Stanley Lambchop is an ordinary boy with an extraordinary problem. One night a giant pinboard falls on top of him leaving him completely flat. At first Stanley enjoys the benefits of his strange predicament
- it can be fun going in out of rooms simply by sliding under the door. & it's a hoot being posted to your friends in California for a holiday. But it's not always easy being different & once the novelty begins to wear off Stanley wishes he could be just like everybody else again. But how will he ever fill out?
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This is a thrilling lights-flashing siren-whirring story about everyones favourite flat boy! Stanley & his brother Arthur have won a trip to visit the local fire station! But its not quite as exciting as theyd hoped. Where is the sliding down the pole? Where are the sirens & flashing lights? Then all of a sudden theres a Code Nine call & the whole Lambchop family are whizzing off to the rescue in a fire engine. ...

This is a funny spooky story about everyones favourite flat boy! Stanley & his brother Arthur are going to their schools Halloween party. They dress up in costumes & Stanley is particularly looking forward to the limbo competition. Theyre rather disappointed by the haunted house though
- its really not very scary. But when they see a bully upsetting their friend Martin they decide to teach him a lesson
- by being very scary indeed.

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The six classic Flat Stanley stories in one big bind-up collection! Flat Stanley Amazing things can happen when you're flat! Invisible Stanley Stanley is not flat but he is invisible.. . Stanley in Space The President of the United States chooses Stanley to go aboard a new top-secret spaceship. Stanley & the Magic Lamp Stanley finds a real genie inside his mother's teapot. Stanley's Christmas Adventure Someone has to save Christmas
- & if anyone can it's Stanley! Stanley Flat Again Stanley is back & he's flat
- again!

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A fresh new look for the one-&-only 2D hero! Stanley in Space The President of the United States chooses Stanley & his family to become the first humans aboard a new top-secret spaceship. Stanley will meet the Queen of England have his birthday in outer space & face a city full of aliens! ...

Depressed by her expanding waistline Kate Adams set out to lose weight
- & keep it off for good. Six months later & over two stone
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Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius Gustave Flaubert. As Geoffrey investigates the mystery of the stuffed parrot Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Rouen to help research one of his novels we learn an enormous amount about the writers work family lovers thought processes health & obsessions. But we also gradually come to learn some important & shocking details about Geoffrey himself. ...

Ever wondered why one flavour works with another? Or lacked inspiration for what to do with a bundle of beetroot? The Flavour Thesaurus is the first book to examine what goes with what pair by pair. The book is divided into flavour themes including Meaty Cheesy Woodland & Floral Fruity. Within these sections it follows the form of Roget's Thesaurus listing 99 popular ingredients alphabetically & for each one suggesting flavour matchings that range from the classic to the bizarre. You can expect to find traditional pairings such as pork & apple lamb & apricot & cucumber & dill; contemporary favourites like chocolate & chilli & goat's cheese & beetroot; & interesting but unlikely-sounding couples including black pudding & chocolate lemon & beef blueberry & mushroom & watermelon & oyster. There are nearly a thousand entries in all with 200 recipes & suggestions embedded in the text. Beautifully packaged The Flavour Thesaurus is not only a highly useful & covetable reference book for cooking
- it might keep you up at night reading.
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In the exclusive town of Rosewood Pennsylvania where the sweetest smiles hide the darkest secrets four pretty little liars
- Spencer
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Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Elif Shafaks The Flea Palace" is a moving & highly original novel about a group of individuals who live in the same building & who together become embroiled in a mystery. By turns comic & tragic " The Flea Palace" is an outstandingly original novel driven by an overriding sense of social justice. Bonbon Palace was once a stately apartment block in Istanbul. Now it is a sadly dilapidated home to ten wildly different individuals & their families. Theres a womanizing hard-drinking academic with a penchant for philosophy; a clean freak & her lice-ridden daughter; a lapsed Jew in search of true love; & a charmingly naive mistress whose shadowy past lurks in the building. When the rubbish at Bonbon Palace is stolen a mysterious sequence of events unfolds that result in a soul-searching quest for truth. " Picaresque". (" Guardian"). " Hyperactive & hilarious". (" Independent"). Elif Shafak has emerged as one of the most distinctive voices in both English & Turkish contemporary literature; her novels " The Bastard of Istanbul" " The Forty Rules of Love" " The Gaze" & " Honour" are consistently at the top of bestseller lists across the globe. Elif Shafaks examination of national identity " The Happiness of Blond People" is available as part of the " Penguin Specials" series
- a digital only series of shorts designed with commuters in mind."
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