In the next hilarious illustrated instalment of Tom Gates, Mr Fullerman has a class assignment: a family tree! Tom`s ready to learn all about the Gates family, his friends & a furry creature (or two!). But just what *is* that squeaking sound coming from Tom`s shoes? ...

Pass your level 1 music test with Tom Gates! From Dog Zombies to Dude 3, music is a HUGE part of the Tom Gates world. Learn how to play all your favourite songs from the series with REAL notation for:
- Guitar
- Ukulele
- Piano
- Recorder & with notation for drums & tips & tricks for vocals!



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From the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, the Best Book for Younger Readers
- Red House Children`s Book Award, the Waterstones
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Tom Jones, born a foundling, grown into a gallant & irresistible hero, romps through the English countryside getting himself into all kinds of trouble through his good nature & eye for the ladies. Betrayed by jealous relatives, Tom is exiled from home & must undergo a variety of trials & adventures in his quest to be reunited with his one true love & redeem himself in the eyes of society. ...

Thanks to his Dopamine Diet, Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge has shed eleven stone over the past three years. That`s the same as 70 bags of sugar. If you`re struggling with your weight & need to shift unhealthy pounds, this new approach makes it easy, & is guaranteed to make you feel happier in the process. Most people find it hard to keep to a long-term diet, but this one is different. The recipes feature ingredients that trigger the release of the `happy hormone` dopamine in your brain, so it`s a diet that will make you feel good! Tom`s `dopamine heroes` include dairy products such as double cream & yoghurt, good-quality meats including beef, chicken & turkey, & even chocolate. By ditching alcohol & starchy carbs in favour of plenty of protein, fresh fruit & veg, you will be eating meals that will help you shed the weight, whilst offering a satisfying intensity of flavour. Treats in store for Dopamine Dieters include spinach, bacon & mint soup; roasted onion salad with fried halloumi; shepherd`s pie with creamy cauliflower topping; soy glazed cod with chilli, garlic & ginger; braised beef with horseradish; Chinese pork hot pot; & chocolate mousse with sesame almond biscuits. These are recipes that don`t feel like diet food, & can be shared with friends & family. It worked for Tom & it can work for you. Give it a go! & lose weight the Dopamine Diet way. ...

Following on from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) & Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884-5) Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) became one of Mark Twain's most popular books. Again we meet his world famous characters: Tom Sawyer, ' Nigger Jim', & Huck Finn
- together now on a fantastical balloon journey across the Atlantic to meet lions & Bedouins in the Sahara & retrace something of Twain's own expedition to the Holy Land in his best-selling The Innocents Abroad (1869). Later, in Tom Sawyer Detective (1896), Twain returns us the banks of the Mississippi & a murder mystery involving identical twins & stolen diamonds. The author is back in his formative territory, the region his imagination could never leave behind. It provides him with another comedy of human foibles starring the irrepressible Tom Sawyer.
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Tom Sawyer, a shrewd & adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant & parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused, as well as being hunted by Injun Joe, the true murderer, eventually escaping & finding the treasure that Joe had buried. Huckleberry Finn recounts the further adventures of Huck, who runs away from a drunken & brutal father, & meets up with the escaped slave Jim. They float down the Mississippi on a raft, participating in the lives of the characters they meet, witnessing corruption, moral decay & intellectual impoverishment. Sharing so much in background & character, these two stories, the best of Twain, indisputably belong together in one volume. Though originally written as adventure stories for young people, the vivid writing provides a profound commentary on provincial American life in the mid-nineteenth century & the institution of slavery. ...

The story of ” Tom-All-Alone`s” takes place in the `space between` two masterpieces of mid-Victorian fiction: ” Bleak House” & ” The Woman in White”
- overlapping with them, & re-imagining them for a contemporary reader, with a modern understanding of the grimmer realities of Victorian society. Charles Maddox, dismissed from the police force, is working as a private detective & can only hope to follow in his uncle`s formidable footsteps as an eminent thief-taker. On a cold & bright Autumn morning, a policeman calls on Charles at his lodgings with information that may be related to a case he is working on. He goes to a ruined cemetery to find a shallow grave containing the remains of four babies has been discovered. After examining them he concludes they are not related to his investigation, which is to find a young girl abandoned in a workhouse 16 years before, when her mother died. But all is not as it first appears. As he`s drawn into another case at the behest of the eminent but feared lawyer, Edward Tulkinghorn, London`s sinister underbelly begins to emerge. From the first gruesome murder, Charles has a race against time to establish the root of all evil.” Tom`s-All-Alone” is ` Dickens but darker`
- without the comedy, without the caricature, & a style all its own. The novel explores a dark underside of Victorian life that Dickens & Collins hinted at
- a world in which young women are sexually abused, unwanted babies summarily disposed of, & those that discover the grim secrets of great men brutally eliminated.


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A detailed, colour survey map from the Portuguese Military Survey's M782 series. Each map in this series has contours at 20m intervals with supplementary contours at 10m intervals. One major advantage the military mapping has over the civilian equivalent is that the legend is in English as well as Portuguese. This legend

Includes:: roads, railways, buildings, spot heights, vegetation type, fluvial information, scree, dunes, churches, ruins, etc. Latitude & longitude ticks are show at 10' intervals. Recently revised sheets also have a UTM grid at 100m intervals. Vertical Datum: Mean Sea Level at Cascais Harbour Projection: Transverse Mercator

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Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:50, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico do Exército, the country’s military survey organisation. The maps have contours at 20m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of terrain or vegetation (s&, terraces, rocks, woodlands, vineyards, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 32 x 20km (20 x 12.5 miles approx). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude coordinates for the map corners. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English.EDITION DATES: most titles in this series date from 1990s or later. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...