Introduce your child to fire-fighting heroes in Touch & Feel: Fire Engine". Twinkly bumpy hard soft silky & shiny touch & feel textures in a chunky package will help your child learn all about puppies. How scratchy is the engine grille? Can you see the fire man? From rubbery tyres to shiny bumpers let their little hands roam & discover all about Fire Engines. Read it together
- theyll learn as you play. These Touch & Feel chunky padded board books will help encourage your childs early learning & language. It is perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore & great for sensory development."
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Five years have passed since David Rain now a cult author disappeared mysteriously in the Arctic. Life in Wayward Crescent has settled to relative normality. But as the weather grows wild & the ice caps melt all eyes turn north where bears & the souls of the Inuit dead are combining to produce a spectacular solution...A solution with its focus on David's child Alexa
- if the agents of evil don't reach her first.
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The new high-stakes action-packed military thriller from the author of DEATH FORCE. Batota Africa. A nation under the rule of a brutal aging dictator. A group of businessmen believe there is only one way to save the country they still love: the President must be assassinated. & the men from Death Inc. the band of elite mercenaries for whom no job is too dangerous have been hired for the task. Steve West Ollie Hall & the rest of the unit from Death Force are plunged into a high-stakes battle for the future of one of Africa's most important yet tragic countries. But the mission is not what it seems. & soon they are fighting for their own lives against one of the most savage ruthless regimes on the planet... ...

Fire Ice" is Clive Cussler's third "NUMA Files" novel packed with nerve-shredding suspense. In the Black Sea Kurt Austin & the NUMA team discover an abandoned submarine base commandeered by a mining tycoon who claims Romanov ancestry. Backed by his incredible wealth the tycoon has proclaimed himself Czar of Russia. He is determined to overthrow the already shaky Russian government
- & he has a terrifying surprise in store for the Americans that will ensure they don't interfere. But standing in his way are Kurt Austin & the NUMA team... Packed with the hair-raising action & dazzling imagination that are his hallmarks " Fire Ice" is a stunning thriller from a writer at the top of his game. Clive Cussler author of the best-selling " Dirk Pitt" novels " Arctic Drift" & " Crescent Dawn" & co-author Paul Kemprecos unravel a tangled web of ambition & conspiracy in " Fire Ice" the third novel of the action-packed "NUMA Files" series. Praise for Clive Cussler: " Cussler is hard to beat". (" Daily Mail"). " The guy I read". (Tom Clancy). Bestselling author Clive Cussler has kept readers on the edges of their seats for four decades with his thrilling action novels. As well as the "NUMA Files" series there are also the " Oregon Files" the " Dirk Pitt" stories (which started it all) the " Isaac Bell" adventures & the " Fargo" series. The other titles in the "NUMA" files series are: " Serpent" " Blue Gold" " White Death" " Lost City" " Polar Shift" " The Navigator" " Medusa" " Devil's Gate" & " The Storm"."
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Edinburgh 1297. Margaret Kerr fiercely loyal to the deposed king John Balliol has come in search of her absent husband Roger
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Three bears incredible journey. When the land comes to an end Kallik Toklo Lusa & Ujurak venture on to the ice as a new path spreads out before them. But the ice is more dangerous than the bears expect & all must put their trust in Kalliks paws as they struggle to survive the bitter cold. Just when they think theyll never make it an encounter with a mystical star-bear means different things for each of the cubs
- but brings the same message: All will be well if they go to the place where the sun rises.. .
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Growing up in the 1950s Tom Bianchi would head into downtown Chicago & pick up 25-cent physique" magazines at newsstands. In one such magazine he found a photograph of bodybuilder Glenn Bishop on Fire Isl&. " Fire Island sounded exotic perhaps a name made up by the photographer " he recalls in the preface to his latest monograph. "I had no idea it was a real place. Certainly I had no idea then that it was a place I would one day call home." In 1970 fresh out of law school Bianchi began traveling to New York & was invited to spend a weekend at Fire Island Pines where he encountered a community of gay men. Using an SX-70 Polaroid camera Bianchi documented his friends' lives in the Pines amassing an image archive of people parties & private moments. These images published here for the first time & accompanied by Bianchi's moving memoir of the era record the birth & development of a new culture. Soaked in sun sex camaraderie & reverie " Fire Island Pines "conjures a magical bygone era. Tom Bianchi was born & raised in the suburbs of Chicago & graduated from Northwestern University School of Law in 1970. He became a corporate attorney eventually working with Columbia Pictures in New York painting & drawing on weekends. His artwork came to the attention of Betty Parsons & Carol Dreyfuss & they gave him his first one-man painting show in 1980. In 1984 he was given his first solo museum exhibition at the Spoleto Festival. After Bianchi's partner died of AIDS in 1988 he turned his focus to photography producing " Out of the Studio " a candid portrayal of gay intimacy. Its success led to producing numerous monographs including " On the Couch " " Deep Sex" & " In Defense of Beauty."" ...

Nanda Kaul is old. She has chosen to spend her last years high up in the mountains where she can arrange her thoughts into tranquility. But her solitude is broken when her fragile & secretive great-gr&-daughter Raka comes to stay. It is an intrusion Nanda Kaul deeply resents but this child has a capacity to change things. Through the long hot summer months hidden dependencies & old wounds are uncovered until tragedy seems as inevitable as a forest fire on the hillsides surrounding the villa. ...

Ive watched deer & elk frolic in the meadow below me & pine trees explode in a blue ball of smoke. If theres a better job anywhere on the planet Id like to know what it is. For nearly a decade Philip Connors has spent half of each year in a small room at the top of a tower on top of a mountain alone in millions of acres of remote American wilderness. His job: to look for wildfires. Capturing the wonder & grandeur of this most unusual job & place Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of solitude & the majesty might & beauty of untamed fire at its wildest. Connors time up on the peak is filled with drama -- there are fires large & small; spectacular midnight lightning storms & silent mornings awakening above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers black bears & an abandoned dying fawn. Filled with Connors heartfelt reflections on our place in the wild Fire Season is an instant modern classic: a remarkable memoir that is at once an homage to the beauty of nature the blessings of solitude & the freedom of the independent spirit. Advance praise for Fire Season: A masterwork of close observation deep reflection & hard-won wisdom.. .an unforgettable reckoning with the American land Philip Gourevitch His adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing restorative reading Walter Kirn ...

A research trip to the Arctic & a new book
- life can't get much better for David Rain. As soon as David finds himself in the icy
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