READ BY PAUL MCGANN. An exciting intergalactic adventure from shining star Oliver Jeffers creator of Lost & Found. One day a boy finds an aeroplane in his cupboard. Up up up & away he flies high into the sky. Whizzing past clouds stars & planets until suddenly he runs out of petrol! Miles from earth the boy crashes into the moon & waits. Just as he is beginning to get cold & lonely a friendly martian appears from the darkness also with a broken aircraft. Together they come up with a super plan to float the boy back down to earth to collect his toolbox. Can the boy find his way back home safely & will he ever make it back up to the moon to rescue his friend? ...

Fly to the moon & back in this star-spangled adventure & contact your own alien with an intergalactic walkie-talkie! One day a boy finds an aeroplane in his cupboard. Up up up & away he flies high into the sky. He whizzes past clouds & stars until suddenly phut phut phut the plane runs out of petrol... Miles from earth the boy crash lands on the moon. Just as he is beginning to get cold & lonely a Martian appears from the darkness
- could this be the start of an unlikely friendship? & will the boy ever manage to get home again? Make extraterrestrial contact with an intergalactic walkie-talkie & a special miniature hardback edition of The Way Back Home.
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The alliance has failed. There is a dark full moon on mid-winters day
- sign that the foretelling has come to pass. Karan is held
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Its night & the dark is filled with strange sounds as Shane makes his way home. On a fence he finds a stray cat that at first growls & spits at him. But Shane talks & strokes the kitten to calmness & decides to take the Spitfire Kitten Number One home with him. No gang of boys or avenue of dense traffic or fierce dog can stop Shane carrying his new found friend to the place he calls home. Greg Rogers sensitive use of charcoal & pastel create Shane & his cat in splendid city-at-night time scenes. ...

Everyone knows that Lord Sugar has strong opinions & is not afraid to share them
- no matter how controversial they may be. His
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Stanley Matthews was the most popular footballer of his era the man who epitomised a generation of legendary players: Tom Finney Nat Lofthouse Billy Wright & many more. He was the first footballer ever to be knighted the first European Footballer of the Year (at 41) & he played in the top division until he was 50
- & he will be forever remembered for his performance in the Matthews FA Cup final of 1953 when he inspired Blackpool to victory over Bolton. THE WAY IT WAS is a the fascinating memoir of a great footballer & the remarkable story of an extraordinary life written in the last months of his life.
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This is the Penguin English Library Edition" of " The Way of All Flesh" by Samuel Butler. The greater part of every family is always odious; if there are one or two good ones in a very large family it is as much as can be expected. Written with great humour irony & honesty " The Way of All Flesh" exploded perceptions of the Victorian middle-class family in its radical depiction of Ernest Pontifex a young man who casts off his background & discovers himself. The awkward but likeable son of a tyrannical clergyman & a priggish mother & destined to follow his father into the church Ernest gleefully rejects his parents respectability & chooses instead to find his own way in the world. " The Penguin English Library" contains 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War." ...

The young scribe Iker has finally realised that in pursuing Pharaoh Senusret with his hatred he chose the wrong target. The real enemy the one who is attacking the Tree of Life at Abydos is in fact the Herald that baleful individual who is rallying troops on the border in order to invade Egypt & annihilate her. Now Senusret has entrusted Iker with a particularly dangerous mission: to enter Canaan & discover the Heralds lair.. . Who can save Egypt now? Senusret
- constantly faced with savage assassination attempts? Iker
- fighting on a thousand fronts to prevent the traitor from succeeding? Or the beautiful priestess Isis who perhaps
- deep in her heart
- will find the means to pacify the spirit of the Nile?



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According to mythology mankind used to live in The Tranquiline Halls. Heaven. But then the Voidbringers assaulted & captured heaven casting out God & men. Men took root on Roshar the world of storms. & the Voidbringers followed.. . They came against man ten thousand times. To help them cope the Almighty gave men powerful suits of armor & mystical weapons known as Shardblades. Led by ten angelic Heralds & ten orders of knights known as Radiants mankind finally won. Or so the legends say. Today the only remnants of those supposed battles are the Shardblades the possession of which makes a man nearly invincible on the battlefield. The entire world is at war with itself
- & has been for centuries since the Radiants turned against mankind. Kings strive to win more Shardblades each secretly wishing to be the one who will finally unite all of mankind under a single throne. On a world scoured down to the rock by terrifying hurricanes that blow through every few day a young spearman forced into the army of a Shardbearer led to war against an enemy he doesn't understand & doesn't really want to fight. What happened deep in mankind's past? Why did the Radiants turn against mankind & what happened to the magic they used to wield?
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