In the 1347th year of Our Lady the engineers of Concord defeated the fractious city-state of Rasenna using the magical science of Wave Technology. The City of Towers fought back, and for a while Concord's plans for domination were halted. But First Apprentice Torbidda regrouped, and reformed Concord[...]
An emotionally challenging and beautifully written drama that confronts the messiness of life head-on. Pete's a brilliant runner and dreams of athletic stardom - but fate intervenes. Pete is blindsided when he is involved in a horrific bike collision and his whole life is knocked off course. Stuck[...]
Aidan Abet knows the key to surviving at school - it's making himself indispensable to the teacher. Unfortunately there's something distinctly odd about new teacher Miss Vowel and her menagerie of animals. It almost seems that the animals are warn Aidan of danger...Should Aidan help the animals, or [...]
Star of the hugely successful BBC TV series "Poldark", Aidan Turner will delight fan each month. Fans of the handsome Irish actor are sure to treasure this unofficial A3 calendar for 2018.[...]
Shinto is an ancient faith of forests and snow capped mountains. It sees the divine in rocks and streams communing with spirit worlds through bamboo twigs and the evergreen sakaki tree. Yet it is also the manicured suburban garden and the blades of grass between cracks in city paving stones. Structu[...]
'The Activist's Handbook' is a powerful guide to activism on virtually any scale. Environmental activist Aidan Ricketts provides a step-to-step guide for citizens eager to start or get involved in grass-roots activist movements. Laying a thorough theoretical groundwork and providing all essential pr[...]
Winner of Tony Thistlethwaite Award for best consumer health book by the Medical Journalist's Association. How can it be that even with all the advances modern healthcare has made, we're experiencing record levels of ill health - from diabetes, heart disease and cancer, to osteoporosis, dementia and[...]
Karl, aged seventeen, is hopelessly in love. But the object of his affections, Firella, demands proof, and poses him a series of questions regarding his attitude to the many sides of love. But Karl is dyslexic, and convinced that if Firella finds out, she will think he is stupid, and unworthy of her[...]
Lucy's life is being made hell by Melanie Prosser and her bullying sidekicks - the present takers - who threaten her every day at school for presents and money. Too ashamed to tell her parents, and too scared to tell her teacher, Lucy finds an unexpected ally in Angus Burns.[...]
Written specifically for the needs of first year business students, this book builds from definitions through to a clear understanding of accounting statements, their uses and their limitations. It includes examples and case studies and, where appropriate, illustrates with examples from the accounts[...]
Jacob Todd is abroad on his own for the first time, visiting his grandfather's grave at the annual commemoration of the Battle of Arnhem in Amsterdam. There, he meets Geertrui, an ill old lady, who tells a story of love and betrayal, which overturns Jacob's view of himself and his country, and leads[...]
Presents two stories "Now I Know" and "The Toll Bridge". In "Now I Know", Tom, an ambitious young police officer, thinks he's had a lucky break when he's put in charge of a bizarre murder investigation. In "The Toll Bridge", everyone seems to know best when it comes to Jan's future - but he's still [...]
Presents two stories "Breaktime" and "Dance on My Grave". In "Breaktime", Ditto challenges Morgan to prove that literature is crap and triggers off a chain of events to alter his outlook of life forever. In "Dance on My Grave", life in his seaside town is uneventful for Hal Robinson, nothing unusual[...]
As an RAF medical officer, Aidan had served in France, survived Dunkirk, and was plunged into adventures in the Japanese-American arena comparable with those of famous war heroes. Interned by the Japanese in Java, he helped his fellow prisoners with amazing ingenuity in awful conditions. En route ba[...]
All wrapped up. This is an international guide to contemporary packaging design. Packaging is a highly underrated art form. As the first thing a consumer sees when looking at a product, the packaging can make or break a sale. Every year, the Pentawards celebrate the art of the package by presenting [...]
Læsedagbogen er et nyttigt redskab til alle, der læser! Idéen med en læsedagbog er at give overblik, hvor meget og hvad eleverne læser - i skolen og i fritiden. Idémanden bag - den engelske forfatter Aidan Chambers - mener, at med en læsedagbog får man en slags log over, hvad[...]
Cordelia Kenn har bestämda åsikter och principer och häftigt humör. Hon spelar piano, älskar litteratur och vill bli poet. Och hon älskar att ha sex med Will. I sin dagbok skriver hon om allt: kärlek, sex, poesi, musik, träd, vänskap och hon föreställer sig att hennes ännu ofödda dotter[...]
Hal är 16 år och har nyligen flyttat till en turistort vid engelska kusten med sina föräldrar. Han har haft svårt att få nya vänner, men träffar snart den två år äldre Barry som visar Hal hur spännande livet faktiskt kan vara. Barrys behov att utmana ödet både skrämmer och trollbinder[...]
17-årige Jan är less på att prestera, att alltid finnas till för andra och att uppfylla allas önskningar på bekostnad av sig själv. Framförallt är han less på sin överbeskyddande mamma och sin krävande flickvän. När han får nys om jobbet som tullvakt långt hemifrån bestämmer han si[...]
Jacob Todd är i Amsterdam för att besöka sin farfars grav. Och självklart vill han se Anne Franks hus när han är i stan. Om sin farfar vet Jacob nästan ingenting. Men han träffar Geertrui som när hon var ung vårdade hans farfar som sårats under kriget. Hennes berättelse är fylld av dram[...]
Ett slags trolleri som händer inne i huvudet det är vad litteratur är, enligt en tioårig pojke citerad i denna bok.
Men för många människor är den magiska världen stängd. Trots
att de har knäckt läskoden läser de ogärna böcker. Att lära sig läsa är en sak, att[...]
Ett slags trolleri som händer inne i huvudet det är vad litteratur är, enligt en tioårig pojke citerad i denna bok. Men för många människor är den magiska världen stängd. Trots att de har knäckt läskoden läser de ogärna böcker. Att lära sig läsa är en sak, att bli en aktiv läsar[...]