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| White Egret Hyaluronic Acid Intensive Hydrating Formula-8 oz Bottle |
| $21.59 (Retail $28.75) |
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| "Lift-The-Flap First Questions and Answers : Why Do We Need Bees?" |
| "Why do we need bees? How do they make honey? And who's who in a beehive? Children can find the answers to these questions and many more in this informative lift-the-flap book With colourful illustrations simple text and chunky flaps to lift young children can discover lots of amazing facts about bees and why they need our help"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The ABC Murders" |
| "Agatha Christie's world-famous serial killer mystery reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers There's a serial killer on the loose bent on working his way through the alphabet And as a macabre calling card he leaves beside each victim's corpe the ABC Railway Guide open at the name of the town where the murder has taken place Having begun with Andover Bexhill and then Churston there seems little chance of the murderer being caught - until he makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate his plans"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Mog Time Treasury : Six Stories About Mog the Forgetful Cat" |
| "Six favourite Mog stories brought together in one gift volumeMog's antics have entertained countless children ever since her first appearance in 1970 making this lovable cat one of the most enduringly popular characters in children's booksThe stories included areMog the Forgetful CatMog and BunnyMog and BabyMog on Fox NightMog's Bad ThingMog's ChristmasThis wonderful book is perfect for reading at bedtime and makes the perfect for gift for Mog fans"
Price: 14.49 |
| "World Religions : Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism" |
| "Provide students with a strong understanding of religion with high quality engaging and content-rich resources building a firm foundation for the new GCSE 9-1 Religious Studies Deliver a rich coherent RE course at KS3 and equip pupils with a deep understanding of religion with ready-made flexible and high quality KS3 lessons Knowing Religion' is written by an author team of experienced RE teachers and led by series editor Robert Orme of West London Free School Discover the history and beliefs of Buddhism Hinduism and Sikhism as well as these religions in the modern world Start teaching straight away with Teacher Guide resources available on Collins Connect including teaching ideas and support along with answers to questions in the student books Give pupils the grounding they need to excel at GCSE RS Ignite an interest in religion through a compelling narrative fascinating facts and extraordinary people Aid pupil memory with a knowledge organiser' at the end of each unit covering key vocabulary people places and dates Spark discussion and assess understanding with questions for each lesson including longer-form discursive questions to provide extended writing and essay practice Each book structured as 16 lessons to offer flexibility and map onto the school timetable with ease The Knowing Religion' series also includes resources on Christianity Judaism and Islam"
Price: 19.99 |
| "The Pearl That Broke Its Shell : A Novel" |
| "Afghan-American Nadia Hashimi's literary debut novel is a searing tale of powerlessness fate and the freedom to control one's own fate that combines the cultural flavor and emotional resonance of the works of Khaled Hosseini Jhumpa Lahiri and Lisa SeeIn Kabul 2007 with a drug-addicted father and no brothers Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school and can rarely leave the house Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age As a son she can attend school go to the market and chaperone her older sistersBut Rahima is not the first in her family to adopt this unusual custom A century earlier her great-great grandmother Shekiba left orphaned by an epidemic saved herself and built a new life the same wayCrisscrossing in time The Pearl the Broke Its Shell interweaves the tales of these two women separated by a century who share similar destinies But what will happen once Rahima is of marriageable age? Will Shekiba always live as a man? And if Rahima cannot adapt to life as a bride how will she survive?"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Spider Woman's Daughter : 19" |
| "Anne Hillerman the talented daughter of bestselling author Tony Hillerman continues his popular Leaphorn and Chee series with Spider Woman's Daughter a Navajo Country mystery filled with captivating lore startling suspense bold new characters vivid color and rich Southwestern atmosphereNavajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette Manualito witnesses the cold-blooded shooting of someone very close to her With the victim fighting for his life the entire squad and the local FBI office are hell-bent on catching the gunman Bernie too wants in on the investigation despite regulations forbidding eyewitness involvement But that doesn't mean she's going to sit idly by especially when her husband Sergeant Jim Chee is in charge of finding the shooterBernie and Chee discover that a cold case involving his former boss and partner retired Inspector Joe Leaphorn may hold the key Digging into the old investigation husband and wife find themselves inching closer to the truthand closer to a killer determined to prevent justice from taking its course"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Dictionary Of The Bach Flower Remedies by T. W. Hyne Jones (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "The thirty-eight Bach Flower Remedies are made from non-poisonous wild flowers and offer a simple means to establish inner harmony This book is