Splat the Cat makes waves at the pool in this hilarious new picture book
- perfect for children learning to swim! Splat does not
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A Gothic tale of suspense & submission set in the Yorkshire Dales A visit to Heddlestone a remote village in the Yorkshire moors changes librarian Kate Carters life forever. The place has an eerie yet erotic charge & when Kate is later offered a job in its puppet museum she leaves London & her boyfriend to take up the post. Jake the strange & beautiful curator & puppeteer draws her into his secluded sensual world & before long shes sharing his bed & discovering a new & frightening side of love & lust. But Heddlestone is a village with secrets & Kate is haunted by a surreal holiday memory of a cool handsome man dominating a woman dressed like a crazy ballerina. The man is Eddie Jakes brother & when Kate is seduced by him & his reckless Ukrainian wife she becomes involved in a second dark relationship. Split between the two men Kate moves closer to the truth of Heddlestone sensing danger but not knowing if the greatest threat comes from ghosts or reality. ...

When something distracts Secret Agent Sean King for a split second it costs him his career & presidential candidate Clyde Ritter his life. But what stole his attention? & why was Ritter shot? Eight years later Michelle Maxwell is on the fast track through the ranks of the Secret Service when her career is stopped short: Presidential candidate John Bruno is abducted from a funeral home while under her protection. The similarity between the two cases drives Michelle to re-open investigations into the Ritter fiasco & join forces with attractive ex-agent King. The pair are determined to get to the bottom of what happened in those critical moments. Meanwhile high-ranking members of the legal system & key witnesses from both cases are going missing. King is losing friends colleagues & clients fast & his ex-lover Joan Dillinger is playing curious games
- she wants Sean back but she also owes him for something...
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Tamara Sim a ruthlessly ambitious young journalist is thrilled when she is sent to interview veteran war correspondent Honor Tait. Finally
- a chance for Tamara to prove that theres more to her than forged expenses claims & the whats in/whats out column she churns out for her tabloid. But Honor isnt an easy subject; cold & evasive to the point of rudeness its almost as if she has something to hide. & when Tamara starts to do some digging (not all of it strictly legal) she makes a discovery which has devastating consequences for them both... In The Spoiler the former literary editor of the Financial Times & the Guardian offers a first hand glimpse into the world of British journalism.
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In Spoilt Rotten social commentator Theodore Dalrymple (Our Culture or What is Left of It 2009) grinds his axe at our sentimentality-centric culture where feelings have become the yardstick of everything we do: safe driving education taking of responsibility (none) sentimentality (everywhere). In this forensic polemic of maudlin popular culture from X-factor to Super Nannies Dalrymple wields his scalpel at all our modern sacred cows. Children will be speechless for once parents will hang their heads in shame! ...

Conflicting signals! Public sector cutbacks soaring input costs & a mixed picture all round. You need SPON'S ARCHITECTS' & BUILDERS' PRICE BOOK 2013 to get the detail right. SPON'S A&B PRICE BOOK compiled by Davis Langdon provides the most accurate detailed & professionally relevant construction price information currently available for the UK. Its unique Tender Index updated through the year provides an ongoing reality check & adjustment for changing market conditions. This is the only price book which sets out a detailed cost base for contracts exceeding GBP3 500 000 in value. Use the access code inside the back cover of the book to get set up with internet access to this 2013 edition until the end of December 2013. We now provide Spon's Online a versatile & powerful online data viewing package which replaces the estimating software & ebook of recent years & which is no longer supplied with the hard copy book. Major changes have been made to this 138th edition: As well as an overhaul of prices SPON'S ARCHITECTS' & BUILDERS' PRICE BOOK 2013
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- see inside for registration details. Updates are available online at www.pricebooks.co.uk. Other titles in the Spon's Price Book Series: SPON'S MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL SERVICES PRICE BOOK 2013 SPON'S CIVIL ENGINEERING & HIGHWAY WORKS PRICE BOOK 2013 SPON'S EXTERNAL WORKS & LANDSCAPE PRICE BOOK 2013

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' An essential reference for everybody concerned with the calculation of costs of mechanical & electrical works.'
- Cost Engineer
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Its gone football crazy down in Bikini Bottom! Mr Krabs has started the Krusty Krab soccer team & Squidward is captain. Sponge Bob & Patrick eagerly try out for the team & even though Squidward doesnt want them to join he has to take them because.. .they have skills! When the Krusty Krab team plays against the team from the Chum Bucket Sponge Bob cant wait to score goals ? but he finds out that theres more to being a good soccer player than being the ace scorer. Join Sponge Bob & his friends in this team-friendly soccer story! ...

Welcome to Bikini Bottom
- an underwater city in the South Pacific where youre guaranteed an ocean view
- & home to Sponge Bob

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There's no place like Bikini Bottom for laughs & Sponge Bob & his friends are sure to keep readers laughing til the tide comes in with this joke book bind-up! Included in this collection of four joke books are Jokes from the Krusty Krab Nautical Nonsense Classroom Crack-ups! & For Singing Out Loud! ...