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In 1937, George Orwell spent six months witnessing the rise and fall of the popular revolution on the streets of Barcelona and Catalonia. Alone amongst his contemporaries, Orwell understood what the success or failure of that Spanish Revolution would mean for the rest of the world. The lessons he...

Once upon a time…most fairy tales start that way. Not sure why, but they do.So once upon a time I was going to publish a comic. A nice little hundred issue series that took a second generation super hero from start to finish. Multiple heroes and villains; a truly complete universe. There...

  If you thought reading Gervaise Phinn was like drinking a warm cup of tea this book will knock you over with the force of a vodka slammer. Mr Read survives the nightmare of planning, Ofsted and an incompetent head ... He also takes the class to Ireland, the House of Commons and wins a...

In A Year of Thanksgivings*, *Sallie Hicks shares with her readers seven generations of the Hicks and Read families as she has known them for almost ninety years. In stories that span from her early childhood memories to encounters with life's heartbreaking challenges, Sallie tells how, despite...

Pity the humble academic. Moving from a faculty position to an administrative office frequently entails gaining considerable responsibility-but ambiguous power. The hope of these two authors is that this volume will serve as a reference and a source of support for current associate and assistant deans...

Thousands of IT organizations have adopted clustering to improve the availability of mission-critical software services. Today, with the rapid growth of cloud computing environments, clustering is even more crucial. Now, there’s a comprehensive, authoritative guide to the industry’s most...

"Cornelia Read's darkest, most passionate, and most poignant book yet." -Tana French, New York Times Bestselling Author The smart-mouthed but sensitive runaway socialite Madeline Dare is shocked when she discovers the skeleton of a brutalized three-year-old boy in her own weed-ridden family...

Salmagundi what it says? A mishmash of stories conjured up by a brilliant mind. These stories were found two years ago, when Sue Read died. They were just writings from her college days and all her tutors found them to be very good for a first time fiction writer.

Fearful of Russian expansion beyond just Crimea, elements within Eastern Europe choose to act before it is too late…When an unrelenting campaign of bomb and cyber-attacks pushes Moscow to the edge of chaos, Russia exacts revenge on those suspected of supporting and training the terrorists....

In early modern English medicine, the balance of fluids in the body was seen as key to health. Menstruation was widely believed to regulate blood levels in the body and so was extensively discussed in medical texts. Sara Read examines all forms of literature, from plays and poems, to life-writing, and compares these texts with the medical theories.

On a freezing cold morning under the gaze of a glacial Mount Kenya, a young woman is walking home through a landscape shrouded in fog and frost. Her eye is drawn to a volt of vultures stalking a pit of fire and ash. She runs towards them to scare them off. That’s when she sees what they’ve been...

Zam Haley remembers his grandfather, Pops, as something of a superhero; a wondrous man with inexplicable powers that were only ever revealed to Zam himself in the form of trickery, games and fun-filled mischief. When Pops' health takes a turn for the worse and the Haley family move to the tiny and...

The Time Wasters have done something really evil this time.Naomi has just found a message from one of her sisters in a pot that was sealed 2000 years ago, and now she discovers that she is an only child. Who has been kidnapped and which part of history are they trapped in?This is your chance to learn a little history from Roman Britain to the Second World War.

AV2 Fiction Readalong by Weigl brings you timeless tales of mystery, suspense, adventure, and the lessons learned while growing up. These celebrated children’s stories are sure to entertain and educate while captivating even the most reluctant readers. Log on to www.av2books.com, and enter the unique...