The second book in the delightful BARTON-IN-THE-DALE series which began with THE LITTLE VILLAGE SCHOOL. Elisabeth Devine certainly rocked the boat when she arrived in Barton-in-the-Dale to take over as head teacher of the little primary school. Now it's a new term & after winning over the wary locals she can finally settle in to her role. Or so she thinks.. . For the school is hit by a br&-new bombshell: it's to be merged with its arch rival & Elisabeth has to fight for the headship with Urebank's ruthless & calculating headmaster. She has her work cut out for her. But add in some gossip & a helping of scandal not to mention various newcomers bringing good things & bad to Barton & that's not the only trouble that's brewing in the village. ...

Martha was the youngest of sixteen handpicked reporters who filed accurate confidential reports on the human stories behind the statistics of the Depression directly to Roosevelts White House. From these pages we understand the real cost of sudden destitution on a vast scale. We taste the dust in the mouth smell the disease & feel the hopelessness & the despair. & here too we can hear the earliest cadences of a writer who went on to become arguably the greatest female war reporter of the 20th century. ...

Taking advantage of recent tourist interest the residents of Prior's Ford plan a summer festival. But someone is determined to sabotage the event & it takes all the villagers' detective skills to stop the vandals in their tracks. Meanwhile at Tarbethill Farm things are going from bad to worse. In dire financial straits Victor the eldest son is tempted by a developer's offer on their l&. But if his father finds out it promises to tear their family apart. & at the big house Lewis remains absolutely besotted by his baby daughter while his family still secretly wonder if she really is his. & as Molly starts to take advantage of Lewis' good nature can Ginny bear to keep silent about her feelings for him? ...

When the people of Turnham Malpas realise that all is not as it should be between Peter the rector & his wife Caroline the smooth running of the village falters. Then the appointment of a new verger causes trouble when events from his past return to haunt him bringing violence & danger to the peace of the village. & there are the strange goings-on in the church at night one of the villagers houses is ransacked; a couple is beaten up... But troubles in Turnham Malpas are put to rest as Bonfire Night at the Big House arrives & the celebrations unite the village once again. ...

Bliss! A lovely quiet nothing-to-do & nothing-on-the-calendar Sunday... Well thats until bossy Aunt Susan
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Malcolm Thomas is not happy. The view he loves is about to be blocked by an ugly building. He decides to take action & forms a protest group. Then things go wrong & Malcolm finds himself running for his life. Along the way he gets mixed up with depressed town planners violent gangsters & a kidnapped concert pianist. Malcolm starts to wonder if objecting to the building was such a good idea when he finds himself upside down with a gun in his mouth. This hilarious story from Monty Python star Terry Jones will make you laugh out loud. ...

and Brooks combine satirical bite with impeccable research to explain that ever-increasing income inequality is the product of a global legal & economic system that has been rigged by the wealthiest. With disastrous consequences for the rest of us from wild financial speculation to failing health it is time for society to fight back. Arguing that instead of austerity"
- a strategy the authors decry as a flawed effort to shore up a failing economic paradigm
- we should tackle tax havens executive pay levels patent law & lax regulation this incisive but lively polemic is a clarion call to arms which points to a simple solution worth fighting for: tax the rich they deserve it!"

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This is a comic canine conundrum from Australias leading picture book maker. Brought home from the rescue centre Dave is small & sparky & gets all excited. To Kate hes everything a pup should be. The trouble is he sometimes gets too excited. He jumps uninvited onto guests laps runs down the middle of flowerbeds & chews holes in the tights of Kates schoolfriends. We need help! Mum decides. But will the man from Pup Breakers really have the answers? This is a sequel to Lets Get a Pup" (9781406308518) which won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award 2002 & was shortlisted for the 2001 Kate Greenaway Medal the 2002 Sheffield Childrens Book Award & the 2002 Norfolk Childrens Book Award." ...

When Keith gets a new foster brother hes not too happy about it. But when this boy wont talk to him Keith realizes that things are going to be much harder than he originally thought. & its not just Keith who Donovan wont speak to
- he wont speak to anybody at all. The other kids at school take Donovans silence to be a sign of a bad attitude & start to bully him. Keith knows he has to stick up for him but that means the bullies are just going to pick on him too.. .
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The Trouble with Physics" is a groundbreaking account of the state of modern physics: of how we got from Einstein & Relativity through quantum mechanics to the strange & bizarre predictions of string theory full of unseen

Dimensions & multiple universes. Lee Smolin not only provides a brilliant laymans overview of current research as we attempt to build a theory of everything but also questions many of the assumptions that lie behind string theory. In doing so he describes some of the daring outlandish ideas that will propel research in years to come."

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