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Goode's guide to misconduct volume 2
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You've Got Mail, the clever, popular, and deliciously shocking ladies' periodical Mrs. Goode's Magazine for Misses only employs women who are equal to the challenge -- and for one biting theatre critic, that challenge happens to include romance.
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Bread riots and bodysnatchers! Pirates and privateers! Hell holes for Boney! The disgusting true story of Plymouth's Napoleonic prison ships! 'A very daughter of Hell!' In 1675, a poisonous nursemaid was hanged on Prince Rock – but was she innocent of the crime? Find out inside! Death aboard the Titanic! Blitz, bombs and Plymouth men's battles on Omaha Beach! Plymouth has one of the darkest and most dreadful histories on record. Beginning with the...
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Death, Danes and disaster in Dark Age Ipswich! The castles are burning! Attacks, rebellions, battles and wars in ancient Suffolk! Queen of Blood and Fire! The dark days of Bloody Mary revealed! Sea of blood! Smugglers, sea battles, U-Boats and invasions along the Suffolk coast! The Zeppelins are coming! Bombs and bodies in the First World War! Suffolk has one of the most amazing histories of any British county. Betrayals, conspiracies and invasions...
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"Thoroughly well-written, this is a believable portrait of a woman who did not seek publicity or a royal role but instead to support the love of her life, Prince Charles." -Library Journal (starred review)
In the first in-depth biography of Camilla-the infamous other woman who made the marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana "a bit crowded"-esteemed royal biographer Penny Junor tells the unlikely and extraordinary story of the woman...
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Lonely Planet's Pocket London is your guide to the city's best experiences and local life-neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Explore history at the British Museum, delve into history at the Tower of London and soar over the city on the London Eye; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of London and make the most of your trip!
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Lonely Planet's Great Britain is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Puzzle the mysteries of Stonehenge, sip whisky in Scotland, and hike the mountains of Wales; all with your trusted travel companion.
Inside Lonely Planet's Great Britain Travel Guide:
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Lonely Planet's Pocket Glasgow is your guide to the city's best experiences and local life - neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Marvel at the Glasgow Cathedral, discover the Glasgow Science Centre and learn at the University of Glasgow; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of Glasgow and make the most of your trip!
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Lonely Planet'sScotlandis our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Get your culture fix in Edinburgh, take in astounding views from the top of Ben Nevis and sample mouth-watering whisky on Islay; all with your trusted travel companion.
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Lonely Planet's Devon and Cornwall is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Explore the botanical wonder of the Eden Project, marvel at the Exeter Cathedral and trek through Exmoor National Park; all with your trusted travel companion.
Inside Lonely Planet's Devon and Cornwall Travel Guide:
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Lonely Planet's England is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Discover prehistoric and Roman history, relax in a quaint country pub and get swept up in the buzz of London city; all with your trusted travel companion.
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The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. By contrast we believe progress arose from science and technological innovation, and that inventions of recent centuries created the modern world.
We couldn't be more wrong. As Ian Mortimer...
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The bones of ruin trilogy volume 3
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The elite Enlightenment Committee, faces a world-ending threat as Hiva, once believed to be an apocalyptic force, is revealed to be a person, Iris Marlow, an immortal African tightrope dancer seeking revenge after her murder by her own friends, while another Hiva emerges with a destructive agenda, marking the beginning of the Cataclysm.
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"An essential first hand account from a French soldier.
Personal accounts by French soldiers have not proliferated in the English language and those that concern the Napoleonic Wars are much sought after by readers and invariably repay the effort to find them with an interesting tale, compellingly told. This account concerns another period some one hundred years or so before the time of the First Empire, but it too is a first rate personal account...
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"A concise history of a cataclysmic European conflict in the 17th century
The Thirty Years' War was fought between 1618-1648 and is widely recognised as being one of the most destructive wars ever fought. More people lost their lives in this conflict, as a percentage of the total population at the time, than in the conflicts of the twentieth century. Fought principally in central Europe-and mostly over terrain now in modern day Germany-the war involved...
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History of the Anglo-Scottish Wars of the 16th-17th century.
"BY the end of the Dark Ages, Scotland, or most of our Scotland, was a kingdom. By the High Middle Ages, she had become a nation, and towards the end of the thirteenth century she was on the verge of a willing and friendly union with her neighbour nation, that for a hundred years had been at peace with her, an apparent friend. Then a child queen died: and Scotland, for the next three hundred...
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Lonely Planet's Pocket Dublin is your guide to the city's best experiences and local life - neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Step back in time at Kilmainham Gaol, admire art at the Hugh Lane Gallery, and sample a pint at the Guinness Storehouse; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of Dublin and make the most of your trip!
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This seminal study addresses one of the most beautifully decorated 15th-century copies of the New Statutes of England, uncovering how the manuscript's unique interweaving of legal, religious, and literary discourses frames the reader's perception of the work. Taking internal and external evidence into account, Rosemarie McGerr suggests that the manuscript was made for Prince Edward of Lancaster, transforming a legal reference work into a book of instruction...
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The Little Book of Ballsbridge is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about this leafy suburb of Dublin. Here you will find out about Ballsbridge's famous (and occasionally infamous) residents, its proud sporting heritage, its churches and great houses and its natural history. Down wide streets and past elegant houses, this book takes the reader on a journey through Ballsbridge and its vibrant past. A reliable reference...
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