Already winning acclaim as one of the best accounts of combat ever written Black Hawk Down is a minute-by-minute heart-stopping account of the 1993 raid on Mogadishu Somalia. Late in the afternoon of Sunday October 3 1993 140 elite US Soldiers abseiled from helicopters into a teeming market neighbourhood in the heart of the city. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord & return to base. It was supposed to take them about an hour. Instead they were pinned down through a long & terrible night in a hostile city fighting for their lives against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. Two of their high-tech helicopters were shot out of the sky. When the unit was rescued the following morning eighteen American soldiers were dead & more than seventy badly injured. The Somali toll was far worse
- more than five hundred killed & over a thousand injured. Authoritative gripping & insightful Black Hawk Down is destined to become a classic of war reporting. It is already the most accurate detailed account of modern combat ever written.
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Theres a new ship of vampirates roaming the seas leaving a trail of fear & devastation in its wake. When a high-profile pirate is slain the Pirate Federation takes decisive action & begins training up a ship of dedicated vampire hunters. Amongst the dynamic crew is young pirate prodigy Connor Tempest. Meanwhile Connors twin sister Grace enjoys a bittersweet reunion with their mother Sally who has some important & shocking news for her daughter. As Grace uncovers the truth about her familys past she realises that she & Connor face a daunting & uncertain future. ...

Wait wait! Save us! Whatll we do? Simon is determined to become a painter when he grows up so he sets off to London to make his fortune. But the city is plagued by wolves & mysterious disappearances. The Twite household where Simon is lodging seems particularly shifty. Before he even gets a chance to open his glistening new paints Simon stumbles right into the centre of a plot to kill the King. & worse than that Simon is kidnapped & sent to sea! Luckily there are two friendly stowaways aboard
- the feisty Dido Twite & the spoiled young Justin. But when the ship catches fire things look pretty dire. Can they escape? Will they save the king in time?
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Simon paid off the driver & turned to follow Mrs Twite. But she seemed to have locked the door behind her & as he rattled the latch unavailingly & then rapped the locker something dark & suffocating was forced down over his head & a pair of hands gripped his throat." Simon coming to London to study painting with his old friend Dr Field finds he has vanished without trace. Determined to discover what lies behind his disappearance Simon is trapped in a fiendish plot. Why has his landlord got guns in his cellar & how does one deal with his irrepressible daughter Dido.. .?" ...

And you thought your adolescence was scary. Suburban Seattle the mid-1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the areas teenagers transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested any number of ways
- from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable)
- but once youve got it thats it. Theres no turning back. As we inhabit the heads of several key characters
- some kids who have it some who dont some who are about to get it
- what unfolds isnt the expected battle to fight the plague or bring heightened awareness of it or even to treat it. What we become witness to instead is a fascinating & eerie portrait of the nature of high-school alienation itself
- the savagery the cruelty the relentless anxiety & ennui the longing for escape. & then the murders start. As hypnotically beautiful as it is horrifying (and believe it or not autobiographical) Black Hole" transcends its genre by deftly exploring a specific American cultural moment in flux & the kids who are caught in it
- back when it wasnt exactly cool to be a hippie any more but Bowie was still just a little too weird. To say nothing of sprouting horns & moulting your skin..."





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What is a black hole? Where do they come from? What do they do? Find out the answers to all of these questions & what other things scientists have discovered about space exploration gravity & much more in this highly photographic non-fiction report. * Ruby/ Band 14 books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference & deduction. * Text type: An information book * Curriculum links: Science ...

Bringing the material up to date Black Holes Wormholes & Time Machines Second Edition captures the new ideas & discoveries made in physics since the publication of the best-selling first edition. While retaining the popular format & style of its predecessor this edition explores the latest developments in high-energy astroparticle physics & Big Bang cosmology. The book continues to make the ideas & theories of modern physics easily understood by anyone from researchers to students to general science enthusiasts. Taking you on a journey through space & time author Jim Al-Khalili covers some of the most fascinating topics in physics today including: Black holes Space warps The Big Bang Time travel Wormholes Parallel universes Professor Al-Khalili explains often complex scientific concepts in simple nontechnical terms & imparts an appreciation of the cosmos helping you see how time traveling may not be so far-fetched after all. ...

Children are disappearing lost to the world horrifically murdered. The best clue the detectives have
- a serial killer from a century
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When a body is found in a hotel room the press soon pick up on the case: it appears to be a missing LAPD narcotics officer apparently gone to the bad. The rumours were that he had been selling a new drug called Black Ice that had been infiltrating LA from Mexico. The LAPD are quick to declare the death as a suicide but Harry Bosch is not so sure. There are odd unexplained details from the crime scene which just don't add up. Fighting an attraction to the cop's widow Bosch starts his own maverick investigation which soon leads him over the borders & into a dangerous world of shifting identities & deadly corruption... ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...