Dictatorland - The Men Who Stole Africa
A vivid, heartbreaking portrait of the fate that so many Afr...
The Athena Doctrine: How Women (and the Men Who Think L...
The Athena Doctrine: How Women (and the Men Who Think Like T...
In the Name of Rome - The Men Who Won the Roman Empire
The Roman army was one of the most effective fighting forces...
Makeshift Miracle Book 2 The Boy Who Stole Everything H...
Colby has fallen into a surreal realm of dream and imaginati...
Makeshift Miracle Book 2 The Boy Who Stole Everything H...
Colby has fallen into a surreal realm of dream and imaginati...
What Goes Around - If you could get revenge on the woma...
A gripping psychological thriller for fans of Lisa Jewell an...
Crew - The story of the men who flew RAAF Lancaster J f...
On the evening of 24 February 1944, RAAF Lancaster bomber J ...
The Men Who Made the SAS - The History of the Long Rang...
Established in June 1940, the Long Range Desert Group was th...
Flak - True Stories from the Men who Flew in World War ...
Michael Veitchs life-long obsession with the aircraft of t...
The Forgotten 500 - The Untold Story of the Men Who Ris...
In 1944, the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen who...
The Men Who Came Out of the Ground - A gripping account...
By February 1942 the Japanese had invaded the Dutch East Ind...
Dictatorland - The Men Who Stole Africa
The Camel Who Crossed Australia
Third in Jackie Frenchs Animal Stars series, featuring the animals who contributed to historys most famous events. the story of the famous Burke and Wills expedition
as it has never been told before the humans called him Bell Sing, but to the other camels he is known as He Who Spits Further than the Wind. transported from the mountains and deserts of the Northwest Frontier (p...
Something in the Blood - The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
An essential examination (New York Times Book Review), this revelatory biography exhumes the haunted origins of the man behind the immortal myth. In this sumptuous (Publishers Weekly) portrait of the man who birthed an undying cultural icon, David J. Skal pulls back the curtain to reveal the author who dreamed up this vampire (Time). A fascinating character whose own anxieties and ...
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton A mans brain is a bomb, he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A mans brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Sym...
The Boy Who Cried Vampire - A Graphic Novel
In Transylvania, a boy cries
vampire! Young Ion is bored by life in the village. So to spice things up, the imaginative prankster runs false vampire drills, much to the annoyance of the villagers. But one night, a shadow passes by Ions window. This time its no joke. Its a REAL vampire! Have all of Ions fibs come back to bite him, or can the boy find a way out of this batty situation? In ...
The Boy Who Set Sail on a Questionable Quest
Princess Lois has been kidnapped by Anatoly the Handsome, who wants to marry her. Cue damsel in distress to be rescued by none other than our own heroic Blart. He sets out on the good ship The Golden Pig with Olaf the innocent who believes what everyone says all the time and Kupverstich the Strange an explorer-come-scientist whose ingenious explanations for the natural world have one ...
The Man Who Was Thursday - Green Popular Penguins
G.K. Chestertons 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a detective story filled with poetry and politics. Gabriel Syme is a poet and a police detective. Lucian Gregory is a poet and a bomb-throwing anarchist. Syme infiltrates a secret meeting of anarchists and becomes Thursday, one of the seven members of the Central Anarchist Council. He soon learns, ho...
The Man Who Listens to Horses
Monty Roberts is a real-life horse whisperer-an American original whose gentle Join-Up® training method reveals the depth of communication possible between man and animal. He can take a wild, high-strung horse who has never before been handled and persuade that horse to accept a bridle, saddle, and rider in thirty minutes. His powers may seem like magic, but his amazing horse sense is based o...
Doctor Who - The Doctor Who Book of Whoniversal Records
The Doctor Who Book of Whoniversal Records is a celebration of the greatest and strangest achievements from the brilliant, impossible world of Doctor Who. Bursting with firsts and bests both human and alien from the biggest explosion in the universe to the first human to time-travel; from the longest fall through space to the shortest life-form that ever lived this book will answer all...
Sons and Soldiers - The Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned for Retribution
The story of young German Jews who escaped the Nazis, most often without their families, only to return a few years later to war-torn Europe as members of an elite secret U.S. Army unit. The young men who would become known as The Ritchie Boys arrived in America as enemy aliens, and although they were allowed to enlist in the U.S. military, they were distrusted by everyone. So, in effect,...
