Adult Ed.'> When a letter arrives for unhappy but ordinary Harry Potter, a decade-old secret is revealed to him that apparently he's the last to know. His parents were wizards, killed by a Dark Lord's curse when Harry was just a baby, and which he somehow survived. Escaping his hideous Muggle guardians for Hogwarts, a wizarding school brimming with ghosts and enchantments, Harry stumbles upon a sinister adventure when he finds a three-headed dog guarding a ...

Serena lebt mit ihrem Vater und ihren Ziegen in Frip, einer kleinen Stadt am Meer. Doch in Frip gibt es ein Problem - die Gapper. Gapper sind niedliche tennisballgroße orangefarbene Wesen. Aber Gapper lieben Ziegen. Sie stürzen sich mit einem schrillen Freudenschrei auf sie, sobald sie eine entdecken. Dummerweise ist Capables Ziegenweide am besten zu erreichen. Und Serena muss Tag für Tag ihre Ziegen von den lästigen Gappern befreien. Ihre ...

The sequel to "Powder Monkey", continuing the epic seafaring adventure set in the 1800s, following the fortunes of young Sam Witchall, transported to Australia for a crime he didn't commit. 'Prepare to have your timbers well and truly shivered by Paul Dowswell and his naval warfare novels, already hailed as 'Patrick O'Brian' for kids' "The Scotsman" Ages: 9-11yrs.
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The personality, technology, industry and history that have shaped the English domestic house. 20 houses from around the country, each focusing on a different period of history.
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It's just before New Year, and Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's nightlife. But, Frank's behaviour is so odd that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: his client may in fact have murderous desires. ...

A wonderfully inventive mystery and adventure story, starring an unforgettable hero and a cast of eclectic characters. Ages: 9-11yrs.
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By the author of the best-selling "Dresden", this is an examination of the barrier which ruthlessly cut a city of four million in two. Coming to symbolise the brutal insanity of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall appeared suddenly during the summer of 1961, and plunged the world into the fear of a missile- borne apocalypse. This definitive account reveals the chilling story of how the system was conceived, extended, adapted and strengthened over 30 ...

In 1939 on the campus of Indiana University, a revolution has begun. The stir is caused by Alfred Kinsey, a zoologist who is determined to take sex out of the bedroom. John Milk, a freshman, is enthralled by the professor's daring lectures and over the next two decades becomes Kinsey's right hand man. But Kinsey teaches Milk more than the art of objective enquiry. Behind closed doors, he is a sexual enthusiast of the highest order and as a ...

This new collection of short stories from T. C. Boyle finds him at his mercurial best. Inventive, wickedly funny, sometimes disturbing, these are stories about drop-outs, deadbeats and kooks. Take the man who shares his apartment with a wildcat won in a drunken bet; the drive-time shock jock hallucinating from sleep deprivation for a publicity stunt; the suburban woman who joins a pack of dogs, eating rabbits and baying at the moon. With a ...

The fascinating story of a famous Victorian murder case, and the notorious detective who solved it. In 1860, Jonathan Whicher, the celebrated detective, arrived at Road Hill in Somerset to investigate a horrifying murder. Savill Kent, the 3 year old son of a factory inspector, had been decapitated and thrust down an outside privy. The blueprint for "The Moonstone" and Conan Doyle's Holmes, the murder and the detective shocked and appalled the ...