To lose one child is terrible; to lose two is unimaginable. For no one to believe that you are innocent of their deaths & to be imprisoned because of it must be unbearable. Yet this is the reality Sally Clark had to face. The daughter of a policeman wife of a solicitor & a solicitor herself just when she was grieving from the tragic death of her second child the system shed always believed in turned against her. Justice suddenly seemed a far-off principle as she was convicted & her initial appeal quashed. Her family lawyers & various volunteers were relentless in their fight to clear her name. Finally following three long years in prison suffering abuse & the bleak horrow of bereavement Sally Clark was finally acquitted by the Court of Appeal in 2003. Her release caught the nations attention & paved the way for succesful appeals by wrongly convicted mothers such as Angela Canning. As Lord Justice Judge said Unless we are sure of guilt the dreadful possibility always remains that a mother already brutally scarred by the unexplained deaths of her babies may find herself in prison for life for killing them when she should not be there at all." Written with the power of a thriller the book is a tragic but ultimately uplifting story of a mothers love & a familys gutsy fight for what they knew to be right." ...

Dido Twite heroine of Black Hearts in Battersea & Nightbirds on Nantucket is on her wildest adventure yet. On her way back to London aboard the Thrush Dido & crew are summoned to the aid of the tyrannical queen of New Cumbria. Her island is an infernal place where birds carry off men & fish eat human flesh. The queen is greatly distressed because a neighbouring king has stolen her lake. Dido faces fire flood wild beasts & ultimately threat of execution in order to get the lake back. Is she equal to the challenge? A rich mixture of legend fantasy humour & pure snowballing adventure. ...

On 10 June 1991 eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe California. It was the last her family & friends saw of her for over eighteen years. On 26 August 2009 Dugard her daughters & Phillip Craig Garrido appeared in the office of her kidnapper's parole officer in California. Their unusual behaviour sparked an investigation that led to the positive identification of Jaycee Lee Dugard living in a tent behind Garrido's home. During her time in captivity at the age of fourteen & seventeen she gave birth to two daughters both fathered by Garrido. Dugard's memoir covers the period from the time of her abduction in 1991 up until the present. In her stark compelling narrative Jaycee opens up about what she experienced including how she feels now & the struggle to re-build her life after eighteen years in captivity. Garrido & his wife Nancy have since pleaded guilty to their crimes. ...

On 10 June 1991 eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe California. It was the last her family & friends saw of her for over eighteen years. On 26 August 2009 Dugard her daughters & Phillip Craig Garrido appeared in the office of her kidnapper's parole officer in California. Their unusual behaviour sparked an investigation that led to the positive identification of Jaycee Lee Dugard living in a tent behind Garrido's home. During her time in captivity at the age of fourteen & seventeen she gave birth to two daughters both fathered by Garrido. Dugard's memoir is written by the 30-year-old herself & covers the period from the time of her abduction in 1991 up until the present. In her stark utterly honest & unflinching narrative Jaycee opens up about what she experienced including how she feels now a year after being found. Garrido & his wife Nancy have since pleaded guilty to their crimes. ...

After discovering that she was a stardust spirit Lucy has spent a magical year with her new stardust friends Allegra Faye & Ella flying through the woods at night-time using their magic powers to save animals & the environment. Its now Autumn & Lucys powers have become stronger than anyone could imagine
- she can do things that even adult stardust spirits struggle too. But even though Lucy is delighted with her new powers & loves showing them off her friends are a little upset. So when Lucy gets trapped in the woods by a dark spirit who wants to steal her stardust & therefore also her powers she wishes she had listened to her friends much more! But friendship even more powerful than the strongest magic & working together the girls manage to defeat the dark spirit for good.
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Destroyed by fire years ago the infamous Philadelphia State Hospital was known as a warehouse for the criminally insane. But one man never left. By night Luther walks Philadelphia's backstreets drawing to him the mad the corrupt the fallen. By day he roams the catacombs beneath the city killing his prey. Detectives Kevin Byrne & Jessica Balzano are called to a bizarre murder scene: a man has been killed by a railroad spike driven into his head & left sitting on a bench in a local park. But it is just the beginning of a trail of evil that leads back to the hospital & the nightmares it still contains... ...

Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the small Minnesota town of Deephaven an entire family has been killed
- husband wife two daughters dogs. There's something about the scene that pokes at Lucas's cop instincts
- it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution he's seen in drug killings sometimes. But this is a seriously upscale town & the husband was an executive vice president at a big bank. It just doesn't seem to fit. Until it does. & where it leads Lucas will take him into the darkest nightmare of his life.

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Gaylas only hope is about to turn into her worst nightmare. Tricked into coming to Ireland with the offer of a good job all Gayla wants to do now is run. As far & as fast as she can. Because her captors are close behind her & they want her dead
- no matter what. Two people are hunting her... Crime lord Arturus Strazdas has never had a woman he hasnt paid for & never had a friend who wasnt afraid of him. Now his brother is dead & hes determined to find
- & destroy
- the woman responsible... And neither one will rest till she is dead. On the other side of the city Detective Inspector Lennon wants a quiet Christmas with his six year old daughter. But as the bodies start to mount up he finds himself in a desperate race to save a womans life & track down two very dangerous killers. Stuart Nevilles breakneck new thriller.


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Exciting new magical adventure series for girls
- will you answer the call of Silver Dolphins? Antonia is a secret Silver Dolphin
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In June 1631 pirates from Algiers & armed troops of the Turkish Ottoman Empire led by the notorious pirate captain Morat Rais stormed ashore at the little harbour village of Baltimore in West Cork. They captured almost all the villagers & bore them away to a life of slavery in North Africa. The prisoners were destined for a variety of fates
- some would live out their days chained to the oars as galley slaves while others would spend long years in the scented seclusion of the harem or within the walls of the Sultans palace. The old city of Algiers with its narrow streets intense heat & lively trade was a melting pot where the villagers would join slaves & freemen of many nationalities. Only two of them ever saw Ireland again. The Sack of Baltimore was the most devastating invasion ever mounted by Islamist forces on Ireland or Engl&. Des Ekins exhaustive research illuminates the political intrigues that ensured the captives were left to their fate & provides a vivid insight into the kind of life that would have awaited the slaves amid the souks & seraglios of old Algiers. The Stolen Village" is a fascinating tale of international piracy & culture clash nearly 400 years ago & is the first book to cover this relatively unknown & under-researched incident in Irish history. It was shortlisted for the Argosy Irish Nonfiction Book of the Year Award."
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