Eight years ago David Beck was knocked unconscious & left for dead & his wife Elizabeth was kidnapped & murdered. Dr Beck re-lived the horror of what happened that day every day of his life. Then one afternoon he receives an anonymous email telling him to log on to a certain website. The screen opens on to a web cam
- & it is Elizabeth's image he sees. As Beck tries to find out if Elizabeth is truly alive & what really happened the night she disappeared the FBI are trying to pin Elizabeth's murder on him. & everyone he turns to seems to end up dead...
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Eight years ago David Beck was knocked unconscious & left for dead & his wife Elizabeth was kidnapped & murdered. Dr Beck re-lived the horror of what happened that day every day of his life. Then one afternoon he receives an anonymous email telling him to log on to a certain website. The screen opens on to a web cam
- & it is Elizabeths image he sees. As Beck tries to find out if Elizabeth is truly alive & what really happened the night she disappeared the FBI are trying to pin Elizabeths murder on him. & everyone he turns to seems to end up dead...
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There's only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus & that's her uncle the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school & distant from her once inseparable older sister June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather confident & best friend. So when he dies far too young of a mysterious illness that June's mother can barely bring herself to discuss June's world is turned upside down. At the funeral she notices a strange man lingering just beyond the crowd & a few days later June receives a package in the mail. Inside is a beautiful teapot she recognizes from Finn's apartment & a note from Toby the stranger asking for an opportunity to meet. A the two begin to spend time together June realises she's not the only one who misses Finn & if she can bring herself to trust this unexpected friend he might just be the one she needs the most. Tell the Wolves I'm Home is a tender story of love lost & found an unforgettable portrait of the way compassion can make us whole again. ...

John aged sixty suffered a stroke & recovered fully except in one respect: although he can see perfectly he can no longer recognise faces even his own reflection in a mirror. Whenever Francesca touches a particular texture she experiences a vivid emotion: denim = extreme sadness; wax = embarrassment; orange peel = shock. Jimmie whose left arm was recently amputated can still feel it
- & its itchy. Our brains are the most enchanting & complex things in the known universe
- but what happens when they go wrong? Dr V. S. Ramachandran the Sherlock Holmes of brain science & one of the worlds leading neuroscientists has spent a lifetime working with patients who suffer from rare & baffling brain conditions. In The Tell-Tale Brain he tells their stories & explores what they reveal about the greatest mystery of them all: how our minds work & what makes each of us so uniquely human.

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First published in 1839 this entertaining dictionary of provincial language aimed to record & preserves the array of England's local dialects. This is the perfect guide to yaping-about with sosse-brangles & swobbling like a true Victorian trubagully. ...

Telling Stories" by Tim Burgess of The Charlatans is one of the decade's most revealing rock books. " Clear honest. An unusually frank & well-written rock memoir". (" The Times"). The Charlatans. Madchester. Britpop. Taking on the world. Here are the highs the lows the joys the agonies & the stories of what it's like to be in a rock band as told by front man & survivor Tim Burgess. " Like the best bits of every cautionary rock star tale.. .there is armed robbery & smuggling. There's serious fraud. There are near & actual death experiences divorce industrial cocaine consumption & magnificent cameos from Madonna Alan Mc Gee Ronnie Wood Joe Strummer LA drug dealer Harry The Dog & Joaquin Phoenix. A minor classic". ("Q"). For readers who enjoyed " Life" by Keith Richards & " Bit of a Blur" by Alex James " Telling Stories" is one of the finest music books of recent times. It's a story of achievement & survival from London to LA. "A vivid read". (" Independent on Sunday")."' The Charlatans' frontman recalls the heyday of Britpop & Madchester with endearing exuberance. He's unflinchingly honest about the bad times but also peppers his story with anecdotal nuggets about the pitfalls of rock 'n' roll excess". (" Metro"). " Burgess keeps a level head a sharp eye & a nice turn of phrase". (" Independent"). " Written with the stylish flow of a novel
- light & dark hilarious & melancholic". (Emma Forrest). " For a man whose behaviour borders on the suicidal Timothy Burgess the people's friend is what you call a life enthusiast. He is also mad. It's a much-abused word mad.. .but he really is proper coo-ee clouds pan-dimensional mad mad". (Syliva Patteerson " Sky"). Tim Burgess was born in Salford but grew up in a village near Northwich Cheshire. Leaving school at 16 to work at ICI his real love was music & soon afterwards he was invited to join new band The Charlatans. For twelve years Burgess lived in Los Angeles but he has recently returned to the UK."
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Telling Tales is the second book in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series -- which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn VERA. Ten years after Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of fifteen-year-old Abigail Mantel disturbing new evidence proving her innocence emerges in the East Yorkshire village of Elvet. Abigail's killer is still at large. For Emma Bennett the revelation brings back haunting memories of her vibrant best friend -- & of the fearful winter's day when she had discovered her body lying cold in a ditch. Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope makes fresh inquiries & the villagers are hauled back to a time they would rather forget. Tensions begin to mount but are people afraid of the killer or of their own guilty pasts? Also available in the Vera Stanhope series are The Crow Trap Hidden Depths Silent Voices & The Glass Room. Ann Cleeves' Shetland series (BBC television drama SHETLAND) contains five titles of which Dead Water is the most recent. ...

DK Readers" help a child learn to read & encourage a life-long love of reading. Tick tock. Long ago people told time using the sun or water
- follow a historical timeline & find out how clocks have changed & become more accurate. "DK Readers" are part of a five-level highly pictorial reading scheme which uses lively illustrations & engaging stories to encourage reading. Level 2 have long sentences increased vocabulary information boxes & a simple index
- read them together with children who are beginning to read alone & with early or reluctant readers. There are over 70 titles in the series."

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Naomi Noviks stunning series of novels follow the global adventures of Captain William Laurence & his fighting dragon Temeraire ...

The Tempest is the most lyrical profound & fascinating of Shakespeare's late comedies. Prospero long exiled from Italy with his daughter Miranda seeks to use his magical powers to defeat his former enemies. Eventually having proved merciful he divests himself of that magic his 'art' & prepares to return to the mainl&. The Tempest has often been regarded as Shakespeare's 'farewell to the stage' before his retirement. ...