Pope Francis - The Story of the Holy Father
This one-of-a-kind book is a comprehensive biography of the ...
TOTAL CHAOS - The Story of the Stooges
TOTAL CHAOS is the first book telling Iggy Pops story of T...
The Story of the Lost Child - The Neapolitan Novels, Bo...
Winner, Readers Choice Award, International Book of the Ye...
The Story of the Lost Child - The Neapolitan Novels, Bo...
The Story of the Lost Child is the long-awaited fourth volum...
Madame de Villeneuve's the Story of the Beauty and the ...
Think you know the story of Beauty and the Beast? Think ...
Stripes in the Forest - The Story of the Last Wild Thyl...
I am the last of my kind. This I know. Once, we roamed the l...
The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child...
What terrible secret was buried in Shi Huangdis tomb? Did ...
Anne Frank Remembered - The Story of the Woman Who Help...
For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young G...
The Story Orchestra: The Nutcracker - Press the Note to...
Follow Clara on a magical Christmas adventure in this retell...
Boomerang and Bat - The Story of the Real First Eleven
In 1868 a determined team of Aboriginal cricketers set off o...
The Story of the Human Body - Evolution, Health and Dis...
In The Story of the Human Body, Daniel Lieberman, Professor ...
Karana - The Story Of The Father Emu
The Story Of The Orchestra - Listen While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music and the Composers Who Wrote the Mus...
Eye-catching illustrations, an engaging text and delightful musical selections on an accompanying 70-minute CD lead children aged 8 to 12 (and parents too!) on an exciting and educational listen-while-you-learn tour through the instruments and music of the orchestra. The Composers, name by name Baroque Classical Romantic Modern - The Orchestra, instrument by instrument String ...
The Story of The Streets
WINNER OF THE NME BEST BOOK AWARD i> i>This book is going to try and get as close as possible to the full story of what informed the noise of The Streets. Obviously thats something I should be fairly well-qualified to know about, and Im going to be as honest as the publishers lawyers will allow. i> With the 2001 release of The Streets debut single Has It Come To This? the landscape...
Outliers - The Story of Success
Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary? Malcolm Gladwell looks at everyone from rock stars to scientific geniuses to show that the story of success is far more surprising, and inspiring, than we ever imagined. Malcolm Gladwell
has a genius for making everything he writes seem like an impossible adventure Tim Adams, Observer The b...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Vintage Children's Classics
Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesnt mean there isnt an answer to them This is Christophers murder mystery story. There are also no lies in this story because Christopher cant tell lies. Christopher does not like strangers or the colours yellow or brown or being touched. On the other hand, he knows all the countries in the world and their capital cities and every prime number up...
In The Name of the Family - A Times Best Historical Fiction of the Year Book
A Times Best Historical Fiction Book of the YearA Cosmopolitan Best Book of the Year A History Today Book of the Year Dunant has made completely her own the story of the Italys most infamous ruling family . . . in a way that we can see, hear and smell Mark Lawson, Guardian A stunning tale of power and family . . . In Dunants telling of the Borgia story, Lucrezia is not the sluttish pow...
The Nightingale and the Rose
This spectacular new series of artworks by Del Kathryn Barton is inspired by Oscar Wildes classic story The Nightingale and the Rose. The book contains 20 new paintings and drawings by the Archibald winning artist to accompany the words of Wildes timeless tale of love and loss. The theme of ecstatic metamorphosis through song attracted Del Kathryn Barton to this story, where the life of a ...
India Hicks: A Slice of England - The Story of Four Houses
A follow-up to India Hickss New York Times bestselling book, India Hicks: Island Style, India Hicks: A Slice of England is the designers exploration of her British heritage and how she has expressed it in her newly finished English country house in Oxfordshire. The book is divided into two parts. Part one, Legacy, is the story of her familys homes, including the renowned Broadlands estate, a...
The Divine Dance - The Trinity and Your Transformation
The Trinity is supposed to be the central, foundational doctrine of our entire Christian belief system, yet were often told that we shouldnt attempt to understand it because it is a mystery. Should we presume to try to breach this mystery? If we could, how would it transform our relationship with God and renew our lives?The word Trinity is not found in the New Testament-it wasnt until th...
