The Petal Fairies have a very important job
- together with their magic petals they help to make sure that flowers grow & bloom
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Schools out for summer! Olivia & her friends are going to be spending August in Edinburgh home to the world-famous Fringe Festival. They cant wait to get there to stay in the beautiful city & soak up the Festival atmosphere while the Swan Circus performs every day to wild applause & rapturous reviews
- With such passion such good friendships & the summer stretching out before them what could possibly go wrong?
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Olivia is sad & lonely & angry
- angry that shes been dumped with her sister eel at her grandmothers school & angrier still that
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From the bestselling author of A Rural Affair" & "A Crowded Marriage" comes Catherine Alliotts brilliantly warm & funny take on taking control of your life in " Olivias Luck". I dont care what colour you paint the sodding hall. Im leaving. When her husband Johnny suddenly walks out on ten years of marriage their ten-year-old daughter & the crumbling house theyre up to their eyeballs renovating Olivia is at first totally devastated. How could he? How could she not have noticed his unhappiness? But shes not one to weep for long. Not when shes got three builders camped in her back garden a neighbour with a never-ending supply of cast-off men she thinks Olivia would be drawn to & a daughter with her own firm views on.. .well just about everything. Will Johnny ever come back? & if he doesnt will Olivias luck ever change for the better? Step into Alliott country with " Olivias Luck". Praise for Catherine Alliott: " The writing is both intelligent & sparkling". (Marian Keyes). " Alliotts joie de vivre is irresistible". (" Daily Mail"). Catherine Alliott is the author of twelve bestselling novels: "A Crowded Marriage" "A Married Man" " Not That Kind of Girl" " Going Too Far" " The Old-Girl Network" " Olivias Luck" " Rosie Meadows Regrets..." " The Wedding Day" " The Real Thing" " The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton" " One Day in May" "A Rural Affair". She lives with her family in Hertfordshire." ...

Its winter at the Swan Academy & that means panto! While Olivia practises being the back end of a horse everyone else is auditioning for a major new movie. Soon the school is full of rivalry & suspicion nasty tricks & strange mysteries. To lighten the mood Eel organises a festive ice-skating trip. But as the skaters twirl & leap among the twinkling lights Olivia realises that the season of goodwill is anything but - ...

This is a delightful introduction to numbers & counting
- from Shirley Hughes one of the best-known & most-loved picture book creators.
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A regular in the charts & in the gossip columns Olly is regarded by many as a possible successor to icons like Robbie Williams & Will Young. But not content with his triumphs as a singer he has also become a TV fixture. After becoming the co-host of The Xtra Factor he graduated to his own series Olly: Life on Murs in 2012. Olly Murs: The Biography follows his journey from suburbia to stardom & beyond. It explores how a seemingly ordinary & grounded Essex boy was determined to follow his dream
- & strong & shrewd enough to survive the heady world of entertainment. Along the way we see how his promising first career as a semi-pro footballer was halted & we discover how he deals with the pros & cons of a celebrity lifestyle.
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Leni Riefenstahls Olympia (1938) is one of the most controversial films ever made. Capitalising on the success of Triumph of the Will (1935) her propaganda film for the Nazi Party Riefenstahl secured Hitlers approval for her grandiose plans to film the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The result was a work as notorious for its politics as celebrated for its aesthetic power. This revised edition

Includes:: new material on Riefenstahls film-making career before Olympia & her close relationship with Hitler. Taylor Downing also discusses newly-available evidence on the background to the films production that conclusively proves that the film was directly commissioned by Hitler & funded through Goebbelss Ministry of Propaganda & not as Riefenstahl later claimed commissioned independently from the Nazi state by the Olympic authorities. In writing this edition Taylor Downing has been given access to a magnificent new restoration of the original version of the film by the International Olympic Committee.

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Kirsty & Rachel are on an exciting day out to watch a triathlon
- a three-part race where the athletes have to swim cycle & run.
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The Leyland Olympian was probably the last mass-market double-deck bus produced in the UK with several thousand constructed both for the domestic & export market. Apart from the UK significant sales for the type occurred in for example Hong Kong where a three-axle version was hugely successful. The Olympian's origins date back to the 1970s with Leyland looking to build upon the earlier B15 (the integrated Titan bought in large numbers by London Transport) & the B45 project (effectively the replacement for the Bristol VR). The first of the Olympians was constructed in 1980 with 350 supplied to London Transport with customers ranging from many of the PTEs through to municipal operators & constituents of the National Bus Company. Under Leyland the bulk of the production was handled at the company's Workington factory but in 1988 Leyland Bus was acquired by Volvo & production was subsequently shifted to Volvo's factory at Irvine in Scotl&. Production of the type ceased in 2000 although many including some in London remain in service. ...