The most eloquent & personal story of a young man at war since Geoffrey Wellum's FIRST LIGHTUntil a winter evening in 1998 Nathaniel was just another history student on a comfortable career trajectory of high school to college to white collar job Then he went to a lecture by a Wall Street Journal reporter who had just published a book on the US Marines It brought forth a latent desire to break free of the 'seat belt & safety goggle safety-first' culture to be a warrior He passed the gruelling selection course & joined the Marine Corps on graduation Posted to a Marine Regiment in the wake of 911 he took part in the invasion of Afghanistan then led a platoon of their elite Recon Battalion during the invasion of Iraq This is not a book about the Iraq invasion as such it is an articulate & deeply thoughtful young man's account of what it means to fight in the frontline to risk not just death or injury but psychological harm He reveals some of the awful dilemmas war can bring horrible problems to which there is no 'right' answer but a decision had to be made quickly -- by him alone In combat you are just one bullet away from death -- or promotion But this doesn't focus the mind it makes it freeze up -- unless your training is so thorough that you overcome exhaustion & terror ' Nate' took 65 men to war & came home with all 65 He proved himself an excellent officer & won promotion but resigned in 2003 to write this book & attend Harvard Business School ...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE CALLERDetective Robert Hunter of the LAPD's Homicide Special Section receives an anonymous call asking him to go to a specific web address
- a private broadcast Hunter logs on & a horrific show devised for his eyes only immediately begins The LAPD together with the FBI use everything at their disposal to electronically trace the transmission down but this killer is no amateur & he has covered his tracks from start to finish & before Hunter & his partner Garcia are even able to get their investigation going Hunter receives a new phone call A new website address A new victim But this time the killer has upgraded his game so that anyone can take part Praise for Chris Carter 'A touch of Patricia Cornwell about Chris Carter's plotting' Mail on Sunday ' Gripping not for the squeamish' Heat 'A page-turner' Express
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Black hanging wall sign featuring the text ' One Cat Short of Crazy' Would make a fun gift for any cat lover Exclusive to Something Different & part of our Black Magic collection ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Biopic starring James Corden as & Britain&s Got Talent& winner Paul Potts The film charts Potts& rise to fame from his humble beginnings as a timid shop assistant to an internationally-renowned opera singer thanks to his success on the 2007 British talent show Following a string of failed chances dismissals from his idol Pavarotti & unforeseeable accidents Paul&s determination & talent enabled him to battle through against the odds & achieve his lifelong dream Actors James Corden Alexandra Roach Colm Meaney Julie Walters & Jemima Rooper Director David Frankel Certificate 12 years & over Year 2013 Languages English ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Biopic starring James Corden as & Britain&s Got Talent& winner Paul Potts The film charts Potts& rise to fame from his humble beginnings as a timid shop assistant to an internationally-renowned opera singer thanks to his success on the 2007 British talent show Following a string of failed chances dismissals from his idol Pavarotti & unforeseeable accidents Paul&s determination & talent enabled him to battle through against the odds & achieve his lifelong dream Actors James Corden Alexandra Roach Colm Meaney Julie Walters & Jemima Rooper Director David Frankel Certificate 12 years & over Year 2013 Languages English ...

An extraordinary evocative investigation into the legacy of the controversial one-child policy across all of Chinese society 272 pages Fong Mei ...

It's Christmas Eve & Theo
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In the summer of 1138 war between King Stephen & the Empress Maud takes brother Cadfael from the quiet world of his garden to the bloody battlefield Not far from the safety of the Abbey walls Shrewsbury Castle falls leaving its ninety-four defenders loyal to the empress to hang as traitors With a heavy heart Brother Cadfael agrees to bury the dead only to make a grisly discovery ninety-five bodies lie in a row & the extra corpse tells Cadfael that the killer is both clever & ruthless But one death among so many seems unimportant to all but the good Benedictine He vows to find the truth behind disparate clues a girl in boys' clothing a missing treasure & a single broken flower
- the tiny bit of evidence that Cadfael believes can most easily expose a murderer's black heart
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In this Newbery Honor novel New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of three sisters who travel to Oakland California in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them This vibrant & moving award-winning novel has heart to spare Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters Vonetta & Fern She's had to be ever since their mother Cecile left them seven years ago for a radical new life in California But when the sisters arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their mother Cecile is nothing like they imagined While the girls hope to go to Disneyland & meet Tinker Bell their mother sends them to a day camp run by the Black Panthers Unexpectedly Delphine Vonetta & Fern learn much about their family their country & themselves during one truly crazy summer This moving funny novel won the Scott O' Dell Award for Historical Fiction & the Coretta Scott King Award & was a National Book Award Finalist Delphine Vonetta & Fern's story continues in PS Be Eleven & Gone Crazy in Alabama Readers who enjoy Christopher Paul Curtis's The Watsons Go to Birmingham & Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming will find much to love in One Crazy Summer This novel was the first featured title for Marley D's Reading Party launched after the success of 1000 Black Girl Books Maria Russo in a New York Times list of great kids' books with diverse characters called it witty & original Brightlycom in Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich's article Knowing Our History to Build a Brighter Future Books to Help Kids Understand the Fight for Racial Equality ...