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Alan MacDonald
Meet Bertie - with his madcap plans and hilarious escapades, he's sure to be up to his neck in trouble!
Join Bertie in Wild! his 36th adventure as he looks…
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A Dirty Bertie collection for fans of the world's grubbiest trouble magnet! Featuring nine zany stories from BEES!, RATS! and FLEAS!
Andrea Beaty
Three cheers for the Questioneers! Celebrate science, perseverance, and creativity in this 6-book box set that includes Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters, Ada Twist and the Perilous Pants, Iggy…
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Ignite your creativity with this activity book inspired by the main character of New York Times bestselling Rosie Revere, Engineer
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"40+ things to plan, draw, and make"--Cover.
Helen Docherty
A deeply moving, vitally important picture book encouraging empathy and kindness.
Julia Donaldson
Whoever heard of a vegetarian T. rex? Meet Drip, the little dinosaur who hatched in the wrong nest in this fantastically funny rhyming story, now with never-before-seen bonus material.
Richard Ayoade
FAIRY-LAND EXCLUSIVE! Discover THE TRUTH about your favourite fairy-tale characters in Richard Ayoade's second children's book.
"The 8+ answer to The Jolly Postman." The Guardian
"A wonderful, funny book of…
Julian Clary
This time, Teddington’s wildest family have decided to stay at home and keep their heads down - it isn’t always easy hiding tails and fur under clothes, and it’s important…
David Petraeus, Andrew Roberts
Conflict is not only a critical assessment of our recent past, but also an essential primer of modern warfare that provides crucial knowledge for waging battle today as well as…
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Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems celebrates the 100th anniversary of The Road Not Taken, published in the August 1915 issue of the Atlantic Monthly. This volume presents Frost’s…
The Bolds are a family of hyenas living as humans in a suburban house. But now their kindness to animal waifs and strays has become legendary, and more and more…
Join in with a crew of clueless pirates, one hairy troll and barrels o'laughs in this hilarious rhyming story.
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This new edition of Parapsychology continues to challenge and provoke readers with some of psychology's most puzzling phenomena. Whether believers or sceptics, the book provides readers with the opportunity to…
Give a hoot and don’t pollute!
The Bolds have decided to do their bit for the planet and go green. They’re reducing, reusing and recycling as much as they can…
Whoever heard of a vegetarian T. rex? Meet Drip, the little dinosaur who hatched in the wrong nest in this fantastically funny rhyming story from the bestselling partnership of Julia…
Hop aboard the Flying Bath and rush to the rescue with this fantastic adventure story from the bestselling partnership of Julia Donaldson and David Roberts - but don’t forget to…
An irresistibly funny adventure story from the bestselling creators of Tyrannosaurus Drip.
New York Times, USA Today, Amazon, and Publishers Weekly bestseller
Aspects of History, The Critic, Octavian, and Modern War Institute Book of the Year.
Two leading authorities--an acclaimed historian and…
David Croatto
Learning all about your neighbors has never been funnier as adorable Funko Pop! versions of Jerry, Elaine, George, Kramer, and other loveable oddball characters from Seinfeld ask the question, "Who…
Iggy is delighted when Ada Twist’s Aunt Bernice inherits a mansion featuring his favorite architectural periods, but unless the Questioneers can find its missing antiques, the house may be lost…
When pets go missing in Blue River Creek it is up to Ada to follow the scientific method by making a hypothesis, collecting data, and experimenting to find the missing…
An uplifting story about the power of art, finding your voice, and telling your story.
When Zookeeper Fred's green snake Vern gets loose in the zoo, the Questioneers need all their talents to help find him, but in the end, it is Aaron's art that…
What if you could send fan mail to your fairy tale idols? And what if they wrote back? "Happily ever after" takes on a new meaning in this book from…
First published in Great Britain in 2023 by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd.
It’s time for monkey business in this fifth outing for Teddington’s wildest family, the Bolds! Hyenas, living as people - whatever next! Granny Imamu starts to stir up mischief with…
Carry on camping with dream team Julian Clary and David Roberts! With their extended hyena family in tow, they head on down to Cornwall for a spot of camping. But…
David Ivon Jones
David Ivon Jones was born in Wales in1883 and died in 1924 in the Soviet Union. In his death-bed 'Political Testament', Jones urged his comrades to 'carry out the great…
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Robert Albon, David C. Stafford
First Published in 1987, Rent Control discusses the economics of rent control, citing numerous international examples of the detrimental effects of rigid rent control. Various policy options to revamp rental…
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Brendan Nelson
Assembling a collection of speeches for Dr Brendan Nelson is not without challenge.
For a start, he almost never read from a prepared text. Instead, he relied on his extraordinary…
David A Kelly
Get ready for a spooktacular adventure in Cooperstown, New York.
Join Mike and Kate from the bestselling Ballpark Mysteries series as they race against time to catch a monster mystery-with…
Andrea Beaty, David Roberts (illus.)
Three cheers for The Questioneers! Celebrate STEM, the power of perseverance, and standing up for what you believe in with this 4-book boxed set
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Robert Louis Stevenson
An eerily superb story of murder and monstrosity on the streets of Victorian London that has remained in the public imagination for well over a century, spawning numerous adaptations, now…
Alice B. McGinty
Bathe the floor? Sweep the dishes? This riotous romp of a picture book follows a frantic family as they try to get some chores done - with no help from…
David Laing, Roxburghe Club, Robert Kerr Ancram
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Contends that art in almost any medium is typically born of a desire for some kind of understanding - perhaps of the potential in their medium, an aspect of the…
Alan MacDonald, David Roberts
Pants!: Bertie's third audiobook finds him facing the shame of losing a dare with Know-All Nick and having to wear his pants to school, playing the part of the dog…
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Robert C. Cottrell
From women's suffrage to Civil Rights to environmentalism and the LGBT movement, the American Left has achieved notable successes. Sometimes celebrated and sometimes reviled, the Left has taken on many…
Lucy Hamilton, Robert Harding, David Paskett
This collection of essays explore the beautiful city of Fuzhou and its history and literature. Based on several journeys to the southern Chinese city, the authors discuss literature and culture…
David Stockman
Donald Trump had all the right enemieswhile in office-but that was about all he had right.And with the election of 2024 fast approaching, the essence of the moment is this…
Zvonimir Stopic, Robert Niebuhr, David Pickus
This book explores the emergence of Yugoslav globalism and how it was influenced by the early Cold War, the changes once Yugoslavia established itself as a nonaligned leader, and what…
Robert J. Campbell
Illuminates the beginnings, downfall, and legacy of the acid-inspired, spontaneous, and playful approach to life and music in Haight-Ashbury from 1964-1967.