Fourteen-year-old Tory Brennan is as fascinated by bones & dead bodies as her famous aunt acclaimed forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan. However living on a secluded island off Charleston in South Carolina there is not much opportunity to put her knowledge to the test. Until her & her ragbag group of technophile friends stumble across a shallow grave containing the remains of a girl who has been missing for over thirty years. The question is did whoever was responsible for the girl's death have anything to do with the sick puppy they rescued from a secret laboratory on the same island? With the cold-case murder suddenly hot Tory realises that they are involved in something fatally dangerous. But events take a turn for the bizarre when they escape some would-be attackers by using physical powers more akin to a dog than a human... Could the puppy hold the key not only to the murder but also the strange changes that are taking place in their bodies? ...

Tory Brennan is as fascinated by bones & dead bodies as her famous aunt acclaimed forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan. However living on a secluded island off Charleston in South Carolina there is not much opportunity to put her knowledge to the test. Until she & her group of technophile friends stumble across a shallow grave containing the remains of a girl who has been missing for over thirty years. With the cold-case murder suddenly hot Tory realises that they are involved in something fatally dangerous. & when they rescue a sick dog from a laboratory on the same island it becomes evident that somehow the two events are linked. On the run from forces they dont understand they have only each other to fall back on. Until they succumb to a mysterious infection that heightens their senses & hones their instincts to impossible levels. Their illness seems to have changed their very biology
- & suddenly its clear that the island is home to something well beyond their comprehension. Its a secret that has driven men to kill once. & will drive them to kill again...
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Perfect for fans of Barbara Erskine Kate Morton & Sarah Waters this is historical fiction at its very best. The compelling story of two women born four centuries apart & the ancestral legacy that binds them. Ella Turner does her best to fit in to the small close-knit community of Lisle-sur-Tarn. She even changes her name back to Tournier & knocks the rust off her high school French. But it is all in vain. Isolated & lonely she is drawn to investigate her Tournier ancestry which leads to her encounter with the towns wolfish librarian. Isabelle du Moulin known as Le Rousse due to her fiery red hair is tormented & shunned in the village
- suspected of witchcraft & reviled for her association with the Virgin Mary. Falling pregnant she is forced to marry into the ruling family: the Tourniers. Tormentor becomes husband & a shocking fate awaits her. Plagued by the colour blue Ella is haunted by parallels with the past & by her recurring dream. Then one morning she wakes up to discover that her hair is turning inexplicably red...
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The Virgin Book of Baby Names" takes as its starting point the fact that choosing a name for your baby should be fun. Rather than a dry list of every name under the sun Emily Wood has organised names into interesting themed categories
- from literature to pop music biblical to astrological names celebrity baby names to names to avoid! With names for every day of the year as well as a comprehensive A-Z of girls & boys names " The Virgin Book of Baby Names" is an enjoyable alternative to the traditional baby names book."
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From Abracadabra by the Steve Miller Band to Zoom by ELO this indispensable innovatively designed book celebrates fifty years of British album charts telling you everything you could possibly want to know about every album to reach the Top 100. With new feature material covering a huge range of areas bands & history its an essential part of any serious music fans collection. The Virgin Book of British Hit Albums covers everything from the classics (Sgt Pepper Nevermind The Dark Side of the Moon) to the dodgy (Spiceworld Seriously Orchestra) & the downright bizarre (Smurfs Go Pop! Seventies Dinner Party). Where else are you going to find out that: Bridge over Troubled Water spent 307 weeks in the charts: Pavarotti has topped the album charts twice: Lily Allen went triple-platinum in 2006 with Alright Still: Oasis sold 356 000 copies of Be Here Now in one day alone: Both Gary Glitter & Mariah Carey released an album called Glitter. ...

The charts are the evening news of the music industry. Collected here they show the rapid rise or demise of each single as it enters the charts either winning over a large audience or just making music for its own smaller group of fans. Top 40 Charts" is required reading for every music buff & for anyone else whod like to know what song was number one on their birthday or any other memorable day. With every Top 40 singles chart from 1960 to the present day this is the definitive chart book. It

Includes:: the song title act record label & total number of weeks on chart for every single as well as a detailed history of the pre-1960s charts published using data from the Official Charts Company."

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I am Moth a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street born to a slum-house mystic & the man who broke her heart. So begins THE VIRGIN CURE a novel set in the tenements of lower Manhattan in 1871. As a young child Moths father smiled tipped his hat & walked away from her for ever. The summer she turned twelve her mother sold her as a servant to a wealthy woman with no intention of ever seeing her again. These betrayals lead Moth to the wild murky world of the Bowery filled with house-thieves pickpockets beggars sideshow freaks & prostitutes where eventually she meets Miss Everett the owner of a brothel. Miss Everett caters to gentlemen who pay dearly for companions & the most desirable of them all are young virgins like Moth. Through the friendship of Dr Sadie a female physician Moth learns to question & observe the world around her where her new friends are falling prey to the myth of the virgin cure to heal the incurable & tainted. She knows the law will not protect her that polite society ignores her & still she dreams of answering to no one but herself. Theres a high price for such independence though & no one knows that better than a girl from Chrystie Street... ...

The court of the Queen Elizabeth is a hot-bed of intrigue & ambition... It is a place where reputations can stand or fall on the merest hint of scandal. Lingering rumours even surround the Virgin Queen herself despite the fate of those foolish enough to besmirch her reputation. Recently arrived in court Nell de Lacey is surprised to discover that many think she bears more than a passing resemblance to the younger queen. That coupled with an old mystery about a missing portion of the Queens past some years prior is enough to set tongues wagging. & wherever the truth lies even the rumour is sufficient to place Nell on a dangerous path that could all so easily end with her head on a block... ...

' It rained a lot & steamed when the sun shone. It was always hot. But it was safe...' One way or another the Communist guerrilla war in Malaya kept a whole British army occupied from 1948 until 1952. They were the virgin soldiers. Idle homesick afraid bored oversexed & unsatisfied. A young virgin like Brigg had to grab his fun while & where he could
- in the Liberty Club in Juicy Lucy's flat or up in Phillipa's room
- in one frantic attempt at living before he died or got demobbed...

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The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one & only date of their lives. Twenty years on their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memories of the boys who worshipped them & who now recall their shared adolescence: the brassiere draped over a crucifix belonging to the promiscuous Lux; the sisters breathtaking appearance on the night of the dance; & the sultry sleepy street across which they watched a family disintegrate & fragile lives disappear. ...