A visually exciting, highly informative, fun and accessible lift-the-flap book which is a fantastic source of information on energy and how it is used. An exciting addition to Usborne''s bestselling Se.
The dazzling sequel to Dhonielle Clayton''s Lodestar Award-shortlisted The Belles. Louise O''Neill''s ONLY EVER YOURS meets Scott Westerfeld''s UGLIES, welcome to a world where beauty is only ever skin deep. Camellia and her sisters are Belles. Only they can make us beautiful. All our lives, my sisters ...
The last of his line, Jack, Baron Warnefleet, flees London after nearly being compromised into marrying a dreadful female. Turning his back on marriage, he rides home to the estate he has not seen for years Outside his gate, however, Jack rescues a lady from an unmanageable horse. But Lady Clarice Altwood ...
The bestselling author of Scarecrow and Area 7 takes us on a thrilling, non-stop treasure hunt across the world. It is the biggest treasure hunt in history with contesting nations involved in a headlong race to locate the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 4500 years ago, a magnificent golden capstone ...
Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She''''s quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn''''t get out much - not because she''''s not pretty - she''''s a very cute bubbly blonde - or not interested in a social life. She really is.but Sookie''''s got a bit of a disability. ...
From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling. Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless ...
Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang''''s achievement is her short fiction - tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written ...
A story of a middle-aged American millionaire who, seeking a new, more rewarding life, descends upon an African tribe. Henderson\''s awesome feats of strength and his unbridled passion for life earns him the admiration of the tribe - but it is his gift for making rain that turns him from mere hero into ...
Deverell, Viscount Paignton, is in desperate need of a wife. Unmoved by the matchmaking \''herd\'', he seeks help from his aunt, who directs him to a lady she vows is perfect for him. Dispatched to a country house party, he discovers the lady not swanning about among the guests but with her nose buried ...
"Got You Back" is the brilliantly witty novel from Jane Fallon author of "Getting Rid of Matthew". A husband. A wife. A mistress. And the ultimate plan for revenge.The husband James never intended to lead a double life - with a wife in London and a mistress in the country, it''s exhausting. But that''s ...
Hardy Cates is self-made, charming - and determined to carry out his private revenge against the Travis family. So when he crashes a Travis family wedding, the last thing he expects is to find himself kissing his adversary Haven Travis in a dark corner. Hardy has done many things in his life he’s not ...
Baby is twelve years old. Her mother died not long after she was born and she lives in a string of seedy flats in Montreal''''s red light district with her father Jules, who takes better care of his heroin addiction than he does of his daughter. Jules is an intermittent presence and a constant source ...
Readers worldwide have come to know the work of Stephen Hawking through his phenomenal bestseller, A Brief History of Time. Now, in his first collection of essays and other pieces - on subjects that range from the warmly personal to the wholly scient ific - Stephen Hawking is revealed variously as the ...
Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up wearing clothes altogether, a spiritualist lives in a cottage with the ghost of her husband, and people think it quite natural to confide in a spider that lives in a potting shed. ...
Myron is summoned to Paris at the behest of an old lover, Terese. She is in unspecified trouble and needs his help. When he gets there, he discovers that her husband has been murdered and she is the main suspect. The interesting thing is that more than one blood-type has been discovered at the scene ...
