How did Britain's power & influence decline? Seeking to answer this question, this book begins with the reign of Edward VII, when Great Britain commanded the mightiest empire in the world. It ends with the Coronation of Elizabeth II, when Britain emerged victorious from a world war, but ruined as a world power. ...

In 1980, at the age of ten, Loung Ung escaped a devastated Cambodia & flew to the US as a refugee. She & her eldest brother, with whom she escaped, left behind their three surviving siblings, & her book is alternately heart-wrenching & heart-warming, as it follows the parallel lives of Loung & her closest sister, Chou, during the 15 years it took for them to be reunited. Their two worlds were very different, & Loung's depiction of the contrast between her life in the affluent West & that of her sister, who navigated her way through landmine-strewn fields & survived raids by the Khmer Rouge, is laced with the guilt she feels about being the lucky one. This powerful story helps us to understand what happens when a family is torn apart by politics, adversity & war. It is also the compelling & inspirational tale of a remarkable woman.   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781845963088 •†Author:   Loung Ung  •†Publisher:   Mainstream Publishing •†Format:   Paperback •†Pages... ...

After a tumultuous beginning to their relationship, Tessa & Hardin were on the path to making things work. 

Tessa knew

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Just as Tessa makes the biggest decision of her life, everything changes. Revelations about first her family, & then Hardin’s,

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Lou Clark has a lot of questions. Like how she's ended up working in an airport bar. Why the flat she's owned for a year still doesn't feel like home. Whether her family can forgive her for what she did eighteen months ago. What Lou does know is that something has to change... Then, one night, it does. But does the stranger on her doorstep hold the answers Lou is searching for
- or just more questions? Close the door & life continues: simple, ordered, safe. Open it & she risks everything. But Lou once made a promise to live. & if she's going to keep it, she has to invite them in... Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781405959391 •†Author:†  Jojo Moyes •†Publisher:†  Penguin Books •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 411 •†Dimensions:†12.8 x 2.7 x 19.7 cm
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In AFTERLIVES OF THE RICH & FAMOUS, renowned psychic Sylvia Browne explains exactly what happens to our spirits when our bodies stop living. She describes what the Other Side is like, & how the celebrities that we have lost are coping in the world beyond. She begins with a brief biography of each celebrity, which helps lend important context to what is happening to them now in the afterlife. She then shares whatever information the celebrities care to discuss with her via her Spirit Guide Francine. Her insights include their regrets, their private thoughts, their role in the afterlife, details of who they visit on earth, & their plans for reincarnation if they have any. It is also fascinating to discover which celebrities strike up friendships & spend time together on the Other Side! Celebrities featured include: Elvis Presley, Princess Diana, Patrick Swayze, Anna Nicole Smith, Brittany Murphy, Heath Ledger, Marilyn Monroe, Paul Newman, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, George Harrison, Michael Jackson, John Lennon, Grace Kelly, Bob Marley & Audrey Hepburn. ...

In the bitter winter of 1946, Rachael Morgan arrives with her only remaining son Edmund in the ruins of Hamburg. Here she is reunited with her husband Lewis, a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city. But as they set off for their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an extraordinary decision. ...

In the winter of 2009, the author's marriage of ten years came to an end. In the months that followed, life as she had known it came apart, like a jigsaw dismantled into a heap of broken-edged pieces. This title chronicles this perilous journey as she redefines herself as a single woman & creates a new version of family life for her daughters. ...

Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble & more than half of the population are where they do not belong or do not want to be. How can a functioning society ever emerge from this chaos? In bombed-out Berlin, Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, journalist & member of the Nazi resistance, warms herself by a makeshift stove & records in her diary how a frenzy of expectation & industriousness grips the city. The Americans send Hans Habe, an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist & US army soldier, to the frontline of psychological warfare
- tasked with establishing a newspaper empire capable of remoulding the minds of the Germans. The philosopher Hannah Arendt returns to the country she fled to find a population gripped by a manic loquaciousness, but faces a deafening wall of silence at the mention of the Holocaust. Aftermath is a nuanced panorama of a nation undergoing monumental change. 1945 to 1955 was a raw, wild decade poised between two eras that proved deci...
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The Omagh bomb was the worst massacre in Northern Ireland's modern history
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