Lost in a Costa Rican jungle for twenty-four hours, Stella is starting to lose hope–until she meets a mangy, emaciated stray dog. She has never liked dogs, but this one seems determined to stay by her side. She gives the dog a name--Dirty--and over the course of three days, he places himself between Stella and danger time and time again. But as their bond grows, the jungle tightens its grip around them...

Millie is a young girl whose passion is gymnastics. She is competing at National Compulsory Level for the first time. However, Millies damages her ankle and her dreams are in tatters. Life takens a new path and she finds a new love of her life - cheerleading. She is scared and nervous to begin with but, after seeing the Gand Champions flicking and twisting over the floor, she wants to perform on the world stage too! She joins the Allstars Comets and learns what it means to be part of a tea...

Born into a life of wealth and privilege, Lady Rachel has it all. Everything but friends.when Rachel debuts at court, she is thrust into the heart of London society. Becoming an honorary member of the notoriuous Mitford family, and under their unconventional guidance, she learns what it is to have friends, and with the Prince of Wales as a friend, what could possibly go wrong?

'Truly life-changing' - Dolly Alderton'The only 'diet' book worth reading this new year' - Alexandra Heminsley, GraziaJust Eat It isn’t just a book. It’s part of a movement to help us take back control over our bodies. To free us from restrictive dieting, disordered eating and punishing exercise. To reject the guilt and anxiety associated with eating and, ultimately, to help us feel good about ourselves.

A captivating and moving story, set during the Second World War, portraying the extremely harsh living conditions endured by those on the home front. The story follows the life and loves of Violet, and some very tragic events that beset her young life. She lost her parents at a very young age and was taken in and brought up by an elderly neighbour. At age fourteen, she obtained work at a factory and forged some lifelong friendships, which played an important role in her future. Violet join...

TO ACCOMPANY A MAJOR ITV DOCUMENTARY We are poisoning our planet and destroying the lives of our children. In the west arguments rage over how much nuclear radiation and toxic dumping is safe, while children continue to breath filthy air and eat food full of pesticides. In the third World, over four million children die each year from drinking unclean water. Adults make the decisions but children pay the highest price. They are physically vulnerable and politically powerless. When the Boug...

Amid the turmoil of the 2008 recession that threatens her career, Lea Johnson, a behavioral researcher dedicated to curing post-traumatic stress disorder, is also struggling to save her marriage. When her husband, Jay, is brutally attacked during an attempted robbery, Lea is shaken to realize that being an expert in fear doesn't make her an expert in healing her own husband's trauma. Things take a dark turn when Jay confronts a young trespasser outside their home, only for the boy to be re...

'Truly life-changing' - Dolly Alderton'The only 'diet' book worth reading this new year' - Alexandra Heminsley, GraziaJust Eat It isn’t just a book. It’s part of a movement to help us take back control over our bodies. To free us from restrictive dieting, disordered eating and punishing exercise. To reject the guilt and anxiety associated with eating and, ultimately, to help us feel good about ourselves.

Among the unsettling social shifts in the wake of 9/11 was the global attention paid to Islam. Here in the United States, we became divided, often sadly along partisan lines, between those who believed every Muslim was a potential threat and those who believed no Muslim could do wrong.For conservative Wisconsin native and former U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, these radical times meant facing a new reality as a devout Muslim and a patriot—a certain betrayal with...

Twelve-term Texas Congressman, Presidential candidate, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with a highly provocative treatise about how we need to fundamentally change the way we think about America's broken education system in order to fix it.Whether or not you have children, you know that education is vital to the prosperity and future of our society. Yet our current system simply doesn't work. Parents feel increasingly powerless, and nearly half of...

Grubacic's remarkable collection of essays, commentaries and interviews, written between 2002 and 2010, chronicles the political experiences of the author himself, who is both a man without a country (as a Yugoslav) and a man without a state (as an Anarchist). In particular, he focuses on the ironies and implications of the now fashionable term balkanisation' - the fragmentation, division and foreign intervention with which politicians in the Balkans have struggled for centuries and for wh...

Whew!! What a week that was as Canadians went from being the peaceable kingdom talking about the need for cooperation and consultation to what many described as a full blown national crisis. The Prime Minister and Conservative Government had turned an economic crisis into a political crisis, then a constitutional crisis. And if that wasnt enough of a weeks work, the Prime Minister managed to also turn it into a crisis of national unity.And some say Canadian politics and politicians...