A study of the Civil War, designed to fulfil the specifications in place for AS Level History from September 2000. It provides two sections featuring narrative & explanation of the topic. There are notes, biography boxes, definitions, summary boxes & practice questions. ...

American-born Sarah is visiting her grandmother in London in 1812, when America & Britain are on the brink of war. She meets Lord Wrenningham who proposes, but Sarah will not marry without love. Her furious Grandmama sends Sarah home to America, on the same ship as Wrenningham. Then war is declared
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This third novel in the Throne of Glass series, from global bestselling author Sarah J. Maas, is packed with more heart-stopping

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Hampshire, 1900. With the sudden death of her father, the life of fifteen-year-old Harriet Benson changes forever. Forced from

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Fame, fashion & scandal, the Trevellyan heiresses are the height of success. But when it comes to WEALTH: Jemima's indulgent lifestyle knows no limits; Tara's one purpose in life is to be financially independent of her family & husband; & Poppy wants to escape its trappings without losing the comfort their family money brings. ...

Love is an impossible mission... the enemy is everywhere in the pulse-pounding follow-up to international heist sensation, Thieves' Gambit.  Six months into working for the Gambit, Ross is reeling from the betrayals of the competition – focusing all her hatred on Devroe – the lover she thought she could trust. On a new heist that takes her across continents, Ross encounters a rival gang stopping her every move. Devroe's mother is at the heart of this dangerous feud & he must decide where his loyalties lie, before there are deadly consequences... Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398526747 • Author: Kayvion Lewis • Publisher: Simon & Schuster • Format: Paperback • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 2.2 cm ...

Helen Mirren has been an internationally ac-claimed actress -- & the recipient of many awards, transferring between stage, cinema & television -- for over 40 years. Known in her youth for a forthright style, a liberated attitude & a bohemian outlook, she has never ceased to be out of the public eye, with legions of admiring fans all over the world. This illustrated memoir is an account of an extraordinary talent, & a life well lived. Helen's aristocratic Russian grandfather, Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov, a military man, was sent to London by the Czar & found himself stranded & penniless by the Bolshevik revolution, cut off from the family estate near Smolensk. He brought with him a trunk of papers & photographs. This delightful memoir starts with the contents of the trunk, with evocative pictures of Helen's Russian antecedents. She has kept a rich seam of photo-graphs & memorabilia from her life, & her parents, family life, childhood, teenage & early years as an actress living in insalubrious flats are vividly documented. Helen's many distinguished roles in theatre, cinema & television & the illustrious men & women she has encountered are commemorated, as well as her forays into Hollywood & her sub-sequent life in the United States with her husb&, film director Taylor Hackford. Golden Globe & Oscar ceremonies make their appearance, as do many stunning images of Helen by the world's leading photographers. ...

Focusing on the 'real' Helen
- a flesh-&-blood aristocrat from the Greek Bronze Age
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An edited-together version of the two part mini-series of the classic tale inspired by Homer's ' Illiad', which featured exotic locales, an international cast, & state-of-the-art special effects. The world's most beautiful woman (and the 'face that launc ...

In 1941, aged 12, Helga Weiss, her mother & father were forced to say goodbye to their home, their relatives & all that they knew, & were interned in the Nazi concentration camp of Terezin. For the next three years, Helga documented her experiences there, & those of her friends & family, in a diary. This book deals with this diary. ...