The Longest Climb" is the utterly compelling account of Dominic & his teams expedition from the Dead Sea to the peak of Everest. His team Everest Max were the first ever to make this extraordinary journey. Following an old Victorian route Dominic cycled through Jordan Syria Turkey Iran Pakistan & India on his way to Tibet & the bottom of the worlds highest mountain. From trying to find a wireless connection in Damascus & setting fire to the teams support vehicle in order to thaw the engine in Iran to deciding whether or not to share the little oxygen they had & risk their own lives in order to try to save another climber & beating their Austrian nemesis Gerry Winkler to the top " The Longest Climb" is a high-octane combination of the huge personal risk fascinating cultural insight & momentary farce that make up a major expedition. But " The Longest Climb" is not simply a memoir of an expedition. It is also the moving account of Dominics struggle to finally accept the heartbreaking loss of his father to cancer when Dominic was just six. As he fights illness broken equipment lack of money & the hardest season of Everest history to make the top Dominic also discusses what has driven him up this mountain. The answers are as affecting as they are extraordinary." ...

6 June 1944. 156 000 troops from 12 different countries 11 000 aircraft 7 000 naval vessels 24 hours. D-Day
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' Don't wait for the storm to pass; learn to dance in the rain…' Laura has been married to the man of her dreams for seven months. But a week before the wedding Matthew made a terrible mistake. Escaping the humiliation that is now her marriage Laura is whisked off to Florida's Key West by her best friend Marty. A carefree holiday full of cocktails & fun surrounded by gorgeous tanned men is exactly what the doctor ordered. Distraction comes in the form of sexy Cuban scuba diver Leo. Laura's instant attraction to him knocks her flying & she falls hard. As the end of the holiday approaches Laura doesn't want to go home. Is it time to face the music? Or is there more to Key West than a holiday romance? ...

On a 1100 Honda Gold Wing Scotto travelled from his native Argentina across the world: earthquakes in Mexico attacked by Sierra Leon cannibals blessed by the Pope given money by Muhammed Ali fleeing Somalia on a freighter crossing Checkpoint Charlie... This is a true-life adventure story unlike any you have ever read before: the ride of a lifetime! ...

In the last decade Americas priorities have changed. National security has become the primary concern for citizens & a top priority for government officials. Billions of dollars have been spent fighting the war on terror & millions more have been spent by private citizens around the globe trying to understand how we got here. Investigative journalist & bestselling author of Holy War Inc. & The Osama bin Laden I Know Peter Bergen is the authority who can answer that question. One of few Westerners to ever sit down with Osama bin Laden Bergen is renowned for his analysis of al Qaeda & its evolution over the last decade. Now he is breaking the story open in a way that readers have never seen before. Bergen picks up where Lawrence Wrights The Looming Tower leaves off. He reveals the details of how al Qaeda has evolved since the 9/11 attacks & tells the parallel story of how the U.S. government has changed its own course in response. Bergen has unprecedented insight that comes through many channels: internal documents from both al Qaeda & U.S. counterterrorism offices in person interviews with al Qaeda members of the highest & lowest ranks hundreds of interviews conducted with senior officials in the White House Pentagon CIA & the FBI & his own experiences on the ground in Afghanistan. A Very Long War will be the definitive account of the war on terror--its failures & successes the major players & its likely future. ...

This is a tender & gentle story that will captivate readers of 8+ from bestselling author Jacqueline Wilson. Ellas mums in a deep coma having just had a new baby. That means Ella has to live with Jack her hopeless stepfather & cope with her tiny newborn brother as well as worrying about Mum. The only thing thats going right is her school project. Its all about whales & how they sing out to each other to attract a mate
- sometimes for hours. Maybe a whale song could reach Mum wherever she is & bring her back to Ella & baby Samson. Surely its worth a try?
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Ella's mum is in a deep coma having just had a new baby. That means Ella has to live with Jack her hopeless stepfather & cope with her tiny newborn brother as well as worrying about Mum. The only thing that's going right is her school project. It's all about whales & how they sing out to each other to attract a mate
- sometimes for hours. Maybe a whale song could reach Mum wherever she is & bring her back to Ella & baby Samson. Surely it's worth a try?
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Scotts Northern Party played an important role in his iconic last expedition but how did they survive? Their tents were torn their food was nearly finished & the ship had failed to pick them up as winter approached. Stranded & desperate the six men dug out an ice cave with no room to stand upright. Circumstances forced them closer together & somehow they made it through the longest winter. Working from diaries journals & letters written by expedition members Meredith Hooper tells the intensely human story of Scotts other expedition. ...

The tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude & the unlikely triumph of an English genius. With a new Foreword by the celebrated astronaut Neil Armstrong. ' Sobel has done the impossible & made horology sexy
- no mean feat' New Scientist Anyone alive in the 18th century would have known that 'the longitude problem' was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day
- & had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of l&. Thousands of lives & the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. The quest for a solution had occupied scientists & their patrons for the better part of two centuries when in 1714 Parliament upped the ante by offering a king's ransom (GBP20 000) to anyone whose method or device proved successful. Countless quacks weighed in with preposterous suggestions. The scientific establishment throughout Europe
- from Galileo to Sir Isaac Newton
- had mapped the heavens in both hemispheres in its certain pursuit of a celestial answer. In stark contrast one man John Harrison dared to imagine a mechanical solution. Full of heroism & chicanery brilliance & the absurd LONGITUDE is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy navigation & clockmaking.



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