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The Hiroshima Boy
As the soldiers lifted me from the floor, my father's eyes locked with my own. For just a moment, I thought I saw a shadow of sadness across his face. But it disappeared as quickly as it had arrived, replaced with my father's look of perpetual determination. "You'll find me at the hospital," I said to him. He made no response to this. "Be well, Shinji," he replied to me. Shinji Mikamo, a teenager, is on the roof of his house, working with his father, when there is a blinding flash. When he regains consciousness, he is severely injured, burned all over his body, and buried in the rubble of a building. Somehow, his father manages to pull him out, and together they begin to search for help. They were - it turned out - only 1200 metres away from the centre of the explosion. The Hiroshima Boy tells the story of Shinji and his father's journey through Hiroshima as they come face to face with the utter destruction of the city and meet neighbours, friends and strangers enduring unimaginable agony. Running from an enormous fire engulfing their neighbourhood, they reach the banks of the Kyobashi River. But the water provides little comfort, and the scenes they find there are devastating. For the next four days, they roam, searching for food, water and refuge in excruciating pain. Eventually, they reach a village outside Hiroshima City, where Shinji is able to be transferred to a hospital. But to do so he must leave his father, not knowing whether he will ever see him again... Told simply and powerfully, The Hiroshima Boy is an extraordinary first-person account of survival, suffering, courage and hope.
The Cursed Road
An atmospheric crime mystery featuring DI Georgina Lennox and DI Richard Stewart, set in the Scottish highlandsIn the mountainous region of the Scottish Highlands, a young woman’s body has been found on a remote stretch of road. Though her manner of death suggests a terrible accident, a name carved into her arm hints at something more sinister.And when a personal connection to the name is revealed, DIs Georgina Lennox and Richard Stewart are sent to investigate.As George and Richie question locals, they discover that the road has a bloody history. Fearing that more women will be harmed, George and Richie track the killer through a rugged wilderness where ancient feuds, generational curses, and the unforgiving elements fight for supremacy.But there are more secrets to the road than just its history – and the people living along it will do whatever it takes to stop those secrets from coming out.
The Soldier's Woman
The end of the war will bring more than just her husband home . . . A heart-rending saga of family strife, dreams abandoned and love triumphant - perfect for fans of Josephine Cox, Rita Bradshaw and Catherine Cookson. After the death of their parents, Faith and her brother are raised by an aunt in Oldham. Growing up protective and strong, Faith becomes the linchpin of the family. And, despite losing her trust in men because of a sordid encounter, she finds love with the charismatic wanderer Samuel Granger. But when Samuel returns from the Great War, he is a changed man. His recovery from his injuries is slow, and the post-war Depression hits their finances hard. Faith decides they must take in a lodger. A French widow, Leonie, and her baby move in, and she and Faith become close friends. But Leonie is holding on to a secret that threatens to destroy everything Faith loves . . . What readers say about The Soldier's Woman:'I couldn't put it down, what a brilliant read . . . anyone who likes post-war stories should make this book a must' ?'Great book. I particularly liked the way the author brought the characters to life. I'd read it again and still enjoy it' ?'Alexandra Connor is an author I will come back to. A very good book to read, you will not want to put it down. A storyline on the move that keeps you wanting to read more' ?'A page turner all the way through, great characters and storyline' ?'If you haven't read any of Alexandra's books I can assure you you won't stop at one. So get reading!' ?
The Secrets of Dragonfly Lodge
Secrets from the past, unravelling in the present…'A deeply satisfying read – gripping plot, loveable characters, and sumptuous locations, it draws you in and holds your attention until the last word. I loved it.’ SANTA MONTEFIORE 'An intriguing and heart-warming story. I couldn’t put it down.' BARBARA ERSKINE 'I loved it. I was completely immersed in the story and the setting. So clever and interesting and beautifully written' ELIZABETH BUCHAN 'Beautifully written, warm and intelligent' TRACY REES ‘A fascinating story – strong characters, an intriguing world, a gorgeous setting and an uplifting ending. Perfect! It reminded me of Rosamund Pilcher, the kind of read you get truly lost in.’ VERONICA HENRY 'An engrossing read, with a wide and varied cast of characters who leap off the page. A wonderful page-turner, I loved it.' JANE JOHNSONUncovering secrets that span generations, Rachel Hore delivers intriguing, involving and emotive narrative reading group fiction like few other writers can. Nancy Foster has harboured a devastating secret that shattered her professional and personal life. On meeting her, journalist Stef Lansdown realizes that she has the power to restore Nancy’s reputation and to heal the wounds, if only Nancy will trust her. But someone else wants to get to the bottom of the story first, someone who doesn’t want it to be told. Set in the beautiful environs of the Norfolk Broads in 2010, and in London in the '40s and ‘50s, when life for career-driven women was so different, The Secrets of Dragonfly Lodge is Sunday Times multi-million copy bestselling author Rachel Hore’s utterly compelling new novel, interweaving the past and the present.
