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My Friend Fred

Frances Watts

This delightful CBCA award-winning picture book is about a friendship between an exuberant but loveable dachshund and his more retiring, tidy housemate.

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Leonard Doesn’t Dance

Frances Watts

A toe-tapping story about finding your own rhythm from the award-winning creators of Goodnight, Mice!

All the birds are excited about the Big Beaky Bird Ball – except Leonard. His…

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The Chicken’s Curse

Frances Watts

Felix and Livia are being pursued across the Roman empire, from the darkest, dampest corner of Gaul to the dry, desert sands of Tadmor. They must reach Rome by the…

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The Chicken’s Curse

Frances Watts

The amusing adventures of a runaway boy and girl, and a delightfully self-obsessed sacred chicken, by the bestselling author of Kisses for Daddy.

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The Chicken’s Curse

Frances Watts

Felix and Livia are being pursued across the Roman empire, from the darkest, dampest corner of Gaul to the dry, desert sands of Tadmor. They must reach Rome by the…

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The Song of the Winns: The Spies of Gerander

Frances Watts

In this action-packed second book in The Song of the Winns trilogy, the triplet of mice and Tibby Rose go undercover as spies and search for the triplets’ parents.

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Heroes of the Year

Frances Watts

Ernie and Maud are favourites to win the Superheroes Society’s Heroes of the Year award. But how far will they go in their quest to win? The fourth book in…

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The Raven’s Wing

Frances Watts

From bestselling and award-winning author Frances Watts comes the first in an incredibly exciting new series of standalone historical novels.

On the eve of her fifteenth birthday, Claudia is unexpectedly…

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The Peony Lantern

Frances Watts

When Kasumi leaves her remote village for the teeming city of Edo, her life is transformed. As a lady - in - waiting in a samurai mansion she discovers a…

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Kisses for Daddy

Frances Watts

When a grumbly Baby Bear refuses to give his father a goodnight kiss, their bedtime routine is transformed into a delightful game, as Daddy imagines all the different sorts of…

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My Friend Fred

Frances Watts

This delightful CBCA award-winning picture book is about a friendship between an exuberant but loveable dachshund and his more retiring, tidy housemate.

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The Poison Plot: Sword Girl Book 2

Frances Watts,Gregory Rogers

The second adventure in the Sword Girl series featuring the feisty Tommy. Evil plans are stirring and it’s up to Tommy to keep the peace at Flamant Castle!

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Tournament Trouble: Sword Girl Book 3

Frances Watts,Gregory Rogers

Another adventure in the Sword Girl series featuring the feisty Thomasina. Tommy is invited to a tournament, but there’s just one problem: she has never ridden a horse before.

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The Siege Scare: Sword Girl Book 4

Frances Watts,Gregory Rogers

Another adventure in the Sword Girl series featuring the feisty Thomasina. Evil plans are stirring and it’s up to Tommy to save Flamant Castle!

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The Terrible Trickster: Sword Girl Book 5

Frances Watts,Gregory Rogers

Someone’s playing naughty tricks on the residents of Flamant Castle and the blame’s fallen on Tommy! Can she find out the truth? Another adventure in the Sword Girl series featuring…

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Pigeon Problems: Sword Girl Book 6

Frances Watts

Another adventure in the Sword Girl series featuring the feisty Thomasina. Pigeon goes missing, and only Tommy can find her friend and save Lady Beatrix’s birthday celebrations!

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The Secrets of Flamant Castle: The complete adventures of Sword Girl and friends

Frances Watts

Fun and fantasy combine in this collection of six amusing stories about Tommy, the daring and curious girl who also happens to be Keeper of the Blades, and her cast…

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The Secret of the Swords: Sword Girl Book 1

Frances Watts,Gregory Rogers

The first book in a fun and exciting series by award-winning author Frances Watt and Kate Greenaway Medal winner Gregory Rogers, introducing Tommy - a feisty kitchen hand who longs…

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A Very Quacky Christmas

Frances Watts

Originally published in Australia by HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers Australia Pty Limited, Sydney, in 2017.

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Goodnight, Mice!

Frances Watts

It’s time to say goodnight – but the four cheeky mice skittering, scampering and scurrying to bed don’t seem very sleepy! This warm, affectionate story is the perfect bedtime book…

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Parsley Rabbit’s Book About Books

Frances Watts

Takes the reader on a hilarious and stimulating journey through the world of books. An absolute treasure of a book for children. Ages 3-7.

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It’s a Story, Rory!

Frances Watts

A STORY ABOUT STORIES!

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING CREATORS OF PARSLEY RABBIT’S BOOK ABOUT BOOKS

‘Hey, Milly, why are we on this blank page?’

‘It won’t be blank for long. We’re…

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Kisses for Daddy: Little Hare Books

Frances Watts

When a grumbly Baby Bear refuses to give his father a goodnight kiss, their bedtime routine is transformed into a delightful game, as Daddy imagines all the different sorts of…

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Say Cheese!

