In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With evocative detail, Uwe Tellkamp masterfully reveals the myriad ...
Develop and practise first handwriting skills with Peppa Pig and friends in this colourful wipe-clean activity book. Children can trace over key handwriting patterns then move on to forming first numerals and letters, including both lowercase and capital letters, before attempting some simple words. ...
Build 22 of the strongest and bravest superheroes in the galaxy with this exciting activity book. There are ten pages of stickers of masks, wings, armour and ca….
Little children can listen to a baby bird tweeting, frogs croaking in the pond and owls hooting when they press the pages of this delightful book. Colourful pages show the garden and pond in the sun and rain and at night. With simple text, holes to peep through and fingertrails to explore, this is a ...
The rise of Robert Harris as one of the UK''''s premier novelists has been something of a phenomenon. His breakthrough book was, of course, Fatherland, and even though the premise (Germany had won the Second World War and occupied Britain) was not original, the treatment was astonishingly assured. From ...
Kids can build their own customizable model with this thrilling hardcover book and 3D wood model set from IncrediBuilds. This "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find The"m themed book and wood model set brings the world of the upcoming film to life. Filled with incredible illustrations and unit photography, ...
Discover mystery and wonder in Tales from the Arabian Nights. The next elegant edition in the Knickerbocker Classic series, Tales from the Arabian Nights is comprised of twenty-one of the most popular tales that were told by Scheherazade to her husband, King Shahryar, in the course of 1,001 nights in ...
''''Investigating other peoples tragedies and cock-ups and misfortunes was all he knew. He was used to being a voyeur, the outsider looking in, and nothing, but nothing, that anyone did surprised him any more. Yet despite everything hed seen and d one, inside Jackson there remained a belief a small, ...
Starring the same little girl in the same charming illustration style as Hello In There!, In My Heart explores emotions—happiness, sadness, bravery, anger, shyness and more. Unlike other feelings books that tend to oversimplify, In My Heart lyrically explains what an emotion feels like, physically, inside. ...
When a merchant steals a rose from the garden of a terrifying beast, his daughter, Beauty, agrees to go to the beast''s palace to save her father''s life. The classic tale of Beauty and the Beast is retold here in a magnificent ''pop-in'' format. Each page has three layers of paper, cut to give the impression ...
London - the perfect place for a girl and her mother to spend the day! Follow them as they board the classic red bus and begin a whirlwind tour of some of London''s most iconic landmarks. Try to climb the awe-inspiring lions at Trafalgar Square, take in the ritualistic Changing of the Guard, experience ...
Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another. Today, the Soviet Union is no more and the democracies of the European Union reach as far ...
Paul Christopher''''s Valley of the Templars is the next exciting John Holliday novel. Retired Army Ranger John Holliday and his friend Eddie travel to Cuba in search of Eddie''''s mysteriously vanished brother-and find themselves desperately trying to stop a shocking plot of a secret Templar cabal that ...
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway''''s most beloved works. Since Hemingway''''s personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the text before publication. Now this new special restored edition presents the ...
As legend has it, the storyteller Aesop was a slave who lived in ancient Greece during the sixth century B.C. His memorable, recountable fables have brought amusing characters to life and driven home thought-provoking morals for generations of listeners and modern-day readers. Translated into countless ...
Read the original books before you see the How to Train Your Dragon film! This book will be a hit with children and adults alike. THE STORY BEGINS in the first volume of Hiccup''s How to Train Your Dragon memoirs. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the ...
