Ten-year-old Jamie Matthews has just moved to the Lake District with his Dad & his teenage sister Jasmine for a ' Fresh New Start'. Five years ago his sister's twin Rose was blown up by a terrorist bomb. His parents are wrecked by their grief Jasmine turns to piercing pink hair & stops eating. The family falls apart. But Jamie hasn't cried in all that time. To him Rose is just a distant memory. Jamie is far more interested in his cat Roger his birthday Spiderman T-shirt & in keeping his new friend Sunya a secret from his dad. & in his deep longing & unshakeable belief that his Mum will come back to the family she walked out on months ago. When he sees a TV advert for a talent show he feels certain that this will change everything & bring them all back together once & for all. ...

Ten-year-old Jamie Matthews has just moved to the Lake District with his Dad & his teenage sister Jasmine for a ' Fresh New Start'. Five years ago his sister's twin Rose was blown up by a terrorist bomb. His parents are wrecked by their grief Jasmine turns to piercing pink hair & stops eating. The family falls apart. But Jamie hasn't cried in all that time. To him Rose is just a distant memory. Jamie is far more interested in his cat Roger his birthday Spiderman T-shirt & in keeping his new friend Sunya a secret from his dad. & in his deep longing & unshakeable belief that his Mum will come back to the family she walked out on months ago. When he sees a TV advert for a talent show he feels certain that this will change everything & bring them all back together once & for all. ...

Sara Fitzgeralds daughter Kate is just two years old when she is diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia. Reeling with the helpless shock of it Sara knows she will do anything
- whatever it takes
- to save her child. Then the tests results come back time & again to show that no one in their family is a match for Kate. If they are to find a donor for the crucial bone marrow transplant she needs there is only one option: creating another baby specifically designed to save her sister. For Sara it seems the ideal solution. Not only does Kate live but she gets a beautiful new daughter Anna too. Until the moment Anna hands Sara the papers that will rock her whole world. Because aged thirteen Anna has decided that she doesnt want to help Kate live any more. She is suing her parents for the rights to her own body.

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'A major decision about me is being made & no one's bothered to ask the one person who most deserves it to speak her opinion.' The only reason Anna was born was to donate her cord blood cells to her older sister. & though Anna is not sick she might as well be. By age thirteen she has undergone countless surgeries transfusions & shots so that her sister Kate can somehow fight the leukaemia that has plagued her since she was a child. Anna was born for this purpose her parents tell her which is why they love her even more. But now that she has reached an age of physical awareness she can't help but long for control over her own body & respite from the constant flow of her own blood seeping into her sister's veins. & so she makes a decision that for most would be too difficult to bear at any time & at any age. She decides to sue her parents for the rights to her own body. ...

What do you do when your wife abducts your children? This was the question facing Douglas Galbraith when in 2003 he returned home to Scotland from a few days work in London. The house was silent empty & locked; his four & six-year-old sons pyjamas lay on the bedroom floor. & on the doormat confirmation from the Post Office of a forwarding address
- in Japan. He has not seen them since. But My Son My Son" is infinitely more than a personal tale of sudden loss & one mans attempts to find his sons. Writing with astonishing range & insight Galbraith tackles the deepest questions about who we are & how we treat each other. Here is an intensely provocative journey through complex & controversial territory: child murder tsunami international conventions hatred & cultures at war. " My Son My Son" is a searing memoir & a call to arms which will provoke passionate debate. It has a haunting eloquence & against the odds a grim sense of humour. It goes to the very heart of relations between parents & children men & women & between races
- to the heart of what it is to be alive."

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KAYLEE HAS ONE ADDICTION:HER BOYFRIEND NASH Like Kaylee Nash is a banshee. So he understands her like no one else. Nothing
- supernatural
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When teenager Kaylee screams someone dies... So when teen pop star Eden dies onstage & Kaylee doesn't wail she knows something is dead wrong. She can't cry for someone who has no soul. The last thing Kaylee needs right now is to be skipping school breaking her dad's ironclad curfew & putting her too-hot-to-be-real boyfriend's loyalty to the test. But starry-eyed teens are trading their souls: a flickering lifetime of fame & fortune in exchange for eternity in the Netherworld
- a consequence they can't possibly underst&. Kaylee can't let that happen even if trying to save their souls means putting her own at risk.
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SOMETIMES DREAMS DO COME TRUE...AND THAT'S THE LAST THING KAYLEE NEEDS Working things out with Nash
- her maybe boyfriend
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Being a teenager just got much more complicated. There is something very wrong with Kaylee Cavanaugh: she senses when someone near her is about to die. & when that happens a force beyond her control compels her to scream bloody murder. Literally. Kaylee just wants to enjoy having caught the attention of the hottest guy in school. But a normal date is hard to come by when Nash seems to know more about the need to scream than she does. & when classmates start dropping dead for no apparent reason only Kaylee knows wholl be next. ...

If I die before I wake.. .A grisly murder is committed at a health resort situated in a recently renovated farmhouse which turns out to be notorious for being haunted. Attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir is called upon by the owner of the resort
- the prime suspect in the case
- to represent him. Her investigations uncover some very disturbing occurrences at the farm decades earlier
- things that have never before seen the light of day.. .MY SOUL TO TAKE is a chilling dark & witty crime novel & a welcome return for Thora the heroine of the highly-acclaimed LAST RITUALS.


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