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Flash Harriet has a problem. The ostrich eggs at a nearby farm are being stolen. Without them her father can't do his famous musical performance, and the farm will have to be sold. Who's stealing the eggs, and why do they want them? |
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Your brain controls everything you do — from your movement to your senses and even your thoughts and decisions. Complete with detailed diagrams, discover how this important part of your body works, and how you can look after it. |
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Sharks, whales, huge waves, and months and months at sea — these are just a few of the things that James Adair and his friend Ben had to battle against when they decided to row unsupported across the Indian Ocean. Find out about their incredible journey, in this thrilling first-hand account. |
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Briony had always suspected there was something wrong with her teacher. But after doing some further investigation with her friend Sergio, she uncovers a secret conspiracy so amazing that she could never have believed it was true. Find out how the adventure unfolds in this thrilling mystery novel by Carnegie-medal nominee Annabel Pitcher. |
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Annie, George and Jed are on a school camping trip, and their team hasn't been doing very well in the activities they've been set. There is one final task — an orienteering exercise in the nearby woods — and they're determined to win. But will their differences in opinion hold them back, and what is the howl they've heard deep in the woods? |
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Arguably the most popular live-action series from Disney, readers everywhere will eagerly devour the amazing 8x8 retellings of the third Pirates of the Caribbean film. Each book will retell the story from a different point of view and will provide kids with full-color stills from the film. No pirate-in-training will want to miss out! 8x8 #3: The swash-buckling adventures and twisted intrigues of the third Pirates of the Caribbean film are retold from Will Turner's point of view. |
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Scribble for hours with Big Nate Super Scribbler, the awesome fifth Big Nate activity book! Chock-full of mazes, crossword puzzles, comics, quizzes, and sudokus, the newest installment in the New York Times bestselling series gives kids the chance to have even more fun with Big Nate. Hang out with Dee Dee, Teddy, Gina, and the whole gang while solving the latest Big Nate mysteries and cracking codes right alongside your favorite characters. With more than 150 new games, this will provide hours of entertainment! |
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In a striking reinterpretation of the postwar years, Robert Dallek examines what drove Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, De Gaulle, and Truman, among others, the leaders of the most powerful and populous nations around the globe, to rely on traditional power politics in spite of the catastrophic violence they had endured. The decisions of these leaders, for better and often worse, had profound consequences for decades to come, influencing relations and conflicts with China, Korea, and in the Middle East. The Lost Peace is a penetrating look at the misjudgments that caused so much strife and suffering during this critical period, from the closing months of World War II through the early years of the Cold War. Dallek has written a cautionary tale that considers what might have been done differently to avoid the difficulties that strong and weak nations around the globe encountered in the mid-twentieth century. Provocative, illuminating, and based on a lifetime of research, The Lost Peace also offers extraordinary lessons for today's leaders, who might learn from the mistakes that were made in the years leading up to the cold war and engage in a more successful era of international cooperation. |
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New cover, new format reissue of this story about everyone's favourite family cat, Mog. Bunny is Mog's best thing. But one day Mrs Thomas says she is going to throw Bunny in the dustbin! |
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From the publishers that brought you A Game of Thrones comes the series that inspired George R.R. Martin's epic work. Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation! The Iron King — Philip the Fair — is as cold and silent, as handsome and unblinking as a statue. He governs his realm with an iron hand, but he cannot rule his own family: his sons are weak and their wives adulterous; while his red-blooded daughter Isabella is unhappily married to an English king who prefers the company of men. A web of scandal, murder and intrigue is weaving itself around the Iron King; but his downfall will come from an unexpected quarter. Bent on the persecution of the rich and powerful Knights Templar, Philip sentences Grand Master Jacques Molay to be burned at the stake, thus drawing down upon himself a curse that will destroy his entire dynasty... |
