Vern the self-styled outlaw film critic is described by Hellboy" director Guillermo Del Toro as "equal parts Hells Angels & Pauline Kael... a national treasure!" Now Vern unleashes his magnum opus: an in-depth study of the worlds only aikido instructor turned movie star/director/writer/blues guitarist/energy drink inventor the ass-kicking auteur Steven Seagal. " "A book thatll shake the very foundations of film criticism break their wrists & then throw them through a window." "" ...

Having given up a high-powered job & the lifestyle to match Tessa Hainsworth had no idea how hard she would struggle when full of optimism she fulfilled her dream of moving to rural Cornwall with her young family one September. In the first book Up With the Larks Tessa" charted her first turbulent year with the " Royal Mail" & her transformation from outsider to Posh Postie adopted Cornishwoman & much-loved member of her new community. In " Seagulls in the Attic" Tessa is now a pillar of the community or so she thinks. Life is becoming hard for her & her family as they realise that being part of a small community is not quite the idyll she had been lead to believe as lack of money & the demands of family life take their toll. But as with the first book Tessa finds the fun & resilience to turn all the hardships to her advantage
- eventually. It is rapidly becoming a must-read book for all those who hanker for an escape to the country."
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When a fisherman called Huw falls in love with a selkie
- half-woman half-seal
- she gives him her sealskin as a sign of her

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A boy takes home a seal skull that he finds at the beach. It has dark empty eyes that stare back at him. Now a storm is brewing & his room is filled with shadows
- will he be able to calm the storm? This mysterious story by Anne Curtis is evocatively illustrated by Chris Corner. * Collins Big Cat Progress builds confidence helping struggling pupils not only to read but to love reading * Dual-banded books provide age-appropriate interest level material matched with a lower reading ability level * Every book is levelled by reading expert Cliff Moon to ensure precise systematic measurable progression to help close the ability gap * The books use a range of reading strategies: phonic graphic syntactic & contextual to build confident accurate fluent readers * Designed to build speaking & listening skills as well as reading skills the books are highly visual & include incredible illustrations & photographs * Every book has a Key Stage 2 look-&-feel to engage older pupils & avoid stigmatisation * Topics are relevant for children in years 3-6 & connected to the curriculum & framework objectives for these years to support inclusion * Progress titles contain a Reader Response page to encourage the pupil to respond to & recall what they have read. This offers an ideal opportunity to check comprehension * Ideas for Reading written by primary literacy expert Gill Howell are included in the back of every book to help you support the reading needs of each child
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A boy & his grandfather watch as a baby seal is born on the rocks near their home & from that day a special friendship is created between them. Despite his disability the boy is a keen surfer & he enjoys many afternoons surfing with the seals. One day however he gets into trouble in rough seas & the young seal saves him. Their friendship brings happiness & meaning at the important stages of the boy's life. ...

On May 2 2011 at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation room of the White House in Washington D.C.: ' Geronimo Echo KIA'. These words spoken by a Navy SEAL put paid to Osama bin Laden's three-decade-long career of terror. This is the story of Bin Laden's relentless hunters & how they took down the terrorist mastermind told by Chuck Pfarrer a former assault element commander of SEAL Team Six. After talking to members of the SEAL team involved in the raid Pfarrer shares never-before-revealed details of the historic raid & the men who planned & conducted it in an exclusive boots-on-the-ground account of what happened during each minute of the mission
- both inside the building & outside. Pfarrer takes readers inside the operation as the SEALs flew over the wall of Bin Laden's shabby compound & then penetrated deeper & deeper into the terrorist's lair telling us just what it looked sounded & smelled like in that sweltering Pakistani suburb. He takes us to the exact spot where the al-Qaeda leader was cowering when the bullet entered his head. SEAL Target Geronimo is an explosive story of unparalleled valour clockwork military precision & deadly accuracy carried out by one of the most elite fighting forces in the world
- the U.S. Navy's SEAL Team Six.

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When the US Navy send their elite they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite they send SEAL Team Six. SEAL Team Six is a clandestine unit tasked with counterterrorism hostage rescue & counterinsurgency. Until recently its existence was a closely-guarded secret. Then ST6 took down Osama bin Laden & the operatives within it were thrust into the global spotlight. In this behind-the-scenes chronicle former ST6 shooter Howard Wasdin takes readers deep inside the world of Navy SEALs & Special Forces snipers. From descriptions of the gruelling selection processes involved in reaching this elite within an elite to his terrifying ordeal at the Black Hawk Down battle in Somalia Wasdins book is one of the most explosive military memoirs in years. ...

When the US Navy send their elite they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite they send SEAL Team Six. SEAL Team Six is a clandestine unit tasked with counterterrorism hostage rescue & counterinsurgency. Until recently its existence was a closely-guarded secret. Then ST6 took down Osama bin Laden & the operatives within it were thrust into the global spotlight. In this internationally bestselling chronicle former ST6 shooter Howard Wasdin takes readers deep inside the world of Navy SEALs & Special Forces snipers. From the inside track on the operation that killed the worlds most wanted man to his own experience of the gruelling ST6 selection processes to his terrifying ordeal at the Black Hawk Down battle in Somalia Wasdins book is one of the most explosive military memoirs in years. ...

After a separation of many years Emily Fido Faithfull bumps into her old friend Helen Codrington on the streets of Victorian London. Much has changed: Helen is more & more unhappy in her marriage to the older Vice-Admiral Codrington while Fido has become a successful woman of business & a pioneer in the British Womens Movement. But for all her independence of mind Fido is too trusting of her once-dear companion & finds herself drawn into aiding Helens obsessive affair with a young army officer. Then when the Vice-Admiral seizes the children & sues for divorce the womens friendship unravels amid accusations of adultery & counter-accusations of cruelty & attempted rape as well as a mysterious sealed letter that could destroy more than one life.. . ...

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- When a wheel breaks on 20-year-old Betsy Palmers trap as she is crossing the North York Moors on her way to Rosedale with
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