One winter's afternoon Sonia opens the door of her beautiful riverside home to fifteen-year-old Jez the nephew of a family friend. He's come to borrow some music. Sonia invites him in & soon decides that she isn't going to let him leave. As Sonia's desire to keep Jez hidden & protected from the outside world becomes all the more overpowering she is haunted by memories of an intense teenage relationship which gradually reveal a terrifying truth. The River House Sonia's home since childhood holds secrets within its walls. & outside on the shores of the Thames new ones are coming in on the tide... ...

Tie-dyeing is a versatile technique that is currently making a comeback in the fashion world. Tie-dyeing is a versatile technique that has been used throughout the world to add interesting colours & patterns to fabrics. Recently it has been reclaimed as a fashion-forward technique that can be adapted to suit any taste or palette. This book offers a basic understanding of colour fabrics & dyeing & a fully illustrated step-by-step guide to five basic tie-dye methods (scrunch stripes bubbles bull's eye & spiral). More than 25 fresh project ideas
- from ombre dresses to a dreamy watercolour tote- will help readers fully explore the many possibilities this h&-dye technique offers. Tips will be included for creating tie-dye with children using alternate household materials & understanding how different fabrics can alter the final look of your design.
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Written with honesty & humour this is the engaging story of Tiff Needells life around cars & motor racing. For nearly 25 years Tiff has been a well-known television personality first on Top Gear
- where he worked alongside Jeremy Clarkson
- & then on Channel Fives Fifth Gear. Besides this Tiff had an incredibly varied & long motor racing career that saw him race in the Monaco Grand Prix & escape unharmed from a horrific 200mph crash at Le Mans. He tells it all with pace & style in a book that all car enthusiasts will relish.

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Written with honesty & humour this is the engaging story of Tiff Needells life around cars & motor racing. For nearly 25 years Tiff has been a well-known television personality first on Top Gear"
- where he worked alongside Jeremy Clarkson
- & then on Channel Fives " Fifth Gear". Besides this Tiff had an incredibly varied & long motor racing career that saw him reach the heights of a Grand Prix drive at Monaco & escape unharmed from a horrific 200mph crash at Le Mans. He tells his unique story with pace & style in a book that all his fans will relish."

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Its December 1997 & a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote Russian village. The tiger isnt just killing people its annihilating them & a team of men & their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers sift through the gruesome remains of the victims they discover that these attacks arent random: the tiger is apparently engaged in a vendetta. Injured starving & extremely dangerous the tiger must be found before it strikes again. As he re-creates these extraordinary events John Vaillant gives us an unforgettable portrait of this spectacularly beautiful & mysterious region. We meet the native tribes who for centuries have worshipped & lived alongside tigers even sharing their kills with them. We witness the arrival of Russian settlers in the nineteenth & early twentieth centuries soldiers & hunters who greatly diminished the tiger populations. & we come to know their descendants who crushed by poverty have turned to poaching & further upset the natural balance of the region. Beautifully written & deeply informative The Tiger circles around three main characters: Vladimir Markov a poacher killed by the tiger; Yuri Trush the lead tracker; & the tiger himself. It is an absolutely gripping tale of man & nature that leads inexorably to a final showdown in a clearing deep in the taiga. ...

Superpowered humans known as NEXT appeared in the world 45 years ago. Some of them fight crime in the city of Stern Bild while promoting their corporate sponsors on the hit show HERO TV." The people love their superheroes even if they dont completely understand them & not all of the NEXT use their powers for good. Veteran hero Wild Tiger has years of experience fighting crime but his ratings have been slipping. Under orders from his new employer Wild Tiger finds himself forced to team up with Barnaby Brooks Jr. a rookie with an attitude. Overcoming their differences will be at least as difficult for this mismatched duo as taking down superpowered bad guys!" ...

This lively folk tale from Orissa India explains why tigers eat their food uncooked & why cats live with people. The tiger child is sent to fetch some more fire from the village but on the way he gets distracted by his friends. By the time he gets to the village he has forgotten what he has been sent to fetch. ...

When Germany's leading tank ace meets the Steppe Fox it's a fight to the death. Faced with overwhelming odds Kampfgruppe von Schroif needs a better tank & fast; but the new Tiger tank is still on the drawing board & von Schroif must overcome bureaucracy espionage & relentless Allied bombing to get the Tiger into battle in time to meet the ultimate challenge. Based on a true story of combat on the Russian Front this powerful new novel is written by Emmy A' Award winning writer Bob Carruthers & newcomer Sinclair Mc Lay. It tells the gripping saga of how the Tiger tank was born & a legend forged in the heat of combat. Gritty intense & breath-taking in its detail this sprawling epic captures the reality of the lives & deaths of the tank crews fighting for survival on the Eastern Front a remarkable novel worthy of comparison with ' Das Boot'. ...

Davey's father has been murdered -- & the aftermath is causing her family to fall apart. Her heartbroken mum plucks them up & takes them to stay with her prim & proper aunt in Los Alamos. Davey escapes the claustrophobic house by cycling up to the canyon where she meets a mysterious older boy called Wolf: intense brooding & also about to lose someone close to him. But falling for someone won't make her dad come back
- there are no easy answers when you need to stick your broken family back together.. .
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This is a comprehensively updated account of where China stands today covering the generational change in the leadership completed in March 2013 the Bo Xilai scandal & the changing course of the world's second largest economy & the last major state ruled by a Communist Party. Named as a book of the year by the Guardian the Financial Times & Bloombery Business Week it lays out the reality behind the spectacular statistics & explains why China has to change if it is to maintain its development & avoid major internal problems China's importance as an increasingly significant global force is a phenomenon of our times but the world's most heavily populated nation has a history of catastrophe & tragedy tyranny & repression abject poverty unfair business practice & corruption
- & now faces environmental degradation & a demographic time bomb. In this compelling & lucid account based on years of research & first-hand experience Jonathan Fenby links together the myriad features of today's China. He delivers a unique & coherent picture of its essence & evolution & contemplates its future
- both alone & connected to the world around it. 'A bestselling examination of modern China by an experienced & fluent commentator'
- Financial Times


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