When lightning strikes there can only be trouble - as Jessica Mastriani finds out when she and best friend Ruth get caught in a thunderstorm. Not that Jess has ever really avoided trouble before. Instead of cheerleading there are fistfights with the football team and month-long stints in detention - not that detention doesn\'t have its good points - like sitting next to Rob - the cutest senior around!

On 2 August 1944, Winston Churchill mocked Adolf Hitler in the House of Commons by the rank he had reached in the First World War. \'Russian success has been somewhat aided by the strategy of Herr Hitler, of Corporal Hitler\', Churchill jibed. \'Even military idiots find it difficult not to see some faults in his actions\'. Andrew Roberts\' previous book \"Masters and Commanders\" studied the creation

Photographer Mirjam Bleeker and stylist and designer Frank Visser have known each other for more than 18 years. During this time they have travelled around the world, often without a fixed plan, seeking adventure and beautiful houses. On their travels, they visited the homes and holiday retreats of some fascinating people, built in the most beautiful and unspoiled places. Immortalised in gorgeous full-colour

The Malabar coast is full of dangers: greedy tradesmen, fearless pirates, and men full of vengeance. But for a Courtney, the greatest danger might just be his own family... After his father\'s gambling debts leave him penniless and in danger, Francis Courtney seeks revenge and fortune in South Africa. But on arrival, he uncovers a truth that leaves him overwhelmed and disoriented. Meanwhile, his cousin

What can you do to make the world a better place? Libby and her husband Jason have moved back to his hometown to turn the family B&B into a boutique hotel. They have left London behind and all the memories - good and bad - that went with it. The injured woman Libby finds lying in the remote country road has lost her memory. She doesn\'t know why she came to be there, and no one seems to be looking

The impact of more than one hundred years of aesthetics, form, and content on developments in graphic communications.This unique history of design, documenting over a century of creative brilliance, has now been brought into the twenty-first century. Showcasing the most influential designs and designers from 1900 to the present, this outstanding collection illustrates how the best ideas perpetuate

Lorsque Gocéné pose le pied sur le sol de la métropole \", trois quarts de sicle aprs son premier séjour forcé lors de l\'Exposition coloniale de 1931, il sait seulement qu\'il est venu pour honorer un engagement. Et si, ce moment précis, on lui posait la question de savoir ce qu\'il compte faire Paris, il répondrait qu\'il vient chercher un frre kanak dont la trace s\'est perdue cent vingt-quatre

Central to the work of Robert A. M. Stern is a commitment to architecture that reinterprets the past to serve contemporary life. Buildings and Towns explores the application of that principle to a wide range of building types, including libraries, university buildings, cultural centers, offices, health care facilities, courthouses, and recreational complexes completed throughout the world over the

The author of TV Book Club\'s SPIES OF THE BALKANS returns with a hugely evocative thriller set in wartime Paris. Frederic Stahl, born of Viennese intelligentsia, ran away to sea at the age of seventeen. Embarking in America, his matinee idol looks and Old-World charm took him to Hollywood, and a life of movies and women. But by autumn 1939, the unease in Europe has spread even to Stahl\'s glamorous

Discover how humans created their world from the objects they left behind - from the US Constitution to the first iPhone - in DK\'s latest history book. From the beginning of human history, the one thing that has defined us is our talent for making things, from basic technology and everyday objects, such as bowls and hand axes, to high-tech inventions, such as supersonic aircraft, smart devices, and

Whether at home or at school, morning or night, we all eat food. This book provides a wonderful insight to every aspect of food from farming to cooking, nutrition to tasting. Find out what colour carrots used to be, what the last meal served on the Titanic was and which spice is more expensive than gold in this quirky, fact-packed information book. Illustrations: Full colour throughout

From the classic tale by the Brothers Grimm. When Snow White\'s mother dies, her father marries a vain and cruel Queen. When the Queen\'s mirror says that Snow White is the fairest, she escapes into the forest and is rescued by seven dwarfs...but what if the Queen hears that Snow White is still alive?The Usborne English Readers series is a new range of graded readers in simplified English for younger

The boy on the mortuary slab is dead; so why doesn\'t he act like it? Forensic sorcerer Frank Sampson reckons it\'s something to do with the bizarre magic symbols carved into his flesh. He thinks he knows the sorcerer behind it; but the trouble is, he also thinks he may be in love with her. Or not...Life can get confusing when your loyalties are divided, you\'re on the run, and the Inquisition are

The READING & TRAINING series is composed of illustrated graded readers, aimed at teenagers and adults. The readers are graded into six levels - from elementary/pre-lower intermediate to post-intermediate - according to internationally recognised criteria

The heartwarming true story of \"the most inspiring dog on the Internet.\"--BuzzFeed From Southern California castaway to Hollywood heartbreaker, Tuna the Chiweenie has won the adoration of millions. Now the charming and unconventional pooch has his own book, filled with more than a hundred all-new photographs and witty commentary to give fans an intimate and hilarious look at the Internet\'s most

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Well-behaved women don\'t make history: difficult women do. Helen Lewis argues that feminism\'s success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Too many of these pioneers have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search for feel-good, inspirational heroines. It\'s time to reclaim the history of feminism as a history

Jessie Cave is a successful actress, comedian, writer and artist. But just like all other young women in the twenty-first-century, she suffers from self-doubt, jealousy, a fear of failure and constant worry. In 2010 Jessie decided to take up a self-tasked mission - to draw a doodle a day for Twitter. No matter what the subject, and no matter how personal, she would post a new drawing each day without

Imagine David Nicholls\'s One Day as retold by Woody Allen and you\'ll get a pretty good idea of what to expect with Gabriel Roth\'s The Unknowns. It\'s not easy to pursue the most alluring woman in North America when you\'re a misfiring circuit of over-analytical self-doubt and she has a way with a killer line and a perfectly raised eyebrow. Even, that is, when you\'ve survived your teen years as

Julie Jenson is a 37-year-old book publicist in New York. She\'s also single - and has been for six years. When her friend Georgia\'s husband dumps her for a samba teacher, Julie gathers her four single girlfriends for one momentous night of New York singlehood. Following a night that started with Steaks & Martinis and ended with topless bar dancing and a trip to the hospital, Julie decides that she\'s