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• Who Do You Love? by Mandy Stanley
  |title=Who Do You Love? ...illustrations ago. This kind of style appeals to many children and I dare say would appeal to many parents, especially those that dislike super-naturalis
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• Your Baby's First Word Will Be Dada by Jimmy Fallon and Miguel Ordonez
  ...simple book all about a group of fathers trying to persuade their child to say Dada. With its fun imagery and straight forward story it appeals to a youn ...Jimmy Fallon and Miguel Ordonez have put it to paper. Do you want to know what my children's first word was? Dada, of course. I win!
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• Say Hello Like This by Mary Murphy
  |title=Say Hello Like This |summary=All the animals teach you how to say hello, so you can greet them too. Cute as can be.
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• Someone Else's Life by Katie Dale
  |summary=What do you do when your mother dies of Huntington's Disease and you find out that she wasn't your mother at all? And that there is a person - a ...you've guessed it, she lies and omits (no spoilers at Bookbag, so I won't say how).
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• What Does the Fox Say? by Ylvis and Svein Nyhus
  |title=What Does the Fox Say? ...asked him if he knows was foxes say, but I imagine he doesn’t. I mean, do you?
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• I Love You, Little Monster by Giles Andreae and Jess Mikhail
  |title=I Love You, Little Monster ...our child at bedtime, then I suggest that you look no further than 'I Love You, Little Monster'. This is a beautiful book with some heartfelt sentiments t
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Alan Titchmarsh
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...ite for people who just enjoy reading a good story; a yarn, if you like. What they call page-turners. It's important to me when my readers get to the en
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• The Book With No Pictures by B J Novak
  ...once you open this book, you have to say Every. Single. Thing on the page. You have been warned. ...blork', or sentences like 'I am a monkey who taught myself to read', can't you? A brilliant way to bring people together with a book.
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• The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking by Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler
  ...are designed to give the individual both self-awareness and ammunition, if you like, in order to cope with various business/political and even social scen ...ates ''Instructions For Use.'' Okay, I thought. But there's more. ''Why You Should Read This Book'' and ''How To Use This Book.'' So, there's absolut
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• Category:Richard Hennerley
  ...icture of the author is a true likeness or that his given name is real, we do not know where he lives, or his age. The author himself freely admits that Tell us a bit about your book 'I Really, Really Want It'…. what is it about?
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• The Quiet People by Paul Cleave
  ...instance. The question has nothing to do with the book, but everything to do with how I came to be reading it. I mistook the author for one that I have ...ch he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badly.
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• Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion by Malcolm Hulke
  ...ct. What is causing time to leave the dinosaurs moving around London, and what is a mediaeval man, complaining of witchcraft under King John, doing there ...happily, not successfully) you don't see the dinosaur suits and dodgy FX. You don't get anything describing the dinosaurs, beyond tiny hands here, big he
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• Tips From Widows by Jan Robinson
  ...must do. Who better to give advice than other women who have experienced what must be the worst thing that life can throw at them? ...nd there's a sense of being empowered. What has happened is dreadful, but you will be able to cope.
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• Who's Yawning? by David Bedford and Leonie Worthington
  ...her animals yawning as they get ready for bed. The elephant (and the child you're reading to) identifies the animal from their noise, then lifts the flaps ...include [[How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen|How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?]] by [[:Category:Jane Yolen|Jane Yolen]] and [[The Tiger Who Ca
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• The Afterwards by A F Harrold and Emily Gravett
  ''Tell them what The Afterwards is about, they said.''<br> ''Hopefully you know this, but...''<br>
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• One by Sarah Crossan
  ...int do you say ''yes'' to separation surgery? And how would life change if you survived? ...pi are face with are Hobson's choices. Damned if you do, equally damned if you don't. But they forge on with the kind of quiet (and sometimes noisy) deter
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• 3 Reasons Why You Need an ISBN
  ...e more exciting it gets with possibilities, so let's look at 3 reasons why you need an ISBN. ...digitally, you now have three numbers for one book. Amazon will designate you with one of their own numbers too, an ASIN. So while we have the same produ
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• Jimmy Coates: Power by Joe Craig
  ...and deal another blow to the big baddies in NR7. But this time, he has to do it all while his body is poisoned... ...ent organisations. And if you can't get a thrilling adventure out of that, you probably shouldn't be writing books. Joe Craig, though, gives his readers m
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• Say Zoop! by Herve Tullet
  |title=Say Zoop! ...take a reasonable idea and play it out for page, after page, after page. What's that … SQUIRREL!
