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With opportunities for black men limited in post-World War II London, Rick Braithwaite, a former Royal Air Force pilot and Cambridge-educated engineer, accepts a teaching position that puts him in charge of a class of angry, unmotivated, bigoted white teenagers whom the system has mostly abandoned. When his efforts to reach these troubled students are met with threats, suspicion, and derision, Braithwaite takes a radical new approach. He will treat his students as people poised to enter the adult world.

In this witty, feel-good romantic comedy perfect for fans of Love Is Blind and You’ve Got Mail, an enemies-to-lovers romance unfolds between two rivals who unknowingly fall for each other online. Perpetually cheerful and eager to please, Gracie Cooper is determined to keep her late father’s...

My dear Miss Bridgerton, We have been corresponding now for quite some time, and although we have never formally met, I feel as if I know you. I am writing to invite you to visit me here at Romney Hall. It is my hope that after a suitable period of time, we might decide that we will suit, and you will consent to be my wife. Did he think she was mad? Eloise Bridgerton couldn't marry a man she had never met! But before she knew it, she was in a hired carriage in the middle of the night, on her way to meet the man she hoped might be her perfect match.

'A moving and witty memoir with a big heart' - Nigella Lawson For fans of David Mitchell's Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8, Jem Lester's Shtum and Keith Stuart's A Boy Made of Blocks. No one would consider Judith Newman's domestic life normal. She and her husband keep separate apartments-his filled...

The textbook Southern romance; President Jefferson and President Jefferson Davis had these types of extremely successful relationships in their lives. In this story, a hellfire and brimstone revisionist history teacher meets his soul mate, and together, they form a bond as deep as the one Varina Howell and Jefferson Davis enjoyed... (17 and 35, respectively). A fun read, with true American history being taught in the process...

A trio of novels by the renowned author, dramatised for BBC Radio Guyanese writer E. R. Braithwaite is probably best known for his semi-autobiograpical, internationally bestselling novel To Sir with Love, which was adapted as an award-winning film starring Sidney Poitier. Collected here are...

New podcast weblog. So here we will be discussing our daily experiences as students and we will also be giving you the platform what you, as the listener, would like to just be a little bit easier on you in your life I WANT THE ; ”let’s talk about it.” type of conversations. It’s like speaking about the things we deem to be unfair in this life you know, and also share maybe our views on what karma actually is. Because we like saying karma is a b**** in our world, but Karma is actually OUR ”b****”, you know, that’s the thing. Interesting? Let’s START TALKING about it!! Let the ...

"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love", known for its first line, "Come live with me and be my love," is a poem written by the English poet Christopher Marlowe and published in 1599 (six years after the poet's death). In addition to being one of the best-known love poems in the English language, it is considered one of the earliest examples of the pastoral style of British poetry in the late Renaissance period. The poem was the subject of a well-known "reply" by Walter Raleigh, called "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd".

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