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Choke
Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who 'saves you' will feel responsible for you for the rest of their lives. Multiply that a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy flow ...
The Big Alfie Out of Doors Storybook
Four new stories and four shorter poems introduce Alfie to the magic of the countryside, the excitement of the seaside, the mystery of night-time and the rhythm of the seasons. It is a companion volume to...
Mao's Last Dancer
The true story of a poor Chinese peasant boy who, plucked unsuspectingly at the age of ten from millions of others across the land to be trained as a ballet dancer, turned the situation to his advantage to become one of the world's greatest ballet stars. Li tells his story with charm and simplicity, wit...
Twister on Tuesday (Magic Tree House #23:)
When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado....
Lost World, The
The notorious Professor Challenger claims that dinosaurs still walk the earth. When the press and the scientific community ridicule him, Challenger vows to show them proof. And so he sets off for South America, accompanied by a big game hunter, a scientist and a young reporter eager to impress the woman...
Succubus Revealed (Georgina Kincaid #6)
Georgina Kincaid has had an eternity to figure out the opposite sex, but sometimes they still surprise her. Take Seth Mortensen. The man has risked his soul to become Georgina's boyfriend. Still, with Lucifer for a boss, Georgina can't just hang up her killer heels and settle down to domestic bliss....
Twitcher
Grief, loss and guilt are enormous burdens for a whole family to carry. A tern will fly to the moon, to live its life in summer a I suppose I'd like to have a little bit of that. It's boom time in sixteen-year-old Kenno's coastal holiday town. Tourists are buying and building and developing property, an...
Stag's Leap
"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prizei>i>Stag's Leap, Sharon Olds' stunningly poignant new sequence of poems, tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom. In this wise and intimate telling - which carries us throu...
Innocent Erendira and Other Stories
Innocent Erendira and Other Stories is a collection of short stories from the Nobel Prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 'Erendira was bathing her grandmother when the wind of misfortune began to blow.' While her grotesque and ...
Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword
In the century since its birth, the crossword has evolved into the world's most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form of wordplay, the codes and conventions of which are open to anyone masochistic enough to get addicted. In Two Girls, One on Each Knee, Alan Connor celebrates the wit, ingenuity and...
Clayhanger
No longer a boy, not quite a man, Edwin Clayhanger stands on a canal bridge on his last day of school, and surveys the valley of Bursley and the Five Towns. Serious, good-natured and full of incoherent ambition, Edwin's hopes and dreams for the future are just taking shape, even as they are put to the t...
The Wind in the Willows
The most popular children's book ever written, lovingly illustrated by John Burningham. The entertaining riverbank exploits of Mole, Water Rat, Badger and the incorrigible Toad. When Mole goes boating with Ratty instead of doing his spring-cleaning, he discovers a whole new world. As well as adventure...
Becoming (Audio CD)
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America - the first African-American to...
Story of Painting: The How Art Was Made
A fascinating new history of art, this gloriously illustrated book reveals how materials, techniques, and ideas have evolved over the centuries, inspiring artists and giving them the means to create their most celebrated works. Covering a comprehensive array of topics, from the first pigments and fresco...
We Found a Monster
Acclaimed monsterologist KIRK SCROGGS brings his hilariously scary pen to the page in this all-new graphic novel showing that friendship and trust go so much deeper than scaly, slimy, or squishy skin. There's a reason scary movie fan and master of the macabre Casey Clive looks ten times paler and mo...
Complete Horse Riding Manual
Learn all there is to know about horse riding, from horse care and show jumping to mastering dressage.Suitable for both novice and advanced riders, and for equestrian fans of all ages, this book will guide you through every stage of the riding process from the first time in the saddle to advanced riding...
Revolting Rhymes
Brand-new book of wickedly clever rhymes by the world's number-one storytellerThis book is filled with revolting rhymes.(Be warned- It's no ordinary Once upon a time).There's poor Cindy whose heart was torn to shreds, because her Prince, he chops off heads!Snow White's dwarfs although awfully nice, are ...
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