The bestselling & prize-winning study of one of the most legendary American Presidents in history Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin is the book that inspired Barack Obama in his presidency. When Barack Obama was asked which book he could not live without in the White House his answer was instant: " Team of Rivals". This monumental & brilliant work has given Obama the model for his presidency showing how Abraham Lincoln saved America by appointing his fiercest rival to key cabinet positions. As well as a thrilling piece of narrative history it's an inspiring study of one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen. "A wonderful book.. .a remarkable study in leadership". (Barack Obama). "A portrait of Lincoln as a virtuosic politician & managerial genius". (" The New York Times"). "I have not enjoyed a history book as much for years' Robert Harris Doris Kearns Goodwin is the doyenne of US presidential historians & one of the most acclaimed non-fiction authors in the world. Her works include " Lyndon Johnson & the American Dream" " The Fitzgeralds & the Kennedys: An American Saga" & No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt" for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995." ...

Team of Rivals" is a brilliant multi-million selling biography now the inspiration for a major Stephen Spielberg film starring Daniel Day-Lewis. "A wonderful book.. .a remarkable study in leadership". (Barack Obama). " The most uplifting book that I have read in the last two decades. Sensational". (Jon Snow). " Team of Rivals" shows how Abraham Lincoln saved Civil War-torn America by appointing his fiercest rivals to key cabinet positions. As well as a thrilling piece of narrative history it's an inspiring study of one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen. "I have not enjoyed a history book as much for years". (Robert Harris). "A brilliant book...I couldn't get enough of it". (Sir Alex Ferguson). "A fabulously engrossing exciting narrative in the grand old style.. .overflowing with colour & character". (Dominic Sandbrook). "A portrait of Lincoln as a virtuosic politician & managerial genius". (Michiko Kakutani " New York Times")." ...

Team Spirit is a gripping account of a race on the edge & a young skippers determined journey to victory. The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is the ultimate long distance challenge
- a 35 000-mile circumnavigation of the globe contested by amateur crews in identical racing yachts
- & the winners are those who keep their focus the longest. The 2010 winner was 28-year-old Brendan Hall & his crew in Spirit of Australia. Although Brendan was the youngest & least experienced skipper in the race the win was no accident
- it was the culmination of years of training skilled navigation & a leadership style way beyond his years. His leadership skills were soon put to the test
- in the middle of a North Pacific hurricane Brendan went to the rescue of an injured skipper on a competing yacht & skippered both boats across one of the most feared oceans in the world. Brendans brutally honest no-holds-barred account is revealing & instructive with valuable lessons in leadership & management
- as well as never giving up. Thrown in quite literally at the deep end he is pushed to the limit & learns lessons you can only learn the hard way.




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Welcome to Chestnut Hill the boarding school where every girls favourite subject is riding. When the riding team blames their coach Ms Carmichael for their poor performance Dylan starts a campaign to support her. But with all the whispers & secrets Dylan has no idea who is on her side
- & who is not... More titles available: THE NEW CLASS (9781407130750) MAKING STRIDES (978147130767) HEART OF GOLD (9781407130774) PLAYING FOR KEEPS (9781407130781) ALL OR NOTHING (9781407130804) CHASING DREAMS (9781407130811) & A TIME TO REMEMBER (9781407130828).
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The Team" series is suitable for use with both individuals or as a group tutor encouraging students to try ensemble playing from the very early stages. All of the books in the series are fully integrated allowing students using ' Team Strings' to play in ensembles with students using ' Team Woodwind' ' Team Brass' ' Team Percussion' & ' Team Recorder'. " Team Strings" is a flexible & adaptable course ideal for beginner violin players. The tutor can be tailored to suit the specific needs of each student. Each piece is carefully graded to ensure a logical progression at a sensible pace & students are introduced to a wide variety of musical styles throughout the book." Team Strings" has been specially written to support almost any combination of string instruments the teacher may encounter. Imaginative Piano Accompaniments have been provided as well as helpful notes & clear ensemble scores to aid the teacher. " Team Strings" also

Includes:: all of the scales for the relevant Grades set by the major examination boards. This volume comes complete with a CD of backing tracks designed to add a third dimension to practice sessions or performance when an accompanist is not available."

