A tear-off activity pad to inspire year-round creativity It means that you can draw something different every day of the year with 365 activities
- all you need is a pen It offers hints & tips to ensure satisfying results every time 376 pages full colour illustrations throughout
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Patrick Kenzie & Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue-collar neighbourhoods & ghettos of Boston's Dorchester section as only natives can Working out of an old church belfry Kenzie & Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician to uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline a black cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential Statehouse documents But finding Jenna proves easy compared to staying alive The investigation escalates uncovering a web of corruption extending from bombed-out ghetto streets to the highest levels of state government With slick hip dialogue & a lyrical narrative pocked by explosions of violence A Drink Before the War confronts a city in which institutionalized bigotry & corruption are often the norm & the true nature of 'racial incidents' is rarely clear Dennis Lehane's remarkable debut is at once a pulsating crime thriller & a mirror of our world one in which the worst human horrors are found closest to home & the most vicious obscenities are committed in the name of love ...

<DIV> An extraordinary debut who shows us how powerful an act of kindness a hint of magic & a little hope can be<DIV> 320 pages Calabrese Keith ...

Fiona's on a journey to Granny's house but who's that following her through the streets of Dublin? Travel across the city with Fiona & her fantastic friends in this modern Dublin fairytale With beautiful quirky illustrations by acclaimed illustrator Nicola Colton ...

The second title in a fantastic series of animal stories for younger readers by Waterstones Children's Book Prize-shortlisted author Helen Peters with beautiful black-&-white illustrations by Ellie Snowdon When a nesting duck is killed in a terrible accident Jasmine & her best friend Tom rescue the eggs & try to hatch them in an incubator It's a risky business but soon Button is running around getting into scrapes Until the day he gets into a scrape with no escape Brilliant storytelling that will make you laugh & cry this is Dick King-Smith for a new generation Look out for Jasmine's other adventures!A Piglet Called Truffle A Sheepdog Called Sky ...

The world is in the midst of World War II & the Allies are preparing to liberate Europe from the Nazis Michael Tagleva must overcome personal tragedy if he's to defeat a plot that threatens to destroy not only his family's banking empire but all of Europe 288 pages 1 Maps Davis Stephen ...

WINNER OF THE 2016 CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY When murder strikes close to home Dr Ruth Galloway is determined to find justice
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Summer is here! New Mouse City is hotter than ever & Geronimo can't wait to get out of the office & relax all by himself Just Geronimo's luck the only option left is a run-down hotel with a menu of peanut butter & beetle sandwiches When his annoying assistant Pinky Pick turns up surely things can't get any worse! When will Geronimo see that friends really do have the best ideas? ...

' Everyone should read Frances Hardinge Everyone Right now' Patrick Ness A Face Like Glass is an astonishing & imaginative novel from the Costa Award winning author of The Lie Tree Frances Hardinge In the underground city of Caverna the world's most skilled craftsmen toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare
- wines that can remove memories cheeses that can make you hallucinate & perfumes that convince you to trust the wearer even as they slit your throat The people of Caverna are more ordinary but for one thing their faces are as blank as untouched snow Expressions must be learned & only the famous Facesmiths can teach a person to show joy despair or fear
- at a price Into this dark & distrustful world comes Neverfell a little girl with no memory of her past & a face so terrifying to those around her that she must wear a mask at all times For Neverfell's emotions are as obvious on her face as those of the most skilled Facesmiths though entirely genuine & that makes her very dangerous indeed

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The third Grant County novel from the No 1 Bestseller Sara Linton medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale is called out to an apparent suicide on the local college campus The mutilated body provides little in the way of clues
- & the college authorities are keen to avoid a scandal
- but for Sara & police chief Jeffrey Tolliver things don't add up Two more suspicious suicides follow & a young woman is brutally attacked For Sara the violence strikes far too close to home & as Jeffrey pursues the sadistic killer he discovers that ex-police detective Lena Adams now a security guard on campus may be in possession of crucial information But bruised & angered by her expulsion from the force Lena seems to be barely capable of protecting herself let alone saving the next victim

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