an essential dictionary listing the positive and negative qualities associated with each natural remedy Whereas a person categorised by the positive aspect would have little need for the remedy in question those who share the qualities listed under the negative aspect would benefit from taking it There is also a separate section on the uses and health benefits of Rescue Remedy"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Change Your Thinking with CBT: Overcome stress, combat anxiety and improve your life by Dr. Sarah Edelman (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "All of us experience complicated thoughts and feelings as we negotiate the day and these feelings can be difficult to manage Sometimes we are aware that the way we think contributes to our difficulties but don't know what to do about it Change Your Thinking is soundly based on the principles of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) the standard psychological tool used by therapists The aim of CBT is to develop realistic thought patterns to help us respond better to upsetting emotions In this book Dr Edelman demonstrates how to dispute that nagging voice in your head and deal more rationally with feelings of anger depression frustration and anxiety The book also offers sensible suggestions for more effective communication and for finding happiness something that is within everyone's grasp CBT can help you change your thinking and make a difference to your life - beginning today"
Price: 12.49 |
| "Pass The Jam, Jim by Kaye Umansky (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "A rhyming picture book in which a group of children prepare for a party The bright action-packed illustrations feature all kinds of delicious food"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Zagazoo by Quentin Blake (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Zagazoo is a baby like no other In this quite exceptional picture book young readers will be delighted by the hilarious and unexpected changes in his behaviour as Zagazoo grows up Parents may detect some strange echoes of family life There have been many classic picture books from the incomparable pen of Quentin Blake but never one more extraordinary"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Salt by Mark Kurlansky (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "Homer called it a divine substance Plato described it as especially dear to the gods As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning and its story is a glittering often surprising part of the history of mankind Wars have been fought over salt and while salt taxes secured empires across Europe and Asia they have also inspired revolution - Gandhi's salt march in 1930 began the overthrow of British rule in India From the rural Sichuan province where the last home-made soya sauce is produced to the Cheshire brine springs that supplied salt around the globe Mark Kurlansky has produced a kaleidoscope of world history a multi-layered masterpiece that blends political commercial scientific religious and culinary records into a rich and memorable tale"
Price: 8.99 |
| "The Third Man and the Fallen Idol" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IAN THOMSONThe Third Man is Graham Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna a 'smashed dreary city' occupied by the four Allied powers Rollo Martins a second-rate novelist arrives penniless to visit his friend and hero Harry Lime But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances and the police are closing in on his associates The Fallen Idol is the chilling story of a small boy caught up in the games that adults play Left in the care of the butler and his wife whilst his parents go on a fortnight's holiday Philip realises too late the danger of lies and deceit But the truth is even deadlier"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Roots by Alex Haley (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "Now a major BBC drama starring Forest Whitaker Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Laurence FishburneTracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen farmers and blacksmiths lawyers and architects - back to Africa Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth Kunta Kinte It was this young man who had been torn from his homeland and in torment and anguish brought to the slave markets of the New World who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Mr Gumpy's Outing by John Burningham (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "One day Mr Gumpy decides to take a trip along the river in his boat but the children the rabbit the cat the pig and lots more friends decide to join him Everyone's having a lovely time until the animals start kicking bleating hopping and flapping and the boat starts to rock"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Mr Gumpy's Motor Car by John Burningham (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "Mr Gumpy has decided to go for a ride in his motor car It's a nice day and the sun is shining so off he goes But he only gets as far as the lane before the children the rabbit the cat the dog the pig the sheep the chickens the calf and the goat ask if they can come along too As the motor car and its passengers make their way across the field the weather begins to turn and the rain is soon pouring down The tyres cannot grip the muddy ground so Mr Gumpy asks for volunteers to push the car But everyone has an excuse until it gets so bad that they all have to get out and help Eventually the sun shines once more as they drive across the bridge - and there's time for a swim on the way home"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Staying On by Paul Scott (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker once a