Henry and the Yeti

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DescriptionIn 1461 Edward earl of March, an able, handsome, and charming eighteen-year old, usurped the English throne from his feeble Lancastrian ...

A gripping first-hand account of life at home after World War One. When underage soldier, Joe Henry, returns from the war in 1918, the England that...

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The precious water at Shadowspring is running dry but Tadpole and the other yeti don't know why. Could it be that Henry, a human boy, holds the ans...

In Southern Maryland's serene Amish country, one young woman's life is changed by an unexpected request . . . "She's yours." Until now, Rosanna Mas...

Young King Henry wages war on France. But, tainted by his father's crimes, and with enemies among his own men, he must confront the difficult respo...

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Get ready to meet new friends in Book 4 of the beautifully illustrated escapades of Wallace the Brave. Readers will be delighted with tales of frie...

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Description*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography and online resources for further reading "It is quite time that our children were taught a l...

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Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908), endowed with an equipotent facility with sketch-pad and rhyming dictionary, created some of the most arresting sketches ...

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The Victorian fin de siecle has many associations: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on ...

DescriptionThis fascinating book studies the life and times of Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon, Henry VIII's dearest sister and his closest companio...

Henry II conquered the largest empire of any English medieval king. Yet it is the people around him we remember: his wife Eleanor, whom he seduced ...

"Partners both in throne and grave, here rest we two sisters Elizabeth and Mary, in the hope of one resurrection."This inscription is visible on th...

• Autor distins cu Premiul Nobel pentru literatura in 1991. Henry Lawson, V. S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer and Chinua Achebe are respectively Austral...

Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch y...

Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of ...

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Contributor(s): Author: Henry JamesIntroduction by: Derek BrewerNotes by: Patricia CrickHenry James conceived the character of Hyacinth Robinson--h...

DescriptionHenry Tudor, the future Henry VII, has been called the most unlikely King of England. Yet his rise from obscurity was foretold by the ba...

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The first half of the thirteenth century is dominated by two women, as proud and ambitious as they were beautiful, yet different in all other quali...

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Is Henry Parker his brother's keeper? Henry Parker left his old life behind years ago. Since then he has forged a career he'd hungered for, and fal...

"The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective-wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes."- E...

DescriptionGerald of Wales was among the most dynamic and fascinating churchmen of the twelfth century. A member of one of the leading Norman famil...

A young man is found murdered, his bones crushed nearly to dust before his body was dumped into New York's East River In New York there are hundred...

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A son of the vow...a voice for a nationFor many long years, Hannah prayed for a son; a son finally granted to her only when she promised him back t...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Russell AytoIllustration(s): Full colour throughoutNumber of pages: 32Publication date: 2017Dimensio...

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The beguiling stories in Electricity & Other Dreams are in their own category, which might be described as Southern gothic meets tall tale meets di...

Mrs Gereth is convinced that Fleda Vetch would make the perfect daughter-in-law. Owen Gereth, however, has inconveniently become engaged to the unc...

Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley's lif...

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Of the many executions ordered by Henry VIII, surely the most horrifying was that of sixty-seven-year-old Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, hac...

DescriptionMary, Elizabeth and Henrietta Anne, the daughters of King Charles I and his queen, Henrietta Maria, would be brought up against the back...

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From bestselling author, beauty expert and TV personality Chantel Guertin, an intelligent yet swoon-worthy rom-com about modern relationships, mode...

In Heather Kassner's spine-chilling fantasy novel, reminiscent of Serafina and the Black Cloak, an orphaned girl chases a thieving boy into a magic...

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