Author : Brian Moses
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0230752179
Brian Moses' greatest hits!This brilliant book is packed with old friends - What Teachers Wear in Bed, An Alien Stole My Underpants, Shopping Trolley and Monster Crazy - and introduces us to some wonderful new poems too.
Author : Brian Moses
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1447269667
Find out what goes on behind the staffroom door, join in at playtime, see what is in the mysterious lost-property box, go on the school trip, and discover what teachers do in their spare time - and that’s just the beginning of the school adventure in this brilliant collection of poems from the hugely talented Brian Moses.
Author : Marie Green
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 2012-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781477245880
When the library ladies discover the decomposing body of an ex library assistant behind their little library, they are happy to let the police investigate well mostly. The police think the victim died accidently while planning to break into a house behind the library and scale down their investigation to find a murderer. But the library ladies know differently! With enthusiastic snooping and determination to get justice for poor Barry, the eclectic bunch set out to find out what happened with the only clues being a shopping trolley coin from Tesco and the ghost of the victim.
Author : Nika Kaitlyn
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 12,5 MB
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1503502538
With final exams creeping up quickly, Imani Shae and friends find themselves using all their free time to study. However, at the park in town, on a day that was supposed to be relaxing, Imani stumbled upon the body of a local girldead. That is when things turn from bad to worse. She tries hard to forget what she saw, but she is still haunted by a ghost who died twenty years before, the ghost of Zoey Bishop. Zoey follows Imani, leaving nothing but cryptic messages and confusion in her wake. Imani is left to decode them before the man who's killing teenage girls strikes again. The man is still on the hunt and won't stop until he has gotten what he's after, but is it too late for Imani when someone really close to her becomes this guy's next target? Will she be able to stop the killer and save his target before her heart gets broken?
Author : Jody Holford
Publisher : Tule Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 25,81 MB
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1957748052
The coastal Oregon town of Rainbow Falls might be sleepy, but it’s definitely not innocent... When graphic designer and true crime fan Annie Abbott agrees to house sit her parents’ home for a year, she’s convinced that even though the small town has ten coffee shops, nothing exciting will happen. But that’s before a seemingly feral cat gives birth in her garage, prompting a call to the very handsome, very single town vet. It’s a dream meet-cute, but just as their romance blooms, Annie discovers the bloody body of her grumpy neighbor. And despite the fact that she passes out at the sight of blood, the police suspect her. To clear her name, Annie will need to put her years of watching police procedurals and reading mysteries to good use. She’ll also need to rely on her new friends who have welcomed her to Rainbow Falls, but is one of them the killer?
Author : Tamsyn Muir
Publisher : Tordotcom
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250854121
Tamsyn Muir's New York Times and USA Today bestselling Locked Tomb Series continues with Nona ...the Ninth? A Finalist for the Hugo and Locus Awards! An Indie Next Pick! The Locked Tomb is a 2023 Hugo Finalist for Best Series! “You will love Nona, and Nona loves you.” —Alix E. Harrow “Unlike anything I've ever read.” —V.E. Schwab on Gideon the Ninth “Deft, tense and atmospheric, compellingly immersive and wildly original.” —The New York Times on Gideon the Ninth Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party. In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back. The whole city is falling to pieces. A monstrous blue sphere hangs on the horizon, ready to tear the planet apart. Blood of Eden forces have surrounded the last Cohort facility and wait for the Emperor Undying to come calling. Their leaders want Nona to be the weapon that will save them from the Nine Houses. Nona would prefer to live an ordinary life with the people she loves, with Pyrrha and Camilla and Palamedes, but she also knows that nothing lasts forever. And each night, Nona dreams of a woman with a skull-painted face... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Finley de Witt
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1805147110
Have you ever struggled with your mental health, your terrible relatives or a dysfunctional relationship? Or simply wondered what the hell is wrong with you? This story is for you. Finley recounts her chaotic life with deadpan humour and honesty, wryly embracing her colourful lovers and a series of futile attempts to fix her. When a catastrophic encounter in France sends her into meltdown, she winds up receiving daily psychoanalysis on the NHS with a cast of unsettling characters - mainly the therapists. On leaving hospital, Finley stitches her life back together, living for a short time with a Bristol theologian before finding domestic bliss with a transgender civil servant. A cutting-edge approach to mental illness eventually leads her to a key revelation about her past, and she finally understands herself through the lens of her history. Aware at last of what she has survived, she faces an agonising decision about her future. Trauma has never been so funny or so shocking. Finley de Witt is a writer, bodyworker and trauma specialist.