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A Tear in the Curtain is a historical novel. The story tells of three families British Hungarian & Russian whose lives are linked for fifty years during the Cold War & afterwards. Their experiences reflect the danger bravery heartbreak joy & sorrow of those days when Europe was divided by the Iron Curtain. Four eleven year-olds spend an idyllic seaside holiday in England in August 1956 just before the Suez crisis & the Hungarian Uprising intensify the Cold War. John Symons skilfully portrays how world events including the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 the Solidarity movement in Poland in the early 1980s the end of Communism in Eastern Europe in 1989 & in the Soviet Union in 1991 affected the lives of the four children & their families in their respective countries. The author draws on Russian documents not yet available in English to paint a picture of the Cold War in human terms & to show its origins in the rise of Lenin Hitler & Stalin & the Second World War. A Tear in the Curtain can be read with pleasure & interest by three generations. It is narrated in simple clear & fast-moving language that engages young people including those taking GCSE history. A fifteen year-old boy with dyslexia was absorbed by the story & read it twice in thirty six hours. He said how much it helped him to see the meaning of Hitler & the Second World War which he was studying for his exams. His mother loved the book's atmosphere & poetic sense of hope amid the fear & anxiety of the events described. & for an older generation A Tear in the Curtain expresses the meaning of all that shaped their lives after 1945. John Symons is a classical & modern historian with a passionate interest in Russia & the Soviet Union. He has travelled widely in Eastern Europe & Russia & has visited a former GULAG prison camp in Siberia. Described by a British Ambassador to Russia as 'an enthusiastic Russophile' his talks with people persecuted or imprisoned by the Gestapo or KGB give the book the ring of truth. He is the author of two biographies Stranger on the Shore & This Life of Grace. John Symons describes the tragedies that struck at the heart of a poor but devoted Cornish family. Humanity & the valour of the human spirit shine from every page.' This England reviewing Stranger on the Shore ' The writer is a consummate artist in style with a poet's eye for detail. The story is exceptionally vivid.. .expressing deep faith & perception of the meaning of life.. .' Professor C.F.D. Moule Cambridge on Stranger on the Shore. PROMOTION: This book will be reviewed in the local & national press. Ideal for giving GCSE & A level History students a taste of the human impact of the Cold War. ...

Each night in the hours between supper & bedtime the Tear Thief carries her waterproof silvery sack as she steals the tears of every child who cries. But what does she do with all those tears? This warm poignant & beautifully illustrated story offers a thought-provoking message & a starting point for sharing children's emotional responses. ...

Dean Williams was born into the tough Scartho area of Grimsby in 1972. His father was a violent hard-drinking trawlerman who spent most of the year at sea & his shore time drinking & fighting. Obsessed with making young Dean man up Bob beat him & locked him in a cupboard under the stairs for days on end. Deans mother Andrea did her best but was also terrorised by Bob Williams. From the age of seven Dean was known locally as the spike thrower for accidentally impaling the head of a young tormentor with part of a bicycle. The aftermath was a wayward teenage life expulsion from school & notoriety through football hooliganism. But there were also times when Deans childhood captured echoes of a simpler way of life playing out until dusk catching newts & nicking gobstoppers. This astonishing memoir although touched by darkness & violence is infused with the sharpest humour. It has the atmosphere of a David Peace novel colliding with a Shane Meadows film. Like a cutting-edge nouveau Dead Mans Shoes or a Somebody Up There Likes Me for the 21st Century it is an uncompromising account of a life lived on the margins & the power of the creative spirit. ...

THE NO.1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY introduced the world to the one & only Precious Ramotswe
- the engaging & sassy owner of Botswanas
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A talented songwriter Shawn Gallagher spends his days lost in reverie & wonder oblivious to the wiles of women & the ways of the world. He claims that hes content with his life but his music tells a different story
- one of loneliness & desperate longing. No one understands why Shawn doesnt put his musical gift to profitable use
- least of all Brenna OToole a fiercely independent tomboy who has been secretly in love with him for years. But it is only when Shawn gives into the mysteries of magic that he gets the chance to fulfill his destiny as a man & a musician.

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