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From million-copy bestselling author Liz Kessler comes the powerful new landmark World War II novel for fans of Michael Morpurgo and Phil Earle.When Liv finds a secret box from her grandmother’s childhood she uncovers an extraordinary war-time story of bravery, betrayal and daring defiance. A story that will change Liv and her family forever…Holland, 1942. The world is at war and as the Nazis’ power grows, Jewish families are in terrible danger. Twelve-year-old Mila and her older sister Hannie are sent to live with a family in another city with new identities and the strict instruction not to tell anyone that they are Jewish.Hannie, determined to fight back, is swept into the Dutch resistance as an undercover agent: Code Name Kingfisher. And though Mila does her best to make friends and keep out of trouble, there is danger at every turn and the sisters are soon left questioning who they can trust…“A breathtaking WW2 story of bravery and sisterhood, told with the utmost c

This engaging and sumptuously illustrated book celebrates the Landmark Trust's achievement in the protection of British heritage since the Trust was established 50 years ago. From a medieval hall hous

"An outstanding debut-confident, compelling, with a surprise around every corner. I loved it." —Jane Harper, New York Times bestselling author of The DryProducer Jack Quick knows how to frame a story.

This definitive new book on British country houses offers a magnificent look at the life-style, architecture, and interior design of these historic landmark homes.From The Crown to Downton Abbey, the

Forty years in the making, this long-awaited reinterpretation of Hegel’s The Phenomenology of Spirit is a landmark contribution to philosophy by one of the world’s best-known and most influential philosophers.In this much-anticipated work, Robert Brandom presents a completely new retelling of the romantic rationalist adventure of ideas that is Hegel’s classic The Phenomenology of Spirit. Connecting analytic, continental, and historical traditions, Brandom shows how dominant modes of thought in contemporary philosophy are challenged by Hegel.A Spirit of Trust is about the massive historical shift in the life of humankind that constitutes the advent of modernity. In his Critiques, Kant talks about the distinction between what things are in themselves and how they appear to us; Hegel sees Kant’s distinction as making explicit what separates the ancient and modern worlds. In the ancient world, normative statuses—judgments of what ought to be—were taken to state objective facts. In the mode

Among the 330 feats of engineering genius documented here are bridges found all over the United States, from Brooklyn to the Golden Gate and landmark dams such as the Hoover, Grand Coulee, Norris and

English Heritage and the Highways Agency have been collaborating for some 15 years now on research into plans to improve highway access to the iconic landmark in southwest England. Everyone agrees tha

The only way to find his wife is to trust a girl with no memory. A strange, quiet girl now bent on revenge.After a tense argument, Alex drops everything to patch things up with his new wife, Mina. But

The enchanting "Victorian Village" of Ferndale in the Eel River Valley is designated a "Distinctive Destination" by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and is a California Historical Landmark

This collection of essays by eight leading scholars is a landmark event in the study of crusading in the late middle ages. It is the outcome of an international network funded by the Leverhulme Trust

In the 19th century, women's health was not a priorty for male doctors. Nora Beady knew she had to try and save countless lives by revolutionizing the field of medicine with the ceserean section surgery. But if she fails, countless other hopeful women doctors will pay the price...In the 19th century, women rarely study medicine. This means that Nora Beady, the only woman in her medical school, constantly feels like an outsider. And when she is chosen to work with the only female professor to develop the caesarian section, Nora draws the wrath of her male peers and professors. It's a dangerous―and divisive―procedure that could save countless lives and revolutionize women's health. But most doctors think it's too risky, many don't trust the findings of women, and husbands won't let their wives undergo the procedure.Nora knows her work is too important to give up. But when she meets a patient who will die without intervention, everything changes. Failure means proving the male medical est

For fans of Atomic City Girls and The Secrets We Kept, the story of a woman caught up in one of the most closely held secrets of World War IILillian Kaufman hasn't heard from her twin sister Eleanor since she left for a classified job at an Army base somewhere in Tennessee. Then Lillian learns that Eleanor is missing. Lillian leaves New York to sneak into the mysterious town of Oak Ridge, only to learn that Eleanor has vanished without a trace―and she's not the only one. But how do you find someone in a town so dangerous that it doesn't officially exist? Forced to pretend to be Eleanor, Lillian finds herself in the epicenter of the gravest scientific undertaking of all time, with no idea who she can trust. And the more she acts like Eleanor, the more she loses her grip on herself.