French-born Marie Gabin forms a friendship with Veronica Attwood in their final two years at school but this is tested when Marie is forced to disclose a secret to her friend. The First World War takes its toll when Marie loses the man she loves. Veronica's husband suffers injuries which eventually leave her a widow but she finds consolation in her love for the l&. Returning to France Marie marries her childhood sweetheart but once again life brings involvement in war for the two friends. Loving their Yorkshire land Veronica & her daughters enlist in the Land Army. When a bomber squadron arrives on a newly constructed airfield on part of the estate relationships are formed. Veronica's daughter Elise joins the RAF & is recruited into the SOE. But secrets will out. On a mission to France Elise faces dangers she did not expect as she searches for Marie & the truth
- a truth that will have an outcome she never envisaged.
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In this fourth book in the Monkey & Robot series Monkey & Robot are very excited when it starts to snow. Of course they cannot resist going out to play & have fun. But when they start making a snowball the snowball becomes bigger & bigger & BIGGER until it is out of control! Monkey & Robot end up rather wet & snowy but a big mug of hot chocolate helps to cheer them up. ...

This engaging book brings together the author's expertise in Biblical studies & his extensive experience in leading tours around the Holy L&. Following the chronological sequence of the key events in Luke's gospel the book comprises previous & later history of the sites where these events occurred geographical & archaeological descriptions maps of the relevant areas a description of the sites today & full colour photography throughout. Suitable for the traveller & the 'armchair pilgrim' alike In the Steps of Jesus offers vivid insights into Jesus' life & travels. ...

In 1355 the Black Prince took an army to Bordeaux & embarked on two chevauchees (mounted military expeditions generally characterised by the devastation of the surrounding towns & countryside) which culminated in his decisive victory over King Jean II of France at Poitiers the following year. Using the recorded itineraries as his starting point the author of this book walked more than 1 300 miles across France retracing the routes of the armies in search of a greater understanding of the Black Princes expedition. He followed the 1355 chevauchee from Bordeaux to the Mediterranean & back & that for 1356 from Aquitaine to the Loire to the battlefield at Poitiers & back again to Bordeaux. Drawing on his findings on the ground a wide range of documentary sources & the work of local historians many of whom the author met on his travels the book provides a unique perspective on the Black Princes chevauchees of 1355 & 1356 & the battle of Poitiers one of the greatest English triumphs of the Hundred Years War demonstrating in particular the impact of the landscape on the campaigns. Peter Hoskins is a former Royal Air Force pilot now living in France. He combines his interest in exploration of his adopted country with his research into the Hundred Years War. ...

Ann Rule delves into the mysterious death of Ronda Reynolds a former state trooper whose death ruled a suicide ten years ago is now considered a murder. On December 15 1998 thirty-three-year-old Ronda Reynolds was living with her husband of eleven months in the small town of Toledo Washington-but she planned to leave him that night & fly to Spokane Washington where her mother brother & grandmother eagerly awaited her visit for the Christmas holidays. But as Barb Thompson Rondas mother waited in an airport amid Christmas decorations in 1998 Ronda never arrived. Ronda had sounded happy on the phone only hours before excited that she would be seeing her family. But sheer dread replaced confusion as the news of Rondas death arrived. Her husband told a 911 operator that Ronda had committed suicide. Now a decade later the only thing we can be sure of is that Ronda Reynolds died violently that night & the lies & contradictions of her husband began to unravel. Written with the complete cooperation of Barb Thompson Rondas mother this is a homicide puzzle that Ann Rule fans will find haunting & utterly captivating. ...

All that was left of the garage was a heap of charred & smouldering beams. In the driving seat of the burnt-out car were the remains of a body.. . An accident said the police. An accident said the widow. She had been warning her husband about the danger of the car for months. Murder said the famous detective Lord Peter Wimsey
- & proceeded to track down the killer. 'I admire her novels.. .she has great fertility of invention ingenuity & a wonderful eye for detail' P. D. James
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Mohammed Dar & his three brothers were born in a boat on a lake in Kashmir a place of exquisite beauty that was to become a war zone & nuclear flashpoint. This Himalayan valley of water mist & mountains was once one of Indias greatest tourist draws. In 1989 it exploded into insurgency. Kashmir became a rallying cry for jihadi movements all over the region & Pakistans backing of the conflict triggered in part its own Islamist crisis. Mohammed Dar & his family found themselves living inside a new & foreign world of violence. Justine Hardy has stayed with the Dar family for many years reporting on the conflict. She tells their story of living through the destruction of their adored homel&. Through their eyes we see the rise of religious fundamentalism & intolerance the ethnic cleansing of the Hindu population of the valley & the recruitment of a generation to jihad. & amid the fighting families continue to try & educate their children find work & protect their physical & mental well-being while attempting to build some kind of future beyond the annihilation of their old way of life. In The Valley of Mist" is an extraordinary story of family survival at the heart of a conflict within & beyond the Muslim world." ...

Imagine being able to observe with astonishing clarity a childs delicate features as they evolve over the course of a pregnancy or witness the complex behavior of new human life in utero. Now we can thanks to the advent of innovative 3D & 4D imaging technologies that provide a powerful diagnostic tool for doctors & cast vivid light on our earliest development--and a profound new way for parents to bond with their babies on a deeper emotional level. Combining more than 140 images of life-like models based on the latest science computer-generated illustrations & 3D ultrasound images with an uplifting informative text In the Womb" is a week-by-week chronicle of the mysterious magical progress from embryo to fetus to full-term infant. Each spread features a central image & information about that particular stage as well as brief commentary explaining what we know & how we know it. For example at 24 weeks we watch a fetus open & close her eyes display facial expressions resembling a grimace & a frown & stick out her tongue (no one has yet established exactly why). & during the last trimester we learn she experiences REM sleep & can hear loud noises through the fluids of her mothers body--a first hint of the world that awaits outside the womb. Based on National Geographics acclaimed television program originally aired in 2005 & soon to be supplemented with two more 2-hour segments " In the Womb" is the perfect gift for expectant parents & a fascinating perspective for anyone captivated by the miracle of life." ...

When he was twelve years old Adam Ryan went playing in the woods one day with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found & Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree & his shoes filled with blood. He had no memory of what had happened. Twenty years on Rob Ryan
- the child who came back
- is a detective in the Dublin police force. Hes changed his name. No one knows about his past. Then a little girls body is found at the site of the old tragedy & Rob is drawn back into the mystery. Knowing that he would be thrown off the case if his past were revealed Rob takes a fateful decision to keep quiet but hope that he might also solve the twenty-year-old mystery of the woods.

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After the Second World War nationalism emerged as the principle expression of resistance to Western imperialism in a variety of regions from the Indian subcontinent to Africa to parts of Latin America & the Pacific Rim. With the Bandung Conference & the formation of the Non-Aligned Movement many of Europes former colonies banded together to form a common bloc aligned with neither the advanced capitalist First World nor with the socialist Second World. ...