The farmer�s boy from Ayrshire who went on to be the most acclaimed of all Scottish poets, celebrated around the world, Robert Burns is a greater and more varied artist than those that know him only through annual Burns� Suppers and choruses of his �Auld Lang Syne� at New Year could imagine. This new selection by Ian Rankin of verses and lyrics from Scotland�s national poet, the �Heaven-taught ploughman�, reveals a writer capable of evoking tremendous sympathetic power from his readers and with an easy, astonishing command of the sounds and rhythms of both standard English and the evocative Scots tongue. It also reveals an artist of incredible range. His �Tam O� Shanter�, with its midnight pursuit of witches from a grisly graveyard dance, is gripping, fantastical and funny in equal measure, �Is there for honest poverty� beautifully expresses the egalitarian spirit by which Burns...

Surf world drama is nothing new to the Drenaline Surf family, but with Vin's recent exit and Colby's secrets out, the drama is about to hit center stage.When plans for a second Drenaline Surf store are foiled, the team regroups and seeks new ways to expand Shark's legacy across the surf community. But someone is bound to stop them - no matter who has to go down in the process.It's impossible for Haley to keep Drenaline Surf's reputation from sinking, especially when her surfers are being kicked out of events, A.J.'s criminal record is leaked, and an all-too-familiar face resurfaces in Crescent Cove...

This novel/memoir is based on the author's own story. After Pearl Harbor, little Marie Mitsui's typical life in San Francisco is upended. Her family and thousands of others of Japanese heritage are interned in camps. Living conditions are harsh and the treatment is unfair. Told from a child's perspective, The Little Exile deftly conveys Marie's innocence, wonder, fear, and outrage.

The queen of the black-hearted soap opera is back! Welcome to the upwardly mobile Prendergast Road... On Prendergast Road, deep in Nappy Valley, among olive trees in terracotta, lower fuel emissions, Lithuanian prostitutes, teenage drug dealers, stalkers and soaring house prices, five desperate women wait... The progeny of the IVF generation is ready to start school and only one of them is destined to get a place in Nappy Valley's most oversubscribed cradle of learning. How far will these women go to get that place? Follow Kate Hunter into the depths of her impeccably honed life, as she struggles to maintain the façade of perfection. When exactly did life become a life class? Is happiness overrated? Is it just possible that beneath the flawless sheen of her friends' and neighbours' amazingly trouble-free lives, beneath the freshly-ironed shirts and home-grown veg, lie the same half-truths, the same uncertainties and the same desperation to keep up with the Joneses...? Sarah May is an intimate observer of society (AKA curtain-twitcher of the highest order) and her novel is an hilariously dark-hearted soap opera of our everyday lives. In a society that always strives to be more organic, less carbon-polluting, more virtuous than any other, 'The Rise and Fall of the Domestic Diva' is a breath of fresh air (imported from the mountains of Nepal and filtered organically for purity, of course. A snip at only £6.99.).

IT'S SUMMER IN the city for Madison, Park, and Lexington Hamilton. Only, these triplet heiresses have more on their plate than hot-tubbing and the Hamptons. The Royal Crown Society of America is one of the most exclusive private clubs in the country and the triplets have secured membership.Even more exciting is that pop-art It girl Tallulah Kayson will unveil her newest masterpiece at their very own inaugural luncheon. But when they run into Tallulah's mysterious boyfriend, Elijah Traymore, hitting on their friend Coco McCaid, something doesn't feel right. And when Elijah plunges to his death from the hotel penthouse, that feeling is confirmed.Elijah was pushed, and judging from the limited edition pink cell phone found at the scene of the crime, Coco McCaid needs a very good lawyer.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Streaker the dog is lost. And not just a bit lost, but REALLY LOST!It wasn't even her fault.! She wanted to protect some pies from the PIE ROBBER and suddenly she's miles from home and two-legged Trevor and she has to make friends with a cat. A CAT! But it gets a lot hairier when they find themselves face-to-face with a baboon . . .For the first time ever, Streaker tells her incredible adventures in her own words and very funny words they are too.Rowan Clifford's illustrations add to the chaotic fun.

Acclaimed author L. E. Modesitt, Jr. continues his new Recluce story in Mage-Guard of Hamor, the second of two volumes set mostly on the continent of Hamor, far across the sea from Recluce, where the story began. Rahl was a young apprentice on the island of Recluce sent to the mages training school for testing, then banished to Hamor. His education now continues under dangerous circumstances. In Hamor, his powers have increased, but so has the amount of trouble he attracts. The whole society of Hamor is a new culture for Modesitt—and Rahl—to explore, one in which magic is a monopoly of the state. Rahl is a mage now, powerful and still just as dangerous to himself and to others. This is the story of how he gains both more knowledge and power, and more self-control.At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.