Sinbad the Sailor is in trouble! His ship has been captured by pirates. But the pirates are sailing close to where the sea witches sing...and the sea witches song is a powerful spell that sends people to sleep... The Hopscotch Adventures series features exciting page-turning adventures in under 400 words for children developing their reading confidence. ...

Winner of Mills & Boon's & ITV Lorraine's search for the next big thing in contemporary women's fiction! In one tragic moment Holly Jefferson's life as she knew it changed for ever. Now to the external world at least she's finally getting back on her feet running her business Cake. Then she meets Ciaran Argyll. His charmed life feels a million miles from her own. However there's more to Ciaran than the superficial world that surrounds him & he too is wrestling with his own ghosts. Will Holly find the missing ingredient that allows her to live again & embrace an unknown & unexpected tomorrow? How do you learn to love again? ...

A price a proposition & a ring on her finger The Six-Month Marriage Sapphire had divorced Blake when shed found hed married her only to acquire her fathers Cotswold farm. Could she consider remarrying him
- even temporarily
- to ease her dying fathers mind? Would he still want her? Injured Innocent Lissa & Joel were joint guardians of her sisters girls. Even so Joels proposal of marriage came as a shock. Despite loving him shed learned to live without him. Could she possibly learn to live with him? Loving When Jay accused Claire of trapping him into marriage she was outraged. Still she accepted a loveless marriage of convenience for her daughters sake. But she wanted Jay to be much more than just a father...

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It was a thrilling & thoroughly sinful Regency Christmas! Lady Cassandra Osborne is ready to take a lover to her bed
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Join in with BBC presenters Susan Sheridan & Jimmy Hibbert as they sing along to their 60 favourite nursery rhymes. These include: Sing a Song of Sixpence"; " London Bridge is Falling Down"; " Jack & Jill"; " Mary Mary Quite Contrary"; " Hey Diddle Diddle the Cat & the Fiddle"; "I Saw Three Ships"; " Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush"; " Wee Willie Winkie"; " One Two Buckle my Shoe"; " Humpty Dumpty"; " See-Saw Margery Daw"; " The Grand Old Duke of York"; " Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"; " Pop Goes the Weasel"; " Rock-a-Bye Baby on the Tree Top"; " Oranges & Lemons"; " Three Blind Mice"; " Cock-a-Doodle-Doo"; " Baa Baa Black Sheep"; " Simple Simon"; " Ride a Cock-Horse to Banbury Cross"; " Pat-a-cake Pat-a-cake Bakers Man"; " Who Killed Cock Robin"; " This Little Pig"; " Tom Tom the Pipers Son"; " Polly Put the Lettle on"; " Little Bo Peep"; " Rub-a-Dub-Dub"; " Londons Burning"; " Ding-Dong Bell"; & " Ring-a-Ring o Roses"." ...

Kathy Burton longs to escape the drudgery of her life as an unpaid labourer on her fathers farm. With only the local church choir & the occasional dance at the village hall for amusement she yearns for the bright lights. Spurning Morry Robinsons proposal of marriage Kathy goes to live in the city with his aunt Jemima Robinson. In turn she finds employment for Kathy in a department store but is anxious when Kathy is captivated by the sophisticated & handsome floor manager Tony Kendall. He has a reputation the outspoken Jemima warns her. Hes had more girl friends than Ive got shoes in my closet. Kathy has fallen deeply & irrevocably in love & even when the country is plunged into war she can see no obstacle to their future. But she has reckoned without the devious mind of Tonys invalid mother Beatrice Kendall. Youll never marry my son she vows. Ill see to that. Determined that the possessive woman wont win Kathy plans her wedding but the day is ruined & Tony is called up before another date can be arranged. Feeling deserted Kathy is forced to face yet further heartache & shame alone. At last she finds solace in joining a concert party entertaining service men & woman & war workers. But behind the songs & the smiles her heart is breaking... ...

A mother will do anything to protect her child... Karen & Tudor Morgan have moved from a small mining community to the bustle & noise of Cardiff in search of a new life. Tudor longs to be a star entertainer & so Karen gets a job leaving her husband to look after their young daughter Delia doing stints at clubs in the evening whenever he can get them. Until one day Tudor is arrested for begging & Karen is horrified to learn that he has been busking during the day & taking three-year-old Delia with him to collect the money. When Tudor comes out of prison he gets an honest job but soon he is back to his old ways. & when his life of petty crime quickly turns into something far more sinister it is all Karen can do to ensure she & her daughter survive.. . ...

Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to get pregnant & just when she's about to get her heart's desire tragedy destroys her world. In the aftermath of loss & divorce she throws herself into her career as a music therapist. Working with Vanessa she finds their relationship moving from business to friendship & then
- to Zoe's surprise
- blossoming into love. When Zoe allows herself to start thinking of children again she remembers that there are still frozen embryos that she & her husband never used. But Max having sought peace at the bottom of a bottle has found redemption in an evangelical church & Zoe needs his permission to take his unborn child.. .SING YOU HOME is accompanied by a soundtrack of original songs created for the novel by Jodi Picoult & Ellen Wilber available to download or listen to online.

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This perennial stopover city is constantly reinventing itself as a destination in its own right jostling for the position of top dog among Asia s even the world s best cities. Shawn Low Lonely Planet Writer Our Promise You can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet authors visit the places we write about each & every edition. We never accept freebies for positive coverage so you can rely on us to tell it like it is. Inside This Book 2 expert authors 77 days on-the-ground research 200 eating & nightlife reviews 90 shopping reviews 45 durians consumed Comprehensive map section Feature coverage of top sights Range of planning tools In-depth background into Singapore s street-food scene. ...

Churchill's description of the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 after Lt-Gen Percival's surrender led to over 100 000 British Australian & Indian troops falling into the hands of the Japanese was no wartime exaggeration. The Japanese had promised that there would be no Dunkirk in Singapore & its fall led to imprisonment torture & death for thousands of allied men & women. With much new material from British Australian Indian & Japanese sources Colin Smith has woven together the full & terrifying story of the fall of Singapore & its aftermath. Here alongside cowardice & incompetence are forgotten acts of enormous heroism; treachery yet heart-rending loyalty; Japanese compassion as well as brutality from the bravest & most capricious enemy the British ever had to face. ...