Allison & Busby

Virginia Dodge is determined to put a bullet through Steve Carella&aposs brain, and she doesn&apost care if she has to kill all the boys in the 87th Precinct in the process. Armed with a gun and a bottle of nitro-glycerine she spends an afternoon terrorising Lieutenant Byrnes and his men with her clever little home-made bomb.

March, 1943. Young Breda Hanney is on the brink of becoming a married woman; she is about to tie the knot with her childhood sweetheart, Warren Pascoe, in the small Cornish village of Penbole. But in wartime Britain, all young, able-bodied men are ne eded to fight for king and country, and away with the Navy, Warren isnt around to witness the preparations in the days leading up to the wedding. As long as he arrives on time for the big day, however, Breda will be happyWith just days to go, Breda s happiness is shattered by the arrival of a dreaded yellow telegram: Warrens ship has been sunk. Her beloved fiancé has been killed in action. The wedding ceremony shes dreamt of for so long must be changed to a memorial service. Distraught with grief, Breda feels cheated by fate she wont ever be a bride; she isnt even a widow. Shes nothing without Warren, and she vows never to fall in love again. But life has a strange way of turning things around. The arrival of Warrens cousin Max is just what Breda needs to bring her out of herself: she has a second chance for love; is she willing to take it?

Mexico making a bid for global supremacy? Poland becoming America's closest ally? World War III taking place in space? It might sound fantastic but all these things can happen. In "The Next 100 Years", George Friedman, author of the huge bestseller "America's Secret War" offers a lucid, highly readable forecast of the changes we can expect around the world during the 21st century. He predicts where and why future wars will erupt, and how they will be fought; which nations will gain and lose economic and political power; and how new technologies and cultural trends will alter the way we live in the new century.

Rachel Caine rewrites history, creating a dangerous world where the Great Library of Alexandria has survived the test of time. In 48 AD, a fire set by the troops of Julius Caesar destroyed much of the Great Library of Alexandria. It was the first of several disasters that resulted in the destruction of the accumulated knowledge of the ancient world. But what if the fire had been stopped? What would the Library have become? Fast forward: the Great Library is now a separate country, protected by its own standing army. It has grown into a vast power, with unquestioned and unrivalled supremacy. Jess Brightwell, seventeen and very smart, with a gift for mechanical engineering, has been sent into the Great Library as a spy for his criminal family. Magical spells and riots abound in this epic new YA series.

Based on the unforgettable story of one family determined to survive war-torn Europe 1939. Three generations of the Kurc family strive to live normal lives despite the growing hardships they face as Jews. But as the realities of war rush to meet them, they are cast to the wind and must do everything they can to find their way through a devastated continent to freedom. Based on an incredible true story that ranges from pre-war Parisian jazz clubs to the desolation of the Siberian gulag, and follows the Kurc family as refugees, prisoners and fighters, We Were the Lucky Ones is a testament to the notion that even in the darkest of times, the human spirit can find a way to survive, and even triumph.