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It's Hard to Be a Baby: A Picture Book
A perfect gift for new parents, with delightful illustrations from Pura Belpre Award-winning artist Juana Medina, Cheryl B. Klein's picture book It's Hard to Be a Baby is a hilarious...
Owls Are Cool
Can a burrowing owl - who can't fly - and a snowy owl - who can't run - ever be friends? Oscar is an owl; a COOL owl. And cool...
I Am Not An Octopus: A funny tale about facing fears and learning to
A brilliantly funny story of facing your fears from the picture book team behind The Case of the Missing Cake . Terry is not an octopus. He's just a regular...
Science Superstars: 30 Brilliant Women Who Changed the World
Discover the amazing women who took science by storm! Women scientists are not new, but they haven't always gotten credit for being so stellar. In Jennifer Calvert and Octavia Jackson's...
Serena and Laloolee Fly Away
A beautiful gift book and an original, modern fairy tale, told in sparkling prose and striking colour and collage. Serena wishes she could fly. One day, she makes a pair...
Zen in Your Garden: Creating Sacred Spaces
Full of colorful, striking photographs and insightful commentary this Zen gardening book is an essential guide to the most serene of Japanese traditional arts. The Japanese Zen garden is a...
Jackie Onassis
Fascinating biographies of high-profile and influential figures of the 20th century.
Adam and His Tuba
A playful book about finding your own path. Everyone in the circus loves to perform - except for Adam, the very youngest member of the Von Trapeze family. Wherever Adam...
Two Brothers
Kindness makes the world go around. Morris and Boris are brothers who look like twins-even down to the small humps on their backs. Morris is kind and helpful to everyone...
What Colour is Your World?
This lovingly restored 1960s classic by one of the world's most renowned graphic designers encourages children to look at the world of colours and the world around them in a...
Paper-flower Girl
2024 CBCA Shortlist Picture Book The Paper-flower Girl creates elaborate flowers out of paper, but she has few customers. When the Giant from the Hill brings her to work for...
Socks, Sandbags and Leeches: Letters to My Anzac Dad
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Age range 9 to 12 Ivy and her mother live in Australia, far away from where the Great War is raging. They have moved in with Aunt Hilda whose flat...
Next Wave: The Quest to Harness the Power of the Oceans
Journey to the wave-battered coast of the Pacific Northwest to meet some of the engineers and scientists working to harness the punishing force of our oceans, one of the nature's...
A Boy Had a Mother Who Bought Him a Hat
What's a boy to do when his mom buys him everything he wants? Should he take his new toys everywhere?
Image of Nature: How to Catch Light & Life
In The Image of Nature, wildlife photographer Wouter Pattyn takes the reader on a voyage of discovery through nature at its most beautiful. Packed full of anecdotes and fascinating facts...
Timeless Treasures: The Fascination of Certified Pre-Owned Watches
In a 2021 study, McKinsey describes Certified Pre-Owned (CPO) within the watch market as 'the industry's fastest-growing segment'. The trade in pre-owned watches is expected to overtake that in new...
Timeless Treasures: The Fascination of Certified Pre-Owned Watches
In a 2021 study, McKinsey describes Certified Pre-Owned (CPO) within the watch market as 'the industry's fastest-growing segment'. The trade in pre-owned watches is expected to overtake that in new...
Free: A Life in Images and Words
The early life path of Ukraine-born Sergei Polunin was akin to a dancer's fairytale. A precocious talent. Ballet training in Kiev. Admission to the Royal Ballet School in London at...
Classic Cars: A Century of Masterpieces
"These are the cars that most collectors would want to own for their looks, character, performance and driving enjoyment. They all broke the mould." - Simon de Burton Simon de...
Dreamscapes: Finding a Place to Call to Call Your Own
Everyone has a moment, a day, a stretch of time, when they long to escape, to leave the pressures of life and visit a place of peace and tranquility. Perhaps...
Dogsbodies
Having sorted out the cat world in Cat with Piano Tuna, investigated the pig universe in Pig's Ear and upset the birds in Bird Dropping, Simon Drew now chooses to...
