Rebecca Randall is one of seven fatherless children but is full of fun & strange ideas. She leaves her family at Sunnybrook Farm & goes to live with her two aunts in Riverboro. There she goes to school for the first time embarks on a madcap scheme to sell soap nearly runs away befriends the kindly stagecoach driver Jeremiah Cobb & with ' Mr Aladdin' helps repair her family's fortunes. ...

On the twentieth anniversary of the death of Rebecca the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter family friend Colonel Julyan receives an anonymous parcel. It contains a black notebook with two handwritten words on the title page -- Rebecca's Tale -- & two pictures: a photograph of Rebecca as a young child & a postcard of Manderley. Rebecca once asked Julyan to ensure she was buried in the churchyard facing the sea: if she ended up in the de Winter crypt she warned she'd come back to haunt him. Now it seems she has finally kept her promise. Julyan's conscience has never been clear over the official version of Rebecca's death. Was Rebecca the manipulative promiscuous femme fatale her husband claimed. Or the gothic heroine of tragic proportions that others had suggested. The official story the 'truth' has only had Maxim's version of events to consider. But all that is about to change.. . ...

The first book in Bernard Cornwell's bestselling series on the American Civil War. It is summer 1861. The armies of North & South stand on the brink of America's civil war. Nathanial Starbuck jilted by his girl & estranged from his family arrives in the capital of the Confederate South where he enlists in an elite regiment being raised by rich eccentric Washington Faulconer. Pledged to the Faulconer Legion Starbuck becomes a northern boy fighting for the southern cause. But nothing can prepare him for the shocking violence to follow in the war which broke America in two. ...

A.D. 1305. An hour before dawn. Londons Smithfield prison. In a dank cell the outlaw William Wallace waits to be executed at first light. He is visited by a Scottish priest who has come to hear his last confession
- the confession of a life even more exciting violent & astonishing than the legend that survived. From internationally bestselling author Jack Whyte comes a story of brutal battles & high adventure of heroism & redemption
- the story of William Wallace as the world has never heard it before.

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No ordinary fairy tale... Linden is a feisty faery with a lot on her mind. She her fellow faeries are under threat: their magic is fading & if they do not act fast they will die... When Linden meets Timothy a human staying in the house opposite her Oak she knows he can help. Together they embark on a dangerous journey to seek more magic
- & discover that there is more to fear from other faeries than they could ever have imagined.
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In this thrilling sequel Gemma continues to pursue her destiny to bind the magic of the Realms & restore it to the Order. Gemma & her friends from Spence use magical power to transport themselves on visits from their corseted world of Victorian London (at the height of the Christmas season) to the visionary country of the Realms with its strange beauty & menace. There they search for the lost Temple the key to Gemmas mission & comfort Pippa their friend who has been left behind in the Realms. After these visits they bring back magical power for a short time to use in their own world. Meanwhile Gemma is torn between her attraction to the exotic Kartik the messenger from the opposing forces of the Rakshana & the handsome but clueless Simon a young man of good family who is courting her. This is the second book in Libba Brays engrossing trilogy set in a time of strict morality & barely repressed sensuality about a girl who saw another way. ...

Ricky Rocket loves flying through the Canyons & Spin Tubes in the park. But whos that zooming past in the Rebel 250 Flyer with the Evil Lord Vorg badge? & will Rickys little sister just keep quiet? Join Ricky on his exciting space adventures! ...

Rejecting the deadening conventions of their Victorian elders the rebel girls demanded new freedoms & new rights. They took their suffrage message out to the remotest Yorkshire dales & fishing harbours to win Edwardian hearts & minds. 16-year-old Huddersfield weaver Dora Thewlis on arrest was catapulted onto the tabloid front-pages as Baby Suffragette. Her life was transformed. Dancer Lilian Lenton waited till her twenty-first birthday
- then determined to burn two buildings a week until the Liberal government granted women the vote. Rebel Girls shows how this daring campaigning shifted from community suffragettes to militant mavericks.
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Danger. Betrayal. Destiny. Passion. The superb sequel to BLOOD RED ROAD winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2011. Saba ...

Born into a world seething with treachery & suspicion Eleanor Goodricke grows up on the Somerset Levels just after the English Civil Wars heiress to her late mothers estates & daughter of a Puritan soldier who fears for his brilliant daughter with her dangerous passion for natural history
- & for butterflies in particular. Her reckless courage will take her to places where no woman of her day ever dared to go. Her fearless ambition will give her a place in history for all time. But it is her passionate heart which will lead her into a consuming love
- & mortal peril.

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