Though they have never met Cassie is coming to think of EL as her truest friend Lately it feels as though Cassie's life has been slowly collapsing around her
- her beloved grandfather has died her father has just moved out of the family home & her mother is drinking more than she used to But when she talks to EL she feels less alone However Cassie isn't entirely sure that EL is real A slave girl living in 1840s South Carolina EL visits Cassie first in her dreams then begins to speak to her while she's awake Are their conversations a sign that Cassie has inherited her grandfather's gift of communicating with the dead or is Cassie slowly losing her mind? As the young women become closer across the miles & years that separate them they find solace in each other & as Cassie learns of the horrors of EL's reality she resolves to help her escape But is EL's future already written? & could Cassie's obsession damage her own life beyond repair? Powerful moving & unforgettable I'm Right Here is a beautifully-told story of friendship love & courageous hope
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play When it appears as though the end is in sight the pilots flight crew & passengers of a plane heading to Mexico City look to forget the anguish of the moment & face the greatest danger which we carry within ourselves Directed by the internationally acclaimed Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodovar with cameo appearances from Penelope Cruz & Antonio Banderas ...

Pirate Pete I'm Starting Nursery is a new interactive story starring the famous Pirate Pete part of Ladybird's best-selling Pirate Pete & Princess Polly series Starting nursery is an exciting & anxious time for children & parents alike & this reassuring sound book is a fun way to prepare little ones for their own first day at nursery school The simple text & colourful illustrations help children to understand what happens at nursery & reassure & motivate them about staying at nursery themselves It covers visiting the nursery to look around all the different activities to do there going to the loo having lunch & making new friends Pressing the cheer button on every page is also a fun way to involve your child in the story! ...

Give your children a head start at primary school with this essential wipe-clean activity book A fun & engaging First Numbers activity book that will give children a head start as they get to grips with numbers & counting at school Designed to complement the National Curriculum it gently introduces children to number recognition & counting skills & equips parents with the tools & information needed to support them The consultant-approved activities are fun to do & combined with funny pictures & silly jokes that children will love The first steps to school success! This book

Includes:: Carefully crafted activities that reinforce number-writing practice & recognition Lots of fun counting exercises from 1 to 20 Wipe-clean pen Also available First Phonics First Writing First Day Times Tables Flash Cards First Phonics Flash Cards

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Give your children a head start at primary school with these essential flash cards These fun & engaging Times Tables Flash Cards will give children a head start as they get to grips with learning their times tables at school Designed to complement the National Curriculum & covering times tables from 1 to 12 these flash cards are perfect for learning & practising times tables together Educationally sound flash cards brilliantly illustrated with funny pictures that children will love The first steps to school success! Also available First Phonics Flash Cards First Phonics First Writing First Day First Numbers ...

Oscar-nominated WALK THE LINE star Joaquin Phoenix announces that he's retiring from acting to launch a hip-hop career as his brother-in-law Casey Affleck captures the curious transition on camera in the film some are labeling an elaborate Andy Kaufman-style prank In the fall of 2008 Phoenix shocked his fans with the announcement that he would no longer be appearing in features but instead trying his hand in the music business In the wake of a particularly bizarre appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman everyone began to wonder if the eccentric actor had finally fallen off the deep end In this film Affleck follows Phoenix as he attempts to convince Sean Combs to produce his debut album & responds to a request by Ben Stiller to appear in director Noah Baumbach's GREENBERG with casual indifference ...

‘I didn’t want you to come here’ So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kingshaw upon his arrival at Warings But young Kingshaw & his mother have come to live with Hooper & his father in the ugly isolated Victorian house for good To Hooper Kingshaw is an intruder a boy to be subtly persecuted & Kingshaw finds that even the most ordinary object can be turned by Hooper into a source of terror In Hang Wood their roles are briefly reversed but Kingshaw knows Hooper will never let him be Kingshaw cannot win not in the last resort He knows it & so does Hooper & the worst is still to come… This extraordinary evocative novel boils over with the terrors of childhood & won the Somerset Maugham Award ‘ Hill’s exploration of a juvenile ghoul & his natural prey is a brilliant tour de force’ Guardian ...

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award this tale is linked in its poignancy & humour to Lord the the Flies This edition is part of a series of pre- & post-1914 works chosen especially for 14-18 year olds The series features fiction anthologies poetry plays & non-fiction ...

Geronimo is determined to prove that he's a true friend even if it means climbing Mouse Everest! Professor Paws von Volt needs him & that's good enough for Geronimo Guided by Sherpas & with 'help' from his family he sets out on an epic rescue mission But what is that looming shadow following him? & why is Geronimo the only mouse to see it? ...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK FOR SPRING 2017 When the body of a young girl is found hanging from a tree the only clue the police have is an airline tag around her neck It reads I'm travelling alone' In response police investigator Holger Munch is immediately charged with assembling a special homicide unit But to complete the team he must track down his former partner Mia Kruger
- a brilliant but troubled detective
- who has retreated to a solitary island with plans to kill herself Reviewing the file Mia finds something new
- a thin line carved into the dead girl's fingernail the number 1 She knows that this is only the beginning To save other children from the same fate she must find a way to cast aside her own demons & stop this murderer from becoming a serial killer PRAISE FOR I'M TRAVELLING ALONE' Terrific Intelligent & gripping May well propel Bjork to deserved international fame' The Times ' This is a simply terrific debut The characters are completely believable the plot is scalpel sharp & as the hunt escalates it will frighten the wits out of you in an utterly brilliant way' Sunday Mirror Tense thrilling & genuinely scary' Heat Perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole series & Danish crime drama The Bridge' Crime Scene Magazine' Samuel Bjork's formidable I'm Travelling Alone is despatched with real elan Mia's confrontation with both her own demons & a very human one is mesmerising fare' Independent The latest Norwegian crime-writing sensation' Sunday Times


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