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  First to Find Out - Scientists...

  Dale Jones

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  What we think we know about science changes all the time. Every day, new discoveries are made and fresh ideas are brought to life. Study some of the scientists, mathematicians, and brilliant brainiacs whose questions—and answers—have helped our minds and bodies reach the next level. Every “Aha!” moment is a new step forward to shaping our world—and beyond!

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  Nixon and Kissinger: The History...

  Charles River Editors

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  Best known as the 37th President of the United States, and the only president in American history to resign his office, Richard Nixon’s lengthy political career would put him, during various times, at the center of regional, national and international politics for several decades. It was to be a career filled with unexpected twists and turns, high-profile defeats and unlikely resurrections, in which he made exhaustive efforts to reinvent himself in the public eye. Though he is now best known for Watergate, he was and is considered by many to be among the strongest foreign policy presidents in the history of the United States. Nixon’s presidency is an enigmatic one, given the alternation of previously unimaginable accomplishments in foreign relations, and scandals at home. 
  Nixon’s first term was fruitful in several respects, especially when it came to foreign policy. In addition to “opening up China” with his historic trip there, Nixon began to wind down American involvement in Vietnam, and along with Henry Kissinger, he set crucial policies for dealing with the Middle East. As President, he held his own with the leadership of Russia and China, thawing relations and increasing trade with Asia, remarking in a later interview that whatever warmth a president might show externally to the public, he wanted a cold president without feeling when there was a difficult decision to be made, or an opposing power to be faced. 
  Through his work with the Nixon administration, Kissinger ultimately became the most celebrated foreign diplomat since Thomas Jefferson, and for a time, he was, according to a national Gallup Poll, the most popular and admired man in America. The highest ranking Jewish official in the history of the United States, even Egyptian politicians sitting across the desk in direct and vehement opposition referred to him behind closed doors as “the magician.”  

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  Mog Tales: A heartwarming story...

  Judith Kerr

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  Join Mog – everyone’s favourite family cat – in this delightful collection of six classic picture book stories, full of warm-hearted and funny escapades and read by Tacy Kneale. 
  From the creator of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and Mog the Forgetful Cat comes a remarkable audio collection of five delightful family adventures about a really remarkable cat! 
  Featuring six funny and exciting classic picture book stories: 
  Mog and Bunny 
  Mog in the Dark 
  Mog on Fox Night 
  Mog and the Granny 
  Mog’s Bad Thing 
  Goodbye Mog 
  With music and sound effects, and extended text written especially for the audio, this incredible collection is read by Judith’s daughter, Tacy Kneale. 
  ‘Since her debut in 1970, Mog has become… a national hero.’ Junior Magazine 
  ‘A firm favourite on children's bookshelves’ The Telegraph 
  ‘Mog is a star, she really is. I can't recommend her highly enough. Someone should give that cat a medal, or an egg for breakfast.’ The Bookbag 
  Dive into the world of Mog, a character that has become a national hero, and experience the joy of stories that have made Judith Kerr a best-selling author. These tales, filled with themes of imagination and play, are a delightful exploration of the social dynamics of animals, particularly cats. 
  For fans of Axel Scheffler (Axel Scheffler's Treasury of Fairy Tales), Eric Carle (The Very Hungry Caterpillar), Bill Martin Jr (Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat, Are You Going to Sleep?), Sandra Boynton (Hippos Go Berserk!), and Imagine That (The Little Raindrop). 
  HarperCollins Children’s 2024

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  Verdeazul - Return to the...

  Madelin Longoria

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  Verdeazul is a magical island where there are all kinds of creatures. Evil and good creatures that dwell only there, but only if you believe in magic can you see it or visit it. Rossana, Rosy as everyone calls her, must go again to help her friends save Verdeazul from Brujula, the witch who wants to take over the island and also reach the human world. Something that should be avoided at all costs. So, a peculiar group of friends and others who join them along the way, embark on an adventure full of magic and fantasy, one where they must overcome dangers, fight armies of evil creatures, and beat Brujula. And, importantly, to achieve this they must use their intelligence, which is more powerful than strength, and always remain united. 
  IMPLICIT VALUES
  The story highlights the importance of imagination and belief in magic, unity and friendship, and intelligence over strength. Courage and bravery are essential for facing adversities, while protecting one's home and environment is a fundamental commitment. Furthermore, diversity and collaboration among different beings and talents are key to success.

