The UK was shocked to its core in May 2012 when a gang of nine men was convicted of the systematic sexual abuse of disadvantaged teenage girls in the Rochdale area
- the crimes including counts of rape aiding & abetting rape sexual assault & trafficking girls within the UK for sexual exploitation. Yet many childcare experts reckon these crimes are just the tip of an iceberg of wide scale exploitation occurring across the country. The Deputy Childrens Commissioner Sue Berelowitz said in June 2012 that there isnt a town village or hamlet in which children are not being sexually exploited. As this book goes to press a gang of men similar to those convicted in Rochdale stands trial for similar crimes in Oxford. What is happening in Britain that means young vulnerable girls can be exploited in this way? Award-winning journalist Kris Hollington tells the inside story of some of the most shocking & heartbreaking crimes of recent years focusing on the Rochdale case but also analysing recent cases in the London area that have echoes of the brutality of organised slavery. His findings expose how the British justice system is failing to protect children in the 21st century. It is a scandal that cannot be ignored.
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In 2008 Tom Lubbock was diagnosed with a rare brain tumour & told he had only two years to live. Physically fit & healthy & suffering from few symptoms he faced his death with the same directness & courage that had marked the rest of his life. As the Independents chief art critic Lubbock was renowned for the clarity & unconventionality of his writing & his characteristic fierce intelligence permeates this extraordinary chronicle. With unflinching honesty & curiosity he repeatedly turns over the fact of his mortality as he wrestles with the paradoxical question of how to live knowing were going to die. Defying the initial diagnosis Tom survived for three years. He savoured his remaining days; engaging with books art friends his wife & their young son while trying to stay focused on the fact of his impending death. There are medical details in the book
- he vividly describes the slow process of losing control over speech as the tumour gradually pressed down on the area of his brain responsible for language
- but this is much more than a book about illness; rather its a book about a man who remains in thrall to life as he inches closer to death.

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I wish there was only today just right now & no forever. It seems fitting that I fell in love in Paris the most beautiful city in the world. & if I pretend I can almost believe that my life is normal & everyone I care about is safe. But as long as I'm with Vincent 'normal' doesn't exist. Gorgeous charming & witty he's everything you could ask for in a boyfriend
- but his destiny is so much more. Even more terrifying than his destiny are his dangerous enemies enemies who will kill for immortality. How are Vincent & I supposed to be together forever if we're always in danger?
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In June 2011 Susan Spencer-Wendel learned she had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
- Lou Gehrig's disease an irreversible condition
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Until Its Over is a riveting psychological thriller from the Top Ten bestselling author Nicci French Dead. Unlucky. Cycle courier Astrid Bell is bad luck
- for other people. First Astrids neighbour Peggy accidentally knocks her off her bike
- & not long after is found bludgeoned to death in an alley. Then a few days later Astrid is asked to pick up a package
- only to find the client slashed to pieces in the hall of her own home. For the police its more than coincidence. For Astrid & her six housemates its just the beginning of a nightmare
- the growing suspicion that the worst is yet to come. Because if its true that bad luck comes in threes
- who will be next to die? Praise for Nicci French: Reads like lightning". (Observer). " Another nail-biting thriller". (Daily Express). "A taut sexy & compulsive read". (Elle). " Taut & menacing.. .excellent". (Guardian). Nicci French is the pseudonym for Nicci Gerrard & Sean French. The couple live in Suffolk & have written thirteen other bestselling novels all published by Penguin: Complicit What to Do When Someone Dies Losing You Catch Me When I Fall The Memory Game Beneath the Skin The Safe House The Red Room Land of the Living Killing Me Softly Secret Smile & most recently Blue Monday & Tuesdays Gone in the brilliant new Frieda Klein series."




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Bill is a dedicated young lawyer working in New York. He leaves everything he trained for to follow his dream to become a minister in rural Wyoming. Jenny his fashion stylist wife leaves the milieu & life she loves to join him. The certainty they share is that their destinies are linked forever. Fast forward thirty-eight years. Robert is a hard-working independent book publisher in Manhattan looking for one big hit novel to publish. Lillibet is a young Amish woman living as though in the seventeenth century caring for her widowed father & three young brothers on their family farm. In secret at night by candlelight she has written the novel that burns within her. When it falls into Robert's hands he falls in love first with the book & then with the woman he has never met. In the hands of bestselling author Danielle Steel these two remarkable relationships come together in unexpected & surprising ways as lovers are lost & find each other again. If it is true that real love lasts forever & lovers cannot lose each other then Until the End of Time" will not only comfort & fascinate us as destiny does her dance but it will give us hope as well. Love & fate are powerful irresistible forces as Steel proves to us here in a book about courage change risk & hope & love that never dies." ...

Bestselling author Iyanla Vanzant has had an amazing & difficult life
- one of great challenges that unmasked her wonderful gifts
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A heartwarming dog story like no other: Tuesday a lovable golden retriever changes a former soldiers life forever. A highly decorated captain in the U.S. Army Luis Montalvan never backed down from a challenge during his two tours of duty in Iraq. After returning home from combat however his physical wounds & crippling post-traumatic stress disorder began to take their toll. He wondered if he would ever recover. Then Luis met Tuesday a sensitive golden retriever trained to assist the disabled. Tuesday had lived among prisoners & at a home for troubled boys & he found it difficult to trust in or connect with a human being--until Luis. Until Tuesday is the story of how two wounded warriors who had given so much & suffered the consequences found salvation in each other. It is a story about war & peace injury & recovery psychological wounds & spiritual restoration. But more than that it is a story about the love between a man & dog & how together they healed each others souls. ...

You're alone. You're vulnerable. & you have something that someone else wants. At any cost... If you liked Before I Go To Sleep you'll love this gripping psychological thriller. Claudia seems to have the perfect life. She's heavily pregnant with a much wanted baby she has a loving husband & a beautiful home. & then Zoe steps into her life. Zoe has come to help Claudia when her baby arrives. But there's something about Zoe that Claudia doesn't like. Or trust. & when she finds Zoe in her bedroom Claudia's anxiety turns to real fear... ...

eatured artists include David Ellis Os Gemeos Banksy Dan Witz Ron English Obey JR Mac & Retna Mark Jenkins Elbowtoe Swoon Dolk Erica Il Cane Billi Kid Michael De Feo & many more. In addition to the fantastic art photographed in locations around the world pithy essays on diverse subjects ranging from intellectual property law Marshall Mc Luhan v. Street Art & THE Manifesto keep the book lively & thought provoking. ...