I will teach them literature poetry culture I will teach them The Waste Land! I will be the Best Teacher Who Has Ever Lived! Or so The Secret Teacher thinks On his first day at an inner-city state school he gets nuked The class he is made to cut his teeth on are an unruly mob stuffed with behavioural issues There is Milosz who is put in detention for committing the sin of Onan with a Pritt Stick Kieran the class rebel Donnie a hard-working kid desperate for approval Mercedes a volatile rude girland Salim who loves Bollywood & the number 5 Somehow The Secret Teacher needs to enthuse this lot with a love of books Or at least keep them sitting at their desks until the end of the lesson & then he's got to deal with the Observations marking standardisations book checks OFSTED Educational Consultants spreadsheets personal statements school trips strikes class race love death birth manhood dry cleaning the end of literary culture the end of the Old World the whole shebang In this vivid account of his first few years in the classroom The Secret Teacher grapples with the complicated questions of how to teach how we learn
- & how little he actually knows He celebrates the world's greatest stories the extraordinary teachers he has worked with & the kids bolshy bright funny & absolutely electric The result is a book brimful of wit insight & tenderness
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The Secretis an international phenomenon that has inspired millions of people to live extraordinary lives The Secret to Teen Powermakes that material accessible & relevant for today's over programmed stressed-out teens It explains how the law of attraction can help teens navigate their friendships relationships schoolwork money & even more global issues like politics & the environment It all happens through the basic principles outlined in The Secret to Teen Powerthat will bring happiness & fulfilment for all who embrace it ...

Espionage & counter-espionage between the Soviets & the British during London's Roaring Twenties At the height of the hedonistic Jazz Age many in British society became convinced that they were under attack from the new Soviet state Still reeling from the Russian revolution of 1917 disturbed by the development of militant workers movements at home & deeply paranoid about the recent wave of Russian immigration to the UK the British government tasked the intelligence services to look for evidence of espionage Over the next decade as the political pressure mounted the spooks began to cast their net of suspicion wider to include not only suspect Russians but British aristocrats Bloomsbury artists ordinary workers & even members of parliament It was the biggest spying operation in British Intelligence's peacetime history to date undertaken with enthusiastic support from anti-Red crusaders like Winston Churchill & its ramifications were profound On the strength of the evidence uncovered Britain deported hundreds of Russians & broke off diplomatic links with Moscow for more than two years This was the first Cold War & it not only set the rules of engagement for Russia & Britain for decades to come but also sent shockwaves through the British establishment bringing down a government & ending careers Drawing on a wealth of recently declassified & previously unseen material Timothy Phillips uncovers a world of suspicion & extremism bureaucracy & betrayal set against the sparkling backdrop of cocktail-era London The Secret Twenties shines fresh light on a glamorous decade & offers a gripping account of the lives of the first Soviet spies the British Secret Services that pursued them & the double agents in their midst ...

A brilliantly original & dazzling novel for younger readers from the author of THE EVERYTHING MACHINE Coffin-stealing boat-burning telling lies
- Carla's crazy plan

Includes:: them all Her Grandpa's written her a letter telling her his secret dream she's going to make it come true she's going to give him a real Viking funeral


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As gripping as any spy thriller Hastings's achievement is especially impressive for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times Authoritative exciting & notably well written' Daily Telegraph A serious work of rigourous & comprehensive history royally entertaining & readable' Mail on Sunday In The Secret War' Max Hastings presents a worldwide cast of characters & extraordinary sagas of intelligence & Resistance to create a new perspective on the greatest conflict in history The book links tales of high courage ashore at sea & in the air to the work of the brilliant boffins' battling the enemy's technology Here are not only the unheralded codebreaking geniuses of Bletchley Park but also their German counterparts who achieved their own triumphs & the fabulous espionage networks created & so often spurned by the Soviet Union With its stories of high policy & human drama the book has been acclaimed as the best history of the secret war ever written SPECIFICATIONS testing NULL ...

