A runaway thriller for fans of Anne Cassidy, Jennifer Niven & Malorie Blackman, by former Children`s Laureate Julia Donaldson. Driven away by the disturbing behaviour of her uncle, fifteen-year-old Leo flees her aunt`s home, where she has been living since the sudden death of her musician parents. She heads to Glasgow, hoping to discover the secret behind the feud between her father & his Chinese family. Leo`s journey is peopled with fabulous characters, including thirteen-year old Finlay
- an amateur sleuth & even-more-amateur Goth
- & Mary
- a Johnny Cash-&-chocolate-biscuit fanatic. In Running on the Cracks, Julia Donaldson has crafted a funny, moving, heart-stopping thriller with characters that will stay in your heart long after you have turned the final uplifting page. Julia has long been a household name thanks to her raft of best-selling picture books, but in her first book for teens she offers readers who enjoyed The Gruffalo as a child something completely new.


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Join 12-year-old Tash & her best friend Sam in a story of adventure, survival & hope, set in the vivid Himalayan landscape of Tibet & India. Filled with friendship, love & courage, this young girl`s thrilling journey to save her parents is an ideal read for children aged 9-12. There are two words that are banned in Tibet. Two words that can get you locked in prison without a second thought. I watch the soldiers tramping away & call the words after them. ` Dalai Lama.` Tash has to follow many rules to survive in Tibet, a country occupied by Chinese soldiers. But when a man sets himself on fire in protest & soldiers seize Tash`s parents, she & her best friend Sam must break the rules. They are determined to escape Tibet
- & seek the help of the Dalai Lama himself in India. & so, with a backpack of Tash`s father`s mysterious papers & two trusty yaks by their side, their extraordinary journey across the mountains begins.
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Running can encompass the absolute extremes of human performance, from speed to endurance. Running Science uncovers the fundamental science that underpins this ubiquitous sport, bringing together the study of biomechanics, nutrition, psychology, health & injury prevention, & the technical development of shoes & running surfaces: it`s a complete reference. ...

A unique new book for anyone planning to invest in a gite ot bed & breakfast business in France. Contains vital information nto help readers avoid disasters that can turn a prospective profitable business into a nightmare. A practical, comprehensive study of how to make a living from your French home. Provides valuable insider tips to help readers avois costly mistakes when buying a property in France for a gite or B&B business. ...

Running marathons back-to-back, sleeping by the side of the road, giving presentations to remote schools that had never been visited by their own kinsfolk, this is the remarkable story of personal endurance that gives an engrossing insight into the people & wildlife of South America. It is the story of two everyday runners, Katharine & David, who decided to take on a continent & learn how to run again
- barefoot, pushing their bodies & minds to levels they had never considered possible in a bid to become the first in the world to run the length of South America, to give a voice to the wildlife & wildernesses they adore. Running laid them bare, stripped them of the shell people journey within, so all they had to rely on was their own bare feet. Yet this very vulnerability provided the key to unlocking communities who would fling open their doors, tuck them under their wings & whisper their secrets. Amazing animals accompanied them: gigantic vaulting stick-insects; cackling macaws who wheeled & pirouetted in the sky, desperately trying to gain a better view of them; & a giant anteater whom they stalked through a snake-infested swamp, so they could stand within an arm`s length as he devoured termites upon the end of his long sticky tongue. It was also an animal, if one of the most diminutive, that nearly succeeded in ending their dreams of conquering the continent
- an ant! But when their joints & muscles were screaming, when they couldn`t stand the sight of one another & when prickly heat, blisters & tropical ulcers infested their skin, it was the wildlife & wildernesses that pulled them through. Day after day, for months on end, running from freezer through desert & into the biggest rainforest on earth, they survived hurricane-force winds, near 100% humidity, swarms of biting insects & some of the most crime-ridden places on the planet. The expedition nearly cost them their marriage, health, sanity & lives. But somehow, they made it to the other end of the continent, 6, 504 miles & 15 months later, when they splashed into the warm & much-dreamed of Caribbean Sea.

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Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of becoming the first Rwandan to run in the Olympics. But Jean Patrick is a Tutsi & his kind are not supposed to win. When the president's assassination plummets the country into sudden & bloody chaos
- Hutu against Tutsi, neighbour against neighbour
- Jean Patrick is left without protection & without any choice. Now he must run: from his home, from his family, from the woman he loves. Finding them again will be the race of his life. Evoking the raw beauty of Rwanda & the tragedy of its recent past, Running the Rift is a truly stunning novel of a people's trauma, of lives lost, & of loves salvaged.

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In ” Running the Show”, the British Empire of old is re-examined, with Stephanie Williams looking at the men governing the Empire in the nineteenth century, how they were chosen & controlled, & just how they managed to do it. From Fiji to the Falkland Islands, from Malaysia to Australia & South Africa, from Lagos to Ottawa, ordinary British men & women, with no training, were dispatched to strange places, among strange people & faced unimaginable conditions. Some started wars. Others fought disease, injustice & slavery. Many died or went mad. ” Running the Show”, drawing on vast unpublished sources, reveals the day-today lives, griefs & triumphs of governors at the height of the British Empire as they struggled to make sense of their charges &, frequently, themselves. ...

It is the world`s most iconic road race. It is twenty-six-point-two miles of iconic landmarks, cheers, tears, sweat, pain, courage, determination & inspiration. It is triumph over adversity on a colossal scale. It is the London Marathon
- & it`s an event unlike any other. Running The Smoke tells the story of what it`s like to take part in this race in the most enlightening & enriching way possible: from the perspectives of twenty-six different people who have participated in it since its inception in 1981. Candid & inspiring if you are preparing for your first marathon or your 100th, Running The Smoke will give you the encouragement, insight & belief you need to cross that line.
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Luxury collector`s hardback gift edition. An epic & heart-rending jungle adventure from the bestselling author of ` War Horse` & ` Born to Run`. For Will & his mother, going to Indonesia isn`t just a holiday. It`s an escape, a new start, a chance to put things behind them
- things like the death of Will`s father. & to begin with, it seems to be just what they both needed. But then Oona, the elephant Will is riding on the beach, begins acting strangely, shying away from the sea. & that`s when the tsunami comes crashing in, & Oona begins to run. Except that when the tsunami is gone, Oona just keeps on running. With nothing on his back but a shirt & nothing to sustain him but a bottle of water, Will must learn to survive deep in the jungle. Luckily, though, he`s not completely alone! He`s got Oona.
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” Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year”
- This is shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. After years of
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