Beautiful. Fearless. Dangerous. They're the kind of girls you envy; the kind of girls you want to hate. Strangers in town for the summer Penn Thea & Lexi have caught everyone's attention including the eye of practical Harper. But it's her sister Gemma they've chosen to be part of their group. Sixteen-year-old Gemma seems to have it all
- carefree pretty & falling in love with the boy next door. But her greatest passion has always been the water. She craves late night swims under the stars where she can be alone yet belong to the sea. Lately she's had company. Penn Thea & Lexi spend their nights dancing singing & partying on the cove
- & one night Gemma joins them. When she wakes up groggy on the beach the next morning she knows something has changed. Suddenly Gemma is stronger faster & more beautiful than ever. As she uncovers the truth about her new mythical powers Gemma is forced to choose between staying with those she loves or entering a dark world brimming with unimaginable secrets. ' Generated an excitement not felt in the industry since Stephenie Meyer or perhaps even J. K. Rowling' New York Times 'A fast-paced romance.. .addictive' Guardian on Switched ' Drew me in & kept me hooked... cracking pace' Sunday Express on Switched

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For seventeen-year-old Janie getting sucked into other peoples dreams at any given moment is getting tired. Especially the falling dreams & the standing-in-front-of-the-class-naked ones. But then there are the nightmares the ones that chill her to the bone...like the one where she is in a strange house...in a dirty kitchen...and a sinister monster that edges ever closer. This is the nightmare that she keeps falling into the one where for the first time Janie is more than a witness to someone elses twisted psyche. She is a participant... ...

I squeezed through the narrow gap & out into the hallway & I stood for a moment unable to decide where to go. Should I make a dash for the kitchen where my mother would be swigging from a bottle? Or should I run upstairs & try to find somewhere to hide? It was a choice I didnt really need to make because there was no escape. Anna Lowe grows up on the doorsteps of pubs waiting for her mum to come out. Having to give up her bedroom to her mothers drunken friends. & regularly calling out the ambulance after finding her mother unconscious & covered in vomit. But it is when they move in with her mothers boyfriend Carl that things take the ugliest turn. Not only is he violent with her mother but he also sexually abuses Anna from the age of six
- destroying any semblance of normal childhood she had left. Wake Up Mummy" is the heartbreaking true story of a little girl who eventually found the courage to break free from the past."
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Duncan Bannatyne reveals how to set up a business & make it a great success. Having started out with ice cream van he knows exactly how it can be done
- & how to avoid the pitfalls along the way. In a series of clear & easy-to-follow chapters Duncan removes the barriers to getting started as an entrepreneur & helps to plan a way forward through those potentially difficult early days. He shows that there is no substitute for hard work & insists that you must be completely honest with yourself about your own strengths & weaknesses if you are to succeed. He outlines the key attributes you will need & how you can develop them to achieve your dreams. Backed with fascinating examples from his own career & case studies from a wide range of other entrepreneurs this book provides the perfect wake-up call for you to change your life for the better.
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A little ghost tries to give Lydia Lou a scare.. .but he can't even wake her up. So he fetches his noisy animal friends to help: Mew! Moo! Too-whit too-whoo! Wake up do Lydia Lou! Will anything ever wake her? A gentle & playful bedtime read from the author of THE GRUFFALO full of fun sounds which children will love to join in with time & time again. ...

Over the past few hundred years animism has been dismissed as a primitive naive & irrational perspective irrelevant within the civilised West. In The Wakeful World Emma Restall Orr argues that this is based on the misrepresentation drawn in crayon that each tree & stone has its own Christian-like immortal soul. Taking the reader on a philosophical adventure Restall Orr explores the heritage of Western thought with precision enthusiasm & sensitivity considering how soul spirit mind & consciousness have been understood through millennia. Challenging the prevailing worldviews of materialism & dualism she presents animism as a radically different yet mature & coherent philosophy. Providing deep green ethics with a wholly rational metaphysical foundation The Wakeful World is a compelling view of the nature of existence & the experience of reality giving solid ground for the now necessary journey to a sustainable world. ...

Twenty thousand years ago our planet was an icehouse. Temperatures were down six degrees; ice sheets kilometres thick buried much of Europe & North America & sea levels were 130m lower. The following 15 millennia saw an astonishing transformation as our planet metamorphosed into the temperate world upon which our civilisation has grown & thrived. One of the most dynamic periods in Earth history saw rocketing temperatures melt the great ice sheets like butter on a hot summer's day; feeding torrents of freshwater into ocean basins that rapidly filled to present levels. The removal of the enormous weight of ice at high latitudes caused the crust to bounce back triggering earthquakes in Europe & North America & provoking an unprecedented volcanic outburst in Icel&. A giant submarine landslide off the coast of Norway sent a tsunami crashing onto the Scottish coast while around the margins of the continents the massive load exerted on the crust by soaring sea levels encouraged a widespread seismic & volcanic rejoinder. In many ways this post-glacial world mirrors that projected to arise as a consequence of unmitigated climate change driven by human activities. Already there are signs that the effects of climbing global temperatures are causing the sleeping giant to stir once again. Could it be that we are on track to bequeath to our children & their children not only a far hotter world but also a more geologically fractious one? ...

Columbus is a small fading town untouched by the twenty-first century. But when three young women are found dead
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Thoreau's timeless reflections on his two-year sojourn of self-reliance continues to inspire readers. This book features highlighted passages to ponder an introduction that examines the text from a contemporary perspective & reflective writing exercises. This pocket-size edition can be taken & enjoyed anywhere. It features an innovative & beautiful new take on a beloved classic. Though it had only a modest 2 000-copy first printing in 1854 (which took five years to sell out) Walden"; or " Life in the Woods" is now one of the world's most widely read books having sold millions of copies. Thoreau's timeless reflections on his two-year sojourn of self-reliance by Walden Pond still inspire us to search for deeper meaning greater harmony & more serenity in today's fast-paced world. This pocket-size edition draws us even more profoundly into Thoreau's musings: it features highlighted passages to ponder an introduction that examines the text from a contemporary perspective & reflective writing exercises (with lined pages to write on). These special extras with Thoreau's provocative words provide further motivation for cultivating happiness & making positive life changes." ...

A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition. This fictional outline of a modern Utopia has been a centre of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct. FROM THE PREFACE: It is now widely recognised that great changes must be made in the American way of life. Not only can we not face the rest of the world while consuming & polluting as we do we cannot for long face ourselves while acknowledging the violence & chaos in which we live. The choice is clear: either we do nothing & allow a miserable & probably catastrophic future to overtake us or we use our knowledge about human behaviour to create a social environment in which we shall live productive & creative lives & do so without jeopardising the chances that those who follow us will be able to do the same. Something like a Walden Two would not be a bad start. ...