Currently reading: The Child Bride

I knew from the start that Zeena's story was going to be different.

I also knew she was hiding something.

It wasn't until she broke down sobbing that she was finally able to tell me

what had happened to her, and I'll never forget it.

Cathy Glass, international bestselling author, tells the shocking story of Zeena, a young Asian girl desperate to escape from her family.

When 14-year old Zeena begs to be taken into care with a non-Asian family, she is clearly petrified. But of what?

Placed in the home of experienced foster carer Cathy and her family, Zeena gradually settles into her new life, but misses her little brothers and sisters terribly. 

Prevented from having any contact with them by her family, who insist she has brought shame and dishonor on the whole community, Zeena tries to see them at school. But when her father and uncle find out, they bundle her into a car and threaten to set fire to her if she makes any more trouble. Zeena is too frightened to press charges against them despite being offered police protection in a safe house.

Eventually, Cathy discovers the devastating truth from Zeena, and it seems there is little she can do to help her.

Currently reading: Revenge Wears Prada

Almost a decade has passed since Andy Sachs quit the job "a million girls would die for" working for Miranda Priestly at Runway magazine - a dream that turned out to be a nightmare. Andy and Emily, her former nemesis and co-assistant, have since joined forces to start The Plunge, a high-end bridal magazine for the young and stylish. Now they get to call all the shots. Even better, Andy has met the love of her life. Max Harrison, scion of a storied media family, is confident, successful, and drop-dead gorgeous. Their wedding will be splashed across all the society pages. Andy Sachs is on top of the world. But karma's a bitch.

The morning of her wedding, Andy can't shake the past. And when she discovers a secret letter with crushing implications, her wedding-day jitters turn to cold dread. Andy realizes that nothing is as it seems. She never suspected that her efforts to build a bright new life would lead her back to the darkness she barely escaped - and directly into the path of the Devil herself.....

Currently reading: The Missing Girls

MISSING: TWO YOUNG GIRLS FROM THE

SAME NEIGHBORHOOD.

Ashley Pond was only twelve years old when she vanished from a school bus stop in a town south of Portland, Oregon. As a shocked community came together and police began a frantic search, another tragedy was just about to take place.

NO ONE BELIEVED THAT EVIL COULD BE

SO CLOSE TO HOME...

Miranda Gaddis was Ashley's best friend. Just two months after Ashley's disappearance, Miranda was on her way to school when she, too, was abducted. Nobody knew the scandalous, unspeakable secret that the two girls shared... except for one man who lived just one block away.

UNTIL A HEROIC GRANDMOTHER BROUGHT

A KILLER TO JUSTICE.

The police and FBI managed to overlook the girls' neighbor whose daughter was a friend of Miranda and Ashley's - and who had a catalog of sexual-assault allegations behind him. Author Linda O'Neal was a private investigator intimately involved in this shocking case. Now, she and her co-authors - also participants in the case - tell the chilling story of one town's devastating loss... and how the murderer was finally found.

Currently reading: The Hunger Games - Catching Fire

KATNISS EVERDEEN SURVIVED THE HUNGER GAMES.

NOW THE CAPITOL WANTS REVENGE.

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen and

Peeta Mellark are still alive. Katniss should be

relieved, but now there are whispers of a rebellion

against the Capitol - a rebellion that Katniss

and Peeta may have helped create.

As the nation watches Katniss and Peeta,

the stakes are higher than ever. One false move

and the consequences will be unimaginable.

THE SECOND BOOK IN THE HEART-STOPPING

HUNGER GAMES TRILOGY

Currently reading: The Mummyfesto

Adaptable. Dependable. Good at clearing up mess.

Being a mum is perfect training to run the country..

When Sam, Jackie and Anna successfully campaign to save their lollipop lady,

a TV reporter asks them if they fancy standing in the general election.

It is, of course, a crazy idea: Sam's youngest child has an incurable disease,

Jackie is desperate for another child and

her mum is struggling with Alzheimer's; and Anna's teenage children,

and marriage, are in danger of going off the rails.

But sometimes the craziest ideas turn out to be the best.

And just think what they could do if they did get to run the country.....

Currently reading: I've Got Your Number

I've lost it. :(

The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose.

My engagement ring. It's been in Magnus's family for three

generations. And now, the very same day his parents are coming,

I've lost it. The very same day. Do not hyperventilate, Poppy.

Stay positive!! :)

A couple of glasses of bubbly with the girls and Poppy's

life has gone into meltdown. Not only has she lost her

engagement ring, but in the panic that followed, she's lost her

phone too. When she spots an abandoned phone in a bin

it seems it was meant to be... Finders Keepers!

Except the phone's owner, elusive businessman Sam Roxton,

doesn't agree. He wants his phone back, and doesn't appreciate

Poppy reading all his messages and wading into his personal life.

Can things get any more tangled?

Currently reading: The Rose Petal Beach

'I could kill them for what

they've done to me.'

I said those words. And I meant them at the time. But what

would you do, what would you say if your husband was accused

of something terrible and the accuser is someone you

trusted with your life?

That doesn't mean I wanted this to happen. I didn't want anyone

to get hurt. And I didn't want to be scared that every knock on

the door is going to be the police, coming to take me away.

What's going to happen to my children?

What's going to happen to me?

