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. Here many years earlier there had been a tragic accident. 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 the past & discovers that old sin leave long shadows.

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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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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? ...

The new bestselling novel now in paperback from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho author of The Alchemist. A chance meeting in Rio takes Maria to Geneva where she dreams of finding fame & fortune yet ends up working the streets as a prostitute. In Geneva Maria drifts further & further away from love while at the same time developing a fascination with sex. Eventually Maria's despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness 'sexual pleasure for its own sake' or risking everything to find her own 'inner light' & the possibility of sacred sex sex in the context of love. A daring modern fable about the nature of love & sex. ...

Connor Fitzgerald is the professional's professional. Holder of the Medal of Honour. Devoted family man. The CIA's most deadly weapon. But for twenty-eight years he has been leading a double life. & only days from his retirement he comes across an enemy even he cannot handle. The enemy is his own boss. & she has only one purpose: to destroy him. Meanwhile the United States is faced with an equally formidable foe: a new Russian President determined to force a military confrontation between the two superpowers. Ranging from the Oval Office in the White House to a Russian Mafia boss' luxurious hideaway outside St Petersburg The Eleventh Commandment" sets new standards in contemporary thriller writing. Jeffrey Archer scoops his readers up in the first paragraph & doesn't let them go until the last. The pace the ingenuity the twists intertwined with a moving love story show Britain's bestselling writer at the peak of his page-turning powers." ...