Saddle up for the eleventh Pony Club Secrets adventure! Issie leaps to new heights with showjumper Comet but will she ride to victory on Liberty? The penultimate book in the Uks bestselling pony adventure series. Issie & Comet have travelled to Lexington USA to take on the best riders in the world at the famed four-star horse trials. Its Issie first experience of competing against adult professional riders & she begins to worry that shes out of her depth. But then the competition gets even more exciting when Tara Kelly calls with the offer of a chance ride on another horse. With everything at stake does Issie have what it takes to win? ...

Despite its long history as a leading textile design house & retailer Liberty has yet to produce its own inspirational book of home sewing. That is set to change. This sumptuous book has been created to showcase Liberty Art Fabrics to inspire the reader with their versatility & to provide irresistible original designs for the home. Divided into three chapters
- Essential Organisation & luxury
- this book contains projects ranging from practical fold-up shopping bags to elegant cushions through handy display boards & slipcovers to indulgent kimonos beanbags & throws. Variations are included for many projects so the core collection is in fact an inexhaustible resource of ideas. This book offers the opportunity to add an element of Liberty style using as much or as little Liberty fabric as you choose. While respecting the essential timelessness of the Liberty brand the projects present a modern way of using the prints for a contemporary take on home furnishings. They include both core items as well as more special designs but they are all characterised by the imaginative use of fabric with often unexpected combinations of colour & pattern. The projects in this book all showcase Liberty fabrics to maximum effect.

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This book combines pretty cross-stitch designs with classic Liberty prints to create gorgeous h&-stitched items for you your home & your family & friends. Helene Le Berres stylish designs give the simple traditional technique of cross stitch a fresh contemporary appeal & places it firmly in the twenty-first century. With clear step-by-step instructions beautiful photographs full-size patterns & easy-to-follow cross-stitch charts you will be amazed at how easily you can make something that has beauty style & a professional finish. There are twenty-four designs to choose from including lovingly made toys a quilt tiny slippers & a handy little bag for you & your baby; photo frames cushions colourful pot holders & other items for the home; & perfect gifts to give away or keep that include bags purses & earrings. Even the timeless little black dress is revisited & given a h&-embroidered finish. So even if you have never stitched before you are guaranteed to find something in this book you would love to own plus everything you need in order to make it. ...

Dr. Ron Paul's newest book LIBERTY DEFINED returns to the format & scope of his no 1 New York Times bestseller The Revolution. Rather than delve so deeply into one issue (as End The Fed did) or simply update the topics discussed in The Revolution this is a brand new comprehensive A-Z guide to his position (unwavering support of personal liberty & small government) on 50 of the most important issues of our times both foreign & domestic. His devoted followers will be able to use it as a guide book for 2012 & beyond for all their political & educational efforts. With entries ranging in length from a few pages to over ten LIBERTY DEFINED is very accessible easy to digest & clear cut in its ideology. ...

This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 & 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. The Industrial Revolution brought not simply misery & poverty. On the contrary Griffin shows how it raised incomes enhanced literacy & offered exciting opportunities for political action. For many this was a period of new & much valued sexual & cultural freedom. This rich personal account focuses on the social impact of the Industrial Revolution rather than its economic & political histories. In the tradition of best-selling books by Liza Picard Judith Flanders & Jerry White Griffin gets under the skin of the period & creates a cast of colourful characters including factory workers miners shoemakers carpenters servants & farm labourers. ...

An unparalleled work of historical conjecture ranging imaginatively over huge tracts of the American popular consciousness Don De Lillos Libra" contains an introduction by the author in " Penguin Modern Classics". In this powerful eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy Don De Lillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswalds odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of JFK will galvanize the nation against Communism the scales are irrevocably tipped. Don De Lillo (b.1936) was born & raised in New York City. " Americana" (1971) his first novel announced the arrival of a major literary talent & the novels that followed confirmed his reputation as one of the most distinctive & compelling voices in late-twentieth-century American fiction. De Lillos comic gifts come to the fore in " White Noise" (1985) which won the National Book Award " Underworld" (1997) hailed by Martin Amis as the ascension of a great writer " Cosmopolis" (2003) adapted into a film by David Cronenberg due to be released later this year & " Falling Man" (2007) a novel about the aftereffects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York. If you enjoyed " Libra" you might like De Lillos " Americana" also available in " Penguin Modern Classics". " Don De Lillos apocalyptic imagination takes on the assassination of John F. Kennedy... Breathtaking". (" Newsday")." ...

From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase to Lucy Mangan's Ten Library Rules famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used & why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in 2020. Lionel Shriver thinks books are the best investment Hardeep Singh Kohli makes a confession & Julie Myerson remembers how her career began beside the shelves. Using memoir history polemic & some short stories too The Library Book celebrates 'that place where they lend you books for free' & the people who work there. All royalties go to The Reading Agency to help their work supporting libraries. ...

When a lion visits the library no one knows what to do: there are no rules about lions in the library. But soon he's indispensable
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The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology from the origins of the universe to the Trojan War. Apollodorus' Library has been used as a source book by classicists from the time of its compilation in the 1st-2nd century BC to the present influencing writers from antiquity to Robert Graves. It provides a complete history of Greek myth telling the story of each of the great families of heroic mythology & the various adventures associated with the main heroes & heroines from Jason & Perseus to Heracles & Helen of Troy. As a primary source for Greek myth as a reference work & as an indication of how the Greeks themselves viewed their mythical traditions the Library is indispensable to anyone who has an interest in classical mythology. Robin Hard's accessible & fluent translation is supplemented by comprehensive notes a map & full genealogical tables. The introduction gives a detailed account of the Library's sources & situates it within the fascinating narrative traditions of Greek mythology. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's 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 most shocking secret in the history of mankind is about to be revealed...A murderer is on the loose on the streets of New York City: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer hes claimed six victims in just two weeks & the city is terrified. Even worse the police are mystified: the victims have nothing in common defying all profiling & all that connects them is that each received a sick postcard in the mail before they died
- a postcard that announced their date of death. In desperation the FBI assigns the case to maverick agent Will Piper once the most accomplished serial killing expert in the bureaus history now on a dissolute spiral to retirement. Battling his own demons Will is soon drawn back into a world he both loves & hates determined to catch the killer whatever it takes. But his search takes him in a direction he could never have predicted uncovering a shocking secret that has been closely guarded for centuries. A secret that once lay buried in an underground library beneath an 8th Century monastery but which has now been unearthed
- with deadly consequences. A select few defend the secret of the library with their lives
- & as Will closes in on the truth they are determined to stop him at any cost...


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