Alex doesn't mean to cause trouble. He didn't mean to cover his dad with pink yoghurt or drop the goldfish in the bath. He just couldn't help it! Alex's mum & dad ask him to keep out of trouble just for one day.. .so the sideways skateboard isn't SUCH a bad idea is it? From football to go karting & real heroes & aliens Books for Boys are packed with high action adventure & humour ideal for turning reluctant boy readers into lifelong bookworms. Ideal for fans of HARRY & THE DINOSAURS who are ready to move on to chapter books. ...

Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington DC Police Department when an unknown shooter gunned down his wife Maria in front of him. Alex's need for vengeance was placed on hold as he faced another huge challenge-raising his children without their mother. Years later Alex is making a bold move in his life. He has left the FBI & set up practice as a psychologist once again. His life with Nana Mama Damon Jannie & little Alex finally feels like it's in order. He even has a chance at a new love. Then Cross's former partner John Sampson calls in a favor. Now Cross must go on the hunt for the most cunning psychotic killer he has ever faced...and it pushes him dangerously close to the breaking point. ...

Three killers are on the rampage in the capital & dead bodies are piling up almost as fast as the police can count them. Alex Cross is in charge of all three investigations & has never been under more pressure. But with a crisis at home that threatens to tear his family apart Alex's attention is divided. While Cross tracks the killers he doesn't notice that someone is tracking him. Can Alex unravel the cases & find the killers in time? Or will he be the next dead body on the list? ...

From his grandmother Alex Cross has heard the story of his great-uncle Abraham & his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan. Now Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a novel hes written
- a novel called Trial. As a lawyer in early-twentieth-century Washington DC Ben Corbett represents the toughest cases. Fighting against oppression & racism he risks his family & his life in the process. When President Theodore Roosevelt asks Ben to return to his hometown to investigate rumours of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan there he cannot refuse. Arriving in Eudora Mississippi Ben meets the wise Abraham Cross & his beautiful daughter Moody. Ben enlists their help & the two Crosses introduce him to the hidden side of the idyllic Southern town. Lynchings have become commonplace & residents of the towns black quarter live in constant fear. Ben aims to break the reign of terror
- but the truth of who is really behind it could break his heart. Written in the fearless voice of Detective Alex Cross " Alex Crosss Trial" is a gripping story of murder love & above all bravery."

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While you wait for the next exciting installment in the Alex Cross series" "I Alex Cross" (published November 2009 by Century) get your hands on a new book written by Alex Cross himself! Ben Corbett is a brilliant young lawyer in early-twentieth-century Washington DC. Yet he is a disappointment to his wife & father who believe he wastes his talents by doing poorly-paid & thankless work helping the poor & downtrodden. One day out of the blue he receives a private invitation to the White House. President Theodore Roosevelt has personally selected Ben to help him investigate rumours of lynchings & a re-emergence of the outlawed Ku Klux Klan in Bens own hometown of Eudora Mississippi. Ben accepts the mission handed to him & is given the name of a man in Eudora who will help him in this covert operation
- the mans name is Abraham Cross great-uncle of Alex. As Ben delves into the murky depths of racial hatred that hide beneath the surface of this seemingly sleepy Southern town people become suspicious of what he is trying to do & make it very clear to Ben what he is risking if he continues. Ben must decide if he is willing to lose old friends his family maybe even his life for the cause he believes in. In his quest to bring about justice for the tortured & tormented black community of Eudora Ben will have to take on the biggest most difficult & most dangerous trial of his life. But can one man fight an entire town an entire state that is stuck in the past & willing to go to any lengths to halt change & the coming of a future that they desperately fear?"
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The world of maths can seem mind-boggling irrelevant & let's face it boring. This groundbreaking book reclaims maths from the geeks. Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives: from the surprising geometry of the 50p piece to how probability can help you win in any casino. In search of weird & wonderful mathematical phenomena Alex Bellos travels across the globe & meets the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany & a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan. Packed with fascinating eye-opening anecdotes Alex's Adventures in Numberland" is an exhilarating cocktail of history reportage & mathematical proofs that will leave you awestruck." ...

Alexanders epic quest continues into the heart of Asia & on towards the mystery of India. The Macedonian Army march ever onward in search of glory crushing resistance at every turn. The culture & beauty of Babylon is quickly ravaged & the Palace of Persepolis burnt to ashes & cinder. An empire is destroyed & a new & bloody era begins. But there are other things on Alexanders mind. An ambitious project to unite the peoples of the empire under one homeland begins to obsess him. There are rebellions & bloodshed but the curious beauty of Queen Roxanna gives Alexander the strength to fulfil his destiny... This is a truly compelling romantic & exciting book & a fitting conclusion to the bestselling Alexander trilogy. ...

Who could have been born to conquer the world other than a god? Mesmeric beauty consuming desires an insatiable hunger. Then premature death. This is the story of a boy born to a great king
- Philip of Macedon
- & his sensuous queen Olympias. It tells of the stern discipline of Philip & the wild passions of Olympias & how together they formed Alexander a young man of immense unfathomable potential capable of subjugating the known world to his power & thought of by his contemporaries as a god. Alexanders swift ascent to manhood as a protege of Aristotle & close friend of Ptolemy & Hephiaston & the start of his great adventure to conquer the civilised world is recounted in this awe-inspiring novel. This is a wonderful evocation of the far-off & fascinating civilisation of ancient Greece revealed in vibrant tones & scholarly detail.

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Continuing the epic saga of Alexander the Great Alexander: The Sands of Ammon brilliantly describes Alexanders quest to conquer Asia the limitless domain ruled by the Great King of the Persians. In a seemingly impossible venture Alexander & his men storm Persian fortresses & harbours crippling King Darius domain of land & sea. Even the legendary Halicarnassus is defeated by the Macedonian armies. Ruthlessly Alexanders war machine moves ever onward taking him up into the snow-covered Anatolian highlands. But there is danger ahead. Despite the defeat of Darius the Island City of Tyre & the Towers of Gaza prove to be formidable obstacles. Undeterred Alexander surges forth over land & sea to the mysterious land of Egypt. & there in the sands lies the Oracle of Ammon waiting to reveal an amazing truth to Alexander. One that will change his already amazing life. ...

To many he was a god. To others he was a monster. The truth is even more extraordinary. As a boy Alexander dreamed of matching the heroic feats of Achilles. At eighteen he led the Macedonian cavalry to a stunning victory against the Greeks. By twenty-five he had crushed the Persians in three monumental battles & was the master of the greatest empire the world had ever seen. Men began to call him a god. But behind the legend was another more complex story. Narrated by his boyhood friend Ptolemy this is the story of Alexander as you have never heard it before: raw intimate thrilling
- a story of extraordinary daring & unimaginable endurance; of wanton destruction & murderous intrigue
- the epic tragedy of a man who aimed to be more than human.

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