Young Gregor Mac Donald is thrilled when he gets a set of bagpipes for his birthday Now he can be just like Grandad But each time he starts to play an awful noise sounds Honk-eeyyoww! & each time he hears the same angry cry ' You can't play here!' Poor Gregor goes from house to loch to barn & to hillside disturbing people until he finds acceptance in the most unlikely of places ...

When a crew of scurvy pirates sail up the Royal Moat & take King Cupcake captive there's only one person who can save the day Princess Spaghetti! Captain Waffle may be the meanest baddest pirate in the whole wide world but he's no match for this feisty princess A swashbuckling princess picture book written by Gillian Rogerson & illustrated by award-winning Sarah Mc Intyre ...

You can't take an elephant on the bus It would simply cause a terrible fuss! Elephants' bottoms are heavy & fatand would certainly squash the seats quite flat Never put a camel in a sailing boat or a tiger on a train & don't even THINK about asking a whale to ride a bike This riotous picture book is filled with animals causing total disaster as they try to travel in the most unsuitable vehicles A real romp of a book with hilarious rhyming text & spectacular illustrations ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family ...

Melissa Ohden is fourteen when she learns that she is the survivor of a botched abortion This discovery sends her life spiraling downward In this intimate memoir Melissa details her search for her biological parents & her own journey from anger & shame to faith & forgiveness It takes a decade-long search for Melissa to locate her birth father When she writes to extend forgiveness to him she learns that he has died without answering her burning questions Melissa then becomes a mother herself in the very hospital where she was aborted This experience transforms her attitude toward women who have had abortions as does the miscarriage of her only son & the birth of a second daughter with complex health issues But could anything prepare her for the day she finally meets her birth mother & hears her side of their story? This intensely personal story of love & redemption illumines the powerful bond between mother & child that can overcome all odds ...

Charlie Porter just can&t bring himself to say the &M& word Things are perfect with his girlfriend of two years Ashley when his free-spirited brother proposes to a woman he&s known less than 24 hours All eyes suddenly on Charlie & his reluctance to take the plunge he tries anything to avoid popping the question it&s one comical scheme & & You Did What?!& outburst after another until he must decide between the lifestyle or the woman that he loves ...

Hilarious & empowering advice tips & life-changing wisdom on being yourself & doing your thing
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The extraordinary new novel from the grande dame of suspense Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke 288 pages Clark Mary Higgins ...

No matter how much experience you have with Java Script odds are you don't fully understand the language As part of the You Don't Know JS series this concise yet in-depth guide focuses on new asynchronous features & performance techniques-including Promises generators & Web Workers-that let you create sophisticated single-page web applications & escape callback hell in the process Like other books in this series You Don't Know JS Async & Performance dives into trickier parts of the language that many Java Script programmers simply avoid Armed with this knowledge you can become a true Java Script master With this book you will Explore old & new Java Script methods for handling asynchronous programming Understand how callbacks let third parties control your program's execution Address the inversion of control issue with Java Script Promises Use generators to express async flow in a sequential synchronous-looking fashion Tackle program-level performance with Web Workers SIMD & asmjs Learn valuable resources & techniques for benchmarking & tuning your expressions & statements ...

No matter how much experience you have with Java Script odds are you don't fully understand the language This concise in-depth guide takes you inside Java Script's this structure & object prototypes You'll learn how they work & why they're integral to behavior delegation
- a design pattern in which objects are linked rather than cloned Like other books in the You Don't Know JS series this & Object Prototypes dives into trickier parts of the language that many Java Script programmers simply avoid Armed with this knowledge you can become a true Java Script master With this book you will Explore how the this binding points to objects based on how the function is called Look into the nature of JS objects & why you'd need to point to them Learn how developers use the mixin pattern to fake classes in JS Examine how JS's prototype mechanism forms links between objects Learn how to move from classinheritance design to behavior delegation Understand how the OLOO (objects-linked-to-other-objects) coding style naturally implements behavior delegation
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