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		Alice Through the Looking-Glass
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		Lewis CarrollIllus Helen Oxenbury
		Candlewick 2005 228 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0763628921 235x192mm
		Published Price $24.99		Sale Price £6.99
	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		Qty
		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		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0760320403 254x252mm
		Published Price £24.99		Sale Price £3.99
	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
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		John Regruth
		MBI 2002 156 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 076031327X
		Published Price £10.99		Sale Price £4.99
	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		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0760321787 270x210mm
		Published Price £12.99		Sale Price £4.99
	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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		The Atlas of Islam
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		Neil Morris
		Barron's 2003 62 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0764156314 335x250mm
		Published Price $14.95		Sale Price £4.99
	A richly illustrated reference book for younger readers, the Atlas covers the history and geography of Islam, describing its beliefs and customs as they developed from the time of the Prophet to the present day, and tracing the spread of Islam across the world. The book begins with a look at life and religion in Arabia before Muhammad and other topics include the crusades, science and technology, art and architecture, women in Islam and the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.
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		Miracles, Whales and Wonderful Tales
		Voices from the Bible		Miscellaneous
		Shirley Isherwood
		Hutchinson 2002 121 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0091768691 255x195mm
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	'In the beginning there was nothing. But how can you imagine nothing?' Shirley Isherwood's illustrated retelling of biblical episodes brings alive the ancient world for young readers and stays true to the wonder and power of these stories. From the Old Testament there are the stories of the Creation, Noah, Moses, David and Goliath and Jonah; and from the New Testament, the birth of Christ, the miracle of loaves and fishes, the parable of the Good Samaritan, the last supper and Jesus' death and resurrection.
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		High in the Clouds
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		Paul McCartney; Geoff Dunbar; Philip Ardagh
		Faber 2006 88 pages		Qty
		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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		Superbike 2003-2004
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		Claudio e Fabrizio Porrozzi
		SEP 2004 161 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 8887110492 309x237mm
		Published Price £20.00		Sale Price £11.99
	This official publication of the FIM covers the 13 races of the 2004 season in text and pictures. It also includes features on the riders, teams, brands, paddock and VIP activities and full statistics, as well as other two-wheeled championships.
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		F1 2004
		The World Championship Photographic Review		Miscellaneous
		Bryn Williams; Frits van Eldik; Paolo D'Alessio
		SEP 2004 224 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 8887110484 330x240mm
		Published Price £23.00		Sale Price £2.99
	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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		The Games of '36
		A Pictorial History of the 1936 Olympics in Germany		Miscellaneous
		Stan Cohen
		Pictorial Histories 1996 236 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 1575100096 277x215mm
		Published Price $19.95		Sale Price £2.99
	Published to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Olympics in Berlin and the winter games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, this is a record of a remarkable sporting year. Steeped in controversy, threatened by political boycotts and tainted with racism, these were the first Olympics to be televised and saw athletes Jesse Owens and Sonja Henie become international stars. Illustrated with contemporary photographs, this book portrays a world attempting to embrace the Olympic spirit on the threshold of war.
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		The Decadent Cookbook
		Recipes of Obsession and Excess		Miscellaneous
		Medlar Lucan; Durian Gray
		Four Walls Eight Windows 2003 222 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 1568582692
		Published Price $14.00		Sale Price £1.99
	Cited by Nigella Lawson as one of her Sunday Times books of the year, can this compendium of improbable recipes and literary excerpts possibly be the rotten stinker its authors' names suggest? Here are recipes from the dark side of culinary art - Mock Hedgehog, Mephistophelian Sauce (for turkey remains), The Tarporley Hunt Black Pudding or Edward Lear's Crumbobblious Cutlets - served up with anecdotes of food fetishists and readings from the likes of de Sade and Huysmans. Felt-tip mark on upper trimmed edge.
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		The Love of Baha Ullah
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		Jacqueline Mehrabi
		Oneworld 1992 64 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1851680470
		Published Price £8.95		Sale Price £4.99
	These charming stories will introduce children to the timeless theme of love in the life and example of Baha'u'llah. Including both familiar and less well-known events, this delightful collection reveals through everyday occurrences the great love of Baha'u'llah for all.
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		George Best and 21 Others
				Miscellaneous
		Colin Shindler
		Headline 2005 370 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 075531154X
		Published Price £7.99		Sale Price £2.99
	In 1964 Manchester United met Manchester City in the FA Youth Cup semi final. A record-breaking 50,000 fans were drawn to watch two young teams that were among the best in the country. This is the story of the game, the players (including a boy from Belfast, touched with genius) and what happened afterwards. Vivid and compelling, it underlines the fact that football is a harsh business where all but the few share shattered dreams.
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		The Sporting Scot
		An Anthology of Scottish Sport		Miscellaneous
		Brian D Osborne; Ronald Armstrong (Edited by)
		Birlinn 2003 228 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1841582824
		Published Price £9.99		Sale Price £3.99
	An anthology of Scottish sport and its relationship to Scottish literature, with extracts from novels, short stories and verse together with journalism, reports and sports analysis, demonstrating the occasional overlaps between the two disciplines.
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