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Once (#1 Felix & Zelda)
Once I escaped from an orphanage to find my Mum and Dad. Once I saved a girl called Zelda from a burning house. Once I made a Nazi with toothache laugh. My name is Felix. This is my story. Felix lives in a convent orphanage in Poland. He is convinced his parents are still alive and that they will one da...
Book Book
This isn't strictly autobiography nor is it entirely fiction, but, through a story of a life, it shows that books have a certain function and this is the way they have functioned in this life: as something mysterious, consolatory, instructive, enlightening and amusing. The life in itself - of the growth...
Hildegard of Bingen - Selected Writings
Saint Hildegard; Mark Atherton (Trans.)
Benedictine nun, poet and musician, Hildegard of Bingen (1098 1179) was one of the most remarkable figures of the Middle Ages. She undertook preaching tours throughout the German empire at the age of sixty, and was consulted not only by her religious contemporaries but also by kings and emperors, yet it...
Goodbye to Berlin
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. Written as a connected series of six short stories the book, first published in 1939, is a brilliant evocation o...
Speed Freak
Racing. Winning. That's all that matters in this exciting teen story about driving competitively. Fifteen-year-old Archie Barrington is a top kart driver, aiming to win the Challenge series and its ultimate prize of racing in Europe. He loves the speed, the roar of the engine, the tactics and the thrill...
Good Old Timmy (Famous Five Colour Short Stories #3)
Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog find excitement and adventure wherever they go in Enid Blyton's most popular series. After the Five see a boy being kidnapped at the beach, they set out to find him. But where have the kidnappers hidden the boy? Will Timmy lead them to the answer? In addition...
I Hate and I Love: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #69
Dazzling modern lyrical poems from Catullus - by turns smutty, abusive, romantic and deeply moving. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many ...
London - A Travel Guide Through Time
Step back in time and discover the sights, sounds and smells of London through the ages in this enthralling journey into the capital's rich, teeming and occasionally hazardous past. 'London: A Travel Guide Through Time is easily the most engaging social history of the capital since the books of Liza Pic...
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
Just as Freakonomics brought economics to life, so Storm in a Teacup brings physics into our daily lives and makes it fascinating. Our world is full of patterns. If you pour milk into your tea and give it a stir, you'll see a swirl, a spiral of two fluids, before the two liquids mix completely. The sam...
Simply Vibrant
A colorful take on whole foods cooking--everyday dishes that are seasonal, clean, and nourishing, from the author of The Vibrant Table.Cooking vibrant, healthy vegetarian dishes doesn't need to be time-consuming. These simple, everyday recipes are in the same signature style of cooking that Anya Kasoff ...
Life in the Garden
**A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 2017** 'Rich and unusual, this is a book to treasure' Alex Preston, Observer Penelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This book is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens: the large garden at home in Cairo where she spent most of her childhood, her grandmother...
This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
"Gabourey Sidibe's delightful memoir offers a memorable look into what happens when a black girl's dreams come true, from the inside out. Sidibe is fearless, incredibly funny, and gorgeously open. What she offers of herself in these pages is a gift."--Roxane Gay In This Is Just My Face, Gabourey Sidib...
Tough Country: Tall tales of bushmen, bulldozers and back-country blokes
Mike Bellamy's father Barry is as tough as they come. Widely credited as the inspiration for Barry Crump's back-country character Sam Cash, Barry was a roving worker in rural North Island during the 50s, 60s and 70s. Tough Country is a book about a father by a son, about a bygone era of bushmen, scrub-c...
Yates Top 50 Edible Plants for Pots and How Not to Kill Them!
How to grow your own food in the smallest spaces - in pots on balconies, courtyards and windowsills Increasingly people are keen to grow some of their own food, giving them fresh, delicious and healthy ingredients right on their doorstep. Homegrown food also means reduced food miles and packaging, and r...
A Mother Is a House (HB)
A mother is a nest, a mirror, a moon. The baby sees their mother in every aspect of their day. As the pages go by, the child grows. The mother who was a refuge becomes a road, a story, and a show. On the final page, the child is ready to take their first steps. This unique story looks through the baby's...
Ladies Can't Climb Ladders: The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women
It is a myth that the First World War liberated women. The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the most significant pieces of legislation in modern Britain. It should have marked a social revolution, opening the doors of the traditional professions to women who had worked so hard durin...
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beatons, a tight-knit seaside community. After university, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush, part of the long tradition of East Coast Canadians who...
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