Bestselling saga author Anna Jacobs' novel of life in nineteenth century Lancashire & Australia' Catherine Cookson fans will cheer'
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The Brief Edition of A PEOPLE & A NATION offers a succinct & spirited narrative that tells the stories of all people in the United States The authors' attention to race & racial identity & their inclusion of everyday people & popular culture brings history to life engaging readers & encouraging them to imagine what life was really like in the past ...

The Russian Revolution may well be the most misunderstood event in modern history In this fast-paced introduction Neil Faulkner debunks the myths that continue to shroud it showing how a mass movement of millions organised in democratic assemblies mobilised for militant action & destroyed a regime of landlords profiteers & warmongers Faulkner rejects caricatures of Lenin & the Bolsheviks as authoritarian conspirators 'democratic-centralists' or the progenitors of Stalinist dictatorship; though short-lived the Revolution of October 1917 was an explosion of democracy & creativity Crushed by bloody counter-revolution its socialist vision was ultimately displaced by a monstrous form of bureaucratic state-capitalism Laced with first-hand testimony this history rescues the democratic essence of the revolution from its detractors & deniers offering a perfect primer for the modern reader Published in partnership with the Left Book Club ...

A People's History of Tottenham Hotspur is the story of how fans helped create the identity of a world-famous club & tells a story from a perspective rarely acknowledged Drawing on social history contemporary press reports & first-hand interviews with the fans themselves authors Martin Cloake & Alan Fisher trace the club's development from being the team of the suburbs & the rising south through the glory years & the arrival of mass popular culture & into the modern era of the game It is not a tale of trophies won & lost of players bought & sold Instead it is the story of how one of the game's oldest & most famous teams was formed & established by its fans & how its identity was created by them It evaluates how the fans' relationship with the club has evolved as the game has changed from those bygone days when a club was at the heart of a local community to the modern era where the world's leading football clubs have to compete as multinational 'brands' appealing to fans on a global scale stretching much further & wider than the north London footprint than the club's founders would have ever imagined ...

Unrivalled in scope & brimming with human drama A People's Tragedy is the most vivid moving & comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today A modern masterpiece' Andrew Marr The most moving account of the Russian Revolution since Doctor Zhivago' Independent Opening with a panorama of Russian society from the cloistered world of the Tsar to the brutal life of the peasants A People's Tragedy follows workers soldiers intellectuals & villagers as their world is consumed by revolution & then degenerates into violence & dictatorship Drawing on vast original research Figes conveys above all the shocking experience of the revolution for those who lived it while providing the clearest & most cogent account of how & why it unfolded Illustrated with over 100 photographs & now including a new introduction that reflects on the revolution's centennial legacy A People's Tragedy is a masterful & definitive record of one of the most important events in modern history ...

Tracklist The Package Weak & Powerless The Noose Blue Vanishing A Stranger Explicit The Outsider Crimes The Nurse Who Loved Me Pet Explicit Lullaby Gravity ...

A warm funny picture book about a group of animals & their (not so) perfect day in the garden from beloved author & illustrator Lane Smith Whether basking in the warmth of the sun nibbling on a fresh yellow corn-on-the-cob or cooling off in a clear pool of water it is a truly beautiful afternoon for all what could possibly go wrong? In this follow up to the beautiful There Is a Tribe of Kids Lane Smith's bright & fresh artwork combines with his sharp wit & enormously appealing characters to create a story full of playful chaos Inspired by Lane Smith's real life encounter with a marauding bear A Perfect Day is a perfect picture book for story time ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play 6 Strangers 2 Killers 1 Paradise Getting Away Can Be Murder Cliff & Cydney (Steve Zahn & Milla Jovovich) are an adventurous young couple celebrating their honeymoon by backpacking to one of the most beautiful & remote beaches in Hawaii Hiking the wild secluded trails they believe they&ve found paradise But when the pair come across a group of frightened hikers discussing the horrifying murder of another newlywed couple on the islands they begin to question whether they should turn back When they decide to join up with two other couples things begin to go terrifyingly wrong Far from civilization or rescue everyone begins to look like a threat & nobody knows who to trust Paradise becomes hell on earth as a brutal battle for survival begins Actors Timothy Olyphant Milla Jovovich Steve Zahn Marley Shelton Chris Hemsworth Kiele Sanchez Dale Dickey Wendy Braun Katie Chonacas Travis Willingham Tory Kittles Peter Navy Tuiasosopo Brian Tester & Mercedes Leggett Director David Twohy Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Languages English ...

& Tackles a difficult subject with a light touch to keep you turning the pages& VERONICA HENRYA perfect husband To their friends Lily & Freddy have a great marriage He taught her to love again after the death of her first husband But when Freddy becomes tense & distracted a life-changing truth is revealed A terrible shock Freddy has built up massive gambling debts that threaten to destroy not only his life but Lily&s as well Should she go forward
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In her second novel A Perfect Match Sinead Moriarty tells the story of Emma Hamilton who embarks on the path to adopting a baby when she & her husband can't conceive It manages to be both hilarious & incredibly moving is comparable to the writing of Marian Keyes in its ability to balancing of light & shade After two years of being deafened by the TICKTOCK of her biological clock & tormented by Mother Nature's refusal to grant her a baby Emma Hamilton decides to go for the instant solution finding a Russian baby in need of a home But Emma hasn't reckoned on the route to adoption being so complicated Between proving that she's fit to be a mother (by inventing an unblemished past & discovering an unsuspected talent for housekeeping) driving her long-suffering husband insane with madcap schemes to make them the perfect would-be parents (a few Russian verbs a night & they'll be fluent in no time) & tripping over red tape every step of the way (who knew social workers could be so terrifying?) Emma finds out that adoption is far from the easy option
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