Its the first day of the December school holidays & Martine has lots of fun planned for the next few weeks not least spending time with Jemmy her beloved white giraffe & her best friend Ben. But her plans for a peaceful holiday are soon shattered when a sinister man informs Martine & her grandmother that Sabuwona is about to be repossessed. The nature reserve & everything in it will no longer belong to them. Martine is determined to save the home shes grown to love. When Grace has a vision about a unique herd of Namibian elephants she knows she must travel to Namibia to learn their secrets. This could be the answer to all their troubles.. . The fourth thrilling African adventure written with all the zest & skill that has endeared so many readers to THE WHITE GIRAFFE DOLPHIN SONG & THE LAST LEOPARD. ...

From the creators of hit CBeebies series Pop Shop comes a br&-new range of six energetic picture books all about MAKING MUSIC! Along with Meercat Sheep Giraffe & Polar Bear meet Elephant whose trumpeting is too loud for the family band & Lion who finds an edible solution to keeping in time. Each book

Includes:: a CD with 7 tracks including a narration a sing-along song & lesson plans written by Carrie & David. So what are you waiting for? JUMP UP & JOIN IN!

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From Babar to Dumbo the elephant has long fascinated children as well as their parents. Here eighty stunning photographs encompass ...

This is a new title in the fantastic First Reading" series part of the Usborne Young Reading Programme aimed at children who are beginning to read. Following the life on an elephant children will learn where they live how they survive through monsoon & drought search for food & how a baby elephant is made. It is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly who is a senior lecturer in education & an early reading specialist from Roehampton University. This is a great value quality hardback with ribbon marker guaranteed to foster pride in book ownership." ...

This is a lively introduction to the fascinating world of elephants complete with amazing photographs step-by-step illustrations & weird & wonderful facts. With easy-to-read text specially written with the help of a reading expert aimed at children who are beginning to read on their own. Part of the exciting Beginners series now containing more than 45 titles on topics ranging from Cowboys & Rubbish & Recycling to The Solar System. ...

Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband & wife double murder that is still an open verdict... Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. For here many years earlier there had been a tragic accident
- the broken body of a woman was discovered on the rocks at the foot of the cliff. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies
- a husband & wife
- shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into a crime committed 15 years earlier & discovers that when there is a distinct lack of physical evidence it's just as well that 'old sins leave long shadows'...


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Have you ever wondered if a severed head retains consciousness long enough to see what happened to it? Or whether your dog would run to fetch help if you fell down a disused mineshaft? & what would happen if you were to give an elephant the largest ever single dose of LSD? The chances are that someone somewhere has conducted a scientific experiment to find out... Excellent accounts of some of the most important & interesting experiments in biology & psychology
- Simon Singh. If left to their own devices would babies instinctively choose a well-balanced diet? Discover the secret of how to sleep on planes. Which really tastes better in a blind tasting
- Coke or Pepsi?

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A fire rages through a sleepy West London square engulfing a small convent hidden away among the residential houses. When DI Jack Carrigan & DS Geneva Miller arrive at the scene they discover eleven bodies yet there were only supposed to be ten nuns in residence. Its eleven days before Christmas & despite their superiors wanting the case solved before the holidays Carrigan & Miller start to suspect that the nuns were not who they were made out to be. Why did they make no move to escape the fire? Who is the eleventh victim whose body was found separate to the others? & where is the convents priest the one man who can answer their questions? Fighting both internal politics & the church hierarchy Carrigan & Miller unravel the threads of a case which reaches back to the early 1970s & the upsurge of radical Liberation Theology in South America
- with echoes of the Shining Path & contemporary battles over oil land & welfare. Meanwhile closer to home theres a new threat in the air one the police are entirely unprepared for... Spanning four decades & two continents Eleven Days" finds Carrigan & Miller up against time as they face a new kind of criminal future."
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'I had thought that for me there could never again be any elation in war. But I had reckoned without the liberation of Paris
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Set during the final 24 hours before the armistice at 11 a.m. on 11th November 1918 the story follows a German storm trooper an American airman & a British Tommy. Their destinies converge during the death throes of the first ever conflict to spread across the globe. War becomes incredibly personal as nationality & geography cease to matter to each of these teenagers on the Western Front & friendship becomes the defining aspect of their encounter. But who will live & who will die before the end of the day? ...