This is a wonderful new series for 5-7 year olds about magical teddies talking toys & terrific adventure from working Partners the team that created the best-selling Rainbow Magic" " Beast Quest" & " Animal Ark". " The Rabbit Rescue": Willow is very excited when Clemmie comes to stay in Summertown. Shes got her own pretty bunny rabbit called Smooches. But naughty Croc is trying to steal Smooches magical pocket heart. Can Willow & her Hoozle friends come to the rescue in time?" ...

Born on a Somerset pea-field in 1941 the second of eight children in a Romani family Maggie Smith-Bendell has lived through the years of greatest change in the travelling communitys long history. As a child Maggie rode & slept in a horse-drawn wagon picked hops & flowers & sat beside her fathers campfire on ancient verges poor but free to roam. As the twentieth century progressed common land was fenced off & the traditional ways disappeared. Eventually Maggie married a house-dweller & tried to settle for bricks & mortar but she never lost the restless spirit the deep love of the land & the gift for storytelling that were her Romani inheritance. Maggies story is one of hardship & prejudice but also unforgettably it recalls the glories of the travelling life in the absolute safety of a loyal & loving family. ...

The rabbits came many grandparents ago. They built houses made roads had children. They cut down trees. A whole continent of rabbits... THE RABBITS offers a rich & immensely valuable perspective on the effect of man on his environment. Visually loaded & told with a passion for truth & understanding THE RABBITS aims to promote cultural awareness & a sense of caring for the natural world. ...

Rabbit enjoys doing rabbity things but he also loves un-rabbity things! When Rabbit suddenly disappears no one knows where he has gone. His friends are desolate. But as it turns out Rabbit has left behind some very special gifts for them to help them discover their own unrabbity talents! This is a stunning debut picture book by author/illustrator Jo Empson. Rabbityness celebrates individuality encourages the creativity in everyone & positively introduces children to dealing with loss of any kind. ...

Dogs now dominate the $55-billion-a-year pet business in the US. Dog products dog services dog admiration
- okay lets call it dog
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From the award-winning author of the Spy Dog series comes a wildly funny tale in Harper Collins Awesome Animals series
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The Race is the fourth turn of the century thriller by Clive Cussler. 1910 & America's first ever cross-country flying race has been sabotaged... Newspaper magnate Preston Whiteway is offering a big prize for the first aviator to cross America in under fifty days. He wants Josephine Frost
- the country's leading as well as most glamorous pilot
- to win. Which is why he's hired Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency. Josephine saw her husband Harry Frost kill a man. Now he wants her dead. & with underworld contacts ready to help in every city en route he'll do anything go after anyone who gets in his way
- including Whiteway & Bell. Packed with brilliant twists & turns The Race sees the intrepid Private Investigator locked in a deadly cat-&-mouse game with a killer whose resources are matched only by his willingness to cause mayhem during the race of a lifetime... Clive Cussler's The Race is the international bestselling author's follow up to The Spy & The Wrecker the first two novels in the Isaac Bell series. The Race is a nerve-shredding historical thriller set at the dawn of flight. Praise for Clive Cussler: Frightening & full of suspense.. .unquestionably entertaining". (Daily Express). " All-action narrow escapes & the kind of unrelenting plot tension that has won Cussler hundreds of millions of fans worldwide". (Observer). Clive Cussler is the author or co-author of a great number of international bestsellers including the famous Dirk Pitt[registered] adventures such as Crescent Dawn; the NUMA[registered] Files adventures the Oregon Files such as The Jungle; & the Isaac Bell historical thrillers which began with The Chase. He lives in Arizona. Justin Scott's twenty six novels include The Shipkiller & Normandie Triangle; the Ben Abbot detective series; & five modern sea thrillers published under his pen name Paul Garrison. He lives in Connecticut with his wife the filmmaker Amber Edwards."


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Exiting the corner the car dances on the edge of adhesion as it brushes up against the dirt on the edge of the kerb. You are hard on the throttle & accelerating up the straight there is no way you could have made that corner any faster
- or is there? Inside Race & Trackday Driving Techniques you will find all the secrets skills & methods that will see your lap times tumble. The book covers everything from the fundamental principles through to individual techniques for specific corners whilst also helping you analyse what you can do off the track to improve your performance when you are on it. You will also discover why techniques work to give you a greater understanding of the process of driving faster
- from why the Traction Circle is only really relevant to the chassis engineer rather than the driver through to why trail braking works on one corner & not another amongst many other principles. Also features a corner-by-corner guide to some of the UKs best circuits & a Further skills section to expand your performance driving repertoire with skills such as drifting & J-turns.

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Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004 Ellen Mac Arthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a frenchman Francis Joyon. Hed slashed over 20 days off the previous record & many thought his extraordinary new benchmark would stand for 10 years or more. Most experts thought that the record would be beyond Mac Arthur. But in a superhuman effort that forced her to dig deeper than ever before she proved the doubters wrong. Her effort captured the worlds imagination & the scenes that greeted her return to Falmouth were euphoric. She had become some claimed the finest sailor her country had every produced. Drawing on logs emails sound & video diaries this beautifully designed fully illustrated book captures the drama excitement danger joy & tears of a truly extraordinary achievement
- in Ellens own words.
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When Chris Boardman first raced against Graeme Obree in a time trial in Newtonards Northern Ireland in 1990 it was the start of a rivalry that captivated the British public for a decade & brought cycling on to the front pages. Boardman was the establishment figure: reserved scientific middle-class. Obree was the rebel: the Flying Scotsman working-class riding a home-made bike. Both were after one thing
- to be the fastest man on two wheels. After Boardman had won Britain's first cycling gold medal for 72 years at the Barcelona Olympics (inspiring none other than Bradley Wiggins to get on a bike) attention turned to the world hour record the blue riband event of track cycling. Between 1993 & 1996 the pair took it in turns to smash the record with Boardman's team breaking the boundaries of technology & the loner Obree constantly reinventing ways of building & riding bikes while battling his many demons. The Race Against Time" tells the story of how Britain first started to dominate cycling but is also about the struggle between art & science tradition & innovation commercialism & individuality. It is the tale of two complex characters who redefined the sport & set in motion a new era in British cycling the legacy of which we enjoy to this day."
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