From the sick & twisted mind of Garth Ennis co-creator of Preacher" & the vicious pencil of Darick Robertson artist of " Transmetropolitan" comes a darkly hilarious story that will change the way you look at superheroes forever! Wee Hughie's joined The Boys a group of covert operatives who police
- & when necessary punish
- the super "heroes" (who are usually anything but). His first full case? Investigate the murder of Swingwing former partner of the Tek-Knight a man with a fetish so disgusting you'll have to see it to believe it! This hugely controversial new series
- which caused an uproar upon original publication
- explores the sordid side of superheroics! It is intended for adults only!"



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There are days when Ally just doesnt get the male species. Take Billy her so-called best mate whos being even more annoying than usual
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Key Words with Peter & Jane" uses the most frequently met words in the English language as a starting point for learning to read successfully & confidently. The Key Words reading scheme is scientifically researched & world renowned. In book "3b" Peter & Jane help their mum & dad in 36 new words including 'rabbits' 'play' 'cake' & 'school'. Once this book has been completed the child moves on to book "3c". " The Key Words with Peter & Jane" books work because each of the key words is introduced gradually & repeated frequently. This builds confidence in children when they recognise these key words on sight (also known as the 'look & say' method of learning). Examples of key words are: the one two he. There are 12 levels each with 3 books: a b & c. " Series a": gradually introduces new words. " Series b": provides further practise of words featured in the 'a' series. " Series c": links reading with writing & phonics. All the words that have been introduced in each 'a' & 'b' book are also reinforced in the 'c' books." ...

Trendy Wendy knows. She knows that boys are stupid. & smelly. Trendy Wendy whose motto is Buy me stuff " knows all about boys. Now she shares her urgent message
- " Throw rocks at them!"
- with girlfriends everywhere. With an edgy freshness artist & entrepreneur Todd Harris Goldman updates the eternal battle of the sexes. & this time the girls win. Irreverent hilarious & outrageous are mild words to describe this 96-page full-colour sad but true testament to the pathetic flaws that are ever so apparent in boys. Narrated by Trendy Wendy the feisty stick figure with big blue eyes Boys Are Stupid articulates exactly what girls wish they could do to boys
- well sometimes
- while shining a light on the terrific attributes of girls. Along the way she even reveals where boys come from
- the stupid factory. No boys were hurt during the making of this book."




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In Boys Dont Cry bestselling author Malorie Blackman explores the unchartered territory of teenage fatherhood. Youre waiting for the postman
- hes bringing your A level results. University a career as a journalist
- a glittering future lies ahead. But when the doorbell rings its your old girlfriend; & shes carrying a baby. Your baby. Youre happy to look after it just for an hour or two. But then she doesnt come back
- & your future suddenly looks very different. Malories dramatic new novel will take you on a journey from tears to laughter & back again.


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In this classic thriller Ira Levin imagines Dr Josef Mengeles nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich. Alive & hiding in South America thirty years after the end of the Second World War Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a sinister project
- the creation of the Fourth Reich. Ageing Nazi hunter Yakov Lieberman is informed of the plot but before he hears the evidence his source is killed.. . Spanning continents & inspired by true events what follows is one of Levins most masterful tales both timeless & chillingly plausible. Praise for Ira Levin: Levin is the Swiss watchmaker of the suspense novel". (Stephen King)."
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They were the last great Spurs team. A tight-knit group of London lads laced with Latin creativity Yorkshire grit & Scottish genius playing for a few hundred quid a week & the glory of putting on the Tottenham shirt. They won two FA Cups & a UEFA Cup together they went drinking together & they appeared on Top of the Pops together. They were The Boys From White Hart Lane. Renowned Tottenham authors Martin Cloake & Adam Powley have tracked down their childhood heroes to produce a book of wonderfully vivid & candid interviews with ten members of the team including Steve Perryman Ossie Ardiles & Ricky Villa. It is a book that not only opens the doors of the White Hart Lane dressing room during this iconic period for the club but takes the reader back in time to a football world before Premier League multibillionaire foreign owners & millionaire reserve players sitting on the bench in yellow boots & headbands. Packed with insight revelations & wonderful stories
- including the training ground prank which saw a player break his toe on a breeze block the all-night drinking session in Swaziland & the story of how Ossie dented the FA Cup
- The Boys From White Hart Lane is an intimate & eye-opening portrait of the men who put the glory back into Spurs.

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The Boys in the Boat is the story of Joe Rantz a charismatic young man born dirt poor in the woods of Washington State who dreams of escaping the challenges of the Great Depression & a complicated family life full of painful memories. What follows is an extraordinary journey as Joe & eight other young men exchange the sweat & graft & dust of ordinary life for the purer rigours of sport at its very highest level
- a journey at the end of which lies a gold medal rowing race at the Berlin Olympics of 1936 in front of Hitler himself. Told against the grand backdrop of 1930s America The Boys in the Boat is a story full of lyricism & unexpected beauty; a story that rises above sport & even the grand sweep of history itself in favour of something more personal.
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In the spring of 1966 while the war in Vietnam was still popular the US military decided to reactivate the 9th Infantry Division as part of the military build-up. Across the nation farm boys from the Midwest surfers from California & city-slickers from Cleveland opened their mail to find greetings from Uncle Sam. Most American soldiers of the Vietnam era trickled into the war zone as individual replacements for men who had become casualties or had rotated home. Charlie Company was different as part of the only division raised drafted & trained for service. From draft to the battlefields of South Vietnam this is the unvarnished truth from the fear of death to the chaos of battle told almost entirely through the recollections of the men themselves. This is their story the story of young draftees who had done everything that their nation had asked of them & had received so little in return
- lost faces of a distant war.
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Examining the relationships between families coal-mining colleagues & soldiers at war this collection of seven short essays features several tales set against the partly-autobiographical backdrop of the authors life as a coal miner in the Neath Valley & as a soldier in Burma during World War Two. Also included is an essay on writer B. L. Coombes. ...