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Danielle Joseph
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...ng YA I pictured an audience full of teens, mostly girls. Now I’m happy to say that I see everyone: boys, girls and adults too. I love how YA books are no
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• Fucking Good Manners by Simon Griffin
  ...behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they're about getting the basics right bef ...tion of humour which might lessen your blushes as you realise exactly what you've been doing to offend people.
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• A Day With Dogs by Dorothee de Monfreid
  |summary=A Richard Scarry-esque look at what dogs (or really people) do all day. A fun way of starting conversations with kids. ...et an answer to that question, although it certainly won't be the one that you're expecting: these dogs are in cars, on skis, in the kitchen, at the docto
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• The Colour of the Sun by David Almond
  ''This book... explores what excites and mystifies me about the nature of being young, and dramatises th ...of being young - both older than you used to enjoy being and younger than you aspire to be. And it's a story of finding strangeness in ordinary things.
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• Category:C A Sacha
  ...well it's like this – I thought the novel would be easier to do. (I refer you to my opening line.)
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• The Gloomster by Ludwig Bechstein, Axel Sceffler and Julia Donaldson
  ...particular irritant that gets us so rattled, tetchy and narked all we can do is invoke "Hell and damnation!" down on all creation - including, of course ...o stand there, hands in pockets, staring out at us as if to say 'I suppose you actually like this sort of thing...'
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• L'Auberge by Julia Stagg
  ...oung English couple. The author lives in the Pyrenees and definitely knows what she's talking about. ...en it comes down to it are quite a few other people in Fogas who don't see what's happening in quite the same way as the mayor.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Sandy Donaghy
  ...second time and was surprised by how uplifted I felt. I'm delighted that you’re happy to answer some questions for us. * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?'''
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• Quick and Quirky: Short Stories with Quips! by Fred Onymouse and Ann Onymouse
  |summary=Come here for simple but unexpected scenarios that you don't get elsewhere in short story publishing – then see very little come ...he world of creative writing for a few years now, and whenever anyone asks what it is I mostly write, I define it with the catch-all safety net of ''flippa
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• Me After You by Lucie Brownlee
  |title=Me After You ...eme to be worth reading, it has to have a pull, a twist, something to make you look twice. In Lucie’s case it’s the fact that her husband Mark was onl
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• Braver Than Britain, Occasionally by Spadge Whittaker
  Before I begin, I just want to say that this book has the best cover quote ever, ever, ever. ''I'm mostly just glad you stopped writing vampire porn.''
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• This Modern Love by Will Darbyshire
  ...ories of love and loss from around the globe, this is one to dip into when you want a lift ...ote. This book, a compilation of letters and other contributions, explores what love is in the 21st century. It's certainly international – there were 15
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• Leadership Rules by Jo Owen
  ...t really going to cut it for you. If you just want an easy read that puts what we all already know into a sharp focus, this is your man. ...harp snipes which might be aimed at the dip-in-and-out brigade, I can also say that it reads well as a sit-down-and-consider book.
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• The Gravity of Love by Sara Stridsberg and Deborah Bragan-Turner (translator)
  ...vice to the potential audience of this book and put them off. And, like I say, that would be a pity. ...es is a fine reading experience, with rich emotion, and an ease that takes you to the depths of metaphor and surprise. And even with the characters, loca
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• Winnie-the-Pooh's Little Book Of Wisdom by A A Milne and E H Shepard
  ...ld be honoured that he's chosen to share with us a few of his wise words. You see, occasionally (well, an awful lot of the time, if we're honest) we look ...the delightfully charming originals from E H Shepard - but who else would you want but 'the man who drew Pooh'?
