John & Philippa Gaunt are young djinns & can grant wishes & make themselves disappear. They go to stay with their eccentric uncle Nimrod to perfect their fledgling magical abilities & end up on a desperate quest to locate the tomb of the pharaoh Akhenaten. Pitted against them is the most evil djinn in the universe.. . This fast-paced fantasy is a breathtaking journey that grips young readers from its first page to its last line. ...

Includes: brilliant baboon facts! Akimbo loves his life in Africa & the animals that live there. In this newest Akimbo
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When Akimbo sees what poachers do to the elephants on his game reserve he is determined to stop them. Theres only one way to do it & thats to become an elephant hunter himself! But its going to take strength & courage & will involve facing danger... ...

Akimbo lives with his family on a game reserve in Kenya. His father is the head park ranger & he tries to protect the animals that roam the reserve. One day Akimbo & his father find a dead mother elephant killed by poachers. Akimbo cant stop thinking about the baby elephant left without a mother. What can he do to stop the cruel poachers? Akimbo comes up with a daring plan
- he will pretend to be an elephant hunter himself! Can he stop the poachers & save the elephants?
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Akimbo loves his life in Africa. He loves living in the great game reserve where his father is ranger. He is able to see all sorts of wonderful animals. But he doesn't see many snakes
- they usually slither away when he gets close. But then his Uncle Peter asks if Akimbo would like to visit his snake park & Akimbo jumps at the chance!
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When Moose Flanagan & his family move home yet again & become residents of the famous prison island Alcatraz things get interesting. First of all they share the island with a few other families & a lot of pretty heavy-duty criminals including Al Capone. & secondly Mooses sister is starting a new school which everyone hopes will help her become more integrated with those around her. When Moose comes up with some pretty cunning money-making schemes based on his famous co-residents he does not count on his sister becoming inadvertently involved. This is a charming funny & utterly enchanting book that skillfully & delicately weaves a humorous tale with some important issues. ...

Imagine the River Tiber as an alimentary tract. Picture a hungry saint. Think of erotic Renaissance fruit paintings transubstantiation & a tiramisu cafe where magic is surely on the menu... This highly original interpretation of Romes history culture art & religion takes the form of a book about food thats not really about food at all. In Al Dente Winner takes us on a stroll through the city as he muses on all things comestible & much else besides. We learn about Rome as metropolis & necropolis about tasty vineyard snails & the food-&-sex scandal that sent Saint Jerome packing. The cinematic greats such as Argento Fellini & Ferreri are discussed alongside historical political satire where grocery orgies were art & the penis was the subject of hagiographies. There are the bloodthirsty antics of an eighteenth-century executioner who worked for the pope stories of immolation architecture & artichokes & a telephone interview with a nun who makes Eucharistic wafers. Winner is a master of wit with a seemingly insatiable appetite for peculiar detail & Al Dente provides an intriguing new portrait of a remarkable city
- a veritable trifle of Roman bedrock & apogee cosmos & counterculture to be devoured with gusto. Buon appetito...
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Broken Britain may be staring into the bottom of an empty pint glass but don't lose hope Al Murray The Pub Landlord is back to fill it up again with a brand new st&-up show of epic proportions. Britain's most irrepressible Innkeeper will be serving up his premier brew of ale-inspired acumen & bar-room buffoonery on this latest live DVD recorded as part of his 2012 THE ONLY WAY IS EPIC TOUR. This monumental new show from the multi-award-winning comedian directly follows the nationwide success of the Guv's twice extended Barrel of Fun tour. Get your orders in now! ...

Not only is Al Pacino known as 'one of the greatest actors in all of film history' he is also considered 'one of Hollywood's most notorious bachelors' (imdb.com) as well as being one of the most enigmatic & private celebrities in the world. For the first time AL PACINO offers a deeply personal & revealing window into everything from his growing up in the South Bronx where he shared three rooms with nine people to his fabled studies with Charles Laughton & Lee Strasberg his father's absence his mother's early death & how he bounced through a series of odd jobs until his first paid role at the age of 26. He reveals his childhood dream of becoming a professional baseball player describes his first drink at 13 & admits his once ate Valium like popcorn at the Academy Awards. Though he has been involved with women like Diane Keaton & Beverly D' Angelo the mother of his three children he has never married & here reveals why & how his feelings have changed. Through it all he has delivered some of the most seminal performances in film & theatre history & worked with most of its biggest stars. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards before winning Best Actor Oscar for Scent of a Woman. AL PACINO is an intensely personal look at a creative genius at the peak of his powers who after all these years still longs to learn more about his art. & for now it's a close to a memoir as we are likely to get. ...

The spiritual life in Islam begins with 'riyadat al-nafs' the inner warfare against the ego. Distracted & polluted by worldliness the lower self has a tendency to drag the human creature down into arrogance & vice. Only by a powerful effort of will can the sincere worshipper achieve the purity of soul which enables him to attain God's proximity. This translation of two chapters from The Revival of the Religious Sciences" (" Ihya' ' Ulum al-Din") details the sophisticated spiritual techniques adopted by classical Islam. In the first step " On Disciplining the Soul " which cites copious anecdotes from the Islamic scriptures & biographies of the saints Ghazali explains how to acquire good character traits & goes on to describe how the sickness of the heart may be cured. In the second part " Breaking the Two Desires " he focusses on the question of gluttony & sexual desire concluding in the words of the Prophet that 'the best of all matters is the middle way'. The translator has added an introduction & notes which explore Ghazali's ability to make use of Greek as well as Islamic ethics. The work will prove of special interest to those interested in Sufi mysticism comparative ethics & the question of sexuality in Islam." ...