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  • #1
    Kōtarō Isaka
    “あの日、時期は十月くらいだったのではなかろうか、河原崎さんと一緒に夜の動物園にいた。河原崎さんは大学の先輩で、五歳の年の差があったものの、留年や浪人の関係もあり、在学中に”
    Kotaro Isaka, フィッシュストーリー

  • #2
    Kōtarō Isaka
    “地下鉄に乗っている。最終電車近くの下り線は空いていた。両脇に妻と娘が同じような顔で眠っている。妻が握っている切符が落ちないだろうか、”
    Kotaro Isaka, フィッシュストーリー

  • #3
    Tanya Anne Crosby
    “mesmerizing Southern drama about a young woman who returns to her coastal home to put to rest the haunting ghost of her sister’s tragic past. Told in the rich, lyrical style of Siddons and Conroy, The Girl Who Stayed is a woman’s story of discovery and acceptance, redefined by Tanya Anne Crosby’s dramatic storytelling, sharp characters, and well-defined plot. A must read for any woman who believes she can never go back home. Fabulous, rich and evocative!” – New York Times bestselling author Jill Barnett “Crosby tugs heartstrings in a spellbinding story of a woman trying to move beyond her past.” – New York Times bestselling”
    Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

  • #4
    Tanya Anne Crosby
    “Stella Cameron, New York Times bestselling author “The Girl Who Stayed defies type. Crosby’s tale is honest and sen- sitive, eerie and tragic. It’s a homecoming tale of a past ever with us and irrevocably lost forever. A haunting vision of that chasm between life and death we call ‘missing.’” – Pamela Morsi, bestselling author of Simple Jess “An intense, mesmerizing Southern drama about a young woman who returns to her coastal home to put to rest the haunting ghost of her sister’s tragic past. Told in the rich, lyrical style of Siddons and Conroy, The Girl Who Stayed is a woman’s story of discovery and acceptance, redefined by Tanya Anne Crosby’s dramatic storytelling, sharp characters, and well-defined plot. A must read for any woman who believes she can never go back home. Fabulous, rich and evocative!” – New York Times bestselling author Jill Barnett “Crosby tugs heartstrings in a spellbinding story of a woman trying to move beyond her past.” – New York Times bestselling”
    Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

  • #5
    Tanya Anne Crosby
    “It was 4:00 p.m. Chris would be in his car, she was pretty certain, watching Boss Man pull out of the parking lot. He would wait a few seconds to be certain the”
    Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

  • #6
    Tanya Anne Crosby
    “Zoe Rutherford wasn’t sure what she was expecting when she returned to Sullivan’s Island. The house on Sullivan’s hadn’t represented home to her in decades. It was the place where she endured her father’s cruelty. It was the place where her mother closed herself off from the world. It was the place where her sister disappeared. But now that her parents are gone, Zoe needs to return to the house, to close it down and prepare it for sale. She intends to get this done as quickly as possible and get on with her life, even though that life seems clouded”
    Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

  • #6
    Michael G. Manning
    “dropping alerted Daniel that they had approached her. Easing further down, Daniel made his way to the shallow ford so that he could cross over to her side of the river. Stepping out of the underbrush exposed him, but the three townies were too engrossed in their sport to notice him moving on the bank. “Let go of me!” yelled Kate angrily, and then Daniel heard a thump. Looking over he saw she had fallen after Aston had kicked her legs out from under her. Billy stood over her sneering down. Daniel was fully in the grip”
    Michael G. Manning, The Mountains Rise

  • #7
    Michael G. Manning
    “tormentor in his more tender regions. Billy was ready for it though, and bending one leg inward, he caught her kick on his thigh instead of what she had been aiming for. Clearing his throat, he brought up a disgusting lump of phlegm and spat on her. “Now you look even more like someone’s loose bowels,” he leered. Without thinking, Daniel”
    Michael G. Manning, The Mountains Rise

  • #8
    Lewis Carroll
    “Serpent, I say again!' repeated the Pigeon, but in a more subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob, 'I've tried every way, and nothing seems to suit them!' 'I haven't the least idea what you're talking”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

