What are you wearing today? Well, it depends! In this new addition to the Flip Flap Pop-up book series, young children are invited to help each character in the book decide what to wear. The result is a highly entertaining book that is packed with flaps to lift, tabs to pull, & plenty of surprises. ...

On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher walks down a staircase beneath Sofia`s National Palace of Culture, looking for sex. Among the stalls of a public bathroom he encounters Mitko, a charismatic young hustler. He returns to Mitko again & again over the next few months, & their trysts grow increasingly intimate & unnerving as the enigma of this young man becomes inseparable from that of his homel&, Bulgaria, a country with a difficult past & an uncertain future. Garth Greenwell`s What Belongs to You is a stunning debut about an American expat struggling with his own complicated inheritance while navigating a foreign culture. Lyrical & intense, it tells the story of a man caught between longing & resentment, unable to separate desire from danger, & faced with the impossibility of understanding those he most longs to know. ...

On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia`s National Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, & pays him for sex. He returns to Mitko again & again over the next few months, their relationship growing increasingly intimate & unnerving. As he struggles to reconcile his longing with the anguish it creates, he`s forced to grapple with his own fraught history: his formative experiences of love, his painful rejection by family & friends, & the difficulty of growing up as a gay man in southern America in the 1990s. Startlingly erotic & immensely powerful, What Belongs to You tells an unforgettable story about the ways our pasts & cultures, our scars & shames can shape who we are & determine how we love. ...

There are many things cats can do which children can`t, such as lap up milk & use their tongues as combs. There are also a number of things that cats can`t do, like sing children to sleep, or get down from trees... Abner Graboff combines the voice of childhood innocence with a wonderful sense of fun in his quirky book about the mysteries of cats & their secret lives, told from the point of view of a young child. Playful & bold illustrations complement the simple text, inspired by a much-loved family feline. ...

The razor-thin line between reality & madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, Antonio Lobo Antunes`s first novel to appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything`s On Fire?, set in the steamy world of Lisbon`s demimonde a nightclub milieu of scorching intensity & kaleidoscopic beauty, a baleful planet populated by drag queens, clowns, & drug addicts is narrated by Paolo, the son of Lisbon`s most legendary transvestite, who searches for his own identity as he recalls the harrowing death of his father, Carlos; the life of Carlos`s lover, Rui, a heroin addict & suicide; as well as the other denizens of this hallucinatory world. Psychologically penetrating, pregnant with literary symbolism, & deeply sympathetic in its depiction of society`s dregs, Lobo Antunes`s novel ventriloquizes the voices of the damned in a poetic masterwork that recalls Joyce`s Ulysses with a dizzying farrago of urban images few readers will forget. ...

Featuring more than one hundred jobs & fifteen busy scenes, such as farm, hospital & school, this book gives children a fascinating insight into what grown-ups do all day. Explore fifteen diverse work places such as a farm, hospital, & school, then turn the page to find out what each person`s job entails. Packed with detailed scenes & information, this is a sure-fire instant classic. ...

Richard Scarry`s classic title, What Do People Do All Day? is packed with pictures & things to spot on every page, this classic book brings the world of Richard Scarry to a new generation of readers. What do people do all day? Everyone is busy in Busytown
- from train drivers to doctors, from mothers to sailors, in police stations & on fire engines. Follow a colourful collection of busy people working through their busy days. Captain Salty & his crew are getting ready to go on a voyage; Doctor Lion is busy at the hospital; Sergeant Murphy is working very hard to keep things safe & peaceful; & engineers are building new roads. Another busy day in Busytown!
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Along with the beautiful Eric Carle art work that children know & love, this book features a real magnifying glass equiped with sound buttons to help them look for hidden critters. As children explore page after page they can press the 5 sound buttons to bring the adventure to life. With this interactive book set, your little explorer can get a closer look at click beetles, ladybugs, fireflies, & more! ...

An invigorating book about the debates raging within China. We all know about the fast pace of change in this country. This book brings us the ideas being fought over in the country itself -- from democracy to the idea of a `peaceful rise`. It challenges all of our assumptions about China. We know everything & nothing about China. We know that China is changing so fast that the maps in Shanghai need to be rewritten every two weeks. We know that China has brought 300 million people from agricultural backwardness into modernity in just 30 years (something that took 200 years in Europe). China`s voracious appetite for resources is gobbling up 40% of the world`s cement., 40% of its coal, 30% of its steel, & 12% of its energy. It has become so integrated into the global economy that its prospects have immediate effects on our everyday lives: simultaneously doubling the cost of the London Olympics while halving the cost of our computers; keeping the US economy afloat but sinking the Italian footwear industry. We have an image of China as a dictatorship; a nationalist empire that threatens its neighbours & global peace. But how many people know about the debates raging within China? What do we really know about the kind of society China wants to become? What ideas are motivating its citizens? We can name America`s Neo-Cons & the religious right, but cannot name Chinese writers, thinkers or journalists -- what is the future they dream of for their country, or the world it is shaping? Because China`s rise -- like the fall of Rome or the British Raj -- will echo down generations to come, these are the questions we increasingly need to ask. Mark Leonard asks us to forget everything we thought we knew about China & start again. He introduces us to the thinkers that are shaping China`s wide open future & opens up a hidden world of intellectual debate that is driving a new Chinese revolution & changing the face of the world. ...

A colourful picture book about noise & sound, & a poor little crocodile who is really not looking forward to nursery. The first day of starting school is hard for everyone, even for a crocodile. & on top of this, there are just so many sounds & noises to be heard! How does little Crocodile deal with it all? Follow him as he journeys through the sounds he encounters on his first day at nursery, & tries to make it through to the end of the day, when he will be back with his mum again. ...