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Human life is a staggeringly strange thing. On the surface of a ball of rock falling around a nuclear fireball in the blackness of a vacuum, the laws of nature somehow conspired to create a naked ape that can look up at the stars and wonder where it came from. In this spectacular new book, Professor Brian Cox will take readers out of this world and into a whole new dimension as he gives us a new perspective on human life. Following the spark of human curiosity from its ignition in the distant past to its journey into the future, the book will span the history of the Universe, as Brian attempts to understand the greatest wonder of them all — humankind. He will reveal how time, physics and chemistry came together to create a creature that can wonder at its own existence, blessed with an unquenchable thirst to discover not just where it came from, but how it can think, where it is going and if it is alone. Combining dramatic photography and innovative CGI with the magical storytelling that has become Brian's trademark, Brian will give us his personal take on the past, present and future of this unlikely and unfathomably precious phenomenon — the story of humanity from the birth of the Universe to the ultimate fate of our species. |
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Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell by Chas Smith has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. |
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Paul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might among the great powers of the world. Kennedy begins with Europe's dramatic return to the forefront of world domination at the expense of China and the Muslim world and brings us up to modern times, with both on the brink of remarkable recovery. Along the way he explores world wars and civil wars, destructive ideologies, the paranoia of superpowers and the inherent problems of a united Europe. He persuasively demonstrates the interdependence of economic and military power, showing how imbalance between the two has historically led to spectacular political disaster. Erudite and brilliantly original, 'The Rise and Fall of Great Powers' is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the politics of power. |
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Sometimes a girl is touched by Mother War. Thorn is such a girl. Desperate to avenge her dead father, she lives to fight. But she has been named murderer by the very man who trained her to kill. Fate traps her in the schemes — and on the ship — of the deep-cunning minister Father Yarvi. Crossing half the world to find allies against the ruthless High King, she learns harsh lessons of blood and deceit. Beside her on her gruelling journey is Brand, a young warrior who hates to kill. A failure in his eyes and hers, he has one chance at redemption. Will Thorn forever be a tool in the hands of the powerful or can she carve her own path? is there a place beyond legend for a woman with a blade? |
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Biscuit is walking to Grandpa's house, and he's having such a good time that he doesn't want the walk to end. But the little puppy knows that the only thing better than a walk to Grandpa's house is a visit with Grandpa himself! The youngest of readers are sure to enjoy strolling with Biscuit through this charming, easy-to-read adventure. |
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Just in time to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Biscuit, this My First I Can Read reader features a lost toy that gives the beloved bestselling character a chance to save the day and make new friends. Full color. |
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It's Biscuit's birthday, and he's having a party Join his friends in helping him celebrate. There are eight pages of activities at the end of the book, including a word search, maze, matching game, and more. Includes eight pages of activities. |
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Extraordinarily entertaining and fiendishly suspenseful (Stephen King). The stunning new Penn Cage thriller in which a shocking murder from the 1960s finds new life — and victims — in the present. |
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Time for a walk, Biscuit! A stroll around the neighborhood is a perfect chance to show good manners. Will Biscuit behave? Six activity pages add to the fun! Have more fun with Biscuit! |
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Aza Ray is drowning in thin air. Since she was a baby, Aza has suffered from a mysterious lung disease that makes it ever harder for her to breathe, to speak-to live. All the doctors can do is give her drugs and hope they keep her alive. So when Aza catches a glimpse of a ship in the sky, her family chalks it up to a cruel side effect of the medication. But Aza doesn't think this is a hallucination. She can hear someone on the ship calling her name. Only her best friend, Jason, listens. Jason, who's always been there. Jason, for whom she might have more-than-friendly feelings. But before Aza can consider that thrilling idea, something goes terribly wrong. The sickness catches up with her. Aza is lost to our world. And found, by another. Magonia. Above the clouds, in a land of trading ships, Aza is not the weak and dying thing she was. In Magonia, she can breathe for the first time. Better, she has immense power. And she can use it to change the world. As she navigates her new life, Aza discovers that war is coming. Magonia and Earth are on the cusp of a reckoning. In Aza's hands lies the whole of humanity-including the boy who loves her. Where do her loyalties lie? |
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