William & Thomas are off on their madcap adventures around the village of Little Hardleigh once again. More than once Williams ghostly skills help to solve some heinous crime or puzzling mystery. Be it Secret Messages Hidden Paintings or Runaway Hot-Air Balloons the pair are always on the case with an ink-stained notebook & a fresh jar of ginger nuts to h&. & theres even a little sprinkling of Movie Magic coming to Hardleigh Hall! Loaded with clue summaries suspect lists & lots of action readers can help William & Thomas in their efforts to become great detectives ...

Written by Alan Moore Art & cover by Dave Gibbons DC Comics presents this special edition of the WATCHMEN TP complete with re-colored cover art by artist extraordinaire Dave Gibbons. Created especially for the international market this edition is also available to retailers in the U.S. & Canada exclusively through Diamond. One of the most influential graphic novels of all time & a perennial bestseller WATCHMEN has only grown in stature since its original publication. Along with the new cover this volume features the high-quality recolored pages from WATCHMEN: THE ABSOLUTE EDITION restored by Wild Storm FX & original series colorist John Higgins. It all begins with the paranoid delusions of a half-insane hero called Rorschach. But is Rorschach really insane or has he in fact uncovered a plot to murder super-heroes & even worse millions of innocent civilians? On the run from the law Rorschach reunites with his former teammates in a desperate attempt to save the world & their lives but what they uncover will shock them to their very core & change the face of the planet! Following two generations of masked superheroes from the close of World War II to the icy shadow of the Cold War comes this groundbreaking comic story
- the story of The Watchmen. Retailers: Please see this month's Previews order form for information on the WATCHMEN FLOOR DISPLAY. On sale December 3
- 334 pg FC $19.99 US

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The last in a long line of women sworn to guard our world against evil jeweller Garet James is struggling to come to terms with who
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I know about water! It's wet I drink it & have a bath in it. But where does my tap water come from & why does the sea taste salty? Learning about water is introduced from a starting point that your child will already know encouraging them to find out about their daily life & the world around them. Eyeknow" books have a surprise on every page; packed with eye-catching photography & lift-the-flap novelties to aid learning. Your child will love to get involved with the activities & as they flip the flaps & fold out the pages they'll find out all about water." ...

This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baths inscription with UNESCO as a World Heritage site. It is recognised for a number of Outstanding Universal Values (OUVs) including its extensive Roman remains its Georgian town planning that is documented as a masterpiece of human creative genius its landscape setting & the location of the only naturally occurring hot springs in the country. This exciting new book will focus on twenty-five locations throughout the city that have been identified as embodying elements of these OUVs & will be richly illustrated throughout with historical images from the archives of Bath in Time. The book will set out to interpret & identify the uniqueness that is Bath & will serve as a valuable guide to anyone wanting to explore the city & uncover the fascinating stories behind each location. ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics. ' In fact the fairies had turned him into a water-baby. A water-baby? You never heard of a water-baby. Perhaps not. That is the very reason why this story was written.' Poor Tom is an orphan employed by the underhand Grimes as a chimney sweep. While cleaning a chimney one day Tom becomes lost & appears in Ellie's bedroom. She mistakes him for a thief & he flees in fright down to the edge of a stream where he falls asleep. In his dreamlike world he becomes a water baby swimming with the other water babies & discovering an aquatic playground full of strange & wonderful characters. ...

Bernard Cribbins reads Charles Kingsley's much-loved tale about a little chimney-sweep who is turned into a water baby. Tom the chimney-sweep has a hard life. He is beaten by his master the cruel Mr Grimes & forced to climb up dark flues where he bruises his knees & elbows & gets soot in his eyes. He is always hungry for there is never enough to eat & always dirty as there is nowhere for him to wash. One day he is so tired from sweeping flues that he comes down the wrong chimney & lands in the bedroom of a beautiful young girl where he is mistaken for a thief & runs away. He falls asleep near a river
- & when he wakes up the fairies have transformed him into a water-baby. He loves his new life swimming in the stream & having adventures but he has no one to play with. So he sets off on a journey to the sea to find the other water babies...
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For Lev Prakenskii the last thing he remembers is being lost in the swirling currents of the ocean & sucked deeper into the nothingness of a freezing black eddy off the coastal town of Sea Haven. Just as quickly just as miraculously he was saved
- pulled ashore by a beautiful stranger
- but Lev has no memory of who he was
- or why he seems to possess the violent instincts of a trained killer. All he knows is that he fears for his life & the life of his unexpected saviour. Her name is Rikki a sea-urchin diver in the small town of Sea Haven. She always felt an affinity for the ocean & the seductive pull of the tides
- & now for the enigmatic man she rescued. But soon they will be bound by something even stronger
- each others tantalising secrets that will engulf them both in a whirlpool of dizzying passion & inescapable danger.




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When Jacob Jankowski recently orphaned & suddenly adrift jumps onto a passing train he enters a world of freaks grifters & misfits the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth a second-rate travelling circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression making one-night stands in town after endless town. Jacob a veterinary student who almost earned his degree is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there that he meets Marlena the beautiful young star of the equestrian act who is married to August the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her. Water for Elephants is illuminated by a wonderful sense of time & place. It tells a story of a love between two people that overcomes incredible odds in a world in which even love is a luxury that few can afford. Water for Elephants was a major movie starring Robert Pattinson & Reese Witherspoon. ...

A reference for all water gardeners whether amateur or professional. From building a wall fountain or installing a pond to replanting a stream it features technical advice & drawings steering the reader around the pitfalls. Areas covered include: designing a full range of water features including fountains ponds bog gardens streams & leisure pools; preparing the site whether flat sloping wet or dry on sand or on rock; construction methods & materials; special effects with lighting stepping stones & islands; safety & maintenance measures; stocking a pond with fish & attracting wildlife; planting techniques; & a full catalogue of floating emergent & marginal plants marsh & water-loving plants as well as waterside trees & shrubs. ...