Can she overcome her family's doubts to achieve her dream? Meg Turner has a hard life. She lives on a lonely farm in the Lake District and her only company is her bully of a father and her brother, who resents her. They want to keep her at home, but Meg is desperate for more. She finds comfort in her best friend, Kath, and Lanky Lawson, who is more of a father figure to her than her own. Her true source of hope though, is Lanky's son, Jack, who...

Korina's eye found the dozen red roses that now sat awkwardly on her kitchen counter. The roses weren't a surprise. They were more of an annoyance. Terrence just would not give up. She knew it was Terrence because everyone else had given up ages ago. It just seemed as if Terrence couldn't take no for an answer. She might have thought him arrogant to assume that he could just convince her even though she had turned him down, but she knew him too well...

Imaginez, lors d'une visite dans un musée, qu'un tableau se mette à vous parler... Imaginez, lors d'une visite dans un musée, qu'un tableau se mette à vous parler... Ce jour-là, Flore avait prévu d'aller au cinéma avec sa tante. Pourtant elle se retrouve au musée Hébert avec Mathis, un camarade de collège. Lors de la visite, son regard reste accroché à un tableau représentant une petite fille. Sa fascination se transforme progressivement...

Isolated, frozen to the bone and with no way out... Kemp is back 1356. Burnt Candlemas. King Edward III invades Scotland in the dead of winter to punish the Scots for their recent attack on Berwick. When the fleet bringing supplies for his army is scattered by a storm, it seems God himself is punishing the English for the arson of a Scottish church. Wrongly blamed for the fire, archer Martin Kemp finds himself in chains, a victim of the king's wrath. As...

The battle is over, but war lies ahead in the second book of the epic fantasy trilogy that pits humans against gods in a contest for the fate of the world. The battle for the city is over, but the aftermath of a revolution is never simple... Sarine begins to experience visions, ones which make her dragon familiar sicker every day. Erris pushes toward conquest and the need to expand her territory and restore her power. And, exiled from his tribe,...

Every legend hides a truth as dangerous as a double-edged sword. On the far island of Sarpedon, a snake-haired she-monster known to inhabitants as the Soul of Stone turns people into statues. For decades, heroes from all over Greece have been trying to put an end to her evil, and for decades her collection of statues has grown, soul by soul. When Panacea, a young Amazon warrior with a talent for potions, learns her brother has been killed by the monster,...

Caroline Bingley has successfully returned her brother and his friends to London - but will she be as successful in finally securing Mr Darcy's heart?Finally realising how wrong she has been, Elizabeth Bennet is desperate to reconcile with the absent Mr Darcy, especially if doing so might also settle Jane's future with Mr Bingley. But London provides diversions of its own, and more misunderstandings lie in store for several scattered couples.

This is the first in a series of short stories about Ballygobackwards Castle. Does it exist? Who has lived there over the years? The locked room is in the west wing, George has to discover why in his sleep he hears a baby crying, what its connection to the Castle is. Winter is a mythical old man who is his guide, when George finds Ballygobackwards he is entranced. More stories in the series cover different periods in the Castle's life.

Twelve-year-old Chestnut Hill's daddy stole her and the triplets away from their mama. At least, that's how Chestnut remembers it. It's 1921, and after nearly two years on the road with his traveling elixir show, Daddy's still making no move to go back to Kentucky and buy Mama that house. So Chestnut is forced to come up with her own plan to get home. At night, when Daddy and the triplets are in bed, she draws up flyers with the name of the next town...

Hédi spends her days playing with her dog Bodri in the park, but her quiet world starts to crumble the day she hears Adolf Hitler on the radio. Germany's leader hates her and her family, just because they are Jewish. And, Hitler doesn't even know them-it doesn't make any sense. Soon Nazi Germany invades Hédi's country, and her life changes forever. Inspired by the author's experiences, this book is a thoughtful introduction to the Holocaust for...