Are you ready for another EPIC book from the winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2016 (Best Book with Facts)? If you ran your school what would the rules be? Would you rather talk to animals or speak every language in the world? How fast can you run? Answer these questions & much more with real life comparisons
- how do you compare to an animal another human or even your parents? Collect your own data & enjoy silly facts quizzes & scrapbook activities Write draw cut-out & fully make this book about you!
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A follow up to the bestselling ALL ABOUT METhe Book of Me is a beautiful interactive journal perfect for children to fill in & complete to create a lasting record of exactly who they are From how to have the best ever sleepover to fill-in dream journals & lists of life ambitions to designing your own beauty product range this book will document every last detail There are also gorgeous bespoke illustrations throughout to be coloured in This book will make a beautiful special gift for friends or family to treasure forever ...

Moving between the vibrant townships of the poor & the suburbs & country retreats of the rich The Book of Memory is a compelling contemporary tale of love obsession & the cruelty of fate Memory is an albino woman languisihing in prison in Harare Zimbabwe At nine years old she was adopted by a wealthy man -- a man whose murder she is now convicted of Facing the death penalty she tells the story os the chain of events that brought her there But is everything exactly as she remembers it? ...

MEMORIES CAN BE DEADLYA brutal murder It's been thirty years since Professor Weider was found dead in his stately home With little evidence to convict a suspect the case has never been solved A buried mystery Now a partial manuscript has been discovered that reveals three people were at the house that night All three clearly remember what happened But someone is lying Already translated into 37 languages The Book of Mirrors is the perfect novel for fans of psychological suspense & reading group fiction Praise for The Book of Mirrors' Intelligent & sophisticated
- a crime story told the way Picasso painted pictures Highly recommended' Lee Child 'I loved this twisty mind game! The Book Of Mirrors starts with a secret manuscript about a cold-case murder & then uses a host of characters & perspectives to make you look in every direction but at the truth Who is lying? Is anyone's recall perfect? This isn't just a very clever thriller---it leaves us wondering how much we subconsciously manipulate our own memories to protect ourselves' Julia Heaberlin (bestselling author of Black Eyed Susans) 'A literary thriller
- complex gripping & a beautiful read' Jenni Murray ' An elegant gripping multi-layered tale about the illusory nature of truth & memory I loved it' Tammy Cohen' The Book of Mirrors is exactly what I look for in a thriller a great concept brilliantly executed smarter than it seems & knotty enough to keep you guessing Like the best stories about memory it leaves the reader wondering what's true & what isn't'
- James Smythe This Romanian author's debut novel in English is an agile & provocative exploration the tricks memory can play'
- Sunday Times' An impressive first novel intelligent & well written'
- The Times This twisty brilliantly written tale of a grisly unsolved murder at Princeton asks if we can truly trust our own memories This nuanced multi-layered book has a cracking plot to boot & will be devoured by thriller fans
- Sunslippery murder mystery'
- Irish Independent' Intricately plotted Faulty memories outright lies & secrets make it hard to know whom to believe The action builds to a crafty & believable resolution' Publisher's Weekly' Chirovici draws his characters well & tantalizes the reader with judiciously timed revelations A smart sophisticated murder puzzle sure to please the more literary-minded aficionados of the form' Kirkus






