It is Afghanistan. Parvanas father is arrested & taken away by the Taliban soldiers. Under Taliban law women & girls are not allowed to leave the house on their own. Parvana her mother & sisters must stay inside. Four days later the food runs out. They face starvation. So Parvana must pretend to be a boy to save her family. It is a dangerous plan but their only chance. In fear she goes out
- & witnesses the horror of land mines & the brutality of the Taliban. She suffers beatings & the desperation of trying to survive. But even in despair lies hope.
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Are you plagued by obsessive thoughts rituals or routines? Would you like to regain control over your behaviour & cast your fears aside? Whether you are compelled to wash your hands more & more thoroughly or feel the need to keep checking that you've turned off appliances obsessive worries can be a drain on daily life. However you don't need to suffer any more. This practical guide written by three leading cognitive behavioural therapy experts enables you to make sense of your symptoms & gives a simple plan to help you conquer OCD. This title
Includes:: detailed information on the many different manifestations of OCD; the differences between normal & obsessive worries; clear information on treating your individual problem; real-life case studies & examples; & advice & support for friends & family of OCD sufferers. Whether your condition is mild or severe this definitive resource will help you reclaim your life & keep OCD away for good.
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Family ties mean trouble chains & fatal obligations. & when steeplechase jockey Kit Fielding comes to the aid of his twin sister & her husband Bobby Allardeck even death threatens. A vicious newspaper campaign jeopardizes Bobbys career as a racehorse trainer. Putting behind him the age-old Allardeck-Fielding feud Kit tries to find out who is behind it all. Combining his investigations with riding winners for the Princess
- whose beautiful niece becomes more than a friend
- he makes some startling discoveries. Caught up in the intrigue are powerful people who think a jockey should mind his own business & are prepared to use violence to make sure he does...

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Dr Temperance Brennan & her students are working on a site of prehistoric graves on an island near Charleston South Carolina when a decomposing body is uncovered in a shallow grave off a lonely beach. The bone is fresh & the remains are still topped by wisps of hair
- its a recent burial & a case Tempe must take. Tempe determines that the deceased is a middle-aged white male
- but who was he? Why was he buried in a clandestine grave? & what does an unusual vertical fracture of one of the vertebrae signify? Before long another body is discovered
- & Tempe finds herself drawn deeper into a shocking investigation which will challenge her entire view of humanity.


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Each day brings a new beginning... Her mothers death in childbirth leaves Sophy Hutton at the mercy of her cruel aunt & uncle & her childhood is brutal. At sixteen Sophy learns the shocking truth behind her birth & escapes to London to pursue a career as an actress determined to put the past behind her. But life for women at the turn of the century is fraught with danger & Sophy soon discovers the darker side to Londons glamorous theatres. Young & innocent she doesnt recognise the man who really loves her when he appears; instead she is charmed into marrying handsome actor Toby Shawe a flawed & amoral individual. Then the heartache really begins... ...

When she revisited always with astonishment what had happened to her it was the deliberate breaking of her fingers that remained indelibly printed on her memory.. . Twelve hours after a woman's broken body is washed up on a deserted shore her traumatized three-year-old daughter is discovered twenty miles away wandering the streets of Poole. But why was Kate killed & her daughter a witness allowed to live? & why weren't they together? More curiously why had Kate willingly boarded a boat when she had a terror of drowning at sea? Police suspicion centres on both a young actor whose sailing boat is moored just yards from where the toddler is found & the murdered woman's husb&. Was he really in Liverpool the night she died? & why does their daughter scream in terror every time he tries to pick her up? ...

