A New Windmill Book of Very Short Stories contains a collection of very short stories from a range of genres chosen to interest & appeal to students at Key Stage 3. Some of the stories are written by well-known authors such as Paul Jennings Jan Mark Susan Price & Ray Bradbury. Others are by new authors. Each of them can be read in less that 10 minutes & offers & example of a well-structured & complete text. The stories have been arranged into pairs so that students can compare writing on similar themes or in the same genre. The activities at the end of the book are based on identified sentence & text level objectives of the Framework for Teaching English. Speaking & listening objectives are also covered. The stories have been chosen to enable students to read for meaning understand the authors craft & apply what they have learnt to their own writing. They ae also accessible stories that will arrest the attention & engage the imagination of all students across Key Stage 3. ...

Its the night before Christmas & Big Mouse & Little Mouse are putting up decorations. Little Mouse scampers out to search for holly but finds big white flakes falling from the sky. As Little Mouses world is covered in snow he discovers strange things all around him. ...

She was the last icon of an age of leisurely travel fading into memory even as she embarked on her maiden voyage: a luxurious ...

Meet Valentine an unforgettable & passionate woman with a heart & a dream as big as New York City. Her dream? To design the perfect pair of shoes.. . The Angelini Shoe Company makers of exquisite wedding shoes since 1903 is one of the last family-owned businesses in Greenwich Village. Now in the twenty-first century the company run so devotedly by Valentine & her grandmother Teodora faces financial ruin. Juggling a romantic relationship with dashing chef Roman Falconi her duty to her family & a design competition for a prestigious department store Valentine accompanies her grandmother to Italy in the hope of finding inspiration. There in Tuscany & on the Isle of Capri she discovers her artistic voice & much more turning her life around in ways she never expected. ...

This inexpensive photographic history of Vespa first published in 1993 receives a much-needed overhaul to bring it up to date &



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ONE MAN Born in rural obscurity ONE DESTINY To become one of Rome's greatest Emperors 26 AD: Sixteen-year-old Vespasian leaves his family farm for Rome his sights set on finding a patron & following his brother into the army. But he discovers a city in turmoil & an Empire on the brink. The aging emperor Tiberius is in seclusion on Capri leaving Rome in the iron grip of Sejanus commander of the Praetorian Guard. Sejanus is ruler of the Empire in all but name but many fear that isn't enough for him. Sejanus' spies are everywhere
- careless words at a dinner party can be as dangerous as a barbarian arrow. Vespasian is totally out of his depth making dangerous enemies (and even more dangerous friends
- like the young Caligula) & soon finds himself ensnared in a conspiracy against Tiberius. With the situation in Rome deteriorating Vespasian flees the city to take up a position as tribune in an unfashionable legion on the Balkan frontier. Even here rebellion is in the air & unblooded & inexperienced Vespasian must lead his men in savage battle with hostile mountain tribes. Vespasian will soon realize that he can't escape Roman politics any more than he can escape his destiny...""

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The Cahills aren't the only family searching for the Clues.... The Cahills thought they were the most powerful family the world had ever known. They thought they were the only ones who knew about Gideon Cahill & his Clues. The Cahills were wrong. Powerful enemies --the Vespers-- have been waiting in the shadows. Now it's their time to rise & the world will never be the same. In Vespers Rising a brand new 39 Clues novel bestselling authors Rick Riordan Peter Lerangis Gordon Korman & Jude Watson take on the hidden history of the Cahills & the Vespers & the last terrible legacy Grace Cahill leaves for Amy & Dan. ...

Italy 1944
- this is the setting of one of the most convincing & quietly magnificent stories about man & war that has ever been
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Lucifer Box is the darling of the Edwardian belle monde
- societys most fashionable portrait painter is a wit a dandy a rake the
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Fresh out of university Luke joins a mixed practice in Dorset run by the stern but benevolent Mr Spotswode & is quickly thrust into the real world of veterinary medicine: truculent farmers out-of-hours-surgery nasty biting squirrels operating on frogs eyeballs & some of the harsher facts of farming life like dealing with an outbreak of foot & mouth & subsequent slaughter. Lukes dream is to set up on his own & find his place in the world. These things however are never quite straightforward. Across the course of this memoir the young vet not only learns much about his trade but about his own character
- & develops a group of close friends
- both animal & human
- who will stay with his across his career. The most important of these is Cordelia
- the woman of his dreams
- his quest to win her heart is a marathon!




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