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  • The Hogg Lane Detectives

    A cosy English mystery

    by Sally Wilde ...
    Immerse yourself in a small English village in the 1950s. The story wanders down the lanes and in and out of the kitchens of Miswell Cross, introducing the villagers: wealthy but suicidal; hard-working but judgmental; secretly gay; hard-drinking and womanising; horse-loving but snobbish; a small-time crook; a victim of an arranged marriage; and a manipulative mother, or two. But which one of them ... Read more

    $4.82 CAD

  • The Body Divided

    Human Beings and Human 'Material' in Modern Medical History

    by Sally Wilde ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science. Over time and in different places, they have been dissected, autopsied, investigated, harvested for research and therapeutic purposes, collected to turn into museum and other specimens, and then displayed, disposed of, and exchanged. This book examines the history of such activities, from the ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

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  • Only a Mother Knows

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  • The Boy in the Cellar

    by Stephen Smith ...
    Stephen Smith is the boy who did not exist.Born out of wedlock in the early 1960s, Steve's parents hid him away from the world by locking him in the cellar...for thirteen years.Starved and beaten, the little boy's world was a darkened room that measured just eight feet by ten with a single makeshift bed, bare light bulb, and a solitary table. Steve would spend his days conjuring up an imaginary ... Read more

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  • The Button Girls

    A beautiful, emotional pre-war novella from Patricia McBride

    Series series Lily Baker Series
    The exciting prequel to the Lily Baker series1938, England. When Lily Baker's mother finds a way for them to leave their run down part of town, and finally esape her aggressive father, Lily is feeling positive about a fresh start at a new life.While her mother will be a housekeeper, Lily has a chance to work in a factory, though she has even bigger dreams - and the tenacity to achieve them.But ... Read more

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  • The Other Side of the Dale

    by Gervase Phinn ...
    Take a trip to the country with Gervase Phinn's heartwarming tales of life as a school inspector in Yorkshire'Gervase Phinn's memoirs have made him a hero in school staff-rooms' Daily Telegraph_______As the newly appointed County Inspector of Schools in North Yorkshire, Gervase Phinn reveals in this warm and wonderfully humorous account, the experiences of his first year in the job - and what an ... Read more

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    Illustrated by Peggy Fortnum ...
    “Oh dear,” said Paddington, as everyone turned to look at him accusingly. “I’m in trouble again.” Somehow trouble comes naturally to Paddington.What other bear could upset the whole cinema by standing on his seat to boo the ‘bad guy’ in the cowboy film? Or drip ice-cream on the people down below? Or flood the launderette and saw Mr Curry’s kitchen into little pieces? Only Paddington! But when ... Read more

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  • A Bear Called Paddington

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  • Like Mother, Like Daughter

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    Series Book 4 - The Cornish Girls Series
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