Tuesday's child is full of grace Pious young Grace Kettle escapes the world of her unsavoury & bullying father to train to be a nun Her faith is tested & she is driven to make a scandalous & life-changing choice
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For ten years Delia has had to fend for herself & her son Jack & as a young unmarried mother life has never been easy Every new coat & pair of shoes was bought with what little money she could scrape together as a singer on the stage But when the theatre work dries up Delia faces a dilemma continue the search for employment with no knowing whether she’ll find the stability & security her son needs or return to the place that should be home where only spite & hatred await them Desperate now a chance encounter suddenly presents a lifeline But Delia is faced with an impossible heart-wrenching choice Can she bear to leave Jack behind hoping another family will care for him? Will they ever be reunited? What else can a mother do to give her son the life he deserves? Val Wood&s wonderful historical sagas are perfect for readers of Dilly Court Maggie Hope & Rosie Goodwin ...

Will her courage be enough to protect her family? Eleanor Saint spends as much time as she can helping in the community of her small mining town even though her snobbish grandmother disapproves of her visiting the poor When she comes of age Eleanor is married to Frances Tait a missionary & she is delighted to have a husband who shares her passion for helping others It is not long before Eleanor starts a family of her own But when Mr Tait's work takes their family far from home her children face dangers that Eleanor could never have imagined She will need to put her family first before everything else if she wants to protect them A gripping saga from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Coal Miner's Daughter ...

On April 20 1999 Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado Over the course of minutes they would kill twelve students & a teacher & wound twenty-four others before taking their own lives For the last sixteen years Sue Klebold Dylan's mother has lived with the indescribable grief & shame of that day How could her child the promising young man she had loved & raised be responsible for such horror? & how as his mother had she not known something was wrong? Were there subtle signs she had missed? What if anything could she have done differently? These are questions that Klebold has grappled with every day since the Columbine tragedy In A Mother's Reckoning she chronicles with unflinching honesty her journey as a mother trying to come to terms with the incomprehensible In the hope that the insights & understanding she has gained may help other families recognize when a child is in distress she tells her story in full drawing upon her personal journals the videos & writings that Dylan left behind & on countless interviews with mental health experts Filled with hard-won wisdom & compassion A Mother's Reckoning is a powerful & haunting book that sheds light on one of the most pressing issues of our time & with fresh wounds from the recent Newtown & Charleston shootings never has the need for understanding been more urgent All author profits from the book will be donated to research & to charitable organizations focusing on mental health issues ...

Fiercely protective & unconditionally loving Mrs Jumbo cherishes her big-eared baby Dumbo Handcrafted & h&-painted in exquisite detail this resin figurine by Jim Shore makes a beautiful keepsake for Mother&s Day or as a new mum gift Packed in a branded gift box Unique variations should be expected as this product is hand painted Not a toy or children&s product Intended for adults Disney Traditions figurine Designed by Jim Shore Folk art inspired patterns with bold colours Each figurine is h&-painted Branded Gift box ...

Published posthumously in 1964 A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979 scholars have examined & debated the changes made to the text before publication Now this new special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author prepared it to be published Featuring a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway Ernest's sole surviving son & an introduction by the editor & grandson of the author Sean Hemingway this new edition also

Includes:: a number of unfinished never-before-published Paris sketches revealing experiences that Hemingway had with his son Jack & his first wife Hadley Also included are irreverent portraits of other luminaries such as F Scott Fitzgerald & Ford Madox Ford & insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft Sure to excite critics & readers alike the restored edition of A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I & the unbridled creativity & enthusiasm that Hemingway himself experienced In the world of letters it is a unique insight into a great literary generation by one of the best American writers of the twentieth century

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Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the twenties are deeply personal warmly affectionate & full of wit Looking back not only at his own much younger self but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him
- James Joyce Wyndham Lewis Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald
- he recalls the time when poor happy & writing in cafes he discovered his vocation Written during the last years of Hemingway's life his memoir is a lively & powerful reflection of his genius that scintillates with the romance of the city

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The most violent thunderstorm in living memory occurs above a sleepy village on the West Coast of Scotland A young couple take shelter in the woods never to be seen again DCI Jack Russell is brought in to investigate Nearing retirement he agrees to undertake one last case which he believes can be solved as a matter of routine But what Jack discovers in the forest leads him to the conclusion that he is following in the footsteps of a psychopath who is just getting started Jack is flung headlong into a race against time to prevent the evolution of a serial killer ...

A murder mystery in the finest tradition of English detective novels John le Carre's A Murder of Quality is an ingenious puzzle featuring his best-loved character George Smiley published in Penguin Modern Classics Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School firstly by being the wrong sort with her doilies & china ducks & secondly by being murdered George Smiley who has his own connection with the school is asked by an old Service friend to investigate Smiley knows that Stella feared her husband would murder her but as he probes further beneath Carne's respectable veneer he uncovers far more than a simple crime of passion In his second George Smiley novel le Carre moves outside the world of espionage to reveal the secrets at the heart of another particularly English institution The result is a pitch-perfect murder mystery with Smiley as master detective If you enjoyed A Murder of Quality you might like le Carre's Call for the Dead also available in Penguin Modern Classics' Beautifully intelligent satiric & witty' Daily Telegraph ...

When hordes of people descend on the picturesque village of Nasely for the annual celebration of its most famous resident murder mystery writer Agnes Crabbe events take a dark turn as the festival opens with a shocking death Each year the residents are outnumbered by crowds dressed as Crabbe's best-known character the lady detective Millicent Cutter The weekend is never a mild-mannered affair as fan club rivalries bubble below the surface but tensions reach new heights when a second Crabbe devotee is found murdered Though the police are quick to arrive on the scene the facts are tricky to ascertain as the witnesses suspects & victim are all dressed as Miss Cutter & they all want to solve that crime too ...