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(0)Mike Grady
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Language
English
Description
Letters and journals reveal the struggles, affairs, deceptions, and triumphs of five members of a village choir during World War II as they band together to survive the upheavals of war and village intrigue on the English home front.
As England becomes enmeshed in the early days of World War II and the men are away fighting, the women of Chilbury village forge an uncommon bond. They defy the Vicar's stuffy edict to close the choir and instead resurrect...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
On April 12, 1961, twenty-seven-year-old Yuri Gagarin climbed inside a tiny spherical capsule on top of the Soviet Union's most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile and blasted into space, becoming the first human to leave Earth. For over a year, he and nineteen other cosmonauts had trained in secret for this pioneering mission.
3) Trust Me
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Harry delights in conning people, but comes gloriously unstuck when he poses as a hitman trying to sell his memoirs. With irate reporters and two real hitmen after him, and his brother's marriage and career to salvage, can Harry's glib tongue save his skin?
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Sunday Times Bestseller 'A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement' Charles Foster Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September) Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? In The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben makes the case that the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents...
5) The inner life of animals: love, grief, and compassion : surprising observations of a hidden world
Author
Series
Mysteries of nature trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Through vivid stories of devoted pigs, two-timing magpies, and scheming roosters, The Inner Life of Animals weaves Peter Wohlleben's wealth of personal experience observing nature in forests and fields with the latest scientific research into how animals interact with the world. Horses feel shame, deer grieve, and goats discipline their kids. Ravens call their friends by name, rats regret bad choices, and butterflies choose the very best places for...