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Tells stories of some of the lost trains of Britain, that evokes the glories of a bygone age. This book deals with the pioneers who built the tracks, the yarns of the men and women who operated them and the colourful trains that ran on them.

At the beginning of the 1650s, England was in ruins - wrecked, impoverished, grief-stricken by plague and civil war. What started out as a heaven was soon to become one of the cruellest places on earth. The history of Willoughbyland is a microcosm of empire, its heady attractions and fatal dangers.

Each day, while she waits to be picked up after school, Caitlin visits the local aquarium to study the fish. When she befriends an old man at the tanks one day, who seems as enamoured of the fish as she, Caitlin cracks open a dark family secret and propels her once-blissful relationship with her mother toward a precipice of terrifying consequence.

When Billy Ellison, the son of Washington, DC's most influential African-American family, is found dead in the Potomac near a violent drug haven, veteran metro reporter Sully Carter knows it's time to start asking some serious questions-no matter what the consequences.

When grieving mother and New York journalist Charlie Cates begins to experience vivid dreams about children after her only son passes away, she's sure that she's lost her mind. Yet she soon realizes these are not the hallucinations of a bereaved mother.

With Bernard, her husband of fifty-five years now in the grave, seventy-eight-year-old Harriet Chance impulsively sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise that her late husband had planned. But what she hoped would be a voyage leading to a new lease of life becomes a surprising and revelatory journey into Harriet's past.

In the Young Readers Edition of The Martian: Classroom-appropriate languageDiscussion questions and activitiesQ&A with Andy Weir Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he s alive and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. Damaged machinery, the unforgiving environment, or plain old "e;human error"e; are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit, he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?

In Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon's first novel in the Commissario Brunetti series, readers were introduced to the glamorous and cut-throat world of opera and to one of Italy's finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli - then a suspect in the poisoning of a renowned German conductor.

And as her detective prowess is called into question and her paranoia builds, she has to face the very real possibility that the stalker she's convinced will take her life could be all in her head - or the very real danger that finally brings her down.

THE ELEVENTH CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEANIt is 1943 and April Wilton is devastated when she is forced to leave Portsmouth and the WRENs where she has found friendship, fulfilment and love. Rejected by her mother, and facing an uncertain future, she travels to Cliffehaven.

After moving from London to a new home in Yorkshire, and about to become a father for the first time, Rob Cowen finds himself in unfamiliar territory. Disoriented, he ventures out to a nearby edge-land: a pylon-slung tangle of wood, hedge, field, meadow and river that lies unclaimed and overlooked on the outskirts of town.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES/PETERS FRASER & DUNLOP YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015The Shore.

They say there's no place like home. It's where the heart is... Awarded the Scott Prize for short story writing, this book weaves together moments of joy, heartache, sadness and unwavering love as told through seventeen very different notions of home.

Things I will never forget: my name, my made-up birthday The dark of the Hospital at night. My mother s face, when she was young.Things other people will forget: where they come from, how old they are, the faces of the people they love. The right words for bowl and sunshine What is a beginning and whatis an end.Joy spends her days working the graveyard shift at a store outside Boston and nursing an addiction to cough syrup, an attempt to suppress her troubled past. But when a sickness that begins with silver blisters and memory loss and ends with death sweeps the country, Joy, for the first time in her life, seems to have an advantage: she is immune. At once a hauntingly beautiful portrayal of a dystopian future and a powerful exploration of loneliness.

Memories are short of HMS Royston - they have to be. As mother ship to a battered, war-torn bunch of MTBs she must carry out her vital role whatever the conditions, whatever the risks. Now with only three months' sea-experience behind him, Royce must learn the job the hard way - in the tough school of combat.

With the Allies poised for the invasion of Italy, the Germans hold a vital card: a floating dock, the only one in the Adriatic large enough to take a major warship. Air, surface and conventional submarine attacks are out of the question. Only one team can do the job and still stand a chance of surviving - the crew of HM Midget Submarine XE 51-

ALEX CROSS IS GOING HOME.When his cousin is accused of an unthinkable crime, Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown for the first time in over three decades. As he tries to prove his cousin's innocence in a town where justice is hard to find, Cross unearths a family secret that forces him to question everything he's ever known.

Chris Paget's well ordered world is blown apart by his love for his assistant, Terri, in the sequel to Degree of Guilt. Terri's ex husband, Ricky, is determined to destroy them both and instigates a child custody battle for Terri's four-year old daughter, accusing Terri of neglect and Paget's teenage son of sexual molestation.

Every New Yorker's worst nightmare is about to become a reality. Detective Michael Bennett is assigned to the case and given the near impossible task of hunting down the shadowy terror group responsible. Now Bennett is racing against the clock to save his beloved city - before the most destructive force he has ever faced tears it apart.

Documents the author's story, year by year, from his humble beginnings growing up in the East End of London, becoming one of the nation's most talked-about people overnight to finally moving up the spectrum from guilty pleasure, and getting nearer to national treasure.

A sharply written, funny and heart-breaking debut about inheritance, influence, class and power. As her troubled, spoiled son George and his outsider wife, Iris, struggle to resolve mounting financial and familial troubles, CeCe must face the Somner dynasty's dark legacy;

Is it in our best interest to compete or to cooperate? Along the way, they also offer answers to a number of perplexing puzzles, from how too much talent can undermine a team's success, to why ending an auction at 2 a.m. can get you the best outcome, to when acting less competently can help you gain status.

But soon Frank's wondering if she's as dangerous as the man they hunt. 'If you like great thrillers, you'll love Candice Fox!' - Lee Child'Definitely a writer to watch' - Harlan Coben'A bright new star of crime fiction' - James Patterson

Born into a world still reeling from the earth-shattering events of the Great War, they grew up during the appalling economic depression of the 1930s, and emerged from post-war austerity determined to create a society for their children. This book reveals the story of people who raised their families during the social upheaval of the 50s and 60s.

Soon to be a major TV series. After a 15 year wait LESTAT is back in Anne Rice's long awaited new Vampire Chronicles novel.

Storm always wanted to be a celebrity reporter. But when she lands the job of her dreams, it costs her, her best friend. However, apart from her creepy ex-boyfriend, Storm loves the job. Until she's asked to go undercover to find out if sexy TV chef Nico Alvise is cheating on his girlfriend. Storm knows it's wrong but agrees because she likes him.

A chilling conspiracy leads NYPD Red into extreme dangerHunter Alden Jr.has it all: a beautiful wife, a brilliant son and billions in the bank. But by getting closer to the truth, Zach and Kylie are edging ever closer to the firing line...

A novel about the secrets of an old-money family and their turn-of-the-century estate, Laurelfield. It is about family, fate and the incredible surprises life can offer.

The body of the teenage daughter of a powerful Federal judge is discovered in a dumpster in a bad neighbourhood of Washington, DC. It is murder, and the local police immediately arrest the three nearest black kids, bad boys from a notorious gang.

Catherine Berlin sits alone gazing at a bank of monitors, each capturing a slice of a vast industrial estate. A van appears: two men delivering crates, moving quickly. Her boss tells her to ignore them, but she can't. Berlin's scars have faded, but she still walks with a limp.