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Fast Food and No Play Makes Jack a Fat Boy Creating a Healthier Lifestyle for You and Your Children By: Andy Griffiths, Jim Thomson, Sophie Blackmore Fast Food and No Play Makes Jack a Fat Boy : Creating a Healthier Lifestyle for You and Your Children - Andy Griffiths Pick up Sydenham 3037 Post $2.20 Excellent condition Product Details Meet Jack. Jack is an ordinary boy who lives in an ordinary house in an ordinary Australian suburb. Like many children, Jack likes playing computer games,

Empire of Dragons Valerio Massimo Manfredi Pick up Sydenham 3037 Post $2.20 Excellent condition Empire of Dragons by Valerio Massimo Manfredi Southern Anatolia, 260 AD The town of Edessa, a Roman outpost, is on its last legs, besieged by the Persian troops of Shapur I. Roman Emperor Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to draw up a peace treaty, but it is only a trap and the Emperor and his twelve guards are chained and dragged away to work as prisoners in a solitary Persian t

Special Topics in Calamity Physics Marisha Pessl Pick up Sydenham 3037 Post $2.20 Excellent condition Description The mesmerizing New York Times bestseller by the author of Night Film Marisha Pessl's dazzling debut sparked raves from critics and heralded the arrival of a vibrant new voice in American fiction. At the center of Special Topics in Calamity Physics is clever, deadpan Blue van Meer, who has a head full of literary, philosophical, scientific, and cinematic knowledge. But she cou

The Borgia Bride Jeanne Kalogridis Pick up Sydenham 3037 Post $2.20 Excellent condition The Borgia Bride by Jeanne Kalogridis 'This sweeping historical novel tells the dramatic tale of that most intriguing of Renaissance women', - Lucrezia Borgia. Incest. Poison. Betrayal. Three wedding presents for the Borgia bride! Italy 1492 Pope Alexander VI is elected. And so begins the Borgia reign of terror. Alexander murders, bribes and betrays to establish his dynasty. No one is immune. Rome is a

The Blind Man’s Garden – Nadeem Aslam – Large Paperback Pick up Sydenham 3037 Post $2.20 Excellent condition Love is not consolation, it is light.'From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers comes a searing, exquisitely written novel set in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the months following 9/11 - a story of war, of one family's losses, and of the simplest, most enduring human impulses.Jeo and Mikal, foster-brothers from a small Pakistani city, secretly enter Afghanistan: not to fight with the Ta

Whisper network. By Chandler Baker. Pick up Sydenham 3037 Post $2.20 Excellent condition AuthorsChandler Baker ISBN9780733641558 Published25 / 06 / 2019 Released25 / 05 / 2020 BindingPaperback Pages368 Dimensions153 x 236mm 'a primal roar of a novel' - Riley Sager, NYT bestselling author of The Last Time I Lied 'serrated as a kitchen knife, and twice as sharp' - AJ Finn, bestselling author of The Woman In The Window If only you'd listened to us, none of this would have happened. Sloane,

Screw It, Let's Do It Lessons In Life By: Richard Branson Post $2.20 Pick up Sydenham 3037 Excellent condition Throughout my life I have achieved many remarkable things. In Screw It, Let's Do It, I will share with you my ideas and the secrets of my success, but not simply because I hope they'll help you achieve your individual goals. Today we are increasingly aware of the effects of our actions on the environment, and I strongly believe that we each have a responsibility, as individuals an

Incendiary By: Chris Cleave Distraught over the deaths of her husband and son in a suicide bombing at a London soccer match, a woman writes a letter to Osama bin Laden to persuade him to abandon his terror campaign. When a massive suicide bomb explodes at a London soccer match a woman loses both her four-year-old son and her husband. But the bombing is only the beginning. In a voice alive with grief, compassion, and startling humor, Incendiary is a stunning debut of one ordinary life blown a

Women of Sand and Myrrh Hanan Al-Shaykh Summary In an unnamed Middle Eastern city, four women from different social and cultural backgrounds tell their story. There is Suha, an educated Lebanese woman brought to the desert by her husband; Tamr, who must fight against male rule to educate herself; and, Suzanne, captivated by the men and the mystery of the Arabian desert. Women of Sand and Myrrh Reviews 'A complex and demanding story of women in the Gulf - oppresed, manipulated, sexually torme

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangaremba 'With its searing observations, devastating exploration of the state of "not being", wicked humour and astonishing immersion into the mind of a young woman growing up and growing old before her time, the novel is a masterpiece.' - Madeleine Thien FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THIS MOURNABLE BODY,ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020 Two decades before Zimbabwe would win independence and ended white minority rule, thirteen-year-old Tambudzai

Once is Not Enough By Jacqueline Susann Description Once upon a time, the entertainment industry was a world that never slept. Magazine editors, models, pop stars, and all the rest visited vitamin doctors to get the shots that would allow them to stay up all night and then work all day--in offices decorated with beanbag chairs and Calderesque mobiles. In this world, January Wayne goes from poor-little-rich-girl to grown-up swinger, as she searches New York and Los Angeles for a guy just like

