The first books from My Cat Pip a popular international brand in merchandising homeware stationery & apparel. Pip is an award winning character with over 1.5 million products sold to date worldwide. Who will Pip be today? Find the right outfit for Pip then get him all dressed up. Transform Pip into a grumpy pirate or a big bellied chef. You are the stylist
- do you want to put Pip in something suitable or something really r-e-a-l-l-y silly?! Preschool children will love matching the different scenes with at least 100 sticker outfits. Pip regularly appears in Sparkle Girl (the number one multi-character magazine) & Easy Peasy alongside some of the biggest brands in the industry. He is a star in the making! If you like Hello Kitty you'll love Pip! Other books in the series: Pip Pip Hooray! (an interactive flap book) Where Are You Pip? (a look & find book) & Showtime Pip! Sticker Book. Read more about Pip at www.pipthecat.com. If you love Hello@font-face { font-family: Cambria"; }p. Mso Normal li. Mso Normal div. Mso Normal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-
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Described as a riveting read by Sarah Waters & acclaimed by crime writers such as Andrew Taylor The Pursued" is a dark gripping 1930s psychological thriller by C. S. Forester the author of " Hornblower". The story begins when Marjorie a young woman arrives home one summer evening & finds her sister dead with her head in the oven. She looks peaceful as if she is asleep. Their mother suspects however that Dots death was far from natural
- & that she knows who the killer is. So slowly & meticulously she plots her terrible revenge. C. S. Foresters 1935 thriller " The Pursued" lost for decades rewrote the traditions of crime fiction to create a dark twisted portrayal of obsession & retribution."
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Spring 1792. Captain James Rennie is anxious to be active again after a year on the beach. & this time he longs for regular service with the Fleet as opposed to the extraordinarily dangerous detached missions he has been assigned by Britain's shadowy spy masters in the last few years. His friend Lieutenant James Hayter is haunted by his past & he too longs for the sea. Both will find their escape but not in the circumstances they would have wished. Once more the summons comes for a secret voyage in pursuit of a heavily armed neutral vessel. Aboard the ship lies a secret that could change the course of the coming war for Britain & the loss of which could tip the balance irrevocably in favour of Revolutionary France. Rennie & Hayter must play a deadly game involving sea battles mutiny & breathtaking deception. & of course the only stakes in the game are victory or death. ...

New York 1945
- Sara Smythe a young beautiful & intelligent woman ready to make her own way in the big city attends her brothers
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Soon to be a major motion picture starring Will Smith The Pursuit of Happyness" is the inspiring rags-to-riches story of the charismatic Chris Gardner
- a once homeless father who raised & cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco & went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street. At the age of twenty Milwaukee native Chris Gardner just out of the Navy arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. Considered a prodigy in scientific research he surprised everyone & himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry level position at a prestigious firm Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him homeless with his toddler son. Instead of giving in to despair the two spent almost a year moving from shelters "HO-tels" & soup-lines even sleeping in the public restroom of a subway station
- ultimately making an astonishing transformation from the bathroom to the boardroom."

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A series of explosions has rocked Washington D.C. killing 185 people
- an act of extreme violence that calls for an extreme response
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The Pursuit of Italy" traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable style full of well-chosen stories & observations from personal experience & peopled by many of the great figures of the Italian past from Cicero & Virgil to Dante & the Medici from Cavour & Verdi to the controversial political figures of the twentieth century. The book gives a clear-eyed view of the Risorgimento the pivotal event in modern Italian history debunking the influential myths which have grown up around it. Gilmour shows that the glory of Italy has always lain in its regions with their distinctive art civic cultures identities & cuisine & whose inhabitants identified themselves not as Italians but as Tuscans & Venetians Sicilians & Lombards Neapolitans & Genoese. This is where the strength & culture of Italy still comes from rather than from misconceived & mishandled concepts of nationalism & unity. This wise & enormously engaging book explains the course of Italian history in a manner & with a coherence which no one with an interest in the country could fail to enjoy." ...

The Middle Ages inherited from Antiquity a tradition of prophesy & gave it fresh & exuberant life. This tradition foretold a Millennium in which humanity would enjoy a new Paradise on earth free of suffering & sin
- a Kingdom of the Saints. Generation after generation was intermittently seized by a tense expectation of some sudden miraculous event in which the world would be utterly transformed. Often these expectations became enmeshed with social unrest & movements arose which sent tremors through the massive structure of medieval society. Drawing on a huge variety of contemporary sources this unique & compelling book tells the story of those Millenarian fanaticisms of the Middle Ages & points to their persistence in the modern world.
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Chalene Johnson built a fitness empire from the ground up selling over 6 million DVDs & helping legions of loyal fans shed pounds & transform their lives with her trademark enthusiasm & energy. Push" Chalenes first book ever distils the wisdom that has made her a fitness queen into a totally unique 30-day system that will help readers reset their priorities get their lives together & lose weight for good. Chalene gives readers the life-changing tools they need to change their habits with 30 days of practical steps that include pinpointing goals reverse engineering a course of action to achieve them & kicking the clutter
- whether that means junk food draining exercise regimens or toxic relationships. In one month readers will learn how to create layers of accountability & support so that success is their only option. in addition Chalene shares 30 ridiculously easy & delicious Throw-&-Go recipes that she (a self-confessed mess in the kitchen) created herself. & of course no book from Chalene would be complete without a workout! Chalene guides readers to find their soul mate workouts
- the exercises theyll love for life & that will never feel like work. Finally she gives readers the Bangin Body Workout: the 30 moves they need for total body fitness
- for life."


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Some centuries from now the exploration & exploitation of the Solar System is in full swing. On the cold edge of the system Bella Lind captain of the huge commercial spacecraft Rockhopper IV helps fuel this new gold rush by attaching mass-driver motors to organic-rich water-ice comets to move them back to the inner worlds. Her crew are tough blue-collar miners engineers & demolition experts. Around Saturn something inexplicable happens: one of the moons leaves its orbit & accelerates out of the Solar System. The icy mantle peels away to reveal that it was never a moon in the first place just a parked spacecraft millions of years old that has now decided to move on. Rockhopper IV trapped in the pull is hurled across time & space into the deep distant future arriving in a vast alien-constructed chamber. & the crew are not alone for each chamber contains an alien culture dragged into this cosmic menagerie at the end of time. The crew of the Rockhopper IV know a lot about blowing up comets but not much about first contact with ultra-advanced aliens. They have two things to worry about: can they (and their new alien allies) negotiate their way through each harrying contact? & can they assimilate the avalanche of knowledge about their own future
- including all the glittering dangerous technologies that are now theirs for the taking
- without destroying themselves in the process?

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