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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Welcome to Newton, the perfect town...Where kids get perfect grades...And everyone seems perfectly happy - all the time...Except Newcomer Henry Ward isn't buying it. With a pair of misfit friends, he's determined to expose the dark secrets lurking behind Newton's bright facade. But asking questions about Newton and the corporation that owns it can be dangerous. The doctors in the sinister medical centre on the hill have a procedure called "adjustment" for kids who don't fit in...And Henry and his friends have just gone to the top of the waiting list. Features Summary Welcome to Newton, the perfect town... Where kids get perfect grades, lead perfect lives and never break the rules. But something is rotten at the heart of Newton and newcomer Henry Ward is willing to break all the rules to discover the truth.. Author Andrew Taylor Publisher Usborne Publishing Ltd Release date 20180301 Pages 397 ISBN 1-4095-4053-7 ISBN 13 978-1-4095-4053-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Uncover the secrets to sailing fast whilst remaining in control. Mainsail trimming is not only a physically and mentally demanding role on a boat; it is also one of the most crucial. You need a deep and subtle appreciation of sail shapes and the controls used to achieve them. Most significantly, the role requires an obsession with acquiring and retaining speed. This book is here to help and it has been written in a groundbreaking way. Every effort has been made to simplify the subject and explain everything that you need to know without blinding you with science. Sailing terminology has been reined-in as much as possible and only information relating to mainsail trimming has been included. High quality photographs and illustrations are used throughout to simplify this complex subject. This is achieved by showing the sail shapes needed to make the boat go fast and stay under control. Only one sailing role is dealt with to further simplify the subject and make sailing more accessible to the newcomer. Features Summary Uncover the secrets to sailing fast whilst remaining in control. Mainsail trimming is not only a physically and mentally demanding role on a boat; it is also one of the most crucial... Author Felix Marks Publisher John Wiley & Sons Release date 20070927 Pages 94 ISBN 0-470-51650-X ISBN 13 978-0-470-51650-8

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days This New York Times Bestselling series continues with Jo, April, Mal, Molly, and Ripley as they take on everything that goes bump in the night. From scary stories to magical portals that lead to a land untouched by time, it's definitely not your average summer. Written by awesome all-star Noelle Stevenson (Nimona, ADVENTURE TIME(TM)) and brilliant newcomer Grace Ellis, and illustrated by the tremendously talented Brooke Allen (A Home for Mr. Easter). Features Summary From scary stories to magical portals that lead to a land untouched by time, Lumberjanes is definitely not your average summer. Author Carolyn Nowak (Visual artist), Shannon Watters (Author), Noelle Stevenson (Author), Faith Erin Hicks (Author), Grace Ellis (Author), Brooke A. Allen (Author) Publisher Boom! Studios Release date 20160531 Pages 112 ISBN 1-60886-803-6 ISBN 13 978-1-60886-803-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days Salman Rushdie, a self-described 'emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two', explores the true meaning of home. Writing with insight, passion and humour, he looks at what it means to belong, whether roots are real and homelands imaginary, what it is like to reconfigure your past from fragments of memory and what happens when East meets West. Selected from the books Shame, Imaginary Homelands and East, West by Salman Rushdie. VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human. Also in the Vintage Minis series: Love by Jeanette Winterson; Liberty by Virginia Woolf; Race by Toni Morrison; and, Sisters by Louisa May Alcott. Features Summary VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. Also in the Vintage Minis series: Love by Jeanette Winterson Race by Toni Morrison Death by Julian Barnes Sisters by Louise May Alcott Author Salman Rushdie Publisher Vintage Classics Release date 20170630 Pages 96 ISBN 1-78487-268-7 ISBN 13 978-1-78487-268-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days As a part of DC Universe Rebirth, son of Batman Damian Wayne joins the Teen Titans! The Teen Titans are further apart than ever before...until Damian Wayne recruits Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy and the new Kid Flash to join him in a fight against his own grandfather, Ra's al Ghul! But true leadership is more than just calling the shots--is Robin really up to the task? Or will the Teen Titans dismiss this diminutive dictator? The team will have to figure this out fast, as a great evil from Damian's past is lurking around the corner, ready to strike at the team's newest leader and destroy the new Teen Titans before they even begin! The newest era of one of DC's greatest super-teams begins here in TEEN TITANS VOL. 1! Written by Benjamin