Accurate illustrations and photographs create a visual factfinder packed with essential information on the people, places and events that shape our world.
Accurate illustrations and photographs create a visual factfinder packed with essential information on the people, places and events that shape our world.
Lucy and Owen meet somewhere between the tenth and eleventh floors of a New York City apartment building, on an elevator rendered useless by a citywide blackout. After they're rescued, they spend a single night together, wandering the darkened streets and marveling at the rare appearance of stars above Manhattan. But once the power is restored, so is reality. Lucy soon moves to Edinburgh with h…
Polly has made her picnic and she is going down to the field to enjoy her tasty snacks. But before she knows what is happening her picnic is being shared by some very pushy and uninvited animal guests. Poor Polly! But no sooner is she quietly resting in the sun than a new picnic is being whisked into shape - this time with more than a little help from her mother - and those pesky pets.
from the back cover: In EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there are some very secret files - the Omega Files. There are strange, surprising, and sometimes horrible stories in these files, but not many people know about them. You never read about them in the newspapers. Hawker and Jude know all about the Omega Files, because they work for EDI. They think fast, they mo…