Travelling across the former Soviet Union is a challenge at the best of times
- but in a dilapidated VDub! thats got to be plain
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When thirty-four-year-old ex-war veteran Jack Armstrong is told he has only weeks to live his first concern is for his beloved wife Lizzie & their children: baby Jackie twelve-year-old would-be actor Cory & rebellious teenage daughter Mikki. It seems so cruel that an apparently fatal illness should claim him a survivor of Afghanistan & Iraq when he still ha so much left to live for. On Christmas Eve as Jack prepares to say goodbye to his family unthinkable tragedy strikes again & Lizzie is killed in a car accident. Just when Jack thought living was far harder than dying & the children's future looked so bleak something remarkable happens which gives Jack the valuable second chance he'd only dreamed of. Unexpectedly the family inherits Lizzie's beautiful childhood home on the oceanfront in South Carolina. During one unforgettable summer Jack & the children struggle to rebuild their lives. They learn to live again -- & to love again. & they learn the biggest lesson of all -- the importance of family. ...

When Ted falls out of bed three tearaway mice whisk him off on a breathtaking adventure. They zoom around in fast cars go on a balloon ride & climb a building-block mountain. Its all very exciting but will it get Ted back to bed? This books counting theme is perfectly woven into a magical rhythmic text. It is a future classic from the award-winning author of The Gruffalo" & " The Gruffalos Child"." ...

When Ted falls out of bed three tearaway mice whisk him off on a breathtaking adventure. They zoom around in fast cars go on a balloon ride & climb a building-block mountain. Its all very exciting but will Ted ever get back to his bed? This books counting theme is woven perfectly into a magical rhythmic text by Childrens Laureate Julia Donaldson. ...

The SAS mission conducted behind Iraqi lines is one of the most famous stories of courage & survival in modern warfare. Of the eight members of the SAS regiment who set off only one escaped capture. This is his story. Late on the evening of 24 January 1991 the patrol was compromised deep behind enemy lines in Iraq. A fierce fire-fight left the eight men miraculously unscathed but they were forced to run for their lives. Their aim was to reach the Syrian border 120 kilometres to the north-west but during the first night the patrol accidentally broke into two groups five & three. Chris Ryan found himself left with two companions. Nothing had prepared them for the vicious cold of the desert winter & they began to suffer from hypothermia. During the night one of the men was to disappear in a blinding blizzard. The next day a goat-herd came across the two survivors. Chris's remaining partner went with him in search of food & was never to return. Left on his own Chris Ryan beat off an Iraqi attack & set out alone. His greatest adventure was only just beginning. This is the story of courage under fire of hairbreadth escapes of the best trained soldiers in the world fighting against adverse conditions & of one man's courageous refusal to lie down & die. ...

The heroic real-life personal account of Chris Ryans most famous mission The One That Got Away is now reworked for a new generation. Some authors just write about it. Chris Ryan has been there done it
- & here is the gripping real-life tale.. . During the Gulf War in 1991 Chris Ryan became separated from the other members of the SAS patrol Bravo Two Zero. Alone he beat off an Iraqi attack & set out for Syria. Over the next seven days he walked almost 200 miles his life constantly in danger. Of the eight SAS members involved in this famous mission only one escaped capture. This is his story.. .
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It is January 1793. France is at war with Belgium Prussia & Austria & Louis XVI has just been sentenced to death. In Paris a small group of people fears for the future of a throneless France surrounded by countries terrified that republican ideas
- or anarchy
- will spread throughout the continent. They are determined to rescue the king but when their leader is murdered a plan must be pieced together & executed within three days.

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This is a completely original version of the Arabian Nights Stories" by award-winning author Geraldine Mc Caughrean. In order to delay her inevitable execution Queen Shaharazad tells her murdering husband King Shahryar a wonderfully exciting story every night. The King is used to a new wife every day only to put her to death the following day but finds himself so intrigued in the magical stories Shaharazad tells he cant bring himself to kill her. Night after night she tells her wonderful stories until the King starts to realize that he wont be able to live without them..." ...

Witty poetic erotic & brutal One Thousand & One Nights are the never-ending stories told by the young Shahrazad under sentence of death to King Shahrayar. Maddened by the discovery of his wifes orgies King Shahrayar believes all women are unfaithful & vows to marry a virgin every night & kill her in the morning. To survive his newest wife Shahrazad spins a web of tales night after night leaving the King in suspense when morning comes thus prolonging her life for another day. Written in Arabic from tales gathered in India Persia & across the great Arab empire these mesmerising stories tell of the real & the supernatural love & marriage power & punishment wealth & poverty & the endless trials & uncertainties of fate. Now adapted by Hanan al-Shaykh the One Thousand & One Nights are revealed in an intoxicating new voice. ...

An epic tale of an enigmatic land
- Korea
- & one womans search for her past. Uncle Hong-do arrives in Vermont from Korea to

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