It's 1979: Dallas is enthralling the nation on TV Mrs Thatcher has just become prime minister Abba is top of the pops & in the small Yorkshire village of Ragley-on-the-Forest Jack Sheffield returns for his third year as headmaster of the village school. Jack & his staff struggle to keep a semblance of normality throughout the turbulence of the school terms as once again the official School Log fails to record what is really going on beneath the seemingly quiet routine. Ruby the caretaker discovers her Prince Charming; Vera the school secretary gets to meet her hero Nicholas Parsons; & Jack to his astonishment finds himself having to stand in as a curiously skinny Father Christmas. Jack also finds himself at last having to choose between the vivacious sisters Beth & Laura Henderson.. . ...

Claire & Ben are the perfect couple. But behind the glossy facade they've been desperately trying
- & failing
- to have a baby

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Are there tangible benefits in flossing? Is it wrong to fake orgasms? What does the perfect online dating ad look like? Should we bother doing the ironing? Is it really impossible to buy the perfect Christmas gift? (Other than this book of course.) Economists might not be the first people you would think of to give you advice on such diverse areas as parenting the intricacies of etiquette or the dark arts of seduction. But for years bestselling author Tim Harford has been doing just that: answering the most challenging questions in his brilliant column where he uses the tools of economics to give practical advice about everyday dilemmas conundrums & concerns. From family rows & the stock market to buying socks or speed dating youll find within these pages a witty
- & of course rational
- explanation for almost everything you ever wanted to know about life.

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Dear Zari" gives voice to the secret lives of women across Afghanistan & allows them to tell their stories in their own words: from the child bride given as payment to end a family feud; to a life spent in a dark dusty room weaving carpets; to a young girl brought up as a boy; to life as a widow shunned by society. Compelling & enlightening " Dear Zari" uncovers the reality of life in Afghanistan in stories that are by turn heart-breaking & uplifting." ...

Rod Campbell's bestselling & much loved classic picture book Dear Zoo. What kind of pet would you like from the zoo? An elephant a lion a snake
- or something a bit smaller & cuddlier & playful? Lift the flaps & see what has been sent
- it's bound to be a surprise! & just when you think they'll never get it right they send the very best most perfect pet of all...A bestselling lift-the-flap book for more than twenty-five years Dear Zoo is a perennial favourite & is regarded as a classic. Rod Campbell is the creator of many brilliant novelty books for babies & toddlers including ABC Zoo Farm Babies Farm Chase Farm 123 & Noisy Farm as well as Dear Zoo regarded as a classic. Other books by Rod Campbell: Dear Santa; Dear Zoo; ABC Zoo; Oh Dear!; It's Mine!; I'm Hungry!; I Won't Bite!; Baby's Busy Book; My Presents; Noisy Farm; Farm 123; Farm Babies; Buster's Day; Buster's Zoo; Here's Buster but Where's Teddy?; Buster Goes to Playschool; Buster Gets Dressed; Buster Keeps Warm; Buster's Bedtim; The Pop-Up Farm; & The Pop-Up Jungle.

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Lift-the-flaps & press the 8 interactive sound buttons to see what the zoo has sent: the perfect pet
- in the end! This amazing
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In the spring of 1940 the spectre of war turned into grim reality. & on the English home front men women & children found themselves swept into a maelstrom of fear & uncertainty while events abroad led inexorably from the debacles of Norway & Dunkirk to the horror & glory of the Battle of Britain. For the Lovatt family
- James seconded on a hush-hush assignment to work with Churchill & his brother Harry a naval officer
- for Bess Spofford Joanne Schorner Graham Smit & all the inhabitants of the history villages of the New Forest it was the beginning of the most bizarre funny & tragic episode of their lives.

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Nina is the peacemaker of the family
- dutiful daughter sister & wife. Richard is the baby of the family
- hes always been spoilt

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You are a remarkable woman & you deserve all the happiness contentment & love in the world. I for one know that I have never met anyone quite like you. When Rose Pritchard turns up on the doorstep of a Cumbrian B&B it is her last resort. She & her seven-year-old daughter Maddie have left everything behind. & they have come to the village of Millthwaite in search of the person who once offered Rose hope. Almost immediately Rose wonders if shes made a terrible mistake
- if shes chasing a dream
- but she knows in her heart that she cannot go back. Shes been given a second chance
- at life & love
- but will she have the courage to take it?



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It is a sharp slick sequel to zombie adventure debut Dearly Departed". Can the living coexist with the living dead? Thats the question that has New Victorian society fiercely divided ever since the mysterious plague known as " The Laz" hit the city of New London & turned thousands into walking corpses. But while some of these zombies are mindless monsters hungry for human flesh others can still think speak reason & control their ravenous new appetites. Just ask Nora Dearly who was nearly kidnapped by a band of sinister zombies but valiantly rescued by a dashing young man.. .who was sadly no longer breathing... Nora & her savior the young zombie soldier Bram Griswold fell hopelessly in love. But others feel only fear & loathing for the reanimated dead. Now as tensions grow between pro- & anti-zombie factions battle lines are being drawn in the streets. & though Bram is no longer in the New Victorian army he & his ex-commando zombie comrades are determined to help keep the peace. That means taking a dangerous stand between The Changed a radical group of sentient zombies fighting for survival & The Murder a masked squad of urban guerrillas hellbent on destroying the living dead. But zombies arent the only ones in danger: Their living allies are also in The Murders crosshairs & for one vengeful zealot Nora Dearly is the number one target. As paranoia prejudice & terrorist attacks threaten to plunge the city into full-scale war Noras scientist father & his team continue their desperate race to unlock the secrets of " The Laz" & find a cure. But their efforts may be doomed when a mysterious zombie appears bearing an entirely new strain of the illness-and the nation of New Victoria braces for a new wave of the apocalypse. Lia Habels spellbinding suspenseful sequel to " Dearly Departed" takes her imaginative mash-up of period romance futuristic thriller & zombie drama to a whole new level of innovative & irresistible storytelling." ...