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The Loving Arms of God | |||
| Miscellaneous | ||||
| Anne Elizabeth Stickney | ||||
| Eerdmans 2001 164 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0802851711 | ||||
| Published Price £14.99 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| Illustrated by Helen Cann, this book teaches children the story of God's relationship with his people, as revealed in the Old and New Testaments. Each chapter ends with a quotation to remember, questions to think about and suggestions for prayer. | ||||
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Rucks, Pucks and Sliders | |||
| More Origins of Peculiar Sporting Lingo | Miscellaneous | |||
| Bob Wilson | ||||
| Icon 2007 196 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1840468254 | ||||
| Published Price £9.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| Have you ever scored a 'condor' in a 'nassau'? Did you see Bruce Grobelaar's 'spaghetti legs routine' or the 'Clockwork Orange'? Where did the terms 'bullseye' and 'pole position' come from? Only the most avid sports fan is likely to have come across all of the curious and colourful terminology in this entertaining compendium by football legend Bob Wilson. | ||||
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Murderers' Row | |||
| An International Murderers' Who's Who | Miscellaneous | |||
| Robin Odell; Wilfred Gregg | ||||
| Sutton 2006 506 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0750944048 | ||||
| Published Price £8.99 | Sale Price £1.99 | |||
| This A-Z of murderers, unsolved murders and serial killings presents a brief account of over 500 cases, from Burton Abbott, gassed at San Quentin in 1957 after a stay of execution was phoned through too late, to the unsolved Zodiac Murders of 1969 - up to 40 killings forming a huge 'Z' when plotted on the map of California. | ||||
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Oxford | |||
| Crime, Death and Debauchery | Miscellaneous | |||
| Giles Brindley | ||||
| Sutton 2006 216 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 075093820X | ||||
| Published Price £14.99 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| Giles Brindley provides a highly original alternative history of Oxford by concentrating on the city's seedier side. This detailed collection of infamy and scandalous behaviour includes murders, duelling, robbery, suicide, gambling, rioting and executions, as well as probing the perennial tensions between town and gown. | ||||
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Jack the Ripper | |||
| Letters from Hell | Miscellaneous | |||
| Stewart P Evans; Keith Skinner | ||||
| Sutto 2004 306 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 075093770X 263x195mm | ||||
| Published Price £12.99 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| The Whitechapel murders of 120 years ago provoked dozens of letters to the police and press claiming to have been written by Jack the Ripper. This book uses the original correspondence to shed fresh light on the misconceptions that dogged both the police and Fleet Street, as well as revealing insights into the Victorian psyche. The cases of three people arrested for sending Ripper letters are examined and the book concludes with the question: was Jack the Ripper merely a press invention? | ||||
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Wisden at Lord's | |||
| An Illustrated Anthology | Miscellaneous | |||
| Graeme Wright (Edited by) | ||||
| Wisden 2005 192 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0947766936 217x242mm | ||||
| Published Price £19.99 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| With Tests and one-day internationals now dominate modern cricket coverage, but there was a time when matches such as Gentlemen v Players and Oxford v Cambridge filled Lord's to capacity and were regarded as great social occasions as well as important games. Presenting selections from Wisden's - ever-present at Lord's since 1864 - along with photographs and other illustrations, this is an affectionate and sometimes quirky pageant of cricket from 'The Little Wonder' (Wisden himself) to the C&G Trophy, 2003. | ||||
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How to Attract the Wombat | |||
| Miscellaneous | ||||
| Will Cuppy | ||||
| Sutton 2007 166 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0750946105 | ||||
| Published Price £8.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| This was the last satirical animal book by Will Cuppy (1884-1949), the American humorist famous for The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody. In short essays, Cuppy examines curious creatures whose habits - or mere existence - seem to have disturbed him, and more mundane creatures like the frog or gnat which have no visible vices, but whose virtues are truly awful. The book deals with mammals, pond life, birds and insects, but pride of place goes to the 'Problem Mammal', the wombat. | ||||
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Queen Elizabeth's Wooden Teeth | |||
| And Other Historical Fallacies | Miscellaneous | |||
| Andrea Barham | ||||
| Michael O'Mara 2007 192 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1843172399 | ||||
