Ginny is devastated by the death of her mother, her two little brothers & her sister
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Books Thriller Books You are invited to join The Maidens. A secretive set of the brightest, most captivating students. The group from which each victim will be chosen. The Maidens are Cambridge University's most exclusive society, whose members are selected by the charismatic professor of Greek tragedy, Edward Fosca. When one of the Maidens is murdered, grieving young therapist Mariana Andros is drawn back to the idyllic campus where she was once herself a student. Because beneath the university's ancient traditions & beauty is a web of secrets, jealousy & lies. & when the killer threatens the person she loves most, Mariana will give anything to stop them
- even her own life... Product Information: • ISBN: 9781409181682 • Author: Alex Michaelides • Publisher: W&N • Format: Paperback • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm  
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At the age of fifteen, Rose left the noise & squalor of Hoxton & started work as a live-in maid at a house in the West End. Despite the poverty of her childhood, nothing could have prepared her for the long hours, the backbreaking work & the harshness of this new world
- a world in which servants were treated as if they were less than human.
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Two films by multi-Oscar nominated director Billy Wilder. Wilder's films were known for having substance as well as mass appeal
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Lottie Brooks is BACK & she's as BRILLIANT as ever! At long last Lottie & Daniel are an official couple & everything seems to be going brilliantly (except for Amber being increasingly mean & jealous, but what's new there?). Meanwhile Toby's new year's resolution is to get a dog, & for once Lottie & him see eye to eye. Pot Noodle, the cockapoo, becomes the newest member of the Brooks family. He's VERY cute but also not toilet trained AT ALL. Lottie soon finds having a new boyfriend & a new dog means she has little time for anyone else, leaving her best friends pretty upset. How is Lottie meant to keep everybody happy & stop Pot Noodle from pooing on the carpet?! Product Information:  •†ISBN: 9780241647257 •†Author: Katie Kirby •†Publisher: Puffin •†Format:†Hardback •†Pages:†448 •†Dimensions: 16 x 4 x 22cm ...

In " The Making of Modern Britain", Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria & the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war & peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known & the episodes of peace among the most turbulent & surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster, the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question ' How should we live?' Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile, fads such as eugenics, vegetarianism & nudism were gripping the nation, while the popularity of the music hall soared. It was also a time that witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today & the beginnings of the welfare state. Beyond trenches, flappers & Spitfires, this is a story of strange cults & economic madness, of revolutionaries & heroic inventors, sexual experiments & raucous stage heroines. From organic food to drugs, nightclubs & celebrities to package holidays, crooked bankers to sleazy politicians, the echoes of today's Britain ring from almost every page. ...

Just as Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi completed the most successful cinematic trilogy of its generation, perhaps of all time, this splendid thirtieth-anniversary tribute concludes New York Times bestselling author J. W. Rinzler’s trio of breathtaking books celebrating George Lucas’s classic saga.
Once again, the author’s unprecedented access to the Lucasfilm Archives has yielded a mother lode of fascinating & often unexpected revelations from behind the scenes of a blockbuster in the making. Brimming with previously unpublished photos, concept artwork, script excerpts, storyboards, on-set interviews & present-day commentary, The Making of Return of the Jedi chronicles ‘how George Lucas & his crew of extroverted artists, misfits & expert craftspeople roused themselves to great heights for a third time’ to create the next unforgettable chapter in one of the most beloved stories in movie history. Get up close to the action & feel like a studio insider as:

* George Lucas, Oscar-nominated screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan & director Richard Marquand huddle in a script conference to debate the destinies of iconic Star Wars characters

* The artists & technicians at the ground-breaking Industrial Light & Magic facility surpass their own revolutionary innovations with boundary-pushing new visual effects

* A crack team of sculptors, puppeteers, actors & ‘monstermakers’ brings Jabba the Hutt & his unsavoury cohorts to startling, slobbering life

* Actors & crew race to the finish line at Elstree Studios, in a fiery desert & beneath the canopy of a dense redwood forest to provide answers to the questions that audiences had waited three years to find out: Is Darth Vader really Luke’s father? Who is the mysterious ‘other’? & who, or what, is the Emperor?

Star Wars luminaries from both sides of the camera, including Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse, Alec Guinness, director R










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For more than a century, we were restricted to studying evolution from the outside, observing its progress only through the fossil record. No longer. We can now also read the DNA record. As well as containing the operating instructions for everyday existence & for making the next generation, DNA contains a vast & detailed history of the three-billion-year development of life on Earth. It is a living chronicle of evolution, pinpointing the precise changes that have enabled Earth's marvelous creatures to inhabit the planet's shifting environments, from the freezing waters of the Antarctic to the lush canopy of the rainforest. Captivating & lucid, The Making of the Fittest delves deep into the DNA record to reveal not just how the fittest survive but also how they are made. ...

Lydia, Robyn & Dean don't know each other
- yet. They live very different lives but each of them, independently, has always
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Details: Rosie Goodwin's dramatic addition to Catherine Cookson's series. Each & every generation of the Mallen family
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