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When you’re four inches high in a world full of giant people, things never go very well for long.After running into trouble at the quarry, the nomes want to go home. The problem is, ‘home’ is somewhere up in the stars, in some sort of Ship.Masklin must find a way to get to the ‘launch’ of a ‘communications satellite’ (whatever that is). And so begins an incredible journey, filled with peril, planes, honking geese . . . and a walking sandwich.The fantastically funny third book of the nomes, from the author of the bestselling Discworld series.

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From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by Books For Keeps _______________ Ideal for readers aged 7+ Molly loves travelling with Shakespeare’s theatre company but the jester, Armin, keeps picking on her and faithful donkey, Dolly. Can she keep Armin away from Dolly and stay with the theatre company? Meanwhile, on stage, Helena wants revenge on Hermia, Lysander wants revenge on Demetrius and the fairy queen Titania has fallen in love with a donkey! Terry Deary's Shakespeare Tales explore the fascinating world of William Shakespeare through the eyes of children who could have lived at the time. Join master storyteller Terry Deary for a trip back in time to Shakespeare’s travelling theatre company and a laugh-out loud comedy. This edition features notes for the reader to help extend learning and exploration of the historical period. _______________ ‘Bubbling with wit, language play and robust dialogue....just the right mix of ingredients to trigger young readers' interest in all things historical’ - Books For Keeps

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Winner of the Paddy Power Political Novel of the Year1998: foreign minister Mark Lucas is in a dilemma. A disk containing the names of British informants to the Stasi has ended up in the hands of the government. Now he faces resistance from the diplomatic service who don't want him to return it to the Germans.Alex Rutherford, a young man working for the intelligence services, wakes up one morning with a hangover and a frightening memory that his computer is lost and, with it, the only copy of that disk.When the disk is delivered to the newspaper where journalist Anna Travers works, she finds herself unravelling not just a mystery, but many people's lives . . .Based on the true story of Stasi files of agents in the UK, Acts of Omission is suspenseful, exquisitely constructed and thought-provokingly topical - it is a novel about the leak of state secrets, the responsibility of newspapers, and the human cost of all of those.

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The ultimate guide for all keen gardeners and allotmenteers - The Allotment Almanac by BBC Radio 2 gardener Terry Walton gives key advice on what to do each month, key crops, main tasks and top tips of varieties and is shot through with distilled hard-won experience. Entertaining and informative, you won't need anything else!'The perfect companion for any allotmenteer, and with Terry Walton, you can't go wrong. His friendly advice will guide you each month, with exactly what you should do on your plot' -- English Garden'This super little book... for all keen gardeners, especially allotmenteers, who will appreciate the tales but also get some useful tips' -- Kitchen Garden'What a lovely little book. Takes you through month by month and really well illustrated. Really pleased with it' -- ***** Reader review'The only companion you will need in the allotment' -- ***** Reader review'A VERY good book, written from the heart, by a knowledgeable gardener' -- ***** Reader review'A must-have for gardeners' -- ***** Reader review'As you read this book you feel Terry at your side chatting to you as if on the plot together - a real joy' -- ***** Reader review****************************************************************************************From a gardener who has been working on his allotment for over 50 years, this is a brilliant guide to organic vegetable growing and allotment life in general. Month-by-month BBC Radio 2 gardener Terry Walton give us invaluable advice on:- things to do each month- what to watch out for- key crops for the month- top variety tipsIn addition to this, he peppers this with tales of life on his allotment, creating a charming and heart-warming guide.Taking the gardening reader by the hand and leading them through the gardening year, Terry is the perfect companion, giving technical help, quick tips, reassurance, and plenty of entertainment along the way.What are you waiting for?