The Hired Man
BOOK ONE IN THE CUMBRIAN TRILOGY'An intensely moving, deeply worked book'Sunday Telegraph'Extraordinary'The Times'A magnificently strong and sinewy novel' Sunday MirrorIn rural Cumbria at the turn of the nineteenth century, John Tallentire and his wife, Emily, struggle to make ends meet. First as a farm labourer, then a coal miner, John dreams of breaking free from his humiliating status as a 'hired man'. But in a rapidly changing world, the couple find themselves caught between the demands of daily survival and striving for a better life.
The Gigantic Activity Book for Smart Kids
One of the best and biggest activity books around! Over 500 games and puzzles for kids ages 4 to 8!2nd place winner of Purple Dragonfly Award for Activity BookIn this gigantic book of fun, kids can challenge themselves to a wide variety of fun games and puzzles. With four hundred pages of content, this book is brimming with varying levels of activities that will provide hours and hours of entertainment for both younger and older children.The Gigantic Activity Book for Smart Kids will include everything from mazes to connect-the-dots to coloring pages, as well as activities that will help children develop their reading, writing, and math skills, so your little learn is sure to never run out of fun things to do! The activities included are designed to cultivate creativity and growth all while simultaneously providing an enjoyable, encouraging learning experience!It’s the perfect gift for those rainy days or when parents want their children to disconnect from technology with some wholesome entertainment. Learning has never been so easy and so fun.
Atlas of Never Built Architecture
Discover more than 300 extraordinary unbuilt architecture projects that never made it off the drawing board Organized geographically across nearly 400 pages, this monumental homage to architectural ambition includes proposed projects of all types – from skyscrapers, museums, churches, and bridges to theme parks, casinos, opera houses, and even a floating theater boat that resembles a UFO. Seen together, the projects conjure a strange and wonderful new world while offering insight into how our built environment been conceived and developed over the last 100 years. Readers will discover futuristic visions from architectural icons such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies, and Louis Kahn, alongside more contemporary proposals from Zaha Hadid, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Steven Holl, Norman Foster, and Daniel Libeskind.
Each project is brought to life through deeply researched text and a wealth of imagery, including previously unpublished prints, paintings, drawings, etchings, preparatory sketches, and more. At times impractical or fanciful but always imaginative and ambitious, the projects in Atlas of Never Built Architecture reveal the incredible diversity of ideas that have emerged from the world’s most influential architects.
These Letters End in Tears
''If by some chance you happen on these letters, know that I waited for you. And if you don''t find me, it is not because I stopped waiting...''A chance encounter on a football pitch in Cameroon sees Fatima cross paths with Bessem, opening up the page for an all-consuming, law and logic defying romance.Even knowing that same-sex relationships are criminalised, Fatima and Bessem decide to live out their love. All seems to be going well, until one day tragedy strikes, and Fatima disappears...Thirteen years have passed, and Bessem is now a university professor, keeping her sexuality secret, but the memory of Fatima never leaves her. When one coincidence becomes several, Bessem takes the signs as a cosmic command: to go and find her old lover again.Told mostly through unsent letters, These Letters End in Tears, powerfully charts all the different ways that love, despite all odds, comes out on top.
