In A-Moms: How To Raise Competitive Award-Winning Students, attorney and author Marion Shaw shares her insights and methods for raising children that successfully compete in school, college, and as young adults in today’s global economy. A-Moms provides 40 simple strategies that are applicable to children of all ages (toddlers, preschoolers, elementary students, middle school students, and high school students are addressed in different chapters) and continue to be valuable assets in colle...

Winifred Holtby was a prolific journalist and writer whose most famous work South Riding is on many university courses. She was an active campaigner for several progressive causes during the inter-war period such as pacifism, feminism and most important to her, racial equality and harmony in South Africa. She was the subject of Vera Britain's Testament of Friendship. She was essentially a 'woman in her time' and yet could also be seen as an index to many of the progressive movements which ...

Chloe and her dog, Raggie, are invited to Fairyland to help solve the mystery of the missing Sandman, an evil fairy known only as Nyx has kidnapped him. The Sandman is important to the people of Fairyland; he must be found and rescued. Peter the Pixie, Daith the Leprechaun, and Meg the Fairy Princess work together with the FBI (Fairy Bureau of Investigation) to find the clues and solve the puzzles to find the Sandman. Will they find the Sandman in time? Will they be able rescue the Sandman...

Originally published in 1991, Reflecting on Miss Marple looks at the incongruous combination of violence, murder and a sweet, white-haired old lady, and examines why this makes such a potent but unlikely formula. The book is an astute and engaging account which reveals Miss Marple as a feminist heroine, triumphantly able to exploit contemporary prejudices against unmarried women in order to solve her case. The authors explore the inherent contradictions of Agatha Christie’s Miss M...

A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.

A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.

A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.

A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.

A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.

NOW A BRITISH DRAMA FILM AND A MAJOR BBC TELEVISION ADAPTATION.A preface by Shirley Williams, an introduction by Marion Shaw and an epitaph by Vera Brittain.'Rich in humour and worldly insight' INDEPENDENT'The novel undoubtedly remains a fascinating depiction of a time and place' GUARDIAN'Holtby's personal masterpiece . . . I can't say enough good things about this ...

The Mistresses and Midwives on Call Collection from Mills & BoonIncluding titles:Mistresses: Blackmailed for His PleasureMistresses: Passionate RevengeMistresses: His Unexpected HeirMistresses: Seduction in the BoardroomMistresses: Claimed for the Royal BedMistresses: Mistress of ConvenienceMidwives on Call: From Babies to BrideMidwives on Call: Stealing the Surgeon's HeartMidwives on Call: Her Baby Sur...

THE ROYAL HOUSE OF KAREDES Books 1-1212 Irresistible Royal Romances by favourite bestselling writers. Passionate, powerful and provocative.THE ROYAL HOUSE OF KAREDES – Two Kingdoms, Two Crowns, One Family and The Desert Throne. The original eight book series and the four-book continuation together at last!Billionaire Prince, Pregnant Mistress Sandra MartonThe Sheikh’s Virgin Stable Girl Sharon KendrickThe Prince’s Capt...