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Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2018. Words are important to Gretel, always have been. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that was just their own. She hasn’t seen her mother since the age of 16, though - almost a lifetime ago - and those memories have faded. Now Gretel works as a lexicographer, updating dictionary entries, which suits her solitary nature. A phone call from the hospital interrupts Gretel’s isolation and throws up questions from long ago....

In 1875, Sisi, the Empress of Austria is the woman that every man desires and every woman envies. Beautiful, athletic, and intelligent, Sisi has everything - except happiness. Bored with the stultifying etiquette of the Hapsburg Court and her dutiful but unexciting husband, Franz Joseph, Sisi comes to England to hunt. She comes looking for excitement and she finds it in the dashing form of Captain Bay Middleton, the only man in Europe who can outride her.

'FULL OF SUPERB, AND SUSTAINED, TENSION AND HEAVY DOSES OF FOLKLORE AND EERIE HISTORY' New York Times *A Library Reads Pick!* *Most Anticipated by Goodreads, E! News, BookRiot, and more!* Unbearably tense and utterly propulsive, Daisy Pearce's critically acclaimed horror debut is perfect for...

I am an author who just wrote auto-biography called I was minding my own Business available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Former Army Chaplain, volunteer chaplain at MN adult and Teen Challenge, Scholar and youth pastor, among everything else. Was in the Theater and have Media Arts degree and had studied acting at the Lee Straussberg Theater Institute.

A fallen gives up her heavenly duties as a virtue for her beloved immortal that has waited for her rebirth on Earth for centuries. While Heaven hopes that with time Desiree will forget about her one true love. A bigger plan is unraveling behind the scenes, a child is to come from a dominate demon who wants Desiree for his collection Secret plans, heavenly lies, angels following the wrong side. Desiree is misguided and led to believe her one true LOVE will enter the heavenly realm. Hundreds of years later she learns what her Love has become to await the re-birth of his one true love. Without...

An unforgettable story, tying together past and present, from the bestselling author of The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris and The Royal Librarian Berlin, 1933. The night skies are burning bright with huge bonfires of banned books. The Nazi party is swelling in number and Berlin is no longer a safe...

Michelle Vance traded her high-powered food critic career in Manhattan for a quiet Christmas in Sugarplum Ridge—just long enough to nurse a broken heart and avoid her ex's Instagram stories. But when Aunt Linda volunteers her to judge the town's beloved Christmas Cookie Contest, Michelle discovers her co-judge is Chase Sterling: her high school crush, now a devastatingly handsome widowed baker with an adorable eight-year-old daughter. Between gingerbread critiques and cookie decorating sessions, Michelle finds herself falling for Chase's warm smile and Ellie's irresistible charm. But ...

Once a week, in late 18th-century London, writers of contrasting politics and personalities gathered around a dining table. The veal and boiled vegetables on offer at 72 St Pauls Churchyard may have been unappetising, but the company was convivial and the conversation was at once brilliant, unpredictable and profound. The host was Joseph Johnson, publisher and bookseller: a man at the heart of literary life.

The Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with sex and desire, with everyday routine. But the wild is always close at hand, ready to erupt. This is a place where animals and people commingle and fuse, where curious metamorphoses take place, where myth and dark magic still linger. So here a teenager may starve herself into the shape of an eel. A house might fall in love with a girl. A woman might give birth to a, well, what?

Jack Frost has promised not to trouble the Rainbow Fairies again, but he didn't say anything about the Weather Fairies! Now he has stolen the feathers from Doodle, the weather-vane cockerel in charge of the weather. It's up to Rachel and Kirsty to get each of the feathers back from Jack Frost's...

When Rachel and Kirsty meet on the ferry to Rainspell Island one summer holiday, they have no idea that such magical adventures with the fairies await them! Join Rachel and Kirsty as they search a secret garden and a magical maze to try to find Fern the Green Fairy...

When Rachel and Kirsty meet on the ferry to Rainspell Island one summer holiday, they have no idea that such magical adventures with the fairies await them! in this exciting story, the girls need to find Sky before the naughty goblins track her down...

Frances is a graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tending vegetables and harvesting honey will distract her from a scandal that drove her out of Paris, her research unfinished and her sense of self unmoored. At the eco-farm Noa Noa, named for his adventures in Tahiti, she comes under the influence of its charismatic and domineering owner, Paul. As his hold over her tightens and her plans come unstuck, she finds herself entangled in a strange, uneven relationship.

Sue Young has never asked for much apart from a quiet life. She’s always been happy with her call centre job and dinner on the table at six o'clock. That was until a tragedy tore her tranquility into little shreds. With her life in tatters, Sue is persuaded to join a charity cycle ride led by morning TV’s Kath Fuller, who is having a crisis of her own, and Sue’s self-appointed support crew are struggling with their own issues.

It’s Ellie Featherbill’s birthday, and she’s having a party at her houseboat home on Willowtree River. But Grizelda has a wicked plan to poison the river, and orders the Boggits to steal the Featherbills’ barge – with Ellie still on board! Can Lily and Jess save the little duckling and stop the Boggits?

Autumn 1941, and as female conscription looms, three women arrive at the Bell Works Factory in Hucknall to work on the Spitfire production line. Lily soon realises her real dream is to pilot the planes; Edna longs to be reunited with her evacuee daughter, but soon discovers she has a much bigger problem; and Jeannie fears the worst after weeks of no news from her fiancé. Despite all the heartache, with a bit of festive cheer and 'can do' attitude, The Engine Girls will pull together and do all they can to ensure Britain's safe for the New Year.

Get ready for an exciting fairy adventure with the no. 1 bestselling series for girls. The perfect Christmas gift for children aged 5 and up! Kirsty and Rachel are very excited to spending Christmas together. But when Jack Frost steals Christina the Winter Wonderland Fairy's magical objects, the...

Magische und zauberhafte Geschichten, die jedes Kinderherz ab 7 Jahren höher schlagen lassen. Die Freundinnen Lili und Jessi folgen einer geheimnisvollen Katze in den Wald der Freundschaft. Dort können alle Tiere sprechen und gemeinsam mit ihnen erleben die Mädchen viele spannende Abenteuer. Tierpflegetipps runden die Geschichten um "Die magischen Tierfreunde" perfekt ab. Die magischen Tierfreunde brauchen dringend Hilfe, um die gemeine Hexe Griselda aufzuhalten. Sie will den ganzen Wald für sich alleine haben, doch das dürfen Lili und Jessi auf keinen Fall zulassen.

The complete Stepbrother Games series for your pleasure: a collection of three hot and taboo steamy erotic romance stories. Stepbrother Games: Truth or Dare: Truth? I've been in love with him, even before our alcoholic parents got married. Dare? Resisting her, I don't think I can much longer. Stepbrother Games: All In: He's a billionaire, and I'm a stripper.... I thought she was off-limits, but maybe I was wrong.... Stepbrother Games: Hide & Seek: This time, he is going to be mine. I think I'm finally good enough for her.

Are you struggling with confidence on the agility course? Do you let negative self-talk and doubts hold back your training and handling? Do you feel overwhelmed by the challenges that current trends in dog agility courses present to you? In this podcast, Daisy Peel discusses everything you need to know about the mental side of the sport of dog agility!