Maria Duenass million copy best-selling tale of adventure tragedy love & war The Seamstress". Spain 1936 & the brink of civil war. Young poor Sara Quiroga is swept up in a whirlwind romance with her wily love Ramiro. Fleeing Madrid together for Morocco her love blinds her to his real failings. Soon abandoned left penniless & in debt to the authorities she has to rely on the one skill she still possesses: sewing. Taken under the wing of the bullish but caring housekeeper Candelaria Sara is able to sew for the glamorous foreign English & German women in Tetouan. Privy to their unbridled gossip Sara becomes invaluable to the British secret service a position that is filled with untold risk. A story of danger espionage romance & war " The Seamstress" is a WWII tale like no other. " Maria Duenas is a true storyteller. Read this book & prepare to be transported". " Kate Morton author of " The House at Riverton"). "A wonderful novel with intrigue love mystery & tender audacious & clean-cut characters". (Mario Vargas Llosa). "A magnificent novel that flawlessly brings together history & intrigue". (Juan Gomez-Jurado author of " The Moses Expedition"). Maria Duenas holds a Ph D in English Philology & is currently a professor at the University of Murcia. She has also taught at American universities is the author of several academic articles & has participated in various educational cultural & editorial projects. She is currently writing her second novel. See Judys Review See Richards Review Download A Sample Chapter Of The Seamstress Read about the Author Exclusive Bonus Content Write a Review for The Seamstress Judys Review Siras affair with Ramiro heady & exciting at first swiftly turns into the first great catastrophe of her life. Her lover is a fraud; a con man whose honeyed words & sweet caresses conceal an empty selfish heart. Ramiro persuades Sira to abandon her life in Madrid & the couple run away together to Morocco where they set up in a luxurious hotel. Sira has inherited a large sum of money from her distant father & we know from that moment her doom is sealed. Ramiro pretends to keep her inheritance safe for her & promises wonderful investments to make her even richer. Of course he abandons her at the first opportunity without a peseta to her name. He also leaves her with a huge unpaid hotel bill & Sira has no choice but to flee. She is an innocent abroad & is quickly picked up by the police. Betrayed & penniless a second catastrophe overtakes Sira. Civil war has erupted back in Spain & she cannot return home. Stuck in north Africa she must use her skills as a seamstress to eke out a living. It is a terrific start to a wonderful book. Maria Duenas goes on to take us & Sira back to a Spain now tearing itself apart before it succumbs to " ...

GCSE Student Text Guides analyse popular set texts & poems in terms of themes style context & where appropriate characterisation & plot. Each guide concludes with advice planning answers & writing essays & provides examples of A*- & C-grade answers to exam-style questions together with examiner's comments. ...

Sean Connerys creation of secret agent James Bond invigorated Britain & its cinema allowing a cash-strapped morale-sapped country in decline to fancy itself still a player on the world stage. But while Bond would make Connery the first actor to command a million dollar-plus fee the man himself was forever pouring scorn on the fantasies audiences found it increasingly hard to separate him from. Undaunted Connery went on to prove himself one of the cinemas most relaxed & assured stars & a guaranteed box-office draw. Moulding & remoulding his image to fit the contours of the age Connery has gone from Sadeian Sixties sex symbol to the sagacious magus figure to which todays young stars are forever turning. Spirited argumentative & sardonically celebratory Christopher Brays Sean Connery" is both a biography of a star & an investigation of what can happen to a man when the images he creates take over his life. & its an analysis of what it means to be star-struck
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Join Dora & Boots in this great look & find adventure. Each spread shows Dora & her friends in a different location with lots of hidden objects to find on the page. Little explorers will have great fun helping Dora & Boots find all the objects. ...

