The first book in his award-winning Rabbit" series John Updike's " Rabbit Run" contains an afterword by the author in " Penguin Modern Classics". It's 1959 & Harry ' Rabbit' Angstrom one time high school sports superstar is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence
- stuck with a fragile alcoholic wife a house full of overflowing ashtrays & discarded glasses a young son & a futile job. With no way to fix things he resolves to flee from his family & his home in Pennsylvania beginning a thous&-mile journey that he hopes will free him from his mediocre life. Because as he knows only too well 'after you've been first-rate at something no matter what it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate'. John Updike (1932-2009) was born in Shillington Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 & spent a year at Oxford England at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of staff at " The New Yorker". Updike was the author of twenty-one novels as well as numerous collections of short stories poems & criticism & is one of only three authors to win more than one Pulitzer Prize. His most famous works are the Harry ' Rabbit' Angstrom series all of which are published in " Penguin Modern Classics": " Rabbit Run" (1960) " Rabbit Redux" (1971) " Rabbit is Rich" (1981) & " Rabbit at Rest" (1990). If you enjoyed " Rabbit Run" you might like Don De Lillo's " Americana" also available in " Penguin Modern Classics". " It is sexy in bad taste violent & basically cynical. & good luck to it". (Angus Wilson " Observer"). " That special polish that brilliance; Updike is among the best". (Malcolm Bradbury). " Brilliant & poignant... By his compassion clarity of insight & crystal-bright rose [ Updike] makes Rabbit's sorrow his & our own". (" Washington Post")."
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Hop along to Fibonacci's Field & follow Lonely & Chalk Rabbit through a calendar year as they try to handle different seasonal challenges each month from the freezing cold of February to the wet of April & the heat of July all while coping with their rapidly expanding brood. This extraordinary book is packed with funny details & novelty elements including a baby rabbit record book a rabbit newspaper & a surprise pop-up ending. ...

Its 1969 & the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon the Vietnamese war is in full swing & racial tension is on the rise. Things just arent as simple as they used to be
- at least not for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife has left him with his teenage son his job is under threat & his mother is dying. Suddenly into his confused life
- & home
- comes Jill an eighteen-year-old runaway who becomes his lover. But when she invites her friend to stay a young black radical named Skeeter the pairs fragile harmony soon begins to fail.


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This is a wonderful new series for 5-7 year olds about magical teddies talking toys & terrific adventure from working Partners the team that created the best-selling Rainbow Magic" " Beast Quest" & " Animal Ark". " The Rabbit Rescue": Willow is very excited when Clemmie comes to stay in Summertown. Shes got her own pretty bunny rabbit called Smooches. But naughty Croc is trying to steal Smooches magical pocket heart. Can Willow & her Hoozle friends come to the rescue in time?" ...

Born on a Somerset pea-field in 1941 the second of eight children in a Romani family Maggie Smith-Bendell has lived through the years of greatest change in the travelling communitys long history. As a child Maggie rode & slept in a horse-drawn wagon picked hops & flowers & sat beside her fathers campfire on ancient verges poor but free to roam. As the twentieth century progressed common land was fenced off & the traditional ways disappeared. Eventually Maggie married a house-dweller & tried to settle for bricks & mortar but she never lost the restless spirit the deep love of the land & the gift for storytelling that were her Romani inheritance. Maggies story is one of hardship & prejudice but also unforgettably it recalls the glories of the travelling life in the absolute safety of a loyal & loving family. ...

Rabbit enjoys doing rabbity things but he also loves un-rabbity things! When Rabbit suddenly disappears no one knows where he has gone. His friends are desolate. But as it turns out Rabbit has left behind some very special gifts for them to help them discover their own unrabbity talents! This is a stunning debut picture book by author/illustrator Jo Empson. Rabbityness celebrates individuality encourages the creativity in everyone & positively introduces children to dealing with loss of any kind. ...

Dogs now dominate the $55-billion-a-year pet business in the US. Dog products dog services dog admiration
- okay lets call it dog
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From the award-winning author of the Spy Dog series comes a wildly funny tale in Harper Collins Awesome Animals series
- the funniest
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From the award-winning author of the Spy Dog series comes a wildly funny tale in Harper Collins Awesome Animals series
- the funniest
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The Race is the fourth turn of the century thriller by Clive Cussler. 1910 & America's first ever cross-country flying race has been sabotaged... Newspaper magnate Preston Whiteway is offering a big prize for the first aviator to cross America in under fifty days. He wants Josephine Frost
- the country's leading as well as most glamorous pilot
- to win. Which is why he's hired Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency. Josephine saw her husband Harry Frost kill a man. Now he wants her dead. & with underworld contacts ready to help in every city en route he'll do anything go after anyone who gets in his way
- including Whiteway & Bell. Packed with brilliant twists & turns The Race sees the intrepid Private Investigator locked in a deadly cat-&-mouse game with a killer whose resources are matched only by his willingness to cause mayhem during the race of a lifetime... Clive Cussler's The Race is the international bestselling author's follow up to The Spy & The Wrecker the first two novels in the Isaac Bell series. The Race is a nerve-shredding historical thriller set at the dawn of flight. Praise for Clive Cussler: Frightening & full of suspense.. .unquestionably entertaining". (Daily Express). " All-action narrow escapes & the kind of unrelenting plot tension that has won Cussler hundreds of millions of fans worldwide". (Observer). Clive Cussler is the author or co-author of a great number of international bestsellers including the famous Dirk Pitt[registered] adventures such as Crescent Dawn; the NUMA[registered] Files adventures the Oregon Files such as The Jungle; & the Isaac Bell historical thrillers which began with The Chase. He lives in Arizona. Justin Scott's twenty six novels include The Shipkiller & Normandie Triangle; the Ben Abbot detective series; & five modern sea thrillers published under his pen name Paul Garrison. He lives in Connecticut with his wife the filmmaker Amber Edwards."


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