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Four complete stories enhanced by Miranda Richardson's award-winning reading and really horrid music and effects: Horrid Henry encounters the babysitter from hell, traumatizes his parents on a car journey, goes trick or treating at Hallowe'en, and sabotages his school project. Four stories, as...

Having returned from World War II, Eugene Jerome and his brother Stanley pair up to break into the world of professional comedy writing. Inspiration strikes when they aim their sights on their dysfunctional family - and the network broadcasts it nationwide!

Named a Best Book of 2021 by the Financial Times and a Best Science Book of 2021 by The Guardian “Rovelli is a genius and an amazing communicator… This is the place where science comes to life.” ―Neil Gaiman “One of the warmest, most elegant and most lucid interpreters to the laity of...

The Art of Relevance is your guide to mattering more to more people. You'll find inspiring examples, rags-to-relevance case studies, research-based frameworks, and practical advice on how your work can be more vital to your community. Whether you work in museums or libraries, parks or theaters, churches or afterschool programs, relevance can work for you. Break through shallow connection. Unlock meaning for yourself and others. Find true relevance and shine.

After an accident, an engineer from the twenty-first century finds himself in the body of an eighteenth century apprentice living in Peter the Great's Russia. Surrounded by filth, hard physical labor, and a bloody war with the Swedes, all he wants is to survive and get on in the world. And, yes...

Two grown men flick their way through an old Argos catalogue for kicks. Ladies and gentlemen, Tim and Simon. They bought the Spring/Summer No.26 Argos catalogue from 1999. Page by page, Tim and Simon make their way through it talking about the things you could buy in the 90s and memories that come with it.

Dan Starkey reads this original novel based on scripts by Terrance Dicks. ‘Play the game, Doctor. Destroy your other selves!’ Fireballs tear through time and space. Each one hunts down a different incarnation of the Doctor… ready to erase them in an instant. But one Doctor is offered a...

Roxy Gleason, an innkeeper by trade and a bibliomancer by birth, has lived in the same small town on the Susquehanna River in Central Pennsylvania for her entire life. Tradition is strong here. Roxy understands the rules and is willing to play by them most of the time. She runs the Charmed Inn, which has been in her family for decades. The inn is all set to host a writers’ professional business weekend that’s been planned down to the very last hand-folded napkin, and Roxy is ready for the influx of creatives.

The Bronx does not hand you anything. You earn it, block by block, deal by deal, year by year. Simon Zelman knows that better than most. Thirty years in finance, working his way from the streets of the Bronx into the boardrooms of some of the most recognized businesses in fashion, e-commerce, and beyond. He has sat across the table from founders during the deals that made them and the moments that almost broke them. Bronx CFO: Street to Suite is where the guard comes down. Founders and family business owners sit across from Simon and talk about the money, the risks, and the decisions nobody ...

'The Charioteer remains compelling both as a snapshot of a particular - and particularly fascinating - cultural moment, and as a deeply romantic story of love fulfilled against the odds. It has all those qualities that make Mary Renault so memorable as a novelist: craft, subtlety, intelligence...

Som paramediciner har Jack Botoft Nielsen været helt tæt på liv og død som en del af sundhedsvæsnets frontlinje. Han har måtte fortælle børn, at de har mistet en forælder, og forældre, at de har mistet deres barn. Han har kørt sin egen far, som var tæt på at dø, til hospitalet...

En vidunderlig genopdaget klassiker, som i dag regnes på linje med John Williams Stoner og sammenlignes med Jane Austen. Om en jødisk-belgisk families medgang og modgang, set gennem den unge Gittels sorgløse og nysgerrige øjne. Forældrene skændes, og når Gittels mor pakker kufferten og...

Can You Trust the Magic Parrot? is a funny audio story about kids, AI, and figuring out when you should trust what a computer tells you.Lulu has a new learning helper at school. It can answer questions. It can read books. It can even do things for the kids around the class. There’s just one problem: sometimes the Magic Parrot gets things wrong in weird and unexpected ways.When Lulu and his friends discover that the parrot can give confident answers without really understanding what it’s saying, they start investigating. Can they figure out when to trust it, and when they need to think for ...

Epic historical fiction focused on the German paratrooper Ulrich Werner, who fights in World War II, Indochina and Algeria. In 1967, a torso washes up on the banks of the Mississippi. Flashback to 1950-Legion paratroops fly over the Vietnamese jungle. Ulrich recollects: Hannover 1940, he celebrates Christmas with his medical student girlfriend, Penelope. The teenager, Cassandra, gives him a Roman ring but he is wary of her Nazi father, Joachim. In 1941, Ulrich and his comrade, Agemund, parachute onto the island of Crete. As Germany's fortune turns, Ulrich is sent to Sicily then Russia.

Un enfoque diferente sobre la toma de decisiones y el concepto de aprendizaje. En este nuevo y singular libro, el antropólogo social y empresarial Simon Roberts analiza el papel fundamental que desempeña nuestro cuerpo a la hora de tomar decisiones y por qué deberíamos aprender a escucharlo...

Kun 48 timer ... afgør, om du får lov til at leve eller dø. En betjent skal løse en livsfarlig sag. Han er kriminalbetjent og jager koldblodige mordere, men ved han mere, end han vil indrømme? En mor skal redde sin datter. Hun er advokat og skal forsvare en drabsmand – men hvor langt vil hun gå for at beskytte sit eneste barn? Et par vil gerne begå den perfekte forbrydelse.

Ellen Curtis—professional declutterer, amateur sleuth, and woman of a certain age—hunts for a missing will with a killer bequest in this gripping mystery from the original king of British cozy crime, Simon Brett. Professional declutterer Ellen Curtis doesn’t do house clearances. So when...

Ellen Curtisprofessional declutterer, amateur sleuth and woman of a certain ageinvestigates the puzzling death of a TV personality who's past his prime. Professional declutterer Ellen Curtis doesn't need to like her clients to help them sort their homes out. Aging TV personality and curmudgeon...

A riveting true-crime history of London's first modern police force as told through its most notorious murder cases. The idea of "Scotland Yard" is steeped in atmospheric stories of foggy London streets, murder by lamplight, and fiendish killers pursued by gentleman detectives. From its...

The story of Britain from the earliest settlements in 3000BC to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. To look back at the past is to understand the present. In this vivid account of over 4,000 years of British history, Simon Schama takes us on an epic journey which encompasses the very beginnings of the nation's identity, when the first settlers landed on Orkney. From the successes and failures of the monarchy to the daily life of a Roman soldier stationed on Hadrian's Wall, Schama gives a vivid, fascinating account of the many different stories and struggles that lie behind the growth of our island nation.