This jolly interactive board book features indented footprints & trails on every page for children to follow with their finger as they read the story. Santas Midnight Sleigh Ride features the jolly gift giver himself flying through the sky & reindeer making footprints on the roof while Santa plods down the chimney. By enabling children to interact with the story in a tactile way the storyline becomes more concrete & engaging & adds a fun touch to Christmas storytime for early learners. ...

The scene on this lovely puzzle ball shows Santa & his team taking a quick break from delivering their presents to share a snack with the animals. Santa&8217;s sleigh is loaded with presents ready to be delivered. To complete the puzzle either follow the numbers on the back of the pieces or complete the puzzle by eye. The finished puzzleball has a diameter of Approx. 15cm. ...

Its a busy night in the North Pole as the elves help Santa pack the sleigh but with every load of goodies the sleigh becomes heavier & heavier. How many reindeer will be needed to ensure that all the gifts are delivered to all the children on time? Get ready to turn the wheel & count along as more reindeer join in.. ...

Santaland Diaries collects six of David Sedariss most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for use as a last-minute coaster or ice-scraper. This drinking mans companion can be enjoyed by the warmth of a raging fire the glow of a brilliantly decorated tree or even in the back seat of a police car. It should be read with your eyes felt with your heart & heard only when spoken to. It should in short behave much like a book. & oh what a book it is! ...

Reissue of the gripping tale of sabotage at sea from the acclaimed master of action & suspense. In the heart of the Aegean Sea a luxury ...

This new Bradt guide will be the first st&-alone guide to Africas second-smallest country. Sao Tome & Principe features enticing blend of African Portuguese & Caribbean culture. Largely unexplored & unexploited by tourism these tropical volcanic islands off the west African coast are the antithesis of mass-market destinations
- & one of the most unspoilt places on earth. The guide will enable pioneering travelers to discover an African island paradise.
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* Use step-by-step instructions to increase the efficiency of your daily work * Learn from hundreds of screenshots & numerous checklists * Discover tips & tricks for both routine & special activities This administrators guide explains the tasks that you have to accomplish in order to master the administration of SAP systems. Click-by-click & with numerous screenshots you will learn about all work processes that are relevant to everyday practice: routine & special tasks administration with SAP Solution Manager & the administration of operating systems databases & authorizations. The book is based on SAP Net Weaver AS ABAP 7.0/7.1 & is applicable to users of earlier & later releases. Routine & Special Administration Tasks Learn about every administration task from daily jobs to system recovery steps that must be performed after a serious system failure. Practical Knowledge Benefit from descriptions that focus on real-life duties with background information that will help you to better accomplish your tasks. Detailed Click-by-Click Instructions Explore detailed step-by-step instructions illustrated by screenshots. This enables you to easily understand the processes & reproduce them in your system. Checklists Transactions Forms & More Download all checklists--for critical tasks or for a security strategy--from the book. The appendices also contain helpful lists with transactions & tables as well as predefined forms. ...

Noel Streatfeild is best known as a writer for children but had not thought of writing for them until persuaded to re-work her first novel as Ballet Shoes; this had sold ten million copies by the time of her death. Saplings (1945) her tenth book for adults is also about children: a family with four of them to whom we are first introduced in all their secure Englishness in the summer of 1939. Her purpose is to take a happy successful middle-class pre-war family
- & then track in miserable detail the disintegration & devastation which war brought to tens of thousands of such families writes the psychiatrist Dr Jeremy Holmes in his Afterword. Her supreme gift was her ability to see the world from a childs perspective & she shows that children can remain serene in the midst of terrible events as long as they are handled with love & openness. She understood that the psychological consequences of separating children from their parents was glossed over in the rush to ensure their physical survival... It is fascinating to watch Streatfeild casually & intuitively anticipate many of the findings of developmental psychology over the past fifty years. A study of the disintegration of a middle-class family during the turmoil of the Second World War & quite shocking wrote Sarah Waters in the Guardian. Saplings was a ten-part serial on BBC Radio 4 in 2004.
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Finn has escaped from the terrible living Prison of Incarceron but its memory torments him because his brother Keiro is still inside. Outside Claudia insists he must be king but Finn doubts even his own identity. Is he the lost prince Giles? Or are his memories no more than another construct of his imprisonment? & can you be free if your friends are still captive? Can you be free if your world is frozen in time? Can you be free if you dont even know who you are Inside Incarceron has the crazy sorcerer Rix really found the Glove of Sapphique the only man the Prison ever loved. Sapphique whose image fires Incarceron with the desire to escape its own nature. If Keiro steals the glove will he bring destruction to the world? Inside. Outside. All seeking freedom. Like Sapphique. This refers to the newly jacketed edition available 2 May 2013. ...

Sapphire Jones doesn't believe in relationships anymore
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