Instant Decorating: Original Ideas for Transforming a Room in Hours
A series of projects aimed at those with little time to spare for decorating.
Hanging Baskets, Window Boxes and Containers
This is a practical book for people who want to garden on a very small scale. As well as giving all the necessary basics, the author provides suggestions for out-of-season...
A New Beginning
The Maclaren family may show a united face to the world, but their private lives are very different. For years, Queenie and her daughter LAura have had to protect each...
Life Story
Life Story is a tale of survival, laying bare the extraordinary journey animals must make to achieve life's goal to continue their bloodline. Whether learning new skills, finding a mate...
The Painted Lady: The Art of Tattooing the Female Body
As the number of women getting tattooed has sharply increased over the past few decades, both classic and contemporary styles of tattooing have taken on a more feminine feel. The...
Kate and Wills Up the Aisle: A Right Royal Fairy Tale
Alison Jackson presents a humorous folio of photographs to reveal all about the royal wedding between Kate and Wills, the most anticipated nuptials to come out of Britain since Charles...
The Ralph Steadman Book of Dogs
Dogs in furniture; dog dictators; fashion dogs; blot dogs; beer dogs and wine dogs, bugs that live on dogs and uninvented dogs. Ranging from the fierce and furious to the...
Atrocities, Diamonds and Diplomacy
In early 1997 Peter Penfold, arrived in Sierra Leone as the British High Commissioner. This fascinating book describes not just his eventful three year tour but the background and subsequent...
Hamlet
Playing "Hamlet" is considered the greatest challenge for any actor, interpreting verses which are concerned with ideas of theatricality and performance, along with the struggle to discover one's real self....
1815: The Return of Napoleon: Bonaparte's March Back to Power
This unique and atmospheric volume presents the dramatic story of Napoleon's escape from Elba and his march on Paris in the words of eyewitnesses and participants. Drawing on hundreds of...
Loose Ends and Extras
'Loose Ends and Extras' is the last in a trilogy of books Lord Briggs has completed since his 90th birthday in May 2011. Following on from 'Special Relationships: People and...
Seaforth World Naval Review 2013
Launched in 2009, this annual has rapidly established a reputation as an authoritative but affordable summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months....
Frida Kahlo: Volume 2
In this new series, discover the lives of outstanding people from designers and artists to scientists. All of them went on to achieve incredible things, yet all of them began...
Little Hands Clapping
The darkest, most twisted novel yet from the author of Timoleon Vieta Come Home. In a room above a bizarre German museum, and far from the prying eyes of strangers,...
Dead Line
MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is summoned to a meeting with her boss Charles Wetherby, head of the Service's Counter-Espionage Branch. His counterpart over at MI6 has received alarming intelligence...
Precious and the Mystery of Meerkat Hill: A New Case for Precious
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Well before Precious Ramotswe founded her Number One Ladies' Detective Agency, as an eight-year-old girl she was already solving mysteries. Here in this delightful, new, enchanting tale for children, we...
Children of the World Memory Game
Inspired by the popular sing along title If You're Happy and You Know It!, this memory game utilises one of the greatest attributes of the book-the adorable children from all...
The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen
The Quantum Universe brings together two authors on a brilliantly ambitious mission to show that everyone can understand the deepest questions of science. But just what is quantum physics? How...
The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop it
In The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain explores the dangers the internet faces if it fails to balance ever more tightly controlled technologies with...
The Complete Fortune Teller
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Fortune telling, in its various guises is as popular now as ever, though it is still regarded as a mysterious and complex process. In this book, Marc Lemezma breaks the...
The Last Human Cannonball: And Other Small Journeys in Search of Great
But, as one might expect, Rogers' encounters with celebrity have their own unexpected outcomes. Burt Lancaster rants to him about transsexuality. Rita Hayworth is most worried about her neighbour's TV...
Degrees Kelvin: A Tale of Genius, Invention and Tragedy
Robots
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As we enter the digital age, advances in technology are turning robots that were once pure fantasy into real artificial beings that can walk, run and talk like human beings....