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When Leighton Marx is taken at a festival in front of her loved ones, police are quick to label it a random trafficking incident, but Leighton's husband, Owen, and her ex-best-friend, Marnie, suspect there's more to the story. After Marnie meets Sarah, who saw something at the festival that doesn't add up, she starts looking for Leighton herself-only to uncover secrets and inconsistencies surrounding her disappearance that grow deeper and more complicated...
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The gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times top 20 bestseller 'Deliciously twisted' Red'Addictive' Stylist'Atmospheric' Good Housekeeping Having a baby is all about firsts. The first touch. The first kiss. The first cuddle. They mark a lifetime of firsts — including the first goodbye. When Romilly says goodbye to her new baby daughter, abandoning her at the hospital hours after giving birth, no one can understand why she would leave — and...
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Introduce your children to four information books about animals around the world, touching on topics such as migration and animal welfare, plus a bonus animal-themed poetry collection.
· Coral Reefs
· Volcanoes
· Changing Land
· Oceans Alive Bonus track: Mighty Mountains, Swirling Seas
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In this Tenth Anniversary Edition of The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer brings his landmark book up to date. In addition to restating his compelling arguments about how we should respond to extreme poverty, he examines the progress we are making and recounts how the first edition transformed the lives both of readers and the people they helped. Learn how you can be part of the solution, doing good for others while adding fulfillment to your own life....
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Introduce your family to a selection of folk tales from around the world, written especially for children. Filled with sound effects and fun, these stories will introduce your children to a wider world of classic stories.
· How the Elephant Got His Trunk
· East of the Sun
· West of the Moon
· Full Moon Night in Silk Cotton Tree Village
· Little Bear
· The Boy with Wings
· The Boy Who Cried Wolf
· The Firebird
· The King Who Thought he was...
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UK's bestselling language learning audio series. This full course takes you from complete beginner in Italian to complete confidence. It is the perfect companion for holidays and business trips abroad. • Easy to use – fast, flexible and portable• Easy to follow – just listen, speak and learn• Easy to learn – no complex grammar Whether you're a beginner or you want to refresh and build upon your existing knowledge, you can become confident...
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This empowering collection of inspirational essays from some of today's most powerful women in media, entertainment, academia, and sports explores a crucial question: What was the moment you realized you were ready to fight for yourself? Featuring stunning black and white photography and contributions from figures as varied and acclaimed as Joanna Gaines, Soledad O'Brien, Gloria Steinem, and many more.
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Introduce your children to six inspirational true stories about real life explorers and adventurers around the world, from Captain Scott of the Antarctic and Christopher Columbus to modern-day Mount Everest ice climbers.
· Captain Scott: Journey to the South Pole
· Everest Ice Climbers
· Four Desert Challenge
· Great Explorers: Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong
· Himalayas: Bottom to the Top
· My Journey Across the Indian Ocean
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Immerse your children in the fascinating world of Ancient Greece with three classic Greek Myths, written especially for children, and one non-fiction history about the Ancient Greeks.
· Great Greek Myths· Pandora's Box
· The Journey of Odysseus Bonus track: Ancient Greeks and Why They Matter to Us
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In this literary thriller, a young man descends into the Los Angeles underworld to find his family's killer - aided by a group of strangers with their own shadowy past.
When Marty returns to Pennsylvania after living in California for ten years, he's happily welcomed by his father and younger brother, Jody. The joyful reunion is short-lived. Two days later, Jody enters the house to find his father and Marty shot dead as their masked killer flees...
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A collection of essays, oral histories, and artworks about periods across all stages of life, compiled by the editor of the New York Times best-selling anthology My Little Red Book.
Rachel Kauder Nalebuff was a shy teenager, who was embarrassed to talk about anything relating to the body, when she first heard her great aunt's harrowing story of getting her first period while on a train fleeing Nazi-occupied Poland. Rachel started wondering about...
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From author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker's fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women's activist, and intellectual.
For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple....
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UK's bestselling language learning audio series. This full course takes you from complete beginner in French to complete confidence. It is the perfect companion for holidays and business trips abroad. • Easy to use – fast, flexible and portable• Easy to follow – just listen, speak and learn• Easy to learn – no complex grammar Whether you're a beginner or you want to refresh and build upon your existing knowledge, you can become confident...
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Wizards. Prisoners. Preachers. And robots! They stick out. They change the conversation. They challenge the traditional narrative. They are Outcasts-isolated, different, misunderstood. Being normal is nice. But being outcast is a real part of the human experience. Have you ever had the feeling of being alone in some way, of being on the outside looking in? If so, then the characters in these 18 short stories will move you-sometimes by their depravity,...
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Introduce your children to the wonderful world of Shakespearean comedies with these abridged stories, written especially for children. Filled with sound effects, music and fun, your children will come away with a newfound love for these classic stories!
· A Midsummer's Night Dream· The Tempest
· Twelfth Night
· Much Ado About Nothing
· A Comedy of Errors
· The Merchant of Venice
· As You Like it
· The Winter's Tale
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Introduce your children to a selection of classic fairy tales written especially for children. Filled with sound effects and fun, your children will come away with a newfound love for these classic stories!
· Hansel & Gretel
· Jack and the Beanstalk
· The Hare and the Tortoise
· Rumpelstiltskin
· Snow White and Rose Red
· The Selfish Giant
· The Tinderbox
· The Twelve Dancing Princesses
· Dick Whittington
· Puss in Boots
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Introduce your children to six true stories about inspirational women in history, from Boudica to the Suffragettes and the world's first female pilots.
· Boudica· Brave Nurses: Mary Seacole and Edith Cavell
· The Story of the Suffragettes
· The World's First Women Doctors
· Women in the Skies
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In a truly unprecedented literary achievement by author and editor Lawrence Block, this newly-commissioned anthology of seventeen superbly-crafted stories, each inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper. Contributors include Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Olen Butler, Michael Connelly, Megan Abbott, Craig Ferguson, Nicholas Christopher, Jill D. Block, Joe R. Lansdale, Justin Scott, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Warren Moore, Jonathan Santlofer,...