A young man is fighting for his life. Into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she can save him. Their journey will have you believing in the impossible. A Richard and Judy Best Read 2009 pick.

Hughes's classic about a huge iron man who struggles to put himself together after being smashed to pieces falling from a cliff, and then takes on a giant dragon in an unfair contest. It was first published in 1968 and has sold over a million copies since.

From moguls to maverick CEOs, this work helps you learn their secrets and share their success. From safe hands to young turks, risk takers to innovators, it offers profiles of some of the world's best CEOs. It provides information on each CEO's career, their highs, lows, management style, vision and distilled wisdom.

In this collection of tales from the Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes, God appears as an artist who is sometimes surprised by his creatures. He puts an awful lot of care into fashioning the birds, whereas he simply pulls Newt out of the ground. The author's other books for children include The Iron Man .

A young man is fighting for his life. Into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she can save him. Their journey will have you believing in the impossible. A Richard and Judy Best Read 2009 pick.

A young man is fighting for his life. Into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she can save him. Their journey will have you believing in the impossible. The nameless and beautiful narrator of The Gargoyle is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and wakes up in a burns ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned

A story of strength and survival Buck is a dog born to luxury, but when he is sold to be a sledge dog in the harsh and frozen north he must quickly learn how to survive. He soon earns a reputation for his strength and courage and endures physical exhaustion, fierce battles with other dogs, and cruel treatment from a series of masters before he is saved by John Thornton and learns to love. But the

From a silent perch in the branches of a great tree, a huge and mysterious bird, the Skymaster, keeps watch over Godhanger Wood, and the innocent blood shed daily by the cruel gamekeeper. When the birds determine to save themselves, the gamekeeper finds himself locked in a deadly battle of wills.

Successful structuring requires providing the best value to investors in order to compete, and investors who don't fully understand structuring will not remain investors for long. This book provides an exploration of securitized real estate markets. It is suitable for business school students and structured finance market practitioners.

This volume documents a year in the life of St Thomas' Hospital, London - Britain's largest hospital trust and a centre of medical excellence. The book uncovers the controversy and tensions behind the decision to amalgamate it with Guy's Hospital, blending reportage, analysis and reconstruction.

A novel about the redemptive power of suffering and a romance that transcends the limits of time and space.

The first fly-on-the-wall documentary account of life inside a hospital.

Why does one entrepreneur succeed when another fails? What are the key characteristics that define Britain's top business builders? And what has Richard Branson's mother got to do with it all? This book tracks down the country's top wealth creators in their natural habitat.