The world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant &, let's face it, boring. This groundbreaking book reclaims maths from the geeks. Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives: from the surprising geometry of the 50p piece to how probability can help you win in any casino. In search of weird & wonderful mathematical phenomena, Alex Bellos travels across the globe & meets the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany & a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan. Packed with fascinating, eye-opening anecdotes, Alex's Adventures in Numberland is an exhilarating cocktail of history, reportage & mathematical proofs that will leave you awestruck. ...

The world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant &, let's face it, boring. This groundbreaking book reclaims maths from the geeks. Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives: from the surprising geometry of the 50p piece to how probability can help you win in any casino. In search of weird & wonderful mathematical phenomena, Alex Bellos travels across the globe & meets the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany & a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan. Packed with fascinating, eye-opening anecdotes, Alex's Adventures in Numberland is an exhilarating cocktail of history, reportage & mathematical proofs that will leave you awestruck. ...

From the bestselling author of Night Owls comes a story of summer, first love & hidden identities... Bailey Mink Rydell has met the boy of her dreams. They share a love of films & talk all day
- Alex is perfect. Well, apart from the fact that they've never actually met... & neither of them knows the other's real name. When Bailey moves to sunny California to live with her dad, who happens to live in the same town as Alex, she decides to track him down. But finding someone based on online conversations alone proves harder than Bailey thought, & with her irritating but charismatic (and potentially attractive?) colleague Porter Roth distracting her at every turn, will she ever get to meet the mysterious Alex? ` If you like Rainbow Rowell, Jandy Nelson & John Green, then you are going to want to check out Jenn Bennett.' Sugarscape
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Alex Jennings is a boy with a problem.

His mum's sent him away to boarding school because his father, the most

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Alex Jennings is a boy with a problem. His mum's sent him away to boarding school because his father, the most famously failed explorer in the history of the Cusp, has escaped from hospital again, yelling 'squiggles'. Make that two problems. Now the evil Davidus Kyte & all his henchmen are after Alex, convinced he alone knows the meaning of the word 'squiggles'. OK, make that three
- Alex Jennings is a boy with a lot of problems. But with the help of a talking dog & a girl with unfeasibly sharp teeth, he just might have what it takes to cross the Forbidden Lands, escape the evil Davidus Kyte, & find out what lies beyond the Cusp... Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Children's Book Award, Ross Montgomery's Alex, the Dog & the Unopenable Door is a funny, surreal & heart-warming novel.
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Kirsty & Rachel are excited to be entering a charity fashion show where children get to show off their own designs. Unfortunately, Jack Frost thinks everyone in the world should dress like him, & steals the Fashion Fairies' seven magical items to put his naughty plan into action! The fashion reporter from the Tippington Times is having a terrible day
- she muddles up her words, forgets her notepad & generally gets in a fluster. Can Kirsty & Rachel help her out?
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To many he was a god. To others he was a monster. The truth is even more extraordinary. As a boy, Alexander dreamed of matching the heroic feats of Achilles. At eighteen he led the Macedonian cavalry to a stunning victory against the Greeks. By twenty-five he had crushed the Persians in three monumental battles & was the master of the greatest empire the world had ever seen. Men began to call him a god. But behind the legend was another, more complex story. Narrated by his boyhood friend Ptolemy, this is the story of Alexander as you have never heard it before: raw, intimate, thrilling
- a story of extraordinary daring & unimaginable endurance; of wanton destruction & murderous intrigue
- the epic tragedy of a man who aimed to be more than human.

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Continuing the epic saga of Alexander the Great, Alexander: The Sands of Ammon brilliantly describes Alexander's quest to conquer Asia, the limitless domain ruled by the Great King of the Persians. In a seemingly impossible venture, Alexander & his men storm Persian fortresses & harbours, crippling King Darius' domain of land & sea. Even the legendary Halicarnassus is defeated by the Macedonian armies. Ruthlessly, Alexander's war machine moves ever onward taking him up into the snow-covered Anatolian highlands. But there is danger ahead. Despite the defeat of Darius, the Island City of Tyre & the Towers of Gaza prove to be formidable obstacles. Undeterred, Alexander surges forth over land & sea to the mysterious land of Egypt. & there, in the sands, lies the Oracle of Ammon, waiting to reveal an amazing truth to Alexander. One that will change his already amazing life. ...

Who could have been born to conquer the world other than a god? Mesmeric beauty, consuming desires, an insatiable hunger. Then premature death. This is the story of a boy, born to a great king
- Philip of Macedon
- & his sensuous queen, Olympias. It tells of the stern discipline of Philip & the wild passions of Olympias, & how, together, they formed Alexander, a young man of immense, unfathomable potential, capable of subjugating the known world to his power, & thought of by his contemporaries as a god. Alexander's swift ascent to manhood, as a protege of Aristotle & close friend of Ptolemy & Hephiaston, & the start of his great adventure to conquer the civilised world is recounted in this awe-inspiring novel. This is a wonderful evocation of the far-off & fascinating civilisation of ancient Greece, revealed in vibrant tones & scholarly detail.

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Alexander's epic quest continues into the heart of Asia & on towards the mystery of India. The Macedonian Army march ever onward in search of glory, crushing resistance at every turn. The culture & beauty of Babylon is quickly ravaged & the Palace of Persepolis burnt to ashes & cinder. An empire is destroyed & a new & bloody era begins. But there are other things on Alexander's mind. An ambitious project to unite the peoples of the empire under one homel&, begins to obsess him. There are rebellions & bloodshed, but the curious beauty of Queen Roxanna gives Alexander the strength to fulfil his destiny... This is a truly compelling, romantic & exciting book, & a fitting conclusion to the bestselling Alexander trilogy. ...