Charlotte Drummond knows she has a duty to obey her father. Girls, especially well-bred upper-class ones, are expected to be submissive to the men in their lives. But Charlotte's father is a cruel man, viciously beating her & her brothers for the slightest reason. He even wants to marry her off, at just sixteen years old, to a man she does not love. Lion-hearted Charlotte wants to defy him
- but to protect her brothers from his fury she agrees to become the wife of Brooke Armstrong. Charlotte does not understand that Brooke adores her, & that he would never have forced his enchanting new wife to agree to the match. As they begin their ill-starred marriage, Brooke welcomes her brothers into his home & sets out to make her love him. & when Charlotte turns her back on her social duties to turn the Dower House into a home for Wakefield's fallen women his patience is tested to the limit. Only when tragedy strikes will she will be able to admit that she loved him from the moment they met. But will it be too late?
...

The flight of the R34 was one of the great feats of British aviation & it has been shamefully forgotten
- but there is a wealth
...

From an Archaeopteryx to a kingfisher & the Wright brothers' flying machine to an air-powered rocket, this book is packed with

...

This work presents a journey through a century of flight, capturing the spirit & excitement of aviation past & present, from the Wright brothers' first airborne attempts to the story behind the space race. Bone-jarring moments of flight with pioneers such as Orville Wright, Harriet Quimby & Roland Garros are presented, along with absorbing profiles of the key personalities & the planes they flew. Readers can follow the swift advances in aviation technology that took place with the onset of war, as supremacy in the skies became a crucial factor. Eyewitness accounts & images bring air reconnaissance, aerial bombing & spectacular dogfights to life. Adventurous fliers like Lindbergh & Earhart pushed the boundaries even further during the golden age of flight in the 1920s & 1930s. R.G. Grant describes how these trailblazers conquered transatlantic routes & paved the way for new luxury passenger jets. The book concludes with a glimpse into the future of flight: from anti-terrorist strategies to light aircraft, pilotless planes & space vacations. 30.4 x 26.2 x 4 cm, pages 452 ...

FLIGHTS, which was awarded Poland's biggest literary prize in 2008, is a novel about travel in the twenty-first century & human anatomy. Olga Tokarczuk perfectly interwtines travel narratives & reflections on travel with observations on the body & on life & death ...

Get ready to have lots of super-fast flinging fun with the Fling Football Game!


Includes::
• 10

...

Discover the gruesome armoury of medieval warfare! Learn how knights & foot soldiers used their integrity to lay siege to, & defend, entire towns inside massive castles.

Then build your own working siege engine, load up, take aim
- & catapult your way to victory.

This box set contains a kit to build your own working catapult & a 24 pages book.




...

Flipa Zoo brings you a NEW world of 2-in-1 mushy fun with 15" Flipa Zoo Mushmillows. They are Super SQUEEZABLE & ready for Double Flipping, Double Mushing FUN! Each fun-stuffed Flipa Zoo Mushmillows is 2 smiling, cuddly companions with big eyes offering two times the comfort at home or on-the-go! made from the most huggable, high-quality materials, the adorable Flipa Zoo Mushmillows have 4 cute characters to collect that magically transform from one animal to another & then easily flip back again. Product Information:  • 2 in 1 Character Plush • Reversible soft toy • Teddies • 4 to collect • Design: Emi Elephant to Jazzy Giraffe • Measures: 38cm    ...

Flipa Zoo brings you a NEW world of 2-in-1 mushy fun with 15" Flipa Zoo Mushmillows. They are Super SQUEEZABLE & ready for Double Flipping, Double Mushing FUN! Each fun-stuffed Flipa Zoo Mushmillows is 2 smiling, cuddly companions with big eyes offering two times the comfort at home or on-the-go! made from the most huggable, high-quality materials, the adorable Flipa Zoo Mushmillows have 4 cute characters to collect that magically transform from one animal to another & then easily flip back again. Product Information:  • 2 in 1 Character Plush • Reversible soft toy • Teddies • 4 to collect • Design: Lovey Unicorn to Aster Unicorn • Measures: 38cm    ...

Flipa Zoo brings you a NEW world of 2-in-1 mushy fun with 15" Flipa Zoo Mushmillows. They are Super SQUEEZABLE & ready for Double Flipping, Double Mushing FUN! Each fun-stuffed Flipa Zoo Mushmillows is 2 smiling, cuddly companions with big eyes offering two times the comfort at home or on-the-go! made from the most huggable, high-quality materials, the adorable Flipa Zoo Mushmillows have 4 cute characters to collect that magically transform from one animal to another & then easily flip back again. Product Information:  • 2 in 1 Character Plush • Reversible soft toy • Teddies • 4 to collect • Design: Polar Bear to Husky • Measures: 38cm    ...