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• How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen
  |title=How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? ...r they fall on the top of their covers and cry - when Mama or Papa come to say goodnight.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Ellie Irving
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...e Irving: I like to think of happy, smiley faces - readers of any age from say, 8, upwards, enjoying the crazyness of the story. And hopefully laughing at
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• Very British Problems Abroad by Rob Temple
  ...properly. And if the idea hits the world outside our shores, then – well, you certainly have a book full of content regarding our attitude and ineptitude ...you're of the mind to think them such, and all seem particularly British. Do the Germans pack socks for hiding their feet round the pool?
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• Where to Open Your Business: Choosing Between Onshore and Offshore Free Zones in the UAE
  ...have no taxes to pay at all! You will be able to take the same benefit if you set up an [https://uae-consult.com/en/blog-en/offshore-zones/offshore-compa '''When You Can Set Up a Company in the Mainland Area'''
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• Betty Goes Bananas by Steve Antony
  Betty is a chimp. Chimps like bananas. But did you ever think about how they cope with the small, yet complicated matter of, P ...er repeated saviour, is keen to show her how to do things rather than just do them for her. Teach a man to fish and he’ll never go hungry, teach a chim
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• Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked by James Lasdun
  |title=Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked |summary=A riveting look at what it's like to be stalked, not physically but online. The impotence is frigh
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• The People Inside by Ray Fawkes
  ...ou can say a lot more about what is on these pages, and you still have all you need to know in those two words. This book takes the profound – which, o ...together. Another couple don't have babies – they're both male – but they do have a bakery. Other couples have break-ups, other couples have tragedies,
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• To Rise Again At A Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
  ...ng a dentist to confront his online presence. This is a book like no other you’ll know. ...s of TV shows about doctors and lots about lawyers, but other professions, say accountants or vets or dentists, get less of a look in. Just not as sexy, w
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• Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
  ...ent debut novel, even if it's grounded firmly in the adage of writing what you know. Some elements sit awkwardly, but I can see why it'll be much loved b ...o goes along with the metaphor, even when we know what it exactly is. And what it is is bound to stir up the emotions of a book that can be really funny,
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• Little by Little by Amber Stewart and Layn Marlow
  |summary=Scramble the otter can do everything but swim but with the help of his family he learns ''little by l ...with mud sliding, making sandcastles and slippery-rock hopping. The Can't-do list was very short. There was only one thing on it.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Gregory Hughes
  ...apper, some goddamn paedophiles, and the most entrancing central character you're ever likely to meet. Unsurprisingly, we jumped at the chance of asking G ...apper, some goddamn paedophiles, and the most entrancing central character you're ever likely to meet. Unsurprisingly, we jumped at the chance of asking G
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• Alphabet (My First Bob Books) by Sue Hendra and John R Maslen
  ...do not need to buy the whole programme in one go. You can buy each set as you need it, and most sets will take at least one term to complete. ...vampires, naughty children and so many other fun topics. I honestly cannot say I have any books that are more effective for teaching the alphabet than the
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• Night of the Veggie Monster by George McClements
  ...hough, the boy accidentally eats a pea - a whole pea - and doesn't notice. What's going to happen? ...it just isn't worth it at all as it's our anxieties they pick up. The more you worry about something they don't eat, the more likely they are to refuse (a
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• Just What Kind of Mother Are You? by Paula Daly
  |title=Just What Kind of Mother Are You? ...ou take a closer look. So what was it with ''Just What Kind of Mother Are You?'' I'm not a particularly maternal person, so it wasn't the title. I didn
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• Burnt Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Short Stories by Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Widmyer and Richard Thomas
  ...Fiction, a collection of short stories that will have you questioning what you are reading. ...n of Burnt Tongue; an aftereffect of knowing what you said was wrong. Are you prepared to enter the world of Transgressive Fiction that aims to disturb,
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• Grumpy Cat: No-it-All: Everything You Need to No by Grumpy Cat
  |title=Grumpy Cat: No-it-All: Everything You Need to No ...tions to be anything more. If you're a fan of Grumpy-Cat you might want to say 'No' to the world but 'Yes' to this book.
