This beautiful & deeply moving tale recounts educational psychologist Torey Haydens battle to unlock the emotions of a troubled & sexually abused child who with the help of Hayden was finally able to overcome her dark past & realise her full potential. Six-year-old Sheila was abandoned by her mother on a highway when she was four. A survivor of horrific abuse she never spoke never cried & was placed in a class for severely retarded children after committing an atrocious act of violence against another child. Everyone thought Sheila was beyond salvation -- except her teacher Torey Hayden. With patience skill & abiding love she fought long & hard to release a haunted little girl from her secret nightmare -- & nurture the spark of genius she recognised trapped within Sheilas silence. This is the remarkable story of their journey together -- an odyssey of hope courage & inspiring devotion that opened the heart & mind of one lost child to a new world of discovery & joy. ...

Buy now with one-click. Amazons business model is deceptively simple: make online shopping so easy & convenient that customers wont think twice. Yet Amazons success is largely down to CEO & founder Jeff Bezos a man described as both a happy-go-lucky mogul & a notorious micromanager. His high energy passionate approach to retailing has driven Amazon to the top. Jeff Bezos is smart. Originally a computer geek he had the vision to capitalise on the untapped online market for books. Hes also a calculating machine who creates deal-flow charts for every major decision from what business to create to how to choose a spouse. One Click" explores what makes Bezos Bezos. Through detailed research & interviews with Amazon employees competitors & observers Richard Brandt has deciphered how Bezos thinks what drives his actions & how he makes his business decisions. Amazon.com was waiting to be discovered. It took Bezos unique character & strategy to make it happen. Anyone in the business world can learn from his reinvention of the retail landscape." ...

A handsome & reclusive horse breeder Spencer Dumarque the fourth Duke of Morland has a reputation as the dashing Duke of Midnight." Each evening he selects one lady for a breathtaking midnight waltz. But none of the ladies of the ton catch his interest for long until Lady Amelia d' Orsay tries her luck. In an effort to get the Duke to forgive her brother's debts Amelia claims the duke's dance. But she is playing a dangerous game with a notorious rake... The first novel in Tessa Dare's delightful Stud Club trilogy. Other titles in this series are Twice Tempted by a Rogue & Three Nights with a Scoundrel. Rouge Romance
- your first stop for romance books"
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'I can imagine you at forty ' she said a hint of malice in her voice. 'I can picture it right now.' He smiled without opening his eyes. ' Go on then.' 15th July 1988. Emma & Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? & the year after that? & every year that follows? Twenty years two people ONE DAY. From the author of the massive bestseller STARTER FOR TEN. ...

I can imagine you at forty she said a hint of malice in her voice. I can picture it right now. He smiled without opening his eyes. Go on then. 15th July 1988. Emma & Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? & the year after that? & every year that follows? Twenty years two people ONE DAY. From the author of the massive bestseller STARTER FOR TEN. ...

Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him. This world came to him as a chaos of loud & colourful sounds: the hair dryers at his mothers beauty parlour black mamba bicycle bells mechanics in Nairobi the music of Michael Jackson
- all punctuated by the infectious laughter of his brother & sister. He could fall in with their patterns but it would take him a while to carve out his own. In this vivid & compelling debut Wainaina takes us through his school days his failed attempt to study in South Africa a moving family reunion in Uganda & his travels around Kenya. The landscape in front of him always claims his main attention but he also evokes the shifting political scene that unsettles his views on family tribe & nationhood. Throughout reading is his refuge & his solace. & when in 2002 a writing prize comes through the door is opened for him to pursue the career that perhaps had been beckoning all along. Resolutely avoiding stereotype & cliche Wainaina paints every scene in One Day I Will Write About This Place with a highly distinctive & hugely memorable brush.
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From Catherine Alliott bestselling author of A Crowded Marriage" & " The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton" "comes One Day in May" a gorgeous rural romantic comedy about facing up to your past. " One day in May" Hatties life changes for ever... Hattie Carrington has good reason to be happy. Her antiques business is flourishing her teenage son is settled at school & shes enjoying a fling with a sexy younger man. But when work takes her back to the village of Little Crandon heartbreaking memories of her first love surface. It seems that the secret affair with married politician Dominic Forbes which changed the course of her life just wont go away. So when Hatties bumps into Dominic??i??i's widow & his gorgeous younger brother Hal her world are turned upside down. Though shes still trying to hide from her mistakes she knows that if shes ever to fall in love again she needs to be honest with others & herself. Can she admit what really happened with Dominic all those years ago? & if so is she ready for the consequences? Step into Alliott country with " One Day in May". Praise for Catherine Alliott: " Another charming tale of love & heartbreak from this wonderfully warm & witty author". (" Woman"). " Shes getting better & better. A complete pleasure to read". (" Daily Mail"). "A fun fast-paced page-turner". ("OK"). Catherine Alliott is the author of twelve bestselling novels: "A Crowded Marriage" "A Married Man" " Not That Kind of Girl" " Going Too Far" " The Old-Girl Network" " Olivias Luck" " Rosie Meadows Regrets..." " The Wedding Day" " The Real Thing" " The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton" " One Day in May" & "A Rural Affair". She lives with her family in Hertfordshire." ...

One day in May Hatties life changes for ever.. . Hattie Carrington has good reason to be happy. Her antiques business is flourishing her teenage son is settled at school & shes enjoying a fling with a sexy younger man. But when work takes her back to the village of Little Crandon heartbreaking memories of her first love surface. It seems that the secret affair with married politician Dominic Forbes which changed the course of her life just wont go away. So when Hatties bumps into Dominics widow & his gorgeous younger brother Hal her world is turned upside down. Though shes still trying to hide from her mistakes she knows that if shes ever to fall in love again she needs to be honest with others & herself. Can she admit what really happened with Dominic all those years ago? & if so is she ready for the consequences? ...

On a hot summer afternoon in 1944 SS troops wiped out an entire French village. 644 men women & children died that day. Just one child survived. This book tells the story of what happened in Oradour & imagines what drove both the SS officer who ordered the massacre & the seven-year-old boy who escaped it. Powerful moving & almost unbearably tense this book weaves the truth about what happened to the people in Oradour into a powerful fictional story centred on two characters: the plucky inspirational seven-year-old Alfred Fournier refugee & resident of Oradour & the hot-headed power-hungry SS commander who shattered his world & changed his life for ever Major Gustav Dietrich. As their two worlds collide we gain a fascinating insight into the extremes & contradictions of human behaviour & emotion. With a twist in the tale this is a story which leaves the reader surprised inspired & profoundly moved. ...

This brutal shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia & shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup the incredible luxury of a book the ingenious possibilities of a nail a piece of string or a single match in a world where survival is all. Here safety warmth & food are the first objectives. Reading it you enter a world of incarceration brutality hard manual labour & freezing cold
- & participate in the struggle of men to survive both the terrible rigours of nature & the inhumanity of the system that defines their conditions of life.
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