Gripping, action-packed SAS thriller from the best-selling author of BRAVO TWO ZERO. Ideal for adventure-seeking readers. Danny Watts's grandfather, Fergus, was a traitor. One of the worst sort. An SAS explosives expert who betrayed his country and his Regiment for money. Drug money. He was arrested and left to rot and die in a Colombian jail.At least, that's what seventeen-year-old Danny is told when his hopes of becoming a soldier are destroyed for ever.But he knows something the army doesn't...
It only takes one to make a difference. Just days before Jake Saunders plans on proposing to the love of his life, Jake is called upon once again to save his home, Earth. The Earthen Legion troops and its allies think they're battling only pirates, but a new, more powerful foe from another galaxy flanks their forces and invades, in search of a weapon the planet didn't even know it had. When Jake learns that this new enemy was responsible for the death of his father many years ago, he realizes...
Part war drama, part romance, Storm from the East is the second installment in Joanna Hathaway’s epic Glass Alliance seriesWar has begun, and the days of Athan’s and Aurelia’s secret, summer romance feel a world away.Led by Athan’s father, the revolutionary Safire have launched a secret assault upon the last royal kingdom in the South, hoping to depose the king and seize a powerful foothold on the continent. Athan proves a star pilot among their ranks, struggling to justify the violence his fami...
1644 – Alice Newcombe, trapped and unhappy on her uncle's farm, finds her life transformed when royalist soldiers are billeted there during the Civil War. Suddenly her days are filled with excitement – and love for one young soldier, Robin. When the regiment moves on, Alice persuades Robin to take her with him, and she joins the other army women on the baggage train. The road ahead is long and hard – will there be happiness at its end?
You Won't Know I'm Gone (The Black Angel Chronicles)
by Kristen Orlando
"Going rogue in an effort to rescue her kidnapped parents has cost Reagan Hillis her automatic ticket to the Training Academy. But becoming a Black Angel is the only way Reagan will be able to exact revenge on her mother's merciless killer, Santino Torres. When Reagan is given a chance to prove that she’s worthy of training to be a Black Angel, she also gets the first chance she’s ever had to be her true self. No aliases. No disguises. But when her friend Luke joins her at the Black Angels train...
From the New York Times best-selling author who brought us The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, Mackenzi Lee, comes a new novel filled with secrets and mystery.1954: The Winter Soldier is the Soviet Union's greatest weapon. He has only one purpose: to obey orders. But he wasn't always the Winter Soldier...1941: The world is at war and sixteen-year-old Bucky Barnes is determined to join the fight. When he is enrolled in the British Special Operations Executive, Bucky leaps at the chance to b...
Ellie and her friends, a small band of teenagers trying to survive in the Australian countryside, continue to resist the enemies who have invaded their country.
All the Hope We Carry (Theatre Playscapes, #2)
by Susan L Marshall
The Railway Children (Derrydale Children's Library) (Children's Illustrated Classics S.)
by E. Nesbit
Set in and around a country railway station at the turn of the twentieth century, the plight of the railway children grappling with their new environment is imaginatively brought to life for a modern audience while losing nothing of the original spirit of humour, tension, adventure and the final triumph of good over evil.-Large flexible cast
This is the account of best friends Michael and Wolfie who are boys growing up in Nazi Germany. Both of them are delighted to join the Hitler Youth. But by the time the boys are twelve, a devastating event turns their world upside down. On a school trip to Berlin, the boys see a beautiful Jewish girl boarding the train with her mother. Shortly after, a horrified Michael witnesses their brutal murder -- the result of ant-Semitism. As a result, Michaels loyalty to Hitler begins to show cracks. In...
The first iconic book in the number one global YA blockbuster Hunger Games series, now sumptuously illustrated by Nico Delort. A must-have addition to the shelves of the series' millions of fans worldwide. This is The Hunger Games as you have never seen it before! pre-order Sunrise On the Reaping - the fifth book in the Hunger Games series - coming March 2025 Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrif...
Twins Sam and Eadie discover an exciting legend that involves their new home near London, Ontario. During a skirmish in the War of 1812 that took place in front of their house, an army paymaster lost a chest of gold that has never been recovered. Together with their neighbour, the twins set out to find the lost treasure.
Whilst his sister, Maerad, pursues her dangerous destiny in the frozen North, Hem is sent south to Turbansk for his own safety. But soon the forces of the Dark overrun the great city and Hem flees with his mentor Saliman, his white crow Irc, and a young orphan girl Zelika, to join the resistance. He agrees to help fight the Nameless One by spying on the child armies of the Dark. But, in the Light's underground base, Hem has a vision - he too has a part to play in Maerad's quest for the Treesong....
An obstinate girl who will not be married. A soldier desperate to prove himself. A kingdom on the brink of war. With a sharp tongue and an unruly temper, Sage Fowler is not what they d call a lady which is perfectly fine with her. Deemed unfit for marriage, Sage is apprenticed to a matchmaker and tasked with wrangling other young ladies to be married off for political alliances. She spies on the girls and on the soldiers escorting them.
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This enthralling novel, inspired by the 2006 film, illustrates that fantasy is the sharpest tool to explore the terrors and miracles of the human heart You shouldn't come in here. You could get lost. It has happened before. I'll tell you the story one day, if you want to hear it. In fairy tales, there are men and there are wolves, there are beasts and dead parents, there are girls and forests. Ofelia knows all this, like any young woman with a...
Daisy and the Facts (Daisy's Adventures, Set #1, #7)
by Wynter Sommers