' Skylarking is a beautifully-written love letter to female friendship, full of the passion, envy & confusion of growing up & growing apart' -- Kate Riordan A spellbinding tale of friendship & desire, memory & truth, which questions what it is to remember & how tempting it can be to forget. ...

Hope & Constance Woodrow are orphans raised in the poverty of Sunderland's East End, dreaming of a family of their own. At 17, she meets Daniel fallow & they soon fall in love but Daniel's father, Abe, is determined to see his son marry well. Knowing Abe's plans the pair marry in secret & Hope discovers she is expecting twins & with the Depression worsening, tough decisions need to be made. As the years pass, Hope realises there are dark secrets in Abe's background that threatens them all. The outbreak of World War II sends Daniel to fight for his country & Hope's children are evacuated, but this turmoil pales compared to what Abe will bring down on his loved ones. Will Hope's family ever be together again under sunnier skies? This book has 450 pages & is 17.7cm x 11.2cm x 2.8cm. ...

Skyline City, Year 3000. Another urban colony on another nameless moon. The galaxy always needs more living space for the traders, the miners, the pilots, the farmers & the soldiers that ply the overdeveloped planets & the space lanes connecting them. The infrastructure has been built & the atmosphere is just about ready to accept citizens & their families. Now the only thing left to do is to build the city's skyscrapers! Game contents include: 1 Gameboard, 4 Plant boards, 2 Spaceport tiles, 2 Megamall tiles, 12 Greenspace tiles, 66 game cards, 90 floors, 20 curved Roofs, 20 pointed Roofs, 20 Billboards, 4 Score Markers & 1 Key marker. For 2-4 players, aged 10+. Game time is 60 minutes. Not suitable for children under the age of 3. ...

Until 2012 London did not have its own Empire State Building, but the completion of the Shard
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The Year 4 Teacher's Guide provides thorough guided reading support for every book, from book summary, objectives & text features, to introducing, reading, discussing & returning to the text, reading independently & follow up activities. It also provides advice on setting up guided reading groups & assessment. ...

Sometimes two people have to fall apart to realise how much they belong together.

Layken's father died suddenly,

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Set in London & Monmouth in the late 1700s, this is an extraordinary novel about Mary Saunders, the young daughter of a poor seamstress. Mary hungers greedily for fine clothes & ribbons, as people of her class do for food & warmth. It's a hunger that lures her into prostitution at the age of thirteen. Mary is thrown out by her distraught mother when she gets pregnant & almost dies on the dangerous streets of London. Her saviour is Doll
- a prostitute. Mary roams London freely with Doll, selling her body to all manner of 'cullies', dressed whorishly in colourful, gaudy dresses with a painted red smile. Faced with bad debts & threats upon her life she eventually flees to Monmouth, her mother's hometown, where she attempts to start a new life as a maid in Mrs Jones's house. But Mary soon discovers that she can't escape her past & just how dearly people like her pay for yearnings not fitting to their class in society...
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Embracing vivid literature, language, history, & personalities, this title covers sex in all its delightful variety, taking a light-hearted look at the biological mechanics, & drawing on the intimate true-life stories of sex-havers young & old, prof ...

Popular Texan high-school student Starla Grady (Jane Mc Gregor) gets more than she bargained for when she plays host to French exchange student Genevieve Le Plouff (Piper Perabo). It turns out that Genevieve is as treacherous as she is ambitious, & she so ...

Reggie Dunlop (Paul Newman) is the veteran player-coach of the Charleston Chiefs, a failing ice hockey team on the verge of being disbanded due to lack of support & finance. Dunlop's response to a long losing streak is to ask his players to throw the ru ...