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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The pulse-quickening heartbreaking devastatingly powerful follow-up to INFINITE DAYS. Lenah Beaudonte should be dead. But having sacrificed herself to save another she finds herself awakening with strange powers that are neither vampire nor human
- & with a new enemy on her trail. In her vampire life Lenah had thought that being human was all she ever wanted; but the human heart suffers pain heartbreak & loss. With her new powers growing & the dark force of the Nex after her soul Lenah faces a choice: between the mortal love of gorgeous Justin whose passion fed her human soul & taking a different path to become the mistress of her own destiny wherever that may lead.. .
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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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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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This is the way we stomp our feet Stomp! Stomp! Stomp! This is the way we like to eat Chomp! Chomp! Chomp! Stomp! Chomp! Big Roars Here come the dinosaurs! This is a brilliant third action rhymes book from the perfect duo of Kaye Umansky & Nick Sharratt. Following on from Tickle my Nose" & " Wiggle My Toes" this book focusses on the perennial favourites dinosaurs & boasts a whole host of brand new interactive fun rhymes about all sorts of things. Illustrated with Nick Sharratt's superbly vibrant & fantastic dinosaur characters this will soon become a most popular book." ...

Stone Cold is an exciting & disturbing thriller by Robert Swindells. A tense exciting thriller combined with a perceptive & harrowing portrait of life on the streets as a serial killer preys on the young & vulnerable homeless. 17-year-old Link is distrustful of people until he pairs up with Deb homeless like him. But what Deb doesn't tell him is that she's an ambitious young journalist on a self-imposed assignment to track down the killer & that she's prepared to use herself as bait... Winner of the Carnegie Medal Robert Swindells lives on the Yorkshire moors & is a full-time writer. He has won the Children's Book Award twice for Brother In The Land & for Room 13. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for Stone Cold & also the Sheffield Book Award. Also by Robert Swindells: Brother in the Land; Room 13; Stone Cold; Nightmare Stairs; Unbeliever; Blitzed; Ruby Tanya; The Thousand Eyes of Night; The Tunnel; The Shade of Hettie Daynes; Burnout; In the Nick of Time; Daz 4 Zoe; Snakebite; Snapshot; Branded; Roger's War; No Angels; Wrecked; Jacqueline Hyde; Stayling Up; A Serpent's Tooth; Follow a Shadow; Timesnatch; Unbeliever; & The Last Bus. ...

Investigating a serial killer in an affluent suburban town is difficult & dangerous & with the added pressures from the town selectmen & the media the heat is turned up on Jesse. Hes spengin too much time with the bottle & with his ex-wife neither of which helps him or the case. & the harder these outside forces push against him the more Jesse retreats into himslef convinced despite the odds that its up to him alone to stop the killing. ...