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Take Two Tablets
“If people think I’m bad, then I’ll be good at that!”
Macy Lord is living her worst life: victimised at home, vilified at school.
When novice Religious Studies teacher Mr Fairclough asks his class to re-interpret The Ten Commandments, Macy resolves, for the sake of authenticity, to break them. Blaming, blaspheming, coveting, dishonouring, lying, stealing, and worshipping shiny stuff all come easy, but then she kills – and kills again.
Traumatised by her potential parricide, Macy goes on the run: faking adulthood in London, blurring art and death in Paris, escaping undercover in Arabia, raising the bar in Brooklyn.
Pursued by a coterie of vengeful cast-offs, Macy craves her calm, cool Mr Fairclough, but having lost his star pupil, he too has eschewed education for misadventures of his own.
If nurture is absent, will nature take its course? Can Macy find redemption in the chaos of her life? And how will she ‘complete the set’ with The Seventh Commandment still unbroken?
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Takh - The Spirit
“I have always loved animals. My constant encounters with both domesticated and wild, as a boy in a village, impressed me for life.”
Nikos Savvakis
In this modern-day equivalent of a medieval bestiary, Nikos Savvakis casts an admiring, occasionally quizzical eye over the creatures with whom we share this world.
Among others, frogs, pigeons, hedgehogs and the ‘princely’ octopus are presented in an unexpected light. Man’s best friend provides moments of both comedy and sorrow, while the title poem ‘Takh – The Spirit’ is in praise of that most magnificent of human allies, the horse.
Showcasing their author’s gift for arresting but appropriate imagery, these slyly witty poems are sure to delight animal-lovers everywhere.£7.99 -
Tales (Tails) from the Magic Meadow
Little Sophia had trouble going to sleep until the day she found out that right outside her bedroom window there is a Magic Meadow, where lots of animals and insects are having some fantastic adventures.
To meet them and join them, all she has to do is close her eyes …
You don’t believe me? Just ask the Peartree Princess!
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Tales from Here and There
From country bars, back seats of cars
and colonies on Mars,
there’s tales to be told.
Three dozen such tales spanning irony,
pathos and humour from here and there
are presented in no particular order.So, start anywhere
for your first ten minutes of distraction
from the cares of life.£8.99 -
Tales from the Broom Cupboard
Joe and Alex have new adventures during lockdown when they discover a time machine under the stairs. With their newfound friends, Flash, a cheetah and Slither, a python, they travel all over the galaxy, past, present and future, meeting amazing people and having a great time as their pets develop magic powers. Meet Mr Leek and the Little People with the boys as they discover new worlds.
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Tales of the Forest, the Mountain and the Garden
Tales is a storybook of allegories where animals and humans confront and overcome hard decisions. The UNICORN is feared by other animals until a forest fire gives him the opportunity to show that he is not only one of them, but also their saviour. In NINE WILD PIGLETS, the runt of the litter, through cleverness and cunning, overcomes all odds and becomes the leader of all his siblings. In ONE HUNDRED SQUIRRELS, three armies, Red, Gray and Black, are set to fight to the death for a cottage-sized section of the Forest until four yellow squirrels convince them of the futility of war. In the last story, ONE MILLION BEETLES, all the animals of the Forest and their Hunters meet on the night of The Moon of Blood and, through the intervention of the light of these million fireflies, form an understanding for everlasting peace between them.
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Tales Of The Hove Amber Cup
During roadworks in Hove, a Bronze Age tomb of exceptional size was unearthed. Inside was an oak tree coffin containing the skeleton of a tall male, and accoutrements showing him to have been of high social status. There was a bronze dagger, an axe and a whetstone. Resting on his breastbone he held a cup, shaped like a modern item of breakfast crockery but with a rounded base. It was made of Baltic amber. Who was this person? Why was the cup made of amber so dear to him? Amber, that offspring of sunshine and trees, has the Baltic Sea as a godmother. How did he come by it? Was he a trader? How far did he travel? Did he bring home new ideas together with exciting spices and artefacts no one there had seen before? All answers can only be speculative conjectures. The cup having been found in Hove does prove though, that Albion had contact with the Baltic Sea. Tales of the Hove Amber Cup is a celebration of this 3000-year-old British treasure.
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Tales of Travels and Trains
Jim Nicholls takes readers on a journey like no other. Visit places as remote as the Zulu battlefields in South Africa, learn about an inventor who made the first heavier-than-air flight before the Wright brothers, and take in an Easter church service in a small Portuguese town.
All this and more are held together by tales of trains ranging from a tiny rail motor in the Queensland outback to a wild ride in Borneo. Experience Switzerland and America from the windows of a train.
Train travel opens a window on the world, allowing a visual eavesdropping and intrusion into a country’s backyard that, if done in any other form, would probably result in arrest. Trains have it all, they convert the journey into the adventure. Real people travel on trains.
Discussing with a young girl from New Zealand how one meets interesting and friendly people on such journeys, she neatly summed it up: ‘Yeah, how many nice people do you ever meet on an aeroplane?’
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Tales of Tynant
An 11-acre plot of land on a remote hillside in mid-Wales and its current guardians come together to witness the everyday, sometimes magical, sometimes bizarre goings on; from mating frogs and marauding otters in the pond to the daredevil swallows and RAF pilots above; from Roland the debonair pheasant to Dixie the drag queen who lost their way. Tina Hughes’ stories and illustrations bring to life an uplifting escape to the much-loved land of Tynant.
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Tanka Cavalcade
Tanka Cavalcade is a book of poetry on a variety of topics in Tanka form. Many of the poems are ekphrastic, inspired by paintings, photography, dance choreography, and classical music. This includes a tribute to American opera star the late Jessye Norman. Beauty and grace are found all over this book where readers will enjoy their unique perspectives. In addition, different ideas showing internal sensations are used with deep, moving intelligence that are fresh in the poetry genre. Methods, such as the meaning of names, use different languages put a special touch to poems’ meaning.
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Tarmea
For generations now, Toli’s island has known nothing but peace and prosperity. But suddenly, the son of an old enemy, who holds this royal lineage after the demise of his father, returns to wreak havoc and enslave the occupants of the island. However, unknown to themselves, the peaceful islanders have a secret ally, a powerful ally: through lucky coincidence and the attention of their allies, the catalyst for a new empire is created. First, the invader must be dealt with. Sorcerers, lords and mages all vie for power against each other, but they have not reckoned with this approaching, irrepressible force.
With plots, subplots, love, hate, genius and characters who surprise, Tarmea shows the forming of an unintentional empire, one that must end this new threat forever.
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Tawny and Cree: The Schinas Saga
Freedom has a price and with Tawny and Cree both choosing freedom, they now need to escape Albania before they are made to pay for it. On the run and heading to a new place filled with new enemies, Tawny, Cree, Solon, Tiffany, and Fanny will face many new challenges.
The daughter of an Italian Mafia boss, a fight for control of a Minotaur Clan that contain both friends and foes and deadly conflict all confronts the group. Can they survive the new threats and turn these problems into opportunities, or will they be crushed in the process?
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