- : Roald Dahl - The Witches (No:15072)
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- : The witches have a motto: One child a week is fifty-two a year. Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear. The Grand High Witch of All the World is the scariest of the lot, but one boy and the grandmother he adores have a plan to get rid of the witches for good.
- : 8 -12 Yrs
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- : The Forty Rules of Love (No:7001)
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- : Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, her world is turned upside down. She embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work. It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse, taking Ella and us into an exotic world where faith and love are heartbreakingly explored. . .
- : 15+ Yrs
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- : Sashi Tharoor : Tharoorosaurus (No:7000)
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- : Shashi Tharoor is the wizard of words. In Tharoorosaurus, he shares fifty-three examples from his vocabulary: unusual words from every letter of the alphabet. You don't have to be a linguaphile to enjoy the fun facts and interesting anecdotes behind the words! Be ready to impress-and say goodbye to your hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia!
- : 14+ Yrs
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- : Heroes of Olympus #1 The Lost Hero (No:6999)
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- : JASON HAS A PROBLEM. He doesn�t remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper, and his best friend is a guy named Leo. They�re all students at the Wilderness School, a boarding school for �bad kids," as Leo puts it. What did Jason do to end up here? And where is here, exactly? Jason doesn't know anything�except that everything seems very wrong.
- : 10 -15 Yrs
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- : The Trials of Apollo #2 The Dark Prophecy (No:6998)
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- : Those were the orders my old enemy Nero had given to Meg McCaffrey. But why would an ancient Roman emperor zero in on Indianapolis? And now that I have made it here (still in the embarrassing form of Lester Papadopoulos), where is Meg?
- : 10 -14 Yrs
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- : The Invisible Man (No:6997)
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- : The Invisible Man to whom the title refers is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and who invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light. He carries out this procedure on himself and renders himself invisible, but fails in his attempt to reverse it. A practitioner of random and irresponsible violence, Griffin has become an iconic character in horror fiction.
- : 12 -17 Yrs
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- : Lord of the Flies (No:6996)
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- : Lord of the Flies represents a perfect allegory for men. When a group of young English school boys get stranded on an uninhabited coral island when their plane crash lands on it. In the beginning, everyone cooperates with each other but soon things take an ugly turn into a nightmare of fear and death. At first, trying to be civilized the boys appoint a leader to guide them through and assign the daily chores to the boys. But things turn sour when there is major power struggle between the boys and the whole concept of perfect world collapses right in front of their eyes and they get to experience a world, which is primitive, brutal and cruel.
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- : The Wimpy Kid - Movie Diary (No:6995)
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- : The book Wimpy Kid Movie Diary: How Greg Heffley Went Hollywood (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) takes the readers behind-the-scenes and describes all the details in a candid manner. The author sheds some light on various humorous moments, fun activities and the drama behind the shooting. This book unfolds the journey of a book being transformed into a movie. It includes photographs and script pages that showcase how the screenplay was conceived while the storyboard sketches provide intriguing insights.
- : 8 -12 Yrs
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- : Ladybird Classics : Black Beauty (No:15482)
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- : This beautiful hardback Ladybird Classic edition of Black Beauty by Anna Sewell is a perfect first illustrated introduction to the classic horse story for younger readers. It has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children from 5+, whilst retaining all the key parts of the story including Black Beauty's friendship with Ginger, his treatment at the hands of his owners, and fascinating historical detail about how how horses had many different uses in the days before cars. Detailed full-colour illustrations throughout also help to bring this classic tale to life.
- : 5 -8 Yrs
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