Part 1 is an encyclopaedic index of words, phrases & terms concerned with time. Part 2 takes the 366 days of the Gregorian leap year one by one & looks at observances & holidays. Part 3 discusses a number of different types of calendars, including Fijian, French Revolutionary, Jewish, Muslim & Roman. Ages 8+. ...

A series for everyone who loves quizzes, mind games & puzzles, these books after up everyday knowledge that we know but might not realize we know. What focus on a thesaurus format, offering variations on a particular subject. Who provides brief narratives about famous people throughout history & Where employs places both real & imaginary to describe words & phrases as well as provide a list of countries & their capitols. ...

Ever wondered what air is made of? Or what it is like on the Moon? & just what is a dream? This book answers a wide range of 'what?' questions & provides further information with fun-filled facts. Appealing artworks help explain the answers, allowing children to build up their knowledge on a variety of subjects. ...

Toys & Games Jigsaw Puzzles Have hours of fun piecing together this stunning The Book Palace image with 1000 high quality pieces. ...

Have hours of fun piecing together this stunning Book Store image. This picture perfect puzzle

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HERE IS A SMALL FACT
- YOU ARE GOING TO DIE 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier.
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How can we have better relationships?

In this Sunday Times bestseller, leading psychotherapist Philippa Perry reveals

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Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Åsne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there. In the following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family for several months.

For more than twenty years Sultan Khan defied the authorities
- be they communist or Taliban
- to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated & imprisoned by the communists & watched illiterate Taliban soldiers burn piles of his books in the street. He even resorted to hiding most of his stock in attics all over Kabul.

But while Khan is passionate in his love of books & hatred of censorship, he is also a committed Muslim with strict views on family life. As an outsider, Seierstad is able to move between the private world of the women
- including Khans two wives
- & the more public lives of the men. & so we learn of proposals & marriages, suppression & abuse of power, crime & punishment. The result is a gripping & moving portrait of a family, & a clear-eyed assessment of a country struggling to free itself from history.







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Life in the fast lane can be seductive, thrilling, intoxicating... But when night falls & the brakes fail, sooner or later you're gonna crash. Oscar nominee James Woods is mesmeric, & Sean Young delivers a sensitive performance in this gripping story of a loving couple's descent into the nightmare of cocaine addiction. ...

L.A cop Charlie (Jack Nicholson) & his wife move to Texas when he joins the Mexican border patrol. Initially tempted to join his new partners in the racket of corruption & illicit backhanders that presently proliferates in the department, Charlie find ...