The Wise Witch of Orkney
'A BEAUTIFULLY PORTRAYED AND IMAGINATIVE TALE OF WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL SCOTLAND IN ALL THEIR VULNERABILITY AND POWER' - S. G. MacLean, author of THE BOOKSELLER OF INVERNESS 'IMMERSIVE STORYTELLING AND GREAT CHARACTERS' - Philip Paris, author of THE LAST WITCH OF SCOTLAND1593, Scotland. King James VI launches a bloody witch hunt across the length and breadth of the country. But the women he fears most are already within his court. Elspet is a spae-wife, a wise woman and healer from the isles of Orkney. Some might call her a witch. When the king's new bride, Anna of Denmark, summons her to deliver her baby and cast a binding spell over the child, Elspet is trapped between two impossible choices - for she cannot refuse the queen, and she cannot be discovered by the king. While Elspet struggles to hide her secret identity in a court that wishes her dead, another woman seeks her aid: Kitty Muirhead, outcast, persecuted and desperate to escape the shadows of her past. Kitty and the queen could not be more different, but they may yet be each other's salvation. The hunt is closing in on the three women. They must concoct a reckless plan to save one another before that fearful death sentence is cast upon them - witch. 'Compelling and compulsive reading . . . heralds an exciting new voice in historical fiction' - D. V. Bishop, author of the CESARE ALDO series'Full of intrigue and feisty female characters, this is a spellbinding debut that had me gripped from the first page to the last' - Naomi Kelsey, author of THE BURNINGS 'An accomplished and impressive debut, which I highly recommend' - Paula Greenlees, author of JOURNEY TO PARADISE
10 Spiritual Lessons You Can Learn from Your Cat
Feel-good lessons and daily life skills we can pick up from our pets for a life lived in contentment. Cats are more than just furry friends and companions - they are members of our family who bring purpose and joy to our lives. They are often so much more to us than mere pets, and if we look closely enough there are lessons we can learn from our four-legged friends to improve both ourselves and our wellbeing.Spiritual Lessons You Can Learn From Your Cat looks at what we can learn - from taking a leaf out of our feline friends' book by learning how to sit back and watch the world go by to striking a balance between self-reliance and dependency. Full of practical, accessible, easy-to-follow advice, these books will help you unleash your carefree spirit and focus on the good things in life.
Black Bear
A dazzling memoir about one woman's coexistence with bears in the boreal forest and a singular meditation on sibling loss. When Trina Moyles was five years old, her father, a wildlife biologist known in Peace River as "the bear guy," brought home an orphaned black bear cub for a night before sending it to the Calgary Zoo. This brief but unforgettable encounter spurred Trina’s lifelong fascination with Ursus americanus—the most populous bear on the northern landscape, often considered a nuisance to human society. As a child roaming the shores of the Peace in the footsteps of her beloved older brother, Brendan, she understood bears to be invisible entities: always present but mostly hidden and worthy of respect. Growing up during the oil boom of the 1990s, the threats in the siblings' hard-drinking resource town were more human, dividing them from a natural reverence for the land, and eventually, from each other. After years of working for human rights organizations, Trina returned to northern Alberta for a job as a fire tower lookout, while Brendan worked in the oil sands, vulnerable to a boom-and-bust economy and substance addiction. When she was assigned to a tower in a wildlife corridor, bears were alarmingly visible and plentiful, wandering metres away on the other side of an electrified fence surrounding the tower. Over four summers, Trina begins to move beyond fear and observe the extraordinary essence of the maligned black bear—a keystone species who is as subject to the environmental consequences of the oil economy as humans. At the same time, she searches for common ground with Brendan on the land that bonded them. Impassioned and eloquent, Black Bear is a story of grief and a vision of peaceful coexistence in a divided world. It captures the fragility of our relationships with human and nonhuman species alike, and the imperative to protect the wild—along with the people we hold closest.
Red River (3-in-1 Edition), Vol. 6
A 3-in-1 edition of the classic romance fantasy series where a modern girl is whisked to ancient times and must navigate a scheming court and warring factions while trying to find her way home.Under the influence of Queen Nakia’s black water, Kail’s trusted commander Rusafa kidnaps Yuri. Kail launches a rescue that could ultimately also lead to the downfall of the innocent Rusafa!Under the influence of Queen Nakia’s black water, Kail’s trusted commander Rusafa kidnaps Yuri. Kail launches a rescue that could ultimately also lead to the downfall of the innocent Rusafa!
