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Combining all the excitement of international espionage and all the awkwardness of elementary school, NERDS, featuring a group of unpopular students who run a spy network from inside their school, hits the mark. With the help of cutting-edge science, their nerdy qualities are enhanced and transformed into incredible abilities! They battle the Hyena, a former junior beauty pageant contestant turned assassin, and an array of James Bond–style villains, each with an evil plan more diabolical and more ridiculous than the last. Views: 20
Two great books in one featuring magic, mix-ups and muddles!Join Ruby, Jackson and Thing on not one but two great adventures in this brilliant bumper book.See what havoc Thing causes when Ruby and Jackson sneak it along on a trip to the petting zoo in The Great Expanding Guinea Pig.And in a seasonal spectacular, Thing helps Ruby and Jackson defeat some nasty bullies in Beware of the Snowblobs! Views: 20
Sarah's committed to her stellar modelling career in New York, but there's an obligation she needs to fulfil. Harold was a Grandpa to her when she needed him most. Now all Harold wants is one last Christmas in his beloved Waratah Bay Homestead. Sarah's not that so hot on baking and Christmas seems a bit... challenging... but she's prepared to fly half way round the world to give it a try. The only problem is, Harold no longer owns Waratah Bay Homestead. Farming tycoon Max Ramsey owns it now and he doesn't like company, he doesn't like Christmas and most of all, he doesn't like Sarah. When the two clash, enough sparks ensue to light a Christmas tree. How many enemies does it take to cook one Christmas turkey? Christmas Around the World seriesBook 1: Christmas at Waratah Bay by Marion Lennox Book 2: Christmas with the Laird by Scarlet Wilson Book 3: Christmas in Venice by Joanne Walsh Book 4: A Yorkshire Christmas by Kate Hewitt Views: 20
Nominated for the 2013 Philip K. Dick Award and a finalist for the 2013 Kitschies Golden Tentacle (Debut Novel) AwardLate in the twenty-first century, big business is booming and state institutions are thriving thanks to advances in genetic engineering, which have produced a compliant population free of addictions. Violent crime is a rarity.Hyper-intelligent Jayna is a star performer at top predictive agency Mayhew McCline, where she forecasts economic and social trends. A brilliant mathematical modeler, she far outshines her co-workers, often correcting their work on the quiet. Her latest coup: finding a link between northeasterly winds and violent crime.When a string of events contradicts her forecasts, Jayna suspects she needs more data and better intuition. She needs direct interactions with the rest of society. Bravely—and naively—she sets out to disrupt her strict routine and stumbles unwittingly into a world where her IQ is increasingly irrelevant…a place where human relationships and the complexity of life are difficult for her to decode. And as she experiments with taking risks, she crosses the line into corporate intrigue and disloyalty.Can Jayna confront the question of what it means to live a “normal” life? Or has the possibility of a “normal” life already been eclipsed for everyone?Review"For readers who want a smart, subtle exploration of human emotion and intelligence, this is an excellent choice. Charnock’s dystopia is actually believable. It’s very like our own world, but slightly stretched at the edges—corporate interests reign unchecked, the class structure is rigid, and technology has taken us well beyond the limitations of our synapses and gray matter. Charnock is a subtle worldbuilder, but a convincing one." —Strange Horizons"A strong debut. Recommended." —Violin in a Void"Gets the grey matter firing." —The Taichung Bookworm "Stunningly relevant re-imagining of 21st century Britain as a bioengineered corporate dystopia." —Chris Graham About the AuthorAnne Charnock’s writing career began in journalism; her articles appeared in the Guardian, New Scientist, International Herald Tribune, and Geographical. She was educated at the University of East Anglia, where she studied environmental sciences, and at the Manchester School of Art. She travelled widely as a foreign correspondent and spent a year trekking through Egypt, Sudan, and Kenya. In her fine art practice, she tried to answer the questions What is it to be human? What is it to be a machine? and ultimately she decided to write fiction as another route to finding answers. Anne is an active blogger and reviews fiction for the online magazine Strange Horizons. She contributes exhibition reviews and book recommendations to the Huffington Post. She splits her time between London and Chester and, whenever possible, she and her husband, Garry, take off in their little campervan (unless one of their two sons has borrowed it), traveling as far as the Anti-Atlas Mountains in southern Morocco. Views: 20
