Illustrated stories cover four important feelings (happiness sadness fear & anger) with a gentle & sweet approach. A happy hippo an angry tiger a sad zebra & a scared elephant allow young children to understand & learn to cope with these emotions. ...

Torey Hayden returns with this deeply-moving sequel to her first book One Child (the Sunday Times bestseller). After seven years Torey is reunited with Sheila the disturbed 6-year-old she tried to rescue. Sheila was a deeply disturbed six-year-old when she came into Torey Haydens life -- a story poignantly chronicled One Child. The Tigers Child picks up the story seven years later. Hayden has lost touch with the child she helped to free from a hellish inner prison of rage & silence. But now Sheila is back now a gangly teenager with bright orange hair -- no longer broken & lost but still troubled & searching for answers. This story of dedication & caring that began in childhood moves into a new & extraordinary chapter that tests the strength & heart of both Sheila & her one-time teacher. In The Tigers Child the skilled & loving educator answers the call once again to help a child in need through her difficult yet glorious transition into young womanhood. ...

With the head-to-head battle against the villainous Lokesh behind her Kelsey confronts a new heartbreak: in the wake of his traumatic experience her beloved Ren no longer remembers who she is. As the trio continues their quest by challenging five cunning & duplicitous dragons Ren & Kishan once more vie for her affections
- leaving Kelsey more confused than ever. Fraught with danger filled with magic & packed with romance Tigers Voyage brings Kelsey & her two tiger princes one step closer to breaking the curse.
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Born in Bangalore India during the fading days of the Raj Islas early years were spent in the lush verdant hills of Kerala on a tea plantation run by her father. This warm spice-scented idyll was abruptly ended when obliged by tradition & believing there were doing the best for their daughters Islas parents sent their daughters home to baording school. Isla was not quite six years old. Home as cold gloomy post-war austerity Scotland
- a land of liberty bodices chilblains icy mornings & dank days: an alien land where for several yars she nursed an astonishing secret- of which only her sister Fiona was aware. Isla Blair writes lyricallly of her beloved India stoically of term times in Spartan British boarding schools & with great humour & vivacity of the time after school when she became one of the younges students at RADA training alongside Anthony Hopkins & others & throwing herself fully into life in London in the swinging sixties.
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Having sifted through everything I have heard about the tiger & his wife I can tell you that this much is fact: in April of 1941 without declaration or warning the German bombs started falling over the city & did not stop for three days. The tiger did not know that they were bombs... A tiger escapes from the local zoo padding through the ruined streets & onwards to a ridge above the Balkan village of Galina. His nocturnal visits hold the villagers in a terrified thrall. But for one boy the tiger is a thing of magic
- Shere Khan awoken from the pages of The Jungle Book. Natalia is the granddaughter of that boy. Now a doctor she is visiting orphanages after another war has devastated the Balkans. On this journey she receives word of her beloved grandfathers death far from their home in circumstances shrouded in mystery. From fragments of stories her grandfather told her as a child Natalia realises he may have died searching for the deathless man a vagabond who was said to be immortal. Struggling to understand why a man of science would undertake such a quest she stumbles upon a clue that will lead her to a tattered copy of The Jungle Book & then to the extraordinary story of the tigers wife.
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When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat he invites all the people in his building & after some deliberation even

Includes:: the unpleasant caretaker & his wife. They are a disparate group of people each with their individual Rendellian psychoses & potential for violence. There are a few other genuine friends on the list but he definitely does not want to include his girlfriend Claudia as that might involve asking her husb&. The party will be one everyone remembers. But not for the right reasons. Living opposite in reclusive isolation is a beautiful young Asian woman christened Tigerlily by Stuart. As though from some strange urban fairytale she emerges to exert a terrible spell on Stuart & his guests. Mr & Mrs Font the worried parents will soon have even more cause for concern about their handsome but hopelessly naive son. Darkly humorous & piercingly observant of human behaviour Ruth Rendell has created another compelling fable of our lives & crimes.

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When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat he invites all the people in his building. After some deliberation he even

Includes:: the unpleasant caretaker & his wife. There are a few other genuine friends on the list but he definitely does not want to include his girlfriend as that might involve asking her husb&. The party will be one everyone remembers. But not for the right reasons. All the occupants of Lichfield House are about to experience a shocking change in their lives as Tigerlily casts her terrible spell...

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This is the latest thriller from the legendary crime writer. When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat he invites all the people in his building. After some deliberation he even

Includes:: the unpleasant caretaker & his wife. There are a few other genuine friends on the list but he definitely does not want to include his girlfriend as that might involve asking her husb&. The party will be one everyone remembers. But not for the right reasons. All the occupants of Lichfield House are about to experience a shocking change in their lives as Tigerlily casts her terrible spell... This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the author's work & as low as 30 per cent with characters & plotlines removed.

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Nick & her cousin Helena have grown up sharing sultry summers at Tiger House the glorious old family estate on the island of Marthas Vineyard. As World War II ends they are on the cusp of adulthood the world seeming to offer itself up to them. Helena is leaving for Hollywood & a new marriage while Nick is to be reunited with her young husband Hughes due to return from London & the war. Everything is about to change. Neither quite finds the life she had imagined & as the years pass the trips to Tiger House take on a new complexity. Then on the brink of the 1960s Nicks daughter Daisy & Helenas son Ed make a sinister discovery. It plunges the islands bright heat into private shadow & sends a depth-charge to the heart of the family. Summer seemed to arrive at that moment with its mysterious mixture of salt cold flesh & fuel. Magnificently told from five perspectives Tigers in Red Weather is an unforgettable debut: a simmering novel of passion betrayal & secret violence beneath a polished & fragile facade. ...

Nick & her cousin Helena have grown up together sharing long hot summers at Tiger House. With husbands & children of their own they keep returning. But against a background of parties cocktails moonlight & jazz how long can perfection last? There is always the summer that changes everything.

Tigers in Red Weather is part of the Richard & Judy Summer 2013 Book Club. Find out how you can get involved with Britain's biggest & best book club. Visit the brand new Book Club website Â- ...