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Summer 1944: Stranded behind enemy lines in France, eighteen-year-old Katrinka Badeau escapes German deserters with the help of Major Willoughby Nye. Once an employee on her father's merchant ship, Nye is now part of an undercover Jedburgh operation, working for the Allies. When he offers her a job on his team, she accepts.
East Berlin, 1983. One dissident rock band. One plan to defect to the west. One traitor. Udo Dirkmeyer, the charismatic and feckless Mick Jagger of East Germany, is having a tough time of it. It's hard enough being an outlaw rock star in the world's harshest police state.
Kate and Luke's lives are irrevocably changed. Luke is forced to reveal his top-secret military past to rescue Kate from Russia and she discovers the explosive consequences of becoming a major shareholder of Bagrov and Cooper.
Micky thinks life's rotten: he's the youngest in the family and can't do anything right. Fortunately, help is at hand when an old fisherman offers to teach Micky to swim. Although, there's something rather curious about this particular fisherman...He wears a seaweed shawl and his boat appears to have legs.
The world of mobility is undergoing a vast transformation. This book highlights the changes inherent in the mobility revolution, and how corporate and commercial users are playing a key role in supporting a breakthrough by 2020.
Probably the most concise English history book ever published!
Set in the 1790s, war between Britain, France and Spain forms the background to Beverley Elphick's much-anticipated second novel, Retribution. Men and boys are being forced onto the King's ships by unscrupulous press gangs while the womenfolk left behind struggle to deal with the consequences at home.
Jack Watt is a teenager, rather given to over-quick conclusions. Finding what looks like an explosive device on his kitchen table one morning, Jack Watt alerts the rest of the house. The device turns out to be a mysterious object which leads him into all sorts of adventures and trouble.
Evie Gardner is struggling to cope with motherhood. Deserted by her own mother as a young child, Evie has a strained relationship with her French stepmother Francine.
The dynamic duo from The Politician's Daughter, Marine Unit Sergeant Petra Minx of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and her Italian friend Carlo, who works for Interpol, return in another grand adventure.
An extraordinary story of one family's torment, betrayal and perseverance in war time Amsterdam. War and Love is a fascinating and detailed memoir of a family's everyday life at a time of war.
Adam de Guirande has cause to believe the turbulent times are behind him: Hugh Despenser is dead and Edward II has been forced to abdicate in favour of his young son. It is time to look forward, to a bright new world in which the young king, guided by his council, heals his kingdom and restores its greatness. But the turmoil is far from over...
Adam de Guirande has barely survived the aftermath of Roger Mortimer's rebellion in 1321.
This interdisciplinary volume addresses the multiple dimensions of the ageing experience of Italian migrants in South Australia by revisiting the concepts of health and wellbeing, intergenerational family care-giving practices and the role of language and culture in the ageing process.
The Journey is a story of survival, of human endurance, of an indomitable spirit that stands up to evil. It is a story of love and sacrifice, a story of friendships forged forever by the tragedies they experienced together. This story is set in 1940 when the Nazi holocaust was raging across Europe.
Double Standards travels 25 years back to explore the story of a bank, with roots in the Middle East, that rose to prominence and became the fastest-growing bank in the world.
This is the first book to analyse the aesthetics and narrative structures of Bertolucci's films.
This is the first book to analyse the aesthetics and narrative structures of Bertolucci's films by using affective and cognitive theory in order to determine the ways in which they engageviewers emotionally and intellectually.
Set in both the future and present day, Spellbound Chronicles is a fast-paced children's story with twists and turns, good versus evil, set above and below ground.
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