Sharpe's Escape The twentieth instalment in the bestselling Sharpe series. It is 1810 and the French are making yet another attempt to invade Portugal. Facing them is a wasted land stripped of food by Wellington's orders and captain Richard Sharpe. But Sharpe is in trouble. His job as Captain of the Light Company is under threat and he has made a new enemy a Portuguese criminal known as Ferragus. Sharpe discarded by his regiment wages a private war against Ferragus -- a war fought through the burning pillaged streets of Coimbra Portugal's ancient university city. Sharpe's enemies are numerous but on his side he has Sergeant Patrick Harper the Portuguese officer Jorge Vincent and a prickly English governess whose first aim is to clean up Sharpe's language. Sharpe's Escape begins on the great gaunt ridge of Bussaco where a joint British and Portuguese army meets the overwhelming strength of Marshall Massena's crack troops. It finishes at Torres Vedras where the French hopes of occupying Portugal quickly die. This is a classic Sharpe novel with Richard Sharpe in his finest form reunited with Patrick Harper and facing enemies on every side. ... Orphans 3: Brooke The 'Orphans' series consists of four novellas and a full-length novel which brings all four threads of the story together. This one features Brooke whose adoptive parents welcome her to their huge gleaming house. Unfortunately their values do not include the school softball team. ... Spanish with Michel Thomas - (Cassette Audio Book) Michel Thomas's approach to language learning aims to provide in a few hours a functional working knowledge of a language without books note-taking or conscious memorizing. This cassette provides an eight-hour course in Spanish. ... Carol Vorderman's Maths Made Easy Ages 3-5 Book 2 This preschool home-study workbook is designed to reinforce all aspects of children's school work. The exercises have been written in line with the National Curriculum requirements for maths incorporating the latest developments in the implementation of the National Numeracy Strategy. Gold stickers are provided as a reward for the child to put on each completed page. A fold-out fill-in achievement chart make it easy for children to see their progress and there is a certificate to award on completion of each book. A pull-out answer section with parents' notes provides hints and tips and describes how the scheme links with the National Curriculum in the UK and the general curriculum order in the US and Australia. ... Deeper Meaning of Liff A Dictionary of Things That There Aren't Any Words for Yet The updated revised edition of The Meaning of Liff with illustrations from Private Eye cartoonist Bert Kitchen. ... Never Been Kissed - (DVD) Josie Geller (Drew Barrymore) is ready for a change. As the youngest copy editor at a big-city newspaper she longs to be taken seriously as a journalist. But while Josie excels as the nerdy brasin at work her personal life is another story. Still plagued by her teenage reputation as a "geek to the core" Josie is a twenty-five-year-old who has never had a serious love relationship she has never really been Kissed! Against all odds Josie lands her first assignment as a reporter: She must go undercover posing as a student at a local high school. The situation proves hilarious as Josie attempts to juggle her story assignment a potential new love and the never-ending dramas of adolescence. Special Features:- * Interactive Menus * Scene Access * Original Theatrical Trailer... ... Books at WHS WHS Bookstore WHSmith Email - Bookshop UK - WH Smith Videos - WH Smith ISP - Used Textbooks - WH Smith Jobs - Bookshops - Buy Books On Line - British Bookshops - British Bookshops - Stationers Company - Internet Stationers - Textbook Cheap - WH Smith ISP - WH Smith Dvd - WHSmith Bookshop - Legal Stationers London - Sussex Stationers - WH Smith Bookstore - www.WHS.com - Textbooks On Tape - Books Online - WHSmith On Line - Law Stationers - Books Online -