Ten Minutes to Bed - Little Mermaid
ISBN : 9780241372678
In the kingdom of the merpeople, merchildren whizzed around ! With ten minutes to bedtime, though... someone could not be found. A magical bedtime adventure for little merchildren everywhere.
A Christmas carol
ISBN : 9780141324524
Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, miserable, bitter old man with no friends. One cold Christmas Eve, three ghosts take him on a scary journey to show him the error of his nasty ways. By visiting his past, present and future, Scrooge learns to love Christmas and the people all around him.
Artemis fowl
ISBN : 9780141339092
Twelve-year-old villain, Artemis Fowl, is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. His bold and daring plan is to hold a leprechaun to ransom. But he's taking on more than he bargained for when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance Unit). For a start, leprechaun technology is more advanced than our own. Add to that the fact that Holly is a true heroine and that her senior officer Commander Root will stop at nothing to get her back and you've got the mother of all sieges brewing!
Esio trot
ISBN : 9780141365480
Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller! This is the wonderful and warm-hearted Roald Dahl classic, Esio Trot. Mr Hoppy really loves his neighbour Mrs Silver, and Mrs Silver really loves her tortoise, Alfie. One day Mrs Silver asks Mr Hoppy how to make Alfie grow, and suddenly Mr Hoppy knows the way to win her heart. With the help of a magical spell and some cabbage leaves, can Mr Hoppy be happy at last? 'A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero' - David Walliams And now you can listen to ESIO TROT ( with THE GIRAFFE AND THE PELLY AND ME) and other Roald Dahl audiobooks
One Of Us Is Next
ISBN : 9780241376928
Bayview High is just about recovered from the death of gossip king Simon Kelleher a year ago. Now there's a new copycat in town who isn't ready to forget him just yet. A school-wide game of Truth or Dare seems fun, right ? But this game is lethal. Choosing the truth may reveal your darkest secrets, accepting the dare could be dangerous, even fatal. The teenagers of Bayview must work together once again to find the culprit, before it's too late ...
This Blinding Absence of Light
ISBN : 9780141022826
In 1971 disaffected student Salim took part in a failed coup to oust King Hassan II of Morocco. With sixty others he was incarcerated in a secret prison complex in the Moroccan desert ; they were to remain there for nearly twenty years. In starkly eloquent, beautiful prose, Tahar Ben Jelloun relates the prisoners' experiences as they struggle to survive. The son of a witty, feckless courtier who disowns him, Salim tells stories to keep sane - from the suras of his beloved Koran to the plot of A Streetcar Named Desire. Even in the darkest, most terrible conditions, sympathy, insight, the human quest for meaning and understanding never desert Salim. The resulting novel is a wrenching yet exquisite celebration of the human spirit and its determination to survive.
Whistle in the Dark
ISBN : 9780241327654
Jen has finally got her daughter home. But why does fifteen-year-old Lana still feel lost ? When Lana goes missing for four desperate days and returns refusing to speak of what happened, Jen fears the very worst. She thinks she's failed as a mother, that her daughter is beyond reach and that she must do something — anything — to bring her back. The family return to London where everyone but Jen seems happy to carry on as normal. Jens husband Hugh thinks her obsession is getting out of hand — and their eldest daughter, Meg, is tired of Lana getting all the attention. But Jen knows Lana has changed, and can't understand why. Does the answer lie in those four missing days ? And how can Jen find out ?
Heroes
ISBN : 9781405940368
Join Jason aboard the Argo as he seeks the Golden Fleece, and see Atalanta outrun all men, before being tricked with golden apples. Soldier through Heracles' twelve labours, shiver in terror under the stone-cold gaze of Medusa and witness wily Oedipus solve the riddle of the Sphinx. From white-knuckle chases to twisting labyrinths, impossible puzzles to blood-curdling monsters, Heroes is filled with dramatic, funny, tragic and timeless tales of what we mortal men and women are truly capable of — at our heroic best.
Mythos
ISBN : 9781405934138
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus, and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld. We shiver when Pandora opens her jar of evil torments and watch with joy as the legendary love affair between Eros and Psyche unfolds. Mythos captures these extraordinary myths for our modern age — in all their dazzling and deeply human relevance.
The Cut Out Girl - A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
ISBN : 9780241978726
Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents in the Hague — she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in the provinces during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Much Later, she fell out with her foster family, and Bart van Es — the grandson of Lien's foster parents — knew he needed to find out why.
The Monk of Mokha
ISBN : 9780241975367
Twenty-four-year-old Mokhtar has a dream : to quit his job as a doorman and get into the coffee business. This dream will lead him out of San Francisco and all the way back to his ancestral home : Yemen, the birthplace of coffee. But white he's organizing farmers, refining roasting techniques and collecting bean samples, civil war erupts across the country. The US Embassy closes its doors and Mokhtar is trapped behind enemy lines. Can he survive the Saudi bombs and make it back to America with his precious suitcase of coffee intact ?
Winter
ISBN : 9780241973332
Winter. Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes... When four people, strangers and family, converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone ?
The Science of Meditation - How to Change Your Brain, Mind and Body
ISBN : 9780241975695
This is the first truly expert book on meditation that shows you not only how to improve your technique - whether you're a beginner or someone who has meditated for years - but also how meditation permanently changes your personal traits, and whole life. for the better. Daniel Coleman - bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence - and Professor Richard J. Davidson draw on their 40 years of research as well as cutting-edge science and the wisdom of leading Yogis to examine Which practices really do change brains, minds and bodies. They show with fascinating stories and examples what really works and why. They will help you bring mindfulness and meditation into your life - making Vie Science of Meditation essential reading in today's busy world.
Day of the Dead
ISBN : 9781405939140
She's caught in a killer's tangled web. He's coming for her. But there's nowhere to run... On a north London street, a runaway vehicle crashes. The driver was murdered a week earlier. On Hampstead Heath, a bonfire blazes : in the flames lies the next victim. Across London a serial killer runs amok, playing games with the police. But these aren't careless, random killings. Every victim spells out a message - for just one person, psychologist Frieda Klein. The message is very simple. She's next.
The Square and the Tower - Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
ISBN : 9780141984810
Most history is about the people at the top of the towers of power. But what if the real action is in the social networks down below, in the town squares ? Niall Ferguson brilliantly recasts past and present as an unending contest between hierarchies and networks.
Thinking, fast and slow
ISBN : 9780141033570
Looks at the way our minds work, and how we make decisions. This book reveals how our minds are tripped up by error and prejudice (even when we think we are being logical), and gives you practical techniques for slower, smarter thinking. It enables you to make better decisions at work, at home, and in everything you do.