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The Federalist Papers - Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison

The Federalist Papers are a collection of 85 articles and essays written by James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton to promote the ratification of the US Constitution. Up to the 20th century, the collection was usually referred to as The Federalist.They were intended to persuade people to accept the Constitution. In Federalist No. 10, Madison argues for a vast, commercial republic and explores ways to prevent majority faction domination. In Federalist No. 84, Alexander Hamilton argues that the proposed Constitution s multiple freedom-protecting clauses collectively constitute a bill of rights. The best explanation of what has come to be known as Federalism is provided by James Madison. An incomparable explication of the Constitution may be found in The Federalist Papers.Hamilton turned down three of Morris s essays, and Morris declined the invitation. Duer later wrote in favor of the three Federalist authors under the pen name Philo-Publius, which is based on Hamilton s pseudonym Publius and may mean either Friend of the People or Friend of Hamilton. The three men produced 85 articles in all for six months. Madison is regarded as the father of the Constitution, while Hamilton served as the first secretary of the Treasury.

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The Federalist Papers - Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison

Proudly read and display the blueprint for American democracy with this stunning, unabridged edition featuring sprayed edges and a foil-embossed faux-leather cover.Written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison between October 1787 and May 1788 and published anonymously in May 1788, The Federalist Papers presents a series of 85 essays advocating for the ratification of the newly proposed United States Constitution. As Madison and Hamilton were both members of the Constitutional Convention, this collection of essays is used today to further illuminate the intentions of the Constitution, as it was drafted. The essays cover a wide variety of topics, including foreign affairs, relationships between states, preserving the union, commercial interests and the economy, and more. This collectible edition features:An elegant faux-leather cover with foil-embossed designsStunning sprayed edges for a continuous design on the front, edges, and backAn introduction by American history scholar and author Andrew S. Tree Unabridged textA historical timeline at the backPerfect for US history lovers and bibliophiles alike, The Federalist Papers is a must-have addition for any home library.Essential volumes for the shelves of every classic literature lover, Chartwell Deluxe Editions offer beautifully presented works from some of the most important authors in literary history. Other deluxe classics from Chartwell include Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Anne of Green Gables, The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, The Iliad, Inferno, Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Little Women, Meditations, and The Republic.

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The Federalist Papers - Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison

The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States and the fate of the nation quite literally hung in the balance. Writing in concert as “Publius,” Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison urged voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States. A masterpiece of political theory, The Federalist Papers remains important and vital reading for anyone seeking to understand the tensions at the heart of the United States.

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The Aspern Papers and Other Tales - Henry James

A wonderful new selection of Henry James s short stories exploring the relationship between art and life, edited by Michael Gorra.This volume gathers seven of the very best of Henry James s short stories, all focussing the relationship between art and life. In The Aspern Papers , a critic is determined to get his hands on a great poet s papers hidden in a faded Venetian house - not matter what the human cost. The Author of Beltraffio , The Lesson of the Master and The Figure in the Carpet all focus on naive young men s unsettling encounters with their literary heroes. In The Middle Years , a dying novelist begins to glimpse his own potential, while The Real Thing and Greville Fane both explore the tension between artistic and commercial success. These fables of the creative life reveal James at his ironic, provocative best.Henry James was born in 1843 in New York and died in London in 1916. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel, he wrote some twenty novels, the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875). They include The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl.Michael Gorra is Professor of English at Smith College and the author of Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece (2012), a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in biography.

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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 48 - Thomas Jefferson

A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Thomas JeffersonJefferson sends his annual message to Congress. He submits the peace treaty with Tripoli, but ratification takes months as the Senate asks for supporting documentation and Congress considers the request of Ahmad Qaramanli for compensation. The president desires action to make Spain negotiate outstanding issues and urges defensive preparations in the event of armed conflict. Congress appropriates $2 million for the purchase of Florida and approves the appointment of James Bowdoin and John Armstrong as commissioners to negotiate. New restrictive measures by Great Britain that threaten to choke off American trade with the West Indies spark memorials by merchants in seaport cities. After Congress passes an act outlawing trade with Haiti for a year, Timothy Pickering decries the administration⠙s ⠜spaniel servility⠝ to France. Representatives of the Cherokee, Potawatomi, Sac, Fox, Osage, Missouri, Kansas, Otoe, Iowa, Pawnee, and Sioux nations come to Washington. South American revolutionary Francisco de Miranda travels in the United States, secretly collecting men and materials for a projected uprising in Venezuela. Tunisian envoy Sulayman Melmelli is in Washington. Jefferson⠙s daughter Martha Randolph and her family make an extended visit to the capital, during which his newest grandchild, James Madison Randolph, is born in the President⠙s House.

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The Call of the Wild and White Fang - Jack London

The Call of the Wild and White Fang, two American classics by Jack London, are presented together in this elegantly designed jacketed hardcover edition featuring an introduction by Jack London scholar Kenneth K. Brandt.The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are two classic American adventure novels depicting the evolution of two dogs in the wild. The novels are in fact mirror images of one another, as Call of the Wild depicts Buck’s journey from domestic to wild dog, while White Fang recounts White Fang’s transformation from wild beast to domestic companion. Both convey powerful themes of redemption and survival that continue to affect readers even today. These beautifully written stories, now together in one highly produced volume complete with a timeline of the life and times of Jack London, are a perfect addition to any young adult’s library. Anyone with a taste for adventure, who loves the outdoors or camping, or who spends time daydreaming about living self-sufficiently will be enamored by these adventure stories. Essential volumes for the shelves of every classic literature lover, the Chartwell Classics series includes beautifully presented works and collections from some of the most important authors in literary history. Chartwell Classics are the editions of choice for the most discerning literature buffs. Other titles in the Chartwell Classics Series include: Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft; Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales; Complete Novels of Jane Austen; Complete Sherlock Holme; Complete Tales Poems of Edgar Allen Poe; Complete Works of William Shakespeare; Divine Comedy; Alice #39;s Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales; The Essential Tales of H.P. Lovecraft; The Federalist Papers; The Inferno; Moby Dick; The Odyssey; Pride and Prejudice; The Essential Grimm’s Fairy Tales; Emma; The Great Gatsby; The Secret Garden; Anne of Green Gables; The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe; The Phantom of the Opera; The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital; Republic; Frankenstein; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Meditations; Wuthering Heights; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass; A Tales of Two Cities; Beowulf; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Little Women

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Onward And Upward In The Garden - Elwyn Brooks White, E. B. White, Katharine White

In 1925 Harold Ross hired Katharine Sergeant Angell as a manuscript reader for The New Yorker. Within months she became the magazine’s first fiction editor, discovering and championing the work of Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, James Thurber, Marianne Moore, and her husband-to-be, E. B. White, among others. After years of cultivating fiction, White set her sights on a new genre: garden writing. On March 1, 1958, The New Yorker ran a column entitled “Onward and Upward in the Garden,” a critical review of garden catalogs, in which White extolled the writings of “seedmen and nurserymen,” those unsung authors who produced her “favorite reading matter.” Thirteen more columns followed, exploring the history and literature of gardens, flower arranging, herbalists, and developments in gardening. Two years after her death in 1977, E. B. White collected and published the series, with a fond introduction. The result is this sharp-eyed appreciation of the green world of growing things, of the aesthetic pleasures of gardens and garden writing, and of the dreams that gardens inspire.

