"Once upon a time there was a good and tidy little dog, with a black button nose and a tail full of wags."



So begins the gentle tale of Pantoofel, a little French sheepdog who is sent away from his farm because he is afraid of sheep. Certain that someone in the world must want him, Pantoofel sees a poster for 'America, the Land of Dreams' and boards a steamer ship for New York City. He tries waiting tables in a restaurant, selling newspapers on the sidewalk, and other jobs but nobody seems to want him. Just when he thinks he will never find a home, something extraordinary happens...

This is a sweet and beautifully-illustrated book that reminds children that, if you keep smiling and never give up, your home will find you.

What does this teen dark fantasy have that kicks the avoirdupois of every other teen dark fantasy? Three teenaged witches, the roaring twenties, haute couture, a ridiculously high body count, and flechette grenades manufactured by Coco Chanel.

It is 1920s London, and the young Folly sisters have everything they could possibly want. They have closets full of designer dresses, jewellery, adoring suitors, and an enormous house on the most fashionable street in London. Their lives are perfect...except for the fact that they happen to be witches.

When the British parliament issues an edict ordering the imprisonment of all the country's "Odds" (as witches and warlocks are called), the sisters have to abandon their perfect lives and flee across the channel to Paris. But soon they discover they are the most wanted "Odds" of all, and both British and French spies led by the handsome young Nicholas Vedry are sent to hunt them down and kill them. The sisters decide to fight back, and Coco Chanel...who is a witch herself, and manufactures couture artillery under her Paris atelier...decides to help them.

June Winter is an orphan, having led a miserable life in a convent tucked into the darkest and smelliest corner of London. But one day, a mysterious letter arrives for her. She soon discovers that she has six siblings, and they were scattered at birth to grow up all over the world in very different circumstances.

Now they are being called together to the family estate at Winterhaus, where they will have to compete against each other to uncover their family's bloody history...and risk their lives for the enormous fortune at stake.

For only the last one alive can be The Heir of Winterhaus.