Soon to be a major motion picture starring Will Smith The Pursuit of Happyness" is the inspiring rags-to-riches story of the charismatic Chris Gardner
- a once homeless father who raised & cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco & went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street. At the age of twenty Milwaukee native Chris Gardner just out of the Navy arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. Considered a prodigy in scientific research he surprised everyone & himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry level position at a prestigious firm Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him homeless with his toddler son. Instead of giving in to despair the two spent almost a year moving from shelters "HO-tels" & soup-lines even sleeping in the public restroom of a subway station
- ultimately making an astonishing transformation from the bathroom to the boardroom."

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A series of explosions has rocked Washington D.C. killing 185 people -- an act of extreme violence that calls for an extreme response from elite counter-terrorism operative Mitch Rapp & his trusted team member Mike Nash. But key Washington officials are uncertain whether to back the agents who regardless of the legal consequences stand between the enemys bullets & countless American lives. Not for the first time Rapp finds himself in the frustrating position of having to expose the countrys politicians to the harsh realities of national security. Three of the al-Qaeda terrorists are still at large & Rapp has been unofficially ordered to find them by any means necessary. No one knows the personal physical & emotional sacrifices required by the job better than Rapp. & when he sees that Nash is cracking under the pressure of the mission he makes a decision he hopes will save his friend assuage the naysayers on Capitol Hill & bring him one step closer to the enemy before its too late... ...

A series of explosions has rocked Washington D.C. killing 185 people
- an act of extreme violence that calls for an extreme response
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The Pursuit of Italy" traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable style full of well-chosen stories & observations from personal experience & peopled by many of the great figures of the Italian past from Cicero & Virgil to Dante & the Medici from Cavour & Verdi to the controversial political figures of the twentieth century. The book gives a clear-eyed view of the Risorgimento the pivotal event in modern Italian history debunking the influential myths which have grown up around it. Gilmour shows that the glory of Italy has always lain in its regions with their distinctive art civic cultures identities & cuisine & whose inhabitants identified themselves not as Italians but as Tuscans & Venetians Sicilians & Lombards Neapolitans & Genoese. This is where the strength & culture of Italy still comes from rather than from misconceived & mishandled concepts of nationalism & unity. This wise & enormously engaging book explains the course of Italian history in a manner & with a coherence which no one with an interest in the country could fail to enjoy." ...

The Middle Ages inherited from Antiquity a tradition of prophesy & gave it fresh & exuberant life. This tradition foretold a Millennium in which humanity would enjoy a new Paradise on earth free of suffering & sin
- a Kingdom of the Saints. Generation after generation was intermittently seized by a tense expectation of some sudden miraculous event in which the world would be utterly transformed. Often these expectations became enmeshed with social unrest & movements arose which sent tremors through the massive structure of medieval society. Drawing on a huge variety of contemporary sources this unique & compelling book tells the story of those Millenarian fanaticisms of the Middle Ages & points to their persistence in the modern world.
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Some centuries from now the exploration & exploitation of the Solar System is in full swing. On the cold edge of the system Bella Lind captain of the huge commercial spacecraft Rockhopper IV helps fuel this new gold rush by attaching mass-driver motors to organic-rich water-ice comets to move them back to the inner worlds. Her crew are tough blue-collar miners engineers & demolition experts. Around Saturn something inexplicable happens: one of the moons leaves its orbit & accelerates out of the Solar System. The icy mantle peels away to reveal that it was never a moon in the first place just a parked spacecraft millions of years old that has now decided to move on. Rockhopper IV trapped in the pull is hurled across time & space into the deep distant future arriving in a vast alien-constructed chamber. & the crew are not alone for each chamber contains an alien culture dragged into this cosmic menagerie at the end of time. The crew of the Rockhopper IV know a lot about blowing up comets but not much about first contact with ultra-advanced aliens. They have two things to worry about: can they (and their new alien allies) negotiate their way through each harrying contact? & can they assimilate the avalanche of knowledge about their own future
- including all the glittering dangerous technologies that are now theirs for the taking
- without destroying themselves in the process?

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They say be a good girl get good grades be popular. They know nothing about me. I can't remember the night that changed my life. The night I went from popular to loner freak. & my family are determined to keep it that way. They said therapy was supposed to help. They didn't expect Noah. Noah is the dangerous boy my parents warned me about. But the only one who'll listen. The only one who'll help me find the truth. I know every kiss every promise every touch is forbidden. But what if finding your destiny means breaking all the rules? A brave & powerful novel about loss change & growing up but most of all love ...

Fairy stories & traditional tales have a special place in the life of every child. Trust Ladybird" to bring you all the best-loved titles in our famous small hard-wearing format. This tale of " Puss in Boots" is perfect for reading aloud or for older more confident readers to read by themselves. There are 24 " Ladybird Tales" to collect so the only problem is which one to choose first!" ...

Puss In Boots" tells the swashbuckling tale of Pusss early days: his life in the orphanage his friendship with Humpty Dumpty how he meets the feisty feline Kitty (voiced by Salma Hayek) & their search for the Goose Who Laid the Golden Egg. This purr-fect film 3D movie guide features 3-D images throughout plus a pair of 3-D glasses!" ...

Get ready for the swashbuckling tale of Pusss early days: his life in the orphanage his friendship with Humpty Dumpty how he meets the feisty feline Kitty & their search for the Goose Who Laid the Golden Egg. Jam-packed with 96 pages of colouring & activities this is the perfect book to keep any small swashbucklers busy for hours! ...