Frances Watts

Maxwell Mouse the photographer is trying to take school photos at South Furriest Public School. But some students just won’t stay still! And others won’t look at the camera! Can…

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New Zealand’s France: A Different View of 1835-1935

Alistair Watts

In this book, Dr Alistair Watts investigates the origins of the New Zealand nation state from a fresh perspective - one that moves beyond the traditional bicultural view. He holds…

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Aller(s)-Retour(s): Nineteenth-Century France in Motion

If the eighteenth century was the age of reason and enlightenment, the nineteenth century was undeniably the age of movement. This tumultuous period in French history bore witness to the…

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Adapting Nineteenth-Century France: Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print

Kate Griffiths,Andrew Watts

This book focuses on adaptations in and of nineteenth-century France, assessing the reworking of Emile Zola in radio, Honore de Balzac in silent cinema, Gustave Flaubert in contemporary fiction, Victor…

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Letters of Seamen in the Wars with France, 1793-1815

Anne Hawkins

Letters of seamen below the rank of commissioned officer which tell us a great deal about shipboard life and about seamen’s attitudes.

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Guingamor, Lanval, Tyolet, Bisclaveret; Four Lais Rendered Into English Prose From the French of Marie de France and Others by Jessie L. Weston. With Designs by Caroline Watts

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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Old France in the New World: Quebec in the Seventeenth Century

James Douglas (Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh)

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

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Government and Political Life in England and France, c.1300-c.1500

How did the kings of England and France govern their kingdoms? This volume, the product of a ten-year collaborative project, brings together specialists in late-medieval England and France to provide…

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Government and Political Life in England and France, c.1300-c.1500

How did the kings of England and France govern their kingdoms? This volume, the product of a ten-year collaborative project, brings together specialists in late-medieval England and France to provide…

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New England and New France: Contrasts and Parallels in Colonial History

James Douglas (Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh)

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

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Oxford Desk Reference: Rheumatology

This new textbook of rheumatology is aimed primarily at a specialist readership offering easily-accessible, current, evidence-based information on the management of rheumatological conditions. Each topic covers typically two pages, the…

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Turner’s Rivers of France, with an introduction by John Ruskin. A series of steel engravings, described by L. Ritchie. With a biography of the artists by A. A. Watts.

Leitch Ritchie,John Turner J M W Ruskin

Title: Turner’s Rivers of France, with an introduction by John Ruskin. A series of … steel engravings, … described by L. Ritchie. With a biography of the artists by A…

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Guingamor, Lanval, Tyolet, Le Bisclaveret: Arthurian Romances

Marie De France

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…

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Stories for One Year Olds

Janet A. Holmes,Margaret Hamilton,Frances Watts,David Bedford

Stories for One Year Olds is an anthology of five best-selling Little Hare stories. Beautifully illustrated by Australia’s finest illustrators, each story has been selected to engage and delight the…

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France’s Lost Empires: Fragmentation, Nostalgia, and la fracture coloniale

This collection of essays investigates the fundamental role that the loss of colonial territories at the end of the Ancient Regime and post-World War II has played in shaping French…

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Liber Fluviorum; or, River Scenery of France depicted in sixty-one line engravings from drawings by J. M. W. Turner. With descriptive letter-press by Leitch Ritchie; and a biographical sketch by A. A. Watts

Leitch Ritchie,J M W Turner,Alaric Alexander Watts

Title: Liber Fluviorum; or, River Scenery of France depicted in sixty-one line engravings from drawings by J. M. W. Turner. With descriptive letter-press by Leitch Ritchie; and a biographical sketch…

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Liber Fluviorum; Or, River Scenery of France. Depicted in Sixty-One Line Engravings from Drawings by J. M. W. Turner … with Descriptive Letter-Press by Leitch Ritchie; And a Biographical Sketch by Alaric A. Watts.

Leitch Ritchie,J M W Turner,Alaric Alexander Watts

Title: Liber Fluviorum; or, River Scenery of France. Depicted in sixty-one line engravings from drawings by J. M. W. Turner … With descriptive letter-press by Leitch Ritchie; and a biographical…

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Mary Stuart, Bothwell, and the Casket Letters

Thomas Finlayson Henderson, John Watts De Peyster

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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Mary Stuart, Bothwell, and the Casket Letters

Thomas Finlayson Henderson, John Watts De Peyster

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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PROTOTYPE 3

The 3rd issue of Prototype’s annual anthology: a space for new work, open to all and free from formal guidelines or restrictions. Poetry, prose, visual work and experiments in between.

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Semiconductors and Organic Materials for Optoelectronic Applications

B. Gil (Universite de Montpellier II, Montpellier, France),B.C. Cavenett (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom),R.L. Aulombard (Universite de Montpellier II, Montpellier, France),G. Leising (Intitut fur Festkoerperphysik, Technische Universitat Graz, Austria),F. Stelzer (Institut fur Chemische Technologie organischer Stoffe, Technische Universitat Graz, Graz, Austria)

The symposium ‘UV, Blue and Green Light Emission from Semiconductor Materials’ was part of the European Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in Strasbourg, 4-7 June, 1996 and it was arranged…

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