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Elmo and his sister love playing in the jungle house next door...that is, until mean old Mr Birdsnest moves in. But when it appears that Mr Birdsnest has kidnapped the children's grandma they must sneak back in to rescue her! A delightful and cleverly written story by the Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson.

In this hilarious collection, you'll find essays like “Thoughts About My First Agent’s Girlfriend’s Vagina”, wherein Olivia skewers what it’s like to live in Hollywood. In “Sex: What You Can Do to Help Yourself Have More of It”, she frankly gets down to the business of getting it on, including advice on how to appropriately wrap it and bag it.

In “What to Do When the Robots Invade (Yes, When!)” Olivia offers valuable information on...what to do when the robots invade!

How to master the art of manipulation to improve your career and work life and have more successful personal relationships. The word manipulation gets a bad rap, but what it’s really about is understanding human thought patterns and behaviors. Maybe you’re a manager having a hard time getting your team members to listen to you.

Sophie Rogers finds it easy to focus on the important things in life. Like her daughter, her job and her family. So when Joe, another single parent at school suggests they fake a romance to help them both out of a fix, she throws herself in. But then Sophie starts to look forward to seeing Joe. In fact, she’s thinking about his floppy hair, Irish accent and the way his lips felt when they grazed hers (her commitment to this is exceptional) more than their synced calendars and staged socials.

When a teenage girl is found brutally murdered, DS Amelie Davis struggles to keep her own trauma from clouding the investigation. After suffering years of abuse at the hands of her father, Amelie has only ever trusted one man—her husband, Edward. In the middle of the night, she receives a phone call from an unknown number. The voice at the other end asks: Do you think you know your husband?

My husband set rules for whom I slept with. No one we know. Use a fake name. Never sleep over. Check emotions at the door. Don’t tell him about any of it. I followed his rules religiously. Until him. Until he made me break every rule. When my husband comes face-to-face with my mystery man, he's livid. Because they've already met. Now I’m caught between the man I love and the man that sets my soul on fire. They’re both asking me to make a decision. But how do I choose between two pieces of my heart?

Jane Randall questioned for the hundredth time as the rickety bus bumped over what looked like little more than a cow path, why she’d taken the job as an assistant for the most spoiled actress in Hollywood? Oh right, the money and glamor. A chance to spend Christmas in London.

One of the most celebrated and important authors of the 20th century, Doris Lessing was awarded a Nobel Prize for the ‘visionary power’ of her fiction, which spans a variety of genres and explores themes such as racism, feminism and social and political upheaval. This collection includes the radio productions of three of her acclaimed novels and four short stories, as well as a fascinating discussion of her life and work.

Maggie is trapped. Dumped on her wedding day, rejected by her family and hounded by a man determined to make her suffer. Charlotte is desperate. Double-crossed by her only friend and facing total ruin, she will go to any lengths to save what matters. Two women, one night. A decision that will change everything.

Seventeen-year-old Aria is bored of her small town and dreams of a life filled with excitement and adventure. She’s about to learn the meaning of “be careful what you wish for”. After a chilling encounter at the local summer fair, Aria is ripped from her normal life and dragged through the Veil into the Fair Realm by a strange, silver-eyed boy and his band of fairy soldiers. They believe she is the legendary Fair Queen, the subject of a prophecy that promises to unite the war-ravaged realm and bring an end to the centuries-long conflict between the Five Kingdoms.

Imagine taking a hike along the windswept red plains of Mars to dig for signs of life or touring one of Jupiter's 64 moons, where you can photograph its swirling storms. For a shorter trip on a tight budget, the moon is quite majestic and very quiet if you can make it during the off-season. Packed with real-world science, The Vacation Guide to the Solar System is the must-have planning guide for the curious space adventurer, covering all of the essentials for your next voyage, how to get there, and what to do when you arrive.

¿Y si te enamoraras de la persona menos indicada?¿Lo arriesgarías todo por una posibilidad? Él nunca lo ha tenido fácil y esconde su vulnerabilidad tras una apariencia despreocupada.

After her husband's death, Mrs. Dashwood and her children left their beloved home and moved to Barton estate. Two of her daughters - eligible young women - though different in character, are equally seeking happiness and love. The emotional, impulsive Marianne dreams of a charming, sensitive man who enjoys the same books as she does. The gentle and sensible Eleanor will give her heart only to a calm and responsible person. Unfortunately, the world - ruled by social position and money instead of true feelings - may painfully disappoint these charming, trusting women...

Algunos amores durarán hasta el último suspiro. Toda elección tiene sus consecuencias, y Layla tiene que hacer frente a elecciones especialmente complicadas. Luz u oscuridad. Roth, el diabólicamente sexy príncipe de los demonios, o Zayne, el atractivo Guardián que nunca creyó que podría ser suyo. Sin embargo, la elección más complicada que debe tomar Layla es en qué parte de sí misma debe con ar. Además, Layla tendrá que hacer frente a un nuevo problema. Un Lilin, el demonio más letal de todos, anda suelto, y está creando caos entre aquellos que la rodean, incluyendo a su mejor amiga.

We've all had sleepless nights thinking about it. You're home alone. Someone breaks in. In defending yourself, you end up killing the intruder. Now you're the one the police want. That is the situation that criminal barrister Paul Reeve arrives home to find. His wife, Alice, stands in the bedroom, clutching a bloodied letter opener in her shaking hand. 'What have you done, Alice?' 'I didn't have a choice....' We would all believe the person we love most.

Jill Homer, a newspaper editor in Alaska, has an outlandish ambition: a 2,740-mile mountain bike race along the rugged Continental Divide. But Jill's dream starts to unravel the minute she sets it in motion. An accident during a race on the Iditarod Trail results in serious frostbite. As she struggles with painful recovery and uncertainties about leaving a good job to pursue a seemingly impossible pipe dream, her employer hands down an offer she can't refuse.

In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster among them. But one of the paper’s defining voices was Virginia Woolf, who produced a string of superb essays between the two World Wars. The weirdness of Elizabethan plays, the pleasure of revisiting favourite novels, the supreme examples of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Henry James, Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad.

En los lugares más bellos pueden cometerse los asesinatos más deleznables. Cuenta la leyenda del parque del Monasterio de Piedra que este surgió tras una batalla entre ángeles y demonios, una lucha que ganó el bien sobre el mal... hasta la reciente aparición de un cadáver en una de sus grutas. Un asesino y un equipo de investigación de la Guardia Civil revivirán ahora esa contienda en este thriller policíaco ambientado en uno de los lugares más turísticos de la provincia de Zaragoza. ¿Quién vencerá esta vez?

Una brillante colección de ensayos que abarca desde la deuda pública hasta la naturaleza de la ciencia ficción y la crisis climática.

It's a world like our own, but the emergence of superhumans has created shifts in culture that play out in changes both subtle and monumental.Those who share their abilities with the world do so for a price: either as superheroes, public-facing protectors; or as operators, who work from the shadows. They are...For Hire.