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The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux

Filled with passion, love, and suspense, The Phantom of the Opera is a thrilling classic.Rumors abound that the Paris Opera House is haunted by a ghost. Nobody has ever seen it, but it makes itself known through malevolent acts. First published in book form in 1911, this gothic novel by Gaston Leroux has been fascinating readers for more than a century and is the inspiration for the long-running hit musical. This elegant, unabridged edition includes an introduction by literary critic Susan Balée and a timeline of the author’s life at the back. Join the generations of fans seduced by this enthralling story of mystery and romance. Essential volumes for the shelves of every classic literature lover, the Chartwell Classics series includes beautifully presented works and collections from some of the most important authors in literary history. Chartwell Classics are the editions of choice for the most discerning literature buffs. Other titles in the Chartwell Classics Series include: Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft; Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales; Complete Novels of Jane Austen; Complete Sherlock Holme; Complete Tales Poems of Edgar Allen Poe; Complete Works of William Shakespeare; Divine Comedy; Alice #39;s Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales; The Essential Tales of H.P. Lovecraft; The Federalist Papers; The Inferno; The Call of the Wild and White Fang; Moby Dick; The Odyssey; Pride and Prejudice; The Essential Grimm’s Fairy Tales; Emma; The Great Gatsby; The Secret Garden; Anne of Green Gables; The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe; The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital; Republic; Frankenstein; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Meditations; Wuthering Heights; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass; A Tales of Two Cities; Beowulf; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Little Women

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The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgsonová-Burnettová

This beautifully designed, jacketed hardcover edition of The Secret Garden is unabridged and includes 8 illustrations by Charles Robinson. When Mary Lennox is sent from India to the moors of England to live with her uncle after losing her parents, not only does she discover a secret garden, but she also discovers the true meaning of family, friendship, and perseverance. This magical, timeless classic, originally published in 1911, is by the author of A Little Princess and Little Lord Faunteleroy. Essential volumes for the shelves of every classic literature lover, the Chartwell Classics series includes beautifully presented works and collections from some of the most important authors in literary history. Chartwell Classics are the editions of choice for the most discerning literature buffs. Other titles in the Chartwell Classics Series include: Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft; Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales; Complete Novels of Jane Austen; Complete Sherlock Holme; Complete Tales Poems of Edgar Allen Poe; Complete Works of William Shakespeare; Divine Comedy; Alice #39;s Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales; The Essential Tales of H.P. Lovecraft; The Federalist Papers; The Inferno; The Call of the Wild and White Fang; Moby Dick; The Odyssey; Pride and Prejudice; The Essential Grimm’s Fairy Tales; Emma; The Great Gatsby; Anne of Green Gables; The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe; The Phantom of the Opera; The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital; Republic; Frankenstein; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Meditations; Wuthering Heights; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass; A Tales of Two Cities; Beowulf; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Little Women

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Peter Pan - James Matthew Barrie

This collectible edition of Peter Pan, packaged in a beautiful, vibrant clothbound hardcover, is unabridged and includes 12 color and black-and-white illustrations by F.D. Bedford. Originally told as a tale by J.M. Barrie to five brothers and first produced as a play in 1904, Peter Pan is the beloved and classic story about the boy who never grows up. Follow the Darling children—Wendy, John, and Michael—as they fly over the rooftops of London to Neverland and have adventures with the Lost Boys, Tinker Bell, Tiger Lily, mermaids, and the dreadful Captain Hook and his band of pirates. Essential volumes for the shelves of every classic literature lover, the Chartwell Classics series includes beautifully presented works and collections from some of the most important authors in literary history. Chartwell Classics are the editions of choice for the most discerning literature buffs. Other titles in the Chartwell Classics series include The Essential Tales Poems of Edgar Allen Poe; The Essential Tales of H.P. Lovecraft; The Federalist Papers; The Inferno; The Call of the Wild and White Fang; Moby Dick; The Odyssey; Pride and Prejudice; Grimm’s Fairy Tales; Emma; The Great Gatsby; The Secret Garden; Anne of Green Gables; The Phantom of the Opera; The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital; The Republic; Frankenstein; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Meditations; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass; A Tales of Two Cities; Beowulf; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Little Women; Wuthering Heights; The Alchemist; Persuasion; Aesop’s Fables; The Constitution of the United States and Selected Writings; Crime and Punishment; Dracula; Great Expectations; The Iliad; Irish and Fairy Folk Tales; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; The War of the Worlds; and The Time Machine and The Invisible Man.

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Reynolds Pamphlet - Alexander Hamilton

The Reynolds Pamphlet (1797) is an essay by Alexander Hamilton. Written while Hamilton was serving as Secretary of the Treasury, the Pamphlet was intended as a defense against accusations that Hamilton had conspired with James Reynolds to misuse funds meant to cover unpaid wages to Revolutionary War veterans. Admitting to an affair with Maria, Reynolds’ wife, Hamilton claims that the accusation is nothing more than an attempt at blackmail. This revelation not only endangered Hamilton’s career as a public figure, but constituted perhaps the earliest sex scandal in American history. “The bare perusal of the letters from Reynolds and his wife is sufficient to convince my greatest enemy that there is nothing worse in the affair than an irregular and indelicate amour. For this, I bow to the just censure which it merits. I have paid pretty severely for the folly and can never recollect it without disgust and self condemnation. It might seem affectation to say more.”Accused of corruption in his role as Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton was forced to confess his adultery, bringing shame to himself as a married man and supposedly honorable public figure, yet saving his political career in the process. Looking back on his affair with Maria Reynolds from a distance of five years, Hamilton expresses regret for his foolishness, yet wholeheartedly denies her husband’s accusation that he had been involved in his scheme to misuse government funds. Perhaps the first sex scandal in American history, the Reynolds affair sent shockwaves throughout the burgeoning republic, leaving many to question the motives and character of their leaders for the first time, though certainly not the last. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

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Alexander Hamilton - R. B. Bernstein

This is a brief introduction to the life, thought, work, and legacy of Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), but it is not a traditional biography. Public curiosity about Hamilton, his life, and his work has swelled, particularly among those intrigued by popular-culture portrayals in the Broadway musical Hamilton: An American Musical. This book presents a summary of Hamilton s life and explores his role in revolution, constitutionalism, economics, diplomacy, and war, as well as his relationship to honor culture and duelling. The epilogue considers Hamilton s legacies.The book considers Hamilton as a key founding father, focusing on his work as a politician, a constitutional thinker, and the nation s first secretary of the treasury. In that role, Hamilton was perhaps the leading American domestic policy-maker and nationalist. He led the effort to write the brilliant defense and exposition of the Constitution, The Federalist, and later, as treasury secretary, he pioneered efforts to interpret the Constitution broadly, as a generous grant of national power to the government of the United States. As part of that effort, he also pioneered expositions of the Constitution as a source of executive and judicial power. In addition, as a leading figure in the American world of honor culture, Hamilton was also a principal exponent of political combat in defense of personal and political honor. As such, he was a tragic victim of the honor culture he did so much to establish as a component of national politics, dying as the result of a mortal wound he suffered in his 1804 duel with Aaron Burr, his longtime antagonist and Vice President of the United States.Though not often an admired political figure in his own time, Hamilton was perhaps the leading and most enthusiastic exponent of American constitutional nationalism. In the more than two centuries since his death in 1804, Hamilton has continued to be the principal advocate of a nationalist reading of US constitutionalism.

