An extremely rare Tigarian Katagaria Wren is half snow leopard & half white tiger. Both species are extremely dangerous. Combined they are lethal. Hes reclusive & anti-social. Marguerite Godoeau has spent her lifetime trying to please her politician father. But has come to the recent conclusion that she wants her freedom. Missing her friend Nick Gautier who was a voice of reason in her insane life she goes to Nicks favorite bar Sanctuary. From the moment he sees her Wren is completely captivated by Marguerite. Compelled he follows after her & starts a most forbidden courtship. Wren knows he has no business with a human. He has too many enemies as it is. Yet he cant seem to let go of the only thing in his life that means something to him. Through enemies both human & other they have to learn to stand together or be devoured. ...

A group of special teenagers each with an incredible power. They live together & learn how to use their abilities protected from those who wish to harm them. Now for one short week they are let out into the world with strict instructions that they must not use their powers. But good intentions are easy.. .following them through is a different matter. Gideon & Luke are spending some quality family time playing at being normal teenagers for once. They have no real reason to use their telekinetic powers in the small seaside town & there are enough bodyguards around to keep them safe right? Wrong. Someone is stalking them. A man with the cool calm air of a brutal killer & Gideon & Luke are in his sights. ...

A group of special teenagers each with an incredible power. They live together & learn how to use their abilities protected from those who wish to harm them. Now for one short week they are let out into the world with strict instructions that they must not use their powers. But good intentions are easy.. .following them through is a different matter. For Lisa every day is about life & death. Because she can hear dead people talking & they just wont leave her alone. But on a trip to London its the living who need her help. Someone is kidnapped & this time Lisa knows she has to help even though it means walking into mortal danger. Now Lisa is in fear for her own life is there anyone to help her? ...

A group of very special teenagers. Each with an incredible power they live together protected by the government. Out in the ordinary world they know they must not use their powers. But good intentions are easy.. .following them through is another matter. With his supernatural ability to conjure spectacular illusions Spook Williams knows he is destined for greatness. So when hes kidnapped by a celebrity magician claiming to be his real father he cant help but be intrigued.. . Very soon Spook is living the dream: bathing in a jacuzzi aboard a luxury yacht rubbing shoulders with billionaires & spending time with gorgeous magicians assistant Kamilah.. . But when he is asked to take part in a daring heist will Spook be able to resist this opportunity to flex his powers? ...

It is exactly like Isaiah" 11:6: " The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb & the leopard shall lie down with the kid..." Written by " National Geographic" magazine writer Jennifer Holland " Unlikely Friendships" documents one heart warming tale after another of animals who with nothing else in common bond in the most unexpected ways. A cat & a bird. A mare & a fawn. An elephant & a sheep. A snake & a hamster. It

Includes:: the well-documented stories of Koko the gorilla & All Ball the kitten; & the hippo Owen & the tortoise Mzee. & almost inexplicable stories of predators befriending prey
- an Indian leopard slips into a village every night to sleep with a calf. A lionness mothers a baby oryx. Ms. Holland narrates the details & arc of each story & also offers insights into why
- how the young leopard probably motherless sought maternal comfort with the calf & how a baby oryx inspired the same mothering instinct in the lionness. Or in the story of Kizzy a nervous retired Greyhound & Murphy a red tabby how cats & dogs actually understand each other's body language. With Murphy's friendship & support Kizzy recovered from life as a racing dog & became a confident loyal family pet. These are the most amazing friendships between species collected from around the world & documented in a selection of full-colour candid photographs."



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Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012: The odyssey of a simple man original subtle & touching
- Claire Tomalin. When Harold
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When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter leaving his wife hoovering upstairs he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map let alone a compass waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To save someone else's life. The odyssey of a simple man original subtle & touching." (Claire Tomalin). " From the moment I met Harold Fry I didn't want to leave him. Impossible to put down." (Erica Wagner " The Times")." ...

Grace Gifford is one of the tragic stories of the 1916 Easter Rising but the poignancy of her brief marriage to the executed rebel leader Joseph Mary Plunkett has tended to overshadow her family's deep commitment to the cause of the Irish Republic. Grace was the second youngest of twelve children. Her sisters were raised in their mother's Protestant faith & the sons were raised as Catholics. The Gifford sisters were heavily involved with the leaders of the 1916 Rising such as Constance Markievicz Thomas Mac Donagh (who married Grace's sister Muriel) Padraic Pearse & Maud Gonne. The sisters became strong supporters of the Irish Women's Franchise League a militant organization working to obtain voting rights for women. ...

Germany 1944. The Allied invasion is not far off & the high command desperately need to know where it will take place. It is time to activate one of Hitlers last spies in Britain. However British intelligence have their own secret weapon in Alfred Vicary. ...

When a Nationalist military uprising was launched in Spain in July 1936 the Spanish Republics desperate pleas for assistance from the leaders of Britain & France fell on deaf ears. Appalled at the prospect of another European democracy succumbing to fascism volunteers from across the Continent & beyond flocked to Spains aid many to join the International Brigades. More than 2 500 of these men & women came from Britain Ireland & the Commonwealth & contrary to popular myth theirs was not an army of adventurers poets & public school idealists. Overwhelmingly they hailed from modest working class backgrounds leaving behind their livelihoods & their families to fight in a brutal civil war on foreign soil. Some 500 of them never returned home. In this inspiring & moving oral history Richard Baxell weaves together a diverse array of testimony to tell the remarkable story of the Britons who took up arms against General Franco. Drawing on his own extensive interviews with survivors research in archives across Britain Spain & Russia as well as first-hand accounts by writers both famous & unknown Unlikely Warriors presents a startling new interpretation of the Spanish Civil War & follows a band of ordinary men & women who made an extraordinary choice. ...