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Told who to cheer for, who to believe in, Yuri grows up in a country where no freedom of thought is encouraged - where even one's neighbours are encouraged to report any dissension to the authorities. But it is still a shock when a few careless words...

The dramatic story of the Norman conquest of Ireland in the 12th century. Full of battles and warfare, but a story of love, too, between an unlikely pair - wilful and wild Irish princess Aoife, and Strongbow, the greatest of the Norman knights to come to...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398479296Author Clare CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

When Lily is a young teenager, the time comes for her and her friends to leave school and find work; some are emigrating to America, some going to work in shops. Lily is going into service in the Big House - Lissadell. Lily's employers, the Gore-Booth...

An original novel based on the hit television series, Reign.Since Mary, Queen of Scotland was a child, the English have wanted her country and her crown. She is sent to France to wed its next king--to save herself and her people. It's a bond that...

Derry, 1689. An anonymous letter is read out saying that every last Protestant man, woman and child is to be murdered. Panic takes hold. Two teenage boys, Daniel and Robert Sherrard, help close the city gates against the approaching Catholic army. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593487662Author Katherine LockeFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

This book examines a challenging problem at the intersection of theoretical linguistics and the psychology of language: the interpretation of gradient judgments of sentence acceptability in relation to theories of grammatical knowledge. Acceptability...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2007 and Book Sense Children's Pick List 2007 and Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book 2006 and Horn Book Fanfare 2006 and IRA Notable Books...

Would you break the rules or break your promise? On the outskirts of Edinburgh, just before the outbreak of WW2, Charlie finds a starving German boy called Josef hiding in the woods near his home. Josef can't speak English and is desperately afraid,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503764033Author PI KidsPage Count 20Imprint PI KidsPublisher Phoenix International Publications, IncorporatedWeight(grams) 599gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789380741802Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint CampfirePublisher CampfireWeight(grams) 273gDimensions(mm) 259mm * 164mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801051101Author Arthur OverFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Imagine That Publishing LtdPublisher Imagine That Publishing LtdDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

In 1771, Robert Burns, future national poet and folk hero of Scotland, has big problems. 12-year-old Rab spends all of his time doing backbreaking work on his family's farm instead of attending school, but when he finds a hag stone in one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593428368Author Vesper StamperFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Jennifer A. Nielsen, award-winning author of A Night Divided and Rescue, artfully weaves together the stories of five kids living through World War I, each of whom holds the key to the others' futures ... if they are...

It's time to choose: friendship, family or loyalty to the cause. When Emer Davey saves her neighbour Jack Madigan from drowning, it seems that they will be friends forever. But eight months later, they find themselves on opposite sides in a...

Aimed at graduate students, this textbook provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to operator theory. Rather than discuss the subject in the abstract, this textbook covers the subject through twenty examples of a wide variety of operators,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377198Author Martin SmisekFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780756966300Author Michael MorpurgoFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Turtleback BooksPublisher Turtleback BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 168mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250056894Author Michael MorpurgoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Square FishPublisher Square FishWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 135mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955581519Author Giles KeatingFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint AthelhamptonPublisher AthelhamptonWeight(grams) 124g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310728108Author Rachel CokerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Grades 6-8) 2015 and Golden Sower Award (Young Adult) 2015 and Isinglass Teen Read Award 2014. Commended for Georgia...

An enthralling novel of two intertwining stories based on real events in 19th century Ireland and the Canadian Arctic. Two ships Arctic-bound, HMS Erebus and Terror, leave London in 1845, captained by the aging Sir John Franklin. How long they'll be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781338355949Author Sharon CameronFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Scholastic USPublisher Scholastic USWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *...

In a celebrity-obsessed world can absolute celebrity fame and idolisation be exploited to gain absolute power... opening the gates of hell... ? At a worrying time when the once-clear line between celebrity stardom and political leadership on the world...

Quantum Computing: From Alice to Bob provides a distinctive and accessible introduction to the rapidly growing fields of quantum information science and quantum computing. The textbook is designed for undergraduate students and upper-level secondary...

Liberte by Gita Trelease is the spell-binding sequel to the bestselling Enchantee.Magic. Betrayal. Sacrifice.Camille Durbonne gambled everything she had to keep herself and her sister safe. But as the people of Paris starve and mobs riot, safety may no...

As a young black woman in 1880s Savannah, Essie's dreams are very much at odds with her reality. Ashamed of her beginnings, but unwilling to accept the path currently available to her, Essie is trapped between the life she has and the life she wants. ...

Belfast in 1916. Fourteen-year-old Helen is shaped by her mixed background - rural, Catholic Irish values from mum Kathleen; urban, Protestant Ulster ones from dad James. Her parents are relaxed in their politics but others in the family circle are more...

A down-on-his-luck actor and an English lord reluctantly team up to solve the murder of Christopher Marlowe in this Shakespearean-era young adult romp perfect for fans of F.T. Lukens and Mackenzi Lee.London, 1593. Sixteen-year-old Will Hughes is busy...

Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal; her mind feels broken. And her life is completely...

An arranged marriage interferes with star-crossed love in this sweeping medieval romance from Sally Nicholls - perfectly pitched for struggling teen readers. Lady Elinor of Hardford has fallen in love for the first time, with Dan, her cousin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142417256Author Sherri L. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

In a remote mountain valley lives a special pack of wolves: one night a month, when the moon is full, they turn into werewolves. Little werewolves are taught never to venture to the far side of one mountain because of the grave dangers there. But the...

Two young boys encounter the best and worst of humanity during the Holocaust in this powerful read that USA Today called "as memorable an introduction to the subject as The Diary of Anne Frank." Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316316712Author Monica HesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Little, Brown Books for Young ReadersPublisher Little, Brown Books for Young...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250158444Author Keely HuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Square FishPublisher Square FishWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 140mm * 23mm