| Published Price £9.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| This spirited fight against historical misconception investigates the myths, fabrications and general ambiguities that are rife among the annals of history, from Walter Raleigh not bringing back the potato from the New World, to Winston Churchill's not being born in a ladies' toilet. | ||||
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Alice Through the Looking-Glass | |||
| Miscellaneous | ||||
| Lewis CarrollIllus Helen Oxenbury | ||||
| Candlewick 2005 228 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0763628921 235x192mm | ||||
| Published Price $24.99 | Sale Price £9.99 | |||
| One snowy winter afternoon Alice climbed through the mirror above the drawing-draw fireplce into a back-to-front, topsy-turvy world where flowers talk, chess pieces walk and the faster you run, the more you end up in the same place. In this edition, the much-loved characters of Lewis Carroll's Looking-Glass world - Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpy Dumpty, the Lion and the Unicorn, the Jabberwock, the Red Queen and the rest - are brought to life by one of today's foremost illustrators, Helen Oxenbury. | ||||
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The Clan of the Flapdragon and Other Adventures in Etymology | |||
| by BMW Shrapnel PhD | Miscellaneous | |||
| Richard McKee | ||||
| Alabama 1997 183 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0817308814 | ||||
| Published Price £16.95 | Sale Price £12.99 | |||
| In his regular columns for the literary magazine Oasis, the pseudonymous Shrapnel satirized topics including murgatroyd and tiddlywinks, the Cajun proctologist Toulouse Mars, and what to give an etymologist for Christmas. Plus letters to the editor. | ||||
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The Unser Legacy | |||
| Four Generations of Speed | Miscellaneous | |||
| Gordon Kirby | ||||
| Motorbooks 2005 256 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0760320403 254x252mm | ||||
| Published Price £24.99 | Sale Price £14.99 | |||
| The Unser family have come out on top within motor sports for eighty years. Collectively, they hold seven Indy car season championships and 25-plus Pikes Peak victories. Yet despite their successes, the Unsers have not always triumphed. Longtime motorsports journalist Gordon Kirby chronicles the hardest challenges the family faced on their road to the top. Also included are several rare family photographs detailing both their professional and personal lives. | ||||
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Ricky Rudd | |||
| Miscellaneous | ||||
| John Regruth | ||||
| MBI 2002 156 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 076031327X | ||||
| Published Price £10.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| Ricky Rudd's career has surged since he signed on with the Robert Yates team in 2000. With 27 Winston Cup career victories to his credit, Rudd set a modern day NASCAR Winston Cup record by posting at least one win every year from 1982 through 1998. In addition to comprehensive race data and track-by-track results, a selection of colour photography spanning Rudds entire NASCAR career includes candid shots of the driver and action photos of the cars he has driven through the 2001 season. | ||||
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Jeff Gordon | |||
| The NASCAR Superstar's Story | Miscellaneous | |||
| Glen Grissom; Leah Noel | ||||
| Motorbooks 2005 160 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0760321787 270x210mm | ||||
| Published Price £12.99 | Sale Price £6.99 | |||
| When Jeff Gordon burst onto the NASCAR scene in the early 1990s, he broke the stereotypical mould for a stock car racing champion. He was young, handsome, articulate, media-savvy and from California. This book covers his approach to driving, his team and cars, and his business knowledge as a leading endorser and now a team owner. | ||||
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High in the Clouds | |||
| Miscellaneous | ||||
| Paul McCartney; Geoff Dunbar; Philip Ardagh | ||||
| Faber 2006 88 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0571225020 | ||||
| Published Price £6.99 | Sale Price £1.99 | |||
| When Wirral the Squirrel's woodland home is destroyed by the expansion plans of the evil Gretsch, he vows to find the fabled land of Animalia, where all animals are said to live in freedom and without fear. Illustrated by the award-winning animation director, Geoff Dunbar, McCartney and Ardagh's tale follows Wirral and his friends on their perilous quest to save their fellow animals. | ||||
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F1 2004 | |||
| The World Championship Photographic Review | Miscellaneous | |||
| Bryn Williams; Frits van Eldik; Paolo D'Alessio | ||||
| SEP 2004 224 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 8887110484 330x240mm | ||||
| Published Price £23.00 | Sale Price £8.99 | |||
| A photographic review of the entire Formula One season with reports and analysis of the 17 races, discussion of key issues and cut-away drawings of the main competing cars. | ||||
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