Cursed! David was only trying to be cool when he helped some other boys steal an old lady`s cane. But when the plan backfires, he is the one whom she `curses`. Now David can`t seem to do anything right. The cool kids...
Billy, Nicola and Mr Gopal are off to India in a flying boat to solve a baffling mystery! The gum that comes from the wonderful bubblegum trees that grow in the Indian jungle has not been delivered for two months....
Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, she is twenty-one, in love with the man...
No matter how hard Annie tries, she just cannot do even the simplest sums. It`s so embarrassing! When she goes to the shops, she can`t work out how much money to hand the shopkeeper, and she always gets 0 for her...
Zara and her friends knew they hadn`t solved the pixie problem for good. Far from it. The king`s needs grow deeper every day he`s stuck in captivity, while his control over his people gets weaker. It`s made him...
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When Alton`s ageing, blind uncle asks him to attend bridge games with him, he agrees. After all, it`s better than a crappy summer job in the local shopping mall, and Alton`s mother thinks it might secure their way to...
CMI Dict of Business & Management Ppb
The "Chartered Management Institute: Dictionary of Business and Management" is the most authoritative business dictionary available. It features: - More than 6,500 jargon-free definitions of key terms. - Entries drawn...
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
Courtney Stone - sassy, smart and suddenly single - has always felt she might have been better suited to life in Jane Austen`s England. One evening, having drifted off to sleep after self-medicating with pizza,...
Harriet`s invited to accompany her aunts, Thessalonica and Japonica to America. She`s terribly excited, knowing very well that with two expert detectives for aunts, this is going to be no ordinary trip. She soon...
One evening, spying on his Hollywood Hills neighbours through his USD4,000 electronic telescope, Bobby witnesses a beautiful woman making love to a handsome Latin actor called Ramon. As their pillow talk turns ugly,...
Four-year-old Romochka is left alone in a dark, empty Moscow apartment. After a few days, hunger drives him outside, where he sees a large, yellow dog loping past and follows her to her lair on the outskirts of the...
`Why did the guy eat two dead skunks for breakfast?` `Because dead ones squeal when you stick the fork in.` Gary W. Boone knows he was born to be a stand-up comedian. It is the rest of the kids in the class who think...
Jim and his friends are upset to hear that their school janitor`s car has been stolen, and just before he`s due to retire too. So Jim comes up with a bright idea for a way to help raise money to buy a new car: selling...
Trained in the way of the Samurai, dreaming of the City of Brotherly Love, Hiro Tanaka impetuously jumps ship off the coast of Georgia - only to wash up on a barrier island populated by rednecks, descendants of black...
Elizabeth is in her thirties, settled in a large house with a husband who wants to start a family. But she doesn`t want any of it. A bitter divorce and a rebound fling later, Elizabeth emerges battered yet determined...
How do you describe Elsewhere? This is a novel so astoundingly original and carefully crafted that its complexities become common place and the common place resounds with poetry. In this delightful novel death is a...
The international bestseller and winner of the 1992 Booker Prize The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining...
Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than the art and practice of imbibing. This new volume brings together the best of his three out-of-print works on the...
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
As featured in the first year set texts reading list in Harry Potter and the Philosopher`s Stone, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an extensive introduction to the magical beasts that exist in the magical,...
First Total War: Napoleons Europe & Birth of Modern Warfare
In this tour de force of interpretative history, David A. Bell explains that Napoleon`s was the first `total` war in European history, when warfare was transformed into the hideous spectacle that seems ever present...