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  Secrets of the Last Merfolk

  Lindsay Littleson

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  “One of the swimmers plunged underwater with a flick of his long, dolphin-like tail. The other followed, sending an arc of spray shooting upwards, tail slapping against the choppy waves.” 
   
  In the quiet Scottish seaside village of Dunlyre, Finn is enduring a winter holiday with his annoying new stepmother, wishing things could go back to how they were, while Sage is enjoying her new home, wishing things would stay as they are. 
   
  Finn has seen mysterious swimmers in the Firth late at night. Then, from the clifftop, first Sage, then Finn, hears an eerie song. Could the local legend of merfolk living amid the waves actually be true? When the new friends meet the magical sea-people, they are amazed and impressed, but the merfolk are hiding a secret. The two human children must put aside their own problems and help in the battle against the young merfolk’s ancient underwater enemy before the last of their kind are lost forever. 
  ‘The author has a talent for describing magical creatures with a realism that renders them integral to the Scottish landscape… Secrets of the Last Merfolk is exciting and action packed, and one of our favourite reads of the year.’ 
  — Roaring Reads 
   
  ‘Another fantastic fast-paced middle grade novel… Lindsay Littleson delves right into the heart of loyalty between two friends determined to succeed and her writing draws you in as you join Sage and Finn on what can only be described as an epic journey. With a superb nod to climate change, carbon footprints and the pros and cons to industrial planning also on the agenda, this thought-provoking tale of humans and merfolk reveals how their co-existence can make the world a better place.’ 
  — My Book Corner 
   
  This is an incredibly exciting, fast-paced story with heart-pounding danger as secrets are uncovered and truths revealed.   I really enjoyed the blending of realism with fantastical elements.  Whilst this adventure has the incredible legend of the merfolk threaded throughout, it also deals with issues such as divorce, adjusting to new family relationships and bullying as well as environmental issues related to development and protecting the seas.  I loved the depiction of the merfolk as powerful creatures, grieving a terrible loss and trying to survive. 
   
  A fantastic and thrilling read for children of 9+.

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  Space-Wolf - On Titan’s...

  Ray Cummings

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  Space-Wolf by Ray Cummings - The lure of precious zolonite drew Morgan to barren Titan—to find a weird beast-empire ruled by a cold-eyed Earth-girl queen. 
  Solo Morgan laid his small portable spectroscope on the rock and sat down beside it to rest. He was panting, breathless from the climb up to these precipitous heights, even though the gravity here on Titan was less than that of Earth. It was night. The pallid little Sun had swiftly set behind a distant line of jagged mountain peaks. At the other horizon Saturn was rising, a monstrous glowing ball with a foreshortened segment of the rings spreading in a great iridescent flame of pale prismatic color across half the sky. 
  From here, Solo Morgan could just see the tiny blob of his one-man space-ship where he had left it down in the hollow. "He travels fastest who travels alone," had always been Solo Morgan's motto. But now at the age of twenty-eight, a big, rangy, handsome fellow with curly, crisp brown hair, it seemed to Morgan that he was somewhat a failure. So far he had failed to strike it rich; and a single big strike had always been what he was after. He set his jaw grimly as he thought of it. Well, now was the time. There was a lode of Zolonite here on this moon of Saturn. The spectroscopic evidence of it had been faint, yet unmistakable. Doubtless it was a single, small concentration; Zolonite perhaps in an almost pure state. Immensely more valuable than radium; more valuable, than any other radioactive substance known to earth. 
  Morgan stood up, rested, to continue his climb. By all that he had been able to determine from the faint spectroscopic bands, and the intensity registers which he had so carefully used in that circling flight around the bleak, uninhabited satellite, the Zolonite deposit must be somewhere in this neighborhood.

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