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<b>The <i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling author concludes her compelling Lost Bride trilogy as two women - one dead, one alive - prepare for a terrifying final showdown...<br/></b><br/>Long ago, Arthur Poole built a grand house overlooking the turbulent ocean, in a Maine village that bore his name. Today, Sonya MacTavish lives in that house-a manor that has been cursed for generations. Within its walls, she has witnessed the deaths of seven brides and the thefts of seven wedding rings.<br/><br/>Determined to bring light to this haunted place-to fill it with people, with life and hope, once again - Sonya decides it is time to break the curse and banish a malevolent spirit once and for all.<br/><br/>But the enemy in the black dress continues to hover, to come at her in frightening forms. They may be illusions-but illusions can be powerful enough to wound, even kill. This dark-hearted witch wants to be mistress of Poole Manor, at any cost. And Sonya will need to fight a battle across two realms to finally take possession of the house on the clifftop-and of her own future...

<strong><em>Entitled </em>is the first joint biography of Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson by renowned royal biographer and literary agent, Andrew Lownie.</strong> <br/><br/>Packed full of extraordinary revelations, <em>Entitled</em> reveals the extent to which Andrew and Fergie's lives are still deeply entwined. Drawing on four years of research, numerous FOI requests and interviews with over a hundred people who have never spoken before, Andrew Lownie traces the lives of the late Queen's second son and his ex-wife through their childhoods, courtship, marriage, divorce, careers and royal and charitable activities. <br/><br/>Investigating the reality of their relationship, it assesses Andrew's Falklands record, his business dealings and reveals new details of how the couple have been able to financially sustain their extravagant lifestyles. It also delves deeper into links with Jeffrey Epstein, which began earlier, continued longer and were much more frequent than reported.

Strange Houses [Bok / Häftad]

The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All is a stunning Girls Love manga that depicts the budding romance between a high school girl and her classmate who she mistakes as a guy outside of school.

Barnen på Björklunda gård är en läsebok för årskurs 3-5. I boken får eleverna lära känna Tora och Edvard, som var barn på Björklunda gård vid förra sekelskiftet. Berättelsen skildrar familjens liv år 1899 och vi får följa dem in i det nya seklet. Tora och Edvard går i skolan, arbetar tillsammans med sina föräldrar, leker med kamrater och lyssnar till gammelfarmors kusliga berättelser. Barnen gör en spännande resa till Stockholm, där de träffar på några av den tidens nyheter såsom bil och telefon. Varje kapitel är en avslutad berättelse och följs av faktasidor med fotografier och texter som belyser innehållet i kapitlet. Här kan eleverna läsa om hur livet tedde sig vid förra sekelskiftet och med det som utgångspunkt göra jämförelser med hur det ser ut idag. I slutet av boken finns en antologidel med texter som barnen vid den här tiden kunde träffa på. Boken kan användas för upplevelseläsning, som faktabok vid olika slag av temaarbeten och vid undersökande arbete kring livet förr i tiden. Lärarens bok med ytterligare fakta och förslag på arbetsuppgifter finns nu som nedladdningsbar fil.

The Technological Republic [Bok / Häftad]

<strong>'A superb work of history' </strong>JAMES HOLLAND <br/><br/><strong>'A thrilling account from a master of Second World War history' </strong>DAN SNOW <br/><br/> <strong>A landmark history of the U-Boat war told through the experiences and recollections of the U-Boat crews themselves.</strong> <br/><br/> <strong>Winston Churchill famously remarked that the threat of the German U-Boats was the only thing that had "really frightened" him during World War Two. The U-Boats certainly claimed a bitter harvest among Allied shipping: nearly 3,000 ships were sunk, for a total tonnage of over 14 million tonnes, nearly 70% of Allied shipping losses in all theatres of the war. With justification, then, they are an integral part of the traditional narrative of the Battle of the Atlantic; a story of technological brilliance, dramatic sinkings, life and death, and - of course - the sinister, unseen threat of the U-Boats themselves.</strong> <br/><br/>For Allied seamen during the war, the U-Boat was a hidden menace, a faceless killer lurking beneath the waves; and the urgent needs of survival afforded them little time or energy to consider the challenges and privations of their enemy. History, however, affords us that time and energy, and any pretence of comprehensiveness demands that we consider what life was like for the crews of those most claustrophobic vessels; packed into a steel hull, at the mercy of the enemy, of the elements - and of basic physics. <br/><br/>Germany's U-Boat crews posted the highest per-capita losses of any combat arm during World War Two. Some 30,000 German submariners were killed - over 75% of the total number deployed - the vast majority of whom have no grave except the seabed. Using archival sources, unpublished diaries and existing memoir literature, this book will give the U-Boatmen back their voice, allowing their side of the narrative to be aired in a comprehensive manner for the first time. <br/><br/>With that testimony, <em>Wolfpack</em> takes the reader from the heady early days of the war, when U-Boat crews were buoyed with optimism about their cause, through to the challenges of meeting the Allied counterthreat, to the final horror of defeat, when their submarines were captured by the enemy or scuttled in ignominy. Using the U-Boatmen's own voices to punctuate an engaging narrative, it tells their story; of courage, certainly, but also of fear, privation and - ultimately - failure.