From much loved author Chris Higgins & acclaimed illustrator Emily Mac Kenzie comes a charming new young fiction series about friendship Bella has just moved into a new house It's old & dark & she's sure there's a ghost in the attic! But things look up when she meets her new next-door neighbour Magda Magda is lots of fun! She's bubbly & full of imagination & can even turn cartwheels! Soon they are best friends But Magda is also trouble! She breaks Bella's mum's best tea set wrecks Bella's room & covers the whole living room in soot & somehow makes sure Bella gets the blame for everything Bella is going to have watch out because there's Trouble Next Door! ...

Trouble This little witch really is a nasty one Standing upright & clutching her walking stick she looks ahead wincing in disgust The witch wears long blue robes & a beige witches hat In her hand she holds a crystal ball foreseeing a dark future for all those her cross her Cast in the finest resin before being hand painted this unsightly statuette is perfect in any witching collection ...

Francis Saxover & Diana Brackley two scientists investigating a rare lichen discover it has a remarkable property it retards the aging process Francis realising the implications for the world of an ever-youthful wealthy elite wants to keep it secret but Diana sees an opportunity to overturn the male status quo by using the lichen to inspire a feminist revolution As each scientist wrestles with the implications & practicalities of exploiting the discovery the world comes ever closer to learning the truth Trouble With Lichen is a scintillating story of the power wielded by science in our lives & asks how much trust should we place in those we appoint to be its guardians? ...

When Arthur's sword Excalibur is stolen the Temporal Detective Agency is called in to protect not only Arthur & Merlin but to stop a very clever & cruel person from destroying Camelot To make things worse this time the TDA has no idea who they're fighting Marlene's plan takes Tertia & Unita to Rome Egypt & even to a meeting with Shakespeare before confronting their enemy in the Coliseum But first if the Agency is to succeed Arthur must dieand Merlin & her King have to agree If they don't Camelot will be doomed & History itself could be changed forever That's the trouble with swords! Trouble with Swords is 2 in The Temporal Detective Agency series The Temporal Detective Agency series Leap of Faith Trouble with Swords ...

Screen icon & multiple Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino Million Dollar Baby) returns in front of the camera once more for this heartfelt sports dramedy about an aging major league baseball scout on the cusp of retirement Confronting his own mortality & his failing eyesight he sets out on an unforgettable road trip to Atlanta to scout a hot high school batting prospect Along the way he tries to mend his troubled relationship with his alienated lawyer daughter Directed by Eastwood’s longtime producing partner Robert Lorenz this diamond in the rough dramedy represents another moving return to form for the legendary Eastwood ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play For decades Gus Lobel (Clint Eastwood) has been one of baseball&s best scouts -- but now his age is catching up with him Still he refuses to be benched even though his bosses are questioning his judgment Tasked with checking out the country&s hottest batting prospect Gus is forced to accept help from his daughter Mickey (Amy Adams) Though they haven&t spent time together in years father & daughter make new discoveries about their shared past which could change their future ...

In three years I will be able to vote & I will still have less power than I did at the moment that I saw that email which was such a tiny thing but look what happened Fifteen-year-old Alena never really knew her political activist mother who died when she was a baby She has grown up with her older half-brother Danny & his boyfriend Nick in the east end of London Now the area is threatened by a bomber who has been leaving explosive devices in supermarkets It is only a matter of time before a bomb goes off Against this increasingly fearful backdrop Alena seeks to discover more about her past while Danny takes a job working for a controversial politician As her family life implodes & the threat to Londoners mounts Alena starts getting into trouble Then she does something truly rebellious A searing heartbreaking coming-of-age tale for fans of Lisa Williamson Jenny Downham & Sarah Crossan ...

THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE MONTH THE GRIPPING TALE OF THE EARLY FRONTIER DAYS OF SILICON VALLEY FROM ACCLAIMED HISTORIAN LESLIE BERLIN ' The book is compelling as it maps out the building of the Valley the challenges its early tech pioneers faced as well as highlighting those who reached dizzying success only to suffer as the dot com bubble burst' Financial Times Kaleidoscopic ambitious & brilliant the book draws on a dazzling cast of characters to chart the rise of the five industries that have come to define technology today & collectively to remake the world' Eric Schmidt former CEO of Google & Executive Chairman of Alphabet Inc Leslie Berlin's previous work has been acclaimed by the New York Times 'so engagingly narrated that you don't realize how much business & technology you are learning along the way' Between 1968 & 1976 five landmark industries that shaped the modern world were launched within 30 miles of each other personal computing video games biotechnology modern venture capital & advanced semi-conductor logic The dominant players in many of those industries
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- had also been launched at the same time During those early days of Silicon Valley the first ARPANET transmission (now known as the Internet) came into a Stanford lab universities began licensing innovations to businesses & the Silicon Valley tech community began to develop their lobbying clout Now for the first time the stories of the men & women who changed the world during these pivotal years are brought to life in rich detail by respected Silicon Valley historian Leslie Berlin Berlin shines a light on the wild frontier days of Silicon Valley where the old rules were broken revealing how the modern tech world was built & empires were forged Troublemakers is a compelling story of the upstarts of Silicon Valley that will appeal to fans of HBO's Silicon Valley & Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs Further praise for Troublemakers Leslie Berlin combines the keen observations of an historian with gorgeous writing & riveting storytelling to write the landmark book on the Valley The interwoven lives of wonderfully iconoclastic characters bring the formative years of the Valley to life with sheer brilliance Troublemakers is a must-read for anyone hoping to understand America's tech capital' Julia Flynn Siler New York Times bestselling author of The House of Mondavi Leslie Berlin has done it again Following on her richly informative biography of Intel co-founder Robert Noyce The Man Behind the Microchip Berlin now brings us a definitive account of Silicon Valley's breakthrough years in the 1970s Troublemakers recounts the fascinating careers of seven little-known but enormously impactful players who shaped the Valley's unique high-tech ecosystem As entertaining as it is authoritative Troublemakers is required reading for anyone seeking to understand how the tech revolution took root in the San Francisco Bay Area & eventually transformed the entire planet's way of life' David M Kennedy Donald J Mc Lachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University winner of the Pulitzer Prize

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Inspired by the Indian Mutiny of 1857 The Siege of Krishnapur is set in the fictional town of that name where a British garrison withstands a four-month siege by mutineers Eventually rescued after undergoing terrible privations the leading characters all find their ideals tested & their smug assumptions of military & moral superiority severely shaken In Troubles Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland in the aftermath of World War I in order to meet his fiancee Angela in a remote seaside hotel owned by her father Angela dies unexpectedly but Archer remains in Kilnalough captivated by the Majestic & its inhabitants & seemingly unaware of the approaching political storm as Ireland dissolves into revolt & civil war Both novels combine high comedy with vivid realism & reveal Farrell as 'one of the finest post-colonial novelists'
- John Sutherland
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What is the difference between mean & median blatant & flagrant flout & flaunt? Is it whodunnit or whodunit? Do you know? Are you sure? With Troublesome Words journalist & bestselling travel-writer Bill Bryson gives us a clear concise & entertaining guide to the problems of English usage & spelling that has been an indispensable companion to those who work with the written word for over twenty years So if you want to discover whether you should care about split infinitives are cursed with an uncontrollable outbreak of commas or were wondering if that newsreader was right to say 'an historic day' this superb book is the place to find out ...