Jealousy, lust, and teenage insecurities are the lifeblood of any large school.Loneliness can strike without warning, spreading through the cramped corridors like an epidemic.Out on the playground, rivalries are formed from the pettiest of incidents.Some people look at Jake in awe, others look at him with hatred.Jake is just an ordinary boy who wants to be liked.Jake wants to know why the girls never seem to notice him.Jake is... well, he's J...

Not long after surviving the horrors of D-Day, Corporal James Bowden finds himself as part of a small group of soldiers marching through Nazi-occupied France.Supplied with orders that are vague and unspecific and surrounded by men he doesn't know, will James survive society's desire for justice and revenge?

Like any girl who is loved by her family, Abigail Nussbaum loves to chase butterflies, enjoys lying on her back looking for shapes in the clouds, and happily teaches young children to make daisy chains.In the eyes of certain people, however, Abigail has committed a heinous crime. The year is 1940; the place is Poland; Abigail happens to be Jewish.Along with half a million other Jews, Abigail and her family are evicted from their home and forced to live in the bombed out ruins...

Sam is a quiet and lonely boy who had the misfortune to be born a few years before World War II. Finding shelter from German bomber planes is almost a daily part of his life now but he wonders when his luck will run out...

Driving home from a party with his girlfriend and brother, all of them drunk and high on stolen pills, Billy Blackmore accidentally hits someone in the night. In a panic, they all decide to drive off.But the next day Billy wakes to find he has to cover the story for the local paper. It turns out the dead man was Edinburgh's biggest crime lord and, as Billy struggles with what he's done, he is sucked into a nightmare of guilt, retribution and violence.From the author of the ...

When Rapunzel is banished to a tall tower in the middle of the woods, escape seems impossible. Can she use her long locks to escape from her evil stepmother and find her prince?This story is a magic bean. It may not look much like a bean, but I can promise you that it is. For if you plant it in a young mind, it will grow into a love of story and reading. These beans are favourite fairytales and legends that will delight, thrill and thoroughly entertain. Each story has been...

A MOTHER FIGHTS TO FIND HER SON. A CHILD BATTLES FOR SURVIVAL.Inspired by the heartrending true events behind Ten Pound Poms, t****his riveting novel is for readers of Lisa Wingate, Martha Hall Kelly, Kathryn Hughes, and Lesley Pearse.'A warm-hearted tale of love, loss and indefatigable human spirit' Kathryn Hughes⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Such a poignant story'⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Beautiful...

Double Trouble is the sensational, breathless sequel to Deep Trouble and tells the story of one of the most famous operations of the Second World War: 50,000 airborne troops, nine days of fierce fighting, one bridge too far.September, 1944 - Just three months after D-Day and the Allied invasion is getting bogged down in France. The commanders need a change of tactics. Cue Operation Market Garden - the largest and most audacious airborne raid of the war.Fre...

World War II left the world in turmoil. And not just in Europe. Many were sent home with injuries. Would their lives ever be the same again? Ryan Burgess didn't think so.A fist closed around Allison Monroe's heart. She was doing the best she could, but it never felt as if it were enough. She'd do anything to protect her daughter from the realities forced on them by the war. From the void her husband's death left them.Over the store's counter, Ryan's eyes met hers and Alliso...

The apocalypse has hit Monument, Colorado, and Jake Simonsen, captain of the football team, is caught in the middle of it. A series of escalating disasters, beginning with a monster hailstorm and ending with a terrible chemical weapons spill that affects people differently depending on blood type, has torn the world as he knows it apart. Now Jake has to decide how to pick up the pieces."Jake and the Other Girl," an original story by Emmy Laybourne acquired for Tor.com by Holly West,...

''For the first time in my young military career, those recruitment posters showing lads windsurfing and relaxing on the beach swam into my mind s eye without a trace of irony.'' Young soldier Eddy Nugent can't believe his luck. It's 1991, and he's been posted to tropical Belize - where he works seven hours a week and spends the rest of his time drinking, swimming in the Caribbean and getting to know the local ladies. It's all a far cry from the rainy Manchester streets where h...

A Jewish girl finds refuge with a village outcast during WWII in this "elegantly crafted, beautifully written novel about love, survival and hope" (William Ryan).In a small Eastern European village, fifteen-year-old Yael is on the run from Nazi invaders. The so-called village idiot, Aleksei is a solitary mute who does not want for company. But as the brutal winter advances, he reluctantly takes Yael in. As she begins to win his trust, a delicate relationship develo...