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Katie Woo and Pedro are hot on the trail of a treasure map. But as it catches in the breeze, it keeps disappearing on them. Will they be able to nab the map and will it lead them to real treasure?

What is it like to live in or visit Germany? What makes Germany's culture unique? Grab your World Passport guide to Germany and learn about the customs, traditions, food, celebrations and landmarks that distinguish this amazing country from others.

What is it like to live in or visit Japan? What makes Japan's culture unique? Grab your World Passport guide to Japan and learn about the customs, traditions, food, celebrations and landmarks that distinguish this amazing country from others.

If anything in this book doesn't quite ring true, you'd better start believing! This irresistible page-turner will keep your eyes popping and your jaws dropping from start to finish. Did you know that Earth could fit inside Jupiter more than 1000 times? Can you believe the Eiffel Tower would fit ...

Cleo and her unicorn friends are having fun dancing, prancing and swishing their tails in the magic forest, until - oh no! - their noise wakes the big, scary GIANT. But not all is what it seems - and a FE FI FO FUM turns quickly into friendship!

The 'Queen of Herbs' uses her 40 years of plant knowledge to showcase the best herbs for culinary and medicinal uses.

Andy and Terry have added 13 new levels of crazy fun to their biggest treehouse yet. But Anti-Andy and Junkyard Jill - our trouble making opposites are trapped in one of the mirrors, and they want out! (Oh, and Mr Big Nose wants us to write another book...or else!) Can we avoid school, defeat our...

The Women's Murder Club is out celebrating an engagement at San Francisco's finest restaurant when a blood-curdling scream interrupts the festivities. They soon discover a young woman who has been the victim of a violent assault. Sergeant Lindsay Boxer makes an arrest. Assistant District Attorney...

1959 saw Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the other members of Miles's sextet come together to record the seminal jazz album of all time Kind of Blue. '3 Shades of Blue' is a magnificent, blended biography on the meandering paths which led Miles, Coltrane and Evans to the mountaintop o...

'36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem' is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identity - and the violence of identity. For Le, a Vietnamese refugee in the West, this means the assumed violence of racism, oppression and historical trauma. But it also means the violence of that assumption. Of bein...

Written by the Director of Britain's 4 Day Week campaign, this book shows why companies, charities, local government departments and other organisations should implement four days a week working (with no loss of pay for workers) - and how.

When a beautiful woman mysteriously vanishes, her sister must tally up the clues to discover her fate. Marguerite has disappeared from her small town in Upstate New York. But was foul play involved? Did she merely get away for fun? Or did she finally make the decision to leave behind her claustro...

When Edie Budd arrives at a shabby West London boarding house in October 1958, carrying nothing except a broken suitcase and an envelope full of cash, it's clear she's hiding a terrible secret. And she's not the only one; the other women of 73 Dove Street have secrets of their own. Tommie, who li...

At the Golden Sunset retirement home, it is not unusual for residents to invent stories. So when elderly Ms Mook first begins to unspool her memories, the obituarist listening to her is sceptical. Stories of captivity, friendship, murder, adventure, assumed identities and spying. Stories that tak...

For over fifty years, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for abolition and feminism and the fight against state violence and oppression. 'Abolition' brings together an essential collection of Davis's essays, conversations, and interviews over the years, showing how ...

This title brings you closer to the wildlife that's hard to reach - to the animals and plants in the skies, deep underwater, on clifftops, in caves and underground. Find out how plants and animals adapted to these environments and about wildlife from long ago.

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history? 'Abroad in Japan' charts a decade of l...

Master of modern meditation Deepak Chopra illuminates the path to abundance, helping readers become agents of change in their own lives. Demonstrating how to work past self-generated feelings of limitation and fear and providing meditations to help you focus and direct your attention and intuitio...

We may imagine that science is a process of breakthroughs and light bulb moments. But in reality, science goes wrong 99% of the time. Almost every idea a scientist comes up with is quickly disproved by a failed experiment or rival research. Science moves at a rate of inches per decade and we like...

'The Achilles Trap' untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's disastrous war with Iraq and details America's fundamental miscalculations during its ruinous, decades-long relationship with Saddam Hussein. Beginning with Saddam's rise to power in 1979 and the birth ...