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John Jay Jay: The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Vol. 1 - LP (4535351)

LP vinyl - Nově remasterovaná verze na vinylu The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 1 je název používaný pro dvě různá, ale související alba amerického jazzového trombonisty J. J. Johnsona. Nově remasterovaná verze na vinylu Rok vydání 2023 Seznam stop Side 1 Turnpike / Lover Man / Get Happy / Sketch 1 / Capri Side 2 Jay / Old Devil Moon / It #039;s You or No One / Too Marvelous for Words / Coffee Pot

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Alexander Hamilton - Chernow Ron

You ve seen the show, you ve sung the songs, now read the full story of America s most misunderstood founding father. I was swept up by the story. I thought it out-Dickens Dickens in the unlikeliness of this man s rise from his humble beginnings in Nevis in the Caribbean, to changing, helping shape our young nation. And it s uniquely an immigrant story and it s uniquely a story about writers... It s an amazing biography LIN-MANUEL MIRANDAAlexander Hamilton was an illegitimate self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who overcame all the odds to become George Washington s aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.Few figures in American history are more controversial than Alexander Hamilton. In this masterful work, Chernow shows how the political and economic power of America today is the result of Hamilton s willingness to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. He charts his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Monroe and Burr; his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds; his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza; and the notorious duel with Aaron Burr that led to his death in July 1804.

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Alexander Hamilton (0143034758)

Kniha - autor Ron Chernow, 818 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor Ron Chernow, 818 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The renowned author of "Titan," whom the "New York Times" has called "as elegant an architect of monumental histories as we've seen in decades," vividly recreates the whole sweep of Alexander Hamilton's turbulent life.

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The Palace Papers - Tina Brownová

WITH AN EXCLUSIVE NEW CHAPTER FOR THE PAPERBACK EDITIONThe Amazon No.1 BestsellerThe Sunday Times BestsellerTHE ROYAL BOOK OF THE YEAR_________________________________ Eye-poppingly revealing. . .impeccable sources, historical heft and canny insights served up with a zingy wit. There are many royal biographers, but few as good as this. She turns gossip into the first draft of history. TELEGRAPHFrom the Queen s stoic resolve to the crisis of Meghan and Harry.From the ascendance of Camilla and Kate to the downfall of Andrew. Full of remarkable inside access, The Palace Papers by Sunday Times bestselling author Tina Brown will change how you understand the Royal Family. Clever, well-informed and disgustingly entertaining THE TIMES There are royal books, and there are royal books.But The Palace Papers is in a genre of its own RADIO TIMES Jaw dropping! What a book . . .if you ever want to feel like a fly on the wall of any of the palaces, this is it. LORRAINE KELLY Brown s prose has the swoosh of an enjoyably OTT ballgown FINANCIAL TIMES The world s sharpish and best-informed royal expert PIERS MORGAN Riveting and rigorous PANDORA SYKES A witty, rip-roaring read . . .full off perceptive and witty observations i Newspaper A rollicking ride through recent royal family history . . .Tina Brown s sparkling prose and eye for detail enliven an entertaining expose OBSERVER The most explosive royal book of the year THE SUN Gloriously irreverent, racily written and often very funny. The early chapters on the long affair between Prince Charles and Camilla read like a non-fiction version of Jilly Cooper s Rutshire Chronicles NEW STATESMAN A motherlode of delectable gossip . .. Brown has produced a work both scholarly and scandalous that makes us think about what the post-Elizabethan world may bring, alternately amusing and horrifying us along the way . .. vivid and richly-embroidered INDEPENDENT The devil is in the delicious detail . .. Brown tackles her subjects with the same brio she brought to her years as a highly regarded magazine editor . .. Her access to those who flit around the royals gives her writing an edgy authenticity DAILY MAIL Brown thrashes her way through absolutely everything that has happened to the family since the end of the last book in 1997 . .. Charles and Camilla are vividly brought to life in a series of well-researched stories and anecdotes SUNDAY TIMES The Palace Papers is a sharp-nibbed observation of a generation of tumult for the House of Windsor, bookended by the deaths of Princess Diana and Prince Philip. It s a story about media as much as monarchy, and it draws from almost every chapter in Brown s career in journalism FINANCIAL TIMES It s hard to look away as Tina Brown delves into decades worth of royal scandals GUARDIAN Utter brilliance .. . a rip-roaring read SCOTSMAN A brilliant book.Tina Brown has inside knowledge and writes so well LADY ANNE GLENCONNER (author of Lady in Waiting)_________________________________ Never again , became Queen Elizabeth II s mantra shortly after Diana s death. More specifically, there could never be another Diana - a member of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the British monarchy. Picking up where The Diana Chronicles left off, The Palace Papers reveals how the royal family reinvented itself after the traumatic years when Diana s blazing celebrity ripped through the House of Windsor like a comet.Tina Brown takes readers on a tour de force journey that shows the Queen s stoic resolve as she coped with the passing of Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother and her partner for seven decades, Prince Philip, and triumphed in her Jubilee years even as the family dramas raged around her. She explores Prince Charles s determination to make Camilla his queen, the tension between William and Harry who are on different paths , the ascendance Kate Middleton, the disturbing allegations surrounding Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein, and Harry and Meghan s stunning decision to step back as senior royals. Despite the fragile monarchy s best efforts, never again seems fast approaching.

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The Oak Papers - James Canton

Some five years ago, I sought solace from the ways of the world by stepping into the embrace of an ancient oak tree . . . From the first meeting, there grew a strange sense of attachment I did not consciously recognise until I later began to realise the significance that trees, and oak trees especially, can have in our lives. James Canton spent two years sitting with and studying the Honywood Oak. A colossus of a tree, it would have been a sapling when Magna Carta was signed. Initially visiting the tree for escape and solitude, in time he learns to study it more closely. He examines how our long-standing dependency on oak trees has developed and morphed into myth and legend.The Oak Papers is a stunning, meditative and healing book about the lessons we can learn from the natural world, if only we slow down enough to listen.

