Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher is a phenomenal " New York Times" number one bestseller. It tackles the aftermath of teen suicide from the critically acclaimed young adult author Jay Asher
- perfect for fans of John Green's " The Fault in Our Stars". You can't stop the future. You can't rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret.. .is to press play. Clay Jensen returns home to find a strange package with his name on it. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker
- his classmate & first love
- who committed suicide. Hannah's voice explains there are thirteen reasons why she killed herself & Clay is one of them. If he listens he'll find out why. All through the night Clay keeps listening
- & what he discovers changes his life.. . Forever. Bestselling US author Jay Asher had the idea for his debut young adult novel " Thirteen Reasons Why" at a museum. Whilst taking an audio tour he was struck by the eeriness of the voice in his ear
- a woman who described everything he was looking at but wasn't there."




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Red is now living at Elvesden Manor under her real name Rowan & trying to put her past behind her. But staying on the straight & narrow isn't as easy as she had hoped... Hounded by fairy messengers who are trying to convince her to participate once more in the changeling trade Rowan is haunted by dreams of the Hedgewitch's cottage & the chained-up Eldritch who threatens revenge against her. Her past is about to catch up with her
- can Tanya & Fabian prevent it consuming her altogether?
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A classic Rendellian loner Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number 13. Living in a decaying house in Notting Hill Mix is obsessed with 10 Rillington Place where the notorious Christie committed a series of foul murders. He is also infatuated with a beautiful model who lives nearby
- a woman who would not look at him twice. Mixs landlady Gwendolen Chawcer is equally reclusive
- living her life through her library of books. Both landlady & lodger inhabit weird worlds of their own. But when reality intrudes into Mixs life a long pent-up violence explodes.

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A classic Rendellian loner Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number 13. Living in a decaying house in Notting Hill Mix is obsessed with 10 Rillington Place where the notorious John Christie committed a series of foul murders. He is also infatuated with a beautiful model who lives nearby
- a woman who would not look at him twice. Mix's landlady Gwendolen Chawcer is equally reclusive
- living her life through her library of books. Both landlady & lodger are caught up in their own psychologically twisted parallel worlds. But when reality intrudes into Mix's life a long pent-up violence explodes.

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While visiting her grandmother's house an old photograph leads Tanya to an unsolved mystery. Fifty years ago a girl vanished in the woods nearby
- a girl Tanya's grandmother will not speak of. Fabian the caretaker's son is tormented by the girl's disappearance. His grandfather was the last person to see her alive & has lived under suspicion ever since. Together Tanya & Fabian decide to find the truth. But Tanya has her own secret: the ability to see fairies. & after disturbing an intruder in the night it emerges that someone else shares her ability.. . The manor's sinister history is about to repeat itself.. .
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Patrick O' Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning with Master & Commander these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the thirteenth book in the series. For all Jack Aubrey's life he has triumphed often sensationally over the dangers of the sea & the violence of the enemy. But his rashness his guilelessness his indiscretion have time & time again enabled his rivals to prevent him reaping his just rewards. The nadir was reached in The Reverse of the Medal when the victim of a skilful frame-up he was convicted of fraud & struck off the Navy list just as he was coming within sight of flag rank. The subsequent exposure of the conspiracy coupled with his brilliant success in command of a privateer had brought him to a position where Their Lordships were more or less bound to reinstate him. This as the present book opens they have done & he & his old friend Dr Maturin are sailing on a secret mission with a h&-picked crew most of them shipmates from the adventures & lucrative voyages of earlier years. ...

Imagine starting at the end & finishing back at the beginning. This is the story of a teenage girl called Valerie Saunders who is about to be thrown through time & space. Being bestowed with abilities beyond her wildest nightmares she discovers that she not only has to deal with turning eighteen her first job & an unwanted tattoo but also magical powers & intense urges to fall in love. She envisaged she would spend her life blending into the scenery not blowing it up! Val has a calling but which side is dialling her number? ...

Angelfield House stands abandoned & forgotten. It was once home to the March family
- fascinating manipulative Isabelle brutal
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As Wartime did for the 1940s this book will grasp the broad spectrum of events in the 1930s in the words of contemporary witnesses drawn from metropolitan & provincial letters & diaries newspapers periodicals books & the range of rich material available in the British Library. J.B. Priestley famously described the three Englands he saw in the 1930s: Old England nineteenth-century England & the new post-war Engl&. Thirties Britain was indeed a land of contrasts at once a nation rendered hopeless by the Depression unemployment & international tensions yet also a place of complacent suburban home-owners with a baby Austin in every garage. Now Juliet Gardiner acclaimed author of the award-winning Wartime provides a fresh perspective on that restless uncertain ambitious decade bringing the complex experience of thirties Britain alive through newspapers magazines memoirs letters & diaries. Gardiner captures the essence of a people part-mesmerised by modernism in architecture art & the proliferation of dream palaces by the cult of fitness & fresh air the obsession with speed the growth & regimentation of leisure the democratisation of the countryside the celebration of elegance glamour & sensation. Yet at the same time this was a nation imbued with a pervasive awareness of loss -- of Britains influence in the world of accepted political social & cultural signposts & finally of peace itself. ...

This work is jam-packed with carefully researched fun-to-make projects enabling you to give your doll's house a truly authentic ...