People ask me how come I'm still alive & I don't know what to say When I was growing up if you'd have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street & asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the age of sixty with five kids & four grandkids & houses in Buckinghamshire & California I wouldn't have put money on me no fking way But here I am ready to tell my story in my own words for the first time A lot of it ain't gonna be pretty I've done some bad things in my time But I ain't the devil I'm just John Osbourne a working class kid from Aston who quit his job in the factory & went looking for a good time ...

Find peace within through an accessible mindfulness practice in this companion to the bestselling I Am Yoga Verde's gentle concrete narration & Reynolds' expressive watercolor illustrations bring the tenets of mindfulness to a kid-friendly level Full color 32 pages Verde Susan ...

Can you commit the perfect crime? Pilgrim is the codename for a man who doesn’t exist The adopted son of a wealthy American family he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence Before he disappeared into anonymous retirement he wrote the definitive book on forensic criminal investigation But that book will come back to haunt him It will help NYPD detective Ben Bradley track him down & it will take him to a rundown New York hotel room where the body of a woman is found facedown in a bath of acid her features erased her teeth missing her fingerprints gone It is a textbook murder – & Pilgrim wrote the book What begins as an unusual & challenging investigation will become a terrifying race-against-time to save America from oblivion Pilgrim will have to make a journey from a public beheading in Mecca to a deserted ruins on the Turkish coast via a Nazi death camp in Alsace & the barren wilderness of the Hindu Kush in search of the faceless man who would commit an appalling act of mass murder in the name of his God ...

Who is Pusheen? This collection of oh-so-cute kitty comics-featuring the chubby tubby tabby who has taken the Internet by storm-will fill you in on all the basics Things you should know about Pusheen Birthday February 18 Sex Female Where she lives In the house on the couch underfoot Her favorite pastime Blogging sleeping Her best feature Her toe beans Her favorite food All of them Pusheen is a pleasantly plump cat who has warmed hearts & tickled funny bones of millions worldwide with her signature GIF animated bops bounces & tail wiggles Now Pusheen is ready to make the leap from digital to print in her first comic collection! Learn what makes her purr & find out why millions of people have already fallen in love with this naughty adorable kitty Featuring some of the most popular stories from Pusheen's Tumblr & Facebook pages (plus a healthy serving of never-before-seen material) I Am Pusheen the Cat is a treat for cat lovers & comics fans alike ...

Kids always search for heroes so we might as well have a say in it Brad Meltzer realized & so he envisioned this friendly fun approach to biography Each book tells the story of one of America's icons in an entertaining conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction readers those who aren't quite ready for the Who Was series Each book focuses on a particular character trait that made that role model heroic For example Rosa Parks dared to stand up for herself & other African Americans by staying seated & as a result she helped end public bus segregation & launch the country's civil rights movement ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play From the Director of Death of a President this Bafta nominated story is based on the real-life experiences of Mende Nazer Twelve-year-old Malia is abducted from her village by Arab militia & sold into slavery to a woman in Khartoum After six years she is sent to London where her name is changed but her miserable life of servitude continues Her passport is taken & she is told that her father will die if she goes to the authorities Fortunately she meets a sympathetic person who seems to offer her the hope of escape & reunion with her family Actors Wunmi Mosaku Isaach De Bankole Directors Gabriel Range Language English Number of discs 1 Classification 15 Release Date 22 August 2011 Run Time 90 minutes ...

This fourth book in the empowerment series celebrates the feats of growing out of toddlerhood with courage & success With relevant & charming specifics Krensky & Gillingham address the "small wins" of growing just a little bit older Young children & their parents will revel in the encouraging text & retro-fresh illustrations ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Noel Clarke & Tom Hughes star in this action thriller about the brutal SAS selection process Military chef Mickey Tomlinson (Hughes) attempts to join the Special Air Service (SAS) the British Army regiment which is known as the most elite fighting force in the world He is put through his paces with each gruelling stage of the selection process but even if he manages to endure such extreme tests on his mind & body he will still have to prove himself on the battlefield ...

A wife is suspended in a bird cage; a thirteenth-century visionary senses the foreskin of Christ on her tongue Fleur Jaeggy's gothic imagination knows no limits Whether telling of mystics tormented families or famously private writers Jaeggy's terse telegraphic writing is always psychologically clear-eyed & deeply moving always one step ahead or to the side of her readers' expectations In this her long-awaited return we read of an 'eerie maleficent calm a brutal calm' & recognise the timbre of a writer for whom a paradoxical world seethes with quiet violence ...

From the author of The Book Thief comes this darkly funny & ultimately uplifting thriller which proves that anyone can be extraordinary Ed Kennedy is just your less-than-average Joe who is hopelessly in love with his best friend Audrey But after he single-handedly manages to catch a bank robber he receives a playing card in the mail the Ace of Diamonds This is the first message Four more will follow But before this particular card game can end Ed will be changed forever Will Audrey love the man he has become? ...