A 2017 Caldecott Honor Book. The cat walked through the world, with its whiskers, ears, & paws.. . In this glorious celebration of observation, curiosity, & imagination, Brendan Wenzel shows us the many lives of one cat, & how perspective shapes what we see. When you see a cat, what do you see? ...

In 1994, Marko Novak`s world is torn apart by the death of his best friend. Kemal Lekic, a young soldier in the darkest days of the Bosnian war, is killed in the shelling of their home town. But his body is never recovered. Marko flees to Engl&, hoping to put his broken homeland & a dark secret behind him. In 2004, human rights researcher Anya Teal is following a tenuous lead in the hunt for a Bosnian man with blood on his hands. She is also clinging to the fragile hope that she can rebuild a relationship with her first love, William Howell. When Anya invites him to join her on a Christmas holiday in the Thai resort of Kao Lak, she is offering Will the chance to unpick the mistakes of their past, but Kao Lak may also be home to the man Anya is looking for. What no-one can know, is that a disaster as destructive as a war is approaching, detonated in the sea-bed of the Indian Ocean. In its wake, everything they thought they knew will be overturned. ...

From the bestselling author of HISTORY IS ALL YOU LEFT ME comes another unforgettable story of life, loss & making each day count On September 5th, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez & Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: they`re going to die today. Mateo & Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they`re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: there`s an app for that. It`s called the Last Friend, & through it, Rufus & Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure
- to live a lifetime in a single day. Another beautiful, heartbreaking & life-affirming book from the brilliant Adam Silvera, author of History Is All You Left Me (a Zoella Book Club 2017 novel) PRAISE FOR ADAM SILVERA: ` History Is All You Left Me overflows with tenderness & heartache. Even when its hero is screwing up royally, maybe especially then, Silvera`s humanity & compassion carve out a space where it`s not the falling that`s important, it`s how you pick yourself back up. There isn`t a teenager alive who won`t find their heart described perfectly on these pages.` Patrick Ness ` Adam Silvera is a master at capturing the infinite small heartbreaks of love & loss & grief. History Is All You Left Me is a beautiful meditation on what it means to survive devastating loss. This book will make you cry, think, & then cry some more.` Nicola Yoon ` Bold & haunting.` Lauren Oliver on They Both Die At The End `A phenomenal talent.` Juno Dawson
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This is the story of a bitter war between the poor Turkish peasants of the Taurus Mountains & the Aghas who covet their l&. Ali Safa is determined to take possession of the village of Vayvay but its inhabitants will not sell. Then one villager weakens, prepared to part with his land in return for the Agha`s best stallion. But this ill-fated deal sets in motion a chain of events which will see the young brigand Slim Memed take up the cause of the poor once again, with dramatic consequences. ...

Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran`s contested presidential elections for Newsweek magazine. He thought he`d be returning in just a few days to Paola, his pregnant fiancee. Instead, he was incarcerated under false charges of espionage in Evin, a state prison notorious for its role in Iran`s history of torture & oppression. Suffering regular beatings, forced confessions, & threats of execution, Bahari draws strength from the similar experiences of his family in the past: his father was imprisoned by the shah in the 1950s, & his sister by Ayatollah Khomeini in the 1980s. Exposing the contradictions at the heart of Ahmadinejad`s paranoid regime, this inspiring & often witty story of one family`s courage in the face of repression is also a beautifully written portrait of modern Iran. ...

`A devastating front-line account of the police killings & the young activism that sparked one of the most significant racial justice movements since the 1960s: Black Lives Matter.. . Lowery more or less pulls the sheet off America.. .essential reading` Junot Diaz, The New York Times, Books of 2016 ` Electric.. .so well reported, so plainly told & so evidently the work of a man who has not grown a callus on his heart` Dwight Garner, The New York Times, `A Top Ten Book of 2016` `I`d recommend everyone to read this book.. .it`s not just statistics, it`s not just the information, but it`s the connective tissue that shows the human story behind it. I really enjoyed it` Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central`s ` The Daily Show` A deeply reported book on the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement, offering unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America, & an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it In over a year of on-the-ground reportage, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled across the US to uncover life inside the most heavily policed, if otherwise neglected, corners of America today. In an effort to grasp the scale of the response to Michael Brown`s death & understand the magnitude of the problem police violence represents, Lowery conducted hundreds of interviews with the families of victims of police brutality, as well as with local activists working to stop it. Lowery investigates the cumulative effect of decades of racially biased policing in segregated neighborhoods with constant discrimination, failing schools, crumbling infrastructure & too few jobs. Offering a historically informed look at the standoff between the police & those they are sworn to protect, They Can`t Kill Us All demonstrates that civil unrest is just one tool of resistance in the broader struggle for justice. & at the end of President Obama`s tenure, it grapples with a worrying & largely unexamined aspect of his legacy: the failure to deliver tangible security & opportunity to the marginalised Americans most in need of it. ...

