Banish boredom on rainy days, with this brilliant book of puzzles, quizzes, games & exciting activities. Crammed with cool things to make & do indoors, it's guaranteed to keep any boy busy until well after the sun has come out again. Boys can create the ultimate indoor assault course, make a pinhole camera, make a UFO or serve up gross food to freak out their friends, & much more. This book is 24.5cm x 18.9cm x 0.7cm ...

Having tried & failed to braid her 8-year-old daughter's hair into an intricate fishtail plait, Sarah Hiscox had to admit she had no idea what she was doing. When she realised a trip to the hairdressers was both expensive & time consuming, Sarah decided to fill a gap in the market & she started a pop-up braid bar with family friend Willa Burton. Now you can learn to style intricate braids in your own hair with The Braid Bar book, featuring designs from a plaited halo & elaborate fishtail to an intricate Mohican style braid. Sarah & Willa also share how to adorn your hair with accessories like clips, pompoms & bands as well as other temporary styling tools such as hair chalk & glitter. Secret tips, tricks & advice onlooking after your braids, as well as answers to frequently asked questions, ensures you can immerse yourself in the latest hair trend. ' All the girls look so cool when they come out of The Braid Bar.' Kate Moss ...

The brain is one of nature's most miraculous but misunderstood creations.

In this fascinating user-friendly guide,

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Details: An illustrated guide to the structure, functions & disorders of the human brain. The human brain is the body
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Books Non-Fiction Books What if you couldn't forget anything? What happens in your brain when you get an idea? Could you be a psychopath?... New Scientist has all the answers. From the strange ways to distort what we think of as 'reality' to the brain hacks that can improve memory, The Brain takes you on a journey through intelligence, memory, creativity, the unconscious & beyond to help you understand your brain
- & show you what it's truly capable of. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529363319 • Author: New Scientist • Publisher: John Murray • Format: Paperback • Pages: 448 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 3.6cm
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The branch lines of Worcestershire are especially interesting because of their variety, ranging from parts of the Severn Valley Railway, one of the country s largest preserved main lines, to former main lines, down to lines which have always been branches. Many are now closed, yet several are still active & may be enjoyed by today s traveller. Although most branches were steam-worked until the 1960s when diesel power took over, one branch was cable-worked in its early days. Some of the lines were worked by steam railmotors a coach & locomotive combined in the same vehicle. The Stourbridge Town branch was one of the last haunts of the GWR railmotors & less than six months after it ceased to use the line, early diesel railcars took over working the same branch. One branch has even been electrified that from Barnt Green to Redditch. Most of the stations still open have been modernised, but a few retain their nineteenth-century buildings, while the preserved Severn Valley Railway has erected a terminus at Kidderminster in the GWR style of 1890. Other celebrated structures include the timbered viaducts, as well as others in stone, brick or steel. In addition to describing the traffic c on each branch line & its history, well-known railway historian Colin G. Maggs tells of some of the mishaps which occurred on the Old Worse & Worse, the aptly nicknamed Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway. Illustrated with over 180 photographs this book will appeal to railway enthusiasts & local historians alike. ...

Details: When Marie, the wayward young daughter of a prosperous Northumbrian family, falls & injures herself, she is
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When down-at-hell lawyer Mickey Haller gets the news that his old colleague Jerry Vincent has died, he also gets an unexpected windfall. Harry left instructions that Mickey should inherit all of his clients
- putting Mickey's stalled career back on track at a stroke. The only problem is that Vincent was murdered, shot at close range in his office garage, & the detective handling the case
- a certain Harry Bosch
- is convinced the killer must be one of Vincent's clients. Suddenly Jerry Vincent's legacy is beginning to look more like a poisoned chalice, & now Mickey is faced with the biggest challenge of his career: how to successfully defend a client who might just be planning to murder him.


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The motto of the boarding school to which Tommy Bedford is dispatched is Fortune Favours the Brave. It's 1959 & the school bristles with bullies & sadistic staff. Tommy, a quirky loner, obsessed with cowboys & Indians, needs all the bravery he can summon. Salvation comes when his glamorous actress sister is swept off to Hollywood by one of his heroes, TV cowboy Ray Montane. But with the Cold War looming, the sinister side of Tinseltown seeps through & Tommy & Diane soon find themselves in jeopardy. Forty years on, Tommy has to confront his boyhood ghosts when his own son finds himself charged with murder. ...

1959
- There's little love in eight-year-old Tom Bedford's life
- & even less when he is sent away to a brutal boarding school.

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