Paddy Ashdowns autobiography was hailed as one of the most readable & exciting political life stories ever written of all
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This is a classic tale of the loves crimes & struggles confronted by one family of immigrants living in New York City. From the barren farms of Italy to the cramped tenements of New York Lucia Santa
- wife widow & mother of two families
- must steer them through the Depression & the early years of war as they adapt to life in a strange l&. However she cannot prevent the conflict between Italian & American values
- nor the violence & bloodshed which must surely follow...


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Step into the world of the mega-rich...and the mega-bitches. Three girls. One life-changing fortune... Madison is so over New York. Her mom won't let her have botox & she can't leave the city because her step-father is sick. Snoresville. So when she gets a mysterious invitation to a private party in Capri held by billionaire music mogul Brad Masters she's determined to go. Simonetta wants her mamma off her back. Of course she's not going to give up modelling in Rome to go back to her fusty little village. When she gets her invitation she sees the chance to lose her roots forever. Sapphire just wants to write songs & hang out in the London record shop where she works. When she's invited to Brad's party she doesn't even want to go
- but her mum seems strangely excited about it. Madison Simonetta & Sapphire: three girls from different worlds who are about to find out they have more in common than they think.
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The seventh gripping adventure in this exciting pony-club series. With gymkhanas to win rivals to defeat mysteries to solve & ponies in danger to save
- these books are perfect for all girls who love ponies. Issie & friends are surprised when Natasha Tucker's dad is made pony club president & unveils the Tucker Trophy competition. Issie's facing her biggest training challenge yet
- Fortune a dozy piebald Blackthorn Pony she must work into winning form. That is if she can keep him awake! Meanwhile someone is doing their best to wreck relations between the riders & a nearby golf course... Could Pony Club itself be under threat?

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He thought he could see in a flash the future of the Rougon-Macquart family a pack of wild satiated appetites in the midst of a blaze of gold & blood. Set in the fictitious Provencal town of Plassans The Fortune of the Rougons tells the story of Silvere & Miette two idealistic young supporters of the republican resistance to Louis-Napoleon Bonapartes coup detat in December 1851. They join the woodcutters & peasants of the Var to seize control of Plassans opposed by the Bonapartist loyalists led by Silveres uncle Pierre Rougon. Meanwhile the foundations of the Rougon family & its illegitimate Macquart branch are being laid in the brutal beginnings of the Imperial regime. The Fortune of the Rougons is the first in Zolas famous Rougon-Macquart series of novels. In it we learn how the two branches of the family came about & the origins of the hereditary weaknesses passed down the generations. Murder treachery & greed are the keynotes & just as the Empire was established through violence the fortune of the Rougons is paid for in blood. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

Fortunes Cinderella A waitress with a heart-breaking past Christina Hastings knew better than to believe in fairy tales. Shed found safety even passion in vice-president Scott Fortunes strong arms but happy endings just didnt happen to a girl like her
- especially with a man like Scott. Yet she was finding it harder & harder to resist the gentlemans many charms... Fortunes Valentine Bride Neighbours & long-time friends Katie Wallace & boss Blake Fortune made a great team. Katie dreamed theyd someday be more... Spurred on by last months life-altering tornado Blake had decided it was time for him to marry
- somebody else! The spunky secretary had to find a way to change his mind fast...

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Set 100 years ago in Boston Fortunes Rocks is a classic of literary & romantic storytelling. Fourteen-year-old Olympic Biddeford is spending the summer with her parents at their seasonal house at Fortunes Rocks. Her father handles her education himself & is in fact a publisher of mildly liberal literature. One author he admires who also practises as a physician comes to visit the house. 40 years old married with four children he still embarks on an affair with the adolescent girl. They have a swift passionate summer torn apart when they are discovered together during Olympics fifteenth birthday party. She is taken back to Boston her parents are mortified & remove themselves from society. When Olympic is delivered of a baby boy nine months later he is taken from her & she finds herself in exile at a ladies college & then as a governess. She decides she must get her child back which means returning to Fortunes Rocks... This sensuality of a girls rite of passage the descriptions of landscape weather music & light are vintage Shreve & her seventh novel will thrill her many admirers. ...

Fortunes Unexpected Groom Jordana Fortune never expected to be expecting after her impulsive encounter with gorgeous pilot Tanner Redmond. But when Tanner found out he ran straight to her door demanding matrimony. Yet his blushing bride was hesitating
- holding out for the one thing Tanner believes he cant give... Fortunes Perfect Match Emily Fortune had given up on finding Mr Right...when she met airport manager Max Allen. But after hed lost baby Anthony he was heartbroken. & now hes fallen for a woman intent on having a baby. Is Max headed for another heartbreak? Or will Emily be the one to finally make him whole?
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This is the most authoritative & readable account to date of just how British Columbia became British & how Oregon Washington & Alaska became American. By the closing years of the 18th century the stage was set for a major international confrontation over the Northwest Coast. Imperial Russia was firmly established in Alaska Spain was extending its trade routes north from Mexico Captain James Cook had claimed Northwest America for England & Captain Robert Gray had claimed the Columbia River region for the United States. Open warfare between Spain & England was narrowly averted during the Nootka Sound Controversy of 1789-1794 & again between Britain & the US in the War of 1812 when a British warship seized American property in Oregon. In Fortune's a River" noted historian Barry Gough re-examines this Imperial struggle for possession of the future British Columbia & fully evokes its peculiar drama. It turned out the great powers were reluctant conquerors in this area. Russia & Spain withdrew of their own accord. Britain was in a position to dominate but couldn't be bothered. The US vaguely wished to fulfill its manifest destiny by securing the Northwest Coast but it was not a priority. In the end the battle was carried on by private enterprise & individuals of vision. Alexander Mackenzie established an overland route to the coast & with his partners Simon Fraser & David Thompson set up a network of fur trading forts south to Oregon. US president Thomas Jefferson countered by sending out the Lewis & Clark expedition to strengthen American claims & an American entrepreneur John Jacob Astor established a lonely US outpost at Astoria. Gough examines each of the players in this territorial drama bringing them fully to life & vividly recounting their hardships & struggles. This is a major historical work that reads like a wild west adventure." ...

Warned by a fortune-teller not to risk flying the author
- a seasoned correspondent
- took to travelling by rail road & sea.

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