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***50 MILLION TERRY BROOKS COPIES SOLD AROUND THE WORLD***THE SHANNARA CHRONICLES IS NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES''Terry''s place is at the head of the fantasy world'' Philip PullmanBLOOD AND MAGIC WILL COLLIDE . . .Leofur is the daughter of Arcannen, a power-hungry sorcerer prepared to use the blackest of magic to get what he wants. But she is also devoted to Arcannen''s nemesis, Paxon Leah - sworn protector of the Druids who defend the Four Lands against evil. When the Druids are forced to flee, having been framed for a murderous rampage which leaves many dead, Paxon knows that the evil sorcerer Arcannen is behind it. As the Druids seek sanctuary, Leofur sets out on a perilous quest to thwart her father''s desires to destroy them all . . .Praise for Terry Brooks:''A master of the craft . . . required reading'' Brent Weeks''I can''t even begin to count how many of Terry Br

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Qué hacer cuando la vida nos obliga a cambiar de planes?Loretha Curry se siente plena. La víspera de su sexagésimo octavo cumpleaños, hace repaso de su vida y se da cuenta de que tiene un floreciente imperio de productos de belleza, un grupo de amistades de toda la vida y un marido que todavía hace maniobras sorprendentes. Es cierto que Loretha carga con más kilos de los que debería, pero no es una de esas mujeres que cree que lo mejor ya pasó, y se muestra decidida a demostrar a su madre, a su hermana gemela y al resto del mundo que la opinión que tienen de envejecer es errónea: no todo el pescado está vendido. Sin embargo, una pérdida inesperada lo pone todo patas arriba y Loretha deberá hacer acopio de fuerza, recursos y determinación para seguir persiguiendo la alegría y cartografiando nuevos caminos. Con una ayudita de sus amigos, claro.

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Lady Sybil ha conseguido convencer a su marido, Sam Vimes, el comandante de la Guardia de Ankh-Morpork, de tomarse unas vacaciones. Pero conforme ella planifica unos días de descanso en el campo, él hace lo imposible para no abandonar su despacho. Cuál es el problema? El urbanita de Vimes odia el campo: tanto aire fresco, tanto cantar de pájaros y, gracias a su bienintencionada esposa, tan escasos bocatas de beicon.Mientras Sybil toma el té en sociedad y su hijo se dedica a explorar la naturaleza, Vimes no puede evitar hacer alguna que otra pesquisa. Al fin y al cabo, un policía de verdad es capaz de encontrar delitos en cualquier parte, todo es cuestión de paciencia. Efectivamente, Vimes no tarda en dar con un cadáver# Y tendrá que recurrir a su astucia, su olfato, su larga experiencia y el apoyo de su prodigioso mayordomo para resolver el caso.Pratchett es un narrador magistral. Su inventiva es inagotable.A. S. Byatt, The Guardian

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El imperio más antiguo e inescrutable del Mundodisco anda algo revuelto...El imperio más antiguo e inescrutable del Mundodisco anda algo revuelto. Con educación, eso sí. Y la culpa de todo la tienen, por este orden: un panfleto revolucionario titulado "Lo que hice en mis vacaciones...", el mago Rincewind y su fiel Equipaje..., una horda de bárbaros capitaneados por un viejo héroe llamado Gengis Cohen... Y una mariposa muy especial. Quizá por eso la peor maldición que se puede echar en el refinadísimo Imperio Ágata es Ojalá vivas en tiempos interesantes? Ésta es la historia de una revolución largamente esperada y con giros insospechados. Al fin y al cabo transcurre en el Mundodisco del genial Terry Pratchett. Más que un autor, Terry Pratchett es un fenómeno imparable... Sus novelas son como una droga, y es un placer engancharse a su mezcla única de juegos de palabras, lógica surrealista y finas dotes de observación.

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La Tierra Larga es la primera obra en la que colaboran Terry Pratchett y Stephen Baxter, dos auténticos iconos de la literatura fantástica.La fascinante y divertidísima historia de un viaje de exploración hacia los confines de nuestro universo, y de un nuevo comienzo para la humanidad.1916. El soldado Percy Blakeney recibe el impacto de un obús en una trinchera francesa. Despertará envuelto por el canto de los pájaros en un entorno pacífico, donde el barro y la metralla de la guerra han desaparecido.2015, Madison, Estados Unidos. La agente de policía Monica Jansson investiga el incendio en la casa de un extravagante científico que ha desaparecido sin dejar rastro. Algunos lo tildan de loco, otros lo consideran muy peligroso. Entre los escombros, Monica descubre un curioso mecanismo compuesto de una caja, unos cables# y una patata. Se trata del prototipo de un invento que cambiará para siempre nuestra manera de ver el mundo.La crítica ha

