A family road trip is supposed to be a lot of fun ...unless, of course, you\'re the Heffleys. The journey starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns. Gas station bathrooms, crazed seagulls, a fender bender, and a runaway pig - not exactly Greg Heffley\'s idea of a good time. But even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure - and this is one the Heffleys won\'t soon forget.

This book comes from the winner of the CWA International Dagger 2010 for the Darkest Room. \"A compelling and scary psychological thriller\". (Sunday Mirror). Who amongst us can really say they\'re sane? Jan has just started working at the Dell nursery. But this is no normal nursery. It\'s linked to a high-security asylum by a dimly-lit underground tunnel, which is used for the children to visit their

Sookie\'s beginning to get used to being surrounded by all varieties of undead, changeling, shapeshifting and other supernatural beings - but even she has her limits. She\'d really like to take a while to get over being betrayed by Bill, her long-time vampire lover, and get used to her new relationship with the sexy shapeshifter Quinn - but instead, she finds herself attending the long-planned vampire

Imagine a world without computers, cars, telephones, or airplanes. Have you ever wondered how these things were invented? From steam trains to underground trains, and from parachutes to space shuttles, this exciting book is bursting with intriguing facts and figures about the inventions that have made the world what it is today.

New York City is thrown into chaos by the assaults of the Bone Collector, a serial kidnapper and killer who gives the police a chance to save his victims from death by leaving obscure clues. The cops go to Lincoln Rhyme, an ex-NYPD forensics expert left paralysed after an accident on the job. Rhyme reluctantly postpones his ambitions towards suicide and puts together a forensic investigation team,

*The new murder mystery thriller from Lucy Foley - THE GUEST LIST - is available to pre-order now* *The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller* EVERYONE\'S INVITED. EVERYONE\'S A SUSPECT. AND EVERYONE\'S TALKING ABOUT IT. \'Ripping, riveting\' A. J. Finn \'Clever, twisty and sleek\' Daily Mail \'Unputdownable\' John Boyne \'Foley is superb\' The Times \'Chilling\' Adele Parks \'Terrific, riveting\' Dinah Jefferies

\'Remarkable... beautiful\' - National Public Radio These are the tales of an extraordinary journey: from the small towns of Sweden to the deserts of Nevada to the bitter chill of Siberia. A journey where children make friends with abandoned robots... in a world where dinosaurs roam freely. These are the Tales from the Loop. Stories told in both words and haunting illustrations, TALES FROM THE LOOP

\'No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.\'Stories and poems by Herman Melville drawn from his years at seaIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin\'s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian

The impact of more than one hundred years of aesthetics, form, and content on developments in graphic communications.This unique history of design, documenting over a century of creative brilliance, has now been brought into the twenty-first century. Showcasing the most influential designs and designers from 1900 to the present, this outstanding collection illustrates how the best ideas perpetuate

Renovation projects can result in a technical challenge when original structures, historical value, budget, and the necessities of growing families have to be considered in order to achieve the best results. This wonderful reference book, illustrated with brilliant photographs and detailed plans, showcases more than 30 different projects of contemporary residential remodels conceived by some of the

Central to the work of Robert A. M. Stern is a commitment to architecture that reinterprets the past to serve contemporary life. Buildings and Towns explores the application of that principle to a wide range of building types, including libraries, university buildings, cultural centers, offices, health care facilities, courthouses, and recreational complexes completed throughout the world over the

The long-awaited follow-up to Making Thinking Visible, provides new thinking routines, original research, and unique global case studies Visible Thinking-a research-based approach developed at Harvard\'s Project Zero - prompts and promotes students\' thinking. This approach has been shown to positively impact student engagement, learning, and development as thinkers. Visible Thinking involves using

Whether at home or at school, morning or night, we all eat food. This book provides a wonderful insight to every aspect of food from farming to cooking, nutrition to tasting. Find out what colour carrots used to be, what the last meal served on the Titanic was and which spice is more expensive than gold in this quirky, fact-packed information book. Illustrations: Full colour throughout

\'It had been almost a year since I’d found Hannah dead, and I thought I’d managed to erase all traces of that night within myself. I was wrong.\' Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a mesmerizing debut. As teenager Blue van Meer tells her story we are hurled into a dizzying world of murder and butterflies, womanizing and wandering, American McCulture, the Western Canon, political radicalism and

The ultimate visual guide to every Shakespeare play The Essential Shakespeare Handbook unravels the history, themes and language of Shakespeare\'s plays and sonnets. Romance, comedy and tragedy, Shakespeare\'s canon has it all. With act-by-act plot summaries and resumes of main characters, the Essential Shakespeare Handbook will allow you to enjoy the Bard with new confidence. See the plays and sonnets

The last few decades were dominated by the urban, the digital, and the sleek as well as a notable esteem for speed and consumption. Today, a growing countermovement is advocating for a sustainable and more responsible way of dealing with our environm ent and bringing nature back to our cities. My Green City celebrates this turnaround as well as the way of life and creativity of the designers, artists,

Celebrate 20 years of Harry Potter magic! An extraordinary creative achievement by an extraordinary talent, Jim Kay\'s inspired reimagining of J.K. Rowling\'s classic series has captured a devoted following worldwide. This stunning new fully illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban brings more breathtaking scenes and unforgettable characters - including Sirius Black, Remus Lupin

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