Tracy Mackness has always had a flair for business
- if not all of it legal. She started work as a youngster on her dad's fruit
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Three years ago a mysterious package arrived for Jake & Kady Ransom. Inside were two halves of a Mayan gold coin their mothers sketchbook & their fathers notebook. But their architect parents failed to return from an expedition to the site of a long-lost Mayan civilization. Now Jake & Kady are plunged into a terrifying adventure. Someone is very interested in whats happened to their parents. & in Jake & Kady themselves. So begins a journey into a world of dangers both ancient & modern. Can Jake & Kady survive long enough to solve the mystery? ...

' It's good that I've found this secret place. I can come here & make plans. My main plan for the future is my dream house. It's very tall & thin. A tower really. There'll be a lift to whiz me up to the top. No one can get to me up there. It's totally safe.' In real life Jake is never safe. He lives in constant fear of his mother's violent boyfriend. But in his imaginary tower he can dream up his own father
- the stranger who gave him a cuddle & a fluffy duck the day he was born & went away for ever. Jake doesn't believe dreams ever come true. But sometimes they do
- in strange & surprising ways.

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Featuring both classic & innovative recipes for every kind of jam jelly preserve & marmalade imaginable The Jam & Marmalade Bible" is the only cookbook of its kind youll ever need. Author Jan Hedh begins with a comprehensive section on the basics of how to make jams & marmalades including history techniques equipment & troubleshooting. From there he moves on to the detailed & delicious recipes from classics like strawberry blueberry & blackberry to more exotic additions like kiwis & mangoes & even some savory vegetable preserves like pumpkin. There is also a chapter of pastry recipes & cheeses to pair with different jams & preserves. " The Jam & Marmalade Bible" is great for both beginning & expert jam-makers & is lavishly illustrated with 200 color photographs." ...

These guitar workshops are powerful learning tools that will help extend your stockpile of licks & fills & help develop your improvisational skills. Features play-along songs in standard notation & tab & on the CD with & without guitar parts. Titles are: Cold Day in Hell * Empty Rooms * The Loner * Oh Pretty Woman * Parisienne Walkways * Still Got the Blues * Story of the Blues * Walking by Myself. ...

On a bitter November evening young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honour of her mother's dying request. When she arrives the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her memory for her aunt Patience cowers before hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn. Terrified of the inn's brooding power Mary gradually finds herself ensnared in the dark schemes being enacted behind its crumbling walls -- & tempted to love a man she dares not trust. ...

The Second World War was the WIs finest hour. The whole of its previous history
- two decades of educating entertaining & supporting
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The hugely popular story of James & his journey to New York with the strangest group of insect friends. Great new Quentin Blake cover & new author biography. Roald Dahl the best-loved of childrens writers was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. His books continue to be bestsellers despite his death in 1990 & worldwide sales are over 100 million! Quentin Blake is one of the best-known & best-loved childrens illustrators & its impossible now to think of Roald Dahls writings without imagining Quentin Blakes illustrations. ...

James & the Giant Peach" is a favourite tale of the most marvelous adventure by Roald Dahl. Now with Quentin Blake's illustrious illustrations in magnificent full colour! An enormous escaped rhinoceros from London Zoo has eaten James' parents. & it gets worse! James is packed off to live with his two really horrible aunts Sponge & Spiker. Poor James is miserable until something peculiar happens & James finds himself on the most wonderful & extraordinary journey he could ever imagine..."A true genius... Roald Dahl is my hero." (David Walliams). With an exciting look into Roald Dahl's world. Roald Dahl the best-loved of children's writers was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after "a monumental bash on the head" sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990. Quentin Blake is one of the best-known & best-loved children's illustrators & it's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations." ...

Join James as he escapes from his horrible aunts & sets off inside the peach on his wonderful adventures. This dramatization of Roald Dahls hugely popular book can be staged in school acted out at home or simply read together by a group of friends. With suggestions for staging props & lighting. Roald Dahl died in 1990 but his books continue to be worldwide bestsellers. Richard George was an American elementary school teacher when he adapted James & the Giant Peach as a school play. Roald Dahl loved it & wrote an introduction. ...