Rabbit and Bear: The Pest in the Nest - Book 2
Rabbits Bad Habits is a breath of fresh air in childrens fiction, a laugh-out-loud story of rabbit and wolf and bear, of avalanches and snowmen. The sort of story that makes you want to send your children to bed early, so you can read it to them. Neil Gaiman From novelist and playwright Julian Gough, and the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, Jim Field, comes a brilliantly funny st...
Anne Frank Remembered - The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here is Miep Giess own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives every day to bring food, news, and emotional support to its victims. From her remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the...
Breaking the Chains of Gravity - The Story of Spaceflight before NASA
NASAs history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But Americas space agency and in particular its Apollo lunar-landing program wasnt created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts, drawing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer. In the 1930s, rockets were all the rage in ...
Bon: The Last Highway - The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back in Black
The death of Bon Scott is the Da Vinci Code of rock. As the legend of the man known around the world simply as Bon has grown with each passing year since his untimely death, AC/DCs trailblazing frontman has become a rock icon. But how much of it is true and how much is myth? At the heart of Bon: The Last Highway: The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DCs Back In Black is a special and unli...
In the Heart of the Sea - The Epic True Story That Inspired `Moby-Dick'
The epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the nineteenth century and inspiration for `Moby-Dick reissued to accompany a major motion picture due for release in December 2015, directed by Ron Howard and starring Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker and Cillian Murphy. When the whaleship Essex set sail from Nantucket in 1819, the unthinkable happened. A mere sp...
Danny the Champion of the World
A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero David Walliams Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the Worlds NUMBER ONE Storyteller! Danny lives in a gipsy caravan with his father, the most marvellous and exciting father any boy ever had.All the land around them belongs to Mr Victor Hazell, a rich snob with a great glistening beery face and tiny piggy eyes. Nobody likes him, not o...
Mother Tongue - The Story of the English Language
More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to
Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English. From its mongrel origins to its status as the worlds most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplicity to its decepti...
Culture is Everything - The story and system of a start-up that became Australia's Best Place To Work
The Story And System Of A Start-Up That Became Australias Best Place To Work Tristan Whites story started like many others. He had a dream to work in a job that inspired him. He didnt find that job, so he created it. In 2004, The Physio Co (TPC) was born with one team member: Tristan White. In the thirteen years since, TPC has become a remarkable healthcare success story based upon fast grow...
The Finest Hours - The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue
The story behind the major motion picture from Disney-starring Chris Pine, Eric Bana, and Casey Affleck-written by a recognized master of the genre-a blockbuster account of tragedy at sea. Its the winter of 1952 and a ferocious Noreaster is pounding New England with howling winds and seventy-foot seas. Two oil tankers get caught in the violent storm off Cape Cod, its fury splitting the...
The Sons - The completely thrilling follow-up to crime bestseller The Father
Unique and stunning. One of the most powerful novels youll read this yearStephen Booth on The Father In the second part of the highly acclaimed and internationally bestselling series Made in Sweden, one brother fictionalises the real crimes of his own family for a remarkable and epic novel. After six years in prison, Swedens most notorious criminal Leo Duvnjac is free, acquitted of all b...
The Father - Made In Sweden
A powerful real-life storyGuardian An epic crime thriller for fans of Jo Nesbo, The Father is inspired by the extraordinary true story of three brothers who became Swedens most successful criminals written by their real brother. None had committed a crime before. All were under 24 years old. All of them would be changed forever. In this intoxicating, heartbreaking thriller, the real-li...
The Boy Under the Table
I found The Boy Under the Table impossible to put down once I had started the pace is unrelenting and the story is utterly engrossing. The conclusion is tinged with both hope and sadness and I held my children a little tighter and a lot longer when I had finished. The Boy Under The Table is a confronting story, but one that is well worth reading. Great Aussie Reads Tina is a young woman...
Australia's Argonauts - The remarkable story of the first class to enter the Royal Australian Naval College
The story of the first cadet-midshipmen to join the Royal Australian Naval College is without parallel. In 1913 twenty-eight thirteen-year-old boys joined the new Navy at a time when Australia was both idealistic and ambitious. The boys were drawn from every State and became known as the Pioneer Class. Australias Argonauts is the result of many years research. It brings together previously...