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The Queen's Lift-Off by Steve Antony
Category: Picture Books | Series: The Queen Collection
From the award-winning creator of The Queen's Hat, The Queen's Handbag and The Queen's Present comes a fourth hilarious tale taking the reader on a whirlwind royal tour of space The Queen has been round the UK, and the world - twice - and now she's off to space Perfectly ties in with the 50th anniversar ...Show more
The Queen's Necklace by Antal Szerb
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
A witty and erudite love letter to a bygone age, from one of Europe's last great humanists. "A sparkling slice of eighteenth-century life" Paul Bailey, Independent In August 1785 Paris buzzed with scandal. It involved an eminent churchman, a notorious charlatan, a female fraudster, a part-time prostit ...Show more
The Queen's Present by Steve Antony
Category: Picture Books | Series: The Queen Collection
From the award-winning creator of The Queen's Hat and The Queen's Handbag comes a third hilarious Christmas tale taking the reader on a whirlwind royal tour of the world!The Queen has raced around London and dashed all over the UK. Now she is setting off around the world in search of the perfect Christm ...Show more
The Question Book by Mikael Krogerus
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\Tschäppeler and Krogerus Collection
What would be your ideal job if you didn't have to worry about money? Would you like to have more responsibility or less? How far would you go for a promotion? When did you last stand up for what you believe in? What are you afraid of? In this unique handbook to your own life and work, there are no righ ...Show more
The Ramona Collection Vol 1 (Books 1-4) by Beverly Cleary
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Ramona Collections
This wonderful Ramona Box Set, by Beverly Cleary, contains four books: " Ramona the Brave,"" Ramona the Pest,"" Beezus and Ramona," and" Ramona Quimby, Age 8,""Beezus and Ramona" Beezus tries very hard to be patient with her little sister, but four-your-old Ramona has a habit of doing the most unpredict ...Show more
The Red-Headed League by Arianna Bellucci (Illustrator); Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Stephanie Baudet (Adapted by)
Category: Children's | Series: The\Sherlock Holmes Children's Collection (Easy Classics) Ser.
An illustrated adaptation of the classic Sherlock Holmes adventure - at an easy-to-read level for readers of all ages After Jabez Wilson's well-paid position with the Red-Headed League ends with no warning, he asks Holmes to find out why. What starts out as a straightforward investigation turns into a ...Show more
The Reigate Squires by Arianna Bellucci (Illustrator); Arthur Doyle; Stephanie Baudet
Category: Children's | Series: The\Sherlock Holmes Children's Collection (Easy Classics) Ser.
An illustrated adaptation of the classic Sherlock Holmes adventure - at an easy-to-read level for readers of all ages Keen to help his friend recover from a particularly stressful case, Watson arranges for them to visit a friend in the country. But after a robbery baffles the local police, Holmes is d ...Show more
The Reluctant Dragon - By Kenneth Grahame by Kenneth Grahame; Jim Weiss (Adapted by)
Category: Picture Books | Series: The\Jim Weiss Audio Collection
Everyone is in a panic--a dragon has been discovered in a cave near the town! The people call for that famous dragon-slaying knight, Saint George, to defeat the monstrous beast. But when one smart little boy actually meets the dragon, he finds a harmless, friendly creature who would much rather write po ...Show more
The Republic and Other Dialogues (Leather Bound) by Plato
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
Plato is acknowledged as one of the greatest philosophers of classical Greece, and the thirty-six dialogues that are credited to him helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy. The Republic and Other Dialogues collects seven of Plato's best-known works in Benjamn Jowett's classic translation. I ...Show more
The Return Of Sherlock Holmes by Stephen Fry
Category: Audio Books | Series: Sherlock Holmes: the Definitive Collection
Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Arthur Conan Doyle's complete works - four novels and five collections of short stories - has been brought to life by Stephen Fry, a lifelong fan of Doyl ...Show more
The Revised Latin Primer by Benjamin Hall Kennedy
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics Ser.
Described by Mary Beard in The Independent as 'the Rolls Royce of textbooks', Kennedy's classic 1888 guide has remained the pre-eminent Latin reference grammar in schools and universities for well over a century. This is a reissue of the first edition, which appeared the year before the author's death. ...Show more
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
<b>The post-apocalyptic modern classic with an introduction by novelist John Banville.</b> In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The landscape is destroyed, nothing ...Show more