the investigations. But some secrets you dont want to uncover. & as the cases unravel it seems snowmen arent the only ones with something to hide... From the author of " Live Bait" & " Dead Run" comes PJ Tracys " Snow Blind". Grace Mac Bride & Detectives Gino & Magozzi are back for more. Fans of Lisa Gardiner & Karen Rose will love this. Praise for PJ Tracy: "A fast-paced gripping read with thrills & devilish twists". (" Guardian"). " Outrageously suspenseful". (Harlan Coben). "PJ Tracy is about to become a household name". (" Daily Mirror"). P.J. Tracy is the pseudonynm for the mother-&-daughter writing team of P.J. & Traci Lambrecht. They are the authors of the award-winning & bestselling thrillers " Live Bait" " Dead Run" " Snow Blind" " Play to Kill" & the Richard & Judy Book Club pick " Want to Play?" All five books feature detectives Gino & Magozzi & maverick computer hacker Grace Mc Bride. P.J. & Traci both live near Minneapolis Minnesota." ...

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize 2013. A bewitching tale of heartbreak & hope set in 1920s Alaska The Snow Child was a bestseller on hardback publication & went on to establish itself as one of the key literary debuts of 2012 & was a Richard & Judy Bookclub pick. Alaska the 1920s. Jack & Mabel have staked everything on a fresh start in a remote homestead but the wilderness is a stark place & Mabel is haunted by the baby she lost many years before. When a little girl appears mysteriously on their land each is filled with wonder but also foreboding: is she what she seems & can they find room in their hearts for her? Written with the clarity & vividness of the Russian fairy tale from which it takes its inspiration The Snow Child is an instant classic. ...

Its going to be woof-onderful! There is nothing Nicky wants more in the world than a dog to play with. But Mum & Dad dont want a dog. Then Grandad has an idea
- he & Nicky can make a dog: a snow-dome dog. Even better he has some special clay found at the end of a rainbow so that the dog will be extra-special. Maybe even magic...
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When the power-crazy Most Royal of Fire Dragons decides he wants to rule not only his own hot southern kingdom but also the icy wastes of the Snow Dragons' northern territory catastrophe occurs. The Fire Dragon ignores the warning from the powerful Book that Twolegs will eventually destroy his kind & sets out crisping & frazzling the world. Little Tuft a Twoleg can't ignore the warning & enlists the help of the last remaining Snow Dragon in a thrilling & magical quest to save the world from burning up... An entrancing story lyrically told & gorgeously illustrated which will be appreciated on a variety of levels by children from pre-school to 8-year-olds & older. ...

In 1954 a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat & a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder. In the course of his trial it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than one mans guilt. For on San Piedro memories grow as thickly as cedar trees & the fields of ripe strawberries
- memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy & a Japanese girl; memories of land desired paid for & lost. Above all San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbours watched.
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Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer & to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape & size of her feet this is extraordinary good luck. Lily now has the power to make a good marriage & change the fortunes of her family. To prepare for her new life she must undergo the agonies of footbinding learn nu shu the famed secret women's writing & make a very special friend Snow Flower. But a bitter reversal of fortune is about to change everything. ...