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• The Killer's Daughter by Vivian Oldaker
  ...hop. It's not long before feelings grow, and they become an item. He would do anything for her, disobeying his uncle everyday to see her – she's a kill ...tches a plan – to go to Greece on a school trip and stay after to find out what really happened the day her Grandmother died and clear her Father's name on
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• The Unwritten Laws of Business by W J King and James G Skakoon
  ...ous individual who says nothing is usually credited with having nothing to say.'' ...ou are ones like 'honesty' and 'dependability'. Take this advice as to how you should act when asked a question:
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• Carnaby by Cate Sampson
  ...ashed out, finding it difficult to cope. What if the baby gets taken away? What if she and Jude are separated? Can Sarah manage to keep them all together? ...e many because ''Carnaby'' has skilled and clever plotting. I'd better not say more. I hate a spoiler.
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• Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
  |summary=What happens when the girl who has it all loses everything over night? This is a ...rious Owen, with whom looks were very much deceiving. About Emily, who did what Annabel couldn't, about Clarke who was left behind once but was somehow bac
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Naima B Robert
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...and Misha come from totally different sides of the tracks. Although I must say, I really enjoyed talking to myself in Dwayne's voice and that of his inner
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• The Jelly Effect: How to Make Your Communication Stick by Andy Bounds
  ...'s just my personal opinion. That aside, I was keen to start reading, see what all the fuss was about ... ...y Too Much Irrelevant Stuff'' struck a wry chord with me and probably will do for many others so I was already engaged and keen to gobble up all chapters
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• The Things We Do by Kay Pfaltz
  |title=The Things We Do |sort=Things We Do
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Lydia Ola Taiwo
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' * '''BB: Did you find writing about your experiences as a child difficult?'''
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• Thanks for the Trouble by Tommy Wallach
  ...lda and everything changes. Loved this honest, engrossing story that keeps you guessing until the very end. ...etty theft habit, which he indulges in well-heeled hotels. Oh dear, I hear you saying. It's not as though there aren't reasons for Parker's behaviour, the
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• Jew by DO Dodd
  |author=DO Dodd DO Dodd creates a dark world of religious war in this book about identity and
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Rick Yancey
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' * '''BB: Where did you get the inspiration for writing The 5th Wave?'''
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• Out of Office: Work Where You Like and Achieve More by Chris Ward
  |title=Out of Office: Work Where You Like and Achieve More ...would be an apt summary of the gist of ''Out of Office'' by Chris Ward. If you choose to read the book, be prepared to receive inspiration rather than pra
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• Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner
  ...news rather than in the privacy of the matrimonial home. What's Sylvie to do? ...uld do something different with her next book. Unfortunately I'm going to say much the same thing again.
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• Sock It! by Neil Griffiths and Janette Louden
  ...ough different types of socks, telling you some of the many things you can do with them, because it's not just putting them on your feet! ...ch. Because of this I'd say it's one to read together with your child when you want a bit of fun, as opposed to a bedtime story, as it has a very loud fee
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• Storytelling: The Presenter's Secret Weapon by John Clare
  ...ing presentations which is very usable for the generalist but gold dust if you're in the medical or scientific sectors. ...Dreaded PowerPoint. I've been making presentations successfully (but I'll say more about this later) in various professional situations for some forty or
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• Lula Does The Hula by Samantha Mackintosh
  ...is review is annoying so far with the exclamation marks and strange words, you may want to avoid the book! ...his to me, publishers? I like to start from the beginning and it's hard to do that if I don't know where the beginning is!
