The Stolen Marriage is a compelling novel from Diane Chamberlain the bestselling author of The Silent Sister Pretending to Dance & The Midwife's Confession In 1944 twenty-three-year-old Tess De Mello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger & moves to Hickory North Carolina Hickory is a small town struggling with racial tension & the hardships imposed by World War II Tess's new husband Henry Kraft is a secretive man who often stays out all night hides money from his new wife & shows no interest in making love Tess quickly realizes she's trapped in a strange & loveless marriage with no way out The people of Hickory love & respect Henry & see Tess as an outsider treating her with suspicion & disdain especially after one of the town's prominent citizens dies in a terrible accident & Tess is blamed for the death Tess suspects people are talking about her plotting behind her back & following her as she walks around town What does everyone know about Henry that she does not? Feeling alone & adrift in a hostile town Tess turns to the one person who seems to understand her
- a local medium who gives her hope but seems to know more than he's letting on When a sudden polio epidemic strikes the town taking the lives of some of its children including a boy well known to the Kraft family the townspeople band together to build a polio hospital in less than three days Tess who has a nursing degree bucks Henry's wishes & begins to work at the hospital finding meaning in nursing the young victims Yet at home Henry's actions grow more baffling & alarming by the day As Tess works to save the lives of her patients can she untangle her husband's mysterious behavior & save her own life?
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The Stolen Marriage is a compelling novel from Diane Chamberlain the bestselling author of The Silent Sister Pretending to Dance & The Midwife's Confession In 1944 twenty-three-year-old Tess De Mello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger & moves to Hickory North Carolina Hickory is a small town struggling with racial tension & the hardships imposed by World War II Tess's new husband Henry Kraft is a secretive man who often stays out all night hides money from his new wife & shows no interest in making love Tess quickly realizes she's trapped in a strange & loveless marriage with no way out The people of Hickory love & respect Henry & see Tess as an outsider treating her with suspicion & disdain especially after one of the town's prominent citizens dies in a terrible accident & Tess is blamed for the death Tess suspects people are talking about her plotting behind her back & following her as she walks around town What does everyone know about Henry that she does not? Feeling alone & adrift in a hostile town Tess turns to the one person who seems to understand her
- a local medium who gives her hope but seems to know more than he's letting on When a sudden polio epidemic strikes the town taking the lives of some of its children including a boy well known to the Kraft family the townspeople band together to build a polio hospital in less than three days Tess who has a nursing degree bucks Henry's wishes & begins to work at the hospital finding meaning in nursing the young victims Yet at home Henry's actions grow more baffling & alarming by the day As Tess works to save the lives of her patients can she untangle her husband's mysterious behavior & save her own life?
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'PALE TERROR GOES BEFORE HIM DEATH & DEVASTATION FOLLOW!' From the father of American literature four sparkling comic tales of extraordinary animals & parables subverted One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946 Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range & diversity with works from around the world & across the centuries
- including fables decadence heartbreak tall tales satire ghosts battles & elephants
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Marcia Williams brings the Stone Age to life in her much-loved comic strip style Join Marcia Williams on a journey to the Stone Age Meet the people of Clan Woolly as they hunt mammoths & reindeer learn how to make fire invent stone tools & turn wild wolves into tame dogs! Full of facts jokes & colourful comic strips this is the perfect introduction to the Stone Age
- a time before history was even invented!
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Marcia Williams brings the Stone Age to life in her much-loved comic strip style Join Marcia Williams on a journey to the Stone Age Meet the people of Clan Woolly as they hunt mammoths & reindeer learn how to make fire invent stone tools & turn wild wolves into tame dogs! Full of facts jokes & colourful comic strips this is the perfect introduction to the Stone Age
- a time before history was even invented!
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A poor stone cutter who wished he was a rich man has his wish granted He then keeps changing his wish & each wish is granted Finally he wishes himself back as he was at the start of the story Turquoise Band 7 books offer literay language & extended descriptions with longer sentences & a wide range of unfamiliar terms Text type
- A story from another culture (Japan) The flowcharts on pages 22 & 23 illustrate the story in sequence providing opportunities for speaking & listening & scaffolding writing Curriculum links
- Citizenship Choices; Music Exploring sounds This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery

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The Stone Gods is one of Jeanette Winterson's most imaginative novels -- an interplanetary love story; a traveller's tale; a hymn to the beauty of the world On the airwaves all the talk is of the new blue planet
- pristine & habitable like our own 65 million years ago before we took it to the edge of destruction & off the air Billie & Spike are falling in love What will happen when their story combines with the world's story as they whirl towards Planet Blue into the future? Will they
- & we
- ever find a safe landing place?


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Limited vinyl LP repressing of the Manchester band's legendary 1989 debut album Produced by John Leckie this self-titled platter was released in the right place & at the right time becoming one of the cornerstone albums of the late '80s Madchester & Britpop movements

Includes:: 'I Wanna Be Adored' ' She Bangs the Drums' ' Made of Stone' & many more Tracklist A1I Wanna Be Adored A2 She Bangs The Drums A3 Waterfall A4 Don't Stop A5 Bye Bye Bad Man B1 Elizabeth My Dear B2 (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister B3 Made Of Stone B4 Shoot You Down B5 This Is The One B6I Am The Resurrection

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Tracklist Side AI Wanna Be Adored She Bangs The Drums Ten Storey Love Song Waterfall Side BMade Of Stone Love Spreads What The World Is Waiting For Sally Cinnamon Side CFools Gold Begging You Elephant Stone Side DBreaking Into Heaven One Love This Is The One I Am The Resurrection Format
- 2 &215; Vinyl LP Compilation Reissue Remastered Gatefold Sleeve Country
- Europe Released
- 2016


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1 So Young 2 Tell Me 3 Sally Cinnamon 4 Here It Comes 5 All Across The Sands 6 Elephant Stone 7 Full Fathom Five 8 The Hardest Thing In The World 9 made from Stone 10 Going Down 11 She Bangs The Drums 12 Mersey Paradise 13 Standing Here 14 I Wanna Be Adored 15 Waterfall 16 I Am The Resurrection 17 Where Angels Play 18 Fools Gold 19 What The World Is Waiting For 20 Something Burning 21 One Love ...