Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace is the ultimate Big Brother survivor & in Aisleyne: Surviving Guns Gangs & Glamour" she reveals a shocking life story that surpasses any reality-show plotline. Her childhood journey began in a crazy punk household where Siouxsie Sioux & Boy George were regular visitors. It shattered for the first time with the nightmare of seeing her half-naked dad dragged bleeding from the bathroom by police after a suicide attempt & it ended when she saw her mum start a strict new life as a devout Jehovah's Witness. Hospitalised after an extreme bullying incident at school Aisleyne left home at 16 having been cut off by her mother & let down by her father. Alone in London Aisleyne's lifeline was a place in a hostel where she shared the roof over her head with the frightened women & predatory men of the city's gang culture. While some of her friends were lost to drugs knives & gun crime Aisleyne vowed to pick herself up & get out of there. Aisleyne threw herself into a new career as a promotions girl & glamour model. Slowly making a name for herself Aisleyne's big break came when she was selected to compete on Big Brother in 2006 & she was voted the most popular female housemate that year. Three years on Aisleyne is living proof that it is possible to escape the streets & make good. She's become a successful businesswoman fashion designer & established media celebrity. This is her remarkable story." ...

The AK47 Assault Rifle is the world's most prolific & iconic weapon with over 80 million produced. Today the largest threat the armies of the UK USA & NATO are faced with is not nuclear biological & chemical weapons but with man's real weapon of mass destruction the AK47. Much of what is written about it both in books & in the general media is out of date technically wrong incomplete & hard to underst&. Nigel Bennett sets out to truly demystify the AK47 in an easy to read & see format. He takes the reader through the three original basic models of Soviet design the AK47 the AKM & the AK74 & then the vast differing worldwide production models. The book gives in-depth coverage of the internal workings of the AK47 highlighting what makes it the 'perfect' killing machine. ...

This colourful perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants from the reminiscences of survivors of the Great War evoking days gone by to the concerns of a younger generation of farm-workers & the fascinating & personal recollections of among others the local schoolteacher doctor blacksmith saddler district nurse & magistrate. Providing insights into farming education welfare class religion & death Akenfield forms a unique document of a way of life that has in many ways disappeared. ...

John & Philippa Gaunt are young djinns & can grant wishes & make themselves disappear. They go to stay with their eccentric uncle Nimrod to perfect their fledgling magical abilities & end up on a desperate quest to locate the tomb of the pharaoh Akhenaten. Pitted against them is the most evil djinn in the universe.. . This fast-paced fantasy is a breathtaking journey that grips young readers from its first page to its last line. ...

Includes: brilliant baboon facts! Akimbo loves his life in Africa & the animals that live there. In this newest Akimbo
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Akimbo lives with his family on a game reserve in Kenya. His father is the head park ranger & he tries to protect the animals that roam the reserve. One day Akimbo & his father find a dead mother elephant killed by poachers. Akimbo cant stop thinking about the baby elephant left without a mother. What can he do to stop the cruel poachers? Akimbo comes up with a daring plan
- he will pretend to be an elephant hunter himself! Can he stop the poachers & save the elephants?
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Akimbo loves his life in Africa. He loves living in the great game reserve where his father is ranger. He is able to see all sorts of wonderful animals. But he doesn't see many snakes
- they usually slither away when he gets close. But then his Uncle Peter asks if Akimbo would like to visit his snake park & Akimbo jumps at the chance!
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Who is Akira? It is a secret that some will kill for & others die to protect. Welcome back to the most incredible manga of all Katsuhiro Otomos Akira! This epic sweeping work is the saga that truly introduced manga (Japanese comics) to the West & is re-presented in its breathtaking entirety in this ongoing Titan Books series. Set in the remains of post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo Akira is the high octane saga of a government conspiracy designed to hide a terrible truth. Psychic children a military power struggle & rebellious street gangs clash explosively as something terrifying & ancient stirs anew & the world trembles! ...

When Moose Flanagan & his family move home yet again & become residents of the famous prison island Alcatraz things get interesting. First of all they share the island with a few other families & a lot of pretty heavy-duty criminals including Al Capone. & secondly Mooses sister is starting a new school which everyone hopes will help her become more integrated with those around her. When Moose comes up with some pretty cunning money-making schemes based on his famous co-residents he does not count on his sister becoming inadvertently involved. This is a charming funny & utterly enchanting book that skillfully & delicately weaves a humorous tale with some important issues. ...

Imagine the River Tiber as an alimentary tract. Picture a hungry saint. Think of erotic Renaissance fruit paintings transubstantiation & a tiramisu cafe where magic is surely on the menu... This highly original interpretation of Romes history culture art & religion takes the form of a book about food thats not really about food at all. In Al Dente Winner takes us on a stroll through the city as he muses on all things comestible & much else besides. We learn about Rome as metropolis & necropolis about tasty vineyard snails & the food-&-sex scandal that sent Saint Jerome packing. The cinematic greats such as Argento Fellini & Ferreri are discussed alongside historical political satire where grocery orgies were art & the penis was the subject of hagiographies. There are the bloodthirsty antics of an eighteenth-century executioner who worked for the pope stories of immolation architecture & artichokes & a telephone interview with a nun who makes Eucharistic wafers. Winner is a master of wit with a seemingly insatiable appetite for peculiar detail & Al Dente provides an intriguing new portrait of a remarkable city
- a veritable trifle of Roman bedrock & apogee cosmos & counterculture to be devoured with gusto. Buon appetito...
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