Douglas R Hofstadter's long-awaited return to the themes of Godel Escher Bach
- an original & controversial view of the nature
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A Bengal tiger wakes up one morning realising he is ravenously in love. A pompous railway supervisor in a small Indian village bites off more than he can chew when a peculiar new clerk arrives on his doorstep. In another place & in another time a secret agent who spends her days watching the front door of an unknown quarry discovers something she isnt meant to. An immigrant housewife in an American suburb geeing up for Thanksgiving makes a wish she may come to regret. & a small & famous countrys only executioner claims his conscience is as clean as his heavy washed stones. With this glittering savage & elegant first collection where reality loops in mind-bending twists & dazzles with cinematic exuberance where frayed photographs take on a life of their own & where elephants wish only to die with dignity Rajesh Parameswaran bursts onto the literary landscape as an astonishing new talent. ...

A cat sleeps curled up in a warm place & while it sleeps it dreams...of being a tiger flame cat of the forest; a cheetah
- fast
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I Am Cute Dresses offers 25 adorable sewn dress designs that are deceivingly simple to make & fun to wear. Start sewing simple & adorable dresses that youll love to wear. Sato Watanabe has designed each dress to maximize simplicity & style offering charm without complicated alterations or difficult tailoring. Theres no need for patterns with I Am Cute Dresses. Each of the 25 designs is created by following a construction layout with the measurements provided. No complicated pattern pieces & cutting instructions. Every one of these easy loose & effortless dresses is created from basic one-size fits-most shapes that are designed to be flattering on everyone. Any custom alterations you choose to make are made easy just by adding in your one of your own body measurements to the garment layout. Height adjustments are also made easy by simply raising or dropping your hemline. I Am Cute Dresses will have you spending less time fussing over the fit & more time enjoying your new sewn dress. ...

The story of a young boy's journey through Europe after escaping from the camp where he had lived all his life. Sea mountains & flowers the colours of Italy the taste of fruit people laughing & smiling all are new to David. & David learns that his polite manner his haunted eyes & his thin features are strange to other people. ...

Sisters Atara & Mila were born at the onset of the Second World War into a deeply insular ultra-orthodox Jewish sect. As the girls grow up Mila finds she is content to live within the constraints & familiarity of the world shes always known but Atara is consumed by questions
- about arranged marriage the education of girls the circumstances surrounding the escape of the sects leader during the war. Finally forced apart by the rules of the community the two women are brought together again when a family secret threatens to make pariahs of them all. I Am Forbidden is a powerful portrayal of sisters family faith & history which sweeps the reader from pre-war Transylvania to present-day New York via Paris & Engl&. Immersive beautiful moving it exposes in devastating detail what happens when unwavering love unyielding law & centuries of tradition collide.
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I Am Forbidden" is a powerful portrayal of family faith & history which sweeps the reader across continents & generations from pre-war Transylvania to present-day New York via Paris & Engl&. Immersive beautiful moving it explores in devastating detail what happens when unwavering love unyielding law & centuries of tradition collide." ...

A street shooting which leaves a mother & child dead on the school run. But was this a random act of violence? Unlikely when it transpires the victims were the wife & son of well known drugs baron Mansel Shale. Having committed this atrocity the gunman flees to a charity shop where very soon a hostage situation develops & Harpur & Iles are brought in to oversee the siege
- which ends in sudden action & tragedy. But as subsequent events unfold it appears the gunman was on target; he wasnt after Shale after all but his wife
- who was certainly not what all had assumed her to be...

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All is not well at Buckshaw home of Flavia de Luce... With the family finances in a parlous state Flavias father has with deep misgivings rented Buckshaw to a film company for a location shooting. Naturally enough director crew & stars do nothing to endear themselves to the household
- especially the servants
- until when a heavy snowfall cuts off Bishops Lacey from the rest of the world the actors are talked into staging a benefit performance in the parish hall. But old jealousies surface & the leading lady is murdered. Flavia who has been enlisted to help out behind the scenes finds herself up to her knees in snow
- & murder!


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These are one of a series of delightfully humorous award-winning tales for beginner readers from an internationally acclaimed author-illustrator. Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald & Piggie are best friends. In I am Invited to a Party!" Piggie is invited to her first party. But what will she wear? It is a vibrant new edition with bright colours that will appeal to young readers. It is told entirely in speech bubbles with a repetitive use of familiar phrases this highly original book is perfect for children just learning to read. It is a Theodor Seuss Geisel Award-winning series for the most distinguished books for beginner readers." ...