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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.....

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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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...

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...

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...

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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 &...

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

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for PEN USA West Award for Fiction.Book InformationISBN 9780553538847Author Irene Gut OpdykeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint EmberPublisher Random House...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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 9780312661052Author Phillip HooseFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

Chosen a Best Children's Book of the Year by the Bank Street Center!Voted a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews!A biography for younger readers about one of the most influential activists of our time, who was an early...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143455325Author Nikhil GulatiFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House India

At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would...

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 *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728450988Author Monica EdingerFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Zest Books (Tm)Publisher Zest Books (Tm)

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Yalsa Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction for Young Adults 2024.Book InformationISBN 9781728464077Author Monica EdingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint...

A handmade gospel hidden in a saint's coffin; a HUGE atlas that takes six people to lift it; a tiny prayer book carried by a queen to her execution; the original handwritten manuscript of Alice in Wonderland; books so rare and valuable they are kept in a...