Catherine Anderson explores the restorative powers of love with a tender romance that springs from a seemingly disastrous one-night stand. Her heroine, Carly Adams, falls for the first guy she lays eyes on, literally. Born blind, 28-year-old Carly has recently had her vision restored. Unfortunately, the handsome cowboy she falls for is careless, and soon
Ian Rankin - The Falls A student has gone missing in Edinburgh - completely out of character. She's not just any student, though, but the daughter of extremely well to do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing to go on until Detective Inspector John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there's more to this than just another runaway spaced out on unaccustomed freedom. Two leads emerge: a carved wooden doll in a toy coffin, found in the student's home village, and an Internet role playing game. The ancient and the modern, brought together by uncomfortable circumstance . . .
When Night Falls in Tinga Tinga TalesWhen the sun sets in Tinga Tinga Tales it's bedtime for some animals – Monkeys curl up their tails in the trees and Hippo and Tickbird say good night. But Owl and her nighttime friends all come out to play in the light of the moon! Children are going to come to love these African stories, inspired by rich indigenous artwork.
Rhyming text describes how various mishaps reduce ten little bunnies down to one. The tale begins with 10 plump, stuffed-animal-like rabbits; each wears or carries a distinguishing item, e.g., a necklace or skates. Individuals or not, nine of these rodents are thoroughly foolhardy, and as they heedlessly hop along, they vanish one by one. The first falls off a wall, another is carried off by a witch, yet another fatally interrupts a bear. The last bunny waves a wand and magically resurrects his nine friends.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 22 November 2010
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The Wolf and the Dove
Lovely Princess Aislinn of Darkenwald's loyalty to her Saxon people is tested when she falls in love with Wulfgar, one of the fearsome Norman invaders.
