VAMPIRES IN CHICAGO! Youd think a headline like that would have made the fine citizens of the Windy City to take up arms against us bloodsucking fiends. Instead ten months later were enjoying celebrity statue & fending off the paparazzi who are only slightly less dangerous than angry stake-wielding slayers. Dont get me wrong
- Joe Public isnt exactly thrilled to be living side by side with the undead but at least they havent stormed the castle.. .not yet.. . But it could be a matter of time. Theres a first-time reporter sniffing around vampire society & if he uncovers the Raves
- mass feeding parties where vampires round humans up like cattle & drink themselves silly. The fact that its majorly frowned upon by vamp society wont make a difference to that kind of a headline or a new reporter whos out to impress his family. So now my master
- the centuries-old yet gorgeously well-preserved Ethan Sullivan
- wants me to reconnect with my own upper-class family & act as liaison between humans & vampire.. .and use the opportunity to keep the less savoury aspects of vamp existence out of the media spotlight. Tough job when it seems someone doesnt want vamps & humans to play nicely
- someone with a serious ancient grudge.. .




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In the state of Texas American football is a religion. & nowhere is more fanatical about its football than the small town of Odessa. There every Friday night from September to November a bunch of seventeen-year-old kids play their hearts out for the honour of their high school. In front of 20 000 people. In 1988 H.G. Bissinger spent a season in Odessa discovering just what makes a town pin its hopes on eleven boys on a football field. He lived with the students coaches & townspeople who dedicate their lives to their team sharing their joys & triumphs their pains injuries & bitter disappointments. He returned with a compassionate but hard-eyed story of a town riven by money race & class where a high school can spend more on medical supplies for its athletic program than on its English department. Friday Night Lights is one of the best books about sport ever written. It is the story of how dreams & reality collide at once glorious & immensely sad. Because for the 30-odd boys of the Permian Panthers these days will have been the best of their lives. ...

Friday nights the best night of the week the night they all looked forward to more than they cared to admit
- talking drinking
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Rejected by the incomparable Miss Milborne for his unsteadiness of character wild Lord Sheringham is bent on avenging Fate & coming into his fortune. But the very first woman he should see is Hero Wantage the young & charmingly unsophisticated chit who has loved him since childhood.. . Friday's Child is a typically sweeping historical romance by the queen of the genre who for fifty years won the hearts of readers worldwide & has found a new devoted readership in the twenty-first century. ...

In 2004 Jessica Palmer died suddenly of septicaemia just six days after giving birth to her second child. Distraught her husband Ben struggled to comprehend his loss & to care for their two young children. It later came to light that Jessica's condition can usually be easily detected & prevented but in this case nothing was done until it was too late. Ben & his family successfully sued the NHS for negligence in 2007. This is Ben's heartbreaking story of dealing with his grief while raising two small children as a single parent. As he tries to accept the idea of life without his beloved wife he battles shock grief despair & guilt before finally finding hope in the future thanks to the love & support of his friends & family. It is a devastating story of living with a cruel & needless loss. ...

This series is called Sparklies" as the front covers are glittered & sparkly; this catches the eye! With bright illustrations stylish modern design & sparkling flittered covers these little books bring a smile to everyone. Joanna Kidney & Helen Exley have created a fresh new look with bright small pictures & matching short"es." ...

The heart-warming true story of a little boy & the cat that changed his life. Nine year old George was severely autistic; quiet & withdrawn he appeared lost in his own world most of the time. His mother Julia despaired but try as she might she couldnt bring him out of his shell. Then one day a small black-&-white stray cat appeared at the bottom of her garden & Georges face lit up at the sight of him. Despite herself Julia agreed to adopt him as a pet. George named his new friend Ben & the four-legged addition to the household had a wonderful & unexpected side-affect. George & Ben bonded & George began to open up; to play with Ben to converse with him & make up stories about their adventures together to excitedly recount to Julia. For Julia this was a magical way to communicate with her son
- & Ben had made it possible. For three happy years the trio were inseparable & George made remarkable progress. But then disaster struck
- Ben went missing. The small cat who had coaxed George out of a world of silence had disappeared & nobody could find him. George was utterly devastated & pining for his lost friend he began to retreat into himself. Sensing her son was slipping through her fingers once more Julia embarked on a desperate search; a search that would see her travelling across numerous counties risking injury & enlisting help from all different places & all different people. The weeks turned into months & Christmas was fast approaching but George did not want to celebrate without Ben by his side. Julia privately despaired of ever finding her sons best friend but four days before Christmas Day during the worst snowfall ever Julia got a call from a family living in Brighton over 50 miles from their home in London which finally offered a ray of hope.. . Captivating uplifting & genuinely touching A Friend like Ben is the remarkable true story about the extraordinary devotion & empathy between a little boy & his cat & a mothers determined journey to make her son whole again.

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This is the inspiring account of a family's struggle to break into their son's autistic world
- & how a beautiful retreiver dog
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When Karen Drew is found sitting in her wheelchair staring out to sea with her throat cut one chilly morning DI Annie Cabbot on loan to Eastern Area gets lumbered with the case. Back in Eastvale that same Sunday morning 19-year-old Hayley Daniels is found raped & strangled in the Maze a tangle of narrow alleys behind Eastvale's market square after a drunken night on the town with a group of friends & DCI Alan Banks is called in. Banks finds suspects galore while Annie seems to hit a brick wall--until she reaches a breakthrough that spins her case in a shocking & surprising new direction one that also involves Banks. Then another incident occurs in the Maze which seems to link the two cases in a bizarre & mysterious way. As Banks & Annie dig into the past to uncover the deeper connections they find themselves also dealing with the emotional baggage & personal demons of their own relationship. & it soon becomes clear that there are two killers in their midst & that at any moment either one might strike again. ...

Meet the Londons a family in need of a friend. Gerry & Bernie London are proud parents of Tony Sean & Ned three wayward lads whose lives have suddenly reached crisis points: Newly divorced Tony is fantasizing about someone he really shouldn't; prize-winning novelist Sean's got a hot new girlfriend & a dose of writer's block; & Ned's just back from Australia without the girl he took with him or a clue what he's going to do with his life. If that wasn't enough for one household the Londons also have a new lodger a mysterious rockabilly called Gervase. Will he turn out to be a friend or foe to the family? ...