The world’s bestselling authority on astonishing facts and unparalleled human achievements--completely revised and updated for 2003! From the world’s fastest speed skater to the world’s fastest snail, the most coffee consumed to the longest strand of pasta--418 feet--Guinness World Records™ is the most complete, authoritative, and exciting guide to every record, statistic, and feat of human endeavor and natural wonder imaginable. And it’s packed with exciting photos to back them up! • The world’s longest kiss took place in New York City, lasting a Guinness World Record 30 hours, 59 minutes, and 27 seconds. • Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, and Courteney Cox Arquette, the female leads in NBC’s Friends, earned a whopping Guinness World Record $1 million each per episode of the 2002 season. • The most expensive house sale to date goes to a Hong Kong businessman who collected a staggering Guinness World Record $101,909,312 for his home. And that’s only the beginning! Dive into the awe-inspiring, newly expandedGuinness World Records™ 2003and discover a feast of fascinating facts. Animal, vegetable, or mineral--if it’s occurred and been recorded, you’ll find it here.

Laura and Sophie are best friends. They are even growing their own friendship tree! But one day, Laura's brother, Tommy, accidentally breaks the sapling. What will Sophie say? Will their friendship be ruined? Maybe Laura's special friend, the star, can help her out once more.

Laura and Tommy are going on holiday, but Tommy has lost his favourite toy dog. Can Laura and her special star find Tommy's dog before it's time to leave? This magical book is packed with lots of fun games and activities, including colouring, mazes, word search, join-the-dots and spot the difference. Plus over 60 colourful and holographic foil stickers to complete the activities and make a sparkly night-sky play scene.

Back in print for the first time in years—and available in eBook for the first time—the New York Times bestselling tie-in to the hit television show and cult classic, Twin Peaks. Laura Palmer was introduced to television audiences in the opening scenes of "Twin Peaks"—as a beautiful dead girl, wrapped in plastic. Now available in print for the first time in many years (and in e-book for the very first time!), The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer chronicles Laura's life from age 12 to her death at 17, and is filled with secrets, character references, and even clues to the identity of her eventual killer. Fans of the show will love seeing their favorite characters again, and Laura's diary makes compelling reading as she turns from a naive freshman having her first kiss to a "bad girl" experimenting with drugs, sex and the occult. "As seen by" Jennifer Lynch, creator David Lynch's daughter, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer is authentic, creepy, and a perfect book for anyone who loves supernatural suspense.

Karen is having a terrible day. Her favourite jeans are missing, there's no prize in the Crunch-O cereal box, and Boo-Boo the cat won't play with her. She even gets punished and sent to her room! Karen tries everything to make her day better, but nothing is going right and her bad luck just won't go away. Will this be the worst day ever?

Welcome to England’s beautiful Lake District, where a reluctant reunion forges a new bond between a daughter and her wayward mother.... Abby Rhodes is just starting to get her life on track. After her fiancé’s unexpected death, she returned with her young son to the small village where she grew up and threw herself into helping her ailing grandmother run the town's beach café. Then one evening, her mother, Laura, shows up in Hartley-by-the-Sea and announces her plan to stay. After twenty years away, she now wants to focus on the future—and has no intention, it seems, of revisiting the painful past. Laura Rhodes has made a lot of mistakes, and many of them concern her daughter. But as Abby gets little glimpses into her mother's life, she begins to realize there are depths to Laura she never knew. Slowly, Abby and Laura start making tentative steps toward each other, only to have life become even more complicated when an unexpected tragedy arises. Together, the two women will discover truths both sad and surprising that draw them closer to a new understanding of what it means to truly forgive someone you love.

A simple and inspiring story, celebrating the wonderfulness of the ordinary man, by one of the world's most bizarre thinkers.