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Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all trueBorn into the richest dynasty in the world, young Cleopatra has always dreamed of glory and empire. And when she defeats her...

Enter a fearsome battle across the seas with the latest instalment in the hit children's history series The world is at war, and oceans have become battlefields. Napoleon Bonaparte, tyrant of France, has crushed one country after another. Now his cruel...

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK IS 'A MONUMENT TO THE HUMAN SPIRIT'One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Edited by her father Otto H. Frank and German novelist Mirjam...

Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true'Winter has come; and in a far distant land, a warrior queen is expecting a child...'Step through these pages into the Tudor...

Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true'His mind was clear. It was time to go east. Time to march into Asia, to confront the Persians and to meet his destiny.....

The New York Times bestseller and the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime winner Killers of the Flower Moon is now adapted for young adults.**KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE STARRING LEONARDO...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pennsylvania Keystone State Reading Association Book Award 2016. Short-listed for YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 2015. Nominated for Notable...

Ibn Battuta was no ordinary traveller. Between 1325 CE when he set off and 1354 CE when he finally returned home to stay, he had visited about 40 modern countries and travelled roughly 75,000 miles, going on foot, camel, horse, wagon, boat and even sled...

From All-Ireland champions to Olympic gold medallists, Grand Slam greats to golfing Major champions, join us on a tour of Irish sporting history told as never before. Which Irish soccer player has scored the most...

Complex, passionate, brilliant, flawed? Alexander Hamilton comes alive in Martha Brockenbrough's exciting biography Alexander Hamilton: Revolutionary, which is an essential read for teen fans of Hamilton the musical.Discover the incredible true story...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807067994Author Viktor E. FranklFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm *...

A Champion State of Grind"To all the young athletes out there looking for motivation check out Trust The Grind." Jason Kidd, Member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame#1 Best Seller in Teen & Young Adult Fitness & Exercise, Baseball &...

Silence is NEVER an option - find your voice and be your best self. "This book will change lives" - Marianne Levy, the i Paper In this book, Stuart Lawrence talks about what he has learned from life...

Peter is just an ordinary boy, who loves playing football with his friends and eating cake - until war comes to his city and the whole family have to go into hiding. This powerful graphic novel is based on a true story. "Engrossing, and superbly...

One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Today, The Diary of a Young Girl has sold over 25 million copies world-wide; this is the definitive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250233165Author Shane BurcawFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385742528Author Laura HillenbrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint EmberPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 471gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm...

"HANNELORE, YOUR PAPA IS DEAD." In the spring of 1942 Hannelore received a letter from Mama at her school in Berlin, Germany--Papa had been arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Six weeks later he was sent home; ashes in an urn. Soon another...

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...

Peter is just an ordinary boy, who loves playing football with his friends and eating cake - until war comes to his city and the whole family have to go into hiding. This powerful graphic novel is based on a true story. "Engrossing, and superbly...

Tom Crean ran away from his Kerry home, aged 15, to join the British navy in 1893. He travelled to the Antarctic with the famous explorers, Scott and Shackleton. He explored the unknown, crossed ice fields and wild oceans and courageously saved friends...

Charlotte Salomon was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is remembered for her autobiographical series of paintings, Life? or Theater?, which consists of 769 individual works painted between 1941 and 1943 while she was in hiding from the Nazis in...

An exquisitely illustrated history of the women's suffrage movement, created by the New York Times-bestselling David Roberts and introduced by BBC presenter Lauren Laverne.It is over a century since the first women won the vote in the United Kingdom, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book, Nonfiction 2016 (United States) and Julia Ward Howe Award, Young Reader 2016 (United States).Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848891920Author Anne ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint The Collins PressPublisher The Collins PressWeight(grams) 168g

This inspiring story of Ernest Shackleton, whose men called him 'The Boss', involved four expeditions to Antarctica between 1901 and 1922. His incredible adventures included a breathtaking march to within a few miles of the South Pole and the amazing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374416966Author Isaac Bashevis SingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women SelectionOne of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Today, The Diary of a Young Girl has sold...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887767630Author Michael BedardFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Tundra BooksPublisher Tundra BooksWeight(grams) 653gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 203mm * 17mm

Famous Female Authors Who Wrote Their Way Into History"An absolute 'must read' for anyone thinking that centuries of literature being almost exclusively dominated by men."-Library Bookwatch#1 Bestseller in SociologyFrom the first recorded writer to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780897332606Author C.M. SurrisiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 326gDimensions(mm)...

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 9780385742511Author Laura HillenbrandFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Delacorte PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 595gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

The story of Frankenstein's creator is a strange, romantic, and tragic one, as deeply compelling as the novel itself. Mary ran away to Lake Geneva with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley when she was just sixteen. It was there, during a cold and wet summer,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250211064Author Deborah HeiligmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Square FishPublisher Square FishWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm *...

Most people know Florence Nightingale was a compassionate and legendary nurse, but they don't know her full story. She is best known for her work during the Crimean War, when she vastly improved gruesome and deadly conditions and made nightly rounds to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250144430Author Brandon Webb, with John David MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925729528Author Manuel KomroffFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Living Book PressPublisher Living Book PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780689823954Author Livia Bitton JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon PulsePublisher Simon & Schuster

Sixteenth century Italy produced a genius who marked the world with his studies and hypotheses about mathematical, physical and astronomical truths. His father, musician Vincenzio Galilei said, "Truth is not found behind a man's reputation. Truth...