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The Italian Girl
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Rome, 1943: Marina Tozzi adores her father Vittorio and working together in his art gallery is her only escape from the reality of the Nazi occupation of her beloved city. Not only has she inherited her father’s passion for art but Marina is gaining a reputation as an expert in her own right.However, Vittorio is keeping a deadly secret from her. He has been hiding a Jewish artist in their basement and one day she returns home to find her father has been brutally murdered by a German officer. Devastated, Marina flees to Florence to seek help from the man who owes Vittorio his life.
Renowned American art expert Bernard Berenson offers Marina sanctuary in his beautiful villa outside Florence and puts her in charge of cataloguing his vast art library. As Marina gradually begins to heal, she becomes obsessed with finding a way to avenge her father. As the Germans and partisans fight for control of Florence, Marina discovers that Bernard is helping to save precious art from the Nazis. When handsome young artist Carlos approaches Marina to help the partisans by using her expertise to value artworks for the cause, she has at last found her purpose.
In one daring act, Marina risks her life to save a priceless painting from falling into Nazi hands and proves herself to the partisans. But falling in love with Carlos was not part of her plan. When Carlos suddenly disappears, Marina’s dreams about life after the war with him turn to ash – and she’ll have to travel halfway around the world to unravel the truth.
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The Jane Austen Book Club
0$4.99In California’s central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen’s novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for the frailties of human behavior and her ear for the absurdities of social intercourse, Karen Joy Fowler has never been wittier nor her characters more appealing. The result is a delicious dissection of modern relationships.
Dedicated Austenites will delight in unearthing the echoes of Austen that run through the novel, but most readers will simply enjoy the vision and voice that, despite two centuries of separation, unite two great writers of brilliant social comedy.
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The Jungle Crew – With 5 Paper Animals and Scenery to Make
0Original price was: $5.99.$4.49Current price is: $4.49.Teach your children about the animals of the rainforest with this fun and educational book. It is part of a new series alongside two other titles, The Safari Set and The Polar Pack, that focus on the Savannah and polar regions. Five animals are explored through rhyme, pictures, and pull-out 2D figures to construct into 3D: monkey, crocodile, tree frog, parrot, and toucan. With two spreads dedicated to each animal, adults are able to read the short playful rhyme on each spread to children and look at the bright illustrations to teach them about the animal and its environment. Children are then able to pop out the paper animals from the perforated pages contained in a pocket in the back of the book and create 3D figures simply by folding and adding few dabs of glue. The inside of the dust jacket is printed full color with a representation of the animals’ environment in a style identical to the illustrations within the book. Children have the option of using this as a backdrop and there are also accessories to make and add to the scene.ace..
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The Kaboom Kid – Book #2 – Playing Up!
0$5.99Meet Little Davey Warner. He lives in Sandhill Flats with his mum and dad and his brother Steve – and his stinky dog Max. Davey and his schoolmates – even Max – are MAD for cricket. All they want to do is play … but there’s always something getting in their way.
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The Kaboom Kid – Book #3 – Keep it Down!
0$5.99For Davey and his friends, the worst thing in the world has happened. They have a big match coming up and their teammates are falling like flies. Most terrible of all is that Mo Clouter, the school bully who hates cricket, wants to play. What’s he up to? Luckily, there’s a new kid at school, who just happens to be an ace player. Tay Tui is an awesome wicketkeeper, but she won’t stop singing while she plays. It’s so distracting! Then, disaster – Davey’s in trouble again and he’s on detention for the match. It all seems hopeless. How on earth will they play without a full team, let alone win?
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The Kaboom Kid – Book #4 – Hit for Six
0$5.99Davey Warner bets school bully Mo Clouter that he can hit six sixes in the Sandhills Sluggers’ upcoming battle against their club rivals.
But after a disastrous school excursion to the local lawn bowls club, Davey is in trouble again, then forgets to hand in his assignment. His Year Six teacher, Mr Mudge, bans Davey from playing cricket
until it’s done.
Can Davey get his assignment done, hit six sixes in the match and help the Sluggers seize top spot on the ladder?
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The Kaboom Kid – Book #5 – The Big Time
0$5.99Meet Little Davey Warner. He lives in Sandhill Flats with his mum and dad and his brother Steve – and his stinky dog Max. Davey and his schoolmates – even Max – are MAD for cricket. All they want to do is play … but there’s always something getting in their way.
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The Kaboom Kid – Book #6 – Home & Away!
0$5.99For Davey and his friends, the worst thing in the world has happened. They have a big match coming up and their teammates are falling like flies. Most terrible of all is that Mo Clouter, the school bully who hates cricket, wants to play. What’s he up to? Luckily, there’s a new kid at school, who just happens to be an ace player. Tay Tui is an awesome wicketkeeper, but she won’t stop singing while she plays. It’s so distracting! Then, disaster – Davey’s in trouble again and he’s on detention for the match. It all seems hopeless. How on earth will they play without a full team, let alone win?
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The King and the Cuddly
0Original price was: $4.99.$3.74Current price is: $3.74.The writer and illustrator team who brought us Is That What Friends Do? have collaborated once again, this time to create a wonderful tale of friendship and of special secrets.
When brave Cuthbert Lion loses his cuddly, he’s frantic! He’ll have to ask the other animals in the jungle to help, but how can a big, brave lion – the king of the jungle himself – admit that he can’t sleep without his cuddly?
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The Lake House
0$4.99An abandoned house…
June 1933, and sixteen-year-old Alice Edevane is preparing for her family’s Midsummer Eve party at their country home, Loeanneth. But by the time midnight strikes and fireworks light up the night skies, the Edevane family will have suffered a loss so great that they leave Loeanneth forever.A missing child…
Seventy years later, after a particularly troubling case, Detective Sadie Sparrow retreats to her beloved grandfather’s cottage in Cornwall. Once there, she stumbles upon an abandoned house, and learns the story of a baby boy who disappeared without a trace.An unsolved mystery…
Meanwhile, in her elegant Hampstead home, the formidable Alice Edevane, now an old lady, leads a life as neatly plotted as the bestselling detective novels she writes. Until a young police detective starts asking questions about her family’s past, seeking to resurrect the complex tangle of secrets Alice has spent her life trying to escape… -
The Land of Lost Things
0$5.99The funniest, most thrills and spills new adventure series from the author of the bestselling, sales-smashing Treehouse series, Andy Griffiths.
Remember when we went looking for my lost lucky rabbit’s foot and we ended up getting lost ourselves in the Land of Lost Things? What? You don’t remember? But that was one of our most exciting-and confusing-adventures ever! Let me remind you how it all happened . . .
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