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As Ollie leaves the front door, he casually announces that he is going to the moon. "That's nice dear" his mum says, "be back soon". But Ollie soon discovers that this is no ordinary day, as he meets some whacky characters along the way. A monkey on a bike called Mike, a guitar playing kangaroo, a friendly dinosaur and a disco dancing cat, imagine that! Join Ollie on his amazing journey...

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Welcome to the spooky world of Harry Halloween. An odd looking fellow, it has to be said. A snappy dresser with a pumpkin for a head! Harry lives in a castle at the top of a hill with two ghosts called Bernie and Bill. Join Harry and his freaky friends as they celebrate his favourite day of the year. A night filled with thrills, chills, fun and fear.

On a cold December night Santa was flying through the skies, giving his reindeer some exercise. All in preparation for their big day, when a sudden gust of wind blew his hat away. A boy called Jimmy found it in the snow but little did he know. This was no ordinary hat, it was so much more than that. Jimmy started dressed in red and crazy things began to happen when he put Santa's wondrous hat on his head.

Billy was at the pound looking for a dog who was cute and cuddly, and there was Dudley. But this wasn't like any other dog that Billy had seen before, Dudley walked on two legs more often than four! Then one morning in the kitchen when Dudley heard Prince sing, it changed everything.....

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Cranky is a glum Christmas pudding who hates the Christmas season. Every December Cranky hides away and ignores the towns celebrations, he is unloved for this reason. But when a young frightened sobbing boy knocks on his door on a snowy Christmas Eve, lost with his home and family far away. Only cranky the Christmas pudding can get Jack home back in time for Christmas day.

When Peter meets the outrageous, talented Marco, less than half his age, his life turns upside down, transporting him out of his safe, isolated life, as he helps Marco manipulate his tyrannical parents to follow his dream. A brutal crime tragically destroys Marco's career as a Flamenco star, threatening to shatter their hard-won happiness.

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Join Jasmine on her very first trip to the zoo. But is the zoo like she had expected it to be? How does it compare to what she has seen in her books? Find out what she has to say about each animal.

Thomas Paine's COMMON SENSE proved to be one of the most influential publications during the American Revolution. Published anonymously by Paine in early 1776, COMMON SENSE was an instant bestseller, with more than than 120, 000 copies distributed. In COMMON SENSE, Paine advocated the independence of the American colonies from the British Empire, providing a number of grievances against the British to justify action.

Futuristic America is corrupt, heavy with conspiracy, and chillingly close to tomorrow's headlines. As the United States continues to spiral out of control, can Serena stop multiple plots to kill the president? President Ann Kinji has nowhere to turn and no one to trust except for government outsider, former private detective mother of three Serena Wilcox, and her motley crew of vigilantes, burned agents and the criminally insane. The Serena W...

H. G. Wells' classic science fiction masterpiece The Time Machine explores human nature. The Time Traveler finds himself in 802, 701 A.D., where he meets the peaceful Eloi and encounters the violent Morlocks. Wells uses these two descendants of man to explore evil and its causes, drawing conclusion that might surprise you in this riveting tale that has stood the test of time.

Henry James' 'The Turn of the Screw', originally published in 1898, is the story of a Governess sent to care for 2 small children, and her confrontation with death and the supernatural. It remains a chilling Gothic horror novel that examines the genesis of fear and evil.

From the imagination of 18-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley, wife of renowned poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, came perhaps the most celebrated monster in history. Created by the Mary Shelley's fictional Victor Frankenstein, the creature has inhabited nightmares, new editions, and movie screens for nearly two centuries. Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was the daughter of politically radical philosophers, friend of literary figures such as Lord...

One ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions 20, 000 pounds that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days - and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman immediately sets off for Dover, accompanied by his hot-blooded French manservant Passepartout. Travelling by train, steamship, sailing boat, sledge and even elephant, the...

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Mischief is Tom Sawyer's middle name. There is nothing he likes better than playing hookey from school, messing about on the Mississippi with his best friend, the hobo Huckleberry Finn, or wooing the elusive beauty Becky Thatcher. Lazy and reckless, he is a menace to his Aunt Polly - 'Tom, I've a notion to skin you alive' - an embarrassment to his teachers and the envy of his peers. But there is method in his badness. He exhibits all the cunni...

Original oil paintings illustrate this funny and inspirational true story. Early discouragement from Natalie's dreadfully unimaginative art teacher Mrs. S didn't stop her from becoming an artist. Falling off her bicycle on an impossibly steep hill, getting bit on her you-know-what by a goose during Goose Tag, and freezing her tongue on the icy railing on Grandpa's porch after her cousins dared her to do it--well, none of those things broke Nat...