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." ...

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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. ...

Frank W. Abagnale alias Frank Williams Robert Conrad Frank Adams & Ringo Monjo was a daring conman forger impostor & escape artist. In his brief but notorious career Abagnale donned a pilots uniform & co-piloted a Pan Am jet masqueraded as a member of hospital management practised law without a licence passed himself off as a college sociology professor & cashed over $2.5 million in forged checks all before he was 21. Known by the police of 26 foreign countries & all 50 US states as The Skywayman" Abagnale lived a sumptuous life on the run
- until the law caught up with him. Now recognized as a leading authority on financial foul play Abagnale is a charming rogue whose hilarious stranger-than-fiction international escapades & ingenious escapes
- including one from an aeroplane
- make " Catch Me If You Can" an irresistible tale of deceit. Abagnales story has now been made into a film starring Tom Hanks & Leonardo Di Caprio."


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Unleashed by Hitler in 1942 the German Tiger tank was by far the most powerful tank ever built at the time. The 60-ton monster could destroy any Allied tank from more than a mile away & it soon became the most feared tank in the world. Desperate to discover the secret technology used in the Tiger's manufacture Winston Churchill close a brilliant young army engineer Major Doug Lidderdale as his special agent. In a late-night briefing in the subterranean War Rooms under Whitehall he ordered him: ' Go catch me a tiger'. Doug did not hesitate & by February 1943 was facing Rommel's desert army. After several unsuccessful & hair-raising efforts to bag a Tiger on the battlefields of Tunisia Doug & his team put their lives on the line in a terrifying close-hand shoot-out with the five-man crew of a Tiger capturing the tank intact. The morale boost to the Allies was such that both Churchill & King George VI flew to Tunis to examine the Tiger first h&. But the Germans were not finished with Doug. They did not want the secrets of the Tiger benefitting the Allies' sabotage attempts & constant attacks by the Luftwaffe & U-boats pursued Doug & his men on every step of the journey back to Engl&. But eventually by October 1943 the Tiger
- number 131
- was delivered to London & gifted to Churchill who had it placed on London's Horse Guards Parade. Lidderdale went on to use some of the Tiger technology to develop war machines for the D-Day landings & was promoted to Colonel. Tiger 131 is now kept at Bovington Tank Museum & is the only working Tiger in the world.

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If you are about to study for a degree in the life or medical sciences you will need to understand some core facts & concepts in chemistry. You do not need to be a budding chemist but you do need to be comfortable with chemical terms & principles. Catch up Chemistry second edition will bring you up to speed with the subject & will lay the foundations of chemistry in those topics that will underpin your studies such as:
- the nature of atomic structure & molecular bonding;
- the properties of biological molecules & macromolecules;
- the gas laws;
- the special properties of water;
- thermodynamic concepts in biology;
- biological transport mechanisms & transporters;
- understanding reaction mechanisms & kinetics;
- deriving energy from molecules; At every stage the authors remind you of the relevance of this chemistry to your life or medical sciences course
- this is not just chemistry for the sake of it. The book also contains a lot of questions (and answers) so that you can test your understanding at any time
- it really does get easier with practice!









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Many students now start life & medical science degrees lacking some of the core background knowledge which underpins their studies. Catch Up books are written to bring these students up to speed quickly & easily enabling them to better understand & follow their university courses. The books are presented in an easy-to-use format with a wealth of examples relevant to biology & medicine. Written in a simple clear & logical manner they help the reader get to grips with the subject quickly & easily. The books are now widely recommended on undergraduate courses in the life medical & biomedical sciences & Catch Up Maths & Stats has also found favour with Ph D students researchers & academics who need a quick primer in the subject. ...

Explosive subversive wild & funny 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of World War II this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic & furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. His real problem is not the enemy
- it is his own army which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. If Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions then he is caught in Catch-22: if he flies he is crazy & doesn't have to; but if he doesn't want to he must be sane & has to. That's some catch...
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At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel first published in 1961 is a satirical indicement of military madness & stupidity & the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is a tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive. ...