Runaway hardcover

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days The Benevento cousins return for more adventures in the ancient town that's famous for its witches! The Benevento children are excitedly preparing for the annual Boar Hunt, where the prize of the Golden Tusk is given to the ten-year old who catches the boar. No girl has ever competed, but Rosa is determined to take part -- and win! She refuses to stay home and help take care of the new baby and cook and clean. She will just have to run away. Life was very different in Benevento of the 1800s, and John Marciano's clever story and Sophie Blackall's charming illustrations bring the town, its people, and its past to vivid life. Features Summary The Benevento children are excitedly preparing for the annual Boar Hunt, where the prize of the Golden Tusk is given to the ten-year-old who catches the boar... Author John Bemelmans Marciano (Author), Sophie Blackall (Illustrator) Publisher Viking Release date 20180820 Pages 96 ISBN 0-425-29151-0 ISBN 13 978-0-425-29151-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days A runaway best-seller in France, But You Did Not Come Back is the deeply moving memoir of a survivor of the Holocaust. 'I was quite a cheerful person, you know, in spite of what happened to us.' In 1944, at the age of fifteen, Marceline Loridan-Ivens was arrested in occupied France, along with her father. They were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. When they arrived, they were forcibly separated. Though he managed to smuggle a last note to her via an electrician, she never spoke to him again. But You Did Not Come Back is Marceline's letter to the father she would never know as an adult, to the man whose death has enveloped her life. With poignant honesty, she tells him of the events that have continued to haunt her, of the collapse of their family, and of her efforts to find a place in a changing world. This is a breathtaking memoir by an extraordinary woman, and an intimate and deeply moving message from a daughter to her father. Features Summary In 1944, at the age of fifteen, Marceline Loridan-Ivens was arrested in occupied France, along with her father. They were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland... Author Marceline Loridan-Ivens (Author), Sandra Smith (Translator) Publisher Faber and Faber Release date 20160121 Pages 100 ISBN 0-571-32801-6 ISBN 13 978-0-571-32801-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days This is the story of Alison Hubble Who went to bed single...And woke up double! A tale of MATHEMATICAL MAYHEM from magnificent illustrator Bruce Ingman and master storyteller Allan Ahlberg! Alison Hubble is shocked when she wakes up to find a twin in the bed next to her. And she keeps doubling...and doubling...and doubling! A fantastically funny and completely clever new picture book from the critically-acclaimed pair behind The Pencil and The Runaway Dinner. Features Summary Alison Hubble is shocked when she wakes up to find a twin in the bed next to her. And she keeps doubling... and doubling... and doubling! Author Allan Ahlberg (Author), Bruce Ingman (Illustrator) Publisher Puffin Release date 20160530 Pages 32 ISBN 0-14-135923-4 ISBN 13 978-0-14-135923-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Max Ophuls, who is consideredone of the greatest film directors of all time, has long been seen as an "auteur"--the artist in complete control of his work. Lutz Bacher's examination of his American career gives us a unique perspective on the struggle on the workings of the Hollywood system and the struggle of a visionary to function within it. He thus establishes clear connections between the production contexts of Ophuls's American films and their idiosyncratic style. Drawing on documents in many archives and on interviews with more than sixty of Ophuls's contemporaries, Bacher traces the European director's struggle to find a niche in the U.S. film industry. He describes how Ophuls ran the gamut from ghost writing to substitute directing, to a debilitating association with Preston Sturges and Howard Hughes, to making four films--Letter from and Unknown Woman and Caught among them--in thirty months, and then returning to Europe with a runaway production that was to have starred Greta Garbo. Throughout, Bacher demonstrates that Ophuls's bending of conventional Hollywood methods to his own will through compromise and subversion allowed him to achieve a style that was both uniquely American and a point of departure from his later work. A rare synthesis of production history, stylistic analysis, and biography, this book is essential reading for serious film scholars and fans of the director's work. Features Summary This is an examination into the career of film director, Max Ophuls, drawing on archival documents and interviews with more than 60 of Ophuls's contemporaries... Author Lutz Bacher Publisher Rutgers University Press Release date 19960630 Pages 400 ISBN 0-8135-2291-9 ISBN 13 978-0-8135-2291-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Lisa Gardner's next thriller following her runaway New York Times bestseller Find Her takes her wildly popular brand of suspense to new heights. Thirteen-year-old Sharlah Nash knows that the first time her brother killed eight years ago, he did it to save their lives. Now retired FBI profiler Pierce Quincy and his wife Rainie Conner have offered Sharlah a new life of safety. She desperately wants to believe this is her shot at happily ever after. Then two people are murdered in their local convenience store and Sharlah's brother is identified as the killer. Telly Ray Nash is on the hunt for Sharlah and as the death count rises it becomes clear that nothing and no-one, including Pierce and Rainie, will stop him getting to her. Now, Sharlah has one chance to take control. She can run for her life...or turn and face the danger right behind her. Features Summary New York Times bestselling author of FIND HER, Lisa Gardner, returns with a brand new FBI Profiler novel RIGHT BEHIND YOU. Sharlah Nash lost her family when her older brother killed her parents... Author Lisa Gardner Publisher Headline Book Publishing Release date 20170126 Pages 368 ISBN 1-4722-2032-3 ISBN 13 978-1-4722-2032-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 24 hours LA Mirage features eleven quirky, witty short stories, each with a twist in the tail. In Angels a lonely man's life changes when he takes in a stray dog. Los Angelinos having trouble controlling their romantic urges resort to Romantiholics Anonymous in RA. In Jack a middle-aged hippy falls in love with her son's best friend - with tragic results. The Wind in the Willy shows the perils of kilt-wearing. Tulsa Time is the funny but deeply touching account of a love affair between a runaway English teenager and a cowboy. Features Summary 'LA Mirage' features twelve quirky, witty, short stories, each with a twist in the tail. Author Anne Lambton Publisher Timewell Press Release date 20070504 Pages 220 ISBN 1-85725-220-9 ISBN 13 978-1-85725-220-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days A princess runs away to avoid marriage, taking three of her favourite gowns with her. She works hard, herding geese in a tatty donkeyskin cloak, but when she thinks no one is looking, she tries on one of her beautiful gowns. She is spotted by a prince who falls in love with her at first sight, but she runs away. How will he find her? And what will he think when he finds out that she's just a goose girl? A variation of the Cinderella story, this version is based on Donkeyskin, a 300-year-old story by the French author, Charles Perrault. Part of the Usborne Reading Programme, which includes over 250 titles across seven levels - all developed in conjunction with reading experts at Roehampton University. Features Summary A princess runs away to avoid marriage, taking her three favourite gowns with her. She works hard, but when no one is looking she tries on her gowns. She is spotted by a prince who falls in love with her... Author Rosie Dickins (Author), Elodie Coudray (Illustrator) Publisher Usborne Publishing Ltd Release date 20130701 Pages 48 ISBN 1-4095-3592-4 ISBN 13 978-1-4095-3592-8