When Darcy Mc Call loses her beloved Aunt Molly she doesn't expect any sort of inheritance
- let alone a small island! Located
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Sadie is fourteen years old & unhappy at school. Her dad died four years ago & she lives alone with her mum in their seaside bed & breakfast. Her mum thinks Sadie doesnt try hard enough at anything she does & her teachers think shes bone idle. As for Sadie herself
- she cant believe that shes any good at anything even though she tries so hard. Suddenly her mum becomes seriously ill & has to go into hospital. Sadies Aunt Leona is supposed to take care of the business until shes well but it doesnt quite work out that way...and before she knows it Sadie is left on her own in charge. How will she cope without her school finding out? Or her mum realising that something is wrong? Marcus the techno-geek from next door tries to help as does her clever best friend Milly but ultimately it is Sadie who is put to the test as she copes with more than she ever thought possible. Hilarious moving & poignant this is a wonderful story about a girl who overcomes all odds & achieves success in more ways than one.
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Truman Capotes dazzling New York novel Breakfast at Tiffanys" that inspired the classic 1961 film starring Audrey Hepburn is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. What Ive found does the most good is just to get into a taxi & go to Tiffanys. It calms me down right away the quietness & the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there not with those kind men in their nice suits... Meet Holly Golightly
- a free spirited lop-sided romantic girl about town. With her tousled blond hair & upturned nose dark glasses & chic black dresses Holly is a style sensation wherever she goes. Her apartment rocks to Martini-soaked parties & she plays hostess to millionaires & gangsters alike. Yet Holly never loses sight of her ultimate dream
- to find a real life place like Tiffanys that makes her feel at home. Full of sharp wit & exuberant larger-than-life characters which vividly capture the restless madcap era of 1940s New York " Breakfast at Tiffanys" will make you fall in love perhaps for the first time with a book. "A master writer.. .makes the heart sing & the narrative fly". (" The New York Times"). " The most romantic story ever written". (Alex James " Guardian"). " One of the centurys greatest storytellers". (" Independent on Sunday"). Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1925. By the age of fourteen he had already started writing short stories some of which were published. After leaving school at fifteen he worked for the New Yorker his first
- & last
- regular job. Following this Capote spent two years on a Louisiana farm where he wrote " Other Voices Other Rooms" (1948). He lived at one time or another in Greece Italy Africa & the West Indies & travelled in Russia & the Orient. Capote is the author of many highly acclaimed books including "A Tree of Night & Other Stories" (1949) " The Grass Harp" (1951) " Breakfast at Tiffanys" (1958) " In Cold Blood" (1965) which immediately became the centre of a storm of controversy on its publication " Music for Chameleons" (1980) & " Answered Prayers" (1986). Truman Capote died in 1984."



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Immortalised by Audrey Hepburns sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name Breakfast at Tiffanys" is Truman Capotes timeless portrait of tragicomic cultural icon Holly Golightly published in " Penguin Modern Classics". Its New York in the 1940s where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffanys. & nice girls dont except of course for Holly Golightly: glittering socialite traveller generally upwards sometimes sideways & once in a while
- down. Pursued by to Salvatore Sally Tomato the Mafia sugar-daddy doing life in Sing Sing & Rusty Trawler the blue-chinned cuff-shooting millionaire man about women about town Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair & turned-up nose a heart-breaker a perplexer a traveller a tease. She is irrepressibly top banana in the shock deparment & one of the shining flowers of American fiction. This edition also contains three stories: " House of Flowers" "A Diamond Guitar" & "A Christmas Memory". Truman Capote (1924-84) was born in New Orleans. He left school when he was fifteen & subsequently worked for The New Yorker which provided his first
- & last
- regular job. He wrote both fiction & non-fiction
- short stories novels & novellas travel writing profiles reportage memoirs plays & films; his other works include " In Cold Blood" (1965) " Music for Chameleons" (1980) & " Answered Prayers" (1986) all of which are published in " Penguin Modern Classics". If you enjoyed " Breakfast at Tiffanys" you might like Capotes " In Cold Blood" also available in " Penguin Modern Classics". " One of the twentieth centurys most gorgeously romantic fictions." (" Daily Telegraph"). " The most perfect writer of my generation...I would not have changed two words of " Breakfast at Tiffanys"." (" Norman Mailer")."



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