Even when I was funny I wasn't this funny.' Augusten Burroughs author of Running With Scissors Have you ever embarrassed yourself so badly you thought you'd never get over it? Have you ever wished your family could be just like everyone else's? Have you ever been followed to school by your father's herd of turkeys mistaken a marriage proposal for an attempted murder or got your arm stuck inside a cow? OK maybe that's just Jenny Lawson.. . The bestselling memoir from one of America's most outlandishly hilarious writers. ...

The complete story & original illustrations from Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler's bestselling picture book THE GRUFFALO have been specially designed into an early reader format. Created with expert advice from a literacy consultant this new version is intended to help & encourage children who are growing in reading confidence. Step into the deep dark wood & discover what happens when a quick-thinking mouse comes face to face with a fox an owl a snake & a hungry gruffalo.. . ...

The complete story & original illustrations of TYRANNOSAURUS DRIP by Julia Donaldson & David Roberts have been specially designed into an early reader format. Created with expert advice from a literacy consultant this new version is intended to help & encourage children who are growing in reading confidence. When Tyrannosaurus Drip lands in the wrong nest don't be fooled by his size. This little dinosaur is brave & very clever! ...

This is an updated 15th anniversary edition of the definitive book on kids' sexual health brings this trusted resource into the twenty-first century. Now with a br&-new chapter focusing on safe internet use
- one of parents' key concerns
- this universally acclaimed classic by Robie H. Harris & Michael Emberley is a cutting-edge resource for kids parents teachers librarians & anyone else who cares about the well-being of tweens & teens. Providing accurate & up-to-date answers to nearly every imaginable question from conception & puberty to birth control & AIDS it offers young people the information they need
- now more than ever
- to make responsible decisions & stay healthy. It

Includes:: an all-new chapter on internet safety. It is completely updated & thoroughly vetted by experts. It is the definitive book on kids' sexual health.





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It is the year 5012 & the Milky Way galaxy is under attack. After the Universal War a war that almost brought about the destruction of every known universe the planets in the Milky Way banded together to create the Intergalactic Force
- an elite fighting team sworn to protect & defend the galaxy. Only the brightest & most promising students are accepted into the Intergalactic Force Academy & only the very best cadets reach the highest of their ranks & become.. .STAR FIGHTERS! Lethal Combat The crew of the Phoenix have escaped the dark planet & now need to complete their mission to return Prince Onix to his home planet
- without them knowing. But their plan is foiled & the Xions capture them soon after landing. They are asked to choose their punishment: 1) Be ejected into space in a pod that orbits Xion forever 2) 20 years hard labour in one of their mines 3) Fight the deadly Xio-bot. They choose to fight the Xio-bot. It's their only chance to make it back home again
- but no one has beaten it.. .yet.


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When the police are called to a building on New Yorks Upper East Side Detective Mike Chapman & Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper respond quickly. A resident Tina Barr is alleged to have been assaulted but she refuses to co-operate with their enquiries. Within a day Alex & Chapman are back at the same building confronted with the body of a woman battered to death & with a mysterious jewel-encrusted book beside her. But the victim isnt Tina Barr & Tina has disappeared. The book is part of a rare collection at the New York Public Library & Alex & Chapman are plunged into the deadly world of the super-rich
- those who protect their fortunes & collections more carefully than other peoples lives.
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Would you let a child die if your family were threatened? When the government wants someone to disappear without a trace they put in a call to Donovan Creed. Creed is a man of many identities a ruthless assassin with access to all the technology that the military can offer. You dont want to take on Creed. But then again most dont even see him coming. When Creed meets an orphaned girl she reminds him of his own daughter & he swears to protect her from the men who killed her parents. But when his involvement becomes public knowledge amongst the criminal fraternity Creed & his family also become targets... ...

The prophesies were there.. .but no one listened. They are the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse & they have the power to usher in Doomsday.. .or prevent it. Eight months ago demon-slayer Regan Matthews seduced the fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse Thanatos. Now she's pregnant with his child
- a child who if prophecies are to believed is fated to save the world. But things aren't always as they appear & the baby conceived by two warriors may yet be the very catalyst that kicks off Armageddon. Thanatos who will be Death when his Seal breaks never thought he'd have a family but as he grows close to Regan & his unborn son he allows himself to dream. But as the world edges closer to the end of days & his evil brother plots against him Thanatos realises that the sacrifice he must make will destroy everything he dreamed of having.
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New York fashion designer Jamie Nova has chosen the glitz of Las Vegas as the setting for celebrating her impending divorce. Joined by her two best friends street-smart Madison Castelli & Natalie de Barge an ambitious TV reporter
- Jamie plans to make the most of her hard-earned holiday & forget all about her controlling ex. When the threesome encounters Mark Blaine the fun-loving playboy scion of a real estate billionaire things start to heat up very quickly. Madison & Natalie receive a frantic midnight phone call telling them Mark is lying in Jamies bed. & hes dead...
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When a mummy in the Museum of Albion is unpacked it is found to contain a bundle of curious objects & documents which tell of the wanderings of an unknown woman Leto. On the run in a far-off era of civil strife Leto gives birth to twins shelters with wolves survives in a desert stronghold as the lover of its commander stows away on a ship loaded with plundered antiquities & then works as a maid in a war-torn city. She loses her son but saves her daughter during a long siege. As the novel sweeps from mythological times & the Middle Ages to the treasure-hunting of Victorian Europe & into the present day Leto reappears in different guises. Eventually she becomes a servant to a rock singer & begins to search for her son. ...