The Secret Seven are ready to solve any mystery any time! This 3-in-1 collection contains books 4-6 in Enid Blyton's classic series of 15 novels perfect for young fans of mystery adventure or detective series Book 4 Secret Seven on the Trail (first published in 1952) Something mysterious is going on at Tigger's Barn & the Seven are intrigued When Jack overhears a strange conversation it's time for the Seven to leap into action Book 5 Go Ahead Secret Seven (first published in 1953) What exactly is the sinister-looking man up to & why does he want to get George into trouble? Will the Seven get to the bottom of the mystery before it's too late? Book 6 Good Work Secret Seven (first published in 1954)A car is stolen & Peter & Janet are the only witnesses But have the Seven got themselves too deep into a mystery that is beyond their powers to solve? This collection features the classic editions of three Secret Seven adventures & stunning original artwork from the 1950s ...

The stories in this Norton Critical Edition maintain the connection & sequencing that Joseph Conrad saw among them They are accompanied by explanatory annotations a note on the texts & a preface Also included are documents related to Conrad's sources for the stories To help readers navigate the editor

Includes:: a glossary of nautical terms as well as diagrams of the kinds of ships that appear in the stories

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Did she once have a sister? Has her mother lied all these years? Why? After a painful divorce Maisey Lazarow returns to Fairham the small island off the North Carolina coast where she grew up She goes there to heal-and to help her brother Keith a deeply troubled man who's asked her to come home But she refuses to stay in the family house The last person she wants to see is the wealthy controlling mother she escaped years ago Instead she finds herself living next door to someone else she'd prefer to avoid-Rafe Romero the wild reckless boy to whom she lost her virginity at sixteen He's back on the island & to her surprise he's raising a young daughter alone Maisey's still attracted to him but her heart's too broken to risk Then something even more disturbing happens She discovers a box of photographs that evoke distant memories of a little girl a child Keith remembers too Maisey believes the girl must've been their sister but their mother claims there was no sister Maisey's convinced that child existed So where is she now? ...

Don't miss DC's greatest villains of the 1970s all in one title
- & finally back in print! When the evil New God Darkseid schemes
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The Soviet Union 1956 after Stalin's death a violent regime is beginning to fracture Stalin's successor Khrushchev pledges reform But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget the past Leo Demidov former MGB officer is facing his own turmoil His adopted daughters have yet to forgive him for his part in the brutal murder of their parents They are not alone Leo his wife & their family are in grave danger from someone with a grudge Someone transformed beyond recognition into the perfect model of vengeance Leo's desperate mission to save his family will take him from the harsh Siberian Gulags to the depths of the criminal underworld to the centre of the Hungarian uprising
- & into a hell where redemption is as brittle as glass
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An alternative travel book about the author's quest to achieve his surfing dream before it's too late 304 pages Gately Iain ...

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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