Suitable for ages 5 to 6 years, this title offers a series of original stories written in a simple way, graded in four levels for children who are learning to read. It features short, simple text in large print with illustrations that can make reading & learning fun. ...

Twenty-five years after the end of the Vietnam War, Bob, the Nailer Swagger is back in the warzone. The Russian sniper with whom he duelled in the jungle & who killed his friend, Donny Fenn, has tracked him down to the remote mountains of Idaho. Soon one man is dead & Swagger's family is under threat. Why has the Russian resumed the conflict? ...

Ten years after the end of the Civil War, Nat Jordan who has fought in the Confederate army, is returning by railroad to his home near Kansas City. Then they are held up by so-called Quantrill raiders, led by Captain Coulter with whom Jordan had escaped from Union forces during the War. Coulter recognises Jordan & this leads to complications. ...

John Grisham's explosive novel is brought to the screen by Joel Schumacher. Carl Lee (Samuel L. Jackson) seeks violent revenge after his 10-year-old daughter is brutally assaulted. Lawyer Jake Brigance (Matthew Mc Conaughey) has to save him from Death Row, against mounting pressure from both the Ku Klux Klan & the Civil Rights Movement. Sandra Bullock stars as Brigance's student lawyer aide, while Kevin Spacey appears as the ruthless prosecutor, Rufus Buckley. ...

A double bill of films from the 1950s & 1960s. 'A Time to Kill' (1955) is a complex thriller about an innocent man accused of murdering his mistress. As the film progresses it becomes clear that a newspaper reporter is covering up for the fact that he abused the woman & is trying to vilify Dr Cole (Kenneth Kent). ' The Impersonator' (1960) is set in a small English town where a schoolmistress (Jane Griffiths) agrees to go on a date with a US Airforce sergeant (John Crawford). They miss each other at the agreed time & a series of murders take place in which the man becomes the prime suspect. ...

French drama. Melvil Poupaud plays Romain, a 30-year-old man who is forced to confront his own mortality when he is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Unable to share the news with his friends or family, & not even with his boyfriend, Romain can only confide in his grandmother (played by Jeanne Moreau). As his anger & denial gives way to a strange form of acceptance, Romain has a chance encounter with a young waitress which seems to offer him hope, & the chance to leave something of himself behind. ...

Features a series of booklets, which present research messages for the church. This book takes stock of the radical changes in Britain & offers insight on how churches can connect with those outside the regular church community. It encourages the church to take seriously the need to adapt its vision to stem the decline in church attendance. ...