Returning to Turkey from exile in the West the secular poet Ka is driven by curiosity to investigate a surprising wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden by the government to wear their head scarves in school. But the epicentre of the suicides the bleak impoverished border city of Kars is also home to the beautiful Ipek a friend of Kas youth whom he has never forgotten & whose spirited younger sister is a leader of the rebellious schoolgirls. As a fierce snowstorm descends cutting them off from the world violence between the military & local Islamic radicals begins to explode & Ka finds his sympathies drawn in unexpected & dramatic directions. ...

The new Adam Roberts novel is a story of global apocalypse old hatreds & new beginnings. It is his best novel to date. & this is how the world will end.. . The snow started falling on the sixth of September soft noiseless flakes filling the sky like a swarm of white moths or like static interference on your TV screen
- whichever metaphor nature or technology you find the more evocative. Snow everywhere all through the air with that distinctive sense of hurrying that a vigorous snowfall brings with it. Everything in a rush busy-busy snowflakes. & simultaneously paradoxically everything is hushed calm as quiet as cancer as white as death. & at the beginning people were happy. But the snow doesnt stop. It falls & falls & falls. Until it lies three miles thick across the whole of the earth. Six billion people have died. Perhaps 150 000 survive. But those 150 000 need help they need support they need organising governing. & so the lies begin. Lies about how the snow started. Lies about who is to blame. Lies about who is left. Lies about what really lies beneath.
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As the snow begins to fall just days before Christmas Grandad helps Sara build an igloo in the garden with a small snow bear to watch over it. & when Sara wakes in the middle of the night it looks very different outside. She sets out on an enchanted journey through a world of ice but will she ever find her way home... ...

Snow Blind" is yet another top ten bestseller from the chilling PJ Tracy. " The Dead of Winter"... Minneapolis winters first white flakes; a park full of snowmen. But the layers of packed snow hide a goulish surprise... First the bodies of two cops are found inside the snowmen & then a day later in the countryside to the north Sheriff Iris Rikker makes a similarly shocking discovery. Soon Detectives Gino & Magozzi are sent north through the worst blizzard Minnesotas seen for years to find what else links the investigations. But some secrets you dont want to uncover. & as the cases unravel it seems snowmen arent the only ones with something to hide... From the author of " Live Bait" & " Dead Run" comes PJ Tracys " Snow Blind". Grace Mac Bride & Detectives Gino & Magozzi are back for more. Fans of Lisa Gardiner & Karen Rose will love this. Praise for PJ Tracy: "A fast-paced gripping read with thrills & devilish twists". (" Guardian"). " Outrageously suspenseful". (Harlan Coben). "PJ Tracy is about to become a household name". (" Daily Mirror"). P.J. Tracy is the pseudonynm for the mother-&-daughter writing team of P.J. & Traci Lambrecht. They are the authors of the award-winning & bestselling thrillers " Live Bait" " Dead Run" " Snow Blind" " Play to Kill" & the Richard & Judy Book Club pick " Want to Play?" All five books feature detectives Gino & Magozzi & maverick computer hacker Grace Mc Bride. P.J. & Traci both live near Minneapolis Minnesota." ...

One snowy Christmas Eve a small bunny goes in search of Santa to ask him to make her Christmas wish come true. She packs everything she might need for the journey & leaves her cosy burrow & sets out through the snow on her quest. On the way she meets many other animals all in need of a little help
- which she gladly offers
- & in the offering makes her own wish come true!

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Its going to be woof-onderful! There is nothing Nicky wants more in the world than a dog to play with. But Mum & Dad dont want a dog. Then Grandad has an idea
- he & Nicky can make a dog: a snow-dome dog. Even better he has some special clay found at the end of a rainbow so that the dog will be extra-special. Maybe even magic...
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When the power-crazy Most Royal of Fire Dragons decides he wants to rule not only his own hot southern kingdom but also the icy wastes of the Snow Dragons' northern territory catastrophe occurs. The Fire Dragon ignores the warning from the powerful Book that Twolegs will eventually destroy his kind & sets out crisping & frazzling the world. Little Tuft a Twoleg can't ignore the warning & enlists the help of the last remaining Snow Dragon in a thrilling & magical quest to save the world from burning up... An entrancing story lyrically told & gorgeously illustrated which will be appreciated on a variety of levels by children from pre-school to 8-year-olds & older. ...

In 1954 a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat & a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder. In the course of his trial it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than one mans guilt. For on San Piedro memories grow as thickly as cedar trees & the fields of ripe strawberries
- memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy & a Japanese girl; memories of land desired paid for & lost. Above all San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbours watched.
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Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer & to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape & size of her feet this is extraordinary good luck. Lily now has the power to make a good marriage & change the fortunes of her family. To prepare for her new life she must undergo the agonies of footbinding learn nu shu the famed secret women's writing & make a very special friend Snow Flower. But a bitter reversal of fortune is about to change everything. ...

WINNER OF THE HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR One winter after an enforced period of quiet William Fiennes finds himself restless & yearning for adventure. Inspired by his reading about the migratory patterns of birds he flies to Texas to find the million-strong flocks of snow geese & to follow them on their spring flight thousands of miles north to breeding grounds on the Arctic tundra. This mesmerizing book already a classic captures their journey with wisdom humility & endless curiosity. It is a meditation on freedom of movement on seeing the world anew & on the joy of returning -- indefinably changed. Why are we drawn to birds to landscape to nature? It is for the sense of wonder -- & in capturing that sense of wonder Fiennes reminds us how desperately we all need it Sunday Telegraph The Snow Geese moved me as have few other recent books. No one who reads it is likely to continue to look at the world in the same way Times Literary Supplement A beautifully solitary & beautifully reflective book Evening Standard The descriptions of the geese & their environment are jaw-droppingly beautiful. But Fiennes most remarkable talent is for describing the"idian with such freshness that it is like seeing the world for the first time Mail on Sunday An inspired work of natural history & travel. A classic Irish Independent ...