Sinbad thirsts for adventure. He is only truly happy on the high seas - even though he always sails into disaster. Wild storms, gigantic whales, an ugly troll, slithering snakes.., he faces them all and survives. But is his luck about to run out? Sinbad the Saitor is in Series One of Usborne Young Reading books, which combine good stories with easy reading text. DeveLoped in consultation with ALison KeLLy, Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey Roehampton, Series One is for readers who halve just started reading alone. For readers who are growing in confidence, try the exciting stories in Series Two.

Every year Elizabeth and David Beck return to Lake Charmaine, a place that has been a part of their lives ever since they were children. But on their thirteenth visit, Elizabeth is kidnapped and murdered, while David is left for dead.For the next eight years, Dr David Beck relives the horror of what happened every day of his life. Although Elizabeth has been buried, and her killer waits on death row, for David, it still feels as if more than one life ended on that night. Then an image of Elizabeth appears on his computer screen,brutally ripping open the old wounds. Is it just a practical joke? Or evidence that somehow Elizabeth is still alive? Suddenly Beck is running away from his safe, ordinary life,and all the people he trusts. He's chasing a ghost whose messages hold out a desperate hope - and warn him to tell no one. But soon Dr Beck himself is being hunted down...

Dl John Rebus is on the paper trail of a WWll war criminal…until the running battle between two rival gangs on the city streets arrives at his door .A Chechen gangster is running prostitutes out of Bosnia via Tommy Teffoird a Glaswegian upstart muscling in on Edinburgh territory When his own daughter is the victim of a hit and run Rebus is forced to acknowledge that therse is nothing he wouldnt do to bring down prime suspect Tommy Telford-even if it means cutting.

John Bunyan was variously a tinker soldier Baptist minister prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheosis in this his greatest work It is an allegory of the Christian life of true brilliance and is presented as a dream which describes the pilgrimage of of the hero-Christian-from the City of Destruction via the Slough of Despond the Hill of Difficulty the Valley of the Shadow of Death and Vanity Fair over the River of the Water of Life and into the Celestial City.The Pilgrin s Progress has been translated into 108 languages was a favourite of Djohnson and was praised by Coleridge as one of the few books which might be read repeatedly and each time with a new and different pleasure.

Exquisite passion becomes the most dangerous risk of all in this sizzling trio of novellas from three national bestselling masters of seductive suspense. Are you willing to take the chance? Are you ready to gambleeverything on love? Then go ahead. We dare you.

The vampire love triangle that spawned hundreds of thousands offans-and inspired a major new dramatisation shown on ITV2-concludes in this powerful final volume of The Vampire Diaries. InMidnight, golden girl Elena Gilbert is back from the DarkDimension, having successfully freed her vampire boyfriend StefanSalvatore from imprisonment. Saving Stefan had an unlikelyconsequence: his vampire brother Damon Salvatore has become amortal. While the trio reels from this latest twist, they muststill deal with the demons that have taken over Elena's hometown,Fell's Church. As in every L.J. Smith novel, no matter how dark thenight, there is always a happy ending. MIDNIGHT takes Elena,Stefan, and Damon to their darkest moments yet... Danger, romance, and paranormal mystery will keep readersfascinated with this captivating finale to the New York Timesbestselling series.

What in God's name am I doing when I should be sleeping? Frank Pollard awakens in an alley, knowing nothing but his name-and that he is in danger. Over the next few days he develops a fear of sleep because when he wakes he finds blood on his hands and bizarre and terrifying objects in his pockets. When a distraught and desperate Frank begs husband-and-wife detective team Bobby and Julie Dakota to get the bottom of his mysterious, amnesiac fugues, it seems a simple job. But they are drawn into ever darkening realms where they encounter the nightmare, hate-filled figure stalking Frank. And their lives are threatened, as is that of Julie's gentle, Down's syndrome brother, Thomas. To Thomas, death is the 'bad place' from which there is no return. But as each of them ultimately learns, there are equally bad places in the world of the living, places so steeped in evil that, in contrast, death seems almost to be a relief... Praise for Dean Koontz 'Tumbling, hallucinogenic prose... "Serious" writers mi

Still reeling from the deaths of her fairy cousin, Claudine, andmany others in 2009's Dead and Gone , Sookie Stackhousestruggles with paranormal politics in her entertaining ifslow-moving 10th outing. When Claudine's triplet, Claude, appearsat her doorstep, Sookie reluctantly allows him to move in. Thegovernment threatens two-natures with mandatory registration, andtensions run high in the local Were pack. Then Eric's maker, aRoman named Appius Livius Ocella, arrives without warning, bringingalong Alexei Romanov, whom he rescued from the Bolsheviks andturned into a vampire. Though the action often builds too slowly,the exploration of family in its many human and undead variationsis intriguing, and Harris delivers her usual mix of eccentriccharacters and engaging subplots.

