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The branch he sat on was creaking under his weight, but he didn't seem to notice or care. He was shouting about being angry at his brother. I stood by the trunk and cried and begged him to come down, but he wouldn't listen. <br/><br/>I will not come down until Gregoris has apologised to you! he insisted. There were two birds in the tree with my grandfather, one on each side of him. One of the birds was a dove, the other some sort of bird of prey, like a hawk or a falcon. <br/><br/>"If you won't come down, will you at least save the dove? And look out for the other bird!" I cried out. Just as my grandfather reached out to the dove, the branch snapped.

A fundamental principle of the American legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty there is very little room to prove doubt.<br/><br/>Framed shares ten true stories of men who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, wives, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place, and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and the corrupt court system that can make them so hard to reverse.<br/><br/>Told with page-turning suspense as only John Grisham can deliver, Framed is the story of overcoming adversity when the battle already seems lost, and the deck is stacked against you.

'Strikingly original, utterly absorbing' Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the Third Reich A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other concerns. Jean-Paul Sartre waits anxiously in a Parisian cafe for his first date with no-show Simone de Beauvoir. Marlene Dietrich slips from her loveless marriage into the dive bars of Berlin. Father and son Thomas and Klaus Mann clash over each other's homosexuality. And Vladimir Nabokov lovingly places a fresh-caught butterfly at the end of Vera's bed. Little do they all know, the book burning will soon begin. Love in a Time of Hate skilfully interweaves some of the greatest love stories of the 1930s with the darkening backdrop of fascism in Europe, in an irresistible journey into the past that brings history and its actors to vivid life.

<strong>The epic sequel to Taran Matharu's instant <em>Sunday Times </em>bestseller, <em>Dragon Rider, </em>in which empires fall and dragons soar...</strong> <br/><br/><strong>'A dazzlingly epic and richly complex world of dragons, magic, and rebellion' </strong>Amelie Wen Zhao on <em>Dragon Rider</em> <br/><br/>Jai dreams of being a dragon rider. He dreams of freedom from the Sabine Empire and a world in which he can lead his people, the Kidara, to freedom. But even though he has his dragon, Winter, she is still growing, just as he's still growing in his own power. And the road to victory is even more fraught than he had hoped... <br/><br/>Because even when he finds a tribe on the Great Steppe, they are not his people. They are the outcasts, the Tainted, and he finds that he knows little of the political intricacies that take place in these vast grasslands. He is a stranger amongst his own kind, for Jai's uncle rules, and is loath to cede power to his nephew. <br/><br/>But the legionaries and Gryphon Guard of the Sabine Empire are wreaking havoc against the other tribes of the Great Steppe, and Jai is forced to learn a lifetime's worth of knowledge in a matter of months. From levelling up his magic, to becoming a true warrior, saving the woman he loves, and strengthening his bond with Winter, Jai is a dragon rider with a massive weight on his young shoulders. And his greatest hope is that the shoulders of Winter will soon be strong enough to help carry <em>him</em>. <br/><br/> <strong>READ THE EPIC FANTASY SERIES WITH SCORCHING FIVE-STAR READER REVIEWS </strong> <br/><br/><strong>'Dragons with depth... Taran Matharu masterfully layers the history, politics and soulful magic of his world with page-turning ease, all the while delivering shocks, bloodshed and a splash of slow-burn spice'</strong> Cari Thomas, <em>Sunday Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Threadneedle</em> <br/><br/><strong>'Eragon and Sapphira, Laurence and Temeraire, and now Jai and Winter. A brilliant beginning!' </strong>Michael R. Miller, bestselling author of the Songs of Chaos series <br/><br/><strong>'Bloody, glorious, and irresistibly compelling, <em>Dragon Rider</em> is a riveting epic that is at once sweepingly vast and heart-wrenchingly personal' </strong>Sarah Beth Durst, award-winning author of <em>The Bone Maker </em> <br/><br/><strong>'Brutal politics, intricate worldbuilding, and edge-of-the-seat battles' </strong>Prashanth Srivatsa, author of <em>The Spice Gate </em> <br/><br/><strong><em>'A </em>classic fantasy adventure that reminds me of the novels I loved growing up, but with a flair of cultivation from the novels I love now' </strong>Will Wight, <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of the Cradle series

<b><i>The Woman in Me</i></b><b> is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.</b><br/><br/> In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice-her truth-was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others.<i> The Woman in Me</i> reveals for the first time her incredible journey-and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history.<br/> <br/> Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears's groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love-and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.

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