A group of children find a sloth snoring away in their garden The two older children dream up outrageous possibilities from an astronaut to a pirate to a space creature while the youngest little girl investigates & discovers what it really is & where it lives But how can the children help the sloth to get home if it won't wake up? 32 pages Colour illustrations throughout Preston-Gannon Frann ...

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With one of the most moving & tragic diaspora stories of World War II Slovenia 1945 follows the fate of a strongly Catholic & non-Communist community in Slovenia caught up in the maelstrom of war & politics in the Balkans & the problems of post-war settlement Thousands of soldiers returned to face death & exile at the hands of their wartime enemies Thousands more civilians narrowly escaped the same fate Yet the story of exile is also one of triumph as the refugees built new lives around the world In this book the authors call on more than 50 years of research & for the first time the survivors tell their story of wartime cruelty refugee camps & emigration building new lives through courage self-help & strong cultural identity ...

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A startling novella from the heir to Haruki Murakami & Gabriel Garcia Marquez Trapped in Tokyo left behind by a series of girlfriends the narrator of Slow Boat sizes up his situation His missteps his violent rebellions his tiny victories But he is not a passive loser content to accept all that fate hands him He attempts one last escape to the edges of the city holding the only safety net he has known
- his dreams Filled with lyrical longing & humour Slow Boat captures perfectly the urge to get away & the necessity of finding yourself in a world which might never even be looking for you
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From the author of the Revelation Space series comes an interstellar adventure of war identity betrayal & the preservation of civilization itself A vast conflict one that has encompassed hundreds of worlds & solar systems appears to be finally at an end A conscripted soldier is beginning to consider her life after the war & the family she has left behind But for Scur
- & for humanity
- peace is not to be On the brink of the ceasefire Scur is captured by a renegade war criminal & left for dead in the ruins of a bunker She revives aboard a prisoner transport vessel Something has gone terribly wrong with the ship Passengers
- combatants from both sides of the war
- are waking up from hibernation far too soon Their memories embedded in bullets are the only links to a world which is no longer recognizable & Scur will be reacquainted with her old enemy but with much higher stakes than just her own life



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In directorwriter Wayne Beach's neo-noir thriller SLOW BURN various characters on both sides of the law collide in an unnamed city District Attorney Ford Cole (Ray Liotta) is campaigning to become mayor but his assistant DA & lover Nora Timmer (a sultry Jolene Blalock best known for her stint on the STAR TREK series ENTERPRISE) finds herself implicated in the murder of a record-store employee (Mekhi Phifer) seriously jeopardising her boss bid As evidence about the incident comes to light other suspects surface including the mysterious Luther Pinks (LL Cool J) along with a determined reporter (Chiwetel Ejiofor) creating a complex web of deceit Filmed in 2003 but not officially released until 2007 SLOW BURN may have best been showcased as a TV movie but its considerable star power (Liotta Smith etc) helps to elevate it above similar small-screen fare Beach is a veteran screenwriter (with THE ART OF WAR & MURDER AT 1600 both starring Wesley Snipes on his resume) Beach clearly knows how to set up a suspenseful mystery & his impressive cast (which

Includes:: always-outstanding character actors Ejiofor & Bruce Mc Gill) gamely follows his twists & turns Although the movie is heavily indebted to THE USUAL SUSPECTS it stands on its own as a decent if convoluted crime drama

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