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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...

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 9781739601706Author Nic ClareFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Far Lands PressPublisher Far Lands Press

THE THIRD BOOK IN CLAIRE MACLEARY'S MULTI-AWARD-LISTED HARCUS & LAIRD SERIES 'Claire MacLeary has, with little fuss or fanfare, written a crime series that subverts and rejuvenates the crime genre' Scots Whay Hae When Aberdeen housewife Debbie Milne...

In a case of badly mistaken identity, Emily, a down-on-her-luck intern, is recruited by the State Department to solve the Palestinian problem. Only this time they want it handled as a divorce settlement. Travelling across Jerusalem and New York, Emily...

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...

Big changes are coming to late-Sixties Belfast. At first life seems normal for Sammy and Maeve, two children from the opposing republican and loyalist communities. Sammy tries to avoid trouble with his unemployed father, while Maeve has lived with her...

Not all scientific explanations work by describing causal connections between events or the world's overall causal structure. Some mathematical proofs explain why the theorems being proved hold. In this book, Marc Lange proposes philosophical accounts of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802580808Author Zeb SoanesFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 200mm * 200mm * 15mm

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 *...

""I wanted to be close to you. So I went to the forest..." Gardens, relationships and imaginations run wild in Katie Oliver's debut short fiction collection. The world is unpredictable and no woman is safe. Boundaries are blurred: between fantasy and...

Offshore financial centers such as Luxembourg, the Cayman Islands or the City of London provide non-residents with a legal framework that is strong on property rights and soft on taxation and regulation. Building on a historical-institutionalist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Newbery Medal (Children's) 1933.Book InformationISBN 9780312380076Author Elizabeth Foreman LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Square FishPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922634986Author Louise Andrews KentFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Living Book PressPublisher Living Book PressWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)...

New York City, 1922. Nicolas Caraveo, a 17-year-old Latinx transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest in the city's glamour. He rents a small house in West Egg from his 18-year-old cousin, Daisy Fabrega, who lives in fashionable East Egg near her...

The ground has shifted from the days in which "serious history" and "boring" went hand in glove. Textbooks and lectures have their place, but less traditional classrooms can be powerfully immersive and insightful. Take the 1929 Marx Brothers film The...

In a breathless, haunting, and rich historical mystery, New York Times bestselling author Monica Hesse speaks to the depths of trauma and the power of memory.Seven months ago, Edda was on the World War I front lines as one of two hundred "Hello Girls,"...

Sometimes you have to lose yourself to find yourself. When life unravels for Beth after the break up of a long marriage, she finds herself reaching back for answers. Into her past as a troubled, pregnant teenager in a home rapidly falling apart. Into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997761948Author Nancy Menees HardestyFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint SolificatioPublisher SolificatioWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

In the spring of 1919, after the end of the First World War, teams of pilots and navigators begin to gather on the North American island of Newfoundland. They are attempting what many believe to be impossible - to fly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean...

Winds of Change explores the challenges faced by a range of characters against the backdrop of Land League agitation, evictions and boycotting in 1880's Ireland. The story is told through the eyes of three Irish children: Clara Parkinson, Molly O'Hara,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801551373Author William AnthonyFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint BookLife PublishingPublisher BookLife PublishingWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm)...

A true princess is a princess, whether in a castle or a cage... When her father, Robert the Bruce, is crowned King of Scotland, Marjorie Bruce becomes a princess. But Edward Longshanks, the ruthless King of England, captures Marjorie and keeps...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Oklahoma Sequoyah Children's Book Award 2017 and TAYSHAS Reading List 2017.Book InformationISBN 9780553522341Author Kiersten WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739875107Author Graham TembyFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Graham TembyPublisher Graham TembyWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 15mm

Disillusioned by the propaganda of Nazi Germany, Sophie Scholl, her brother, and his fellow soldiers formed the White Rose, a group that wrote and distributed anonymous letters criticizing the Nazi regime and calling for action from their fellow German...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375856587Author Esther FriesnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint EmberPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 141mm *...

It's the 1920s - cars and aeroplanes are new. Lily Gabriel is scruffy, confident and takes no nonsense from anyone. Antony is rich, spoiled and arrogant and Lily is completely and utterly - no nonsense! - in love with him. So join Lily as she falls.....

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984835246Author Natalie MaeFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint RazorbillPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 496gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 146mm * 31mm

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

Mary Lennox didn't think about death until the day it knocked politely on her bedroom door and invited itself in. When a terrible accident leaves her orphaned at fifteen, she is sent to the wilderness of the Georgian Bay to live with an uncle she's never...

Justin Rollins' acclaimed The Lost Boyz (below) traced the author's early life on the streets. Ten years on, this new book describes how he did time in adult prisons and experienced other challenges including trauma, associated fears, flashbacks and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739918897Author Bronwyn HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Curious Cat BooksPublisher Curious Cat BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399160301Author Ruta SepetysFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593352861Author Ruta SepetysImprint Philomel BooksPublisher Philomel BooksWeight(grams) 140g

When Theodore's safe, predictable world is destroyed, his life-and his faith-are in danger Thirteen-year-old Theodore has lived in China all his life and never felt terror, until his father's missionary settlement is attacked and burned in the night...

When her home is destroyed in the Luftwaffe bombing of the North Strand, Dublin in 1941, Grace Ryan is forced to move in with relatives in a different part of the city. There she meets Barry Malone, an English boy sent to neutral Ireland to escape the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312644314Author Rosemary SutcliffFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 209mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451478757Author Matt KilleenFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm *...