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Terrorism New! Featured
This book is one of a series of books dealing with serious contemporary issues such as Globalisation, Aids and Human Trafficking. It follows a predictable path, tracing history and offering definitions and following key events that have shaped today’s worlds. Yet there is a different slant – what the authors refer to as “mixed media sources” Review: T ...
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Winter Song New! Featured
Escaping from fifteen years of imprisonment, four teenagers flee across icy mountains pursued by a pack of vicious dog-men sent by the brutal regime to hunt them down. Only three of them make it safely to the headquarters of a secret resistance movement. Here they taste freedom, learn about courage and love, and discover the astonishing power of one voice. As they take up the fight against tyra ...
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The Long Weekend New! Featured
Sam knows that he and his friend Lloyd made a colossal mistake when they accepted the ride home. They have ended up in a dark mansion in the middle of nowhere with a man who means to harm them. But Sam doesn't know how to get them out. Review: At the start of the novel, Sam thinks Lloyd is the 'cool' one, and the story starts off innocuously enough with backstory ...
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Sapphique Featured
Finn has escaped from Incarceron to the timeless paradise of the Era, but he soon learns that his freedom is an illusion; the stifling demands of protocol are as inescapable as the walls of Incarceron. Left behind, Finn’s oathbrother Keiro and the former slave Attia now seek for the legendary glove of Sapphique. While Finn and Claudia, the daughter of the disgraced former Warden of Incarc ...
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The Toymaker Featured
What good is a toy that will wind down? What if it were possible to put a heart in one? A real heart. One that beats and beats and doesn’t stop. What couldn’t you do if you could make a toy like that? From the moment that the circus boy Mathias takes a small roll of paper from the dying conjuror his fate is sealed. For on the roll of paper is the key to a terrifying secret and ther ...
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Screwed
Don't screw with Marsha Webb. What would you do for a fifty quid bet? All I have to do is shag a certain boy. It's not as if I've never done it before - I'm no virgin. Sex is what I know - what I do. I'd thought I'd win the bet within a week. But how was I to know this was the one boy in the world who wanted a relationship rather than a one-night stand? And how was I to ...
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Sold
Lakshmi suffers a difficult life with her mother in the Nepalese mountains and dreams of a more exciting existence in the city. As a maid away from her stepfather who wastes what little money they have she knows there is a better life for her. Crucially she would be able to send money home and buy her mother the tin roof that will secure their future. Review: This book consists of ...
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Hero
A trainee superhero struggles to hide his secrets while trying to come of age. Review: Set in America, Thom is the son of a disgraced hero. His mum left years ago and his ridiculed and hated dad struggles to keep them afloat by working all hours at the local factory. Thom is about 18, I guess, although this is never clarified. He is desperately trying to hide the fact that h ...
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The Life of Anne Frank
Synopsis: Not another book about Anne Frank? This is background to the well known story of the girl who wrote such an inspirational diary. It tells of her life, family, background and the circumstances that led her to go into hiding. Also it offers insight into what happened after her arrest and how her diary came to survive, despite the odds. Review: I wondered immediatel ...
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A World Away
When she was captured from her tribe in Virginia by the new pale-skinned people, led by Sir Francis Drake, Nadie saw her mother burn and her chief killed. Dragged half way across the world to a new life, she should hate every one of her oppressors. But in Plymouth, Nadie meets kindness as well as cruelty. The minister’s wife takes her in and is generous and gentle. And she falls in love ...
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