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• Think and Make Like an Artist by Claudia Boldt and Eleanor Meredith
  ...dren that has some great things to do, but also makes it fun to wonder why you are doing them. ...the artists sells you Brigadoon. A lot of what makes art great is knowing what it is meant to represent; even I have been swayed on occasion once I have b
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• How to Use an AI Content Detector
  ...ssays and papers. Therefore, even if you have written your piece yourself, you still need to run it through an AI detector to be on the safe side. It is safe to say that AI tools are becoming extremely popular among students. One obvious re
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• Hinton Hollow Death Trip by Will Carver
  Hinton Hollow, population 5,120. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in America's mid-west, but this particular ...a label around his neck asking for him to be kept safe and told him not to say anything about who he was or where he was from for seven sleeps. It might
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• Never ask a Dinosaur to Dinner by Gareth Edwards and Guy Parker-Rees
  ...hould you be thinking about using a tiger as a towel or, heaven forbid, if you wondered if it would be okay to share your toothbrush with a shark! ...ly his ferocious-looking teeth as he perhaps forgets to say a polite thank you for sharing the boy's toothbrush and instead tries to bite his head off!
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• Busy: How to Thrive in a World of Too Much by Tony Crabbe
  ...and take notice of if I was to stop going ''backwards''. Because that was what I was doing. ...ands. You might think that time management is the answer - but I can tell you that it's not. I'm very efficient about how I manage my time - and it's ma
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• Losing It by Keith Gray
  Doing it for the first time... you know, ''Losing It''. It. ...n exactly to stop waiting. And when you've never done it, how on earth can you possibly know that?!
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• Palestinian Walks: Notes from a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh
  ...crumbling of his dreams for a legal solution to the Israeli occupation. As you would expect, it is sad, angry, hopeless. However, it is also quite beautif ...n known as sarha. Sarha means to roam freely, to go where the spirit takes you. And Shehadah takes the reader on six sarhat, to explore his country's beau
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• An Alphabet by Oliver Jeffers
  ...rds are there in the world? Because when you only get one for each letter, you may find a simple book of 26 entries may not be enough. ...habet game these aren't the ones that might be top of your list and yet if you were playing eye-spy, out in the real world, well then so many of these wou
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• Latte or Cappuccino: 125 Decisions That Will Change Your Life by Hilly Janes
  ...e relatively minor questions which can have real impact, particularly when you add them all up. ...make (or might have made without thinking about the consequences) and how you can make relatively minor changes which make a difference but don't involve
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• All Sorts of Possible by Rupert Wallis
  ...the thought that you might lose your father, the other half of you, makes you feel? ...eet endings I've ever read. I cried like a baby at the humanity of it. So, you know, I call that a recommendation, ok?
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• Don't Do That! by Tony Ross
  |title=Don't Do That! |sort=Don't Do That!
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Ben Mezrich
  |summary=Robert doesn't often say that a book should have been longer, but [[Straight Flush by Ben Mezrich|St Robert doesn't often say that a book should have been longer, but [[Straight Flush by Ben Mezrich|St
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• Michael Grant Talks To Bookbag About The ''GONE'' TV Show
  Let me say this up-front: whatever you may have taken from the Frankie Muniz movie, ''Big Fat Liar'', the Hollywoo ...don't really care, but my readers are driving me nuts about it.” (Okay, I do really care. That was just me trying to sound cool.) Usually the producer
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• To Catch a Killer by Emma Kavanagh
  ...your job with the minimum amount of emotion. That's relatively easy when you encounter your victim when they're already dead but DS Alice Parr met the w ...as this woman? She was beautiful, patrician looking and obviously well-to-do. There were children's toys in her pocket: why had no one missed her?
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• Beneath The Lake by Christopher Ransom
  ...will overshadow their lives forever. Immediately engaging and compelling, you can feel the evil within. ...not to feel disappointed that their solitude has been encroached upon and do their best to keep out of the other family's way, but when the newcomers' f
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• Grandad There's a Head on the Beach by Colin Cotterill
  ...of a journey which will uncover piracy and slavery, violence and murder in what should be a beautiful part of the world, but isn't. ...treat them as disposable. The issues are important and the message about what's happening is delivered with a firm hand.