Author : Lee Smith
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1468926055
Arlingston, a town in chaos, the streets are overrun by the gangs and the schools are controlled by the thugs. The law fails as the crime rate rockets and the drug abuse escalates. In a town torn apart by gang wars, where hope is just a word and danger is all around, this story follows a troubled outcast, a delinquent, stubborn womanising teenager called Luke Sanders who vows to turn his life around and help his friends stand up against the ruthless bullies and thugs that unleash terror and prey on the weak and the vulnerable. When Luke sees his friends suffer at the hands of the gangs, he sets out to fight back not only as himself but as a vigilante known as the Ranger taking on the underworld that delve in drugs, blackmail and murder. As the battle ignites, a mysterious crime lord emerges thrusting Luke and his friends into a world of anarchy. Yet the town of Arlingston finds that bit of hope in Luke Sanders, the Ranger, for the fight back against the armies of the night is set to begin...
Author : A.C. Lanaway
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 35,70 MB
Release : 2024-08-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1038303788
Every family has its share of secrets, but for twelve-year-old Nikki McBride, her mother, and brother, those secrets force them to flee their big-city home. Settling down in a rural prairie town, they hope to escape the threats of her recently deceased father’s disreputable acquaintance. Soon after, Nikki begins experiencing unsettling dreams that reveal details from the past she couldn’t possibly have witnessed—and they’re growing progressively more frightening. Making friends and enemies along the way, Nikki and her dog, Chase, set out to uncover the dangerous secrets her mother has kept hidden for thirty years. Strange and unexplainable events lead her to an abandoned mansion, which seems to hold the key to her family’s long-buried past. As her uncanny abilities develop, Nikki tries desperately to hide, but a relative she didn’t know existed crosses her path and may understand more than even Nikki knows. Intent to resolve his wrongful conviction and find a way to reveal the true murderer, Nikki strives to use her powers to bring the killer, finally, to justice. But finding the answers she so desperately needs will unleash an evil upon her family that could destroy them all. Set in rural Canada in the 1970s, Nikki McBride weaves mystery, fabulism, and family drama into a thrilling Young Adult novel. With its strong female protagonist, historical setting, and the struggles of small-town life and single-mother families, this book explores prairie life in all its community-centred heart and eerie isolation.
Author : Harry Dayle
Publisher : Shelfless
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 24,58 MB
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Discover the world of the Dreamshifters, now available as a box set for the first time. This is the complete trilogy, more than 700 pages of gripping drama, action, and romance “Have you ever had a dream so vivid it felt real? Maybe it was real. Maybe you are a dreamshifter.” This box set includes the following books (the complete Dreamshifters series): Parallel One (Book One) Jessica Kayne is an ordinary girl who works in an ordinary London cafe. But when she sleeps, extraordinary things happen. Because Jessica has an incredible power, not that she knows it…yet. When Jessica dreams up a perfect man, who turns out to be real – and recently murdered – her life takes an unexpected turn. Her dreams become more vibrant and more deadly, and she starts to discover her very special power: the ability to cross into parallel worlds. It’s a power that puts her life in grave danger. Can Jessica realise her true potential and solve the mysterious murder? Or will the trail of death catch up with her before she can even begin? Parallel Ties (Book Two) Lonely Londoner Jessica Kayne has found a way to put her unusual ability — to move between parallel worlds — to good use. That is until a terrible event forces her to question everything she’s been up to. Stunned by the death of someone she was trying to help, Jessica decides that her dreamshifting days are over. But when her dearest friend goes missing, it soon becomes apparent that Jessica alone has the power to find her. It’s not long before she realises she is in a race against the clock to save her friend from a fate far worse than death. Parallel Lies (Book Three) Dreamshifter Jessica Kayne has come to terms with her unusual abilities by vowing never to interfere in other people’s lives again. Yet when events at home take a strange turn, one that can only be explained by interference from another dimension, she is left with no choice. She must use her gift to investigate other parallels, and the shady characters who inhabit them. What she discovers is a conspiracy on a scale she could never have dreamed of. In the gripping final instalment, Jessica’s power is tested to the very limit, as she battles to save the people she loves most from a hidden evil.