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The Twentysomething Treatment - Jay Meg

Our twenties can be challenging. Today, so many twentysomethings are struggling, especially with anxiety and depression, and yet weâ ™re not sure what to think or do about it. In The Twentysomething Treatment psychologist Dr. Meg Jay explores why and unveils a ground-breaking approach that prioritizes skills over pills.As a seasoned clinical psychologist specialising in the unique challenges of this pivotal decade, Dr. Jay dismantles the myth that twentysomethings are fragile beings and explains why medication is sometimes, but not always, the best medicine.Within the transformative pages of this book, Dr. Jay provides practical solutions for a range of problems as she expertly guides readers through finding purpose and embracing uncertainty without unravelling. She offers actionable advice on navigating the intricacies of work, love, sex, friendship, confidence, health and happiness.The Twentysomething Treatment is not just a book; it s a lifeline for a generation grappling with a mental health crisis. It is a roadmap that guides us towards stronger mental health throughout our twenties and beyond.

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The Secret Race - Daniel Coyle, Hamilton Tyler

On a fateful night in 2009, Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle met for dinner in Boulder, Colorado. Over the next eighteen months, Hamilton would tell Coyle his story, and his sport s story, in explosive detail, never sparing himself in the process. In a way, he became as obsessed with telling the truth as he had been with winning the Tour de France just a few years before. The truth would set Tyler free, but would also be the most damning indictment yet of teammates like Lance Armstrong. The result of this determination is The Secret Race, a book that pulls back the curtain and takes us into the secret world of professional cycling like never before. A world populated by unbelievably driven – and some flawed – characters. A world where the competition used every means to get an edge, and the options were stark. A world where it often felt like there was no choice.

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Dictating the Agenda - Alexander Dukalskis, Alexander Cooley

This is a story not just of the limits of liberal influence across the world, but of how authoritarian governments came to dictate the global agenda by repurposing the very actors, tools, and norms that once afforded US-backed liberalism such global prominence. Following the end of the Cold War, the world experienced a remarkable wave of democratization. Over the next two decades, numerous authoritarian regimes transitioned to democracies, and it seemed that authoritarianism as a political model was fading. But as recent events have shown, things have clearly changed. In Dictating the Agenda, authors Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis reveal how today s authoritarian states are actively countering liberal ideas and advocacy surrounding human rights and democracy across various global governance domains. The transformed global context has unlocked for authoritarian states the possibility to contend with Western liberal soft power in new, traditionally non-political ways, including by plugging or even reversing the very channels of influence that originally spread liberalism. Cooley and Dukalskis ultimately advance a theory of authoritarian snapback, the process in which non-democratic states limit the transnational resonance of liberal ideas at home and advance anti-liberal norms and ideas into the global public sphere. Drawing from a range of evidence, including field work interviews and comparative case studies that demonstrate the changing nature of consumer boycotts, a database of authoritarian government administrative actions against foreign journalists, a database of global content-sharing agreement involving Chinese and Russian state media, and a database of transnational higher education partnerships involving authoritarian and democratic countries, this book doesn t just reveal the limits of the liberal influence taken for granted across the world. It offers a novel theory of how authoritarian governments figured out how to exploit and repurpose the same actors, tools, and norms that once exclusively promoted and sustained US-backed liberalism.

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KS2 Maths Year 6 SATS Practice Papers: Pack 1 - for the 2026 tests (with free Online Extras) - CGP Books

Unbeatable practice for the latest SATS tests! This indispensable KS2 Practice Paper Pack 1 contains two full sets of realistic Maths SATS papers, plus a detailed answer book with full exam-style mark scheme. What s more, this pack comes with a whole host of online extras, including: â ¢Pupil-Friendly Answers - Crystal-clear worked answers, perfect for pupils marking their own work.â ¢SATS Parents Guide - Everything parents need to know about the SATS.â ¢Mini Quizzes - Five mini Maths quizzes to print or view online. Perfect as warm-up activities or extra practice. â ¢Class Marking Spreadsheet - Easy recording and analysis of pupils test scores. Just enter your pupils names and marks and it ll highlight any areas that need more work! â ¢Whiteboard Editions - Digital versions of the Practice Papers with worked answers already filled in! Ideal for showing onscreen or on interactive whiteboards to talk through with your class. Just use the unique code included in the pack to gain access to all these free online goodies.

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KS2 Maths Year 6 SATS Practice Papers: Pack 5 - for the 2026 tests (with free Online Extras) - CGP Books

Unbeatable practice for the latest SATS tests! This indispensable KS2 Practice Paper Pack 5 contains two full sets of realistic Maths SATS papers, plus a detailed answer book with full exam-style mark scheme. What s more, this pack comes with a whole host of online extras, including: â ¢Pupil-Friendly Answers - Crystal-clear worked answers, perfect for pupils marking their own work.â ¢SATS Parents Guide - Everything parents need to know about the SATS.â ¢Mini Quizzes - Five mini Maths quizzes to print or view online. Perfect as warm-up activities or extra practice. â ¢Class Marking Spreadsheet - Easy recording and analysis of pupils test scores. Just enter your pupils names and marks and it ll highlight any areas that need more work! â ¢Whiteboard Editions - Digital versions of the Practice Papers with worked answers already filled in! Ideal for showing onscreen or on interactive whiteboards to talk through with your class. Just use the unique code included in the pack to gain access to all these free online goodies.

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KS2 Maths Year 6 SATS Practice Papers: Pack 2 - for the 2026 tests (with free Online Extras) - CGP Books

Unbeatable practice for the latest SATS tests! This indispensable KS2 Practice Paper Pack 2 contains two full sets of realistic Maths SATS papers, plus a detailed answer book with full exam-style mark scheme. What s more, this pack comes with a whole host of online extras, including: â ¢Pupil-Friendly Answers - Crystal-clear worked answers, perfect for pupils marking their own work.â ¢SATS Parents Guide - Everything parents need to know about the SATS.â ¢Mini Quizzes - Five mini Maths quizzes to print or view online. Perfect as warm-up activities or extra practice. â ¢Class Marking Spreadsheet - Easy recording and analysis of pupils test scores. Just enter your pupils names and marks and it ll highlight any areas that need more work! â ¢Whiteboard Editions - Digital versions of the Practice Papers with worked answers already filled in! Ideal for showing onscreen or on interactive whiteboards to talk through with your class. Just use the unique code included in the pack to gain access to all these free online goodies.