  • #9
    Michael G. Manning
    “This can’t be real. It will never be real, I won’t accept it. This isn’t happening. In her mind she saw his eyes open again, remembering her relief at seeing him alive. But he wasn’t… As soon as his hand had touched her, as it had so often before, she had known. The cold”
    Michael G. Manning, The God-Stone War

  • #10
    Lewis Carroll
    “number of changes she had gone through that day. 'A likely story indeed!' said the Pigeon in a tone of the deepest contempt. 'I've seen a good many little girls in my time, but never one with such a neck as that! No, no! You're a serpent; and there's no use denying it. I suppose you'll be telling me next that you never tasted an egg!' 'I have tasted eggs, certainly,”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

  • #11
    Michael G. Manning
    “Table of Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19”
    Michael G. Manning, The God-Stone War

  • #12
    John  Forrester
    “illuminated the canopy trees in a blaze of blinding”
    John Forrester, Fire Mage

  • #13
    Carrie    Cross
    “This next house is a classic. It was built in 1908.” Ms. Knight was a realtor trying hard to sell us a house, and my parents thought that the one she just showed us had stunk. My mom made a note on her clipboard”
    Carrie Cross, The Mystery of the Hidden Jewels

  • #14
    Michael   Lewis
    “Why were they prepaying so fast? Vinny asked himself. “It made no sense to me. Then I saw that the reason the prepayments were so high is that they were involuntary.”
    Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

  • #15
    Michael   Lewis
    “market leader in interest rate swaps. There was a natural role for a blue-chip corporation with the highest credit rating to stand in the middle of swaps and long-term options and the other risk-spawning innovations. The traits required of this corporation were that it not be a bank—and thus subject to bank regulation, and the need to reserve capital against risky assets—and that it be willing and able to bury exotic risks on its”
    Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

  • #16
    Jamie Ayres
    “bizarre flatmates and all-night pirate-themed parties are part of the package of student life. But when she meets Aquila, a reckless party-goer with a secret, Ash learns that there’s something else that drew her to the small village of Blackstone: the presence of the Venantium, gatekeepers of the barrier between our world and the Darkworld - the source of magic and the home of demons.”
    Jamie Ayres, 18 Things

  • #17
    Michael    Robertson
    “touched her shoulder, she flinched. “I need to do this, Vicky. It’s the right thing to do. I need to do everything I can to make sure my boy has his mum.” Still no reply.  “Please?” “What if you’re not back?” “I’ll be back.” “I’m not so sure about that.” “Trust me, Vicky, I’ll be back. I promise.” The same darkness sat on her features, but something had changed.”
    Michael Robertson, The Alpha Plague

  • #18
    Jamie Ayres
    “strange thing about her is that she sometimes draws the future. Only her brother Logan, fighting his cancer diagnosis, knows what she can do. But when a stranger named Ethan appears, determined to protect Caspia and her brother from dangers he won’t explain, she’s not sure what to think. Strangers almost never come to Whitfield. They certainly don’t follow her around, frightening her one moment and treating her like glass the next. And they certainly don’t look exactly like the subject of her most violent drawing.”
    Jamie Ayres, 18 Things

  • #19
    Michael    Robertson
    “Tower and get up to the top floor. There’s a room up there with a computer in it where you can turn off the incinerator. There’s another computer that will override the lockdown system. It’s pretty simple. The hard part is getting in there. My card will get you into The Alpha Tower, but once you’re in, you’ll need a scientist’s card to get to the last room. As far as I know, they’ve all been bitten. It’s a tower full of diseased now, but if you can kill one in a lab coat, you may find a card. I think it’s suicide though, Rhys.” When Rhys looked at Flynn, the light glistened off his tear-streaked cheeks. “Can”
    Michael Robertson, The Alpha Plague

  • #20
    L. Calell
    “two children of her own, and about to head into the unknown world of ‘40’, writing is her new passion.”
    L. Calell, Disconnected

  • #21
    Lewis Carroll
    “is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?' So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

  • #22
    “The right of the Gabbitas and Kogan Page to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN       978 0 7494 6747 0”
    Gabbitas Educational Consultants, The Independent Schools Guide 2012-2013: A Fully Comprehensive Guide to Independent Education in the United Kingdom



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