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Paul Panting
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Come join the Odd Dog on a festive journey to find the perfect present, and perhaps save Christmas along the way... a brand-new, PAW-some story from Rob Biddulph - the genius behind the #DrawWithRob phenomenon and It's Christmas, and this Odd Dog is running out of time to find the perfect present for her pal... But when she meets a new friend who needs helps, she realizes that gifts might not be the most important thing about Christmas after all....
2) Copout
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Most people tend to turn away, perhaps understandably, from the key existential issue of the day: climate change or, some would say more accurately, climate collapse. Nick Breeze tells the engaging, very human story of successive COP conferences over the past decade: it is a tale of imperfection, failure even, but not yet defeat.
So far, the UN process has achieved almost the exact opposite of what it first set out to achieve at the Rio Earth Summit...
3) Brilliant Bestsellers by Baddiel (3-book Audio Collection): The Parent Agency, AniMalcolm, Head Kid
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Three brilliantly funny stories from the bestselling author David Baddiel.
THE PARENT AGENCY
The Parent Agency is an epic wish-fulfilment adventure for every child – and for the child in everyone.
ANIMALCOLM
A laugh-out-loud adventure for every child who ever wondered what it might be like to be a bit of an animal…
HEAD KID
Head Kid tells the story of Ryan Ward, the maestro of practical jokes. The new head teacher, Mr Carter, arrives. A man...
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Though it is for the sparkling epic, Aeneid, that the Roman poet Virgil is best known, it was these two poems, The Eclogues and Georgics, which first established his reputation. Cast in the tradition of pastoral poetry, The Eclogues were written between 41 BCE and 37 BCE when Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, to give him his full name) was in his thirties. The Eclogues (the word means 'Selections' in Greek) contain 10 poems, a combination of dialogues...
