Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" is Jonathan Safran Foer's heartrending New York novel. In a vase in a closet a couple of years after his father died in 9/11 nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key... The key belonged to his father he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open? So begins a quest that takes Oskar
- inventor letter-writer & amateur detective
- across New York's five boroughs & into the jumbled lives of friends relatives & complete strangers. He gets heavy boots he gives himself little bruises & he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years. But will it take him any closer to or even further from his lost father? Moving literary & innovative perfect for fans of Lorrie Moore & Nicole Krauss Jonathan Safran Foer's " Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" was made into a major film starring Tom Hanks & Sandra Bullock released in 2012. Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977. He is the author of " Everything is Illuminated" which won the National Jewish Book Award & the Guardian First Book award & " Eating Animals" & the editor of "A Convergence of Birds"."

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Looking for something silly weird & flatout idiotic? Look no more! From the magazine that inspired the hit Cartoon Network show comes this new collection of MAD" articles thats guaranteed to make you laugh cry & dance an Irish jig! [ Jig not covered by guarantee]" ...

' If you want to know what the human body can take & why we must continue to push ourselves beyond the limit in the name of exploration then read this book.' Professor Brian Cox In anaesthetist Dr Kevin Fong's television programmes he has often demonstrated the impact of extremes on the human body by using his own body as a 'guinea pig'. So Dr Fong is well placed to share his experience of the sheer audacity of medical practice at extreme physiological limits where human life is balanced on a knife edge. Through gripping accounts of extraordinary events & pioneering medicine Dr Fong explores how our body responds when tested by the extremes of heat & cold vacuum & altitude age & disease. He shows how science technology & medicine have taken what was once lethal in the world & made it survivable. This is not only a book about medicine but also about exploration in its broadest sense
- & about how by probing the very limits of our biology we may ultimately return with a better appreciation of how our bodies work of what life is & what it means to be human.
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In anaesthetist Dr Kevin Fongs television programmes he has often demonstrated the impact of extremes on the human body by using his own body as a guinea pig. So Dr Fong is well placed to share his experience of the sheer audacity of medical practice at extreme physiological limits where human life is balanced on a knife edge. Through gripping accounts of extraordinary events & pioneering medicine Dr Fong explores how our body responds when tested by the extremes of heat & cold vacuum & altitude age & disease. He shows how science technology & medicine have taken what was once lethal in the world & made it survivable. This is not only a book about medicine but also about exploration in its broadest sense
- & about how by probing the very limits of our biology we may ultimately return with a better appreciation of how our bodies work of what life is & what it means to be human.
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In a race down the Thames Detective Chief Inspector John Kerr is caught in a fight ot the death with two gold smugglers. The American wife of the British Defence Secretary is brutally murdered while walking her dog. A senior judge is executed in Middle Temple Lane. Blocked by 'affirmative inaction' at New Scotland Yard & threats from MI6 Kerr deploys a talented female operative undercover to force the truth.A dirty bomb attack proves the motive is hatred of the United States & the special relationship. But is this domestic extremism or the work of foreign spies? As attacks escalate Kerr confronts treachery & corruption from his own side & resorts to action as extreme as the dark forces turned against him. ...

A tale of terror unlike any other: The barren windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless or so the expedition from Miskatonic University thought. Then they found strange fossils of unheard-of creatures carved stones tens of millions of years old & finally the unspeakable mind-twisting terror of the City of the Old Ones. ...

Solve the mind-boggling picture puzzles on every page using the three cool searching tools
- one to magnify one to find colours
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The Goal Kings face a mid-season change of coach & suddenly every boy in the team is under pressure to prove his worth. Josh is desperate for a lucky break Alex's position as star striker is under threat & a string of defeats brings the new defensive line-up seriously into question. ...

When The Stabbers sixth victim is found with his head nailed to the ground DI Andy Gilchrist knows his failed investigation is about to cost him his career. The windswept streets of St Andrews provide the setting for the grisly attacks of an unhinged serial killer. Six men have been brutally murdered all known wife beaters stabbed through the left eye. Suspended from the case & desperate to redeem his reputation Gilchrist embarks on a desperate hunt for the killer. Alone & on the wrong side of the law any mistake could be his last. ...

The Eye in the Door is the second novel in Pat Barker's classic Regeneration trilogy. Winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize. London 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women & men
- pacifists objectors homosexuals
- conflict with his duties as a soldier & it is not long before his sense of himself fragments & breaks down. Forced to consult the man who helped him before
- army psychiatrist William Rivers
- Prior must confront his inability to be the dutiful soldier his superiors wish him to be.. . The Eye in the Door is a heart-rending study of the contradictions of war & of those forced to live through it. A new vision of what the First World War did to human beings male & female soldiers & civilians". (A. S. Byatt Daily Telegraph). " Every bit as waveringly intense & intelligent as its predecessor". (Sunday Times). " Startlingly original.. .spellbinding". (Sunday Telegraph). " Gripping moving profoundly intelligent.. .bursting with energy & darkly funny". (Independent on Sunday). Pat Barker was born in 1943. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy comprising Regeneration which has been filmed The Eye in the Door which won the Guardian Fiction Prize & The Ghost Road which won the Booker Prize. The trilogy featured the Observer's 2012 list of the ten best historical novels. She is also the author of the more recent novels Another World Border Crossing Double Vision Life Class & Toby's Room. She lives in Durham."



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