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Move over Nancy Drew and make way for the newest sleuth on the block, 11-year-old Starr Fox. Starr is an aspiring actress with a mother who organizes, coordinates and schedules her auditions and daily activities. Starr's mother, or the Drill Sergeant, as she so aptly calls her, is involved in every aspect of her life including what she wears, how she walks and what she says.Starr is about to audition for the lead in a major film in London. She is excited about the audition and is w...

Sandra Bernstein is a 50 ish year old eccentric makeup Artiste, who's hobby is crime! When she loses her regular job on a day time soap, she is whisked off to a Caribbean Island to work on a block buster film. On day one of filming she finds the dead body of an Actor... her client! From there her Super sleuth tendencies take hold and along with the dead Actors PA, they go on a journey ........... A journey to find a Murderer!If you like to be entwined in a mystery of twists , turns...

After much waiting with baited breath, it's finally here! The third book in a smashing series that's captured the hearts of so many young children. The wait is finally over, with the third instalment of the aptly named Starr's adventures being released and once again capturing the imagination like no other children's book on the market at the moment.As if the last book wasn't exciting enough, `The Golden Masterpiece' whisks us readers away to the beautiful Caribbean island of St. Ma...

Starr, the intelligent, trendy detective is back on the scene again to guide us through yet another compelling mystery. We return to our favourite 11-year-old heroine and her best friend Grace with some recognisable older characters such as her aptly named mother `The Sergeant', who storms Grace about in a comedic fashion to follow a theatrical career once more, and `Sean' the very tall, very lively and very lovable man who acted as their previous chaperone in the first book.Not on...

This is the third in the series of stories covering the lives and cases of DCI Victor Moyes and his second in command DS Victoria Morgan. The stories are set in the nineteen sixties before the age of DNA and at the start of the computer age, and rely on old fashioned policing methods which were slow and laborious. Luckily Victor Moyes had, in the shape of Victoria Morgan, not only a beautiful partner but also an intelligent woman although this was something he didn’t realise or would not h...

Set in the 1960s, this is the fifth in the series of stories about Detective Chief Inspector Victor Moyes and his second in command Detective Sergeant Victoria Morgan as they attempt to rid the fictional town of Abberford of crime. This was a continual battle with the extended Jenkins family who had their fingers in every pie going and had been a thorn in the Abberford police’s side for many years. Victor had once estimated that fifty per cent of the recorded crime was down the Jenkins fam...

The promises of new adventures in love and in life are on the horizon for a young mother, but sabotage is also just around the corner...A heart-warming and thrilling sixties London saga from much-loved author Pam Evans, Where We Belong is a reminder of the powerful consequences of love, hope and jealousy. Perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Lindsey Hutchinson.One day in 1964 Rachel West's husband walked out on his wife and two youn...

Return to Lake View Middle School in the third book of the PERFECT SCORE series from the beloved author of Because of Mr. Terupt.Eighth grade promises to be an unforgettable year of tears, laughter, surprises, and star power.GAVIN's days of football glory have arrived, but an accident on the home front upends his family. Ever enterprising, NATALIE anchors a morning news broadcast at school--where she's unafraid to tackle big issues. Being ...

Twenty-five-year-old theater grad student Rory Morgan walks into her Intro to Theater class expecting it to be a piece of cake. She isn’t prepared for the diminutive little fireball of a professor who walks in. She is instantly captivated by Dr. Margaret Parks, her forty-year-old professor, and even works up the courage to flirt a little, which Dr. Parks quickly dismisses. After their first class, Rory finds herself thinking about the professor more and more and spends most of her class ti...

Ed waited until all the eyes in the room were on him before he began. He took a deep breath, inhaling as he did so the sweet scent from the lilies, which were arranged extravagantly in front of him. 'Ladies and gents, I promise to try and keep this short and sweet…'When Billy asked his best mate Ed to be his best man, Ed knew he would have to make a speech and he was dreading it. But he also knew how important it was to Billy - and to his soul mate and wife-to-be, Amelia. So Ed is ...

Mike Lupica presents the third book in his NEW YORK TIMES bestselling Game Changers series!Ben and his friends, the Core Four Plus One, are so excited to play in their town's All-Star Baseball league. But in the first game of the season Ben gets hit by a pitch. It's never happened to him before and it shakes him up.Another player on Ben's team, Justin, is acting really weirdly. Ben's known Justin for a while and they're friendly but he's not one of Ben's closest "boys." Justin is t...

A BRAND-NEW EDITION, ILLUSTRATED IN GLORIOUS FULL COLOUR BY QUENTIN BLAKE FOR THE FIRST TIME.Billy's mum says he must never go out through the garden gate and explore the dark forest beyond. So, one day, that's exactly what he does! There he meets the Minpins, tiny tree-dwelling people whose children are the size of matchsticks. They live in fear of the terrible, galloping GRUNCHER. Will it gobble Billy too - or can he find a way to defeat the hungry beast?