Nina Landry has given up city life for the isolated community of Sandling Island, lying off the bleak east coast of England. At night the wind howls. Sometimes they are cut off by the incoming tide. For Nina though it is home. It is safe. But when Nina`s teenage daughter Charlie fails to return from a sleepover on the day they`re due to go on holiday, the island becomes a different place altogether - a place of secrets and suspicions where no one - friends, neighbours or the police - believes Nina`s instinctive fear that her daughter is in terrible danger. Alone, she undergoes a frantic search for Charlie. And as day turns to night, she begins to doubt not just whether they`ll leave the island for their holiday - but whether they will...
ISBN: 978-0-14-103541-3
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Reggatta de Blanc is the second album by The Police, released in 1979. "Message in a Bottle", a Sting-penned song about alienation, opens the album. It is followed by the mostly instrumental "Reggatta de Blanc" (the title being a pseudo-French translation referring to the album's style of "white reggae"), one of the few songs written by all members of the Police. The instrumental piece came from the long instrumental break in the live performance of "Can't Stand Losing You" and earned the band the 1981 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. "It's Alright For You" is a driving punk-ish song...
ISBN: 978-6-1337-3764-8
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The Dukan Diet is a unique 4 step programme, combining two steps to lose your unwanted weight and two steps to keep it off for good: Step 1 Attack Eat as much protein as you want for 2-7 days Step 2 Cruise Continue eating all the protein your want, plus vegetables too Step 3 Consolidation Reintroduce other foods Step 4 Stabilisation Eat anything you like, including one pure protein day each week Devised by Dr Pierre Dukan, a medical doctor who has spent his career helping people to lose weight permanently, The Dukan Diet is the culmination of thirty years experience. Easy-to-follow and with no calories counting, The Dukan Diet will help you lose weight permanently. Including delicious recipes and menu planners with a French twist, The...
ISBN: 978-1-4447-1033-5
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2012
This is the winner of the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children`s Book Prize, and shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Already being proclaimed a classic in children`s literature and compared to the likes of Roald Dahl and Eva Ibbotson, Katherine Rundell`s Rooftoppers merges fantasy and historical fiction with sophisticated lyrical prose and vivid imagery that will delight middle grade readers, tweens, teens, and parents and teachers alike. Join plucky heroine Sophie, her eccentric guardian Charles, and her intrepid orphan allies on the rooftops of Victorian Paris, as they encounter suspense and adventure that will keep kids of all ages on the edge of their seats right to the heartwarming end. My mother is still alive,...
