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It's August 2019 and Sarah, a 50-year-old divorcee, takes up a one-year teaching position in her home county of Suffolk, after teaching in London for thirty years. She moves back to her mother's house as Joan, 83, has growing dementia. Being a carer is tougher than she had anticipated.
Added to this, Sarah, a staunch Remainer, is still fuming over Brexit and a lack of political responsibility as she sees it. She loved cosmopolitan London and is unsure...
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A riveting memoir, The Last Day of July, tells the stunningly brave and powerful true account of one man's descent into major depressive and manic episodes and how he found lifesaving therapy and medication to overcome and triumph.When thirty-five-year-old John Medl is involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric hospital, he is sure it is a mistake. A graduate from the University of Dayton with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, John's life appears ideal....
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"'Be quiet and listen: He is cheating on you. You will be passed over for the promotion. The winning numbers are 5-8-12-24-39-43. The name of your soulmate is Alistair George Arthur Lennox. And I'm very sorry to tell you this, but you will die next Sunday.' When Lilah Goodluck saves the life of Good Witch Willow as they're crossing a busy L.A. street, the last thing she expects is five unwanted predictions as a reward. Who gives someone the winning...
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They didn't know – when Winter gave way to Spring that year – that their lives were all about to change…
Marnie didn't realise – when she stormed into a bookshop one day, demanding a self-help book – that she was about to make a new best friend.
Bookshop-owner Rae didn't know she had been living like a shadow since her parents died. But then Marnie exploded into her life. And suddenly she realised things had to change… more so when she...
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Domenic Stansberry's award-winning novel tells the story of Niccolo Jones, a broken-down man plagued by his obsession with his brother Joe's ex-wife Marie. Set in the old Italian neighborhood of North Beach in San Francisco, the novel flashes back and forth between their childhood days in the 1950s and events thirty years later. The kids are adults now, and everything has changed. Nick's story begins when Joe is murdered, igniting in Nick an unquenchable...
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The Last Days of Old Sharakhai is a Shattered Sands novella set near the end of A Desert Torn Asunder (Book 6 of The Song of the Shattered Sands) and answers the question: What happened to King Ihsan? King Ihsan, once thought invincible, is now a fugitive in the city he once ruled. Struck by the black mould, a deadly wasting disease, Ihsan knows his days of ruling Sharakhai are coming to an end. His goals are simpler now. He's focused on his daughter...
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Full of love, humour and heartbreak, this beautifully crafted YA novella from the multi-award-winning author of Ketchup Clouds and My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece is a compassionate and distinctive tale of modern family life and its issues. Dads leave home all the time. It's not that unusual, really. Leon's dad walked out. So did Mo's. But Archie's? Well, that's a different story – a story that Archie must keep secret at all cost. Archie knows...
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This history of the Sioux in the 19th century ranges from its forced migration to the reservation to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
First published in 1963, Robert M. Utley's classic study of the Sioux Nation was a landmark achievement in Native American historical research. The St. Louis Dispatch called it "by far the best treatment of the complex and controversial relationship between the Sioux and their conquerors yet presented and should be must...
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Anna is a widowed Amish woman and her daughter Megan is dying from leukemia. She strikes up a sentimental friendship with Finn, a rich Englischer. Since the girl has only six weeks or less to live, the trio fly to New York City where the daughter skates the ice rink, takes in the ballet and sight-sees most of the Englisch world to make the most of her last days with her mother...A sentimental journey into the final days of an Amish girl...
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National Book Critics Circle Award—winning author Geoff Dyer-"one of our greatest living critics" (New York Magazine)-presents an extended meditation on the late styles and last works of some of the world's most gifted and celebrated people.
Much attention has been paid to so-called late style- but what about last style? When does last begin? How early is late? When does the end set in? In this endlessly stimulating and ingeniously structured investigation,...
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While George Washington fought the British in New England, a little-known hero joined the fight in Louisiana-Pierre George Rousseau. In 1779, Spain declared war on Britain, paving the way for Spanish involvement in the American Revolutionary War. Pierre George Rousseau, a Spanish naval officer, joined the fight. He led the Spanish campaign against the British in the Louisiana territory and captured the British strongholds of Baton Rouge, Mobile, and...
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Hace dos mil años, Jesús caminó por Galilea; allá donde viajaba, más y más personas se convertían en sus seguidores. Sus contemporáneos son figuras históricas conocidas: Julio César, César Augusto, Herodes, Poncio Pilatos. Aquella era una época de una opresión omnipresente, en la que hombres, mujeres y niños se hallaban bajo el brutal poder del Imperio Romano. Jesús vivió en este mundo; en un contexto política e históricamente volátil...
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This fascinating collection of primary source accounts focuses on the combat actions of the Wehrmacht in the final battles of the war. The material is drawn from a variety of wartime sources and encompasses fascinating writings concerning the tactical, operational and strategic aspects of the battle for Berlin. Compiled and edited by Emmy Award winning author and historian Bob Carruthers, this absorbing assembly of primary source intelligence reports...
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In a desolate stretch of highway on the southwest side of Chicago, a young blonde woman known only as 'Mary' has been haunting the living for decades. From police officers to cab drivers, and from airline pilots to curious teens, many have reported chilling encounters with her. But there's a twist: Mary has been dead and buried since 1936. Why does her restless spirit persist in making such frequent appearances even nearly a century later? Trapped...
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The disappearance of the steam locomotive in the land of its birth touched the hearts of millions, but when the government announced the Modernisation Plan for Britain's railways in 1955, under which steam was to be phased out in favour of diesel and electric traction, few people took it seriously. Steam locomotives were an integral part of our daily lives and had been for almost one and a half centuries. Furthermore, they were still being built in...
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After a long and fruitful life, the Buddha is now 80. For 50 years after his Enlightenment, he has been walking the hot, dusty roads of Northeastern India with just a robe and bowl, tirelessly and selflessly teaching and inspiring. He knows death is approaching. This is the background to the Maha-Paranibbana Sutta, the original account of the Buddha's last months. It is extremely moving because it is so personal, detailed and vivid.
Though exhausted...
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The epic story of how the Second World War was won.
On 4 January 1945, General 'Blood and Guts' Patton confided gloomily to his diary, 'We can still lose the war.' The Nazis were attacking in Eastern France, Luxembourg and Belgium. General Eisenhower's allied armies had lost over 300,000 men in battle (with a similar number of non-battle casualties) and they were still in the same positions they had first captured three months before.
Would the...
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In the 1950s and 1960s south Lancashire and Cheshire was criss-crossed by a web of railway lines, servicing the various needs of local industries. The region was a haven for railway enthusiasts who pursued the hundreds of steam workhorses based at British Railways depots in 'chemical towns' such as Warrington, Widnes, Wigan and Sutton Oak, besides Southport and Northwich. While these facilities appeared less glamorous than larger counterparts in Liverpool...
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A treasury of photos capturing the end of an era in transportation history-the final decade of steam locomotives in Britain.
Malcolm Clegg has been taking railway pictures since the early 1960s, and also enjoys access to collections taken by friends who were recording the steam railway scene during this period. In this book, he covers a wide variety of classes of locomotives that were withdrawn during the last decade of steam traction, examples of...
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On 21 June 1919 the ships of the German High Seas Fleet -interned at Scapa Flow since the Armistice- began to founder, taking their British custodians completely by surprise. In breach of agreed terms, the fleet dramatically scuttled itself, in a well-planned operation that consigned nearly half a million tons, and 54 of 72 ships, to the bottom of the sheltered anchorage in a gesture of Wagnerian proportions. This much is well-known, but even a century...