Fairytales are one of our earliest & most vital cultural forms & forests one of our most ancient & primal landscapes. Both evoke a similar sensation in us
- we find them beautiful & magical but also spooky sometimes horrifying. In this fascinating book Maitland argues that the two forms are intimately connected: the mysterious secrets & silences gifts & perils of the forests were both the background & the source of fairytales. Yet both forests & fairy stories are at risk & their loss deprives us of our cultural lifeblood. Maitland visits forests through the seasons from the exquisite green of a beechwood in spring to the muffled stillness of a snowy pine wood in winter. She camps with her son Adam whose beautiful photographs are included in the book; she takes a barefoot walk through Epping Forest with Robert Macfarlane; she walks with a mushroom expert through an oak wood & with a miner through the Forest of Dean. Maitland ends each chapter with a unique imaginitive re-telling of a fairystory. Written with Saras wonderful clarity & conversational grace Gossip from the Forest is a magical & unique blend of nature writing history & imaginative fiction.
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As the early sunshine begins to warm Thrush Green it looks as if it is going to be a golden summer. But in this apparently sleepy village there is a flurry of activity. As Molly Curdle prepares for her new baby rumour has it that a retirement is planned & the village school teacher is about to make an important decision. & as Thrush Greens vicar sits down to write his sermon he has no idea of the potential disaster which is unfolding... All is not as idyllic as it seems for the unsuspecting villagers for change is never far away. ...

' Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side where my friends & I live & go to school & play & sleep
- sometimes with each other.
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Welcome to New York Citys Upper East Side where my friends & I live & go to school & play & sleep
- sometimes with each other.
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Welcome to New York Citys Upper East Side where my friends & I all live in huge fabulous apartments & go to exclusive private schools. We arent always the nicest people in the world but we make up for it in looks & taste. The Gossip Girl series is the ultimate in glamour & cool. Set in New Yorks glamorous Upper East Side the narrative follows the thrills & spills of its richest & most beautiful teenage residents (with Jimmy Choo shoes & shopping at Barneys mixed in along the way). In this second novel they are interviewing for college (Ivy League only naturally). ...

A breakout success & a New York Times" bestseller in hardcover " Got Fight?" is the uproarious & out of control book from Forrest Griffin one of the most outrageous personalities in the Ultimate Fight Championship (UFC). The former light heavyweight champ of the UFC Forrest is one of the UFC's biggest stars in mixed martials arts the fastest-growing sport in the world. Now in " Got Fight?" the man who's been called 'the most popular fighter in the UFC' offers personal stories from inside & outside the Octagon to give readers a glimpse into the mind of a mixed martial artist & illustrate his 50 principles of being a fighter with topics ranging from mentally preparing before a professional fight to kicking it into high gear when your ring is the street. Mixing his fighting tips with his own booming personality & his trademark sense of humour Forrest creates his own unique self-depricating version of self-help. In these pages you will learn about true mental toughness
- whether it's scraping it out in the Octagon or picking up chicks."
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Got You Back" is the brilliantly witty novel from Jane Fallon author of " Getting Rid of Matthew". A husb&. A wife. A mistress. & the ultimate plan for revenge... The husband James never intended to lead a double life
- with a wife in London & a mistress in the country it's exhausting. But that's all about to change... The wife Stephanie isn't really snooping when she finds a text message from a strange woman on her husband's mobile. But now she's found it how can she ignore it? It's time to track the woman down & find out what's going on... The mistress Katie has no reason to believe her boyfriend James is cheating until someone claiming to be his wife gets in touch. Now she's been cast in the role of mistress. Not one she's happy with... Once Stephanie & Katie know about each other they must decide what to do. They could both just throw him out or they could join forces to make his life hell first... But revenge isn't always sweet. & what happens when one woman thinks enough is enough but the other doesn't know when to stop? The bestselling author of R&J selection " Getting Rid of Matthew" returns with a hilarious novel about relationships. Praise for Jane Fallon: " Intelligent edgy & witty". (" Glamour"). "A brilliant & original tale". (" Sun"). " Chick lit with an edge". (" Guardian"). Jane Fallon is the multi-award-winning television producer behind shows such as " This Life" " Teachers" & "20 Things to Do before You're 30". Her novels are " Getting Rid of Matthew" " Foursome" " Got You Back" & " The Ugly Sister"."
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GOTCHA GADGETS teaches children the basics of electronics while playing tricks on family & friends. With this book kids can build a door alarm a motion detector a light sensor & a push button sound machine. Then use them to set a snoopy sibling trap wire the biscuit jar play audio limbo confuse the cat & more.

Includes:: four build-it-yourself electronic gadgets & four hilarious sounds. Putting science & electronics in the service of immaturity.

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Written by ED BRUBAKER & GREG RUCKA Art & cover by MICHAEL LARK The first ten issues of the Eisner & Harvey Award-winning series are collected in softcover for the first time! Written by Ed Brubaker (Captain America) & Greg Rucka (DETECTIVE COMICS 52) this series pits the detectives of Gotham City's Special Crimes Unit against the city's greatest villains
- in the shadow of Batman himself. On sale MARCH 9
- 240 pg FC

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The sixty photographs contained in this book were taken over the course of more than a decade by Luca Campigotto in New York. They are primarily images borrowed from movies & comic books visions of the city at night. A Gotham City reconstructed from memory often infused with a glassy light & an atmosphere at times glowing with vivid colors other times wrapped in muted hues. A sentimental journey in the Big Apple of our imagination
- from the East River bridges to the Empire State Building from the Guggeheneim Museum to Canal Street from Times Square to the old docks of Brooklyn each image looking like the backdrop for scene in a movie.
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