Penny Simms is pony-mad & is thrilled when she wins a scholarship to Fetlocks Hall an equestrian boarding school. But Fetlocks Hall is no ordinary school
- besides schoolwork & riding lessons Penny has the opportunity to acquire secret knowledge about horses as well as find out about the magical unicorn world of Equitopia. Soon she is caught up in a desperate struggle to help the unicorns combat a terrible plot by the evil Devlipeds who are plotting to overthrow them. Is Penny the Unicorn Princess whose arrival is predicted by the King of the Unicorns? Can she defeat the Devlipeds & save the unicorns & the pony world?
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Enter a magical world of friendship & fun! In the second book of the series Ellie Summer & Jasmine are very excited to visit the Secret Kingdom again! Wicked Queen Malice has hidden a thunderbolt in Unicorn Valley. Can the girls help their unicorn friends save the magical land from hundreds of greedy caterpillars...? Secret Kingdom is a brand new series full of the things girls love most: special friendships secrets & magical adventures. Newly confident readers will be swept away by the magical stories of three children whose courage & resourcefulness save a fantastical land from disaster. Full of all the things little girls love best: special friendships secrets & magical adventures all set in an incredible kingdom! Eye-catching illustrations throughout. Become best friends with Ellie Summer & Jasmine
- plus Trixi the pixie! Help Ellie Summer & Jasmine save the Secret Kingdom from wicked Queen Malice & her naughty storm sprites. A new exciting adventure in each & every book.
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The third edition has been revised & updated to reflect the needs of the current specifications. The title explores the developments & factors in nineteenth century Germany that affected the move towards national unity before going on to examine Bismarcks Germany & his fall & ending with a new section examining the policies & changes within the new German state up to the formation of the Weimar Republic in 1919. The book also

Includes:: an assessment of Bismarck as a leader & questions how united Germany really was by 1890. Throughout the book key dates terms & issues are highlighted & historical interpretations of key debates are outlined. Summary diagrams are included to consolidate knowledge & understanding of the period & exam style questions & tips for each examination board provide the opportunity to develop exam skills.

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The new editions of Access to Historycombine all the strengths of this well-loved series with a new design & features that allow all students access to the content & study skills needed to achieve exam success. This Third Edition of this popular title has been updated to reflect the needs of the current A Level specifications. The title examines reasons why progress towards unification was so slow at first & why after 1850 it became so speedy. In doing so it gives due attention to the roles played by Cavour Mazzini Garibaldi Pope Pius IX Napoleon III Charles Albert & Victor Emmanuel & attempts to answer the question Who made Italy. Throughout the book key dates terms & issues are highlighted & historical interpretations of key debates are outlined. Summary diagrams are included to consolidate knowledge & understanding of the period & exam style questions & tips for each examination board provide the opportunity to develop exam skills. ...

Neither Commissario Brunetti nor his wife Paola have ever had much sympathy for the Italian armed forces so when a young cadet is found hanged at Venice's elite military academy Brunetti's emotions are complex: pity & sorrow at the death of a boy close in age to his own son & contempt & irritation for the arrogance & high-handedness of the boy's teachers & fellow students. The young man is the son of an ex-politician a man of an impeccable integrity all too rare in Italian politics. But as Brunetti
- & the indispensable Signorina Elettra
- investigate further no one seems willing to talk as the military protects its own & civilians keep their own counsel. Is this the natural reluctance of Italians to involve themselves with the authorities or is Brunetti facing a conspiracy of silence?

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A seven-year-old girl puts a nail-gun to her grandmothers neck & fires. An isolated incident say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world children are killing their families. Is violence contagious? As chilling murders by children grip the country anthropologist Hesketh Lock has his own mystery to solve: a bizarre scandal in the Taiwan timber industry. Hesketh has never been good at relationships: Aspergers Syndrome has seen to that. But he does have a talent for spotting behavioural patterns & an outsiders fascination with group dynamics. Nothing obvious connects Heskeths Southeast Asian case with the atrocities back home. Or with the increasingly odd behaviour of his beloved step-son Freddy. But when Heskeths Taiwan contact dies shockingly & more acts of sabotage & child violence sweep the globe he is forced to acknowledge possibilities that defy the rational principles on which he has staked his life his career & most devastatingly of all his role as a father. Part psychological thriller part dystopian nightmare The Uninvited is a powerful & viscerally unsettling portrait of apocalypse in embryo. ...

A sinister tale of haunting beauty from The Outcast author Sadie Jones. She was obeying a prompt an instinct: the instinct that makes a dog lying by the fire tremble of a sudden & whimper when there is no one near to see. The cake is iced. The wine decanted. The house gleams invitingly. But as Sterne prepares for Emerald Torringtons birthday supper who are the pale strangers struggling silently up the drive? A supernatural comedy & spellbinding thriller The Uninvited Guests strips away the respectable layers of Edwardian society to reveal the dark secrets beneath. What a delicious read! Like something written by a wicked Jane Austen. Passing like a spring fever here is a fairy tale that stays with you long after it is gone. Sarah Blake author of The Postmistress ...

It was one of the most important British liner routes of all
- the express run from Southampton to the South African Cape. Carrying
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- X Factor 2012 had it all & much much more! Fans all over the country were divided like never before as
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Fourth in the series featuring investigative journalist Lindsay Gordon. When union leader Tom Jack falls to his death from her bedroom window after a spectacularly public row with Lindsay it seems the only way to prove her innocence is to find the real culprit. Leaving her new home in California for a trade union conference in Sheffield Lindsay Gordon finds herself in the company of old friends -- & enemies including Tom Jack. When this unethical union leader is found dead having catapulted out of Lindsays tenth-floor hotel room she is taken in for questioning by the police. Hoping to clear her name by finding the real killer Lindsay searches among hundreds of unruly union delegates for a murderer who may have struck once before. Along the way she uncovers a seething cauldron of blackmail corruption & abuse of power all brought to the boil by her investigation. ...