A buddy comedy featuring a worm & a chicken-like bird that will have readers wriggling with laughter. Marcus is a worm. He likes the colour brown. He likes mud (because it`s brown). & he likes digging holes in the mud-brown earth. Strangely, he likes beat boxing, too. But when Marcus meets Laurence (a scruffy, fat bird who looks a lot like a chicken.. .and thinks he`s a flamingo!), he comes face to face with his worst fear. Will he get eaten for breakfast? It is a Very Bad Situation. Marcus has two choices: Survive, Or get slurped up like a piece of spaghetti. Mustering all his worm instincts, he finds himself striking up a conversation. It`s amazing how a simple ” Good morning!” can end up saving your life... And so begins a tale of high adventure, wily tricks & unlikely friendship. Simone Lia has created a heartwarming comedy classic that will have readers wriggling with laughter. ...

The centuries-old, love-hate relationship with our closest neighbour has spawned a plethora of myths & stereotypes. In recent years our stock of received wisdom about the French
- land of the sophisticated lover, the wine-fuelled lunch, the gitane-puffing philosopher, the hairy female armpit & the rebarbatively squalid toilet
- has been replenished by a new generation of lifestyle myths: that French women don't get fat, that French children don't throw food, that their countryside has been colonized by Boden-clad, Volvo-driving Brits. In THEY EAT HORSES, DON'T THEY?, Piu Das Eatwell explores the background to, & the contemporary evidence for, 45 such myths. She finds that many of them are simply false, & that even those that are broadly true are rather more complicated than at first sight. In the course of her thorough
- & thoroughly entertaining
- investigations, we discover there is more to our enigmatic Gallic neighbour than 365 types of cheese, & that the reality of modern French life is very different from the myths that we create about it.



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The centuries-old, love-hate relationship with our closest neighbour has spawned a plethora of myths & stereotypes. In recent years our stock of received wisdom about the French
- land of the sophisticated lover, the wine-fuelled lunch, the gitane-puffing philosopher, the hairy female armpit & the rebarbatively squalid toilet
- has been replenished by a new generation of lifestyle myths: that French women don`t get fat, that French children don`t throw food, that their countryside has been colonized by Boden-clad, Volvo-driving Brits. In THEY EAT HORSES, DON`T THEY?, Piu Das Eatwell explores the background to, & the contemporary evidence for, 45 such myths. She finds that many of them are simply false, & that even those that are broadly true are rather more complicated than at first sight. In the course of her thorough
- & thoroughly entertaining
- investigations, we discover there is more to our enigmatic Gallic neighbour than 365 types of cheese, & that the reality of modern French life is very different from the myths that we create about it.



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In conflicts around the world, there is an increasingly popular weapon system that needs negligible technology, is simple to sustain, has unlimited versatility, & an incredible capacity for both loyalty & barbarism. What are these cheap, renewable, plentiful, sophisticated, & expendable weapons? Children. This passionate & campaigning book is part of a personal mission against the use of child soldiers, by the three-star general who commanded the UN mission in Rwanda. When Romeo Dallaire was tasked with achieving peace there in 1994, he & his force found themselves caught up in a vortex of civil war & genocide. He left Rwanda a broken man, disillusioned, suicidal, a story he told in the award-winning international sensation Shake Hands with the Devil. Now, in They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children, Dallaire provides an emotionally daring & intellectually enlightening introduction to the child soldier phenomenon, as well as concrete solutions for its total eradication. ' In the Rwandan civil war, I was confronted with child soldiers.I saw them, heard them, faced them down, & ultimately confronted them in the midst of a carnage that swallowed their youth & my professional warrior ethic. They, the once-children in unknown villages on the top of the thousand hills of Rwanda were real, determined, deadly, & somehow camouflaging the incredible fear they must have been repressing in the constant presence of death'. Dallaire speaks up for those without a voice
- children in conflicts around the globe who do not choose to fight, but who through ill-fate & the accident of birth find their way into soldiering
- in a book that addresses one of the most harrowing, urgent & important issues of our time.

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