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When, one morning, Mum calls Albie for school, he really doesn't want to go, He's too busy playing space rescues with his toys. But, when Albie steps into the playground, he quickly realizes that this isn't any old school. It's Alien School & there's a big, shaggy alien heading in his direction! Join Albie as he makes intergalactic friends, enjoys space-ghetti at the school canteen & rides on space scooters
- school has never been so much fun!
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Welcome to Alien School by Caryl Hart & Ed Eaves introduces Albie as he takes off on a journey of the imagination with colourful & crazy aliens, some mega-tough spelling lessons & strange-looking space spaghetti for school dinners! If your youngster loves wacky illustrations & out-of-this-world imaginative stories, Welcome to Alien School is the perfect present! Caryl Hart & Ed Eaves have been shortlisted for the 2013 Red House Children's Book Award for Welcome to Alien School. Visit the Red House Children's Book Award dedicated site & vote for your favourite! ...

Jess Thom has Tourette’s Syndrome, a neurological condition that manifests itself through multiple vocal & physical tics. She says ‘biscuit’ up to 16 times per minute, (about 6 million times a year), she beats her chest regularly, her walking is in her own words ‘chaotic’ &, in common with only 10% of the 300, 000 people in the UK with Tourette’s, she swears involuntarily. When she agreed to talk about the condition for Stephen Fry’s series, Planet Word, little did she realise the impact it would have. Her humour, courage & complete lack of self-pity touched the audience & led Fry to declare her ‘a true hero’. Other media followed, including interviews on the Today programme & This Morning, & now her remarkable story is told in full in WELCOME TO BISCUIT L&. Based on her entertaining blog, Touretteshero, the book follows a year in Jess’s life, & shows that although living with Tourette’s is tough, it can also be funny & inspiring. As her alter ego, Jess transforms herself into a superhero to educate children & adults about her condition, & to empower others who have it not to feel downhearted. With wit & considerable frankness, she describes her daily challenges, while celebrating the creativity & humour of her condition. (‘ Biscuit’ may be her most common word but others are more poetic with “ The history of iguanas can be written in a tea pot” & “ The clouds are chasing Helen Mirren” being two favourites). Jess introduces Leftwing Idiot, Fat Sister, King Russell, Poppy, & others, who provide friendship & support & enable her to go to work & live in her own flat. She talks of the frustrations of coping with everyday tasks when her body won’t stay still, such as using a cash machine or washing her hair. She reveals how she deals with the inevitable funny looks & nasty comments, & how the simple kindness & understanding of strangers can make a big difference. Through WELCOME TO BISCUIT L&, & her blog, Jess aims to alter the perceptions of Tourette’s, showing it as the creative, if somewhat surreal, force that it is. ...

Welcome to Camp Pikachu, where kids can act out adventures from their favorite Pokemon games & cartoons, battling other teams to earn points & badges &, if they're lucky, make it into the Summer Camp Hall of Fame! During their first week at Camp Pikachu, Marco & his friends on Team Treecko find the perfect secret base: a tree house straight out of Fortree City. They proudly post their team flag out front. But during a game of capture the flag, someone vandalizes their base. Who did it? Marco thinks he knows: Team Fennekin, led by Stella & her brother, Sam. Sam is always up to no good. & his big sister is as mean as Meowth, the cat that prowls the camp. During the next round of capture the flag, Team Treecko bands together & tries every Pokemon trick they know. Logan makes mud balls & Pitfall Mats. Nisha creates a catapult inspired by Clemont. & Maddy? Well, she'd help, too, if she weren't so busy making Poke Puffs. But when Sam gets hit by a stone mixed in with the mud balls, the game comes to a screeching halt--and Team Treecko discovers that Sam may not be quite the bully they thought he was. Just as Pokemon can Mega Evolve with Mega Stones, can a bully change his ways? Team Treecko is about to find out! The first book in an exciting new series for Pokemon fans full of adventure, friendship, & summer fun. You'll want to collect them all! Longtime fans of Pokemon, or new fans of the hit app Pokemon Go, will love reading about Marco & his friends at Camp Pikachu. Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse & Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers--picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, & novels for young adults. Our list

Includes:: bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft & Pokemon; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, & the environment, & much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked & to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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The social contract has changed for ever: whether between government & individual capitalists, start-ups & corporates, or men

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What do the English think? Every country has a dominant set of beliefs & attitudes concerning everything from how to live a good life, how we should organize society, & the roles of the sexes. Yet despite many attempts to define our national character, what might be called the nation's philosophy has remained largely unexamined until now. Philosopher Julian Baggini pinpointed postcode S66 on the outskirts of Rotherham as England in microcosm
- an area that reflected most accurately the full range of the nation's inhabitants, its most typical mix of urban & rural, old & young, married & single. He then spent six months living there, immersing himself in this typical English Everytown, in order to get to know the mind of a people. It sees the world as full of patterns & order, a view manifest in its enjoyment of gambling. It has a functional, puritanical streak, evident in its notoriously bad cuisine. In the English mind, men should be men & women should be women (but it's not sure what children should be). Baggini's account of the English is both a portrait of its people & a personal story about being an alien in your own l&. Sympathetic but critical, serious yet witty, Welcome to Everytown shows a country in which the familiar becomes strange, & the strange familiar.
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Ask a British football fan what they know about Turkish football, & they are unlikely to describe scenes of camaraderie, hospitality & humour. They are more likely to mention banners proclaiming ' Welcome to hell'. Or Leeds United supporters stabbed to death on an Istanbul street. Frustrated by the game's distorted image back home, John Mc Manus set out to show the Turkish football that he knew
- the rich, funny, obsessive, fan culture that he had encountered on the terraces. But he hadn't accounted for the politics. His voyage began at the start of one of the darkest periods in Turkey's modern history, marred by bombings, armed conflict & an attempted coup d'etat. Football, he would soon discover, could not help but get dragged in. Travelling from the elite training facilities of Istanbul to dusty pitches on the Syrian border, taking in visits to far-flung clubs, encounters with characterful players & experiences at riotous matches along the way, Welcome to Hell? offers a unique perspective on an alluring yet troubled football culture, at once both familiar & miles apart from the game in Britain.
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Hold on to your Bibles, folks! You are about to be raptured into the gut-busting, demon-stomping insanity of God's Favorite Church, Landover Baptist
- the web's ultimate religious spoof. In the sacred & honorable tradition of The Onion comes a hilarious collection of outrageous news, graphics & games that gleefully skewers America's very own Taliban, the evangelical right. Pastor Deacon Fred, Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian (tm), Pastor Harry Hardwick & the rest of the pew-jumping, finger-pointing crazies at Landover Baptist Church (Guaranteeing Salvation Since 1620!) provide a sharply written book full of uproarious words & images. With its shocking exposes, X-rated bible quizzes, scandalous sidebars & mug shots of America's damned, Welcome to Jesusland! is sure to become a classic of religious & political humor, taking its rightfulplace next to the Holy Bible as essential reading in all of America's hotel nightstands.
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Includes: contributions from Graham Norton, Sue Perkins, Jenny Eclair & Gyles Brandreth. As its nine hundredth episode
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