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Fishing For Stars
Nick Duncan is a semi-retired, wealthy shipping magnate who lives in idyllic Beautiful Bay, Vanuatu, where he is known as the old patriarch of the islands. He is grieving the loss of his beguiling Eurasian true love, Anna, and is suffering for the first time from disturbing flashbacks to the Second Worl...
Design as Art
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as 'the new Leonardo'. Munari i...
What Would Barbra Do?
Film musicals: you either love them or they make you want to kill yourself slowly with plastic cutlery. Nothing has the power to lift your heart or turn your stomach like Howard Keel in fake sideburns singing 'Bless Your Beautiful Hide' or Julie Andrews singing...well, just about anything. There are few...
Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System As a Path to the Self
Eastern Body, Western Mind seamlessly merges science and spirituality, creating a compelling interpretation of the chakra system and its relevance for Westerners today. In Eastern Body, Western Mind, chakra authority Anodea Judith brought a fresh approach to the yoga-based Eastern chakra system, ada...
The Biggest Muddy Puddle in the World (Peppa Pig)
Based on the number one pre-school and BAFTA winning TV animation, "Peppa Pig", this wonderful story picture book is perfect for reading at bedtime, playtime and over and over again! Once upon a time, there was a loveable, slightly bossy little piggy, named Peppa. She loved jumping up and down in muddy ...
The Automobile Club of Egypt
From Egypt's most popular novelist - an absorbing, exuberant and powerfully moving story of a family swept up by social unrest in post-World War II Cairo. Abd el-Aziz Gaafar, formerly a well-respected landowner now in the grip of penury, moved his family to Cairo and took on menial work at the Automobil...
Falling in Love #24 Brunetti
"In Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon's first novel in the Commissario Brunetti series, readers were introduced to the glamorous and cut-throat world of opera and to one of Italy's finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli - then a suspect in the poisoning of a renowned German conductor. Now, many years afte...
Beautiful Failures
Nothing will ever be as easy as your school years,' well-meaning adults told her, but I knew for my daughter, and for many kids who have struggled as square pegs trying to make themselves round, this was dead wrong. When Lucy Clark's daughter graduated from school a 'failure', she started asking questio...
Goodnight, Glow Worms: from the author of Meerkat Christmas and Meerkat Splash
Goodnight, Glow Worms shining bright, Time to dim your Glow Worm light Glow Worms gleaming, beaming round, Can’t switch off and can’t wind down. Will those Glow Worms ever get to sleep? ...
Born to Run (picture book edition)
A gorgeous picture book that will inspire girls and boys everywhere to chase their dreams.As a little girl, Cathy Freeman had only had one dream - to win a gold medal at the Olympics. At twenty-seven years old, that dream came true. At the Sydney 2000 Games, she crossed the finish line, won a gold medal...
When McKinsey Comes to Town - The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
Walt Bogdanich; Michael Forsythe
An explosive, deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company, the international consulting firm that advises corporations and governments, that highlights the often drastic impact of its work on employees and citizens around the world McKinsey & Company is the most prestigious consulting company i...
Gould's Book Of Fish
'A work of pure brilliance', Seattle TimesFrom the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014, his Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning novel.Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white ...
Overgrown: Practices between Landscape Architecture and Gardening
A call for landscape architects to leave the office and return to the garden.Addressing one of the most repressed subjects in landscape architecture, this book could only have been written by someone who is both an experienced gardener and a landscape architect. With Overgrown, Julian Raxworthy offers a...
The Sports Book
Know the score with this ultimate guide to sport - updated in time for the 2024 Olympics This is the ultimate guide to sports and the perfect reference for the Paris Olympics in 2024 - an amazing year for sport. Discover everything you need to know about more than 200 sports, including all of the Olympi...
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