Peter Harvey is a second year undergraduate in the Oxford of 1968. At school, two years earlier, he had an affair with John, a younger boy, whom he then dropped. Now, John is coming to the same college. Memories unlocked and Peter faces the issue of his sexuality, aided by his old friend and mentor, Arthur Benson, the school’s deputy head. Peter and John meet and resume their relationship, but can it survive the events of a traumatic summer? Five years later, we see Peter returning to his old school as a teacher, seeking to build a new life. He settles ...

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Ces dernières décenies, le tourisme d'une façon générale est devenu un enjeu socio économique et géo- stratégique dans le monde et particulièrement en Afrique. l'Afrique arabophone s'entire mieux par rapport au reste du continent, l'afrique noire. Cependant, marquée par l'histoire précoloniale, coloniale et poste coloniale, l'afrique de l'ouest en particulier est riche sur le plan patimoine naturel et culturel tangible et intangible à l'image du Sénégal ...

His best laid plans... Ewan Fairchild, Viscount Clayton, has been busy ticking off the boxes for a bright future. Become a rising star in Parliament? Check. Find a lady he intends to marry? Check. Make his stables the envy of every man in London? Check, thanks to the prize Arabian thoroughbred he's just won at auction. Clayton's on his way to having it all and won't change course for anyone-not even the beautiful young woman next door. ...are about to go awry Lady Theodora Ballard didn't mind missing a Season of dinner parties, balls, and soirees ...

This 64-paged, large print book is a dementia-friendly adaptation of Alcott’s classic story of the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. It has been included in Dovetale Press’s series of four adaptations of classic novels and a poetry collection, created for people living with dementia. People living with dementia have difficulties reading standard texts because of problems with memory, which can be particularly frustrating if reading was a favourite pastime for them pre-dementia. Specific challenges that they face in reading are daunting ...

"Fess Parker grew up in Texas, served in World War II, and later became TV's incredibly popular 'Davy Crockett' and 'Daniel Boone.' After his film and TV career, Parker became a successful businessman, hotel builder, and vintner. William R. Chemerka's authorized biography is a respectful tribute to an amazing man that features thoughtful recollections from Parker's family, friends, co-stars, and fans, and includes a number of never-before-published photographs."

This is the story of a young man with the ambition to crawl his way up in Victorian society by leaving the farm and signing onto a steamboat. After becoming a certified pilot, he is quickly swept up in the war he does not understand that divides the country and threatens his goals. He witnesses the militarization of the steamboat trade and the coming rise of the railroads. When the boat is acquired by the War Department for conversion to a “tinclad” gunboat, he and other skilled men are contracted to the Navy and find themselves in the thick ...

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A vision of the Virgin Mary foreshadows a string of cold-blooded murders, revealing a dark current of religious fanaticism in an old medieval town in this Ruth Galloway mystery. When Ruth's friend Cathbad sees a vision of the Virgin Mary--in a white gown and blue cloak--in the graveyard next to the cottage he is house-sitting, he takes it in his stride. Walsingham has strong connections to Mary, and Cathbad is a druid after all; visions come with the job. But when the body of a woman in a blue dressing-gown is found dead the next day in a nearby ditch ...