When the young Prince of Zapada is imprisoned by rebels, he needs all the help he can get to escape. As he flees his prison dressed in his red pyjamas, his captives are hot on his heels. But soon he realises he is not alone. The whole land of Zapada has joined forces to help him, each person dressing in red to confound & confuse his enemies. A ...

The Red Pyramid: the first book in Rick Riordan`s The Kane Chronicles. Percy Jackson fought Greek Gods. Now the Gods of Egypt are waking in the modern world...`I guess it started the night our dad blew up the British museum...` Carter & Sadie Kane`s dad is a brilliant Egyptologist with a secret plan that goes horribly wrong. An explosion shatters the ancient Rosetta stone & unleashes Set, the evil god of chaos... Set imprisons Dr Kane in a golden coffin & Carter & Sadie must run for their lives. To save their dad, they embark on a terrifying quest from Cairo to Paris to the American South-west & discover the truth about their family`s connection to the House of Life: an Egyptian temple of magic that has existed for thousands of years. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt are far from dead & buried. & neither, unfortunately, are their gods... Praise for the Percy Jackson series: ” Witty & inspired. Gripping, touching & deliciously satirical... This is most likely to succeed Rowling. Puffin is on to a winner”. (Amanda Craig, The Times). ” Puns, jokes & subtle wit, alongside a gripping storyline”. (Telegraph).” Perfectly paced, with electrifying moments chasing each other like heartbeats”. (New York Times). Rick Riordan is an award-winning mystery writer. He lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife & two sons. Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief was the overall winner of the Red House Children`s Book Award in 2006. The Percy Jackson series: The Lightning Thief; The Sea of Monsters; The Battle of the Labyrinth; The Titan`s Curse; The Last Olympian Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero; The Son of Neptune; The Mark of Athena The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid; The Throne of Fire; The Serpent`s Shadow. ...

The second book in Philippa`s stunning new trilogy, The Cousins War, brings to life the story of Margaret Beaufort, a shadowy ...

Rose, Ella, Marta & Carla. In another life we might all have been friends together. But this was Birchwood. For fans of The Diary of Anne Frank & The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. As fourteen-year-old Ella begins her first day at work she steps into a world of silks, seams, scissors, pins, hems & trimmings. She is a dressmaker, but this is no ordinary sewing workshop. Hers are no ordinary clients. Ella has joined the seamstresses of Birkenau-Auschwitz, as readers may recognise it. Every dress she makes could mean the difference between life & death. & this place is all about survival. Ella seeks refuge from this reality, & from haunting memories, in her work & in the world of fashion & fabrics. She is faced with painful decisions about how far she is prepared to go to survive. Is her love of clothes & creativity nothing more than collaboration with her captors, or is it a means of staying alive? Will she fight for herself alone, or will she trust the importance of an ever-deepening friendship with Rose? One thing weaves through the colours of couture gowns & camp mud
- a red ribbon, given to Ella as a symbol of hope.
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Rose, Ella, Marta & Carla. In another life we might all have been friends together. But this was Birchwood. For readers of The Diary of Anne Frank & The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. As fourteen-year-old Ella begins her first day at work she steps into a world of silks, seams, scissors, pins, hems & trimmings. She is a dressmaker, but this is no ordinary sewing workshop. Hers are no ordinary clients. Ella has joined the seamstresses of Birkenau-Auschwitz, as readers may recognise it. Every dress she makes could mean the difference between life & death. & this place is all about survival. Ella seeks refuge from this reality, & from haunting memories, in her work & in the world of fashion & fabrics. She is faced with painful decisions about how far she is prepared to go to survive. Is her love of clothes & creativity nothing more than collaboration with her captors, or is it a means of staying alive? Will she fight for herself alone, or will she trust the importance of an ever-deepening friendship with Rose? One thing weaves through the colours of couture gowns & camp mud
- a red ribbon, given to Ella as a symbol of hope.
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The Red Sea is the closest tropical sea to Europe. It is almost an extension of the Mediterranean from which it is separated by the Isthmus of Suez. This proximity to the early civilisations of the Mediterranean have strongly affected the history of the Red Sea which has always progressed in parallel to that of the Old World. The Red Sea was frequented by the ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks & Romans who left traces of their passing in shipwrecks that every now & then are rediscovered. The ships that have ploughed the waters of the Red Sea for millennia have had to deal with strong currents & high winds that have turned this sea into a graveyard of ships from every age. The result is a delight for divers who have always found in the sea an underwater Eldorado. The famous Austrian pioneer, Hans Hass, came here after World War II & took the first photographs of the Umbria & her 360, 000 unexploded bombs using his legendary Robot. The Italians arrived in 1953 on the Formica in an expedition whose members counted names that have gone down in diving history: Vailati, Quilici, Cousteau... This book tells the story of the exploration of the Red Sea, especially underwater, taking both history & natural history into account. The reader is guided through the magical submerged gardens of the Sinai, on the adventurous discovery of unknown wrecks, on a search for the remains of the Precontinente II, to Cousteau's village, face to face with sharks, & to the beaches. This new title in the Secrets of the Sea series, contains dramatic underwater photography. ...

There`s a rebellion in Khemed & the Emir`s life is in danger! He has entrusted his mischievous son to Captain Haddock`s care, but when an old friend of Tintin`s is caught smuggling arms to the Khemed rebels, Tintin & Haddock jump straight on a plane to find out what on earth is going on... ...

The Red Sea has, from time immemorial, been one of the world`s most navigated spaces, in the pursuit of trade, pilgrimage & conquest. Yet this multidimensional history remains largely unrevealed by its successive protagonists. Intrigued by the absence of a holistic portrayal of this body of water & inspired by Fernand Braudel`s famous work on the Mediterranean, this book brings alive a dynamic Red Sea world across time, revealing the particular features of a unique historical actor. In capturing this heretofore lost space, it also presents a critical, conceptual history of the sea, leading the reader into the heart of Eurocentrism. The Sea, it is shown, is a vital element of the modern philosophy of history. Alexis Wick is not satisfied with this inclusion of the Red Sea into history & attendant critique of Eurocentrism. Contrapuntally, he explores how the world & the sea were imagined differently before imperial European hegemony. Searching for the lost space of Ottoman visions of the sea, The Red Sea makes a deeper argument about the discipline of history & the historian`s craft. ...

An elegant exploration of the hugely influential simplicity, beauty, & functionality of Nordic design
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The Red Tram by C K Stead is another fine collection by one of New Zealands best writers. It

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