Timmy invites his grandfather to the Dinosaur & Dragon Juice Café. His friends, the Mucky Mango, Bouncing Broccoli and a big bag of potatoes, go with them. Chaos results with the Mucky Mango falls over a Timmy must save the day!

Dinosaur & Dragon Juice Cafe

Children's Books

Crabb, James Anthony

Animals

Picnic Pub Ltd

The tale of Jimmy, a hardworking and honest rat who delivers pizza on his skateboard. One day the skateboard is stolen and Jimmy must find a way of retrieving.

Jimmy Rat

Bright, Philip

Rick Schmidt's prescient political thriller - he wrote the first draft pre-9/11 - is a brilliant gallop through half a century of US subterfuge, civil rights stand off, scandal and conspiracy from the Bay of Pigs to the Twin Towers and beyond. Taking as his starting point JFK's well documented promiscuity, Schmidt opens with the President' seduction of a devout, married, African-American woman. Within two years and a half years of the couple's single encounter, JFK is assassinated. In a haunting blend of pathos, courage and ambition, and against all conceivable adversity, their son rises from poverty to attain America's highest office.Schmidt skillfully weaves together the most important events and prominent figures of US modern history, reinterpreting events with the benefit of hindsight and an in-depth knowledge of the greatest American conspiracy theories. He takes us into Marilyn Monroe's bedroom, J Edgar Hoover's wardrobe and JFK's cabinet meetings. From here, he leads us into the brutality of assassination - JFK, Martin Luther King Jr and Bobby Kennedy - and then to the quagmire of Vietnam.

Black President: An Historical Novel

Literature & Fiction

Schmidt, Rick

United States

The American road to Baghdad started when the first English settlers landed in Virgina determined to impose their values on everyone they encountered. Simultaneously, the first Russians crossed the Urals and the two empires that would dominate the twentieth century were born. "Empires Apart" covers the history of the Americans and Russians from the Vikings to the present day. It shows the two empires developed in parallel as they expanded to the Pacific and launched wars against the nations around them. They both developed an imperial 'ideology' that was central to the way they perceived themselves. Then, in the period between the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War, the American ideology changed and the lust for new territory to conquer largely disappeared. It is argued that what caused this change was the advent of Big Business which set out to conquer the world in a different way.Soon after, the ideology of the Russian Empire also changed with the advent of Communism. The key argument of this book is that these changes did not alter the core imperial values of either nation; both Russians and Americans continued to believe that their manifest destiny was to impose their will on others. Corporatist and Communist imperialism changed only the mechanics of Empire. Both nations have shown that they are still willing to use military force and clandestine intrigue to enforce imperial control. In order to support these arguments, it is necessary to strip away many of the preconceptions of popular history and this book uses numerous anecdotes to illustrate events as they really happened. The most pervasive preconception is that America has never been an 'imperial' power, by recounting the history of the two nations alongside each other this preconception is decisively dissolved.

Empires Apart: America & Russia from the Vikings to Iraq

History

Landers, Brian

Americas

The Ghosts of Eden

Sharp, J. H. Andrew

Romance

Kill-grief

Rance, Caroline

Genre Fiction

On a cold winter's night, just before Christmas 1887, an event in a pub in the small market town of Kelsford sets in motion a train of events that no one could have foreseen: a bungled robbery by the Fenian Irish Brotherhood, the murder on a deserted towpath of one of the gang members, another suspicious death and the theft of a Romanov necklace. What is the role played by Latvian anarchists, or by Ruth Samuels - a wealthy widow and banker in the secret Jewish organisation known as 'The Pipeline'? For Thomas Norton of the Kelsford Detective Department, this is an enquiry that moves across Europe into the snowbound mountains of the Tsarist Empire and back to the heat-soaked streets of New York, before plunging into the sinister alleyways of Jack the Ripper's Whitechapel. Crooked Mile is Victorian murder and mystery at its best. Ben Beazley is an historian and retired policeman. This is the first instalment of his riveting Kelsford Casebook series

Crooked Mile

Beazley, Ben

Something Hidden

Blackstock, Nick

Action & Adventure

Sacred Site

Fleet, Kim

Asks why tougher policies are not being followed to tackle climate change and presents the arguments for the first time from the perspective of an elected politician. Colin Challen MP condemns the inability of political parties to form a consensus around a meaningful response and suggests ways forward. He believes that action will need to be bottom-up as well as top-down but fears catastrophe may play a role in shifting policies to a level adequate to the task. He warns against 'displacement' activities, such as building a new fleet of nuclear power stations, and calls for a massive expansion of renewable energy as well as personal carbon allowances. Colin Challen is that rare animal: a brave, intelligent, parliamentarian who seeks no patronage. It takes courage to challenge your own government, let alone point out to the public, during a recession (!), the steps individuals must take if climate change catastrophe is to be avoided. This, however, is what he does in his book which Picnic publishes with pride. Given his challenge to Government, I suspect Prime Minister Gordon Brown may rue the day he remarked in the House of Commons of Colin: 'I know that my hon. Friend is an expert on these matters'. Yes, Colin is. This is why what he says must be taken seriously. Tony Blair, when Prime Minister, also recognised Colin's tireless efforts: 'I thank my hon.Friend for all the work that he has done in relation to climate change.' Colin does not want thanks but action. Before it is too late . . .

Too Little, Too Late: The Politics of Climate Change

Politics & Social Sciences

Challen, Colin

Politics & Government

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