A precious mask of unimaginable power has been stolen from the royal palace. Rose suspects that dark magicians are at work
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Time has flown since Rose left the orphanage behind & she loves her new family at Mr Fountain's magical house. But she still can't help wondering
- what happened to her real family? Were they full of magic too like her? Then Rose discovers a clue to the mystery: a silver mirror which once belonged to her mother. A mirror with a ghost...
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Rose Blanche was the name of a group of young German citizens who at their peril protested against the war. Like them Rose observes all the changes going on around her which others choose to ignore. She watches as the streets of her small German town fill with soldiers. One day she sees a little boy escaping from the back of a truck only to be captured by the mayor & shoved back into it. Rose follows the truck to a desolate place out of town where she discovers many other children staring hungrily from behind an electric barbed wire fence. She starts bringing the children food instinctively sensing the need for secrecy even with her mother. Until the tide of the war turns & soldiers in different uniforms stream in from the East & Rose & the imprisoned children disappear for ever.. . ...

Britain's foremost vegetarian cook & bestselling author Rose Elliot offers over 1000 simple & delicious recipes in this fully updated & beautifully illustrated edition of her definitive Complete Vegetarian Cookbook. Combining timeless classic dishes with modern recipes Rose Elliot's New Complete Vegetarian is an essential cookbook for every kitchen
- whether vegetarian or not. As well as many mouth-watering main course recipes & imaginative side dishes this book also

Includes:: hundreds of great pasta pulse & rice dishes; tempting hot & cold desserts; pizza & bread making; & tried-&-tested cakes biscuits & scrumptious teabreads. Rose's practical & creative approach to cooking has been praised for over 35 years. Her easy-to-follow recipes & warm unhurried writing encourage readers to try new flavours & attempt new recipes. She offers something for everyone whether it's a warming French Onion Soup or a filling Root Vegetable & Lentil Pie. In this impressive fully revised edition Rose

Includes:: fantastic new recipes
- try violet Sprouting Broccoli with Lemon Butter Sauce Wild Mushrooms en Croute or Boozy Banoffee Pie. Whether you're a long-time vegetarian looking for new inspiration or a non-vegetarian who enjoys cooking & eating great food this book has exciting ideas for all occasions.





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Roses are some of the most popular plants in the garden. Whether you plant them for colour bloom or fragrance The Rose Expert gives you all you need to know to get the most from your roses with information on: Different types available. Choosing & buying. How & where to plant. How to mulch train & feed. Pruning. Dealing with pests & diseases. Growing roses as a hobby. Reliable easy-to-follow advice & information from EXPERT books
- the world's best-selling gardening series.
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When Evas film star sister Katrina dies she leaves California & returns to Cornwall where they spent their childhood summers to scatter Katrinas ashes & in doing so return her to the place where she belongs. But Eva must also confront the ghosts from her own past as well as those from a time long before her own. For the house where she so often stayed as a child is home not only to her old friends the Halletts but also to the people who had lived there in the eighteenth century. When Eva finally accepts that she is able to slip between centuries & see & talk to the inhabitants from hundreds of years ago she soon finds herself falling for Daniel Butler a man who lived
- & died
- long before she herself was born. Eva begins to question her place in the present & in laying her sister to rest comes to realise that she too must decide where she really belongs choosing between the life she knows & the past she feels so drawn towards.

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There have been many versions of this Legend of Rose Hall
- some good some not so good
- but this one is definitely the best...this

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Rose Heilbron QC (later Dame Rose Heilbron) was an English Barrister one of the two first women Queen's Counsel in 1949 & the first woman Judge in England in 1956 who became a world famous icon of the 1950's & 1960's. This biography written by her daughter Hilary also a Barrister & Queen's Counsel charts her rise to prominence & success against the odds excelling as an advocate & lawyer & later as a High Court Judge. She broke down many barriers & became a pioneer for women at the English Bar & for women generally. She also championed many women's causes in an era when it was not fashionable to do so most of which have since become part of the mainstream. The biography highlights her role as an inspiring & successful advocate in many famous cases. In 1950 when murder still carried the death penalty & aged only 35 she defended the man accused of a brutal murder in what was to become known as the Cameo case. She later defended Devlin & Burns in another famous murder trial. She represented the striking Liverpool Dockers in a case of national importance. She achieved an historic victory in an early anti-discrimination case representing the world renowned cricketer Learie Constantine who had been the victim of race discrimination & she defended the notorious London gangster Jack Spot. But there are many other famous & fascinating trials as well as cases of great legal importance related in this biography. Also chronicled is her tenure as a High Court Judge where she received plaudits for her compassionate approach to cases involving difficult & emotional family & personal issues as well as for her adept & experienced handling of criminal cases such skills clearly recognized by her appointment by the government in 1975 to chair an Advisory Committee on Rape. This book tells the story of her many firsts in the legal profession over a career spanning nearly 50 years & of the wide range of other legal & non-legal activities she undertook as a result of her fame. With the added insights & recollections of her daughter it portrays a multi-dimensional picture of the young & beautiful Rose Heilbron
- barrister working wife & mother & later judge
- who not only managed to combine these public & private roles in an era when to do so was extremely rare but who did so with the combination of warmth flair & determination which was to make her an internationally acclaimed role model for women. Many people over the years have wanted to write about her: this is the first authorised biography. It will be of interest to lawyers & legal scholars & will also have a wider general appeal to professional & working women worldwide.

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Roused by a single drop of blood Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realisation that her husband is going to kill her. & she takes flight
- with his credit card. Alone in a strange city Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner & she finds an odd junk shop painting Rose Madder which strangely seems to want her as much as she wants it. But its hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder. Rose-maddened & on the rampage Norman is a corrupt cop with a dogs instinct for tracking people. & hes getting close. Rosie can feel how close he is getting.. .A brilliant dark-hued fable of gender wars a haunting love story & a hold-your-breath triumph of suspense ROSE MADDER is Stephen King at his electrifying best.
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Russia 1854: the Crimean War grinds on & as the bitter winter draws near the battlefield hospitals fill with dying men. In defiance of Florence Nightingale Rosa Barr
- young headstrong & beautiful
- travels to Balaklava determined to save as many of the wounded as she can. For Mariella Lingwood Rosa's cousin the war is contained within the pages of her scrapbook in her London sewing circle & in the letters she receives from Henry her fiance a celebrated surgeon who has also volunteered to work within the shadow of the guns. When Henry falls ill & is sent to recuperate in Italy Mariella impulsively decides she must go to him. But upon their arrival at his lodgings she & her maid make a heartbreaking discovery: Rosa has disappeared. Following the trail of her elusive & captivating cousin Mariella's epic journey takes her from the domestic restraint of Victorian London to the ravaged landscape of the Crimea & the tragic city of Sebastopol. As she ventures deeper into the dark heart of the conflict Mariella's ordered world begins to crumble & she finds she has much to learn about secrecy faithfulness & love.

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