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The Ex-Husband - Karen Hamilton

She s safe from him, a thousand miles from harm. Or so she thought. Immediately gripping. Once I started I couldn t stop ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ REAL READER REVIEW Perfect holiday reading ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ REAL READER REVIEW Absolutely brilliant. Can t put it down! ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ REAL READER REVIEW A gripping, luxurious thriller Laura Marshall An irresistible slice of escapism TM Logan Full of twists and turns, it will keep you furiously turning the pages... Sarah Pearse Pacy, exciting and unpredictable. Charlotte Duckworth An addictive page-turner, pulsing with threat. Thrillingly sinister! Lucy ClarkeCharlotte and Sam were partners. In life, and in crime, but that s all behind her.Until now, years later, it comes rushing back when her estranged ex-husband Sam suddenly goes missing. And someone threatens to expose what she did.Desperate to escape her mysterious tormentor, Charlotte boards a luxurious superyacht in the Caribbean. But it soon becomes clear that the open ocean isn t the haven she thought it was.Because they are onboard too. And now there s nowhere left to run.Praise for Karen Hamilton: Fabulously dark Harriet Tyce Wonderfully twisted C J Tudor Karen Hamilton has a rare gift for character Fiona Cummins Compelling, absorbing and highly entertaining. Allie Reynolds Sizzles with tension, desire, and a forever-escalating sense of menace. A must-have summer read. Jack Jordan A dark and addictive thriller with superb characters and a shocking conclusion. Jenny Quintana Dazzling, dangerous and addictive. The perfect combination for a twisty exotic thriller. Lauren North Completely addictive, fantastically paced. I was absolutely immersed in The Ex-Husband. L V Matthews Let this supremely enjoyable thriller whisk you up, up and away. Sunday Mirror Grippingly unpredictable Daily Express Be prepared to put your life on hold for The Perfect Girlfriend Good Housekeeping Taut and tense from the first page to the closing paragraphs Sun Fast-moving and fun Observer

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The Speckled People - Hugo Hamilton

â ˜This is the most gripping book I ve read in ages â ¦ It is beautifully written, fascinating, disturbing and often very funny.â ™ Roddy DoyleThe childhood world of Hugo Hamilton, born and brought up in Dublin, is a confused place. His father, a sometimes brutal Irish nationalist, demands his children speak Gaelic, while his mother, a softly spoken German emigrant who has been marked by the Nazi past, speaks to them in German. He himself wants to speak English. English is, after all, what the other children in Dublin speak. English is what they use when they hunt him down in the streets and dub him Eichmann, as they bring him to trial and sentence him to death at a mock seaside court.Out of this fear and guilt and often comical cultural entanglements, he tries to understand the differences between Irish history and German history and turn the twisted logic of what he is told into truth. It is a journey that ends in liberation, but not before he uncovers the long-buried secrets that lie at the bottom of his parents wardrobe.In one of the finest books to have emerged from Ireland in many years, the acclaimed novelist Hugo Hamilton has finally written his own story â “ a deeply moving memoir about a whole family s homesickness for a country they can call their own.

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KS2 English Year 6 SATS Practice Papers: Pack 2 - for the 2026 tests (with free Online Extras) - CGP Books

Unbeatable practice for the latest SATS tests! This indispensable KS2 Practice Paper Pack 2 contains two full sets of realistic English SATS papers, plus a detailed answer book with full exam-style mark scheme. What s more, this pack comes with a whole host of online extras, including: â ¢Pupil-Friendly Answers - Crystal-clear worked answers, perfect for pupils marking their own work.â ¢SATS Parents Guide - Everything parents need to know about the SATS.â ¢Mini Quizzes - Five mini SPaG quizzes to print or view online. Perfect as warm-up activities or extra practice. â ¢Class Marking Spreadsheet - Easy recording and analysis of pupils test scores. Just enter your pupils names and marks and it ll highlight any areas that need more work! â ¢Whiteboard Editions - Digital versions of the Practice Papers with worked answers already filled in! Ideal for showing onscreen or on interactive whiteboards to talk through with your class. Just use the unique code included in the pack to gain access to all these free online goodies.

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KS2 English Year 6 SATS Practice Papers: Pack 5 - for the 2026 tests (with free Online Extras) - CGP Books

Unbeatable practice for the latest SATS tests! This indispensable KS2 Practice Paper Pack 5 contains two full sets of realistic English SATS papers, plus a detailed answer book with full exam-style mark scheme. What s more, this pack comes with a whole host of online extras, including: â ¢Pupil-Friendly Answers - Crystal-clear worked answers, perfect for pupils marking their own work.â ¢SATS Parents Guide - Everything parents need to know about the SATS.â ¢Mini Quizzes - Five mini SPaG quizzes to print or view online. Perfect as warm-up activities or extra practice. â ¢Class Marking Spreadsheet - Easy recording and analysis of pupils test scores. Just enter your pupils names and marks and it ll highlight any areas that need more work! â ¢Whiteboard Editions - Digital versions of the Practice Papers with worked answers already filled in! Ideal for showing onscreen or on interactive whiteboards to talk through with your class. Just use the unique code included in the pack to gain access to all these free online goodies.

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The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens

One of my life s greatest tragedies is to have already read Pickwick Papers - I can t go back and read it for the first time Fernando PessoaFew first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers - a comic masterpiece that catapulted its twenty-four-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the sportsman Winkle and, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr Pickwick, and his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election, characters and incidents sprang to life from Dickens s pen, to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour and literary invention. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Mark Wormald

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The Age of Alexander - Plutarch

The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen since the Renaissance, most notably Shakespeare. This selection of ten biographies spans the period from the start of the fourth century BC to the early third, and covers some of the most important figures in Greek history, such as the orator Demosthenes and Alexander the Great, as well as lesser known figures such as Plato s pupil Dion of Syracuse. Each Life is an important work of literature in itself, but taken together they provide a vivid picture of the Greek world during a period that saw the collapse of Spartan power, the rise of Macedonia, the conquests of Alexander and the wars of his successors.Timothy Duff s revised version of Ian Scott-Kilvert s translations is accompanied by a new general introduction, and introductions and notes to each Life. He has also added two Lives previously not included: Artaxerxes I, Great King of Persia from 405 to 359 BC, and Eumenes of Cardia, one of Alexander s officers.

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The Dido Papers - John Johnson-Allen

An extraordinary and rare glimpse into the daily life of a cadet and midshipman in the Victorian Navy.

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KS2 English Year 6 SATS Practice Papers: Pack 4 - for the 2026 tests (with free Online Extras) - CGP Books

Unbeatable practice for the latest SATS tests! This indispensable KS2 Practice Paper Pack 4 contains two full sets of realistic English SATS papers, plus a detailed answer book with full exam-style mark scheme. What s more, this pack comes with a whole host of online extras, including: â ¢Pupil-Friendly Answers - Crystal-clear worked answers, perfect for pupils marking their own work.â ¢SATS Parents Guide - Everything parents need to know about the SATS.â ¢Mini Quizzes - Five mini SPaG quizzes to print or view online. Perfect as warm-up activities or extra practice. â ¢Class Marking Spreadsheet - Easy recording and analysis of pupils test scores. Just enter your pupils names and marks and it ll highlight any areas that need more work! â ¢Whiteboard Editions - Digital versions of the Practice Papers with worked answers already filled in! Ideal for showing onscreen or on interactive whiteboards to talk through with your class. Just use the unique code included in the pack to gain access to all these free online goodies.

