Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction & Richard & Judy pick. From the author of the acclaimed ' Year of Wonders' & ' People of the Book', a historical novel & love story set during a time of catastrophe on the front lines of the American Civil War. Set during the American Civil War, ' March' tells the story of John March, known to us as the father away from his family of girls in ' Little Women', Louisa May Alcott's classic American novel. In Brooks's telling, March emerges as an abolitionist & idealistic chaplain on the front lines of a war that tests his faith in himself & in the Union cause when he learns that his side, too, is capable of barbarism & racism. As he recovers from a near-fatal illness in a Washington hospital, he must reassemble the shards of his shattered mind & body, & find a way to reconnect with a wife & daughters who have no idea of the ordeals he has been through. As Alcott drew on her real-life sisters in shaping the characters of her little women, so Brooks turned to the journals & letters of Bronson Alcott, Louisa May's father, an idealistic educator, animal rights exponent & abolitionist who was a friend & confidante of Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau. The story spans the vibrant intellectual world of Concord & the sensuous antebellum South, through to the first year of the Civil War as the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats. Like her bestselling ' Year of Wonders', ' March' follows an unconventional love story. It explores the passions between a man & a woman, the tenderness of parent & child, & the life-changing power of an ardently held belief. ...

Are you ready for the best adventure ever? Jamie & Tom have returned to the Cretaceous & discover a baby ankylosaurus who's stuck in the mud. The boys have to save the dinosaur before it's sucked under completely
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In this book Andrew Allott offers a complete natural history of the counties within Engl&. Including Cheshire, Shropshire & Herefordshire. He covers the history of the hills, fossils, ice ages, meres, mosses, forests, streams & rivers whilst he also focuses on man's impact on the region & the changing wildlife. ...

Between 1271 & 1275 Marco Polo accompanied his father & uncle on a journey along the fabled Silk Road to Central Asia. Reaching China & the court of the Great Khan, Polo travelled extensively through the lands of the Mongols for the next seventeen years. In 1925 the party set sail for home, calling at Sumatra, southern India & Persia along the way, before completing their journey overland to Venice. From the dazzling glories of 13th-century Venice to the haunting bleakness of the Asian steppe & the splendours of the court of Kublai Khan, acclaimed popular historian Laurence Bergreen offers us a thrilling & masterly reconstruction of Marco Polo's life & writings. This is narrative history at its most accomplished, by a writer at the height of his descriptive & story-telling powers. ...

Details: Experience all of Edinburgh's attractions with this up-to-date, authoritative guide, packed with Insider Tips.
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Pauper's Gold
- Hannah Francis has been forced to leave her beloved mother & the life she knows in the silk-mill town of Macclesfield
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Like most authors, Margaret Laurence's work drew on the community in which she lived, & the culture of the area informed the tone of her work. This biography of Margaret Laurence communicates about the decency & complexity of both the author & Canadian culture. It traces the spiritual core & growth of one of Canada's most powerful artists. ...

A biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century & one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era. Published after her death on 8 April 2013, it gives insight into her early life & formation, especially through her extensive correspondence with her sister. ...

A newly edited, single-volume commemorative edition of ? The Path to Power? & ? The Downing Street Years?; this is Margaret Thatcher in her own words. Margaret Thatcher was the towering figure of late-twentieth-century British politics. Now following her death in 2013, this is her own account of her remarkable life. Beginning with her upbringing in Grantham, she goes on to describe her entry into Parliament. Rising through the ranks of this mans world, she led the Conservative Party to victory in 1979, becoming Britain's first woman prime minister. Offering a riveting firsthand version of the critical moments of her premiership ? the Falklands War, the miners' strike, the Brighton bomb & her unprecedented three election victories, the book reaches a gripping climax with an hour-by-hour description of her dramatic final days in 10 Downing Street. Margaret Thatcher's frank & compelling autobiography stands as a powerful testament to her influential legacy. ...

Details: A newly edited, single-volume commemorative edition of ? The Path to Power? & ? The Downing Street Years?; this
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