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Bettina Scott lives a tidy, quiet life in Runagate, tending to her delicate mother and their well-kept garden after her father and brothers disappear - until a note arrives that sends Bettina into the scrublands beyond, searching for answers about what really happened to this town and to her family. For this is a land where superstitions hunt and folk tales dream - and power is there for the taking, for those willing to look.

In Flyaway, Christopher crafts a touching novel about hope, friendship, and family. When her father collapses from heart problems and is taken to the hospital, 13-year-old Isla is racked with guilt and fear. She was the one who insisted her father take her out that morning to look at the wild swans, and now she could lose him forever. But then she meets Harry, a boy with leukemia, who seems to understand her like no one else. Together, Isla and Harry embark on a quest to save a swan that cannot fly - and discover that perhaps miracles really can happen.

Action thriller about security consultant Max Stafford, set in the Sahara. Written by the classic adventure writer. Why is Max Stafford, security consultant, beaten up in his own office? What is the secret of the famous 1930s aircraft the Lockheed Lodestar? And why has accountant Paul Bilson disappeared in North Africa? The journey to the Sahara desert becomes a race to save Paul Bilson, a race to find the buried aircraft, and - above all - a race to return alive....

Wilhelmina Brewster has been a college music professor for 41 years, devoting her life to her career and never marrying. Widower Mike Dolan is a pilot and World War II veteran who has always lived life to the fullest. When medical tests confirm that his cancer has returned, he makes plans to take a final flight in his airplane rather than become a burden to his family. Wilhelmina accidentally learns of Mike’s final plans, and when she discovers that he isn’t a believer, she knows it’s her Christian duty to talk with him about her faith. But she feels totally inadequate for the task.

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Thrilled with the kite he has bought and put together, Matt takes it out for its very first flight. No sooner is it airborne, than his new toy takes on a life of its own, breaking free, and flying away. As he pursues the naughty kite through town and countryside, Matt learns the importance of perseverance. This wholesome, uplifting, rhyming tale is fun to listen to for both children and parents. Learn that you’re not the only one who encounters difficulties in life and that through persistence, you can win in the end.

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Celebrity news reporter and presenter, Tully Hart, has hit rock bottom. Kate Ryan had been her best friend for more than thirty years. They’d lived, laughed, danced and cried together. Kate had been her anchor, and now Tully was cast adrift – not knowing how she was going to survive. Kate’s daughter, Marah, was only sixteen years old when her mother died. Consumed with guilt over the fights they’d had during the last months of Kate’s life, Marah runs away and becomes a drop-out in society, maintaining no contact with her family.

For three different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers. In another hemisphere civilisation rushes headlong into a brutal conflict. Life there is lived from moment to moment. Inevitably, the two young men - sanctuary owner and employee - are drawn to the war, and into the mud and horror of the trenches of Armentieres. Alone on the beach, their friend Imogen, the middle-aged wildlife photographer, must acknowledge for all three of them that the past cannot be held.

No comprehensive biography of the time Paul McCartney spent with Wings has ever been published. A period often dismissed as McCartney's 'missing' years, in fact the band lasted for a decade: two years longer than the Beatles, and wielded such impact and influence that they at one point achieved the status as the biggest live band in the world. Band on the Run sold over 6 million copies worldwide and became EMI's biggest selling album of the 1970s in the UK. Music biographer Lesley-Ann Jones presents the first definitive account of Paul McCartney's time in Wings.

From the number-one New York Times best-selling author, a novel about three very different women who become friends while seeking refuge in an old beach house.

Does your child have a tendancy to get worried and anxious? This gentle and relaxing Download for six- to nine-year-olds could be just what they need! It helps them release worrying thoughts and feelings and feel more calm and comfortable inside. Children, imagine breathing in a wonderful calm colour and breathing out unwanted thoughts or feelings into an air balloon or into the basket underneath. As they watch their worries float off into the distance they are given suggestions for feeling calm, comforted, and more confident.

How far could you go living in another’s shoes? In a mid-life moment, Paul Morison travels from America to England to discover his mother’s roots. A chance encounter and an uncanny resemblance leads him to agree to assume the identity of a famous singer for a while. This gentle comic caper and love story was hugely popular on first publication in the 1930s and retains a timeless appeal today.

After losing her beloved family’s Cape Cod inn right after culinary school, chef Lana Kelly converts her late father’s old fish market next door into a successful restaurant. However, over the years, she’s kept her eye on the inn with dreams to expand. She also hopes she can acquire the property for her grandad, so he’ll know it’s back in the family before his dementia causes the memory to vanish for good. When the inn goes up for sale, she rushes to put in an offer, only to have it denied immediately.

There is a conspiracy to force Lis Miller to date men so socially inept even their mothers doubt their marriageability. A series of dates, each one more awful than the last, brings Lis to Jake, the pilot. In his tinkered together airplane, Jake flies Lis inverted to Block Island where she's treated to a gourmet meal of fried Mars Bars. Eager to escape the ceaseless matchmaking, Lis boards a jet to California. En route, the flight makes national headlines, and who's sitting in the cockpit? Jake.

This adrenaline-packed page-turner from bestselling author Max Byrd brings back the unstoppable P.I. Mike Haller, this time in the streets of London. Lighting a cigarette in the gray night, P.I. Mike Haller is uneasy about the job that has brought him to London and away from his home in California. His instincts warned him that he was in for trouble - he just didn't trust the old man who had hired him, and he couldn't quite explain the reason behind his suspicions.

Zgodnie z wierzeniami na Dalekim Wschodzie, w ciele czlowieka istnieja punkty zbiegania sie sciezek energii, zwane czakrami. Wiedza o czakrach, zwana tez, jako Teoria Inteligentnej Energii Zycia, stanowi podstawy nauk Wschodu, a tym samym hinduizmu i buddyzmu. Jest to cenna pomoc w medycynie azjatyckiej i alternatywnej. Jej zródlo posiada joga oraz medycyna ajurwedyjska. Tak faktycznie we wszechswiecie, wszystko jest polaczone. Cala struktura Wszechswiata i wszystko, co znajduje sie w nim, sklada sie z energii.

An Australian flyer home on leave in Melbourne meets a mysterious young woman at a dance. Captain Smith is determined to enjoy his brief time away from the war in England, and Molly, the girl he meets that first night, has almost given up on finding a man to spend her life with. Time moves rapidly in wartime, and so it does for William and Molly. After a whirlwind romance, the two young people resolve to wait for each other, but will fate see them together?

From the number-one New York Times best-selling author, a novel about three very different women who become friends while seeking refuge in an old beach house.