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MEMORIES CAN BE DEADLYA brutal murder It's been thirty years since Professor Weider was found dead in his stately home With little evidence to convict a suspect the case has never been solved A buried mystery Now a partial manuscript has been discovered that reveals three people were at the house that night All three clearly remember what happened But someone is lying Already translated into 37 languages The Book of Mirrors is the perfect novel for fans of psychological suspense & reading group fiction Praise for The Book of Mirrors' Intelligent & sophisticated
- a crime story told the way Picasso painted pictures Highly recommended' Lee Child 'I loved this twisty mind game! The Book Of Mirrors starts with a secret manuscript about a cold-case murder & then uses a host of characters & perspectives to make you look in every direction but at the truth Who is lying? Is anyone's recall perfect? This isn't just a very clever thriller---it leaves us wondering how much we subconsciously manipulate our own memories to protect ourselves' Julia Heaberlin (bestselling author of Black Eyed Susans) 'A literary thriller
- complex gripping & a beautiful read' Jenni Murray ' An elegant gripping multi-layered tale about the illusory nature of truth & memory I loved it' Tammy Cohen' The Book of Mirrors is exactly what I look for in a thriller a great concept brilliantly executed smarter than it seems & knotty enough to keep you guessing Like the best stories about memory it leaves the reader wondering what's true & what isn't'
- James Smythe This Romanian author's debut novel in English is an agile & provocative exploration the tricks memory can play'
- Sunday Times' An impressive first novel intelligent & well written'
- The Times This twisty brilliantly written tale of a grisly unsolved murder at Princeton asks if we can truly trust our own memories This nuanced multi-layered book has a cracking plot to boot & will be devoured by thriller fans
- Sun' Magical in its storytelling the novel lingers in the memory long after an immensely satisfying denouement'
- Daily Mailslippery murder mystery'
- Irish Independent' Intricately plotted Faulty memories outright lies & secrets make it hard to know whom to believe The action builds to a crafty & believable resolution' Publisher's Weekly Beautifully written with a very clever structure' Fully Booked ' Chirovici draws his characters well & tantalizes the reader with judiciously timed revelations A smart sophisticated murder puzzle sure to please the more literary-minded aficionados of the form' Kirkus' This is a meta-novel which possesses ripping momentum & brims with ambiguity A high-grade mystery that's ripe for investigation'
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The only official companion book to the Tony Award winner for Best Musical from the creators of South Park & the co-creator of Avenue Q Features the complete script & song lyrics with 4-color spot illustrations throughout an original introduction by the creators & a foreword by Mark Harris The Book of Mormon which follows a pair of mismatched Mormon boys sent on a mission to a place that's about as far from Salt Lake City as you can get features book music & lyrics by Trey Parker Robert Lopez & Matt Stone Parker & Stone are the four-time Emmy Award-winning creators of Comedy Central's landmark animated series South Park Tony Award-winner Lopez is co-creator of the long-running hit musical comedy Avenue Q The Book of Mormon is choreographed by three-time Tony Award-nominee Casey Nicholaw (Monty Python's Spamalot The Drowsy Chaperone) & is directed by Nicholaw & Parker The book

Includes:: an original foreword by journalist Mark Harris (author of Pictures at a Revolution) an original introduction by the authors on the genesis of the show a production history the complete book & lyrics with four-color spot illustrations throughout

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With over 140 million copies in print & serving as the principal proselytizing tool of one of the world's fastest growing faiths the Book of Mormon is undoubtedly one of the most influential religious texts produced in the western world Written by Terryl Givens a leading authority on Mormonism this compact volume offers the only concise accessible introduction to this extraordinary work Givens examines the Book of Mormon first & foremost in terms of the claims that its narrators make for its historical genesis its purpose as a sacred text & its meaning for an audience which shifts over the course of the history it unfolds The author traces five governing themes in particular-revelation Christ Zion scripture & covenant-and analyzes the Book's central doctrines & teachings Some of these resonate with familiar nineteenth-century religious preoccupations; others consist of radical & unexpected takes on topics from the fall of Man to Christ's mortal ministries & the meaning of atonement Givens also provides samples of a cast of characters that number in the hundreds & analyzes representative passages from a work that encompasses tragedy poetry sermons visions family histories & military chronicles Finally this introduction surveys the contested origins & production of a work held by millions to be scripture & reviews the scholarly debates that address questions of the record's historicity Here then is an accessible guide to what is by any measure an indispensable key to understanding Mormonism But it is also an introduction to a compelling & complex text that is too often overshadowed by the controversies that surround it ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable ...

Abducted from her West African village at the age of eleven & sold as a slave in the American South Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom
- & of finding her way home again After escaping the plantation torn from her husband & child she passes through Manhattan in the chaos of the Revolutionary War is shipped to Nova Scotia & then joins a group of freed slaves on a harrowing return odyssey to Africa Based on a true story Lawrence Hill's epic novel spans three continents & six decades to bring to life a dark & shameful chapter in our history through the story of one brave & resourceful woman
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By the Man Booker-winning author Marlon James this is the powerful story of Lilith born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century Even at her birth the Night Women
- a clandestine council of fierce slaves plotting an isl&-wide revolt
- recognize a dark force in her that they treat with both reverence & fear But as Lilith comes of age & begins to understand her own feelings & identity she dares to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman & as rebellions simmer & unspoken jealousies intensify Lilith's powers & sense of purpose threaten not just her own destiny but the destinies of all the slave women in Jamaica

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the great feature of the book is that anyone can read it without excessive head scratching You'll find plenty here to keep you occupied amused & informed Buy dip in wallow -IAN STEWART NEW SCIENTIST"a delightful look at numbers & their roles in everything from language to flowers to the imagination" -SCIENCE NEWS"a fun & fascinating tour of numerical topics & concepts It will have readers contemplating ideas they might never have thought were understandable or even possible" -WISCONSIN BOOKWATCH" This popularization of number theory looks like another classic" -LIBRARY JOURNAL ...