WINNER of the 2010 Cilip Carnegie Medal the Newbery Medal & the Booktrust Teenage Book Prize 2009 & shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award Stunningly illustrated by Chris Riddell who brings the ghouls ghosts & hero wonderfully to life in this fantastic ghost adventure story laced with menace & humour ...

The first of two classic police thrillers featuring detective Nick Miller set in London's seedy underworld Ben Garvald is out of prison After nine years in prison he's coming back to the old neighbourhood Back to his remarried ex-wife Back for revenge That's what the cops think But Detective Sergeant Nick Miller isn't worried His highly unorthodox methods are perfectly suited for the graveyard shift
- the midnight hours when the driven & desperate come out to play Tonight Nick Miller's toughest opponent will be Ben Garvald And only one of them will live to see the dawn
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After his execution for double-crossing a drug cartel Rudy Chance
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To those who lurk in the shadows he's known as the Gray Man He is a legend in the covert realm moving silently from job to job accomplishing the impossible & then fading away & he always hits his target But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world Forces like money & power & there are men who hold these as the only currency worth fighting for In their eyes Gentry has just outlived his usefulness But Court Gentry is going to prove that for him there's no grey area between killing for a living & killing to stay alive ...

An unflinching & deeply moving collection of stories by a debut writer currently serving a life sentence in Michigan's prison system His stories form a vivid portrait of prison life painted from behind bars 224 pages Dawkins Curtis ...

Alaska 1974 Untamed Unpredictable A story of a family in crisis struggling to survive at the edge of the world it is also a story of young & enduring love'I didn't just love this book I became obsessed with it Hannah has delivered a masterclass in all the different ways love can both save us & destroy us'
- Sunday Times top ten bestselling author Karen Swan Cora Allbright & her husband Ernt a recently-returned Vietnam veteran scarred by the war uproot their thirteen year old daughter Leni to start a new life in Alaska Utterly unprepared for the weather & the isolation but welcomed by the close-knit community they fight to build a home in this harsh beautiful wilderness At once an epic story of human survival & love & an intimate portrait of a family tested beyond endurance The Great Alone offers a glimpse into a vanishing way of life in America With her trademark combination of elegant prose & deeply drawn characters Kristin Hannah has delivered an enormously powerful story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit & the remarkable & enduring strength of women About the highest stakes a family can face & the bonds that can tear a community apart this is a novel as spectacular & powerful as Alaska itself It is the finest example of Kristin Hannah's ability to weave together the deeply personal with the universal'I didn't just love this book I became obsessed with it Hannah has delivered a masterclass in all the different ways love can both save us & destroy us'
- Sunday Times top ten bestselling author Karen Swan

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Track Listings Disc 1 1 (I've Got A Gal In) Kalamazoo
- Glenn Miller 2 Come Fly With Me
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Danny is happy working at Belle Vue Zoo But then the animals start escaping & as a former street urchin & pickpocket suspicion falls on him Now he must untangle the mystery of the great animal escapade in order to clear his name 304 pages Kerr Jane ...

What made the Great Antonio so great? He weighed as much as a horse! He once wrestled a bear He could devour twenty-five roasted chickens at one sitting In this whimsical book beloved author & illustrator Elise Gravel tells the true story of Antonio Barichievich the larger-than-life Montreal strongman who had muscles as big as his heart Meet the Author In kindergarten Elise was popular because she could draw princesses with long spiral curls Then in high school girls asked her to draw their dream guys & she became very talented at drawing muscles & chest hair which came in handy for this book One of Elise&s favorite authors is Roald Dahl He got her interested in unusual people & animals--anyone who is strange different or funny In her hometown of Montreal everyone knew & loved the great Antonio the gentle giant who lived outside the donut shop He claimed to have been one of the strongest men in the world & to be able to talk to aliens with his braids After his death it was revealed that many of Antonio&s wild stories were true he had a letter from President Bill Clinton & photos of himself with celebrities like Liza Minnelli Sophia Loren & Johnny Carson ...

A unique beautifully illustrated exploration of our fascination with our closest primate relatives & the development of primatology as a discipline This insightful work is a compact but wide-ranging survey of humankind's relationship to the great apes (chimpanzees bonobos gorillas orangutans) from antiquity to the present Replete with fascinating historical details & anecdotes it traces twists & turns in our construction of primate knowledge over five hundred years Chris Herzfeld outlines the development of primatology & its key players & events including well-known long-term field studies notably the pioneering work by women such as Jane Goodall Dian Fossey & Birute Galdikas Herzfeld seeks to heighten our understanding of great apes & the many ways they are like us The reader will encounter apes living in human families painting apes apes who use American Sign Language & chimpanzees who travelled in space A philosopher & historian specializing in primatology Herzfeld offers thought-provoking insights about our perceptions of apes as well as the boundary between human & ape & what it means to be either ...