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Learn to Sign with Olli; The Fun Way to Learn Sign Language. Click to see more details.
Learn to Sign with Olli
Slack, Garry
Paperback
Using four complete stories, this book offers children and parents a way to learn the sign language.
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Learn to Sign and Cook with Olli; the Fun Way to Learn Sign Language. Click to see more details.
Learn to Sign and Cook with Olli
Slack, Garry; Burden, Ross
Paperback
By combining the twin themes of food and sign language, this book helps children of different age...
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Nighttrap; Darkside S.; No. 3. Click to see more details.
Nighttrap
Becker, Tom
Paperback
Mrs Elwood has been kidnapped. And Jonathan will do anything to get her back - even if this means...
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It Just Occurred to Me...; The Reminiscences and Thoughts of Chairman Humph. Click to see more details.
It Just Occurred to Me...
Lyttelton, Humphrey
Paperback
The legendary band leader and jazz trumpeter, broadcaster and humorist looks back at his life and...
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Last Chorus; An Autobiographical Medley. Click to see more details.
Last Chorus
Lyttelton, Humphrey
Hardback
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Garry Potter and the Same Old Nonsense; A Miscellany of Humorous and Provocative Bite-sized Items on a Wide Range of Topics. Click to see more details.
Garry Potter and the Same Old Nonsense
Backhim, David
Paperback
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Flag on the Abbey. Click to see more details.
Flag on the Abbey
Brammer, Rod
Hardback
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Signor Marconi's Magic Box; The Invention That Sparked the Radio Revolution. Click to see more details.
Signor Marconi's Magic Box
Weightman, Gavin
Paperback
Gavin Weightman tells the story of how Guglielmo Marconi invented the wireless - and how it amuse...
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Liverpool - Wondrous Place; From the Cavern to the Capital of Culture. Click to see more details.
Liverpool - Wondrous Place
Du Noyer, Paul
Paperback
No other city in the world is as well known or loved for its vibrant and definitive musical histo...
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Liverpool; The Gateway to America. Click to see more details.
Liverpool
Kerrigan, John Patrick
Paperback
We are delighted to announce that the book now comes with John's DVD as a combined package and is...
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Democracy in America; Wordsworth Classics of World Literature. Click to see more details.
Democracy in America
Tocqueville, Alexis De; Renshaw, Patrick (Editor); Bowen, Francis (Translator)
Paperback
Tocqueville examines the structures, institution and operation of democracy, and analyzes the les...
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Railway Children. Click to see more details.
Railway Children
Nesbit, E.
Hardback
When Father is taken away unexpectedly, Roberta, Peter, Phyllis and their mother have to leave th...
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Coltrane. Click to see more details.
Coltrane
Ratliff, Ben
Hardback
John Coltrane, who died aged 40 in 1967, is one of half a dozen truly fundamental contributors to...
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Spaghetti Tangle. Click to see more details.
Spaghetti Tangle
McCall Smith, Alexander
Paperback
When John and Nicky decide to use some birthday money to go out for lunch, they experience the de...
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Shakespeare's Apprentice. Click to see more details.
Shakespeare's Apprentice
Bennett, Veronica
Paperback
Sam is an apprentice actor and member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men. While onstage, Sam notices t...
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Nicholas and the Gang. Click to see more details.
Nicholas and the Gang
Goscinny, Rene; Bell, Anthea (Translator); Sempe, Jean-Jacques (Illustrator)
Hardback
A story about a cheeky French schoolboy, Nicholas, and his friends. Nicholas and his gang always ...
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Invention of Hugo Cabret. Click to see more details.
Invention of Hugo Cabret
Selznick, Brian
Hardback
ORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND THIEF, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train st...
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Musimathics; The Mathematical Foundations of Music. Click to see more details.
Musimathics
Loy, Gareth
Hardback
A self-contained introduction to the mathematics and physics of music, this work is a useful read...
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Tell It As It Is; A NO HOLDS BARRED Story Of A Family Living With Severe Autism. Click to see more details.
Tell It As It Is
Parker, Charles
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Sense and Semblance; An Anatomy of Superficiality in Modern Society. Click to see more details.
Sense and Semblance
Norman, Remington
Paperback
Superficiality is very evident and entrains heavy political and social costs. This title presents...
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Making Time; Why Time Seems to Pass at Different Speeds and How to Control it. Click to see more details.
Making Time
Taylor, Steve
Hardback
Why does time seem to speed up as we get older? Why does it seem to drag when we're bored or in p...
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Tescopoly; How One Shop Came Out on Top and Why it Matters. Click to see more details.
Tescopoly
Simms, Andrew
Paperback
You can shop anywhere you like - as long as it's Tesco. The inexorable rise of supermarkets is bi...
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