The USA Today bestseller A cleverly crafted novel & an enthralling story A triumph' DINAH JEFFERIES A Russian grand duchess & an English journalist Linked by one of the world's greatest mysteries Love Guilt Heartbreak 1914 Russia is on the brink of collapse & the Romanov family faces a terrifyingly uncertain future Grand Duchess Tatiana has fallen in love with cavalry officer Dmitri but events take a catastrophic turn placing their romance
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- in danger 2016 Kitty Fisher escapes to her great-grandfather's remote cabin in America after a devastating revelation makes her flee London There on the shores of Lake Akanabee she discovers the spectacular jewelled pendant that will lead her to a long-buried family secret Haunting moving & beautifully written The Secret Wife effortlessly crosses centuries as past merges with present in an unforgettable story of love loss & resilience Perfect for fans of Kate Morton & Dinah Jefferies

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From New York Times best-seller & science fiction & fantasy mistress of adventure Mercedes Lackey Book 5 in the pulse-pounding SECRET WORLD saga of modern-day humans with superpowers Ultima Thule has been destroyed—but somehow the Thulians mounted an even bigger force to destroy Metis The Metisians that escaped the carnage & destruction of their secret city now must somehow find somewhere safe to go—without getting snapped up by various world governments & now the Thulians have changed their tactics to “blitz guerilla warfar” sending wave after wave of their ships & troops to attack vulnerable targets all over Earth with no clue for ECHO as to where these things are coming from John Murdock & The Seraphym have become a force of nature but they can’t be everywhere at once & if they were regarded with suspicion before now they are regarded by ECHO’s allies with fear as well You could say “things can’t get worse” You would be wrong Red Djinni’s past is about to catch up with him So is Victoria Victrix’s The heroes of ECHO & CCCP have to save the world But first they have to save each other & the avalanche has begun About the Author Mercedes Lackey is the New York Times best-selling author of the Bardic Voices series & the Serrated Edge series (both Baen) the Heralds of Valdemar series & many more She&s the coauthor of the contemporary meta-hero SF series The Secret World Chronicle Among her popular Baen titles are The Fire Rose The Lark & the Wren & also The Shadow of the Lion & Burdens of the Dead with Eric Flint & Dave Freer She lives in Oklahoma Cody Martin is a coauthor with Mercedes Lackey of three other books in the metahero saga The Secret World Chronicle including entries Invasion World Divided Revolution & Collision He is an avid gamer but spends his extra time chained to a computer writing Originally from Scottsdale Arizona he currently resides in Florida Dennis Lee was born in Seoul Korea & grew up in Canada He has a degree in pharmacology & is a cell biologist when not writing Veronica Giguere started off as the voice artist for the Secret World Chronicle podcasts then quickly proved her writing chops & was taken on as a series coauthor Veronica remains active as a voice talent An educator with a background in mathematics & ocean engineering she has lent her voice to various research & campus promotional endeavors She makes her home in Florida ...

London 1883 All is quiet at 125 Gower Street Sidney Grice is swotting up on the anatomical structure of human hair whilst his ward March Middleton sneaks upstairs for her eighth secret cigarette of the day The household is perhaps too quiet So when a beautiful young woman turns up at the door imploring London's foremost personal detective to solve the mystery of her father's murder Grice can barely disguise his glee Mr Nathan Garstang was found slaughtered in his bed but there is no trace of a weapon or intruder A classic locked-room case But what piques Grice's interest is the crime's link to one of London's most notorious unsolved murders ...

The Secrets of Happiness is an extraordinary tale of sisterhood from Lucy Diamond author of The Beach Cafe The best things in life can be just around the corner Rachel & Becca aren't real sisters or so they say They are stepsisters living far apart with little in common Rachel is the successful one happily married with three children & a big house plus an impressive career Artistic Becca meanwhile lurches from one dead-end job to another shares a titchy flat & has given up on love The two of them have lost touch but when Rachel doesn't come home one night Becca is called in to help Once there she quickly realizes that her stepsister's life is not so perfect after all Rachel's handsome husbandhas moved out her children are rebelling & her glamorous career has taken a nosedive Worst of all nobody seems to have a clue where she might be As Becca begins to untangle Rachel's secrets she is forced to confront some uncomfortable truths about her own life & the future seems uncertain But sometimes happiness can be found in the most unexpected places ...

Why was this amazing monument erected? How did our Stone-Age ancestors bring such massive stones to the site from so far away? How did they raise the enormous stones to their upright positions? What was Stonehenge used for & who lived around the site? This is the incredible true story of this awe-inspiring monument
- one of the greatest ancient sites in the world & a World Heritage Site This fascinating picture information book provides all the facts about the most important prehistoric monument in Britain
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