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In the remote Swedish wetlands lies Mossmarken: the village on the edge of the mire where, once upon a time, people came to leave offerings to the gods. Biologist Nathalie came in order to study the peat bogs. But she has a secret: Mossmarken was once her home, a place where terrible things happened. She has returned at last, determined to confront her childhood trauma and find out the truth.

1944. Emily Dean is sent to stay with relatives in rural Victoria. With grandmother determined to keep up standards despite the effects of the war; Della, the Bible-quoting cook, and her young and fearless aunt Lydia, who refuses to befriend her, Emily just wants to go home. But things start looking up when she encounters Claudio, the Italian prisoner of war employed as a farm labourer. And then Lydia’s brother, William, unexpectedly returns from the war. Wounded and bitter, he’s rude, traumatised and mostly drunk, yet a passion for literature soon draws them together.

Fart is excited! He's desperate to make friends and have fun. But no one likes a fart. Not even a fart with a heart. Too smelly. Too embarrassing. Too gross. 'Just like a powerful, unidentified fart, Foster Blake's book has everyone talking.' MamaMia Zo� has written lots of grown-up books...

"Das Buchland im Keller unter uns ist unglaublich viel mehr, als diese Aneinanderreihung von gefüllten Regalen. Dort findet man billige Klischees, abgedroschene Fantasien und halbe Wahrheiten direkt neben den großen göttlichen Ideen, die die Welt veränderten. Die ganze Kreativität der Menschheit." Dieses Antiquariat ist nicht wie andere Buchläden! Das muss auch die gescheiterte Buchhändlerin Beatrice feststellen, als sie notgedrungen die Stelle im staubigen Antiquariat des ebenso verstaubt wirkenden Herrn Plana annimmt.

Es ist Sommer. Die Eltern sind auf Reisen und schicken ihren Kindern täglich eine Ansichtskarte von den exotischen Plätzen dieser Welt. Der Großvater liest daraus vor, was er lesen möchte, und das ist meist das Gegenteil dessen, was dort geschrieben steht. Für die Kinder Anlass genug, sich selbst das Lesen beizubringen. Lesen kann man angeblich auch von den Vögeln lernen. Die Kinder mit ihren selbstgebauten Flugmaschinen aus Federn, Papier und Draht.

Wellington, 1885: Tally Ho doesn't need to go to school because she is going to be a fisherman or cart driver or butcher boy like Harry Crawford. Taking her hero's advice, she runs away. Sydney, 1917: A burned woman is discovered on the banks of the Lane Cove River. Nobody knows who she was until the police find out a boy's mother went missing that very same weekend, and his stepfather, Harry Crawford, is not who he seems to be.

Elizabeth is viewed as one of our greatest monarchs. She committed herself to her country, even ruling out marriage in favour of her subjects. It has been called a golden age. Welcome to our GCSE series on Elizabethan England, 1558-1588, where we discuss this fascinating period and question whether or not it was as golden as first thought. The series is broken down into four areas, each area focused on one of the four key topics to be studied: accession, religion, challenges and society.

In this English language guide, we take you from the very basics that you require to more complex sentence structuring and comprehension, helping guide you through your English Language GCSE. We look at all the aspects of grammar, creative writing, analysis of texts, sources, storytelling, and much more. Each of the tutorials starts with a very short spelling test designed to keep you thinking about how to spell and to keep you on your toes.

The Life of Houses explores, with a poet's eye for detail, the hidden tensions in one of Australia's establishment families. These tensions come to the surface during a week in summer when Kit's recently divorced mother sends her away to stay with her estranged grandparents, and her unmarried aunt who cares for them, in their old and decaying house by the sea.

This series for GCSE History follows the Edexcel specification and will furnish you with all the information required for your coursework and exam. It's a fascinating subject, and our series has been designed not only to provide you with the necessary information but also to bring the subject to life with music and sound effects.

Smartphones have opened up a new world of money-making opportunities. One of them is the on-demand food delivery driver. This book explains how to quickly get started in this fun and profitable business and provides helpful tips for success.

Polly has always felt different. She is always top in swimming competitions, she swims in the sea but never feels the cold, and has a birthmark shaped like a small fish. Then she meets a girl called Lisa who has the same mark. The girls discover that they were adopted after having been found on a beach and that they can swim underwater for long periods.... This leads them to a city underwater, a completely different way of life and some startling revelations....

Im Riff geht’s rund! Bunte Papageienfische, funkelnde Glitzerinen, der lustige Kugelfisch Elsi und viele andere Meeresbewohner bereiten sich auf die Unterwasser-Castingshow "Frutti di Mare" vor. Wer kann am besten singen und tanzen? In all dieser Aufregung wird plötzlich "Flapo", die Flaschenpost, angetrieben, die etwas Wichtiges zu sagen hat. Aber wer hat schon Lust, so einer alten Flasche zuzuhören? Ihre Performance ist äußerst dürftig - sie kann ja nicht einmal richtig schwimmen, geschweige denn tanzen.

Une bourse d'étude pour une prestigieuse école d'art de New York, voilà une opportunité inespérée de quitter la France et de m'offrir un nouveau départ ! Rien ne pourra me détourner de mon objectif : être la meilleure et surpasser la concurrence. Mais quand le beau Keith vient me demander de l'aide pour conquérir le cœur de sa meilleure amie, je ne peux pas lui dire non. Il est clair que ces deux-là sont fous l'un de l'autre. Qu'est-ce que j'ai à perdre, après tout ?

Hope Nicely hasn't had an easy life. But she's happy enough living at 23 Station Close with her mum, Jenny Nicely, and she loves her job, walking other people's dogs. She's a bit different, but as Jenny always tells her, she's a rainbow person, a special drop of light. It's just...there's something she needs to know. Why did her birth mother abandon her in a cardboard box on a church step 25 years ago? And did she know that drinking while pregnant could lead to Hope being born with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder?

In Ethiopia, Ageze has unearthed an ancient device that can make predictions. It tells him: there is a date, there is a place, there is a moment when it will happen. A disaster that will change everything. Halo Moon loves stars, and the night sky is full of them in her remote Yorkshire village. It's a place where nothing interesting ever happens, let alone a catastrophe. So when a stranger appears at the end of a near-impossible journey and tells her lives are at risk, she can barely believe it. 

What could be better than a Fart with a heart? A Super Fart of course! Wafting around with his stinky best friend Burp, Fart couldn't be happier. But sometimes Burp wishes people wouldn't say, YUCK and GROSS and PEE-YEW . . . Could being smelly ever be a force for good? A super stinker of a tale...

Poor Finn is looking forward to drifting off to sleep in his cosy warm bed, when Mummy appears wanting a drink. Finn resettles her and has just fallen asleep, when he's woken again . . . this time by Daddy, who's had a bad dream. And so it goes. Just when Finn has one parent back to sleep, the...

Your Mental Health Workout™ is part-guidebook, part-planner, providing you with exercises, tools, affirmations and expert guidance so you can start looking after your mental health for the long term. Zoë Aston, psychotherapist and mental health consultant to many high-profile individuals, has devised a ground-breaking five-week schedule to help you build mental muscle; she incorporates two to three years of one-to-one therapy in one book. 

New from the winner of the Guardian Children's Book Award: Home Girl is the story of Naomi, a teenage girl growing up fast in the care system. It is a wholly modern story which sheds a much-needed light on what can be an unsettling life - and the consequences that can follow when children are treated like pawns on a family chessboard. Home Girl is fast-paced and funny, tender, tragic and full of courage - just like Naomi. It is award-winning author Alex Wheatle's most moving and personal novel to date.