Billionaire Boy: Mark Zuckerberg in His Own Words
edited by George Beahm

Call him a nerd or an 'Alpha Geek' but Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, is the world's youngest billionaire and in charge of one of most successful companies in the world. Was it just luck and good timing or is Zuckerberg a new type of visionary leader with the keys to business success in the our fast-moving digital world?

The Mark Zuckerberg most people know is the one depicted in the film The Social Network: a nerdy, insecure and socially awkward young man - hardly the image of a top-flight CEO in command of one of the world's largest and most successful companies.

Billionaire Boy is a collection of quotations taken from interviews, media announcements and more. We see a new breed of business leader with a new way of thinking about business and success.

... a revealing insight into the mind and vision of the world's youngest billionaire and founder and CEO of Facebook ....

The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry
by Rachel Joyce

Critically acclaimed international bestseller, long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2012

When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other.

He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To save someone else's life.

... A magical, moving and uplifting tale about a man's journey across England and into his own heart ...

About Time: From Sun Dials to Quantum Clocks, How the Cosmos Shapes Our Lives - And How We Shape the Cosmos
by Adam Frank

Exhilarating journey into the science of time, from Stonehenge to the Big Bang and beyond....

The palaeolithic farmer moved through the sun-fuelled day in a radically different way to the modern office worker bound into fifteen-minute Outlook increments - but both grasped time based on the potent scientific discoveries of the age. Now, with the advent of quantum clocks, string theory, multiverses, and other breakthroughs, science is again rewriting time and our experience of it.

Weaving cosmology with everyday, down-to-earth examples across the centuries, award-winning physicist Adam Frank presents a dazzling, provocative exploration of how time passes through our lives - and what cutting-edge physics has in store for us next.

... A fascinating and comprehensive survey of how technology - from farming to railways to telegraphy to the internet - has changed our everyday concept of time...

River Of Destiny
by Barbara Erskine

On the banks of the River Deben lies a set of barns dating back to the Anglo Saxons, and within their walls secrets have laid buried for centuries.

Zoe and Ken have just moved into one of the barns, ready to start a new life away from the hustle and bustle of the city. To the outside world they seem like an ordinary couple, but underneath they are growing ever more distant by the day. And the strange presence Zoe feels within their home, and the shapes she sees through the cloying mists on the river are getting harder to ignore.

Whilst farmers are ploughing the land surrounding them, human bones are found and when the police arrive it becomes clear that the remains are much older than first suspected… Are they linked to a Victorian tragedy the locals whisper about? And what should they make of the grassy mound which has remained untouched across many centuries, but has now been disturbed with seemingly devastating consequences?

... An Anglo Saxon burial ground that must not be disturbed ... a Victorian tragedy of forbidden love ... and an ancient curse whose power grows ever stronger ...

A Street Cat Named Bob
by James Bowen

The uplifting, true story of an unlikely friendship between a man on the streets and the ginger cat who adopts him and helps him heal his life.

When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he had no idea just how much his life was about to change. James was living hand to mouth on the streets of London and the last thing he needed was a pet. Yet James couldn't resist helping the strikingly intelligent tom cat, whom he quickly christened Bob. He slowly nursed Bob back to health and then sent the cat on his way, imagining he would never see him again. But Bob had other ideas.

Soon the two were inseparable and their diverse, comic and occasionally dangerous adventures would transform both their lives, slowly healing the scars of each other's troubled pasts.

... an instantly bestselling memoir that, beside its heart-warming tale of their friendship, offers an insight into the injustice of life on the streets that's by turns frustrating and life-affirming ...

The House On Paradise Street
by Sofka Zinovieff

An epic tale of love and loss, which takes readers from the war-torn streets of Nazi-occupied Athens through the military junta years and on into the troubled city of recent times, and shows what happens when ideology threatens to subsume our sense of humanity.

In 2008 Antigone Perifanis returns to her old family home in Athens after 60 years in exile. She has come to attend the funeral of her only son, Nikitas, who was born in prison, and whom she has not seen since she left him as a baby.

Nikitas had been distressed in the days before his death and, curious to find out why, his English widow Maud starts to investigate his complicated past. In so doing, she finds herself reigniting a bitter family feud, discovering a heartbreaking story of a young mother caught up in the political tides of the Greek Civil War and forced to make a terrible decision that would blight not only her life but that of future generations...

... a compelling guide to the last sixty years of Greek history at this very troubled time for Europe and for all of us ....

Cell 8
by Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström

John Schwarz earns his keep on a ferry between Sweden and Finland, singing for drunken passengers. One night, he loses his temper with a man harassing women in the crowd, beating him unconscious. As drunken brawls are commonplace on the Baltic cruising ferries, no one raises an eyebrow. No one, that is, but Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens. Concerned by the details of the case, he wonders if someone capable of such violence has a history of it. He orders Schwarz arrested: but Schwarz provides such resistance that he has to be sedated. Suspicion turns to shock when Grens discovers that John Schwarz does not exist.

When he learns that the man in his custody is in fact John Meyer Frey - an American citizen from Marcusville, Ohio - he is even more astonished. John Meyer Frey died on Death Row six years earlier. This mystery initiates the most remarkable criminal investigation of Ewert Grens's career, the reverberations of which will reach the highest tier of international politics, and blow the worldwide debate on the death penalty wide open.

... Astonishing ... passionate ... taut with suspense ....

Finders Keepers
by Glen Aidan & Aidan Goggins

The eight-year-old boy had vanished from the car and - as if by slick, sick magic - had been replaced by a note on the steering wheel . . . 'You don't love him'. ..

At the height of summer a dark shadow falls across Exmoor. Children are being stolen from cars. Each disappearance is marked only by a terse note - a brutal accusation. There are no explanations, no ransom demands... and no hope.

Policeman Jonas Holly faces a precarious journey into the warped mind of the kidnapper if he's to stand any chance of catching him. But - still reeling from a personal tragedy - is Jonas really up to the task?

Because there's at least one person on Exmoor who thinks that, when it comes to being the first line of defence, Jonas Holly may be the last man to entrust with this job...

... Compelling... Bauer blends a psychological crime story with a darkly humorous narrative ...