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Mesozoic Park is an intriguing series of photographs documenting the construction of a (pseudo) prehistoric landscape in Calgary, Canada in the early 1980s. The history of photography has been dominated by the landscape: from its state as a pristine natural phenomenon, to its altered forms, and then to the manufactured, of which the city's Prehistoric Park is a prime example. The site includes multiple geologic structures that humans have built to mimic nature. The images in the monograph address the illusions that humanity creates for itself, as in our increasing quest to find substitutes for 'the real'. The simulated environment in Mesozoic Park focuses on the earth and landscape as packaging or amusement, and more importantly, as a site for social and political inquiry. The black and white photographs, printed in duotone, document a geological dream world in which a 'primordial' landscape has been cleverly designed and programmed for an artificial visitor experience. By exploring the park in great detail, Munro offers privileged access to what we never get to see: the construction of a facsimile panorama that will provide visitors with the illusion of time travel. The real and false are confused, no longer relevant in this walk through a purported 65 million year-old landscape. The book also contains photographs which show the artificial human construct in 2018.

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Explore the cuisine of this lesser-known area of China, in a stunning collection of 75 authentic recipes, including Sweet Turnip dumplings, Fried Fish Balls, Beggar's Chicken, Salt and Pepper Spare Ribs and Jia Jiang Noodles. 370 exquisite photographs include a mouth-watering picture of each finished dish and step-by-step sequences. Full nutritional information is provided for every recipe. This book is a feast for the eyes as well as the palate.

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Terry has written that her works often focus on a Phoenix of hope rising from tragedy. They churn the blood of our past into an informed metaphor, which transcends a temporal definition. Her images urge on the symbolic. Their figures and potent calls, shrieking and whimpering, assert echoes of ancestry that resound in the chambers of today. Through a curious eye they utter, whisper, and choke us with tentative movements that blend reality, history, dreams, sand, water, wine, and blood to intimate an unforeseen direction comprising a part of humankind's silhouette. Our eyes water from the sophisticated plan which, in essence, remains hidden from sight.

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The Secret Life of Pets meets Amelia Bedelia in this witty and sweet debut picture book about an overly-literal pup trying his paw at several different jobs and the hilarious mishaps that ensue.When Vinny the dog decides he should get a job to contribute to his family, he knows exactly what to do. He puts on his best suit and his sharpest hat, picks up his briefcase, and hits the pavement. Vinny isn’t completely sure what a job is, but with his can-do attitude, he’s sure he can figure it out. But it’s a dog-eat-dog world, and Vinny’s silly misunderstandings when following instructions keep him from staying in one job for long. The irrepressible canine doesn’t give up as he doggedly moves from a restaurant to a florist to a museum filled with humongous (and delicious-looking) dinosaur bones! Can this dog learn new tricks, or will Vinny finally have to call it quits?

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The snacks are back in this latest nutty adventure from the bestselling creator of Peanut Butter & Cupcake!It's cleaning day in the snack cabinet, and Cheese Doodle, Pretzel, and Sprinkles are hard at work. When the food friends learn that someone has moved in next door, though, they make like bananas and split to go meet their new neighbor. But when their knock not only goes unanswered, but also opens the door to Dr. Nuttenstein's house with a creeeeak, what they find inside leaves them as shaken as if they'd been placed in a blender... In this latest spookily funny book by Terry Border, three snacks learn that they have to follow the rules--and that's the way the cookie crumbles.Praise for Scaredy Snacks!:"Jokes, puns, and sweet-and-salty characters make this a Halloween treat." -- The Horn Book

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Henry Tudor, the future Henry VII, has been called the most unlikely King of England. Yet his rise from obscurity was foretold by the bards, and by 1485, the familial bloodbath of the Wars of the Roses left Henry as the sole adult Lancastrian claimant to the throne. The hunchback usurper Richard III desperately wanted him dead, and in his exile Henry Tudor was left with no choice. He either invaded England or faced being traded to Richard to meet certain death. Henry’s father, Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, was the son of a Queen of England, sister to the King of France, and of an obscure Welsh court servant, who had been born in secrecy away from court. Edmund’s death at the beginning of the Wars of the Roses left Henry to grow up in almost constant danger, imprisonment and exile. In 1485, his ‘ragtag’ invading army at Bosworth faced overwhelming odds, but succeeded. Henry went on to become England’s wisest and greatest king, but it would be his son Henry VIII and granddaughter Elizabeth I who would take all the credit.

