Joy Division changed the face of music. The sound of music. The meaning of music. Godfathers of the current alternative scene they reinvented rock in the post-punk era creating a new sound -- dark hypnotic intense
- that would influence U2 Morrissey R.E.M. Radiohead & many others. The band's image once subversive & alienating has become an internationally renowned 'look' well documented by photographers Anton Corbijn Kevin Cummins & graphic designer Peter Saville. Inspired by the attitude energy & sound of Punk particularly the Sex Pistols Peter Hook & his old school friend Bernard Sumner started a band which continues to influence popular music 35 years later uniting with a gifted lead-singer & lyricist Ian Curtis & a brilliant drummer Stephen Morris. With some cobbled together instruments & a clapped out old van four young lads from Manchester & Salford shared the same vision & created their own unique sound in pubs & clubs first across the north-west then across the whole of Britain until in 1980 they had released two albums & were on the cusp of touring America. Then Ian Curtis committed suicide leaving everyone around him bereft. Best known for the propulsive bass guitar melodies of ' Love Will Tear Us Apart' Hooky was at the heart of the sound that came to define an era & inspire a generation. In the frank no-holds-barred style that has seen his previous book The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club hailed as one of the best music books of 2009 Peter ' Hooky' Hook gives us the inside story of life with Joy Division. He talks with eye-opening candour & reflection about the suicide of Ian Curtis: often seen as the intellectual one" to Peter & the band he was just "one of the lads" & the burden of balancing his epilepsy & the demands of his domestic life only really emerged when it was too late. He covers the band's friendships & fall-outs; their rehearsals & recording sessions; & the larger-than-life characters who formed a vital part of the Joy Division legend: Tony Wilson Rob Gretton Martin Hannett & more."
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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? ...

Prepare to enter an even more adorable animal kingdom of interspecies friendships
- because this time its for kids! Jennifer Hollands
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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. ...