Annie Heesakkers is an experienced embroiderer & has been embroidering her own greetings cards for several years. She & Nico now design templates of their own & they have a host of fans all over the world. Here they combine their latest designs with decoupage techniques to create cards based on stylish floral & abstract designs. Embroidery patterns are included for all of the cards along with detailed easy-to-follow instructions & lists of the materials you need. ...

They were taken from their beds one frozen night when the world was covered in snow. The silhouette of a tall thin man has haunted Kate ever since. Ten years on Kate Michael & Emma have grown up in a string of miserable orphanages & all memories of their parents have faded to a blur. Arriving at Cambridge Falls the children quickly realise there is something different about this place
- & Kate feels sure she has seen the dark crooked house before. As they explore they discover an old empty leather book. The moment they touch it an ancient magical prophecy is set irrevocably in motion & the children are thrown into a dangerous alternate reality of dark enchantments & terrifying monsters. Only they can prevent the terrible event that will ruin Cambridge Falls
- & stop the world from falling into complete devastation.

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This is the first thrilling book in the most exciting children's fantasy series since Harry Potter. They were taken from their beds one frozen night when the world was covered in snow. The silhouette of a tall thin man has haunted Kate ever since. Ten years on Kate Michael & Emma have grown up in a string of miserable orphanages & all memories of their parents have faded to a blur. Arriving at Cambridge Falls the children quickly realise there is something different about this place
- & Kate feels sure she has seen the dark crooked house before. As they explore they discover an old empty leather book. The moment they touch it an ancient magical prophecy is set irrevocably in motion & the children are thrown into a dangerous alternate reality of dark enchantments & terrifying monsters. Only they can prevent the terrible event that will ruin Cambridge Falls
- & stop the world from falling into complete devastation.

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These eleven masterful stories
- the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan
- deal with loneliness & longing regret

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Plants have profoundly moulded the Earths climate & the evolutionary trajectory of life. Far from being silent witnesses to the passage of time plants are dynamic components of our world shaping the environment throughout history as much as that environment has shaped them. In The Emerald Planet David Beerling puts plants centre stage revealing the crucial role they have played in driving global changes in the environment in recording hidden facets of Earths history & in helping us to predict its future. His account draws together evidence from fossil plants from experiments with their living counterparts & from computer models of the Earth System to illuminate the history of our planet & its biodiversity. This new approach reveals how plummeting carbon dioxide levels removed a barrier to the evolution of the leaf; how plants played a starring role in pushing oxygen levels upwards allowing spectacular giant insects to thrive in the Carboniferous; & it strengthens fascinating & contentious fossil evidence for an ancient hole in the ozone layer. Along the way Beerling introduces a lively cast of pioneering scientists from Victorian times onwards whose discoveries provided the crucial background to these & the other puzzles. This new understanding of our planets past sheds a sobering light on our own climate-changing activities & offers clues to what our climatic & ecological futures might look like. There could be no more important time to take a close look at plants & to understand the history of the world through the stories they tell. ...

This is a fantastic new adventure for brave feisty Hetty Feather
- one of Jacqueline Wilsons most well-loved characters. Since
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This is a fantastic new adventure for brave feisty Hetty Feather
- one of Jacqueline Wilson's most well-loved characters. Since
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This title is a fantastic new adventure for brave feisty Hetty Feather
- one of Jacqueline Wilson's most well-loved characters.
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Steven Johnson's Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants Brains Cities & Software" is a fascinating look at how self-organising systems are changing the world. Why do people cluster together in neighborhoods? How do internet communities spring up from nowhere? Why is a brain conscious even though no single neuron is? What causes a media frenzy? The answer as Steven Johnson's groundbreaking book shows is emergence: change that occurs from the bottom up. When enough individual elements interact & organize themselves the result is collective intelligence
- even though no-one is in charge. It is a phenomenon that exists at every level of experience & will revolutionize the way we see the world. " Exhilarating". (J.G. Ballard). "A dizzying dazzling romp through fields as disparate as urban planning computer-game design neurology & control theory". (" Economist"). " Mind-expanding.. .intelligent witty & tremendously thought-provoking... Popular science books interesting enough to read twice don't come along all that often". (" Guardian"). " Not just a fascinating quirk of science: it's the future". (" The New York Times"). Steven Johnson is the author of the acclaimed books " Everything Bad is Good for You" " Mind Wide Open" " Where Good Ideas Come From" " Emergence" & " Interface Culture". His writing appeared in the " Guardian" the " New Yorker" " Nation" & " Harper's" as well as the op-ed pages of " The New York Times" & the " Wall Street Journal". He is a Distinguished Writer In Residence at NYU's School Of Journalism & a Contributing Editor to " Wired"."
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Judy Taylor married the first man who asked her. She lives in the neighbourhood where she spent her uneventful childhood. She still has the same friends she first met in primary school. But everything she once knew is about to be turned upside down. Judy might be ready to start a new life in vibrant Edinburgh if shes prepared to accept what it means to change. First she has to ask herself if its ever too late to make up for lost time. The Emergence of Judy Taylor is a story about first loves & second chances. Its about love & life & sex & starlings. Its about Judy & Oliver & Paul & Fabiana & Rob & Min & Lily & Harry & a French siren called Isabella. ...