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In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet—and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed actor John Wilkes Booth, killed the son of the other, President Abraham Lincoln, in the most significant assassination in American history. The murder, however, did not come without warning—in fact, it had been foretold. In the Houses of Their Dead is the first book of the many thousands written about Lincoln to focus on the president’s fascination with Spiritualism, and to demonstrate how it linked him, uncannily, to the man who would kill him. Abraham Lincoln is usually seen as a rational, empirically-minded man, yet as acclaimed scholar and biographer Terry Alford reveals, he was also deeply superstitious and drawn to the irrational. Like millions of other Americans, including the Booths, Lincoln and his wife, Mary, suffered repeated personal tragedies, and turned for solace to Spiritualism, a new practice sweeping the nation that held that the dead were nearby and could be contacted by the living. Remarkably, the Lincolns and the Booths even used the same mediums, including Charles Colchester, a specialist in “blood writing” whom Mary first brought to her husband, and who warned the president after listening to the ravings of another of his clients, John Wilkes Booth. Alford’s expansive, richly-textured chronicle follows the two families across the nineteenth century, uncovering new facts and stories about Abraham and Mary while drawing indelible portraits of the Booths—from patriarch Julius, a famous actor in his own right, to brother Edwin, the most talented member of the family and a man who feared peacock feathers, to their confidant Adam Badeau, who would become, strangely, the ghostwriter for President Ulysses S. Grant. At every turn, Alford shows that despite the progress of the age—the glass hypodermic syringe, electromagnetic induction, and much more—death remained ever-present, and thus it was only rational for millions of Americans, from the president on down, to cling to beliefs that seem anything but. A novelistic narrative of two exceptional American families set against the convulsions their times, In the Houses of Their Dead ultimately leads us to consider how ghost stories helped shape the nation.

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This full-color manual is designed for students with minimal backgrounds in science who are pursuing careers in allied health fields. Designed to support the thirteenth edition of Hole's Essentials of Human A&P by Shier, Butler, and Lewis, this manual contains 49 laboratory exercises and reports, which are integrated closely to the textbook. Exercises are planned to illustrate and review the anatomical and physiological facts and principles presented in the text and to help students investigate some of these ideas in greater detail.

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This story is an account of Wilson's lifetime apprenticeship under the master shamanic practitioner, Brion Gysin, the hidden master of the avant-garde, of whom William Burroughs said, "He is the only man I respect." The book focuses on events as they developed just prior to and after Gysin's death in 1986. This book details the extreme psychic "Third Mind" effects known as The Process and includes transcribed audio hallucinations, notes, cut-ups, the interview format and collaged material. PERILOUS PASSAGE is a cautionary tale about the uses and abuses of power, a paranoid espionage thriller. Like Gysin and Burroughs, Wilson treats language itself as a parasitic invader which must be resisted, broken up and reassembled. This book is about how the magic was passed on and carried into the future. PERILOUS PASSAGE finalises Wilson's Green Base Trilogy which commenced with Dreams of a Green Base and "D" Train.

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This book will help people find what foods are causing their distress and/or allergy problem. It is a handbook, an allergy detection book, and a cookbook all in one. What initiated this book was the fact that none of the elimination diets at the time took into account that many individuals could not digest soluble fats. Also, all the diets were in food form, without any instruction on how to include these foods into meals. This book uses the menu method to detect problem foods.

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Guitar Family Trees is a striking visual account of the most prominent guitars in history. This striking visual catalog charts the histories of the most prominent and sought after guitars and their manufacturers, including such household names as Gibson, Martin, Rickenbacker, and Fender. From theRickenbacker "Frying Pan" of the 1930s to the iconic Stratocaster to the most state-of-the-art guitars of today, hundreds of guitars are included in this comprehensive guide. Features:A history of over 200 guitars, revealing the inspirations and intents behind every modelEasy-to-read specification charts listing every detailGorgeous, full-page photographs of every guitar, plus photographs of artists who played them bestCommentary on which artist played each guitar best and which album features its particular soundWhether you play guitar or just admire them, this captivating journey into the world of guitars is a visual feast for every guitar lover.

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