When the 1945 Allied invasion took its toll on Hanover Germany, no one had imagined a backlash traced to Africa. No one had imagined St Judkin’s College a sequestered Secondary School overlooking a tea plantation where many Cameroonians under the German and British colonialists, had cut their teeth on forced labour. No one had imagined a Hanover in Saint Judkin’s College. No one imagined it a Teutonic colonial relic. No one imagined it a sacred cow; a reprehensible tradition of campus brutality. The Hanover, a time-honoured, tinderbox jinx, would break suddenly on the crossroad of a little boy’s destiny. Chinagorom’s death is a living stone to kill two evil birds. In the light of the moment’s tragedy, the school, for the very first time, was awakened to the shocker of an age-old chink in the ark of the nation’s prestigious first Secondary School.

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Eighteen months after the tragic Grove Street Fire took the life of her husband, David, and four other heroic firefighters, Susan Marlowe thinks she’s finally beginning to heal. But then she discovers that David carried a secret to his grave. A secret that changes everything she thought their marriage had been. For the sake of their sons, can Susan forgive the unforgivable? Andrea Morley lost her closest friend in the fire. But she has no right to mourn him. Instead, she must forever grieve in silence—because her dearest friend was someone else’s husband. Peter Brennan carries the weight of the world on his shoulders. As Hanover Falls’ fire chief, he was responsible for the brave firefighters who lost their lives that awful November night. Can he ever shake the feeling that he should have somehow prevented the tragedy? As he tries to rebuild the team at Clemens County’s Station 2, it seems he might find comfort in the arms of the woman he least expected.

A New York Times Bestseller! Don't miss the series debut that readers are calling Gossip Girl meets The Umbrella Academy, set in an elite boarding school, where secret societies rule, nothing is as it seems, and the genetic copies of attending students have just joined the Junior class... This fall, six new students are joining the junior class at the elite Darkwood Academy. But they aren't your regular over-achieving teens. They're DNA duplicates, and these "similars" are joining the class alongside their originals. The Similars are all anyone can talk about. Who are they? What are the odds that all of them would be Darkwood students? And who is the madman who broke the law to create them? Emmaline Chance could care less. Her best friend, Oliver, died over the summer and it's all she can do to get through each day without him. Then she comes face-to-heartbreaking-face with Levi, Oliver's exact DNA copy and one of the Similars. Emma wants nothing to do with the Similars, but she keeps getting pulled deeper into their world. She can't escape the dark truths about them or her prestigious school. No one can be trusted, not even the boy she is falling for with Oliver's face. This exhilarating and riveting debut by Rebecca Hanover is the next obsession for readers who devoured Two Can Keep a Secret, One of Us Is Lying, Scythe, and Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful.

Excerpt from The Last Campaign of Hanover: A Lecture Delivered at the Royal United Service Institution, on 1st April, 1870, Before Field Marshal H. R. H. The Duke of Cambridge, K. G., Etc;, Etc;, Commanding-in-Chief The importance to Prussia, with the view to subsequent operations against the south, of first making herself mistress of these three countries, was very great. Hanover lies directly between the western and eastern provinces of Prussia, and, in an enemy's hands, interposes an effectual bar to the passage of troops between them; in like manner hesse-cassel interposes between these western and eastern possessions; and, moreover, through Cassel passes that railroad which is the great artery of communication between those provinces. Of Saxony I need not now speak. At once, after her declaration of war, Prussia put her tr00ps in motion. At this time the army of Hanover was in that unfortunate condition which is known as a peace footing. Large numbers of her infantry were on furlough; her cavalry and her artillery were perhaps in a some what better condition than usual, because it was the season of the summer drills, and they happened to be called out for regimental exercise; but they had only horses for a peace establishment. Neither cavalry nor artillery had the preper number of horses required for them to take the field, and some of the guns were actually led out to fight this campaign horsed with horses from the King's stables, and driven by the King's stablemen. At the time of this declaration of war, and of the immediately subsequent movement of Prussian troops, the Hanoverian army was in a state of dislocation, as it is termed, though immediately after the decree of mobilisation had been passed in the Diet on the 14th of June, it had been ordered that the tr00ps should be assembled at certain points by the 23rd June. But all the arrangements for the mobilisation of the army pointed towards concentration in the northern portion of the kingdom. There were no arrangements what ever for the assembly of troops in the south there were no maga zines, there were no stores of supplies, there was, in fact, nothing ready for such a concentration. But when Hanover saw that the Prussian tr00ps were about to advance from Minden towards Hanover, when she saw that troops were actually in the north of her own terri tory, as some of them were, before war was declared, it was impossible for her, as she well knew, to concentrate in time in the north, and there fore the order was issued for the concentration of the whole army in the extreme south of the Hanoverian territory, at the well known uni versity town of Gottingen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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