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• Beautiful Patterns by Various Authors
  .... Not only is this book filled with great patterns, but it will also make you consider composition. ...ouring book for grownups feel more like a military operation, but at least you will have fun doing it and improve your skills.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Johnny Ringwood
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' Johnny Ringwood: If I close my eyes and try to think what my readers will look like, I suppose because of the title, they will be peo
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• The Anxiety-Elimination System by Nicos Nicolaou
  ...he same. No one is born with a chemical imbalance in the brain and genes do not determine behaviour. The proof of the efficacy of his system is that th ...ink that the book is no more than an advertisement for his other services: you can simply follow the system as described in the book.
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• The Wide-Mouthed Frog by Iain Smyth and Michael Terry
  ...who he is whilst saying ''Ooh, you don't see many of those round here, do you?'' I'm hardly doing it justice, but it's very cheesy and funny. Anyway, thi ...he sort of joke that gets funnier every time you say it, especially if you do a silly voice.
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• How to be a Social Entrepreneur: Make Money and Change the World by Robert Ashton
  ...er through the business maze. And before we go any further, what, exactly do we mean by the perhaps woolly phrase of 'Social Entrepreneur'? Many think ...st be sustainable. No good to anyone, he says, illustrating the point, of say opening a soup kitchen for the homeless - for it to fold a month later. Th
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Marcus Sedgwick
  * '''When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...hope that it finds favour with people; I don't think you can second guess what people want to read.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To W Scott Beaven
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, what do you see?''' ...er mixed parentage allows an examination of racism but is there any reason you chose Japanese in particular?'''
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• A Deal's a Deal by Stephanie Blake
  ...dinand's car is just a plastic one and his are metal he somehow finds that what he really, really wants is this particular red car, and Ferdinand manipulat ...et his own back on Ferdinand. I won't spoil the conclusion but let's just say Ferdinand gets his comeuppance in a rather disgusting way!
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• Frisky Business by Clodagh Murphy
  ...ut is she ready for what she might find, if she goes looking, and how much do blood ties mean anyway? ...re lots of mysteries in this book, beyond finding out who can legitimately say ''Luke, I am your father''. There’s lots of confusing jumping to conclusi
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• The Three Sillies by Tony Ross
  ...e land to discover whether there are other people who are even sillier. As you can imagine, lots of very silly things happen as George sets out on his mis ...rincess]] stories. The story of The Three Sillies is indeed very silly and you can tell that it is going to be just that by looking at the front cover and
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• Discover the Awesome World by Camilla de la Bedoyere, John Farndon, Ian Graham, Richard Platt and Philip Steele
  ...Kids are going to read this because they love it - and learn whilst they do so. ...habit of recycling reviews (honest!) but sometimes you know that you can't say it any better as exactly the same comments apply to Discover the Awesome Wo
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• Stitches in Time: The Story of the Clothes We Wear by Lucy Adlington
  ...ltures of times gone by, in order to paint a fascinating portrait of quite what a huge part clothing has played in our history. With shoes sparked by a dan
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• The Scarecrows' Wedding by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
  ...ill ever forget? A wonderfully captivating romp around the farm brought to you by the Queen of preschool literature. ...h as the Gruffalo related nod on the side of the tractor, which I can tell you will not go unnoticed by any children reading!
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• Flirt Diva - For Women Who Want to be Bold and Sassy and have a Fabulous Life! by Susan Ostler
  ...ing Loved Up'' that promises to put its participants (and as you'll learn, you're more than a mere reader with this title) on the fast track to romance. G ...oman she is too. This is one bubbly lady, and her personality jumps out at you from every page.
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• The Glump and the Peeble by Wendy Meddour and Rebecca Ashdown
  ...tle quicker if you had read more books as a child all about being whomever you want to be. ...and think. Can these two creatures work together to prove that anyone can do anything their heart desires?
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Liz Kessler
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...s left frantically trying to go back. Is there any period in your own life you’d like to revisit, either to change something or just to relive it?'''
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Megan Miranda
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...leven Minutes, the tie-in made available on the internet. How important do you think the internet is to the success of a YA novel today?'''
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Kim Staflund Again
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...g that something must be done to get those sales rolling. The question is: what?
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