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KS2 English Year 6 SATS Practice Papers: Pack 3 - for the 2026 tests (with free Online Extras) - CGP Books

Unbeatable practice for the latest SATS tests! This indispensable KS2 Practice Paper Pack 3 contains two full sets of realistic English SATS papers, plus a detailed answer book with full exam-style mark scheme. What s more, this pack comes with a whole host of online extras, including: â ¢Pupil-Friendly Answers - Crystal-clear worked answers, perfect for pupils marking their own work.â ¢SATS Parents Guide - Everything parents need to know about the SATS.â ¢Mini Quizzes - Five mini SPaG quizzes to print or view online. Perfect as warm-up activities or extra practice. â ¢Class Marking Spreadsheet - Easy recording and analysis of pupils test scores. Just enter your pupils names and marks and it ll highlight any areas that need more work! â ¢Whiteboard Editions - Digital versions of the Practice Papers with worked answers already filled in! Ideal for showing onscreen or on interactive whiteboards to talk through with your class. Just use the unique code included in the pack to gain access to all these free online goodies.

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KS2 English Year 6 SATS Practice Papers: Pack 1 - for the 2026 tests (with free Online Extras) - CGP Books

Unbeatable practice for the latest SATS tests! This indispensable KS2 Practice Paper Pack 1 contains two full sets of realistic English SATS papers, plus a detailed answer book with full exam-style mark scheme. What s more, this pack comes with a whole host of online extras, including: â ¢Pupil-Friendly Answers - Crystal-clear worked answers, perfect for pupils marking their own work.â ¢SATS Parents Guide - Everything parents need to know about the SATS.â ¢Mini Quizzes - Five mini SPaG quizzes to print or view online. Perfect as warm-up activities or extra practice. â ¢Class Marking Spreadsheet - Easy recording and analysis of pupils test scores. Just enter your pupils names and marks and it ll highlight any areas that need more work! â ¢Whiteboard Editions - Digital versions of the Practice Papers with worked answers already filled in! Ideal for showing onscreen or on interactive whiteboards to talk through with your class. Just use the unique code included in the pack to gain access to all these free online goodies.

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In The Footsteps Of Alexander The Great - Michael Wood

Michael Wood retraces Alexander the Greats amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend and experiencing the tremendous scale of his achievements. Using the ancient historians as his guides, Wood follows Alexanders journey as closely as possible, crossing deserts and rivers, from Turkey to war-torn Afghanistan. As the journey progresses, he recreates the drama of Alexanders epic marches and bloody battles. All along the way he finds proof of the survival of the legends surrounding Alexander, a leader whose life has excited the worlds imagination for the 2,000 years. Wood tells a glorious story with some very dark shadows. New York Times Wood is a perceptive, entertaining and enthusiastic companion. Sunday Times Wood is a lively storyteller. The Washington Post

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Lord John and the Hand of Devils - Diana Gabaldon

A keepsake collection of Lord John Grey s shorter adventures and a spectacular addition to any Gabaldon fan s library, Lord John and the Hand of the Devils brings these three unique novellas together for the first time.____________Lord John and the Hellfire Club marks the first appearance of Lord John outside the Outlander novels (and chronologically precedes the novel Lord John and the Private Matter). A young diplomat is killed in the street as he begs Lord John for help. Witnessing the murder, Grey vows to avenge the young man, as the trail leads to the notorious Hellfire Club and the dark caves beneath Medmenham AbbeyIn Lord John and the Succubus, Grey s assignment as liaison to a Hanoverian regiment in Germany finds him caught between two threats: the advancing French and Austrian army, and the menace of a mysterious night-hag, who spreads fear and death among the troops. Acknowledging that he is unlikely to fall victim to a succubus, Lord John is obliged to contend with the marauding night-hag before the enemy arrives. This tale with a touch of the supernatural bridges the action between Gabaldon s two full-length Lord John tales.Finally, in Lord John and the Haunted Soldier, Lord John is called to the Arsenal at Woolwich to answer a Royal Commission of Enquiry s questions regarding a cannon that exploded during the battle of Krefeld (a central action in Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade). Accusations ensue, and Lord John finds himself knee-deep in a morass of gunpowder, treason, and plot -- haunted by a dead lieutenant, and followed by a man with no face.____________Readers love Lord John and the Hand of Devils . . .***** John Grey is my spirit animal. I am such a fan of this series! ***** My eyes couldn t read fast enough!! ***** I enjoyed all three, once again became lost in the time period within seconds of starting to read....I don t know how Diana G. does it! ***** I really, really liked this trilogy of novellas that were included in this book. ***** The insight is fascinating, interesting and favourable.

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The Palace Papers (1529124719)

Kniha - autor Anonymous; Tina Brown, 320 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Never again', became Queen Elizabeth II's mantra shortly after Diana's death. More specifically, there could never be 'another Diana' - a member of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the British monarchy. Picking up where The Diana Chronicles left off, The Palace Papers reveals how the royal family reinvented itself after the traumatic years when Diana's blazing celebrity ripped through the House of Windsor like a comet. Tina Brown takes readers on a tour de force journey that shows the Queen's stoic resolve as she coped with the passing of Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother and her partner for seven decades, Prince Philip, and triumphed in her Jubilee years even as the family dramas raged around her. She explores Prince Charles's determination to make Camilla his queen, the tension between William and Harry who are on...

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The Fault in Our Stars - John Green

*The film tie-in edition of John Green s witty yet heart-breaking tour de force. This edition of the multi-million #1 bestseller contains images from the major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort. I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once. Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel s story is about to be completely rewritten.Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.Sunday Times (Culture) A touching, often fiercely funny novel The Sun on Sunday (Fabulous Magazine) So good I think it should be compulsory reading for everyone! Daily Express John Green brilliantly captures the voices of a young generation while instilling it with the wisdom of a life that has lived too much yet will never live enough. Rather than depressing, the book is filled with dark humour and is written with a beautiful simplicity that draws the reader in so deeply that it s not just the twist and turns but the gently bends and curves that you feel tugging at your emotions... No doubt in the end you will cry but you will also feel that you have discovered a little something about living Daily Telegraph The novel, written for teenagers, but proving even more popular with adults The Metro - 2013 Best Fiction The YA crossover hit of the year. The love affair of two terminally ill teenagers could be mawkish. In fact, it s funny, clever, irreverent and life-affirming. The Guardian A Smart Book Grazia So good! Good Housekeeping John Green may write for young adults, but his intelligent sensitive style means The Fault in Our Stars defies categorisation... as funny as it is heartbreaking... we defy you not to fall in love with its main characters, Hazel and Augustus. The Tablet A humourous and poignant love story... It s terrifically funny... as well as a moving exploration of loss and grief. And no, it s so much not just for teenage cancer sufferers... it s for everyone. Bliss If you need inspiration when it comes to making the most of a moment, this one is for you Mizz Exploring the funny, thrilling and tragic business of being alive and in love, this is a life-affirming tale of two teenagers who are terminally ill. Insightful, bold, irreverent and raw, if this doesn t make you cry, it ll definitely make you think, laugh and maybe even fall in love yourself! ** A thought-provoking love story from the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns and - with David Levithan - Will Grayson, Will Grayson.** John Green has over 2.3 million Twitter followers, and more than 2.1 million subscribers to Vlogbrothers, the YouTube channel he created with his brother, Hank. ** The Fault in Our Stars will capture a crossover audience in the same vein as Zadie Smith, David Nicholls One Day and Before I Die by Jenny Downham. ** Electric . . . Filled with staccato bursts of humor and tragedy - Jodi Picoult** A novel of life and death and the people caught in between, The Fault in Our Stars is John Green at his best. You laugh, you cry, and then you come back for more - Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief

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The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens

With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. With Illustrations by R.Seymour, R.W. Buss and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).The Pickwick Papers is Dickens first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments, it quickly became a huge popular success with sales reaching 40,000 by the final part.In the century and a half since its first appearance, the characters of Mr Pickwick, Sam Weller and the whole of the Pickwickian crew have entered the consciousness of all who love English literature in general, and the works of Dickens in particular.

