During the Nazi occupation of Ukraine a match was set up between Dynamo Kievs players playing as FC Start & a German side. Kiev won. & when the Germans fielded a better side Kiev beat them too. & again & again. Until the half-starved FC Start players faced an international-calibre German side under the threat of execution if they didnt let the occupiers win... An astonishing true story. Highly readable exciting books that take the struggle out of reading the Wired & Wired Up series encourage & support reading practice by providing gripping age-appropriate stories at a manageable length & reading level. ...

Twelfth-century anatomist Adelia Aguilar must once again examine the dead as gruesome events are beginning to unfold... Henry II's favourite mistress Rosamund Clifford has been poisoned
- & rumour says by his jealous wife Eleanor of Aquitaine. If Henry believes the stories England will be torn apart as King battles Queen. In a race against time to prove Eleanor's innocence & with a dangerous assassin on the loose Adelia has never faced greater danger. The armies that might cause civil war lie behind her. The icy winds of a dreadful winter blow around her. & ahead she must brave the thorns of the impenetrable labyrinth that surrounds Fair Rosamund's tower & decipher the mystery of the dead woman who lies frozen within.
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Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects
- & hes bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death
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Light is chafing under Ls extreme surveillance but even 64 microphones & cameras hidden in his room arent enough to stop Light. He steps up the game but before the battle of wits can really begin a family emergency distracts him. But even though Light isnt using the Death Note right now someone else is! Whos the new Kira in town? ...

Theres a serial killer on the loose in Los Angeles & the local authorities need help fast. For some reason the killer has been leaving a string of maddeningly arcane clues at each crime scene. Each of these clues it seems is an indecipherable roadmap to the next murder. Onto the scene comes L the mysterious super-sleuth. Despite his peculiar working habits
- hes never shown his face in public for example
- hes the most decorated detective in the world & has never tackled a cased he hasnt been able to crack. But this time he needs help. Enlisting the services of an FBI agent named Naomi Misora L starts snooping around the City of Angels. It soon becomes apparent that the killing spree is a psychotic riddle designed specifically to engage L in a battle of wits. Stuck in the middle between killer & investigator its up to Misora to navigate both the dead bodies & the egos to solve the Los Angeles BB Murder Cases.

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Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects
- & hes bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death
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Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects
- & he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death
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Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects
- & he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death
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Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects & he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies & now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels will Light lose sight of his noble goal…or his life? Light working as Kira the newest member of the NPA intelligence bureau & L has nearly succeeded in creating his ideal world. But the years of uncontested victory have made him complacent & he is unprepared for a new attack close to home. With his younger sister Sayu kidnapped & the NPA's Death Note demanded as ransom Light must travel across the world & confront two new adversaries each with a very different agenda. Will Light's quick wits be a match for this new challenge or will he be forced to choose between Kira's ambitions & his own family's lives? ...

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects
- & he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death
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