Mila wants to be a lion tamer, just like her famous parents. But Mila isn't allowed to practise on the real lions. Until, one day, Mila decides to take matters into her own hands ...

Mila is a lion tamer. She has everything she needs to be one. Except lions. So she practices on her dog Ralph, who doesn't care for his paper mane and would much rather be asleep on the sofa. Luckily, Mila's parents are lion tamers too, they're part of a circus and they have lions. Mila isn't allowed to tame the real lions, but she's going to try anyway. When she opens the gate to the lions' cage to slip in they slip out. Quite casually. They have sharp teeth and pointy claws. This could be a problem. Will Mila be able to catch the missing lions before anyone finds out? The stunning debut picture book from Celeste Hulme, featuring a feisty, resourceful heroine with one very big problem to solve! The beautiful retro illustrations will appeal to both children and parents. Filled with gorgeous vintage circus details, this is a must-have addition to any library. Celeste Hulme grew up in Africa, so knows exactly how big a lion's claws are. She spent most of her childhood wandering the deserts of Namibia and exploring the rainforests of Swaziland. Celeste studied a BA Hons in Visual Communication and Design at Stellenbosch University. Celeste dreams of running off to join the circus as a lion tamer or a human cannonball.

In the spring of 1983, a North American couple who were hoping to adopt a child internationally received word that if they acted quickly, they could become the parents of a boy in an orphanage in Honduras. Layers of red tape dissolved as the American Embassy there smoothed the way for the adoption. Within a few weeks, Margaret Ward and Thomas de Witt were the parents of a toddler they named Nelson—an adorable boy whose prior life seemed as mysterious as the fact that government officials in two countries had inexplicably expedited his adoption. In Missing Mila, Finding Family, Margaret Ward tells the poignant and compelling story of this international adoption and the astonishing revelations that emerged when Nelson's birth family finally relocated him in 1997. After recounting their early years together, during which she and Tom welcomed the birth of a second son, Derek, and created a family with both boys, Ward vividly recalls the upheaval that occurred when members of Nelson's birth family contacted them and sought a reunion with the boy they knew as Roberto. She describes how their sense of family expanded to include Nelson's Central American relatives, who helped her piece together the lives of her son's birth parents and their clandestine activities as guerrillas in El Salvador's civil war. In particular, Ward develops an internal dialogue with Nelson's deceased mother Mila, an elusive figure whose life and motivations she tries to understand.

Pray the cops find you first… Imagine Elmore Leonard behind the wheel of a car in Grand Theft Autoas one Italian woman sets out to cut the mafia down to size – one limb at a time… Two perfectly matched gangs are fighting for control of the north-east Italian region of Venetia. But a formidable young woman with vengeance on her mind has plans to upset the balance. Abandoned by her mother and violated by a gang of criminals just after they slaughtered her father, Mila Zago is a cold-blooded killer, a deadly assassin. Brought up by her grandfather on the Sette Comuni plateau under a rigid martial code, she returns home to seek her revenge, conspiring to create a spectacular showdown reminiscent A Fistful of Dollars. The Ballad of Mila is the first novel in an ongoing series focused on the formidable female Italian bounty hunter Mila Zago, a.k.a. Red Dread. As well as being shortlisted for the Premio Scerbanenco / La Stampa prize, it won the Premio Speciale Valpolicella 2011, and in its graphic novel format was awarded the the Premio Leone di Narnia as “Best Italian comic book series of the year”.

Harlequin® Medical Romance brings you a collection of three new titles, available now! Enjoy these stories packed with pulse-racing romance and heart-racing medical drama. This WEDDING themed Harlequin Medical Romance box set includes: #824 WINNING BACK HIS DOCTOR BRIDE The Hollywood Hills Clinic by Tina Beckett Dr. James Rothsberg must decide whether to run again, or fight for Mila Brightman—the woman he never stopped loving! #825 WHITE WEDDING FOR A SOUTHERN BELLE Summer Brides by Susan Carlisle Could Ashley Marsh be the only woman to lead ER doc Keifer Bradford from “I can't” to “I do”? #826 WEDDING DATE WITH THE ARMY DOC Summer Brides by Lynne Marshall Charlotte Johnson avoids romance…but when army doc Jackson Hilstead invites her to a wedding, she can't resist!

Prague, 1610 Ludmila Novakova--Mila--has barely set foot outside Prague Castle in her seventeen years. But with the choice between braving the bandits and wolves of Bohemia's uneasy roads or being married off to a disgusting old baron, she's taken what she can carry and fled. Escape won't be easy. Even Mila has heard the rumors of a rebellion coming against the court. The peasants are hungry. The king hasn't been seen in months. Mila's father, the High Chancellor, is well known and well hated. But Mila can't sit behind a stone wall and let fear force her into a life of silk gowns and certain misery. Her mother's death has taught her that much. She has one ally: Marc, the son of the blacksmith. A commoner, a Protestant--and perhaps a traitor, too. But the farther she gets from the castle, the more lies she uncovers, unraveling everything she thought she knew. And the harder it is to tell friend from enemy--and wrong from right . . .