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How far will Rose go to keep a promise?The recent Strigoi attack at St. Vladimir's Academy was the deadliest ever in the school's history, claiming the lives of many. Even worse, the Strigoi took some of their victims with them - including Dimitri. He'd rather die than be one of them, and now Ro..

It's springtime at St. Vladimir's Academy and Rose is close to graduation, but since making her first Strigoi kills, things haven't felt quite right. She's having dark thoughts, behaving erratically, and worst of all . . . might be seeing ghosts. Consumed by her forbidden love with her tutor Dimitri..

Three childminders are sitting round a sand-pit under a leafy tree. They have looked after all sorts of children: sniffers, fussers, sneaky and bad tempered ones. But Mrs Mackle claims she had the very worst child of all. The others can't believe it. What did Susan Solly do that was so terrible? Mrs..

Recommends exquisite bottles of wine, all of which cost no more than GBP20. This title features wines from all over the world, including France, Italy, Germany, South Africa, Chile, and New Zealand...

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Welcome to a magical world where dreams come true . . .Emily is thrilled with her place at ice-skating school - she loves the exciting routines and daring new steps.Each girl wants to be the best skater and win a pair of dazzling violet skates. But when they're put into pairs, problems begin..

Visual biographies of cinema's greatest starsAmerican cinema, as we've known it since The Godfather, would be impossible to reimagine without Al Pacino. As Michael Corleone he breathes life into an American of epic dimension. His characters may explode (Tony Montana in Scarface), or be paragons ..

Following the death of a friend, poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering into the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday. There, Dennis enters the fragil..

John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that, instead of laying their ghosts to rest, they become caught up in a train of increasingly strange and violent events. Th..

What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century? In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has..

Free markets, we’re told, mean free people. Yet around the world this ‘freedom’ is being paid for in blood. When a catastrophe occurs – whether war, terrorist attack or natural disaster – there are people cleaning up and cashing in, using chaos to force through brutal economic punishment. They are t..

Intuition is not some magical property that arises unbidden from the depths of our mind. It is a product of long hours and intelligent design, of meaningful work environments and particular rules and principles. This book shows us how we can hone our instinctive ability to know in an instant, helpin..