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1) Zapped
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English
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Gerbils are the smartest of all rodents, but they feel disrespected. They've never starred in children's books, so you never hear about gerbils rescuing princesses, like Despereaux, or driving cars, like Stuart Little. And there's no Mickey Gerbil.
One group of proud, free gerbils finds a way to change all that, and win respect from the rodent world. But it all depends on Joe, a ten-year old boy. His dad has just invented the Nanozap, a machine that...
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The Little Book of Manchester is an intriguing, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of places, people and events in the city, from its Roman origins to the present day. Here you can read about the important contributions the city made to the history of the nation, learn about the individual communities and how they came together to form the modern city and meet some of the great men and women, the eccentrics and the scoundrels with which its history...
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Did you know?
• The first African community to arrive in England was stationed at Aballava on Hadrian's Wall to keep out the Picts.
• Admiral Robert FitzRoy, creator of the Met Office, was so upset by criticism of his weather forecasts that he shot himself.
• While studying at Cambridge, Charles Darwin formed the 'Glutton Club' for the purpose of eating unusual animals.
• Ada Lovelace wrote a computer code in the nineteenth century, before...
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English
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"At bayonet point, the tall sister and the short officer headed for the mortuary where the prepared body lay.
"If you lived in England, you should know how civilized people behave," said Sister Mary Curry.
The officer looked into the eyes of Sister Curry: "Do English women never cry?"
"Not when we have work to do," she replied.
This is a short, sharp, punchy treatment of what happened that dreadful Christmas Day. It touches on expat eccentricities,...
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English
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From the No. 1 bestselling author of THE MISSING AND THE DEAD comes the short novel: 22 DEAD LITTLE BODIES, plus two short stories: STRAMASH and DI STEEL'S BAD HEIR DAY, and a novella: THE 45% HANGOVER, all featuring his most popular characters - DS Logan McRae and DCI Roberta Steel. They say 'small is beautiful', but as Stuart MacBride demonstrates in these four tales, it can also be dark, violent, disturbing, and sometimes really quite rude. So...
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Guess How Much I Love You volume 25
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English
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Little Nutbrown Hare learns a valuable lesson on forgiveness. / The friends play a new game called "snow sneek."
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Guess How Much I Love You volume 1
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English
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Little Nutbrown Hare and Little Field Mouse befriend a green caterpillar. / Little Field Mouse and Little Nutbrown Hare's favourite tree falls over.
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Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Auschwitz, 1943: I stroke my beautiful baby's hair. It's a miracle it's blonde because it will keep her alive, it will keep her safe. Soon they will come and take Pippa out of Auschwitz-Birkenau - and out of my arms. But while there's life, there's hope I might find my daughter again... An incredible story of one woman's courage and determination to reunite her family in the aftermath of surviving Auschwitz. 1945, Ester Pasternak walked out of the...