The Last Straw" is the rib-tickling belly-aching & laugh-out-loud third title in the bestselling & award-winning " Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series by Jeff Kinney. Perfect for both boys & girls of 8+ reluctant readers & all the millions of devoted Wimpy Kid fans out there. " The Last Straw" was also combined with " Dog Days" the fourth book in the series to become the major movie hit at the box-office " Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days". The third hilarious book in the bestselling phenomenon that is the " Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series. You know how you're supposed to come up with a list of "resolutions" at the beginning of the year to try to make yourself a better person? Well the problem is it's not easy for me to think of ways to improve myself because I'm pretty much one of the best people I know. But Greg's dad has other ideas. He wants Greg to change his wimpy ways toughen up & enlist in other 'manly' endeavours. & when he threatens to send Greg to military academy Greg realizes he has to shape up...or get shipped out. Praise for Jeff Kinney & the " Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series: " The world has gone crazy for Jeff Kinney's " Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series". (" Sun"). " Kinney is right up there with J K Rowling as one of the bestselling children's authors on the planet". (" Independent"). " Hilarious!". (" Sunday Telegraph"). " The most hotly anticipated children's book of the year is here
- " Diary of a Wimpy Kid". (" The Big Issue"). As well as being an international bestselling author Jeff Kinney is also an online developer & designer. He is the creator of the children's virtual world poptropica where you can also find the Wimpy Kid boardwalk. He was named one of " Time" magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2009. He lives with his family in Massachusetts USA."
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Fun-filled adventure for dinosaur fans! Max is back in Dinosaur Land to visit his friend Fern & solve another dinosaur dilemma. Fern's little cousin Joe has come to stay & just like Max he's dinosaur crazy! They're having lots of fun with the dinosaurs in the sanctuary but when Joe tries to help out everything goes wrong & he ends up lost in the wild. Can Max use his quick thinking to save the day? ...

Rook Barkwater lives in the network of sewer-chambers beneath Undertown the bustling main city of the Edgeworld. He dreams of becoming a librarian knight
- one of those sent out to explore the mysteries of their world. Somewhere out there lie the secrets of the past
- including the lost floating city of Sanctaphrax
- & maybe hope for a future free from the fear of tyranny. When his chance comes Rook grabs it! Breaking all the rules he sets out on a journey to the Free Glades & beyond. His luck & determination lead him from one peril to another until buried in the heart of the Deepwoods Rook encounters a mysterious character
- the last sky pirate
- & is thrust into a bold adventure that dares to challenge the might of the dread Guardians of the Night.




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It was the week before Thanksgiving when Kinsey Millhone first heard the sad story of the late Johnny Lee the World War II fighter pilot of whom rather mysteriously the military authorities have no record. His family are concerned -- perhaps Kinsey could make a few calls straighten things out? Then Johnny's apartment is ransacked. In the debris a hidden safe is uncovered -- & in that safe is a mysterious key marked LAWLESS. That night Kinsey's on a plane to Dallas at the start of a thrilling rollercoaster ride through Texas & Kentucky on the trail of long-buried treasure. Unfortunately there's a fire-raising psychopath on her tail.. . And she's going to be late for a very important wedding.. .' An alphabet of prime puzzles' Sunday Times ...

The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle LAssommoir (1877) is the story of a womans struggle for happiness in working-class Paris. It was a contemporary bestseller outraged conservative critics & launched a passionate debate about the legitimate scope of modern literature. At the centre of the novel stands Gervaise who starts her own laundry & for a time makes a success of it. But her husband Coupeau squanders her earnings in the Assommoir the local drinking shop & gradually the pair sink into poverty & squalor. LAssommoir is the most finely crafted of Zolas novels & this new translation captures not only the brutality but also the pathos of its characters lives. This book is a pwerful indictment of nineteenth-century social conditions & the introduction examines its relation to politics & art as well as its explosive effect on the literary scene. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

The woman was one of those irritating expat types who felt she owed it to the world to impart on her all her superior knowledge of life in France. I realised that if I didn't stop her now she'd be bending my ear all the way to Bergerac. ' Actually ' I said leaning in toward the woman 'I'm planning to integrate my way into the boxers of the first good-looking Frenchman I see. Can't think of any better way to learn the language myself. You wouldn't happen to know the French for fancy a shag?" would you? Voulez-vous coucher avec moi just seems a bit nineteen-seventies these days.' After one particularly bad day at work advertising executive & confirmed city girl Melanie Jones decides to give up her old life in search of something new & simpler in South West France. With little knowledge of the country even less of the language & just the memory of a disastrous school French exchange & a few day trips to Calais she embarks on her adventure with a suitcase full of optimism & not a little bit of naivety. After all how different can life in France be? After a series of adventures with skirt-ripping tractors handsome twin farmers celebrity not-quite-beens unusual toilets & a bonkers ex-pat community all topped up of course with lashings of rose Melanie begins to discover that her new life in France isn't quite what she'd thought it would be." ...

Lynne Reid Banks compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication a transgressive frisson still crackles from the pages
- The Guardian". Pregnant by accident kicked out of home by her father 27-year-old Jane Graham goes to ground in the sort of place she feels she deserves
- a bug-ridden boarding-house attic in Fulham. She thinks she wants to hide from the world but finds out that even at the bottom of the heap friends & love can still be found & self-respect is still worth fighting for."

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Follow the famed Neterus & the Neteru Guardian Team from the epic 12-novel Vampire Huntress Legend" series as they take the fight against evil beyond the Armageddon. In the Dawn & Darkness graphic novel (collecting the four-issue series) the team is still searching for the wounded Anti-Christ while trying to avoid the wrath of Lucifer. Complicating matters several members of the team are pregnant with the next generation of Warriors of Light & the darkness wants them & their unborn wiped off the face of the planet. To make matters worse a new predator is hunting humans
- something not wholly vampire or werewolf or like any demon they've ever encountered...and this time the predator is out for more than just blood."
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A reckoning has come to the City of Angels... Karen Garcia is missing & her father doesnt trust the cops
- he wants someone he
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Los Angeles is all about the sweet life: hot clubs cute guys designer... everything." Nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts cant wait to start living it up. She may be in L.A. for an internship but Jane plans to play as hard as she works & has enlisted her BFF Scarlett to join in the fun. When Jane & Scarlett are approached by a producer who wants them to be on his new series a "reality version of " Sex & the City "" they can hardly believe their luck. Their own show? Yes please! Soon Jane is TVs hottest star. Fame brings more than she ever imagined possible for a girl from Santa Barbara--free designer clothes the choicest tables at the most exclusive clubs invites to Hollywood premieres--and shes lapping up the VIP treatment with her eclectic entourage of new pals. But those same friends who are always up for a wild night are also out for a piece of Janes spotlight. In a city filled with people chasing after their dreams its not long before Jane wakes up to the reality that everyone wants something from her & nothing is what it seems to be. "L.A. Candy" is a deliciously entertaining novel about what its like to come of age in Hollywood while starring in a reality TV show written by a girl who has experienced it all firsthand: Lauren Conrad." ...