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Interactive text, first words, and sliders on each spread make this an ideal early-learning introduction to Christmas and winter.Children can slide the sliders across the page to learn fun Christmas and winter words! This sturdy board book includes interactive prompts and sliders on each spread, which help promote early language skills, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor skills. Young readers will discover which animals help Santa Claus to ...

Part-biography, part-social history, Catland is its own breed of historical investigation' Amanda ForemanSome called it a craze, to others it was a cult. Join prize-winning historian Kathryn Hughes to discover how Britain fell in love with cats and ushered in a new era.

Turn The Key and unlock the past...1956. It is Ellen Crosby's first day as a student nurse at Ambergate County Lunatic Asylum. When she meets a young woman committed for attempting to drown herself and a pioneering physician keen to try out various 'cures' for mental illness, little does Ellen know that a choice she will make is to change all their lives for ever.2006. Sarah is drawn to the abandoned Ambergate Asylum. Whilst exploring the old ...

A heartbreakingly beautiful story of love and war from the international bestseller.Jenny Tanner opens the box she has cherished for decades. Contained within are her most precious mementoes, amongst them a pebble, a carving and a newspaper cutting she can hardly bear to read. But Jenny knows the time is finally here. After the war, in a mountainside village in Italy, she left behind a piece of her heart. However painful, she must return to Ci...

A heartbreakingly beautiful novel, The Memory Box unlocks an unforgettable epic story of love and war, from the million-copy-selling author of The Letter, Kathryn Hughes.

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A gripping, heartwrenching story of how hope can blossom in the ruins of tragedy and of the redeeming power of love. Tara Richards was just a girl when she lost her mother. Years later when Tara receives a letter from a London solicitor its contents shake her to the core. Someone has left her a key to a safe deposit box. In the box lies an object that will change everything Tara thought she knew and lead her on a journey to deepest Spain in se...

Da dove si ricomincia, quando si ha perso tutto? Sarah non ha ancora una risposta. A trentotto anni, dopo un divorzio difficile, è tornata a casa dei genitori, convinta di non avere più un futuro. Per distrarsi dai suoi problemi, decide di scrivere un libro su Ambergate, l'ospedale psichiatrico in cui aveva lavorato il padre, ormai chiuso da anni e che verrà presto demolito. Girovagando tra i corridoi di quell'enorme edificio in rovina, Sarah ...

Quando si deve smettere di sperare? Beth se lo chiede ogni giorno, guardando suo figlio jake in un letto di ospedale. Jake avrebbe bisogno di un trapianto, ma né lei né Michael, il marito, sono compatibili. Ma ecco che accade il miracolo: frugando tra alcune vecchie carte, Beth scopre di essere stata adottata. E, oltre lo sconcerto e la tristezza, Beth intravede una possibilità: da qualche parte, vicino a lei, potrebbero esserci parenti biolog...

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Quanto può durare un ricordo? Tina se lo chiede ogni sabato, davanti ai vestiti usati che lei vende per beneficenza. E se lo chiede quando, in una vecchia giacca, trova una lettera che risale agli anni '40. E che non è mai stata spedita. Chi saranno mai Chrissie, la destinataria, e Billy, l'uomo che nella lettera implora il suo perdono? Qual è la storia che li unisce? E che ne è stato di loro? Inseguire quel ricordo ingiallito diventa ben pres...

This highly praised biography is the first to explore fully the way in which her painful early life and rejection by her brother Isaac in particular, shaped the insight and art which made her both Victorian England's last great visionary and the first modern.

Excerpt from Americanization Through Music: Thesis for the Degree of Bachelor of Music in Music, School of Music, University of Illinois, 1922Until then musical strides had been made but none that expounded the views of the people as a whole. The Handel and Haydn Society had been established in Boston in 1815 to further the idea of promulgation and diffusion of improved musical knowledge by means of the introduction of music into the youth of ...

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Excerpt from Americanization Through Music: Thesis for the Degree of Bachelor of Music in Music, School of Music, University of Illinois, 1922Until then musical strides had been made but none that expounded the views of the people as a whole. The Handel and Haydn Society had been established in Boston in 1815 to further the idea of promulgation and diffusion of improved musical knowledge by means of the introduction of music into the youth of ...

Turn The Key and unlock the past...1956. It is Ellen Crosby's first day as a student nurse at Ambergate County Lunatic Asylum. When she meets a young woman committed by her father and a pioneering physician keen to try out various 'cures' for mental illness, little does Ellen know that a choice she will make is to change all their lives for ever.2006. Sarah is drawn to the abandoned Ambergate Asylum. Whilst exploring the old corridors she disc...

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