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My Pet Elephant
Josh is a kind boy who has a pet baby elephant who loves to play with Josh. However, elephant’s trunk begins to twitch and twirl and twist. CRASH! BASH! CLASH! The poor elephant hasn’t learnt to control the clumsy trunk so there’s plenty of trunk trouble along the way. Will elephant ever learn to control the tricky trunk?
This is a wonderful picture book story for pre-schoolers and young children to share and enjoy with somebody. Have fun counting cubes, spotting colours, and matching socks in the colourful illustrations.
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My Pet Zebra
This is a wonderful picture book story for pre-schoolers and young children to share and enjoy with somebody. Have fun counting sheep, flowers, flags, balls, stripes and spotting shapes in the colourful illustrations.
Claire is a friendly girl who lives in the countryside with her wonderful pet zebra. She loves her pet zebra and they love riding together.
Early one morning, Claire and her pet zebra go out for a ride and see all sorts of things on their journey. They gallop up a hill and come across an enormous striped tent. To their surprise it’s a travelling circus!
However, the ringmaster tells Max that his daring horse tricks act will have to be cancelled. Luckily Claire has an idea that could help the horse act go on. It will take team work and plenty of practice. Will Claire and her amazing pet zebra succeed in the circus show? Read this lovely entertaining story to find out!
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My Teacher's a Robot!
With wide, cold eyes, a clenched jaw, and superhuman strength, something's not right about new teacher Miss Ironside.
Will quickly realises... she's a robot!
One by one, his classmates are being brainwashed after school.
Will and his friends must act fast to save everyone before it's too late!£4.99 -
My Wife’s Canary
Miles Maskell has lived a varied and adventurous life, and has travelled widely as amply demonstrated in his anecdotes. He has been a City of London wine merchant, owned two restaurants and a champagne bar, and eventually created a company letting top-of-the-range properties in southern France on behalf of their owners.
He has climbed mountains, shot wild boar in Poland, piloted a 4-seater aircraft of which he was a part-owner, parachuted in New Zealand, and ridden the Cresta Run in St Moritz. He is also a sculptor.
Written as a lighthearted and easy-to-read series of anecdotes, this is his autobiography and recounts some of the more entertaining experiences of his life to date, as well as a number of amusing incidents encountered by his relations and closest friends.
He was born in London where he continues to live, having been at school in Cape Town and then at Cambridge University.
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Myriam Von Bacterium
Somewhere in a human’s intestine, in the middle of a busy city of bacteria, a mother is sending her daughter Myriam to her first day of school. Despite being quite hopeful about her first day, things don’t turn out as she expected. Myriam will learn how to make friends and deal with bullies, all while learning more about types of bacteria.
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Napoleon: Guillotine
King Louis is imprisoned. The Republican faction in Paris is growing stronger as the beat of the snare begins to ring in the ears of Europe. To quell the seething discontent of threats inside and outside of France, Napoleon is dragged into supporting a regime that has thrown away any pretence of Liberty in its quest to cover the globe. All the while Napoleon is forced to challenge his own traditions and overcome the pain of betrayal and exile from his home, to continually prove loyalty to a country that spurns him still. As the blade rasps down and the cruelty of those he serves becomes even more difficult to justify, Napoleon must strive to preserve his exiled family and navigate the unconscionable. As France struggles to survive the onslaught of foreign invasion, Napoleon must conquer an inner turmoil so raw and powerful that it drove him to the siege of Toulon and the beginning of greatness.
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Narrative Reflections
Rosemary's Narrative Reflections luminates the darkness which cancer thrusts upon all God's Sentient beings - including mankind.
Reflective, subconscious memories of significant, fragmented dreamscape visions. Dreams that personify her sense of aloneness, delightfully portrayed within stanzas.
Philosophic, ethical, and deeply thought out analysis of cancer's impact upon the mental and physical well-being.
An empathic voice, which echoes with unequivocal optimism, that mankind can defeat cancer; given the scientific, innovative advances.
A powerful and thought provoking chronicle of sympathetic poems combined with philosophical, mythological shadowings.
Cancer Warriors' hopes and dreams for the future are confronted with optimism, and a united sense of camaraderie.
“Clap hands, in tribute to all cancer warriors.”
For during this COVID19 Pandemic- you have all:
‘Fought, the good fight, with all your, might.’
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Next
Stories should interest you, touch you, move you. There are 134 in ‘Next’. Many, possibly even most, will do just that. ‘Youth’, ‘love’, ‘life’, ‘death’, and so much more. Stories often relevant to you, your life, past and future. Stories very readable, memorable.
‘Next’ is generous, a friend you will want to spend time with. A book to keep beside your favourite chair, beside your bed. A friend to meet up with often over the years. Rather special, rather out of the ordinary.
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Nicholas and Alexandra Majesties and Massacre
This is a book about love, life and death set in Russia, during Czar Nicholas the II’s reign. It commences at the end of the 19th century with his father’s burial and his subsequent inheritance of the Crown – with absolute power. His reign is underpinned by the strong love between him and his wife Alexandra and overshadowed by the presence of Rasputin.
But his unwise decisions lead to chaos, including the Khadynka Tragedy, Bloody Sunday, 1905 revolution and the Czar’s abdication. His family is imprisoned, first in Tobolsk and then in Ekaterinburg, and the story concludes with the communists obtaining power and executing the entire royal family.
Become entangled in the tales of love, hate, conflict, sex, treachery, and murder between the characters. Dive into a horrifying historical moment from one hundred years ago and experience for yourself life at a crucial turning point in Russia’s bloody history.
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Nightingale
Have you ever seriously listened to the chirping of a bird? Have you ever listened to the wonderful sounds of nature? There was an ordinary-looking little bird that saved the soul and life of an emperor with its beautiful and touching singing.
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Noah's Super Autism
Autism is super. Autism is cool.
I'm the same as you.
This is a lovely book about a young boy called Noah, who has autism.
In this book, Noah tells us what it's like to live with autism. He is an inspiration to other boys and girls who have the same condition. It will teach them that they can achieve anything, even despite having autism. It’s a super uplifting story of determination.
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Noah, Blue and the Scooter That Flew
A story about a flying scooter? Whatever next?
Scooters can't fly…but Noah’s can. In fact, Noah’s can fly thousands of miles in the blink of an eye, to anywhere in the world.
When a little penguin, named Blue, becomes lost, Noah takes him all over the world on a captivating adventure to help him find his family again. Will Blue find them in the depths of the Egyptian pyramids, or swinging with the baboons in the African Jungle? They have to be somewhere in the world, don’t they?
Join Noah, Blue and the rest of the gang in this enchanting story about never giving up on your loved ones...£10.99
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