A funny, touching story about life changes, friendship & first love.

Josie has lived on her boat, Promise, her whole

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Bold & arrogant, Tom Brodie is an object of desire for every girl in Ayrshire
- & Betsy Mc Bride is no exception. But Tom has
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Miss Kate Daltry doesn't believe in fairy tales... Or happily ever after. After being forced by her stepmother to attend a ball, Kate meets a prince, with a clash of wits & wills ensuing. But they know their irresistible attraction will lead nowhere. For Gabriel is promised to another woman
- a princess whose hand in marriage will fulfil his ruthless ambitions. Gabriel, likes his fianc
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Dorothy meets a handsome young man with an eye for her inheritance while she is in her sophomore year. They are to be married & her life will be blissful; but Dorothy is pregnant & her fianc?'s plans are ruined, for Dorothy would be disinherited if her father discovered the truth. So the young man provides his bride to be with some pills that will solve the problem. Soon there will be no baby
- & perhaps no Dorothy either... A Kiss before Dying, Levin's first novel, earned him the 1954 Edgar Award for Best First Novel & is regarded as a modern classic.
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Hushabye, lullaby, sing you to sleep, Drift on the music that plays soft & deep.

Make bedtime a magical experience

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Details: This special edition of the original A Ladybird Book about Knitting will make learning to knit a pleasure. A
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From matches played on a village green to the high church splendour of Lord's, in A Last English Summer, multi-award-winning author Duncan Hamilton preserves the 2009 cricket season, a seminal, convulsive time in the sport's history. In prose by turns reflective & glorious, he remembers all we have lost whilst displaying an overwhelming love for the game that stands out on every page. ...

Tom Hanks, Geena Davis & Madonna star in this major-league comedy from the team that brought you Big. Hanks stars as Jimmy Dugan, a washed-up ball player whose big league days are over. Hired to coach in the All-American Girls Baseball League of 1943 - ...

Refreshes the parts other history books can't reach...A bit ropy on the Renaissance? In the dark about the Enlightenment? Or, in fact, do you need a revision course on the entire history of the world & want to read a witty, irreverent, definitely not boring romp through everything that has ever happened on planet earth
- from 15 billion years BC to the present day? Good. A Less Boring History of the World tells you everything you need to know from the Big Bang to Barack Obama, taking in the Byzantines, the Black Death, the Boston Tea Party, Bonaparte, & Bin Laden along the way. Each historical episode is boiled down to edible, bite size chunks so that you can finally piece together all the different bits of history
- & see how on earth we ended up in the mess we are today. Whipping through the chaotic journey of man, past ancient civilisations, the rise of empires, & the fall of bankers, A Less Boring History refreshes your memory & broadens your mind. &, if that's not enough, it will also make you laugh. A lot.

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She defied her parents & married for love...

Following her heart, Fifi moves with Dan to London where they rent a seedy

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