This instant national bestseller, for readers of The Nightingale and Lilac Girls, is a dazzling novel about a spy and a pilot who fall in love but are wrenched apart during World War II, and must find their way back to each other. When Billy Coke steps onto the streets of London one December evening in 1940, he has no idea he is stepping to his fate. As Hitler's bombers come close to burning the city down, Billy meets the woman who will change the course of his life: Ilse Magnusson, a musician from Norway, but also something more--a spy in training. Escaping the Blitz for three days, she and Billy drive, quarrel, conceal, reveal . . . and fall finally, fully, in love. Now they must part, each to fight the war their own way. Billy, a Canadian Spitfire pilot, to duel with the Luftwaffe over North Africa and the Med. Ilse to return to her conquered country, ingratiate herself with the Nazi elite--which includes her beloved father--and send vital intelligence back to Britain. They know that the odds of both of them surviving are poor. All they can hope is that the other does survive--and that someday they find each other again. From decadent pre-war Berlin to the atrocity at Guernica, from dogfights over Sicily to an Oslo ground under the German jackboot, through small victories and bitter losses, this is the story of a man and a woman at war. A tale of causes and compromises, heroism and betrayal. Of choices made, with consequences unforeseen. And finally, how sometimes . . . love can give you a second chance.

Expressions of a Life is Danielle Rashea Brown’s first book of poetry, although she has been writing poetry for over 40 years. This book is a compilation of poems written during her younger years that were inspired by those moments in time that were too priceless for her to let go, those treasured moments that nurtured the soul of who she was then and those individuals who left a little of themselves behind. Expressions of a Life is treasured moments in time.

In the first few years of her life, four-year-old Sandra Schmidt endured TB, the death of her mother and the abandonment of her father. It is 1938: Hitler runs Sandras homeland and soon much of the homelands of Germanys neighbors. She is raised in the safety of her grandparents home until the Americans and British start bombing Germany and her village. Sandra is struck by a piece of shrapnel and almost dies from infection. Her lifelong friend and Sandra wonder what the Jewish Solution is all about when her beloved grandfather is sent to a concentration camp for hiring Jews in the market he manages. He escapes with the help of a former employee who now is a warden there. After Sandras grandfather dies she lets an American GI trundle her off to New York, but doesnt like it there and runs off to California. But being beautiful doesnt guarantee you a job there. She struggles for a while, and after a few mishaps she lands a job as a Tour Manager to India. The tour companys management is impressed with her and offers her a permanent position. She always told her grandmother that: someday I will travel the world. Oddly enough, this will be her new profession, and she travels with American tourists for many years. The dream she had of traveling with the rich and famous had finally come true.

1. Literature Readers are from classes 1 to 8. 2. The stories are an interesting mix of selections, ranging from classics to contemporary covering the diversity of writers. 3. Reading selections emphasise values of inclusivity, gender neutrality, equality, cultural sensitivity and patriotism.

Meet the unlikeliest of heroes: Gustav, a wooden goose decoy. His story begins after his creation at the hands of an old German craftsman in 1930's Illinois. Over the course of the next half century, he is pulled along by the current of rivers, pushed by the energy of providence and influenced by the power of the human spirit. Through many travels and unexpected travails, his story offers a unique and insightful glimpse into the world of the waterfowler. Who would think that glass eyes, glued into a wooden head, could see the world so clearly?

Written in the dawn of multiculturalism during the early to mid 1990s, Eidolons of Ecstasy is a ""poetical bildungsroman"" exploring the topics of self-discovery, sex, death, travel, politics and spirituality. The poems - a collection of quatrains, free and blank verse, epics, odes and more - illustrate the reaction to a sudden onslaught of information available to a generation who sought their tenets through movements as grunge, hip hop, the fall of a wall and the rise of the Internet.

Voices, a multi-skill course in English, is an integrated and innovative approach to the teaching and learning of English language skills.