Driving Over Lemons is the contagiously entertaining account of one couple's beginning a new life as they turn a rundown peasant farm in southern Spain into a home.
When Chris Stewart first sees El Valero, he's willing to overlook its lack of electricity, running water, or access road. As[...]
Chris, eternal optimist and itinerant sheep shearer, moves with his wife Ana to a mountain farm in Las Alpujarras, an oddball region in south of Spain. Misadventures gleefully unfold as Chris discovers that the owner has no intention of leaving and meets their neighbours, an engaging mix of peasant [...]
A sequel to "Lemons", that follows the lives of Chris, Ana and their daughter, Chloe, as they get to grips with a misanthropic parrot who joins their home, Spanish school life, neighbours in love, their amazement at Chris appearing on the bestseller lists and their shock at discovering that their be[...]
A sequel to "Lemons" and "Parrot", this title features Chris Stewart's whose optimism and zest for life is as infectious as ever.[...]
For the first time, ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crime On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken fro[...]
If he didn't get out of the city now, he was as good as dead. Cade has never met his uncle, the infamous 'descender' Nate Quarter, who years ago committed heresy by lowering himself over the cliff-face of the Edge. But Nate has returned, and the Academy of Flight are looking for revenge against all [...]
Includes covers, a "TreeTops" logo, parental notes on inside back cover, and teaching materials.
Includes covers, a "TreeTops" logo, parental notes on inside back cover, and teaching materials.
Includes covers, a "TreeTops" logo, parental notes on inside back cover, and teaching materials.
Includes covers, a "TreeTops" logo, parental notes on inside back cover, and teaching materials.
In a quaint New England town with a history of witches and pilgrims, misunderstood eleven-year-old Norman Babcock can see and talk to ghosts. No one believes him, of course-everyone just thinks he's weird (including his parents). But when a folktale of a witch who cursed her accusers turns out to be[...]
Where would you find a perfumed bog filled with pink sticky hogs and exploding gas frogs? A place that's home to a wizard with only one spell, an ogre who cries a lot and a very sarcastic budgie? Welcome to Muddle Earth. A place where anything can happen -- and usually does. Joe Jefferson, an ordina[...]
Fleeing from the ruins of New Undertown, Rook Barkwater and his colleagues -- the librarian knights, Felix Lodd and his banderbear friends -- must lead the escaping population to a new life in the Free Glades. But perils aplenty are ahead for the crowd -- not to mention some goblins with plans of th[...]
Since his childhood in the DeepWoods, young Twig has always longed to soar above the forest canopy and explore the sky. Now a crew member on his father's sky pirate ship, the "Stormchaser," his dream seems fulfilled. But a much higher destiny awaits Twig. The lofty city of Sanctaphrax--built on a gi[...]
Part of the "Far-Flung Adventure" series, this is the tale of a small boy, Hugo Pepper. Raised in the Frozen North by reindeer herders, his parents eaten by polar bears when he was just a baby, Hugo discovers that the sled they arrived in has a very special compass - one that can be set to 'Home'.[...]
Corby Flood and her family are about to set sail on the rather ramshackle cruise ship, the SS Euphonia. As the ship arrives at its destination, Corby must enlist the help of some very well moustachioed locals to uncover the contents of the crate, and the dark secrets of the menacing Clowns.[...]
Geographically Weighted Regression: The Analysis of Spatially Varying Relationships is based on the premise that relationships between variables measured at different locations might not be constant over space. The prevailing assumption is that such relationships are constant, an assumption that wou[...]
Written by experienced teachers and examiners of CIE syllabuses in Cambridge IGCSE Computer Studies, this Coursebook includes questions and tasks throughout to reinforce learning. A Teacher's Resource CD-ROM is also available, providing guidelines for assessment, worksheets, remedial and extension a[...]
Barnaby Grimes is attacked one night by a dog. He kills it - but that's not the end of this particular mystery - as Barnaby finds himself swept up in a world of crooked doctors, poor and ill-advised patients, strange tonics and expensive furs. Could there be more to the seemingly respectable Dr Cadw[...]