The crossing: My journey to the shattered heart of Syria

Samar Yazbek was well-known in her native Syria as a writer and a journalist but, in 2011, she fell foul of the Assad regime and was forced to flee. Since then, determined to bear witness to the suffering of her people, she revisited her homeland by squeezing through a hole in the fence on the Turkish border. Here she testifies to the appalling reality that is Syria today. From the first innoce…

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Love in a headscarf: Muslim woman seeks the one

At the age of thirteen, I knew that I was destined to marry John Travolta. One day he would arrive on my North London doorstep, fall madly in love with me and ask me to marry him. Then he would convert to Islam and become a devoted Muslim.' Shelina is keeping a very surprising secret under her headscarf--she wants to fall in love and find her faith. Torn between the Buxom Aunties, romantic come…

Fidel Castro: In his own words

A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past."--Fidel Castro From revolutionary and symbol of strength to Cold War adversary, Fidel Castro was one of the world's most controversial leaders, and perhaps its most enduring. As Cuba's towering and charismatic president for nearly fifty years, Castro's influential leadership captivated allies and enemies alike. By virtue of passionate …

Living Planet Magazine Vol III No. 01/April 2013

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What a Wonderful World

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The Paper Dolls

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Einstein the Class Hamster (Einstein the Class Hamster Series)

Einstein the class hamster is from a long line of class hamsters. He knows lots of cool facts about science, art, and history―maybe even more than their sleepy teacher, Ms. Moreno. The class has a chance to compete in a trivia game show contest. But how can they get ready for the contest if Ms. Moreno keeps taking naps instead of teaching? More important, how can Einstein help the class prepa…

Sam and the Robots - Read it yourself with Ladybird: Level 4 (Read It Yoursel…

Sam loves building things, especially robots. His robots are all very good at helping out, but when they start going wrong it's clear that Sam needs to take his robots on holiday for a rest! Read it yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird's best-selling series. For over thirty five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve their reading skills. Each…

Animal Disguises (Kingfisher Young Knowledge)

Introduces readers to the tricks that animals use to hide from predators, from changing their skin colour to blend into the background to pretending to be dead. Ages 4-8+.

We Are Together

On our own we're special, And we can chase our dream. But when we join up, hand in hand, Together we're a team. Celebrate the power of love and friendship in this beautiful book by award-winning illustrator and author Britta Teckentrup. With vibrant artwork and peek-through pages, this is a picture book to treasure.

Fairy Friends - Read it yourself with Ladybird: Level 1

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I Spy : Transport In Art (I Spy S.) I Spy : Transport In Art (I Spy S.)

A selection of fine art paintings featuring a variety of modes of transport, from horse to hot-air balloon. Each of the colour plates provides a new canvas for children to explore as they look at the various ways to travel. There is a selection of artists from around the world.

Ladybird Tales: Sleeping Beauty

This beautiful hardback Ladybird edition of Sleeping Beauty is a perfect first illustrated introduction to this classic fairy tale for young readers from 3+. The tale is sensitively retold, retaining all the key parts of the story beginning with Sleeping Beauty's birth through to the day she pricks her finger on her 15th birthday and falls asleep for one hundred years. Other exciting titles …

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Will Lucky ever escape the slimy stuff and hairy horrors that lurk in the plumbing? When it's Jim's turn to clean out the goldfish bowl, Lucky the goldfish isn't happy. Dad puts Lucky into the sink and tells Jim not to pull the plug out. And everything would be fine if only everyone remembered that! Oh, Dad, why did you pull the plug? Jim is upset and Lucky's down the plughole, twisting and …

My Indonesia exploring asia, indonesia and our town and community

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A Year of Hindu Festivals (Festival Time)

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Little Kitten Capers

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LOGICO I LOVE BIBLE!

Deskripsi Singkat Mengajak anak mengenal dan mencintai Alkitab dengan cara menarik, dalam bentuk permainan yang bersuasana gembira. Tersedia dalam 9 pak, yang terdiri dari 6 pak Perjanjian Lama dan 3 Pak Perjanjian Baru. Kesemuanya mencakup 38 kisah dari Perjanjian Lama dan Perjanjian Baru. Setiap pak berisi sebuah frame Logico I Love Bible, 3 s.d. 5 buku lembar kerja Logi…

Alice from Dallas

Alice is the most rootin’, tootin’ cowgirl in all of Dallas . . . Pennsylvania. Each day she puts on her favorite boots and hat and sets off on her stick pony for school with a “Yippee ki-yay!” Alice is used to being the only cowgirl around, until Lexis from Texas arrives at school one day. Lexis seems to be a real cowgirl, with her fancy hat, jingling spurs, and lasso tricks. Alice dec…

A strangeness in my mind

Since his boyhood in a poor village in Central Anatolia, Mevlut Karataş has fantasized about what his life would become. Not getting as far in school as he'd hoped, at the age of twelve he comes to Istanbul--'the center of the world'--and is immediately enthralled by both the old city that is disappearing and the new one that is fast being built. He follows his father's trade, selling boza (a…

Don't tell me you're afraid

Based on a remarkable true story, an unforgettable Somali girl risks her life on the migrant journey to Europe to run in the Olympic Games At eight years of age, Samia lives to run. She shares her dream with her best friend and neighbor, Ali, who appoints himself her "professional coach." Eight-year-old Ali trains her, times her, and pushes her to achieve her goals. For both children, Samia's r…

The doorway and the deep

Even after escaping from the Southerly Kingdom, Lottie Fiske has returned to the magical Albion Isle, despite the fact that she is a wanted criminal there, because she is seeking answers about her abilities, and her parents--but war is threatening Limn, and the answers she needs seem to lie in the Northerly Kingdom, along a road full of dangers.

The carpet people

The Munrungs cross the Carpet to find a new home after their village is destroyed by the powerful and mysterious natural force Fray.

As brave as you

When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires--literally

The life list of Adrian Mandrick: A novel

His for Hawk meets Grief Is the Thing with Feathers in this evocative debut novel about a pill-popping anesthesiologist and avid birder who embarks on a quest to find one of the world's rarest species, allowing nothing to get in his way--until he's forced to confront his obsessions and what they've cost him. Anesthesiologist Adrian Mandrick is filled with contradictory impulses. He wants to be …

Don't worry life is easy (La vie est facile, ne t'inquiete pas)

Diane needs to start over again. After returning from Ireland and turning the page on her stormy relationship with Edward, the brooding Irish photographer, she is determined to rebuild her life in Paris with help from her best friend Félix. She focuses solely on getting her literary café back on track until she meets Olivier.

The masterwork of a painting elephant

Pigeon Jones, abandoned as a baby, is found and raised by Birch, a white, former circus elephant who paints beautiful pictures, and through their travels and adventures they discover the meanings of love and family.

Flora & Ulysses: The illuminated adventures

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The mirror image ghost

Lisa is sure she has seen a ghost in her mother's bedroom mirror, but who can she tell? Her grandparents are oddly secretive about ghosts and the past, her mother seems distant since her recent marriage, and Lisa definitely can't confide in her new stepsister and stepbrother - she loathes them!