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Water Street
JP Maxwell
Liverpool 1863. The American Civil War comes to the British Empire’s second city and the world’s richest port.
Confederate Commander Banastre X. Dunwoody has a plan to turn the conflict by securing advanced warships, but the U.S. Government is one step ahead of him. It seeks to sabotage his efforts through its covert agent – Harriet Dunwoody – Banastre’s pregnant wife.
Alongside her undercover partner Conté, Harriet discovers that Banastre has plans to do more than building ships; he has a scheme that could very well draw Britain into the war.
As Gettysburg looms, an ocean away there’s another battle to be won and lost. The fate of the USA and the City of Liverpool rests upon it.
Definitions
Clare Coombes
When someone is missing and all you have are their words...
The sudden disappearance of Charley Ellison's sister leaves too many unanswered questions. With no close family, and the police showing little interest, Charley must track down Gina herself, using her sister's custom definitions - random words and sentences summarising life events. This leads Charley to realise how little she really knows about Gina's relationship with her fiancé and his family.
Desperate to find Gina, Charley begins a dangerous journey, using the definitions to question people close to her sister. They lead her into the sinister world of the family Gina was about to marry into. But Charley's own past holds dark secrets too, ones that threaten to overcome her at every turn.
Can you escape your past and move on? How well do you really know your own family? How far will they go to protect you? A tense, thrilling novel set in Liverpool about a family divided by secrets and a sister who won't give up.
The Christmas Ruse
Jennie Goutet
Nicholas Cranleigh suspects his meddlesome sister is up to something when she invites him to stay at Cothill Manor at the same time as Miss Dresden. He's on his guard, but it's hard to resist a woman with luminous eyes who's in need of a savior.
Lavinia Dresden is ready to sacrifice herself to save her family from financial ruin in the only path open to a woman of gentle breeding. But she hadn't counted the cost of her sacrifice until Lord Cranleigh came into her life—a man she knew to be her ideal.
There remain only five days until the Christmas ball when Miss Dresden's fate will be decided, and it soon becomes apparent to Nicholas that the question is not whether he wants to save Lavinia, but whether he is able.
His Disinclined Bride
Jennie Goutet
A Marriage of Duty. A Love That Can’t Be Denied.
Kitty Stokes never expected to marry a nobleman. But when the only alternative is a lifetime spent caring for her brother’s children, she reluctantly agrees to a marriage of convenience with the brooding and distant Lord Hayworth. On her wedding day, she is certain she’s made a terrible mistake—until she meets his gaze for the first time.
Phineas Hayworth never intended to fall for his wife. Marrying the sister of a wealthy merchant is a desperate move to save his crumbling estate, and he has no right to expect more. But from the moment he sees Kitty, his carefully laid plans begin to unravel. She is beautiful, strong-willed, and utterly captivating. Yet, she keeps him at arm’s length, and he soon realizes that while he was prepared for a loveless marriage, he is not willing to endure an unrequited love.
As they navigate the glittering world of Regency society, their growing attraction becomes impossible to ignore. But will Kitty risk her heart, or will Phineas’s love remain unreturned?
A Yorkshire Carol
Jennie Goutet
The heart is deceitful above all things. Who can understand it?
When Juliana Issot’s godmother invites her to spend the month of Christmas at a house party in Yorkshire, Juliana feels compelled by affection to accept. Never mind that she escaped Yorkshire at first chance to secure a more glittering match in London and that the only matrimonial prospect back home is her childhood playmate, Willelm.
Willelm Armitage is a born-and-bred Yorkshireman, and as far as he is concerned, Juliana belongs here, too—here at his side. However, the one time he dared to convince her of this, she speedily gave him the right-about, making him question whether she truly is the right choice for him. After all, if she cannot see how well they suit, why should he force her hand?
A Christmas house party with pudding, games, charades, riding, and carols turns out to be just the thing to remind Juliana of how much she loves Yorkshire. But when her nostalgia slips into love, will she be able to admit that Willelm knows the longings of her heart better than she knows her own?
Collins English Readers: Amazing Writers Level 4
Katerina Mestheneou, Fiona MacKenzie
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Voltaire, the French writer who believed in equality for all
Charlotte Brontë, the British novelist who wrote Jane Eyre
Mark Twain, the American who wrote Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
Jacques Prévert, the writer known in France as ‘the People’s Poet’
Ayn Rand, whose writing expressed her own philosophical ideas
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn who wrote about life in a Soviet Labour Camp
Collins English Readers: Amazing Women Level 1
Helen Parker, Fiona MacKenzie
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Harriet Tubman, the slave who helped hundreds of other slaves to escape
Emmeline Pankhurst who wanted women to be able to vote
Maria Montessori, the doctor who found a new way to teach children
Helen Keller, the deaf and blind woman who became a famous teacher
Eva Perón, the actress who helped poor and sick people in Argentina
Nancy Wake, the Second World War spy
Collins English Readers: Amazing Scientists Level 3
Anne Collins, Fiona MacKenzie
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Antoine Lavoisier who wrote the first modern chemistry textbook
Humphry Davy who discovered ‘laughing gas’
Charles Darwin who changed people’s ideas with his theory of evolution
Gregor Mendel who first discovered the science of genetics
Louis Pasteur who saved millions of lives by killing germs
Francis Crick who helped to discover the structure of DNA
Collins English Readers: Amazing Medical People Level 2
Fiona F.H. Cornish, Fiona MacKenzie
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Edward Jenner, the man who fought the terrible disease, smallpox
Florence Nightingale, the nurse known as ‘the lady with the lamp’
Elizabeth Garrett, England’s first female doctor
Carl Jung, the doctor who wanted to understand the human mind
Jonas Salk who defeated the dangerous illness, polio
Christiaan Barnard, the first man to replace a human heart
Collins English Readers: Amazing Philanthropists Level 3
Jane Rollason, Fiona MacKenzie
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel Prize
Andrew Carnegie, the businessman who built libraries for poor people
John D. Rockefeller who made money from oil and gave it all away
Thomas Barnardo who created homes for poor children
Henry Wellcome who used his money for medical research
Madam C. J. Walker who gave her money to the African-American community
Collins English Learners: Amazing Performers Level 3
Fiona MacKenzie, Jane Rollason
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Pablo Casals, the Catalan cello-player
Louis Armstrong, the American trumpet-player and singer
Frank Sinatra, the Italian-American singer and actor
Édith Piaf, France's famous singing star
Maria Callas, the Greek opera singer
Elvis Presley, the man who changed pop music
Collins English Readers: Amazing Performers Level 1
Fiona MacKenzie, Silvia Tiberio
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Glenn Miller, the leader of the most famous big band in the USA
Pérez Prado, the Cuban musician who was known as ‘the King of Mambo’
Ella Fitzgerald, the most popular female jazz singer in the USA
Luciano Pavarotti, one of the world’s best opera singers
John Lennon, member of the famous band The Beatles