Graceful young heiress Miss Abigail Swift founds a new academy to instil discipline into Kentish maidens. She meets the stern, lovely matron, already adept at the arts of a young lady's correction; the untamed Walter, who longs to become a lady; & the surly Miss Rummer, who keeps the local gentlemen on their toes. After a visit to the voluptuaries of Paris, she triumphs at a masked ball by introducing her peverse methods to royalty. ...

To Penelope Butler the family was all, the sole ambition of her adult life. Three of her four daughters, however, had different ideas. Rosemary rejected it; Jess was destroyed by it; Celia found it eluded her. Only Emily pursued her mother's ideal, with disastrous results. Penelope begins to record their family story as it unfolds. But when Rosemary discovers these private papers she is enraged by her mother's distortions of the truth & proceeds to tell the story from her perspective. From D-Day on into the turbulent post-war years, a picture emerges not only of a single family in all its complexities, but also of the changing world that shaped their lives. ...

The nation is stunned silent when presidential hopeful James Kilcannon is shot dead point blank, while sharing the stage at a benefit concert with his rock star girlfriend Stacy Tarrant. Fiercely independent attorney Tony Lord defends the assassin in a sensational trial that erupts in to the media event of the decade. But the most shocking gambit ever witnessed in the history of television has yet to unfold. As America watches, a mysterious & ruthless figure known only as Phoenix takes to the airwaves in the ultimate act of high-tech terror. Holding the wife of a wealthy newspaper mogul & Stacy's manager hostage, Phoenix mounts a televised trial of his own ...

Britain is to host the most bizarre TV game show ever, as hopeful submissive males enter a lottery to appear on ' Prize of Pain'. Public humiliation awaits, & attempts to cheat will be cruelly punished. Four men are unworthy & will fail in the ordeals that cruel mistress the Domina de Fouetta sets them: only one will win through to the ultimate prize. Who wants to enter the Mistress's Lair? ...

Britain is to host the most bizarre TV game show ever, as hopeful submissive males enter a lottery to appear on ' Prize of Pain'. Public humiliation awaits, & attempts to cheat will be cruelly punished. Four men are unworthy & will fail in the ordeals that cruel mistress the Domina de Fouetta sets them: only one will win through to the ultimate prize. Who wants to enter the Mistress's Lair? ...

Problem Solving 101 started out as a simple guide to teach Japanese schoolchildren critical thinking skills. But it quickly ...

Growing up in Venice in the 1930's, Niles O' Hara, the son of an expatriate writer, befriends a Venetian boy, Giangiacomo Gallieni. After the war, Niles & his family return, & he becomes involved in a kind of semi-affair with his childhood friend, who is now an adolescent with a wartime history of sexual trespass. Searching, comic, romantic, & ironic, Profane Friendship is a remarkable study of a strange, provocative, powerful relationship conducted in the matchlessly human-scaled, triumphantly beautiful setting of the world's most alluring city. ...

He's madly sane & cleverly dotty. Professor Branestawm is the craziest genius you'll ever meet & he's back with this bumper collection of hilarious adventures, zany inventions & mind-boggling experiments. So open up for a wacky collection of stories, riddles, puzzles, tricks & tips...

You'll never get the better of Professor Branestawn but now you can at least get the best!

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