The Kitchen House By: Kathleen Grissom You must not become too friendly with them,' she said. 'They are not the same as us.' 'How?' I asked. 'How are they not the same?' When seven-year-old Irish orphan Lavinia is transported to Virginia to work in the kitchen of a wealthy plantation owner, she is absorbed into the life of the kitchen house and becomes part of the family of black slaves whose fates are tied to the plantation. But Lavinia's skin will always set her apart, whether she wishes it

A Year in High Heels By Camilla Morton Product Description If your resolutions tend to look much the same from one year to another and you are suffering from the suspicion that someone, somewhere is having more fun that you, then you need something to revitalise your lust for life. A YEAR IN HIGH HEELS is here to help. This book will guide you through the months with a perfectly co-ordinated combination of culture and challenges. With a monthly muse to inspire, and a suggested title for that s

The Way Of Shadows : Book 1 of the Night Angel Description The razor-sharp first novel in the Night Angel trilogy, from international bestseller Brent Weeks The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets. For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art. And he is the city's most accomplished artist, his talents required from alleyway to courtly boudoir. For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums, and learned the hard way t

The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran Paperback In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her family's past and remake history. The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A devastating palace fire has killed the Eighteenth Dynasty's royal family-with the exception of Nefertari, the niece of the reviled former queen, Nefertiti. The girl's deceased family has been branded as heretical, and no one in Egypt will speak their names. Nefertari is pushed aside, an unimportant princess l

Q By Luther Blissett Details Set in Reformation Europe, this title was first published anonymously in Italy where it was widely rumoured to be by Umberto Eco. It traces the adventures and philosophical conflicts of a rebellious member of an extremist Protestant sect and a Catholic heretic hunter as they travel across Europe.

Something Blue by Emily Giffin Post $2.20 Pick up Sydenham 3037 Excellent condition Description From the New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed comes a novel that shows how someone with a 'perfect life' can lose it all--and then find everything. Darcy Rhone thought she had it all figured out: the more beautiful the girl, the more charmed her life. Never mind substance. Never mind playing by the rules. Never mind karma. But Darcy's neat, perfect world turns upside down wh

Handbags and Gladrags By Maggie Alderson Romance Fiction Large Paperback Book Post $2.20 Pick up Sydenham 3037 Excellent condition Fashion stylist Emily Pointer seems to have everything, but it's all about to come tumbling down when her secret life starts to clash with reality. Fashion stylist Emily Pointer is a natural blonde, a tall size 10, travels the world for work and gets 30 per cent discount at Prada. As far as she's concerned, life is perfect. So surely a night of wild sex with a

Morocco by Paul Clammer, Lonely Planet Travel Guide Book (Paperback, 2008) GC Pick up Sydenham 3037 Post $2.20 This title features much more selective and detailed accommodation listings than ever before.Our authors take you just a street or two from the main attractions to find the souqs, cafes and hammams that only the locals know, and to the towns yet to be discovered by the masses.Incorporating 195 traveller tips and suggestions to perfect the world's best guide to Morocco, this title fe

The Minorities by Suffian Hakim Pick up Sydenham 3037 Post $2.20 Excellent condition A Singaporean inventor struggles with the fact that his father is dead but why hasn't he come back as a ghost In this hilarious satirical novel, a Malay- Chinese-Muslim-Jewish Singaporean shares a public housing at with Cantona, a promising Bangladeshi artist on the run from a construction company; Tights, an illegal immigrant from China obsessed with Forrest Gump; and Shanti, an Indian lab technician hidi

The Remedy By: Michelle Lovric Post $2.20 Pick up Sydenham 3037 Excellent condition Longlisted for the Orange Prize 2005 'So at fifteen, spread belly-down upon the floor, a black sheet hunched over me and a candle at my foot and head, my lips pressed on stone, litanies in my ears as the priest broke and entered my shocked fist to slide the ring on my finger, I promised to take no other husband than Christ. I almost meant it. In that heady moment the vow seemed no great sacrifice: I'd never

The invention of wings book by Sue Monk Kidd Post $2.20 Pick up Sydenham 3037 The Invention of Wings: The No. 1 New York Times bestseller. A powerful and extraordinary novel about the unlikely friendship between two exceptional women during the last years of slavery in the US. From the celebrated author of the multi-million-copy-bestselling novel The Secret Life of Bees. 'Fascinating... A splendid tribute to a pair of true heroines' The Times 'Wonderful - well-written, moving and engaging

Designing Effective Speech Interfaces Post $2.20 Pick up Sydenham 3037 Book description Master the critical knowledge you need to design speech-enabled applications It's not just a far-fetched gizmo straight out of a sci-fi movie anymore. Speech interface technology, which allows a user to communicate with computers via voice instead of a keyboard or a mouse, is quickly becoming a main feature in new software. This straightforward guide provides traditional graphical user-interface de

A Very Human Future: Enriching Humanity in a Digitized World by Rohit Talwal, Steve Wells, Alexandra Whittington & Helena Calle Post $2.20 Pick up Sydenham 3037 Excellent condition As society enters the fourth industrial revolution, a major question arises—can we harness intense technological bursts of possibility to bring about a better world? A Very Human Future illustrates how the evolution of society, cities, people, businesses, industries, nations, and governments are being unexpec