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Bristol - 1953 It’s Coronation Year. A new beginning in the aftermath of war, but there are still battles to be fought and secrets to be kept. Charlotte Hennessey-White copes with the shortcomings of her marriage and throws herself into helping refugees unwelcome by some and exploited by...

Bristol 1939 At forty years of age, Mary Anne Randall still turns heads. With an abusive husband spending most of his wages on beer, she has resigned herself to be the sole breadwinner to protect her family and keep the wolves from the door. In order to make ends meet Mary Anne runs a...

Bristol - 1945 The war has ended; the men are returning home to their loved ones, but for some things have changed. Charlotte Hennessey-White's husband, David is no longer the gentle loving man he once was and Charlotte, so independent during the war, is devastated. Edna Burbage's strong...

Time's running out for The Tobacco Girls in this penultimate books in this bestselling series from Lizzie Lane. War is fleeting, but true love last forever... May 1944 Hope and excitement is in the air when news breaks of the allied forces landing in Normandy. D Day has arrived. However, the...

Bristol 1941 Having left her abusive husband for very good reasons, Mary Anne Randall finds herself judged harshly by her friends and neighbours, after courageously risking everything for a second chance at happiness with Michael. With Michael away fighting Mary Anne is less concerned by her...

For nearly two decades, Lana Stenner and her family have been living their version of the simple life on their small Midwest farmstead—following God, chasing goats, and tending gardens. Join Lana as she shares heartwarming stories, hearty recipes, and some of the valuable lessons she’s learned in her homesteading journey. Though you may not be ready to pack up and move into a 120-year-old farmhouse like Lana, you can experience more grace and authenticity right where you are when you learn to seek beauty in your surroundings and work hand in hand with God.

Front door locked, kitchen door locked, living room windows closed. Nobody in the closet, nobody under the beds. Still, Maggie is worried. Ever since she started middle school, she sees injustice and danger everywhere—on the news, in her textbooks, in her own neighborhood. Even her best friend seems to be changing. Maggie believes it is up to her, and only her, to make everything all right. Can she come up with a plan to keep everyone safe?

Long before Amelia Earhart became a superstar, she was a girl who longed to touch the stars. But the dresses women had to wear at the time made those dreams seem almost impossible. Amelia didn't let that stop her. As a young aviator breaking records and expectations, she learned to fly her plane with flair. Later, she dared to create a trendsetting fashion line for active women like herself. 

The next thrilling book in Lizzie Lane's superb, bestselling series The Tobacco Girls Life for the Tobacco Girls isn’t getting any easier... Bristol, 1943 Bridget Milligan has donned a uniform and joined the nursing services where she becomes intrigued with the miracles of modern medicine...

Catch up on Lizzie Lane's gritty, historical saga series set in Bristol's Tobacco factories... As war rages, everyone has to do their bit... Bristol. 1941 As the clouds of war grow bleaker both at home and abroad, the Tobacco Girls are determined to do their bit for King and Country. To that end...

Sicily, 1943. Three American women, all nurses in the Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron, are determined to do all they can for their country. Vita is fun-loving, Dot shy and sweet-natured, and Evelyn practical and determined, but for all their differences, a life of military service pulls the three together as firm friends. When they’re selected for a daring mission, the women are proud to play their part. But disaster strikes when their plane crash-lands behind enemy lines in occupied Albania. finally find their way home?

La vita di una delle figure più centrali e controverse del Novecento. Josip Broz, detto Tito, è stato per decenni a capo della Jugoslavia. Partendo dalla resistenza partigiana durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, passando per l'unione della penisola balcanica, fino alla Guerra Fredda, Tito è stato protagonista di molti tra i più importanti eventi della storia recente. Questa biografia, però, attraverserà anche e soprattutto gli aspetti oscuri della vita del dittatore - i crimini di guerra, il pugno di ferro, il regime di terrore.

Il regno dell'imperatore Shōwa, o Hirohito, fu il più longevo nella storia giapponese, sebbene anche il più controverso. Hirohito è stato in grado di guidare la sua patria nel periodo più critico, buio e rivoluzionario di sempre, quello che va dal 1926 al 1989. Le bombe atomiche su Hiroshima e Nagasaki, l'attacco a Pearl Harbor, l'inevitabile resa del Giappone: tutto contribuisce a forgiare l'immagine di un uomo integro ma al contempo fragile e discusso, schiacciato da un ruolo che non è più in grado di incarnare ma che non abbandonerà mai fino alla sua morte.

Winston Churchill non è solo un politico: è anche un premio Nobel per la letteratura, uno statista e, in generale, una delle menti più brillanti della storia della Gran Bretagna. La sua scalata al potere è sempre stata supportata da un'immensa intelligenza, messa in atto durante ogni periodo chiave del Novecento. Dall'esordio militare alla dura presa di posizione contro il nazismo di Hitler, fino al celebre discorso sulla cortina di ferro, questa biografia ripercorre le vicende di una delle figure più emblematiche del Regno Unito e dell'Europa.

What is the reality of policing in the United States? Do the police keep anyone safe and secure other than the very wealthy? How do recent police killings of young Black people in the United States fit into the historical and global context of anti-blackness? This collection of reports and essays explores police violence against Black, Brown, Indigenous, and other marginalized communities, miscarriages of justice, and failures of token accountability and reform measures.

When journalist Ella Franks is unmasked as a woman writing under a male pseudonym, she loses her job. But having risked everything to write, she refuses to be silenced and leaps at the chance to become a correspondent in war-torn France. Already entrenched in the thoroughly male arena of war reporting is feisty American photojournalist Danni Bradford. Together with her best friend and partner, Andy, she is determined to cover the events unfolding in Normandy. And to discover the whereabouts of Andy’s sister, who has followed a lover into the French Resistance.

When her sister Lila and brother-in-law Gray are killed in a tragic accident, Bella is named as guardian to her two young nephews. Then she discovers that she's expected to co-parent with Gray's best friend, and grief turns to shock. Noah has always driven her crazy, and Bella's sure the arrogant, handsome Navy SEAL is the last person she wants to share a life with.

Tres hermanos cerditos deciden cada uno construir una casa para comenzar a vivir su vida adulta. Dependiendo de sus habilidades y sus preferencias, cada uno decide usar distintos materiales: uno utiliza paja, otro, madera y el último, ladrillos. Apenas terminan de construir sus casas cuando un lobo hambriento les echa el ojo y decide comérselos, sin contar que los cerditos son más listos de lo que parece y que no le será tan fácil hacerlos su próxima cena.

The next exciting book in Lizzie Lane's Bristol set Tobacco Girls series Nothing will stop the Tobacco Girls not even war... Bristol 1940. The Tobacco Girls cling together as they realise that the clouds of war are turning dark, the world is becoming more dangerous and their lives more...

The start of a thrilling new series, from bestselling author Lizzie Lane set in Bristol which follows three bestfriends through thick and thin. Bristol 1939. School leaver Maisie Miles suspects her father, a small-time crook, has an ulterior motive for insisting she gets a job at the W.D.H.O...