Reader's Digest Condensed Books - Vet in Practice, Johnnie Alone, Wolf Winter, Nightshade, Anne Frank Remembered

JOHNNIE ALONE by Elizabeth WebsterYoung Johnnie Cass is cruelly trapped. Trapped by the brute hatred of his stepfather, Big Joe. And trapped by the relentless ringing in his head that makes it virtually impossible for him to communicate with anyone. His only escape is in his drawings, in the flowing lines and bold strokes that speak from his heart.At last a terrifying showdown with Big Joe forces Johnnie to leave home in search of the father he can barely remember, but who now holds all Johnnie’s hopes for the future._Johnnie Alone_ is a poignant story of a childhood, told with inimitable warmth and sensitivity by the author of the immensely popular _A Boy Called Bracken_.WOLF WINTER by Clare FrancisTwo bloodstained bodies are found on the wrong side of the Soviet-Finnish border, and the Cold War instantly intensifies. For the bodies belong to Norwegian volunteers on a secret mission that has gone badly wrong.But to Major Hal Starheimer these deaths signify far more than just an international incident; the two dead men were his friends. His determined search for the truth behind the catastrophe draws him back into the past, and exposes him to great danger—with the discovery that someone close to him is at the heart of the incident.Clare Francis’s new novel is a spellbinding tale of romance, adventure and betrayal set in the icy wastes of the Arctic North.NIGHTSHADE by Gloria MurphyThe voice on the phone is eerie, the words horrifying. A man is saying he has the children, her children. In a matter of seconds young widow Jennifer Sawyer is engulfed in a nightmare ordeal.To save her twin children, kidnapped by a sinister figure from her past, Jen must now do everything the man wants, follow his every instruction. And when he tells her to join him and the children in an isolated cabin in the country, she finds herself in a game of life and death—a terrifying game, which is rigged against her right from the start.Gloria Murphy makes an exciting debut in Condensed Books with this chillingly realistic thriller.VET IN PRACTICE by Hugh LasgarnReminiscences of a country vet... From the moment he landed, quite literally, on the doorstep of a Herefordshire surgery, young Hugh Las- garn found himself pitched into the dramas of his new profession. With warmth and humour, he recalls how he won his spurs as a _Vet in Practice_ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED by Miep Gies with Alison Leslie GoldWartime memoirs of the resistance... In 1942, young Miep Gies was asked to make a fateful decision: her Jewish employer, Otto Frank, needed a place where he and his family could hide from the Nazis. Would she help? This is Miep’s account of those desperate days—and how Anne Frank’s famous diary was preserved for posterity.