Margaret Dickinson

While on an ocean voyage to Canada to escape the air raids in his Liverpool home, twelve-year-old Jaimie Monaghan faces another kind of life-threatening situation.

Eveleen is attracted to the son of her family's employer. Her mother's disapproval drives the youngsters to meet in secret. But deception has a price when Eveleen's father is found dead. Eveleen resolves never to allow love to enter her heart again.

"Letters, photographs, and diaries from the author of A Manual for Cleaning Women"--

Wild Swimming Walks leads you to 28 adventures into the beautiful countryside of southern England. Discover swimming meadows along the Thames, secret coves of the Sussex coast and hidden islands of the Essex coast. All the walking routes are accessible by train and each comes with ideas for places to visit and refreshments along the route. Includes suggestions for longer weekends away as well. --Cover

The year is 1914 and Pips Maitland resists her mother's wishes that she settle down with a suitable husband and raise children. All she wants is to be a doctor like her father and her brother, Robert. Hearing that her father's friend, Dr John Hazelwood, is forming a flying ambulance corps to take to the Front, Pips is determined to become one of its nurses. She asks her lady's maid, Alice Dawson to accompany her along with Robert and fellow doctor Giles Kendall. Nothing could have prepared them for the horror there. But even amidst the shelling and gunfire, love and friendships blossom - just like the poppies on the Flanders fields.

Battles of Destiny Series (Book 3) Jenny's allegiance lay with the Confederate Army. But her heart belonged to the enemy. Faithful to her family and the land of her birth, young Jenny Jordan covers for her father's Confederate spy missions. But as she grows closer to handsome Union soldier Buck Brownell. Jenny finds herself torn between devotion to the South and her feelings for the man she is forbidden to love. Overwhelmed by pressure to assist the South, Jenny agrees to carry critical information over enemy lines. But when she is caught in Buck Brownell's territory, will he follow orders to execute the beautiful spy or find a way to save his Beloved Enemy?

When Florrie Maltby defies her father by refusing to marry Gervase Richards, she sets off a chain of events that will alter her life. She goes to London, becomes involved with the suffragette movement, is imprisoned for her militant actions and goes on hunger strike. With her health deteriorating, there is one person who can save her? Gervase. At the outbreak of the Great War her brother James is shamed by their father into volunteering, and Florrie becomes a nurse at the Front, where she finds love, but when her beloved brother is in danger, help comes from an unexpected source.

The resilient will-power of the freedom fighters in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau, their devotion and determination, their courage in the face of tremendous odds and, above all, their quintessential love for their Land of Africa and her hopes shine out from this inspiring collection. These are some of the most moving resistance poems ever written. They make sad reading, but at the same time they leave one in no doubt whatsoever that the cause of freedom, for which so many lives have been sacrificed, will soon triumph over even the most relentless forms of colonialism.

Sons and daughters is a book centered on authority,parent's choice and lack/betrayal of trust.....read more