From the Sunday Times & New York Times bestselling author comes the poignant & shocking memoir of Cathy's recent relationship with Tayo a young boy she fosters whose good behaviour & polite manners hide a terrible past. Tayo arrives at Cathy's with only the clothes he stands up in. He has been brought to her by the police but he is calm polite & very well spoken & not at all like the children she normally fosters. The social worker gives Cathy the forms which should contain Tayo's history but apart from his name & age it is blank. Tayo has no past. Tayo is an 'invisible' child kidnapped from his loving father in Nigeria & brought illegally to the UK by his drink & drugs dependent prostitute mother where he is put to work in a sweat shop in Central London. When he sustains an injury & is no longer earning he is cast out. When Cathy takes Tayo to school he points out a dozen different addresses where he has stayed in the last six months often being left alone. Tayo lies & manipulates situations to his own advantage & Cathy has to be continually on guard. Tayo's social worker searches all computer databases but there is no record of Tayo
- he has only attended school for 3 terms & has never seen a doctor. He & his mother have been evading the authorities by living 'underground'. With his mother recently released from prison Tayo is desperate to live with his father in Nigeria but no one can track him down or even prove that he exists.
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I'd known it before we saw the fire trucks & the smoke. I'd known all hell had broken loose at the House of Night the moment it had been proven beyond all doubt that Neferet was on the side of Darkness. Only now I had a terrible feeling that outing Neferet would serve more to free her than to force her to pay the consequences for her lies & betrayals. At last Zoey has what she wanted: the truth is out. Neferet's evil has been exposed & the High Council is no longer on her side
- but she's far from done wreaking havoc in the vampyre world. With the seeds of distrust sown & Darkness breeding chaos at the House of Night everyone must band together
- but that's proving to be more difficult than ever before. The twins are barely speaking & the House of Night's former enemy Kalona has now become their warrior pushing their trust to the limits. To top it all off Zoey is pretty darn sure she might be losing her mind
- she saw something when she looked at Neferet's minion Aurox through the Seer Stone that she can hardly explain to herself let alone her friends. Zoey knows that following her instincts might be just what they need to defeat evil...but if she's wrong it could cause the destruction of those closest to her. With the tension at a breaking point & friendships on the line can the nerd herd come together to stop the spread of Darkness before it's too late?


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In this the long-awaited conclusion to the saga of Abbey & Caspian readers finally learn the truth about Kristens death the dark destiny that links Abbey to Caspian & the hard choices that Abbey must make if she is to accept Caspians love & their unexpected fate. ...

Aberdeen is rich in history much of it hidden. Now in Hidden Aberdeen Dr Fiona-Jane Brown explores the city through new eyes revealing new stories from the past & bringing the modern city to life. There's the last resting place of Robert Hitchens who was at the wheel of the Titanic when it struck an iceberg; Royal connections including James Ill's night on the town before he was crowned; the brutal murder of a monk by so-called reformers & the strange nineteenth-century animal cruelty case against the city's Jewish community. There's also the city's odd connection with Millwall FC & the place where medieval criminals were hanged. This fascinating book will open your eyes to the hidden the forgotten & the abandoned which lie under your feet as you walk round the city today. ...

The model for this volume is the enormously successful vintage original Distant Voices" (93 000 copies sold to date). It will gather together essays on a range of subjects including Burma Fleet Street East Timor Vietnam today the media & UK politics. " Pilger is the closest we have to the great correspondents of the 1930s.. . The Truth in his hands is a weapon to be picked up & brandished & used in the struggle against evil & injustice"
- " Guardian"."
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Worldwide bestseller Camilla Lackberg weaves together another brilliant contemporary psychological thriller with the chilling struggle of a young woman facing the darkest chapter of Europe's past...for fans of Jo Nesbo & Stieg Larsson Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover a Nazi medal among her late mother's possessions. Haunted by a childhood of neglect she resolves to dig deep into her family's past & finally uncover the reasons why. Her enquiries lead her to the home of a retired history teacher. He was among her mother's circle of friends during the Second World War but her questions are met with bizarre & evasive answers. Two days later he meets a violent death. Detective Patrik Hedstrom Erica's husband is on paternity leave but soon becomes embroiled in the murder investigation. Who would kill so ruthlessly to bury secrets so old? Reluctantly Erica must read her mother's wartime diaries. But within the pages is a painful revelation about Erica's past. Could what little knowledge she has be enough to endanger her husband & newborn baby? The dark past is coming to light & no one will escape the truth of how they came to be... ...