In 1972 when I first began to discover the delights of the mountains & then became involved with search & rescue I found that I could combine my love of dogs with this new passion for the great outdoors. Search Dogs & Me charts the journey which has taken me & my dogs from Donegal Kerry the Lake District & the Mountains of Mourne to Kashmir Turkey & Algeria. Neil Powell Search Dogs & Me tells the remarkable story of one mans adventures with his life-saving dogs. For the past forty years Neil Powell has worked with dogs in mountain search & rescue drowned victim recovery collapsed structure searching & optical disc & drug detection. Neil & his dogs have participated in countless searches
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- & saved many lives in Ireland the United Kingdom & throughout the world. But these are not just heroic working dogs they are much-loved family pets & they form the heart of the story. We come to know their personalities & quirks & share in Neils heartbreak when they reach the end of their days. Search Dogs & Me is a heartwarming inspiring & beautifully told story that will melt
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On April 29th 1945 General Heinrich Gestapo Muller head of that feared Nazi organisation left Hitlers bunker & disappeared. Today over a half a Century later he is still carried on the books of the German Office of Investigation of Nazi war crimes as their No. 1 wanted man
- The question is why? For nearly five years Muller had the power of life-&-death over 300 million Europeans in Occupied Europe. In that time not only did he play a major role in the Holocaust but he helped in kidnapping of Payne Stevens & Best chiefs of the SIS in Europe; had a hand in the planned abduction of the Duke of Windsor; broke the power of the European-Soviet spy ring the Red Orchestra; terrorised the French resistance; shot British SAS & SOE prisoners & master-minded the executions of the Great Escape POW escapees. But was he all the time working for the Russians & if so what happened to him on that April day? His subordinate Eichmann escaped as did other top Gestapo officials. Did he really die in Berlin? In his search for the truth the Author takes an interesting & exciting stance. He examines with typical thoroughness both Mullers career as it progresses from being a simple Bavarian policeman through to becoming a top Third Reichs henchman & the Allies post-war efforts to find out if Muller survived. The Search for Gestapo Muller is a truly intriguing modern mystery story.
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The sequel to the cult classic The Dice Man this book can also change your life! Larry Rhinehart is the son of an infamous father -- the renegade psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart otherwise known as the Dice Man. Luke became a cult figure in the seventies inspiring thousands to follow him into the anarchic world of Dice Living where every decision is made not by the self but by the roll of the dice. Larry however is emphatically not a follower. He has grown up to have a great respect for order & control. A wealthy Wall Street analyst all set to marry the bosss daughter Larry has got life where he wants it. Until rumours begin to circulate about the reappearance of his long-vanished father -- & Larrys carefully organized world begins to look a lot less certain. By turns funny moving & wildly erotic The Search for the Dice Man is a journey of the body & spirit never to be forgotten. ...

The tribe of the Durotriges was listed by the Greek geographer Ptolemy in the second century AD. Traditionally it has been believed that the Durotrigans formed an Iron Age tribe whose territory included Dorset & parts of neighbouring Somerset Wiltshire & Hampshire. In AD 43-44 these hillforts
- sites such as Maiden Castle Hod Hill & South Cadbury
- bore witness to one of the pivotal events of British history when the Romans fought in a bloody campaign against the Durotrigan people to claim the Battle for Britain. In this engaging & fully illustrated new book Martin Papworth brings together fresh evidence to suggest that the Durotrigan nation was made up not of a unified state but rather of fiercely independent baronies. Here for the first time the evidence for the Durotriges is made accessible to both archaeologists & those who simply have an interest in the British Iron Age the Romans or the history of this area.

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Eva Nine was raised by the robot Muthr. But when a marauder destroys the underground sanctuary she called home twelve-year-old Eva is forced to flee aboveground. Eva Nine is searching for anyone else like her. She knows that other humans exist because of a very special item she treasures ~ a scrap of cardboard on which is depicted a young girl an adult & a robot along with the strange word Wond La". Tony Di Terlizzi honours traditional childrens literature in this totally original space age adventure: one that is as complex as an alien planet but as simple as a childs wish for a place to belong." ...

From the ground-breaking offices of Google Search Inside Yourself is a personal growth program that focuses on developing emotional intelligence through mindfulness making its participants more productive at work & better leaders while becoming more peaceful happy & compassionate individuals. Famed for its innovative & unusual yet highly successful working culture Google is more than just a search engine. One such innovation is the Search Inside Yourself program created for Google by a diverse group of individuals including a Zen Master a CEO a Stanford University scientist & author Daniel Goleman its been a life changing program for many participants contributing to great improvements in both their personal & professional lives. Search Inside Yourself has been taught in Google since 2007 producing dramatic results. Some participants have found new meaning & fulfilment in their jobs (one person changed her mind about leaving the company after taking the course!) Some have become much better at what they do; one engineering manager discovered the importance of giving himself quality time & reduced his working hours to four days a week. After he did that he got promoted! Some have become more effective managers learning to listen & communicate better & bringing a calm attitude to every situation. Not surprisingly many people found Search Inside Yourself to be beneficial in their personal lives as well. Many participants found they were happier & less-stressed their marital relationships enhanced & some even said the program helped them deal with personal crises. This book will show you how to apply the principles of Search Inside Yourself to you your business & everyday life. Whether you are a junior team member or a senior manager a secondary school teacher or a bus driver these valuable lessons have the potential to dramatically improve your life. Written by Chade-Meng Tan the first engineer in Googles history to leave the Engineering department & join their Peoples Ops Group where he leads this & other personal-growth programs. It also

Includes:: a foreword by Daniel Goleman the author of Emotional Intelligence & introduction from Jon Kabat-Zinn author of Wherever You Go There You Are.

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