High jump champion Izumi Sano has realized that his slender new roommate Miyuki is a girl but hes decided to keep her secret so she doesnt get kicked out of their all-boys high school. Now theyre becoming good friends without worrying about guy" or "girl" stuff
- or so Miyuki thought until Izumi kissed her one night! Before Miyuki has time to freak out in steps a bigger problem: her American half-brother Shizuki whos not too thrilled to find out that his little sister is cross-dressing 24 hours a day. But handsome Shizuki has problems of his own..."
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Hancox is the Tudor hall house in rural Sussex where Charlotte Moore grew up & where she lives today. Its been in the family since her ancestor Milicent Ludlow young single & an orphan took it on in 1891 & began to enlarge the house & manage the farm. Hancox" tells the story of the house & the family over the following thirty years in the long run-up to the First World War. In one sense its a rural idyll: the arrival of the car disturbs this peaceful agrarian world but apart from that the rhythms of the countryside go on as they had for centuries before. But all was not quite as it seemed: Milicent made a distinguished marriage but her husband harboured a secret. Milicent herself gradually succumbed to religious fanaticism. & the death of the youngest boy at Ypres devastated the family bringing the idyll to a painful end. Using extraordinary archive material held at Hancox today Charlotte Moore weaves an Edwardian tale of madness & jealousy love & loss heroism & tragedy." ...

Hand Art" is about everything you can make with hand tracings: dragons frogs dogs aliens ducks cats monsters skunks peacocks turkeys & people. Since every creature needs essential details we included essential-detail-makers: googly eyes glue pompoms & crayons. The book itself is crammed with handfuls of inspiration & handy ideas developed by our staff of art experts." ...

Tristram Abberley was an acclaimed English poet of the 1930s whose legendary reputation was sealed when he died fighting for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Nearly fifty years later his sister Beatrix is brutally murdered in her seaside cottage. Her family are stunned by the crime
- especially Beatrix's niece Charlotte Ladram. But Charlotte has little time to mourn her aunt as fifty years of secrets begin to unravel. Beatrix is the victim of a dark conspiracy one that her loved ones are powerless to defeat. A harrowing quest for answers begins one that uncovers a shocking tale of wartime greed & treachery & a vendetta seemingly without end...
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In Cambridge 1355 the colleges of the fledgling university are as much at odds with each other as they are with the ordinary townfolk. This tension has recently been heightened by the return of two well-born murderers after receiving the Kings pardon showing no remorse but ready to confront those who helped convict them. & in the midst of this Bartholomew the physician is called to the local mill to examine two corpses. It is almost a relief to be able to turn his back on the fractious town but as always in Cambridge nothing is disconnected. ...

Winner of the 2010 Costa Novel Award THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE is a gorgeously written story of love & motherhood a tour de force from one of our best loved novelists When the sophisticated Innes Kent turns up on her doorstep Lexie Sinclair realises she cannot wait any longer for her life to begin & leaves for London. There at the heart of the 1950s Soho art scene she carves out a new life. In the present day Elina & Ted are reeling from the difficult birth of their first child. Elina struggles to reconcile the demands of motherhood with sense of herself as an artist & Ted is disturbed by memories of his own childhood that dont tally with his parents version of events. As Ted begins to search for answers an extraordinary portrait of two women is revealed separated by fifty years but connected in ways that neither could ever have expected. ...

THE SENSATIONAL NEW THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE PRINCESS OF BURUNDI Uppsala Sweden. Sven-Arne Persson suddenly walks out of a business meeting & disappears leaving behind his wife
- no trace is found of him. Inspector Ann Lindell is investigating the discovery of a dismembered foot washed up on the beach. Anns boss Berglund is delving into a cold case
- a man beaten to death
- an unsolved mystery that he finds impossible to forget. What connects the three? It will be a challenge for Ann Lindell to unravel the knots & discover what ties bind the cases together. Kjell Eriksson is the winner of two Crime Novel awards in Sweden & one of Scandinavias top selling authors. Translated by Let the Right One Ins Ebba Segerberg


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Are you ready for the Cob Cottage? This is a building method so old & so simple that it has been all but forgotten in the rush to synthetics. A cob cottage cobb however might be the ultimate expression of ecological design a structure so attuned to its surroundings that its creators refer to it as an ecstatic house." The authors build a house the way others create a natural garden. They use the oldest most available materials imaginable
- earth clay sand straw & water
- & blend them to redefine the future (and past) of building. Cob (the word comes from an Old English root meaning "lump") is a mixture of non-toxic recyclable & often free materials. Building with cob requires no forms no cement & no machinery of any kind. Builders actually sculpt their structures by h&. Building with earth is nothing new to America; the oldest structures on the continent were built with adobe bricks. Adobe however has been geographically limited to the Southwest. The limits of cob are defined only by the builder's imagination. Cob offers answers regarding our role in Nature family & society about why we feel the ways that we do about what's missing in our lives. Cob comes as a revelation a key to a saner world."

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Handa is searching for her grandmas black hen Mondi. Every morning she feeds Mondi her breakfast but this morning Mondi hasnt come for her food. So Handa & her friend Akeyo begin to hunt for Mondi. While searching they find all sorts of other animals. ...

Handa puts seven delicious fruits in a basket to take to her friend Akeyo. But as she walks carrying the basket on her head various creatures steal her fruits. A monkey takes the banana an ostrich the guava a zebra the orange an elephant the mango a giraffe the pineapple an antelope the avocado & a parrot the passion fruit. Handa walks on wondering which of the fruits her friend will like best oblivious to the fact that her basket is now empty. But then behind her a goat charges into a tangerine tree & fills Handa's basket with the fruit. Hello Akeyo " she greets her friend. "I've brought you a surprise." But when she lifts off her basket it's Handa who gets the biggest surprise. Akeyo meanwhile is delighted because tangerines are her favourite fruit! Eileen Browne also created " Through My Window" which was shortlisted for the Smarties Book Prize (1986) " No Problem" " Tick Tock" & " Where's my Bus?"." ...