Colonel in the British Army retired they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire Only the tyranny of their landlady the imposing Mrs Bhoolabhoy threatens to upset the quiet rhythm of their days Both funny and deeply moving Staying On is a unique engrossing portrait of the end of an empire and of a forty-year love affair"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Red Sorghum by Mo Yan (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "Spanning three generations this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty as the Chinese battle both the Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s As the novel opens a group of villagers led by Commander Yu the narrator's grandfather prepare to attack the advancing Japanese Yu sends his 14-year-old son back home to get food for his men; but as Yu's wife returns through the sorghum fields with the food the Japanese start firing and she is killed Her death becomes the thread that links the past to the present and the narrator moves back and forth recording the war's progress the fighting between the Chinese warlords and his family's history"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Black Hearts in Battersea by Joan Aiken (Paperback, 2004)" |
| ""Simon paid off the driver and turned to follow Mrs Twite But she seemed to have locked the door behind her and as he rattled the latch unavailingly and then rapped the locker something dark and suffocating was forced down over his head and a pair of hands gripped his throat" Simon coming to London to study painting with his old friend Dr Field finds he has vanished without trace Determined to discover what lies behind his disappearance Simon is trapped in a fiendish plot Why has his landlord got guns in his cellar and how does one deal with his irrepressible daughter Dido ?"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Green Hills Of Africa" |
| "Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway&39;s lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933 Hemingway&39;s well-known interest in - and fascination with - big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip It is an examination of the lure of the hunt and an impassioned portrait of the glory of the African landscape and of the beauty of a wilderness that was even then being threatened by the incursions of man"
Price: 5.99 |
| "The Six Wives Of Henry VIII" |
| "One of the most powerful monarchs in British history Henry VIII ruled England in unprecedented splendour In this remarkable composite biography Alison Weir brings Henry&39;s six wives vividly to life revealing each as a distinct and compelling personality in her own right Drawing upon the rich fund of documentary material from the Tudor period The Six Wives of Henry VIII shows us a court where personal needs frequently influenced public events and where a life of gorgeously ritualised pleasure was shot through with ambition treason and violence"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Fatherland by Robert Harris (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler&39;s 75th birthday Xavier March a detective of the Kriminalpolizei is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin&39;s most prestigious suburb As March discovers the identity of the body he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich And with the Gestapo just one step behind March together with an American journalist is caught up in a race to discover and reveal the truth - a truth that has already killed a truth that could topple governments a truth that will change history"
Price: 7.99 |
| "On The Beach by Nevil Shute Norway (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "After the war is over a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards on the winds gradually poisoning everything in its path An American submarine captain is among the survivors left sheltering in Australia preparing with the locals for the inevitable Despite his memories of his wife he becomes close to a young woman struggling to accept the harsh realities of their situation Then a faint Morse code signal is picked up transmitting from the United States and the submarine must set sail through the bleak ocean to search for signs of life On the Beach is Nevil Shute's most powerful novel Both gripping and intensely moving its impact is unforgettable"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Tell-Tale Brain : Unlocking the Mystery of Human Nature" |
| "John aged sixty suffered a stroke and recovered fully except in one respect although he can see perfectly he can no longer recognise faces even his own reflection in a mirror Whenever Francesca touches a particular texture she experiences a vivid emotion denim extreme sadness; wax embarrassment; orange peel shock Jimmie whose left arm was recently amputated can still feel it - and it's itchy Our brains are the most enchanting and complex things in the known universe - but what happens when they go wrong? Dr V S Ramachandran 'the Sherlock Holmes of brain science' and one of the world's leading neuroscientists has spent a lifetime working with patients who suffer from rare and baffling brain conditions In The Tell-Tale Brain he tells their stories and explores what they reveal about the greatest mystery of them all how our minds work and what makes each of us so uniquely human"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Ransom by David Malouf (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "In this exquisite gem of a novel David Malouf shines new light on Homer's Iliad adding twists and reflections as well as flashes of earthy humour to surprise and enchant Lyrical immediate and heartbreaking Malouf's fable engraves the epic themes of the Trojan war onto a perfect miniature - themes of war and heroics