Pauline Quirke was a skinny child a slim teenager a curvy woman then
- according to her bathroom scales (curse them)
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You see there was a time when litle Tickbird got lost. & none of the animals could find her anywhere. Eagle leads the search party in this bold & colourful Tinga Tinga" sticker book. Young readers can join the hunt by adding lots of special stickers." ...

This is a lift-the-flap hide-&-seek board book featuring Lynley Dodds favourite canine characters. Where is Hairy Maclary? Is he hiding in the tree? No thats Scarface Claw! Is he playing in the water? No thats Zachary Quack! With its simple question & answer formula this very young fun & interactive flap book is perfect for small hands. Look under the flaps to find Hairy Maclary & instead find his friends...until the very last page when we find Hairy Maclary hiding from his friends behind a tree! ...

Start Reading is a new series of highly enjoyable books for beginning readers at KS1. They have been carefully graded to correspond to the Book Bands now widely used in schools. This enables readers to be sure that they choose books that match their own ability. There is very careful & gentle graduation from Band to B&. The books can be shared with an adult or read independently. They promote the enjoyment of reading through reading real satisfying stories with a beginning a middle & an end. This is a series of 4 books at band 3 of the Start Reading programme. Pips Pets is about Pip & his pets- Coco the cat Digby the Dog Sid & the snake & the perfect pet. ...

Gemma Duncan & the boys are back in their Notting Hill house & enjoying a quiet spring in London when Gemma receives a plea for help from her friend & neighbor Erika Rosenthal. Erika has never shared much of her past other than telling Gemma that she & her husband came to London before the war as refugees from the emerging Nazi regime in Germany. Her husband was a historian & was found murdered in a local park. His death was never solved. Now Erika tells Gemma that a necklace from her past has come up for auction -- a necklace which was taken from her. Now Erika asks Gemma to find out where the necklace came from. As Gemma works backwards interviewing the staff at the auction house & looking into the records of David Rosenthals death her viewpoint is interwoven with Erikas vivid memories of her life as a young woman in London during & after the war. Then a young woman at the auction house is murdered & suddenly the case becomes very much centred in the present. ...

' This is your wake up call. You either answer it now or pay for it for the rest of your life. The choice is yours.' Duane ' Dog' Chapman is the world's most famous bounty hunter. During his hard-hitting & often controversial career he has rounded up more than 6 000 criminals & inspired & entertained millions on his top-rated TV show DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER. But his job doesn't end when the cuffs go on... Having been on the wrong side of the law himself
- abuse addiction crime gangs prison
- & turned his life around to become an American icon Dog knows how to get fugitives back on the straight & narrow. & he makes it his business to help. This is an action-packed account of life on the front line bringing dangerous criminals to justice. It is also the incredible story of a man who has struggled with his own flaws & made the transition from hell-raiser to peacekeeper.

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Pippa loves staying with her Aunty Peggy. She loves going for walks whether it's sunshiney or cold
- long wandering walks where
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What do you do when you think your ex-lover has murdered his wife? Thats the question Ursula Gretton an archeologist working on the Saxon burial ground on Bamford Hill puts to Meredith Mitchell in the hope that Merediths friendship with Cotswold Chief Inspector Markby might cast some light on her dilemma. But Markby is dismissive of Ursulas suspicions concerning the disappearance of Dan Woollards wife
- until a body is found in the rubbish dump near the site Woollard & Ursula have been excavating. Woollards team of archeologists arent the only ones to disturb the peace of the windswept hill. Much to the fury of a taciturn pair of local landowners a band of New Age travellers has set up camp on the hill only to disappear the day the bodys discovered. Markby is faced with a tangle of conflicting clues suspects & possible witnesses
- amongst the latter Meredith Mitchell
- & when a second body is found it is clear the web is growing evern more complex & destructive.


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True love friendship & luck
- a warm-hearted novel about where fate can lead you From naughty children to rebellious teenagers
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If you had a second chance at first love.. .would you take it? Its been three years since Adams love saved Mia after the accident that annihilated life as she knew it.. .and three years since Mia walked out of Adams life forever. Now living on opposite coasts Mia is Julliards rising star & Adam is LA tabloid fodder thanks to his new rock star status & celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself chance brings the couple together again for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mias home Adam & Mia revisit the past & open their hearts to the future
- & each other. Told from Adams point of view in the spare powerful prose that defined If I Stay Where She Went" explores the devastation of grief the promise of new hope & the flame of rekindled romance."
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