Percy (GREEN ARROW) with spectacular art by newcomer Jonboy Meyers. Collects issues #1-6 and TEEN TITANS: REBIRTH #1. Features Summary As a part of DC Universe Rebirth, son of Batman Damian Wayne joins the Teen Titans The Teen Titans are further apart than ever before...until Damian Wayne recruits Starfire... Author Benjamin Percy (Author), Jonboy Meyers (Visual artist) Publisher DC Comics Release date 20170620 Pages 168 ISBN 1-4012-7077-8 ISBN 13 978-1-4012-7077-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days A full-color storybook with a shiny cover, game cards, and over 50 stickers based on the hit film coming to theaters in fall 2017! Despite his family's baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel (voice of newcomer Anthony Gonzalez) dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz (voice of Benjamin Bratt). Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector (voice of Gael Garcia Bernal), and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history. Directed by Lee Unkrich (Toy Story 3), co-directed by Adrian Molina (story artist Monsters University), and produced by Darla K. Anderson (Toy Story 3), Disney/Pixar's Coco opens in U.S. theaters on November 22, 2017. Children ages 3 to 7 will love this full-color storybook with a shiny cover, game cards, and over 50 stickers based on the film. Features Summary A full-color storybook with a shiny cover, game cards, and over 50 stickers based on the hit film coming to theaters in fall 2017! Despite his family's baffling generations-old ban on music... Author Rh Disney Publisher Random House Disney Release date 20171009 ISBN 0-7364-3766-5 ISBN 13 978-0-7364-3766-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 20 - 25 working days Continuing their first semester at university, fast friends Susan, Esther, and Daisy want to find their footing in life. The girls, along with their male hall-mates, Ed and McGraw find that college is more than academics and bad microwavable meals. Add some pub hopping, hookups, breakups and political scandal this might just be the most eventful first semester ever. Giant Days, the comedic slice-of-life series from creator John Allison (Bad Machinery, Scary Go Round), and fantastic newcomer, Max Sarin has graduated to a third volume, collecting issues 9-12 of the critically acclaimed series. Features Summary Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. Author Max Sarin (Visual artist), John Allison (Author) Publisher Boom! Box Release date 20161011 Pages 112 ISBN 1-60886-851-6 ISBN 13 978-1-60886-851-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days 'Zadie Smith's fizzing first novel is... an astonishingly assured debut, funny and serious, and the voice has real writerly idiosyncrasy. I was delighted by White Teeth, and often impressed.' Salman Rushdie One of the most talked about fictional débuts of recent years, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book. White Teeth has won awards for Best Book and Best Female Newcomer at the BT Emma Awards (Ethnic and Multicultural Media Awards), the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread Prize for a first novel in 2000, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction 2000, the WH Smith Book Award for New Talent, the Frankfurt ebook Award for Best Fiction Work and both the Commonwealth Writers First Book Award and Overall Commonwealth Writers Prize. Features Summary In the author's words, this novel is "an attempt at a comic family epic of little England into which an explosion of ethnic colour is injected". It tells the story of three families... Author Zadie Smith Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Release date 20011119 Pages 541 ISBN 0-14-027633-5 ISBN 13 978-0-14-027633-6

Rokuro and Benio are extraordinary exorcists fated to marry and birth the ultimate spiritual warriorbut can they get along for even one minute? Rokuro dreams of becoming anything but an exorcist! Then mysterious Benio turns up. The pair are dubbed the Twin Star Exorcists and learn they are fated to marry Can Rokuro escape both fates? Paradoxically, Rokuros Spiritual Guardian appears to be someone it cant possibly be. Then, despite warnings, Guardian Shimon recruits the Twin Stars to help him rescue a young exorcist in training. Now why does Seigen add his daughter, newbie exorcist Mayura, to their team? About the Author Yoshiaki Sukeno was born July 23, 1981 in Wakayama, Japan. He graduated from Kyoto Seika University, where he studied Manga. In 2006, he won the Tezuka Award for Best Newcomer Shonen Manga Artist. In 2008, he began his previous work, the supernatural comedy Binbougami ga!, which was adapted into the anime Good Luck Girl in 2012. Read more Series: Twin Star Exorcists (Book 7) Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; Tra edition (January 3, 2017) Paperback: 200 pages Yoshiaki Sukeno (Author) Yoshiaki Sukeno was born July 23, 1981 in Wakayama, Japan. He graduated from Kyoto Seika University, where he studied Manga. In 2006, he won the Tezuka Award for Best Newcomer Shonen Manga Artist. In 2008, he began his previous work, the supernatural comedy Binbougami ga!, which was adapted into the anime Good Luck Girl in 2012.