My name is Tamia Challey and

this is my story.

Currently reading: 3,096 Days In Captivity

ON MARCH 2, 1998, TEN-YEAR-OLD NATASCHA KAMPUSCH

WAS SNATCHED OFF THE STREET BY A

STRANGER AND BUNDLED INTO A VAN.....

Hours later she found herself on the cold floor of a fifty-square-foot dungeon in a house that would be her home for the next eight years. When she emerged from captivity in 2006, having survived one of the longest abductions in recent history, her childhood had come and gone.

Now Natascha Kampusch tells her extraordinary story for the first time. She was starved, beaten, and treated as a slave, sleeping in a dungeon-like basement and being forced to work for her deranged tormentor. But she never forgot who she was - and she never gave up hope of returning to the world. She writes about how she refused to surrender to despair, and how she learned to manipulate her captor and managed to escape.

Ultimately, Natascha's account of her experience is about the triumph of the human spirit, and how, through an ordeal of almost unbearable hopelessness, she emerged against inconceivable odds - with her heart and soul intact.

Currently reading: 52 Reasons To Hate My Father

COMING-OF-AGE IN FRONT OF AMERICA has never been easy for famous

teen heiress Lexington Larrabee. The tabloids love portraying her as the

spoiled, bratty princess who has a knack for landing herself in trouble

(her most recent cover-story debacle was crashing her brand-new Mercedes

convertible into a convenience store on Sunset Boulevard). And even though

it's true Lexi has never worked a day in her life and has the world at her

fingertips, she's never had the one thing she really wants - her father's love.

But on her eighteenth birthday, Lexi's world is turned upside down when her

ever-absent father decides to take a more proactive approach to her life. If she

wants to receive her beloved trust fund, she will have to take on a different

low-wage job every week for a year. It's bad enough that she has to work as a

maid, a dishwasher, and a fast-food employee, but now her father has assigned

Luke, the annoying, albeit moderately attractive, college intern, to keep tabs

on her. And now that Lexi has fifty-two reasons to hate her father, will this

heiress learn she really only needs one reason to love him?

Currently reading: The Playdate

Sound designer Callie Roberts is a single mother. And she's come to rely

heavily on her best friend and neighbor, Suzy. Over the past few lonely

years, Suzy has been good to Callie and her rather frail daughter, Rae,

and she's welcomed them into her large, apparently happy family.

But Callie knows Suzy's life is not quite as perfect as it seems. It's time

she pulled away - and she needs to get back to work. So why does she keep

putting off telling Suzy? And who will care for Rae? In the anonymous city

street, Callie's increased sense of alienation leads her to try and befriend

a new resident, Debs. But she's odd - you certainly wouldn't trust her

with your child - especially if you knew anything about her past...

Currently reading: Room

Jack is five.

He lives in a single, locked room with his Ma.

It's Jack's birthday, and he's excited about turning five.

He lives with his Ma in Room, which has a

locked door and a skylight, and measure 11 feet

by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters

he calls friends, but he knows that

nothing he sees on screen is truly real - only him,

Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma

admits that there's a world outside.....

'A moving portrayal of how love can be born, nurtured and survive even in the darkest of places' CECELIA AHERN

'One of the most profoundly affecting books I've read in a long time' JOHN BOYNE, author of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMA

'Such incredible imagination, and dazzling use of language.. Room is unlike anything I've ever read before' ANITA SHREVE, author of TESTIMONY and A CHANGE IN ALTITUDE

'This book will break your heart' Irish Times

'A triumph' Daily Telegraph

Currently reading: Christmas at TIFFANY'S

Three cities. Three seasons.
One chance
to find the life that fits.

Cassie settled down too young, marrying her first
serious boyfriend. Now, ten years later, she is betrayed and
broken. With her marriage in tatters and no career or
home of her own, she needs to work out where she belongs
in the world and who she really is.

So begins a year-long trial as Cassie leaves her sheltered
life in rural Scotland to stay with each of her nest friends in the
most glamorous cities in the world: New York, Paris and London.
Exchanging grouse moor and mousy hair for low-carb diets
and high-end highlights. Cassie tries on each city for size as she
attempts to track down the life she was supposed to have
been leading, and with it, the man who was supposed
to love her all along.

Currently Reading: Never Say Die

"You're on a fool's errand.
Surely you know your father is dead."

Twenty years after her father's plane crashed in the jungles of Southeast Asia,
Willy Jane Maitland was finally tracking his last moves.
She recognized the dangers, but her search for the truth about
that fateful flight was the only thing that mattered.

Without knowing who to trust, Willy turns to ex-army officer
turned mercenary Guy Barbard. He knows the jungles like the back of his hand,
but Willy can't be sure who he's really working for.

As deadly assailants chase them, Willy and Guy realize
they're investigating secrets people will kill to protect.

Currently reading: Vanish

The beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. But when
medical examiner Maura Isles looks down at the body,
she gets the fright of her life.

The corpse opens its eyes.

Now very much alive, the woman is rushed to the hospital,
where she murders a security guard and seizes hostages,
one of whom is the heavily pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli.

But who is this woman, and what does she want?
Only Jane can solve the mystery - if she survives the night.

Currently reading

Borrowed from Raelene..
I learned about so many things by reading this book..
Love it!

An irresistible page turner..