Elaine Risley a painter returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood
- unbearable betrayals
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Told with deadpan humour & bitter irony Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon & worse still surviving it.. . Dr Felix Hoenikker one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of 'ice-nine' a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three ecentric children to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean to madness. Felix Hoenikker's Death Wish comes true when his last fatal gift to mankind brings about the end that for all of us is nigh... ...

What had there been before such a ship in my life? A dugout canoe on a river journey? A launch in Trincomalee harbour? There were always fishing boats on our horizon. But I could never imagine the grandeur of this castle that was to cross the sea'. In the early 1950s an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner in Colombo bound for Engl&. At mealtimes he is seated at the lowly 'cat's table'
- as far from the Captain's table as can be
- with a ragtag group of adults & two other boys Cassius & Ramadhin. As the ship crosses the Indian Ocean the boys tumble from one adventure to another & at night they spy on a shackled prisoner
- his crime & fate a mystery that will haunt them forever...


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Crippled sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. But then she has a vision of the Virgin & is miraculously cured. In the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition such a claim to blessedness has serious consequences especially when Catalina seems more inclined to obey her heart than the demands of the Church. The last of Maugham's novels Catalina is a romantic celebration of Spain & a delightfully mischievous satire on absolutism. ...

John French first took up flying in 1937 with the University of London Air Squadron & this move was to signal the start of a long & varied career in flight which would see him involved in some of the most iconic wartime exploits of the Twentieth Century. Posted to Gibraltar in the midst of war he flew sorties in support of the North African landings during Operation Torch a particularly interesting episode in Second World War history. From here he was to work on the iconic Catalina
- the spectacular water plane employed to such great effect in an array of military operations in the latter half of the Twentieth Century. His exploits are relayed in vivid first hand detail offering fresh insights into this period of history from a man engaged at the heart of the action. Post war exploits flow into accounts of wartime engagement & there is space too in which to detail Johns post-war career behind the Iron Curtain. Diary entries edited & complied by his grandson Anthony Holt have been lovingly woven together to create a complete narrative which spans a career of such wide spanning variety & achievement to make it perfect material for a book such as this.
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* The larger text & carefully controlled language level make the pages more accessible for lower achievers. * More regular in-text questions & the end-of-spread questions build up pupils knowledge
- & confidence
- throughout the lesson. * Red & Green books have identical pagination so you can use them side by side in a mixed-ability class.

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Its a time of change for Josh. He has a relatively new stepdad & a brand new baby sister. But for Joshs younger brother Jamie the family upheaval has deeply disturbing consequences: he refuses to speak & after a vivid frightening dream develops an obsession with wild cats. With his parents so preoccupied its up to Josh
- whos always been the quiet one
- to keep the family together & find a cure for his brothers strange behaviour. & in helping Jamie to recover his voice Josh discovers an unexpectedly resonant one of his own. CATCALL is a tense gripping & atmospheric novel full of powerful ideas & blending deep psychological tension with fast-paced action
- highly-acclaimed author Linda Newbery at her most compelling & insightful.


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One of the most perceptive descriptions of Manchester Citys play during their glory years was made by Manchester Evening News" reporter Peter Gardner who said that When Youngy plays City play. For all the talk in the intervening years of greats such as Summerbee Bell & Lee it was the local lad made good who made most impact when it mattered. A tall leggy striker with a venomous left-foot shot Young scored in every significant game for City in the late 60s. Scorer of two goals in the 1968 Championship win up at Newcastle the scorer of the 1969 FA Cup Final winner & the first goal in the 1970 Cup Winners Cup final Neil Young played as significant a role in the success & style of the Mercer-Allison partnership as anyone. Yet by 1972 he was allowed to leave the club as City began their now familiar relationship with underachievement & mismanagement. In " Catch a Falling Star" Neil Young explains what he has been up to in the years since his sizzling shots stung the hands of the countrys finest goalkeepers. Here he frankly discusses the problem that faced footballers of the pre-Premiership era: When I left Rochdale for the last time one Friday afternoon I had a weeks wages...about GBP60. I drove home & sat in my lounge for about two hours wondering what the hell I was going to do. I had a car on HP a mortgage a wife & three children to feed. I was the provider who could no longer provide. I had no savings whatsoever & my wife didnt work. I didnt see it coming. It was a calamity waiting to happen. Thus starts Neils decline into illness & depression. During the next painful decade Neil suffered numerous illnesses lost his family his mother & survived a suicide attempt. Thankfully he has emerged with his spirit intact thanks largely to the love of his third wife Carmen. " Catch a Falling Star" is the moving tale of a how a star on the wane managed to mount a personal comeback as impressive as any achieved on the pitch by Citys star-studded squad of the late 60s." ...

Bob Marley was the undisputed sovereign of reggae music & the revolutionary soul-prophet whose music had
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The latest brilliant novel in the D.D. Warren series from Sunday Times & New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner. IN FOUR DAYS SOMEONE IS GOING TO KILL ME... At 8pm on 21st January twenty-eight-year-old Charlie Grant believes she is going to be murdered & she wants Boston's top homicide detective D.D. Warren to handle her death investigation. Confronting D.D. at her latest crime scene Charlie lays her cards on the table. For each of the last two years one of her childhood friends has been murdered leaving Charlie as the only one of the three friends to remain alive. But as D.D. delves deeper in to the details of Charlie's case she begins to question the young woman's story. Because Charlie can now outfight & outrun anyone she meets & D.D.'s instinct is that she's hiding a secret. A secret so explosive that Charlie herself may turn out to be the biggest danger of all...BUT THE SON OF A BITCH HAS GOT TO CATCH ME FIRST. ...