Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigation skills. Our Kid Detectives Isla, Farah, Sam and Mohammad are planning a fishing trip at their favourite spot at the local river. But when they arrive, they notice how the usually crystal-clear river has turned cloudy. What could be causing the pollution of the river?Join the Detective gang as they meet a scientist who will help them discover what's wrong with the river water and what is causing the pollution. Does it have something to do with that grumpy looking farmer? Find out in The Peculiar Affair of Cloudy Water! Featured interactive elements: Looking for clues in the illustrationSpotting how the river has been affected by the pollutionSpotting what is causing the pollution Gathering crucial information from information panels about pollutionThrough interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, these books impart STEM knowledge in an original way to inspire a love of the subject. The story in each book will have the reader solving puzzles, finding clues, cracking secret codes and uncovering mysteries.Perfect for aspiring detectives aged 7+.

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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Inspired by her beloved blog, dinneralovestory.com, Jenny Rosenstrach’s Dinner: A Love Story is many wonderful things: a memoir, a love story, a practical how-to guide for strengthening family bonds by making the most of dinnertime, and a compendium of magnificent, palate-pleasing recipes. Fans of “Pioneer Woman” Ree Drummond, Jessica Seinfeld, Amanda Hesser, Real Simple, and former readers of Cookie magazine will revel in these delectable dishes, and in the unforgettable story of Jenny’s transformation from enthusiastic kitchen novice to family dinnertime doyenne.

Bill Staniforth is being harassed by a former colleague he once counseled, Miriam. What starts as an embarrassing annoyance for a man in an upwardly mobile neighborhood - hang up phone calls at all hours, his answering machine clogged with love messages - adds stress to his already tense marriage. For Bill's wife Holly has her own discontentments as she struggles to find meaning in work that is often uninspiring. Working at a struggling feminist publication that can barely afford to pay her she finds she's doing more busy work than she wants, and far less writing than she'd like. In her frustration she wants someone or something to blame. She decides that Miriam must have been Bill's lover, and that's why she can't leave him alone. With Bill too preoccupied to give her the attention she needs Holly pours out her woes a neighbor. A sympathetic ear becomes something more insidious, and soon the flirtation becomes an affair. Miriam, busy spying on Bill, discovers this and decides that the only way she can liberate Bill from his marriage is by blackmailing his wife. Miriam spends more and more time stalking Bill and doing New Age Druid rituals to bring him to her until her ex-husband, incensed by her neglect of their children, argues with her and strikes her. She recoils, hits her head on a door frame, and later that evening slips into a coma. The police are called in and they consider it attempted murder. They search Miriam's apartment, find the photographs she was using in her blackmail attempt, and Bill is arrested as a suspect. In jail, abandoned by wife and friends, and able to hire a decent lawyer only at the cost of bankrupting himself, Bill is forced to reasses every aspect of his life. Fighting off a rape attempt by two fellow inmates, Bill is reduced to thinking only about his day to day survival. When Miriam recovers consciousness Bill's innocence is established and he is released. He returns to his empty house. Holly has left him, he's lost his job, and he has to sell the house to pay his legal costs. His next door neighbor, Sue, takes him in. This is when he begins to learn personally about healing, about compassion, and about love. Miriam comes to claim Bill, believing they were lovers in a previous incarnation. When he refuses her she makes a final bid to win him. In the middle of the night she uses a Druid fire ceremony to release him from his other attachments, placing candles and oil lamps all around the house. The breeze blows over several lamps and the flames get out of hand. Bill awakes to find the house on fire. He manages to get everyone out of the house but is badly burned. Miriam is confined to an asylum, and Bill recovers to marry Sue.

The clock is relentlessly ticking! Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic consequences. In the face of both doomsaying and denial over the state of our world, Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is, and our possible futures. Ultimately his message is clear; we must act decisively, collectively and immediately to alter the trajectory of humanity away from catastrophe. Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action, The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright, peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization. This book is powerful and essential reading for all people concerned with the future of humanity and planet earth.