Mog was tired. She was dead tired... Mog thought I want to sleep for ever. & so she did. But a little bit of her stayed awake to see what would happen next. Mog keeps watch over the upset Thomas family who miss her terribly & she wonders how they will ever manage without her. Nothing happens for some time...then suddenly one day Mog sees a little kitten in the house. The kitten is frightened of everything
- noise newspapers bags & being picked up. Mog thinks the kitten is very stupid. But then Mog realises that the nervous kitten doesnt know how to play & just needs a little bit of help. & so Mog pushes the surprised kitten into Debbies lap where it finds it actually likes being tickled & stroked. The new family pet is settled in at last. But Debbie says she will always remember Mog. So I should hope thinks Mog. & she flies up & up & up right into the sun.
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Transform your ex relationship struggle into freedom. Ever wondered what keeps most women struggling in the pain & anger of their ex-relationships & why they keep having their buttons pushed? This book identifies what these factors are & will give you a pro-active approach to free you from your past in a quick & painless fashion giving you back your inner mojo" & a sense of peace so you can move on without looking back. Why struggle & go it alone when you dont have to? Free yourself of the past today & create your new life!" ...

May 1992. Hana is twelve years old when her older sister Atka puts her on a UN evacuation bus fleeing the besieged city of Sarajevo. Thinking they will be apart for a short time they make a promise to each other to be brave. But as the Bosnian war escalates & months go by without contact their promise becomes deeply significant. Hana is forced to cope as a refugee in Croatia while Atka & their younger siblings battle for survival in a city overwhelmed by crime & destruction. Then when Atka manages to find work as a translator events take an unexpected turn & the remarkable events that follow change her life & those of her family forever. ...

Like any street April Grove in Portsmouth has its good & bad neighbours its gossip scandal & romance. But the outbreak of war in 1939 changes everything
- especially for the children. Uprooted from their familiar urban existence they are evacuated (some happily some not) to the country. Then there are the teenagers whose first loves are accelerated & intensified by the threat of separation; & men & women too old to fight who hold the life of the street together. Based on the author's own childhood memories of growing up near Portsmouth this is a novel which shows us what England was really like then
- a story told with such nostalgia & charm that you leave the world it describes longing for the chance to return.

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From its first publication this book was acclaimed as the standard text on this field of the law. Now for its fourth edition it has been completely revised & expanded to take into account the new developments of the last five years. The book lays out both the framework of commercial law & the application of fundamental principles to typical business transactions. This unique combination of theory & practice is supplemented by specimen documents tables of statutes cases & conventions. ...

Nova Kumalisi would do anything for her closest friend Mal Wacken. She owes him her life. So when he asked her to be the surrogate mother for him & his wife in spite of her fears about how it would alter their friendship Nova agreed. Eight years later Nova is bringing up their son alone & she & Mal don't speak. Months into the pregnancy Mal's wife changed her mind about the surrogacy agreement. Already suspicious of how close Nova & Mal were Stephanie realised her strained marriage was in serious trouble when she found a text from her husband to Nova saying ' Goodnight Beautiful'. She asked Mal to cut all ties with his closest friend & unborn child. Now seven-year-old Leo is critically ill & Nova despite her anger & hurt wants Mal to have the chance to know his son before it's too late. Will it take a tragedy to remind them how much they mean to each other? ...

This story is about a remarkable Lakeland Terrier called Buffy who fought many illnesses including a rare cancer. You will laugh out loud cry softly & fondly remember her story long after reading it. It is a light-hearted look at her life covering her early days & continuing until her eventual death. Found in a shop doorway Buffy had a traumatic beginning. The young girl who found her & took her in died of cancer & so Buffy came to Thomasina & was loved & cared for until her death. She was infuriating & inspiring funny & cunning from being smart enough to use her surgical collar as a scoop to learning to use a boo! sort of woof! to frighten the living daylights of a delivery man. Thomasinas own failing health meant that sometimes they were ill together; Buffy taught her to fight back & gave her a reason to carry on. A rare cancer was found in Buffys leg when she was already suffering from a slipped disc. To save Buffy they had to save her leg. The Animal Health Trust in Suffolk helped Buffy survive with some international help but she took the record for recovery time. So many people loved Buffy; she touched so many lives. Buffy went on to live for many years & became an astonishing & astute dog. She gave the Price family so much joy & love her passing left an unbearable void in their lives. This story records her passing & Thomasinas anguish at the time. She decided to share her story because there could only be one Buffy; the Price family know they will never find another dog like her again. ...

Goodnight everyone " says Harry. " Zzz " goes Lulu. " Snore " goes Ted. But Harry the elephant cant get to sleep. He reads & tidies he wriggles & worries. Will sleep ever come to Harry? Perhaps his friends Ted & Lulu can help." ...

A tour-de-force thriller of corruption & violence from the No. 1 bestselling author Martina Cole. In the sixties Briony Cavanagh ran a string of the most notorious brothels in London. Only Briony knew what went on behind those doors & she never opened her mouth
- unless she stood to benefit. Only Briony knew the painful road shed travelled to get there. From an impoverished childhood that ended with shocking betrayal she was determined to be mistress of her own fate. But along with success came risk & danger. & the Goodnight Lady had her own secret place that was always shadowed by loss.
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Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. Mum said war was a punishment from God for people's sins so he'd better watch out. She didn't tell him what to watch out for though. When the Second World War breaks out young Willie Beech is evacuated to the countryside. A sad deprived child he slowly begins to flourish under the care of kind old Tom Oakley. But then his cruel mother summons him back to war-torn London... Will he ever see Mister Tom again? Everyone's idea of a smash-hit first novel: full-blown characters to love & hate moments of grief & joy & a marvellous story that knows just how to grab the emotions". (Guardian). Michelle Magorian was born in Portsmouth & on leaving school studied at the Rose Bruford College of speech & Drama & Marcel Marceau's International School of Mime in Paris. Over the years she became interested in children's books & decided to write one herself. The result was Goodnight Mister Tom which won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award an International Reading Association Award & was also made into a much-loved film starring the late John Thaw." ...