When Rose Browns husband is killed at Dunkirk in 1940 she feels as though shes lost a part of herself. Rose cant imagine the future without Ray but shes certain he would have wanted her to start again. She decides to volunteer as a postwoman in West London & when she courageously rescues a young boy from a bombed-out house & takes him home she finds a new sense of purpose. Traumatised from losing his mother in the ruins seven-year-old Alfie is also rebellious & withdrawn. However he touches the hearts of Roses family & with kindness patience & love they eventually win his trust. But then a handsome stranger Johnny Beech turns up on the doorstep looking for his son & everything changes... ...

An amusing & erudite account of Harry Bucknalls 183-day journey through the Greek islands from Venice in the West to Istanbul in the East In the summer of 2006 Harry Bucknall traveled from Venice to Istanbul--a journey across the Aegean of more than 5 500 miles that included the glories of Mount Athos 36 islands & every island chain in the Greek Archipelago. It also involved 57 sea passages on 35 ferries four landing craft three hydrofoils a fishing caique a sea plane 11 buses two trains an open-top Land Rover & a duck egg blue 1961 Morris Oxford. Recounted with humor pathos & at times drama this is not only a journey through the Greek islands but also a journey through Greek history mythology custom & folklore--a Greek island companion loaded with adventure mishap & laughter offering a contemporary image of Aegean life today. ...

Hunting a sadistic killer who targets young prostitutes Detective Dave Robicheaux has no mind to be sidetracked into persuading ex-schoolmate mobster Julie Baby Feet Balboni to leave town. & it turns out that Balboni is the money behind a Civil War movie thats bringing in good business. But then the film crew stumble on a skeleton out in the bayou & the links between a thirty-year-old lynching a Civil War general Balboni & the serial killer lead Dave into treacherous waters with only a handful of unexpected allies to help him protect his own. ...

Darrell & her friends grow together as they share their school days. There are new students to induct sporting matches to be won tempers to control & tricks to play on teachers. This work presents stories about life at boarding school as readers follow the girls' lives through 6 years at Malory Towers. ...

The Fifth Form is putting on a pantomime & Darrells writing it! But Cinderella doesnt always go smoothly. Which girl will get to play the lead? & who on earth is writing the producer anonymous letters?n New girl Amanda doesnt really fit in at Malory Towers. Shes headstrong & arrogant
- but is fantastic at games! Amandas destined to swim for the Olympic team
- but will she make it?

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Richard Holmess insightful new biography of one of Britains greatest leaders is both a study in character & the story of an extraordinary career. Much has been written about Churchills role as British prime minister during the crisis years of the Second World War but in this book Holmes uses new material to investigate the influences that shaped the man: his troubled schooldays his flamboyant politician father Randolph & his famously attractive American mother Jennie. Holmes argues that the qualities that made Churchill great also led him to commit catastrophic blunders. The same recklessness that made him a hero when he was a young correspondent during the Boer War arguably cost thousands of Allied lives during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 & may also have contributed to the fall of Singapore in 1942. In the Footsteps of Churchill" takes us on an exhilarating journey through Harrow School the North-West Frontier the Sudan South Africa 10 Downing Street & his beloved Chartwell; a journey that begins in the aristocratic splendour of Blenheim Palace & ends in the quiet of a country churchyard not far away the compass of an extraordinary life in a few Oxfordshire acres. Richard Holmes provides a truly fresh interpretation of the great man Holmess mature & wise portrait is studded with facts about the period & episodes in Churchills life that amuse engage & entice. The authors eye for the telling detail as well as his deep immersion in all the relevant archives raises this book far above the common ruck of Churchilliana. Andrew Roberts. This supremely skilful military historian achieves a freshness of approach that makes Churchill hard to put down. Max Hastings " Mail on Sunday"." ...

Its Berlin 1933. William E. Dodd a mild-mannered academic from Chicago has to his own & everyone elses surprise become Americas first ambassador to Hitlers Germany in a year that proves to be a turning point in history. Dodd & his family notably his vivacious daughter Martha observe at first-hand the many changes
- some subtle some disturbing & some horrifically violent
- that signal Hitlers consolidation of power. Dodd has little choice but to associate with key figures in the Nazi party his increasingly concerned cables make little impact on an indifferent U.S. State Department while Martha is drawn to the Nazis & their vision of a New Germany & has a succession of affairs with senior party players including first chief of the Gestapo Rudolf Diels. But as the year darkens Dodd & his daughter find their lives transformed & any last illusion they might have about Hitler are shattered by the violence of the Night of the Long Knives in the summer of 1934 that established him as supreme dictator. Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the times & with brilliant portraits of Hitler Goebbels Goering & Himmler amongst others Erik Larsons new book sheds unique light on events as they unfold resulting in an unforgettable addictively readable work of narrative history.

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With profound messages of overcoming adversity & the power of self Dodinsky is beloved by his 150 000 dedicated followers across the world. (In fact--one set of foreign rights are already sold!) Not only is his fanbase widespread but they are deeply affected by his powerful words on a personal level--fans constantly share their struggles their triumphs & thank Dodinsky for changing their lives. Paired with the breathtaking art of Amanda Cass this delightful book reflects the peace of the soul & wonder of life. ...

In the past two decades a new breed of historians anthropologists & archaeologist have uncovered a fuller richer & surprising view of the entire American Indian experience. Jake Page one of the Southwests most distinguished writers & a long time student of Indian history weaves these vast threads of information
- including historical documents archaeological artefacts & the Indians oral legends
- into a compelling narrative. Today we know that the first Americans arrived here long before the once-accepted date of 11 500 years ago. We know that Indian life before Columbus featured massive upheavals & that life after Columbus was affected more by disease & do-gooders than gunslingers. This is the true history of the Indians from the long lost moundbuilding societies of the Ohio & Mississippi valleys to the waves of confederation from King Phillip to Tecumseh all the way to the astonishing coast-to-coast revival of the past few decades.

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Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa & trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace. As she dreams madly of bloody revenge Magda's consciousness starts to drift & the line between fact & the workings of her excited imagination becomes blurred. What follows is the fable of a woman's passionate obsessed & violent response to an Africa that will not heed her. ...