The true ghost stories in this collection are authenticated accounts． They will spellbind you，grip you，shake you and chill you to the bones． From page one，you will feel the pulse of fear． Each story jumps out and stares at you． Oriental ghosts f black magic，supernatural beings and l8 levels of hell…… Everything you ever wanted to know about Chinese Ghosts iS inside this book．

How much change can one summer bring? If you're Caddie Winger - 32 years old, still living with her grandmother and giving piano lessons to neighbourhood children - one summer can make the whole world look different. Caddie's mother died when she was nine, and her grandmother raised her. Now their roles are reversed, and it's Caddie who takes care of Nana. When her grandmother breaks her leg and insists on going into a convalescent home, Caddie finds herself being pulled out of her comfy, self-made nest. Living alone for the first time since college, she uncovers some startling truths from her past. Jolted, she looks at the world with new eyes and begins to take charge of her future. As she makes a new best friend, takes risks she never dreamed she could, and navigates the depths and shallows of true love and devastating heartbreak, Caddie learns how to trust other people, and, ultimately, how to trust herself. Wise, moving and reassuringly real, THE GOODBYE SUMMER offers us a deeper understanding of th

But there's something strange about the wreck of the luxury yacht GRAVE DESCEND.No one who was aboard tells quite the same story about what happened. And then there's the matter of the mysterious cargo they were carrying... In one of the most beautiful places on Earth,a sinister plot is about to unfold. And if McGregor's not careful, he may find himself in over his head.

KEAIX RYERSON has everything a NewYork socialite could want: wealth, power, a devoted husband and loving children. Then her husband, a high-profile defense attorney, calls while she's at the salon.

Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, is sipping tea in his 'counting house' whenhe suffers an agonising and sudden death. Onlater inspection, the pockets of the deceased are found to contain traces of cereals.

Twelve terrific stories starring Detective Inspector John Rebus:‘an outstanding creation’(Daily Telegraph)．His home city of Edinburgh is not just the tartan tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures．but a modern urban conurbation with the full range of criminals and their victims--blackmailers，peeping Toms，and more than one kind of murderer．It is a city that gives birth to crimes of passion,accident and lon9·hidden jealousy．

En cette fin du XIXe siècle, il ne fait pas bon fréquenter àla nuit tombée certains quartiers de Londres. Il y r?de en effet uncurieux et maléfique personnage du nom de Edward Hyde. Mais quiest-il exactement et quels sont ses liens si étranges avec le bonDrJekyll ? Le dossier de l'édition permet d'étudier la constructionde l'intrigue policière du récit de Stevenson. Un groupement detextes sur le motif littéraire du double (Nerval, Gautier, Poe)prolonge la lecture du Cas étrange.

When youare immortal, being a mom wonat kill youa it will onlymake you stronger Even though all the non-vamps in Broken Heart,Oklahoma, skipped town, Patsy Donahue has kept her hair salon upand running thanks to the werewolves prowling around. They know howimportant good grooming is, especially a certain rogue shapeshifterwhoas as sexy as he is deadly. Now, if only she could put a leashon her wild teenage son, whoas up to his neck in danger. The stresswould kill Patsy, if she wasnat already undead. But her maternalinstinct is still alive and kicking. And no one had better messwith her own flesh and blooda]

A black comedy by the author of "Lost Souls". Eric Pizer can just about keep his two lives going - weekends in the country with his wife, and Mondays to Fridays in London with a pretend job and a girlfriend with secrets of her own. But then life becomes very complicated indeed.

This edition of the "New York Times" bestseller--aheartwarming tale of humor, romance, and mystery by the bestsellingauthor of "Split Second"--includes the brand-new short story,"Waiting for Santa." "Baldacci whips up a pleasant holidayconfection."--"People."

Goldsmith has hit a triple:in addition to the movie based on The First Wives Club and her recent novel,Bestseller,bruiting her name,she will have this funny,schmaltzy fairytale-cum-sitcom in the stores in time for the holidays."Mom" is Phyllis Geronomus,a wisecracking 69-year-old widow who decides to leave Florida and return to Manhattan to help her grown children make something of their lives.The trouble is that her kids greet her arrival as they would a plague of locusts.Stockbroker igourney,nee Susan,unmarried at 40,has a sagging client list and is about to lose her elegant apartment overlooking Central Park.Entrepreneur Bruce,now out of the closet,fears his line of gay greeting cards is about to expire.Obese Sharon is married to a chronically unemployed loser.Domineering Mom will surely drive each of them over the edge.Their solution:to give Phyllis a makeover and a shopping session at Bergdorfs,put her up at the Pierre and take her to a charity ball where she can meet a rich old geezer who will both marr

#1 bestselling author Nicholas Sparks's new novel is at once a compelling family drama and a heartrending tale of young love.Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church.The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story of love on many levels--first love, love between parents and children -- that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that love can break our hearts...and heal them.