At the start of his school holidays Danny Delaney is looking forward to a trouble-free summer. But when his mother returns home one afternoon flanked by two policemen he knows that something terrible has happened. Mrs Delaney has accidentally hit a small boy with her car. The boy is in a coma at the local hospital & nobody knows if he will ever wake up. Consumed by guilt Dannys mother closes herself off while Danny & his father are left to pick up the pieces of their fractured family. Told in John Boynes unique style from the point of view of a twelve-year-old boy The Dare" is a brilliantly compelling story about how one moment can change a family forever." ...

Just about everyone has sex fantasies
- & there are lots of reasons why. In fantasy land there are no rules & you are in charge
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Im Tracy Beaker the Great Inventor of Extremely Outrageous Dares
- & I dare YOU not to say this is the most brilliant story ever!
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Beth & me wedged tight jeaned legs pressed against each other. The sound of our own breathing. Before we all stopped believing a tornado or anything could touch us ever. Addy Hanlon & Beth Cassidy are tough inseparable invincible. No pair more charismatic or sophisticated. No pair more dangerous. But with the fall term their new coach arrives & things begin to change. She has plans for the cheer squad: all sleek poise & cool command the girls are soon entirely in her thrall. Faster harder higher thinner the stakes raised their world contracting they compete to risk -- everything. She meantime has been crossing a line of her own. From the brilliant author of The End of Everything Dare Me is a searing novel about the allure of adulthood & the dark heart of adolescence: the fierce bonds between girls their bitter rivalries & their power to transform one another. ...

Born into a family with a strong radical dissenting tradition in which enterprise & public service were combined Tony Benn was taught to believe that the greatest sin in life was to waste time & money. Life in his Victorian-Edwardian family home in Westminster was characterised by austerity the last vestiges of domestic service the profound influence of his mother a dedicated Christian & feminist & his colourful & courageous father elected as a Liberal MP in 1906 & later serving in Labour Cabinets under Ramsay Mac Donald & Clem Atlee. Benn followed in his fathers footsteps becoming one of the most famous & respected figures in modern British politics. Dare to be a Daniel feelingly recalls Tony Benns years as one of three brothers experiencing life in the nursery the agonies of adolescence & of school where boys were taught to keep their minds clean & the shadow of fascism & the Second World War with its disruption & family loss. This moving memoir also describes his emergence from World War Two as a keen socialist about to embark upon marriage & an unknown political future. The book ends with some of Tony Benns reflections on many of the most important & controversial issues of our time. ...

Join the UK's hottest new boyband on their rollercoaster ride to superstardom with the follow-up to the Number 1 bestselling book One Direction: Forever Young: Our Official X Factor Story. In 2010 they were just five normal boys who didn't even know each other dreaming of being up on stage with fans screaming their names...so much has happened for One Direction since then! Following their huge success on The X Factor & the hysteria they caused wherever they went on The X Factor tour One Direction are quickly becoming the UK's biggest boyband & the pop act that everyone wants to meet. & this is just the beginning... After storming the UK charts in 2011 2012 looks set to be the year One Direction go global! Here in their own official book Harry Niall Zayn Liam & Louis each tell the story of their amazing journeys in full
- from teen hopefuls auditioning for The X Factor to pop superstars in the making & now to living their dreams out. & the boys are so grateful to their fans for getting them there they want to give you all an exclusive peek inside their world... Stunningly designed & jam packed full of exclusive unseen photos of the band on & off stage plus private captured moments the incredible story of One Direction's rise to fame is a must-have for any true fan.
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Beth Risk has spent her whole life hiding the truth about her family & never letting anyone get too close. Suddenly sent to live with an uncle she barely knows she's struggling to start afresh in a new town & at a new school that doesn't get her. At all. Ryan Stone is the school's gorgeous golden boy
- with secrets he can't tell anyone. As Ryan & Beth dare to let each other in they're treading on dangerous ground
- & the consequences could change their lives forever.

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Dari is one of the official languages of Afghanistan along with Pashto. It shares a long literary history both classical & modern with the Persian (Farsi) of Iran & the Tajik of Tajikistan but over the centuries the languages have been split by politics & geography. Dan is written in a modified form of the Arabic script but it has been transliterated here into the roman alphabet. This title contains a vast array of indispensable words supplying travellers & those working in Afghanistan with the resources needed to communicate effectively. ...

Daria Klimentova has been one of Britain's best-loved ballerinas for two decades having danced at Scottish Ballet & then
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Researcher & thought leader Dr. Brene Brown offers a powerful new vision in Daring Greatly the numbered 1 New York Times Bestseller Oprah pick & TED talk hit that encourages us to embrace vulnerability & imperfection to live wholeheartedly & courageously. Every time we are introduced to someone new try to be creative or start a difficult conversation we take a risk. We feel uncertain & exposed. We feel vulnerable. Most of us try to fight those feelings
- we strive to appear perfect. But in a powerful new vision Dr. Brene Brown challenges everything we think we know about vulnerability & dispels the widely accepted myth that it's a weakness. She argues that vulnerability is in fact a strength & when we shut ourselves off from revealing our true selves we grow distanced from the things that bring purpose & meaning to our lives. Daring Greatly is the culmination of 12 years of groundbreaking social research across the home relationships work & parenting. It is an invitation to be courageous; to show up & let ourselves be seen even when there are no guarantees. This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly. Brilliantly insightful. I can't stop thinking about this book". (Gretchen Rubin). "A wonderful book. I couldn't put it down". (Seth Godin). " This is big big big big BIG!" (Oprah Winfrey). Brene Brown Ph.D. LMSW is a New York Times bestselling author & a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. Her groundbreaking work was the subject of a PBS special & has been featured on NPR & CNN. Her 2010 TEDx talk on the topic of vulnerability went viral & has been translated into 38 languages. Brene is also the author of The Gifts of Imperfection & I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't)."
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