Collins Easy Learning Reading Age 3-5 develops literacy skills. Its colourful motivating activities make learning fun. Helpful tips and answers are included to help support learning. Hours of fun activities builds literacy skills, boosts confidence, develops a love of learning. Collins Easy Learning Reading Age 3-5 develops early literacy skills to get children ready for preschool. Easy to use-small chunks of information are easy to absorb and clear sign posting shows the way. Easy to learn-every activity is highly practical allowing children to learn by doing. Easy to remember-engaging and fun activities help children retain information.

Collins Easy Learning Shapes, colour and patterns Age 3-5 develops numeracy skills. Its colourful motivating activities make learning fun. Helpful tips and answers are included to help support learning. Hours of fun activities builds literacy skills, boosts confidence, develops a love of learning. Collins Easy Learning Shapes, colours and patterns Age 3-5 develops early numeracy skills to get children ready for preschool. Easy to use-small chunks of information are easy to absorb and clear sign posting shows the way. Easy to learn-every activity is highly practical allowing children to learn by doing. Easy to remember-engaging and fun activities help children retain information.

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From the author of 'Blonde', 'The Falls' and 'We Were the Mulvaneys', this new novel takes in the themes of race, immigration, family and social mobility, and is Joyce Carol Oates at her storytelling best. 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' tells the tale of Rebecca Schwart, born in the late 1930s to an immigrant family from Nazi Germany, just as they are arriving to America. The family settles in a small, bleak town in upstate New York, where the only job the father can get is as the town gravedigger and caretaker of the cemetery. Soon the town's prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty results in unspeakable tragedy. In the wake of this loss, and in an attempt to put her past behind her, young Rebecca Schwart moves on, across America and through a series of listless marriages, in search of somewhere, and someone, to whom she can belong.

From the top of your head to the tips of your toes Learn all about health from a cool cat who knows! In this delightful book, Dr. Seuss' famous Cat in the Hat explains to young readers all the different ways to stay healthy. This title and others form part of a series of books that takes an off-beat look at nature and natural sciences through a fun combination of Seussian rhymes and zany illustrations. Aimed at early readers — from four to seven year olds — the books are designed to bridge the gap between concept books written for preschoolers and more formal non fiction titles that require fluent reading skills. By presenting the facts in a lively and rhythmic manner, they provide the critical foundation upon which complex facts and ideas can eventually be built.

From the top of your head to the tips of your toes Learn all about health from a cool cat who knows! In this delightful book, Dr. Seuss' famous Cat in the Hat explains to young readers all the different ways to stay healthy. This title and others form part of a series of books that takes an off-beat look at nature and natural sciences through a fun combination of Seussian rhymes and zany illustrations. Aimed at early readers — from four to seven year olds — the books are designed to bridge the gap between concept books written for preschoolers and more formal non fiction titles that require fluent reading skills. By presenting the facts in a lively and rhythmic manner, they provide the critical foundation upon which complex facts and ideas can eventually be built.

The first volume in a noirish, gritty urban fantasy for adults from the bestselling author otherwise known as Darren Shan. Quick-witted and cocksure, young upstart Capac Raimi arrives in the City determined to make his mark. As he learns the tricks of his new trade from his Uncle Theo — extortion, racketeering, threatening behaviour — he's soon well on his way to becoming a promising new gangster. Then he crosses paths with The Cardinal, and his life changes forever. The Cardinal is the City and the City is The Cardinal. They are joined at the soul. Nothing moves on the streets, or below them, without the Cardinal's knowledge. His rule is absolute. As Capac begins to discover more about the extent of the Cardinal's influence on his own life he is faced with hard choices. And as his ambition soars ever higher he will learn all there is to know about loss, and the true cost of ultimate power!

Master storyteller Neil Gaiman presents a breathtaking collection of tales for younger readers that may chill or amuse, but that always embrace the unexpected: Humpty Dumpty's sister hires a private detective to investigate her brother's death. A teenage boy who has trouble talking to girls finds himself at a rather unusual party. A boy raised in a graveyard makes a discovery, and confronts the much more troubling world of the living.

A journalist bearing terrible news leaps from a still-moving train into a small town of wonderful, impossible secrets...The doomed crew of a starship follows their blind, mad captain on a quest into deepest space to joust with destiny, eternity, and God Himself...Now and Forever is a bold new work from an incomparable artist whose stories have reshaped America's literary landscape. Two bewitching novellas — each distinctly different, yet uniquely Bradbury — demonstrate the breathtaking range of his undimmed talent and the irrepressible vitality of the mind, spirit, and heart of America's preeminent storyteller.

Rule № 3: Don't stare at invisible faeries. Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty — especially if they learn of her Sight — and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens. Rule № 2: Don't speak to invisible faeries. Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring, is trying to talk to her, asking questions Aislinn is afraid to answer. Rule № 1: Don't ever attract their attention. But it's too late. Keenan is the Summer King who has sought his queen for nine centuries. Without her, summer itself will perish. He is determined that Aislinn will become the Summer Queen at any cost — regardless of her plans or desires. Suddenly none of the rules that have kept Aislinn safe are working anymore, and everything is on the line: her freedom; her best friend, Seth; her life; everything, Faerie intrigue, mortal love, and the clash of ancient rules and modern expectations swirl together in Melissa Marr's stunning 21st century faery tale.