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The Scarlet Papers - Matthew Richardson

THE BOOK THOSE IN THE KNOW ARE CALLING THE BEST SPY NOVEL OF THE YEAR*** One of the 50 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023 in the Daily Telegraph ****** A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ****** A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ***â ˜Superbly constructed in an elaborate twisty spy yarn. It s highly unlikely that there will be a better espionage novel this yearâ ™ THE SUNDAY TIMES A breathtaking thriller. A classic in the making PETER JAMES Hugely impressive and compelling WILLIAM BOYDâ ˜A natural-born storytellerâ ™ JEFFERY DEAVER___________London, present dayHistorian Max Archer is invited to a clandestine meeting with legendary Cold War spymaster, Scarlet King.Her offer to share the explosive secrets born of over half a century at the heart of global espionage would be life-changing. But Max has little reason to trust a woman whose name is a byword for deceit and ruthlessness.Soon he is on the wrong side of the law and on the run. As the net closes tighter around him he must somehow discover the truth. Because itâ ™s not just his life on the line â “ but also the fate of the Western world . . .___________â ˜Intricate and fast moving, it weaves a thrilling spellâ ™ DAILY MAIL Smart, slick and totally gripping . . . The Scarlet Papers is always credible, always startling and almost painfully human. A total triumph TONY PARSONS A masterpiece TIM GLISTER*** DISCOVER MY NAME IS NOBODY AND THE INSIDER, FURTHER SPY NOVELS BY MATTHEW RICHARDSON ***

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The Body Papers - Grace Talusan

Winner of The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Grace Talusan⠙s critically acclaimed memoir The Body Papers, a New York Times Editors⠙ Choice selection, powerfully explores the fraught contours of her own life as a Filipino immigrant and survivor of cancer and childhood abuse.Born in the Philippines, young Grace Talusan moves with her family to a New England suburb in the 1970s. At school, she confronts racism as one of the few kids with a brown face. At home, the confusion is worse: her grandfather⠙s nightly visits to her room leave her hurt and terrified, and she learns to build a protective wall of silence that maps onto the larger silence practiced by her Catholic Filipino family. Talusan learns as a teenager that her family⠙s legal status in the country has always hung by a thread⠔for a time, they were ⠜illegal.⠝ Family, she⠙s told, must be put first.The abuse and trauma Talusan suffers as a child affects all her relationships, her mental health, and her relationship with her own body. Later, she learns that her family history is threaded with violence and abuse. And she discovers another devastating family thread: cancer. In her thirties, Talusan must decide whether to undergo preventive surgeries to remove her breasts and ovaries. Despite all this, she finds love, and success as a teacher. On a fellowship, Talusan and her husband return to the Philippines, where she revisits her family⠙s ancestral home and tries to reclaim a lost piece of herself.Not every family legacy is destructive. From her parents, Talusan has learned to tell stories in order to continue. The generosity of spirit and literary acuity of this debut memoir are a testament to her determination and resilience. In excavating such abuse and trauma, and supplementing her story with government documents, medical records, and family photos, Talusan gives voice to unspeakable experience, and shines a light of hope into the darkness.

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The Redemption of Alexander Seaton - S.G. MacLean

A sleuth to rival Shardlake or Cadfael - a mystery that will chill your blood. Transports your body and soul to another time and place CRAIG RUSSELL A delight on all levels . . . engaging and moving MANDA SCOTT A truly memorable and exciting read HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEWBanff, Scotland in the 1620s. A young man walks unsteadily through the streets. Is he just drunk or is there something more sinister happening? When he collapses in front of two sisters on that dark, wet night, the women guess that he s been poisoned. His body is discovered in the house of Alexander Seaton - a fallen minister, the discovery of whose clandestine love affair has left him disgraced. Why was the body in Seaton s house? And why would anyone want to murder this likeable young man? Seaton sets out to find answers, embarking on a journey not only through the darkest part of other men s souls, but also his own.A must-read for fans of Rory Clements and SJ Parris.*****************************HEAR WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE REDEMPTION OF ALEXANDER SEATON A thrilling read 5* Reader Review Utterly engrossing 5* Reader Review Terrific stuff 5* Reader Review An enthralling book 5* Reader Review The best new crime novelist I have read since Fred Vargas and Jo Nesbo 5* Reader Review

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The Manual for Good Wives - Lola Jaye

An unforgettable voice within a breathtaking story about love, lineage, and the intergenerational effect of bravery in the face of misfortune â “ Jessica George, author of Divers Book Award winning My Name is MaameEverything about Adeline Copplefield is a lie . . .To the world Mrs Copplefield is the epitome of Victorian propriety: an exemplary society lady who writes a weekly column advising young ladies on how to be better wives.Only Adeline has never been a good wife or mother; she has no claim to the Copplefield name, nor is she an English lady . . .Now a black woman, born in Africa, who dared to pretend to be something she was not, is on trial in the English courts with all of London society baying for her blood. And she is ready to tell her story . . .From the author of The Attic Child, Lola Jaye, comes a powerful dual narrative historical novel. The Manual for Good Wives is about love, generational trauma, second chances and hope.

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The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector s Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector s Library are books to love and treasure. In The Pickwick Papers we are introduced not just to one of the greatest writers in the English language but to some of fiction’s most endearing and memorable characters, starting with the ‘illustrious, immortal and colossal-minded’ Samuel Pickwick himself. It is a rollicking tour de force through an England on the brink of the Victorian era. Reform of government, justice and commercial life are imminent, as are rail travel, social convulsion and the death of deference, but Pickwick sails through on a tide of delirious adventure, fortifying us for the future - whatever it throws at us. Illustrated by H. K. Browne ‘Phiz’, with an afterword by Ned Halley.

