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
- the funniest
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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
- the funniest
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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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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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No sporting event has had its past & present its highs & lows so intricately entwined with those of a country like the Tour has with France. The Tour de France is the biggest annual sporting event in the world & at the same time it transcends sport. The Tour de France comes to the people. It passes their houses it turns right in their village squares it thunders through their suburban streets & into the hearts of their towns & cities. It is a unique event in that people don't so much go to see the Tour as it comes to see them. A Race for Madmen traces how the Tour de France has developed & examines tactics bike technology & rider preparation too. It profiles some of the men who have won the Tour de France & others who have been key players looking closely at their lives & motivation. Subsidiary competitions such as the King of the Mountains prize are featured as well as Tour lore & traditions. The book examines the Tour's extraordinary history & how a bike race a simple sporting contest captured the imagination of a country then a continent & then the world while at the same time it has stayed uniquely French even though a Frenchman hasn't won it for over 20 years. ...

For the first time ever Roland Huntford presents each mans full account of the race to the South Pole in their own words. In 1910 Robert Falcon Scott & Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica each from his own starting point & the epic race for the South Pole was on. December 2011 marks the centenary of the conclusion to the last great race of terrestrial discovery. For the first time Scotts unedited diaries run alongside those of both Amundsen & Olav Bjaaland never before translated into English. Cutting through the welter of controversy to the events at the heart of the story Huntford weaves the narrative from the protagonists accounts of their own fate. What emerges is a whole new understanding of what really happened on the ice & the definitive account of the Race for the South Pole. ...

This is the runaway number one bestseller. This is the book that set Washington ablaze. This is the new non-fiction classic. Forget everything you think you know about the making of the most powerful man on the planet. Obamas triumph was not inevitable: it was the end product of a brilliant crazy unique political campaign. Race of a Lifetime" is the gripping inside story of those thrilling months from the collapsing House of Clinton to the erratic John Mc Cain & the bewildering Sarah Palin. Brimming with exclusive revelations this compulsively readable book lays bare the characters of the candidates warts & all & charts the true path to the White House. Its a tour de force: the shocking funny & definitive account of the campaign of a lifetime." ...