Simon James
1) Ghost Note
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English
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Sometimes a mystery is just a beginning . . .Roland, a young drummer in a fledgling band, about to break big. His sister, Christine, brutally murdered. A canoeing accident half-a-world away. And the five million dollars that bind them together tighter than the Rolling Stones.Will Roland find the answers he seeks as his journey takes him from the English Lake District into an American wilderness? Or will he, too, never make it home?
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English
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This fun, absorbing book, packed with quirky bite-sized lists, quizzes and trivia, is an exploration of the Latin language, aiming to prove that it is as vibrant and relevant today as it was 2,500 years ago. It includes sections on Latin in the movies, US state mottoes and place names, and also some choice snippets from real Latin poetry from Catullus, Horace and Virgil, with evocative translations. It contains a fascinating section on the Roman emperors...
7) Baby brains
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Series
Baby Brains volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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English
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'Kipps', also known as 'The Remarkable Mr. Kipps', is a novel by H. G. Wells. It marks a turning point for the author, moving away from the futuristic science fiction for which he is famed and onto more down-to-earth accounts of twentieth-century British society. Within it, Wells clearly draws from his own knowledge of Britain's social structure to present an interesting autobiographical tale. Contents include: 'The Little Shop at New Romney', 'The...
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Publisher
Nightwood Editions
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the thickest part of a cedar forest there lived a young Sasquatch. He was over nine feet tall and his feet were about size twenty. He had long brown hair that covered all of his body. His hands were so big and his arms so long he could wrap them around the biggest of the cedar trees. He had been born here many years ago and he did not know his parents, as they had been scared away by a great fire. He was left on his own and he had survived
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English
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Excavations carried out from 1984-1985 at Ditches in Gloucestershire identified a large, late Iron Age enclosure which contained a remarkably early Roman villa. This long awaited excavation report reinterprets this evidence in the light of more recent studies of the late Iron Age-Roman transition. It extends our understanding of the Ditches-Bagendon-Cirencester oppida complex, and corroborates the latest thinking on the nature of Romanisation. New...
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English
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Join Raven, Eagle, Frog, and their new friends, the First People, in the land before time. Raven Tales: Baby Blues is the seventeenth episode in this series of animated television programs based upon the multiple award-winning animated film, Raven Tales: How Raven Stole the Sun. Raven Tales chronicles the wild and wacky adventures of Raven, the most powerful and trickiest trouble-maker of First Nations' folklore. In this episode, the First People...