From the cave walls at Lascaux to the last painting by Van Gogh from the works of Shakespeare to those of Mark Twain there is clear evidence that crows & ravens influence human culture. Yet this influence is not unidirectional say the authors of this fascinating book: people profoundly influence crow culture ecology & evolution as well. John Marzluff & Tony Angell examine the often surprising ways that crows & humans interact. The authors contend that those interactions reflect a process of cultural coevolution. They offer a challenging new view of the human-crow dynamic a view that may change our thinking not only about crows but also about ourselves. Featuring more than 100 original drawings the book takes a close look at the influences people have had on the lives of crows throughout history & at the significant ways crows have altered human lives. In the Company of Crows & Ravens" illuminates the entwined histories of crows & people & concludes with an intriguing discussion of the crow-human relationship & how our attitudes toward crows may affect our cultural trajectory." ...

Donnerville librarian Jane Kerry receives an envelope containing a 50-dollar bill & a note instructing her to look homeward angel" & signed "MOG (Master of Games)." So begins The Game--pushing Jane into crazy immoral & criminal actions. When she tries to quit MOG has other ideas." ...

From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 1916. Pretty Eithne Clay runs a ramshackle South London boarding house with the help of her teenage son Ralph & their maid Winnie. Struggling to keep herself her lodgers & her son going as every day life vanishes in the face of war Eithne's world is transformed by the arrival of Mr Turk the virile carnal carnivorous local butcher who falls passionately in love with her. As the house bursts to life with the electricity
- metaphorical & real
- he brings dark secrets come to light.

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Here is a lively retelling of the traditional rhyme packed with surprises. Lift-up flaps on each spread reveal spooky creatures peeping through windows & out of cupboards & the story reaches a climax on the last spread as a great white ghost pops out! In the dark dark wood There was a dark dark house HOO-HOO-HOO! HAA-HAA-HAA! A truly interactive book that children will return to time & again. ...

When Rose Browns husband is killed at Dunkirk in 1940 she feels as though shes lost a part of herself. Rose cant imagine the future without Ray but shes certain he would have wanted her to start again. She decides to volunteer as a postwoman in West London & when she courageously rescues a young boy from a bombed-out house & takes him home she finds a new sense of purpose. Traumatised from losing his mother in the ruins seven-year-old Alfie is also rebellious & withdrawn. However he touches the hearts of Roses family & with kindness patience & love they eventually win his trust. But then a handsome stranger Johnny Beech turns up on the doorstep looking for his son & everything changes... ...

Hunting a sadistic killer who targets young prostitutes Detective Dave Robicheaux has no mind to be sidetracked into persuading ex-schoolmate mobster Julie Baby Feet Balboni to leave town. & it turns out that Balboni is the money behind a Civil War movie thats bringing in good business. But then the film crew stumble on a skeleton out in the bayou & the links between a thirty-year-old lynching a Civil War general Balboni & the serial killer lead Dave into treacherous waters with only a handful of unexpected allies to help him protect his own. ...

Darrell & her friends grow together as they share their school days. There are new students to induct sporting matches to be won tempers to control & tricks to play on teachers. This work presents stories about life at boarding school as readers follow the girls' lives through 6 years at Malory Towers. ...

The Fifth Form is putting on a pantomime & Darrells writing it! But Cinderella doesnt always go smoothly. Which girl will get to play the lead? & who on earth is writing the producer anonymous letters?n New girl Amanda doesnt really fit in at Malory Towers. Shes headstrong & arrogant
- but is fantastic at games! Amandas destined to swim for the Olympic team
- but will she make it?

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Dancer Chloe Dubois is a heady combination of innocence & sultry seduction & Japanese-American businessman David Imakita will risk everything he has to keep her: his career his friends even his integrity
- such is her power over him. But who is this temptress & what does she want? Is it money prestige or just love? Davids ex-Sumo bodyguard Sato believes Chloe will cause havoc in their ordered lives & turns up information on her that is far from pretty. The warning signs are there but it is already too late for David who is under her spell & besotted. Will this unrepentant temptress overturn her wild ways & accept the opportunity to change her life for the better or will the dark family secrets of her past resurface & destroy them both?
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Richard Holmess insightful new biography of one of Britains greatest leaders is both a study in character & the story of an extraordinary career. Much has been written about Churchills role as British prime minister during the crisis years of the Second World War but in this book Holmes uses new material to investigate the influences that shaped the man: his troubled schooldays his flamboyant politician father Randolph & his famously attractive American mother Jennie. Holmes argues that the qualities that made Churchill great also led him to commit catastrophic blunders. The same recklessness that made him a hero when he was a young correspondent during the Boer War arguably cost thousands of Allied lives during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 & may also have contributed to the fall of Singapore in 1942. In the Footsteps of Churchill" takes us on an exhilarating journey through Harrow School the North-West Frontier the Sudan South Africa 10 Downing Street & his beloved Chartwell; a journey that begins in the aristocratic splendour of Blenheim Palace & ends in the quiet of a country churchyard not far away the compass of an extraordinary life in a few Oxfordshire acres. Richard Holmes provides a truly fresh interpretation of the great man Holmess mature & wise portrait is studded with facts about the period & episodes in Churchills life that amuse engage & entice. The authors eye for the telling detail as well as his deep immersion in all the relevant archives raises this book far above the common ruck of Churchilliana. Andrew Roberts. This supremely skilful military historian achieves a freshness of approach that makes Churchill hard to put down. Max Hastings " Mail on Sunday"." ...