Collins Easy Learning ABC Age 3-5 develops literacy skills. Its colourful motivating activities make learning fun. Helpful tips and answers are included to help support learning. — hours of fun activities; — builds literacy skills; — boosts confidence; — develops a love of learning Collins Easy Learning ABC Age 3-5 develops early literacy skills to get children ready for preschool; Easy to use — small chunks of information are easy to absorb and clear sign posting shows the way; easy to learn — every activity is highly practical allowing children to learn by doing; easy to remember — engaging and fun activities help children retain information.

Collins Easy Learning Counting Age 3-5 develops numeracy skills.Its colourful motivating activities make learning fun. Helpful tips and answers are included to help support learning. — hours of fun activities — builds literacy skills — boosts confidence — develops a love of learning Collins Easy Learning Counting Age 3-5 develops early literacy skills to get children ready for preschool. Easy to use — small chunks of information are easy to absorb and clear sign posting shows the way; easy to learn — every activity is highly practical allowing children to learn by doing; easy to remember — engaging and fun activities help children retain information.

«Where do creative people get their ideas? For most, the work of other top creative professionals provides inspiration and supplies a starting point for the creative process. Following its two successful predecessors, «The Big Book of Design Ideas 3» was created for that specific purpose. This volume features design examples from all sorts of projects — books, logos, packaging, posters, annual reports, among, many, many more — each specially selected for its potential to trigger an idea in the mind of the reader. A wide variety of techniques and styles, along with more than 700 illustrations, will spark creativity and lead the designer to a fully-developed original design. With a wealth of information and attention to detail, no designer can afford to be without «The Big Book of Design Ideas 3».»

«The Big Book of Logos 5» shows what's new and compelling in the world of logo design, providing endless inspiration for graphic designers in the critical idea-generating phase. This collection showcases effective logo design from around the world; the variety of styles and techniques on display cover the complete creative spectrum.»

When the stories of a vampire who is writing the biographies of his kin are mistaken for romances, the vampires publisher forces him to go to a romance conventionwhere he finds a romance of his own.

A compulsively readable thriller that skillfully weaves together past and present to uncover the sinister secrets buried in the ancient stone quarries under Bath. Kit Parry is reluctant to take the job shoring up the ancient quarries beneath her hometown of Bath — a place as riddled with memories she'd rather forget as it is with Roman ruins. The miners certainly don't want her there, and her burgeoning romance with lanky foreman Gary looks likely to complicate matters even further. But when dark developments threaten the spa town's placid facade, Kit must face up to the past she's tried so desperately to bury. Someone wants her out of Bath — that much is clear — but who was it that brought her childhood to an abrupt end in the summer of her fourteenth year? Why has she never been back to Bath, and how did she escape her violent father? When Kit stumbles across evidence of a lost Mithraic temple, the mysteries in her own past become entangled with a search for what could be the archaeological discovery of the decade — and what turns into a dangerous obsession!

Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, was one of the most flamboyant and influential women of the eighteenth century. The great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, she was variously a compulsive gambler, a political savante and operator of the highest order, a drug addict, an adulteress and the darling of the common people. This authoritative, utterly absorbing book presents a mesmerizing picture of a fascinating world of political and sexual intrigues, grand houses, huge parties, glamour and great wealth — always on the edge of being squandered by the excesses and scandals of individuals. Georgiana's extraordinary life has now been made into a major film — starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes — which is due for release in summer 2008.

Samantha Willan would rather work than take a vacation, but her sisters won't take no for an answer. Whisked away to the family cottage, things go from bad to worse when the power goes out. Then three very sexy men show up next door, claiming to be in a rock band, and Samantha starts to think this may not have been such a bad idea afterall. The last thing Garrett Mortimer needs is to worry about three mortals. He's on the trail of a rogue vampire and keeping up his cover around these three women is an added headache. Now is not the time to find a lifemate — but Fate has other plans. Mortimer has to find the rogue, help Samantha find her friend who's suddenly gone missing, and convince his destiny that they've gotten it all wrong... before he makes the mistake of falling in love.

In the sleepy English countryside of decades past, a lovelorn young man stepsthrough a gap in a high stone wall, and into the most unforgettable adventureof his life.

The world-wide, mega selling author of Man and Boy is back with a sizzling, Shanghai tale of sex, romance and second wives Hot shot young lawyer Bill Holden and his wife Becca move with their four year old daughter to the booming, gold-rush city of Shanghai, a place of enormous wealth and crushing poverty, where fortunes are made and foreign marriages come apart in spectacular fashion. Bill's law firm houses the Holden family in Paradise Mansions — a luxury apartment block where newly rich Chinese men install their second wives: fabulous young beauties like JinJin Li, ex-school teacher, crossword addict and the Holdens' neighbour. After Becca witnesses a tragedy that awakens her to the reality of life beyond the glitzy surface of the city, she returns temporarily to London with Holly — and Bill and JinJin are thrown together. Bill wants to be a better man than the millionaire who keeps JinJin Li as a second wife on the side. A better man than anyone who cheats. Becca is his best friend. And, in the end, adrift without his young family, can he give JinJin anything better than she had before? My Favourite Wife is a book about where sex, romance and obsession ends, and where true love begins.