The young reporter Tintin & his faithful dog Snowy set off on assignment to Africa. But a sinister stowaway follows their every move & seems set on ensuring they come to a sticky end. Tintin & Snowy encounter witch doctors hostile tribesmen crocodiles boa constrictors & numerous other wild animals before solving the mystery & getting their story. First published in book form in 1931 (in black & white only) Tintin in the Congo reflects the colonial attitudes of that period in its depiction of African people. Herge himself admitted that he was influenced by the bourgeois paternalistic stereotypes of the period. This is also true of the treatment of big-game hunting & the attitude towards animals. All copies of the book will be displayed with a belly-band advertising its content. ...

For many years author Michael Farr was a reporter like Tintin. He covered many of the same countries or at least their real-life counterparts. He came to know Herge himself & for this book was given access to his immense archive. The leading British expert on Tintin Michael has created the ultimate guide to Tintins world. ...

Lets face it who has the time or inclination to topple a government these days? I mean with daily obligations like video games & heavy drinking its hard to find the time to even get a parking ticket overturned. Never fear Tiny Acts of Rebellion" will show you hundreds of ways to revolt against the tedium of everyday life. Whether its making rude gestures to a hotel clerk under the desk or making your own Do Not Disturb sign that says Come In If You Like Swordplay Rich Fulchers inventive collection will allow you to unleash your rebellious side
- without getting arrested including: unlatching your safety belt before the plane has fully stopped; squeezing a spot in the ATM camera; driving through a lonely red light in the dead of night; & leaving a handful of coppers as a tip for bad service."
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A Tiny Bit Marvellous is comedian Dawn French's hilarious pageturner. Everyone hates the perfect family. So you'll love the Battles. Meet Mo Battle about to turn 50 & mum to two helpless hormonal teenagers. There's 17-year-old daughter Dora who blames Mo for like Everything & Peter who believes he's quite simply as darling & marvellous as his hero Oscar Wilde. Somewhere keeping quiet is Dad.. .who's just well... Dad. However Mo is having a crisis. She's about to do something unusually wild & selfish which will leave the entire family teetering on the edge of a precipice. Will the family fall? Or will they when it really matters be there for each other? A Tiny Bit Marvellous is the number one bestselling novel from one of Britain's favourite comic writers. Praise for A Tiny Bit Marvellous: Funny really enjoyable highly recommended. A wonderful writer
- witty wise poignant". (Wendy Holden). "A fantastic slam-dunk pageturner. Funny enriching.. .page after page I laughed out loud". (Mail on Sunday). " Beautifully observed. Makes you laugh on every page". (The Times). "A brilliantly observed very funny novel of family life". (Woman & Home). Dawn French has been making people laugh for thirty years. On purpose. As a writer comedian & actor she has appeared in some of this country's most long running cherished & celebrated shows including French & Saunders The Comic Strip Presents... Murder Most Horrid The Vicar of Dibley Jam & Jerusalem Lark Rise to Candleford & more recently Roger & Val Have Just Got In. Her bestselling memoir Dear Fatty was published to critical acclaim in 2008. Her first novel A Tiny Bit Marvellous was also a great success going straight to No.1. Dawn's second novel Oh Dear Silvia is out now."
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Dawn Frenchs number one bestselling novel A Tiny Bit Marvellous" is a hilarious pageturner that will have you gripped from the first page. Everyone hates the perfect family. So youll love the Battles. Meet Mo Battle about to turn 50 & mum to two helpless hormonal teenagers. Theres 17-year-old daughter Dora who blames Mo for like everything & Peter who believes hes quite simply as darling & marvellous as his hero Oscar Wilde. Somewhere keeping quiet is Dad.. .whos just well... Dad. However Mo is having a crisis. Shes about to do something unusually wild & selfish which will leave the entire family teetering on the edge of a precipice. Will the family fall? Or will they when it really matters be there for each other? A " Tiny Bit Marvellous" is the number one bestselling novel from one of Britains favourite comic writers. Praise for "A Tiny Bit Marvellous": " Funny really enjoyable highly recommended. A wonderful writer
- witty wise poignant". (Wendy Holden). "A fantastic slam-dunk pageturner. Funny enriching.. .page after page I laughed out loud". (" Mail on Sunday"). " Beautifully observed. Makes you laugh on every page". (" The Times"). "A brilliantly observed very funny novel of family life". (" Woman & Home"). Dawn French has been making people laugh for thirty years. On purpose. As a writer comedian & actor she has appeared in some of this countrys most long running cherished & celebrated shows including " French & Saunders" " The Comic Strip Presents..." " Murder Most Horrid" " The Vicar of Dibley" " Jam & Jerusalem" " Lark Rise to Candleford" & more recently " Roger & Val Have Just Got In". Her bestselling memoir " Dear Fatty" was published to critical acclaim in 2008. Her first novel "A Tiny Bit Marvellous" was also a great success going straight to No.1. Dawns second novel " Oh Dear Silvia" is out now."
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Founded & directed by Golden Globe-nominated actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt hit RECord is an open collaborative production company where members can contribute their work in various forms including music videos text & drawings. Members are then encouraged to add edit remix & collaborate with each other. Hit RECord currently has over 45 000 active members worldwide. Over 1 000 creative contributions are added daily & over 100 new artists join hit RECord each day. Joe regularly hosts hit RECord events throughout the country at venues ranging from the Sundance & Sx SW film festivals to college campuses to grand cinemas to rock&roll bars to concert halls with audiences ranging from 100 to 1 500 people. In December 2010 hit RECord self-published the first volume in the Tiny Stories" series. The collaboration received over 2 300 contributions from which Joe & the creative collective edited together 32 illustrated stories. This volume in the " Tiny Stories" series will contain all new material created through the same collaborative process on hit RECord.org as directed by Regular JOE. " The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories" is the first book in a current 3-book partnership between hit RECord & It Books." ...

