The Poppy Girls is the first title in The Maitland Trilogy by bestselling author Margaret Dickinson Even amidst the horror of the trenches friendship will survive Thwarted in her desire to become a doctor like her brother Robert Pips Maitland rebels against her mother's wishes that she settle down & raise children However when Robert brings home a friend from medical school Giles Kendall it seems perhaps Pips might fall in love with an acceptable suitor after all But the year is 1914 & the future is uncertain Hearing that her father's friend Dr John Hazelwood is forming a flying ambulance corps to take to the front lines Pips is determined to become one of its nurses & asks Alice Dawson her maid to go with her Robert & Giles offer their services as doctors & Alice's brother William joins them as a stretcher bearer Nothing could have prepared them for the horrific sights they encounter Moving their unit close to the fighting to offer first aid as quickly as possible puts them all in constant danger But even amidst the barrage of shelling & gunfire the unending stream of injured being brought to their post the love between Pips & Giles survives & blossoms just like the poppies of Flanders fields ...

Winner of the Reddit Fantasy Award for Best Debut 2018 The best fantasy debut of 2018' WIRED A brilliantly imaginative epic fantasy debut inspired by the bloody history of China's twentieth century & filled with treachery & magic When Rin aced the Keju
- the test to find the most talented students in the Empire
- it was a shock to everyone to the test officials who couldn't believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin's guardians who had hoped to get rich by marrying her off; & to Rin herself who realized she was finally free from a life of servitude That she got into Sinegard
- the most elite military school in Nikan
- was even more surprising But surprises aren't always good Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard Fighting the prejudice of rival classmates Rin discovers that she possesses a lethal unearthly power
- an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of psychoactive substances & a seemingly insane teacher Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive
- & that mastering these powers could mean more than just surviving school For while the Nikara Empire is at peace the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea The Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War & only barely lost the continent in the Second & while most people calmly go about their lives a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away





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Damian Drooth the one-of-a-kind detective hero is back Criminals beware! A superstar singer Tiger Lilly is getting married to a footballer Who better to guard her fabulous wedding pressents than her number one fan the genius private eye Damian Drooth? Will Damian's amazing brain power & cunning plans be enough to track down some notorious crooks among the wedding guests & win Tiger Lilly's undying admiration? Packed with rib-tickling pictures from Tony Ross this is perfect for newly confident young readers of 6 & up! ...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Stoyo Petkanov the deposed Party leader of a former Soviet satellite country is on trial His adversary the prosecutor general stands for the new government's ideals & liberal certainties & is attempting to ensare Petkanov with the dictator's own totalitarian laws But Petkanov is not beaten yet He has been given his chance to fight back & he takes it with a vengeance to the increasing discomfort & surprise of those around him ...

The introduction of the Porsche 901 in 1963 marked a milestone in automotive history Although the name later had to be changed because Peugeot had patented having a 0 in the middle of car model numbers the 911 didn't let anything stand in the way of its becoming an iconic sports car This success story spans all the way from the 901 & the Carrera RS 27 (which with its characteristic rear spoiler-the so-called ducktail-was the fastest production car of its time) right up to the current generation of the 991 The famous automotive photographer Rene Staud whose The Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Book has also been published by te Neues showcases the most important models-all in his typically radiant & distinctive style ...

Beginning in the late 1940's American literature discovered a four-letter word & the word was beat Beat as in poverty & beatitude ecstasy & exile Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast & reckless as a V-8 Chevy It was the junk-sick surrealism of William Burroughs; the wild Whitmanesque poetry of Allen Ginsberg; & the lumberjack Zen of Gary Snyder The Portable Beat Reader collects the most significant writing of these & fellow members (and spiritual descendants) of the Beat Generation including Neal Cassady Gregory Corso Diane di Prima Bob Dylan Leroi Jones & Michael Mc Clure In poetry fiction essays song lyrics letters & memoirs it captures the triumphant rudeness energy & exhilaration of a movement that swept through American letters with hurricane force ...

The Portable Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings tales of fantasy terror death revenge murder & mystery including " The Pit & the Pendulum" " The Fall of the House of Usher" " The Cask of Amontillado" & " The Murders in the Rue Morgue" the world's first detective story In addition this volume offers letters articles criticism visionary poetry & a selection of random "opinions" on fancy & the imagination music & poetry intuition & sundry other topics ...

Philosopher John Dewey called Ralph Waldo Emerson the one citizen of the New World fit to have his name uttered in the same breath with that of Plato Through his writing & his own personal philosophy Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history & showed Americans how to be creators of their own contexts With his central text Nature he singlehandedly engendered an entire spiritual & intellectual movement in Transcendentalism Editor Jeffrey S Cramer has chosen texts like Nature & The American Scholar along with revelatory journal entries letters & poetry revealing a stirringly human writer ...

The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century also called the Age of Reason was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty & an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry & natural experience Enlightenment philosophers in Europe & America planted the seeds for modern liberalism cultural humanism science & technology & laissez-faire Capitalism This volume brings together works from this era with more than 100 selections from a range of sources It

Includes:: examples by Kant Diderot Voltaire Newton Rousseau Locke Franklin Jefferson Madison & Paine that demonstrate the pervasive impact of Enlightenment views on philosophy & epistemology as well as on political social & economic institutions

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A newly edited collection of the seminal writings & speeches of a legendary writer orator & civil rights leader The life of Frederick Douglass is nothing less than the history of America in the 19th century from slavery to reconstruction His influence was felt in the political sphere major social movements literary culture & even international affairs His resounding words tell not only his own remarkable story but also that of a burgeoning nation forced to reckon with its tremulous moral ground This compact volume offers a full course on a necessary historical figure giving voice once again to a man whose guiding words are needed now as urgently as ever The Portable Frederick Douglass

Includes:: the full range of Douglass's writings from autobiographical writings that span from his life as a slave child to his memories of slavery as an elder statesman in the late 1870s; his protest fiction (one of the first works of African American fiction); his brilliant oratory constituting the greatest speeches of the Civil War era which launched his political career; & his journalistic essays that range from cultural & political critique toart literature law history philosophy & reform

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