Eighteen-year-old Gaiah's hair grows to her waist every night. She can influence people with her thoughts. She understands none of it. Views: 56
Billy Sure, kid inventor and CEO of Sure Things, Inc., discovers a big secret about his mom in the sixth book of a hilarious middle grade series!Billy's mom has always claimed she is a scientist doing research for the government, but he's always suspected that there was more to the story. And as it turns out, he was right! His mom is a spy, and now she has enrolled him in spy school so he can create inventions for her top-secret spy unit. Billy is thrilled, especially because he gets to try out all of the awesome spy gadgets and meet three other super smart spy kids. But when Billy is offered a chance to become a spy himself, he has a big decision to make. Does he want to become the world's youngest spy...or is it enough just to be Billy Sure, Kid Entrepreneur? Views: 56
Love Between the Pages: 8 Romances for Booklovers Views: 56
Disturbing, atmospheric suspense novel from the author of Only Darkness: ?Dark, edgy and compelling, this is a first novel from a writer to watch? TheTimes Snake Pass, the Peak District: The car of Gemma Wishart, a young researcher in Russian languages, is discovered, abandoned, by a walker; the driver has vanished without trace. Over in Hull, the body of a woman is discovered battered to death in a hotel bathroom; the only clue to her identity is a card bearing the name of an escort agency notorious for its suspected trafficking in Eastern European prostitutes. For Detective Inspector Lynne Jordan, the missing academic and the murder victim have a tenuous connection. Jordan is in charge of a police operation to stamp out the illegal trade in human flesh and Wishart was helping her with transcripts of an interview with one such woman, who has subsequently turned up dead in the Humber Estuary. But it?s possible there is another, even darker, force at work, and when two more bodies... Views: 56
The privelaged girls of the exclusive Fernleigh Risa Estate, in England, look down with contempt on the residents of shappy Cheyner Close, and wage a secret war of vandalism and harassment against them. But they underestimate the ingenuity and determination of those they so despise. When the residents strike back, the girls find revenge is both sweet and very painful. Views: 56
A fantasy tale of a girl's upheavel of the court and empire. Views: 56
Alexandra “The Fey” Hargreaves meets death at the bottom of the pool, and a roller coaster of action takes Alex and her team through New York missile sites, Parisian bookstores, and sunflower fields only to finally come to terms with the murder of the Fey Special Forces Team. Hunted by a vague enemy, Alex uncovers the truth of her birth, and the factions that have thwarted her all her life. Views: 56
Australian military history is a landscape of legends. Yet across the length and breadth of our military heritage, accuracy and objectivity are often shunted aside so that tales and myths bent on commemoration, veneration, and the idealisation of 'Australian' virtues can thrive. In Anzac's Dirty Dozen a team of renowned historians resume the battle to expose a host of stubborn fantasies and fabrications that obscure the real story. Did our military history start at Gallipoli? Do we really punch above our weight in military might? Are our soldiers more ethical than others in combat? Is the US-Australia Alliance worth the trouble? And what if the role of Australian women in the war effort has been exaggerated, so that half the population can feel included in the Anzac story? Confronting and clear-eyed, Anzac's Dirty Dozen goes beyond the indulgent, politicised and emotionally-charged rhetoric of Anzac – that sacrosanct idea in the national psyche – to find out exactly... Views: 56
LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD Since childhood, Magnus has been led to believe he is the Laird Alwyn's bastard, and raised to hate the Clan Kincaid. But when he learns he is without a doubt the son of the murdered Laird Kincaid, his life as he has always known it is shattered. Now, hiding his knowledge and his fury, he returns to Burnbryde Castle, awaiting the chance to strike against the man whose treachery robbed him of his legacy. His first act of rebellion: to steal a kiss from the redheaded beauty who's betrothed to the Alwyn's eldest son and heir. Since her arrival at Burnbryde, Tara Iverach has been confined to a tower to guard her virtue before she marries. But after a surprise embrace with a lean, bare-chested Highlander who claims to be the Alwyn's oldest son, she can't contain her excitement over her good fate. Unfortunately, he is thewrong eldest son, and she is set to marry his cruel and lecherous half brother, Hugh. Can Magnus conquer his rivals... Views: 56