The Puppy who was Left Behind
A brand new tale in the Animal Stories series from best-selling author, Holly Webb. The Puppy Who Was Left Behind is the 25th book in Holly Webbs Animal Stories series, a must for any puppy loving, Holly Webb fan. Anna and her new puppy, Fred, go to spend time on her grandparents canal boat during the summer holidays. Anna loves the boat, and so does Fred, but her grandparents have a black ...
The Cow Who Climbed a Tree
Tina isnt like the other cows. She believes that the sky is the limit, that everything is possible. But her sisters arent convinced and when Tina tells them she has climbed a tree and met a dragon, they decide that her nonsense has gone too far. Off they go into the woods to find her
and soon discover a world of surprises! A richly atmospheric, thoughtful and funny picture book from rising...
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA tells of a band of savage thirteen-year-old boys who reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call ojectivity. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ships officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he...
If He's Not the One, Who Is? - What Went Wrong - and What it Takes to Find Mr. Right
He was the one who made her think differently about men. He was the one she could see herself with-forever. He was the one, right?Wrong. In this unique modern girls breakup book, young women will be propelled to move on and find Mr. Right by taking part in a two-step process. By first examining the mistakes of the failed relationship to getting up the nerve to date again, this isnt just about ...
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
From the master of spy thrillers, John le Carres The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a gripping story of love and betrayal at the height of the Cold War. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an afterword by the author and an introduction by William Boyd, author of Any Human Heart. Alex Leamas is tired. Its the 1960s, hes been out in the cold for years, spying in the shadow of the ...
What Goes Around - If you could get revenge on the woman who stole your husband - would you do it?
A gripping psychological thriller for fans of Lisa Jewell and C.L Taylor. 500 five star Goodreads rating Once you start reading, you wont want to stop. Two women, two secrets, one murder
If someone took away your perfect life, how far would you go to get it back? Ellens family is her world. So when her husband leaves her for another woman, she is almost destroyed. But not quite, beca...
Liberty - The Spy Who (Kind of ) Liked Me
What is a heroPaige Nolan knows.Sean Raynes, the young man who exposed Americas unconstitutional spying techniques, is a hero, even if half the dum-dums in the country think hes a traitor. And her journalist parents, who were captured by terrorists while telling stories of the endangered and oppressed-they were heroes, too. Were . . . or are-no one has ever told Paige if theyre still alive, ...
The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep - A New Way of Getting Children to Sleep
The groundbreaking No. 1 bestseller is sure to turn nightly bedtime battles into a loving and special end-of-day ritual. This child-tested, parent-approved story uses an innovative technique that brings a calm end to any childs day. Do you struggle with getting your child to fall asleep? Join parents all over the world who have embraced The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep as their new nightly ...
Family Wisdom from the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
An absorbing, insightful story from Robin Sharma, bestselling author and internationally-renowned life coach, which unfolds the secrets to living a loving, successful and fulfilled life. Catherine, a top businesswoman with a young family, is the sister of Julian Mantle, the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. After being involved in a life-threatening accident, Catherine realises that, regardless of how h...
The Man Who Loved Children
The Man Who Loved Children is Christina Steads masterpiece about family life. Set in Washington during the 1930s, Sam and Henny Pollit are a warring husband and wife. Their tempestuous marriage, aggravated by too little money, lies at the centre of Steads satirical and brilliantly observed novel about the relations between husbands and wives, and parents and children. Sam, a scientist, uses wo...
The Ghosts Who Danced - and other spooky stories
Unique, illustrated collection of ghost stories for children 6+. Ten deliciously spooky ghost stories from all over the world are perfectly matched by Paul Hesss atmospheric and witty illustrations. The stories included are: The Ghost Ship (USA); Dogs to the Rescue (Russia); Ill Be Back (Lithuania); The Ghosts Who Danced (Ireland); The Haunted Farmouse (England); Them Bananas (Tanzania); Welco...
The Shadow Men - The leaders who shaped the Australian Army from the Veldt to Vietnam
Australian military history is full of heroes big names that loom large in the public memory of the nations wartime experiences, like Monash, Chauvel, Jacka and Blamey. There is no question that these famous figures of the Australian Army are important, but their story is not the only story. There are also the individuals who shaped the history of the Australian Army in the 20th century, as ...