We all hide things some more than others... Mia Channing appears to have an enviable life: a beautiful home in the village of Little Pelham a happy stable marriage a job she enjoys & three grown up children to whom she's devoted. But appearances are deceiving; the truth is that it's all a precarious balancing act. When the family gather for her son's thirtieth birthday Daisy her youngest daughter drops a bombshell in the way only Daisy can. Once again Mia finds herself cast in the role of peacemaker. It's a role she's tired of particularly since her husband refuses to believe he's responsible for the problems they're facing. Not surprisingly Mia longs for escape. For Owen Fletcher buying the Hidden Cottage was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream & provides the perfect escape for him. When Mia meets him she must decide whether she has the courage to do something for herself for a change. & if she does can she ever go back to the life of compromise she had before? ...

Renowned American photographer Jack Watson travelled to Cuba on a legal humanitarian visa. He chronicled his journey with breath-taking & often heart breaking images of the Cuba people cites & countryside. Watson describes his visit: I had stepped back in time 50 years
- this was my first impression of Cuba. My journey which began in Havana consisted of travelling by bus pedicab coco cab 1957 Chevy & foot. I was here primarily to help the Cuban people but giving away medicine vitamins & money felt like using aspirin to treat the plague. I covered hundreds of miles travelling in an oval-shaped route with stops at Cienfuegos the Bay of Pigs Trinidad & Varadero Beach in the province of Matanzas
- & then back to Havana. As the title of this book indicates this is an unauthorised journal of photographs taken during my visit. While I certainly share similar & compassionate thoughts about humanitarian aid toward people in need I felt a greater calling in compiling the images for this book. If one picture is indeed worth thousands of words then this is an encyclopaedic portrayal of the real
- hidden
- Cuba. This is not a travel guide; I will leave that for the tourism industry. It is however a behind-the-scenes look at the Cuba that tourist never see. I have tried to present a wide portrayal of images that will allow the viewer to see all aspects of Castros Cuba. You cannot look at the glitz alone & make logical conclusions about this country; while there is some beauty there is more decay. While the country is admittedly a communist enclave when looking at these images one has to ask if this form of government was the right choice for the Cuban people. You be the judge
- the story is in your hands.




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From afar Sheriff Jackson Deveau has always loved Elle Drake the youngest telepath of seven magically gifted sisters. After a long time away she's finally returning home to the small coastal village of Sea Haven. But someone has been following Elle someone who doesn't want her to make it back. & when Elle fails to arrive her disappearance strikes fear in the hearts of everyone who loves her. Now it's left to Jackson to uncover the mystery of Elle's vanishing & rescue her from an unseen danger. But Sea Haven is no longer safe for anyone & it'll take the powers of all the Drake sisters & their men to survive the coming storm. ...

Hidden Depths is the third book in Ann Cleeves Vera Stanhope series -- which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn VERA. A hot summer on the Northumberland coast & Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son strangled laid out in a bath of water & covered with wild flowers. This stylized murder scene has Inspector Vera Stanhope intrigued. But then another body is discovered in a rock pool the corpse again strewn with flowers. Vera must work quickly to find this killer who is making art out of death. As local residents are forced to share their deepest darkest secrets the killer watches waits & plans to prepare another beautiful watery grave.. . Also available in the Vera Stanhope series are The Crow Trap Telling Tales Silent Voices & The Glass Room. Ann Cleeves Shetland series (BBC television drama SHETLAND) contains five titles of which Dead Water is the most recent. ...