Weve all been there. You venture out into the countryside for some peace & relaxation only to find yourself battling with hordes of fellow campers to pitch a tent in a vast field with all the visual appeal of an out-of-town shopping centre. Happily it no longer has to be like this. Guardian travel writer & fervent camper Dixe Wills springs heroically to the rescue with his personal selection of 75 of the very best tiny campsites in Britain
- every one of them an acre or smaller & each guaranteed to take you far from the madding crowd. This fully updated second edition of Tiny Campsites which

Includes:: over 10 br&-new finds unveils stunning little places to pitch in England Wales & Scotland: on farms cliff-tops & islands; in woods quarries orchards & back gardens; & beside pubs lochs rivers & museums. Each featured site comes with a quick reference guide & full run-down on facilities local pubs shops & attractions as well as an Ordnance Survey map to guide you in. With extra features for cyclists walkers & those using public transport this book has all the essential info you need to discover & enjoy your own small slice of paradise. Tiny Campsites
- because big isnt clever.



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From the tiny island that shaped the entire English language to the island that terrified Dylan Thomas there's more to Britain's tiny islands than you might think! Have your own tiny adventure by visiting any of the 60 remarkable little islands around Britain featured here. Although Britain boasts hundreds of tiny islands Dixe Wills has selected just the very best of them for this book. Found around the coast in lakes in lochs & on rivers these little worlds are waiting for you to discover them
- whether you swim to them walk to them at low tide row to them or catch a dinky little ferry.
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This is a classic picture book by Eric Carle
- The Tiny Seed. When the tiny seed is blown away from its parent plant it travels
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WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2011. ' Everything changed after Mama found Father lying on top of another woman.' Blessing & her brother Ezikiel adore their larger-than-life father their glamorous mother & their comfortable life in Lagos. But all that changes when their father leaves them for another woman. Their mother is fired from her job at the Royal Imperial Hotel
- only married women can work there
- & soon they have to quit their air-conditioned apartment to go & live with their grandparents in a compound in the Niger Delta. Adapting to life with a poor countryside family is a shock beyond measure after their privileged upbringing in Lagos. Told in Blessing's own beguiling voice Tiny Sunbirds Far Away shows how some families can survive almost anything. At times hilarious always poignant occasionally tragic it is peopled with characters you will never forget.

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