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The Hotel Room Mix-Up - Kathy Jay

Two weddings, three hotel reservations gone awry⠦and one weekend in Cornwall they⠙ll never forget!When the similarities between Ella Swift and Callum Smith⠙s last names lead to a hotel room mix-up, they find themselves sharing a cramped cottage in Porthkara rather than the private luxury hotel suites they expected.Each in town for a different wedding ⠓ and carrying more baggage than just the suitcases in their hands ⠓ the reluctant roommates are forced to share a shelter from the storm surge that sweeps in off the Atlantic. But as the rain crashes down there⠙s a shift in more than just the atmosphere, and by the time the sun rises on a new day, Ella and Callum⠙s futures have already been forever changed⠦Readers can⠙t get enough of The Hotel Room Mix-Up:⠘Really enjoyed this adorable story set in England⠦ Highly recommend if you need a little escape into a sweet meet cute!⠙ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Wow! This book was incredible⠦ what an absolute treat! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⠘A brilliant, cosy read with some fun hiccupsin between and that slow-burning spark of a budding relationship.⠙ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⠘The ending made me smile. This book is just perfection.⠙ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⠘This was an excellent ready by Kathy Jay. You will want to continue reading to find out what happens next!⠙ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⠘I love a good wedding themed novel⠦ I think this would make a great book club pick or could possibly be turned into a cute movie.⠙ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Essential SQA Exam Practice: Higher Business Management Questions and Papers - Craig McLeod, James Morrison

Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: Business ManagementFirst teaching: August 2018First exam: Summer 2019Practice makes permanent. Feel confident and prepared for the SQA Higher Business Management exam with this two-in-one book, containing practice questions for every question type and topic, plus two full practice papers - all written by experienced examiners. Choose to revise by question type or topic: A simple grid enables you to pick particular question styles or course areas that you want to focus on, with answers provided at the back of the book Remember more in your exam: Repeated and extended practice will give you a secure knowledge of the key areas of the course (understanding business; management of marketing; management of operations; management of people; management of finance) Familiarise yourself with the exam papers: Both practice papers mirror the language and layout of the real SQA papers; complete them in timed, exam-style conditions to increase your confidence before the exams Find out how to achieve a better grade: Answers to the practice papers have commentaries for each question, with tips on writing successful answers and avoiding common mistakesFully up to date with SQA s requirementsThe questions, mark schemes and guidance in this practice book match the requirements of the revised SQA Higher Business Management specification for examination from 2019 onwards.

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The Church of Living Dangerously - John Lee Bishop

The unbelievable true story of John Bishop, a former megachurch pastor who ended up running drugs for the Sinaloa Cartel.For thirty years, John Bishop was a pastor. Along the way, he learned that everyone does stupid things. We lie to our families. We lie to ourselves. We take long lunch breaks and sneak cigarettes when we said we’d quit. Sometimes, we take a sabbatical from our nice, comfortable life as a pastor and start running drugs for the Sinaloa Cartel, then get caught and spend five years in federal prison.Okay, that last one might just apply to John. But it does make for one hell of a story.In The Church of Living Dangerously, John tells that story in full for the first time—and you don’t know the half of it. Along the way, he brings readers along for the harrowing ride from the rough small town in Washington where he was born all the way to the dirty villages in Mexico where he fell in with some of the most dangerous criminals on the planet. There are backyard fight clubs where John learned to take a punch, the abandoned K-Mart where he used to preach every Sunday (sometimes with the help of wild animals), and the drug dens where he almost lost his life ten times over. It’s a story that seems too wild to be true. But it is true—and John has the scars, both literal and figurative, to prove it.Ride along with John as he gets arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border and learn the story of his life in all its rough, stupid glory of guns, drugs, tigers, bare-knuckle boxing matches, and prison riots. John has learned a lot of important lessons about hardship and redemption and family, and what it means to live dangerously—and to experience another chance at life.

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The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens

When young Charles Dickens was commissioned to write the text for a series of sporting illustrations in 1836, no one could have suspected that this journeyman task was to turn in to one of the great comic novels in English literature. After the premature death of the original illustrator, Dickens took charge of the project, which was published in monthly parts. The result is a brilliant panorama of English life in the 1830s, a cornucopia of stories and vignettes featuring dozens of vividly drawn characters. Chief among them are Mr Pickwick himself, a later day Don Quixote travelling about the country righting wrongs; and his Sancho Panza, Sam Weller, whose pithy sayings and bizarre anecdotes immediately became and remained part of national mythology. With The Pickwick Papers Dickens established himself at a single stroke as a major creative artist, revealing the depth of his human sympathies, the breadth of his interests and his extraordinary linguistic virtuosity.

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The Manual for Good Wives - Lola Jaye

Everything about Adeline Copplefield is a lie . . .To the world Mrs Copplefield is the epitome of Victorian propriety: an exemplary society lady who writes a weekly column advising young ladies on how to be better wives.Only Adeline has never been a good wife or mother; she has no claim to the Copplefield name, nor is she an English lady . . .Now a black woman, born in Africa, who dared to pretend to be something she was not, is on trial in the English courts with all of London society baying for her blood. And she is ready to tell her story . . .From the author of The Attic Child, Lola Jaye, comes The Manual for Good Wives, a dual narrative historical novel about love, generational trauma, second chances and hope.

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Empire of the Dawn - Jay Kristoff

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Jay Kristoff, New York Times bestselling author of the Empire of the Vampire and Empire of the Damned, comes the epic conclusion to the #1 internationally bestselling series.From holy cup comes holy light;The faithful hand sets world aright.And in the Seven Martyrs sight,Mere man shall end this endless night.Gabriel de Leon has lost his family, his faith, and his last hope of ending the endless night-the Holy Grail, Dior. With no desire left but vengeance, he and a band of loyal brothers journey into the war-torn heart of the Augustin Empire to claim the life of the Forever King.Unbeknownst to the Last Silversaint, the Grail still lives-speeding towards Augustin s besieged capital in the frail hope of ending Daysdeath forever. But deadly treachery awaits within the halls of power, and the Forever King s legions march ever closer. Gabriel and Dior will be drawn into a final battle that will shape the very fate of the Empire, but as the sun sets for what may be the last time, there will be no-one left for them to trust.Not even each other.

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The Spectre of Alexander Wolf - Gaito Gazdanov

A tantalising mystery... a mesmerising work of literature Antony Beevor Truly troubling, a weird meditation on death, war and sex Paris ReviewA superb early postmodern classic by one of Nabokov s fellow émigré writers, rediscovered after more than half a centuryA man comes across a short story which recounts in minute detail his killing of a soldier, long ago - from the victim s point of view. It s a story that should not exist, and whose author can only be a dead man.So begins the strange quest for its elusive writer: Alexander Wolf .A singular classic, The Spectre of Alexander Wolf is a psychological thriller and existential inquiry into guilt and redemption, coincidence and fate, love and death.Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globeTranslated by Bryan KaretnykGaito Gazdanov (1903-1971) joined the White Army aged just sixteen and fought in the Russian Civil War. Exiled in Paris from the 1920s onwards, he eventually became a nocturnal taxi-driver and quickly gained prominence on the literary scene as a novelist, essayist, critic and short-story writer, and was greatly acclaimed by Maxim Gorky, among others.

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