Minecraft One Last Quest Novel
The kingdom has been breached. Beware The Griefer! With middle school starting, Lam ??ng is officially ready for a change. He loves to play Minecraft, embarking on epic builds with his crew—Jazz, Elias, and Britt—in their beloved shared world, the Kingdom of the Killer Bunnies. But Lam also wants to try new things and meet new people. So maybe going into sixth grade with a little distance from his old friends wouldn’t be such a bad thing… . Lam’s plans change, though, when mysterious letters show up in the gang’s lockers. Someone calling themselves The Griefer is threatening to destroy everything the Killer Bunnies worked so hard to build in the Overworld, from their magnificent castle to the surrounding village. If they don’t play The Griefer’s twisted game, everything will be lost. Lam may be ready for something new, but he’s not prepared to give up the old just yet. Following clues in both the real world and the Overworld, Lam and his friends race to beat The Griefer and save their kingdom, all while trying to puzzle out the identity of their new enemy. Who could do this to them? And, more important, can The Griefer be stopped before it’s too late?
Blackshroud
Caroline Summers helps people to die. She is a Blackshroud — a member of the select society of women who have dispensed the fatal draught since time immemorial. But in Victorian England, times are changing fast. Caroline finds herself at the centre of a scandal that threatens to bring down not just herself but her whole profession alongside her. Can she find a way to survive? And can she do so without sacrificing everything she stands for?
My Brother's Secret
'They made me do it, it wasn't my fault!'When three brothers come to live with Maggie, she knows that it's going to be challenging. They are all already struggling with rejection after their dad abandoned them, their mum having died several years before. While four-year-old Billy is a delight, eleven-year-old Keegan is quiet and withdrawn, and teenager Cooper is a whirlwind of destruction. His behaviour at school is disruptive and Maggie struggles to get through to him, especially when he's in danger of being expelled. But when a shocking discovery turns everything on its head, Maggie begins to realise that what she believed to be true is completely wrong. Danger is lurking, but is it too late for Maggie to hel? rom Britain's best-loved foster carer, a new and emotional true story of bonds, brothers and family.
A Forever War
A Forever War: Israel and Palestine achieves something quite extraordinary. At a time when passions run high and the Israel-Gaza war intensifies, so much coverage is based on prejudice, fear and ignorance. Colin Shindler, Emeritus Professor of Israel Studies at SOAS, presents a calm, scholarly and dispassionate view of the past and of what might lie ahead. Since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, the Middle East has been thrown into conflict. Shindler reflects on the key questions: How did this state of affairs come about? Is it even possible to write an impartial account? Could all the conflict have been avoided? How is it that Israel itself is a divided nation and even other Arab nations treat the Palestinians so badl? n both sides are the extremists - terrorists and ultra-nationalist religious Jews who are determined to seize land from Palestinians and dream of a new Jewish theocracy based on a Greater Israel - but A Forever War strives for objectivity and asks how we can best approach the truth in a time of such complex division.
Prairie Oyster
''Sophie out-jars The Bell Jar with this dark and gleaming masterpiece'' EILEEN MYLESEverything falls into place: she will get sober, she will eat well, she will start sleeping properly, she will work hard, she will resurrect her career, she will make The Lakes, she will charm Mitch, she will be somebodyPearl is a thirty-something filmmaker balanced precariously on the edge of an addiction-fueled breakdown. But when she is invited to interview her idol and crush, lesbian cult filmmaker Mitch Meyer, her stilted life restarts.Buoyed and seduced by Mitch''s interest in her and her work, Pearl swaps alcoholism for romantic obsession, and London for a summer in New York with Mitch. All the while she is haunted by a project she has been toying with for years: a film about Veronica Lake, a 1940s film star who drank herself into obscurity.
Threaded Lies
The heated follow-up to Twisted Knight and the second book in New York Times bestselling author K. Bromberg''s Tangled Hearts series.A dark and sexy romance of revenge, betrayal? and falling in love with the enemy.HoldenI let my guard down.And got screwed over by a woman without even knowing why.But it won?t happen again.Because the only thing I care about is burning this whole place down.RowanTwo can play this game.I gave my heart to a man who set out from the get-go to destroy it.Now I?m more than ready to show him just who he messed with.You wanted a war, Holden Knight.You?ve got one.
Pokemon Mega Evolutions Sticker Book
This official book contains all you need to know about the 48 currently known Mega Evolution Pokémon, plus 300 awesome stickers. What is Mega Evolution and which Pokémon can Mega Evolve? In this Mega Evolutions Sticker Book you'll learn the Pokédex stats about each Mega Evolution Pokémon, the Mega Stones that enable Mega Evolution and more fun facts to keep you entertained for a mega long time. This jam-packed book also contains 300 stickers. Complete the book using the stickers and also enjoy some bonus stickers for you to stick anywhere!