hubris and humanity chance and fate the bonds between soldiers fathers and sons all brilliantly recast for our times"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Lancaster And York: The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "The war between the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England was characterised by treachery deceit and - at St Albans Blore Hill and Towton - some of the bloodiest and most dramatic battles on England's soil Between 1455 and 1487 the royal coffers were bankrupted and the conflict resulted in the downfall of the houses of Lancaster and York and the emergence of the illustrious Tudor dynasty Alison Weir's lucid and gripping account focuses on the human side of history on the people and personalities involved in the conflict At the centre of the book stands Henry VI the pious king whose mental instability led to political chaos Richard Plantagenet Duke of York and Henry's rival and most important of all Margaret of Anjou Henry's wife who took up her arms in her husband's cause and battled for many years in a violent man's world"
Price: 9.49 |
| "From A Clear Blue Sky by Timothy Knatchbull (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "A powerful survivor's account of the IRA bomb that killed the author's 14-year-old twin brother his grandparents and a family friend published on the 30th anniversary of the atrocity Winner of the 2011 Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Award and nominated for the 2009-2010 PENJR Ackerley prize On the August bank holiday weekend in 1979 14-year-old Timothy Knatchbull went out on a boat trip off the shore of Mullaghmore in County Sligo Ireland It was a trip that would cost four lives - and change his own for ever The IRA bomb that exploded in their boat killed Knatchbull's grandfather Lord Mountbatten his grandmother Lady Brabourne his twin brother Nicholas and local teenager Paul Maxwell In telling this story for the first time Knatchbull is not only revisiting the terrible events he and his family lived through but also writing an intensely personal account of human triumph over tragedy For thirty years Knatchbull has lived with the echoes of that day the death of the twin from whom he had been inseparable; the loss of his adored grandparents whose funerals along with his twin's he and his parents were too injured to attend; the recovery from physical wounds; and the emotional legacy that proved harder to endure In From A Clear Blue Sky Timothy Knatchbull delves into his past present and future and reveals a story of courage and fortitude as he his family and their English and Irish friends dealt with the shocking assassinations and their aftermath Taking place in Ireland at the height of the Troubles it gives a compelling insight into that period of Irish history But more importantly it brings home that although tragedy can strike at any moment the human spirit is able to recover and evolve over time This book about truth and reconciliation unflinching in its detail asks searching questions about why human beings inflict misery on others and holds lessons about how we can learn to forgive to heal and to move on It will resonate with readers the world over"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Wisdom of Psychopaths" |
| "Psychopath No sooner is the word out than images of murderers rapists suicide bombers and gangsters flash across our minds But unlike their box-office counterparts not all psychopaths are violent or even criminal Far from it In fact they have a lot of good things going for them Psychopaths are fearless confident charismatic ruthless and focused - qualities tailor-made for success in twenty-first-century society In this groundbreaking adventure into the world of psychopaths renowned psychologist Kevin Dutton reveals a shocking truth beneath the hype and the popular characterisation psychopaths have something to teach us"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Man In The Queue" |
| "Outside a London theatre a throng of people wait expectantly for the last performance of a popular musical But as the doors open at last something spoils all thought of entertainment a man in the queue is found murdered by the deadly thrust of a stiletto"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Georgia Paperback" |
| "When nine-year-old orphan Georgia James is unexpectedly fostered by the kindly Celia and her bank manager husband she can hardly believe her luck But then - on her fifteenth birthday - she suffers the cruellest betrayal of all at the hands of her foster father and is forced to run away leaving everything she loves behind her Penniless sleeping rough Georgia is soon introduced to the sleazy Soho world of brassy strippers sweat shops camaraderie and hardship Fired by a fierce ambition blessed with an extraordinary voice her long struggle for fame and fortune begins But even when she reaches the top she finds that the scars of the past can open up to ruin her Steeped in atmosphere and raw emotion Georgia is the story of a determination to succeed against all the odds and of a burning first love"
Price: 7.99 |
| "London: The Concise Biography by Peter Ackroyd (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial biography of the city of London Prize-winning historian novelist and broadcaster Peter Ackroyd takes us on a journey - historical geographical and imaginative - through the city of London Moving back and forth through time Ackroyd is an effortless exuberant guide to times of plague and pestilence fire and floods crime and punishment and sex and theatre He brings the ever changing streets alive for the reader and shows us what lies beneath our feet and above our heads His biography is as rich in detail and fizzing with vitality as the city itself"
Price: 11.99 |
