Naruto is a ninja-in-training with a need for attention a knack for mischief & sealed within him a strange formidable power. His antics amuse his instructor Kakashi & irritate his teammates intense Sasuke & witty Sakura but Naruto is serious about becoming the greatest ninja in the village of Konohagakure! In the course of their training student ninjas Naruto Sakura & Sasuke have fought deadly assassins learned incredible feats of magic & martial arts & danced along the brink of death. Now they're facing the most terrifying challenge of all: exams. The three ninjas-in-training have signed up for the Journeyman Ninja Selection Exams which they must pass if they ever want to advance to the rank of full-fledged shinobi. They learn too late how grueling & dangerous the exams are. If the tests of skill stealth & battle prowess don't kill them their fellow junior ninja will. & since the three pass or fail as a group they're only as strong as their weakest link... Naruto! ...

Naruto accelerates his training while the Akatsuki systematically continue their assault on those with the Tailed Beasts inside them. First on the list is Yukito a ninja from the Land of Clouds believed to harbor the Two-Tailed Beast. Will yet another ninja fall to the evils of the Akatsuki? ...

Madara of the Akatsuki joins the fray on the battlefield. His powerful attacks & a secret plan take their toll on the Allied Shinobi Forces. Naruto & Bee rush to help their friends but the leader of the Cloud Village will do anything to stop Naruto from risking his life
- even if he has to fight Naruto to do it!
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As powerful as they are Naruto & his friends including all five village Kage can't seem to gain ground over Kabuto's army of undead ninja. & now the biggest surprise resurrection of all raises a question they all thought had already been answered: just who is Madara & what does he really want?! ...

The Official Character Data Book has all you need to stay the expert on all things Naruto. Whether you're catching up brushing up or just getting started with the goings-on in the ninja world this handy huge guide covers all the way up to Volume 43 of the best-selling manga. Inside these pages you'll find never-before-revealed data secrets & scandals involving your favourite (and your most-hated) shinobi. Plus a new manga that you can'tfind anywhere else! ...

For all those Anthony Bourdain fans who are hungering for more here is Nasty Bits
- a collection of his journalism. As usual Bourdain
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Naughty Jack Frost never gets anything in his Christmas stocking so this year hes decided nobody else will either! Hes stolen the three magical objects that Natalie the Christmas Stocking Fairy needs to make sure children all over the world get their presents. Can Kirsty & Rachel find the precious items in time to keep Christmas magical? ...

Born Natasha Zakharenko Natalie Wood continues to haunt us 20 years after her tragic & mysterious death. Her dark hypnotic beauty & passionate performances made her a movie star legend appearing in over fifty films including West Side Story & Rebel Without a Cause for which she was Oscar nominated. The story of her life is tinged with tragedy & drama. Pushed by her domineering frustrated mother
- an alcoholic determined to make her child a star at whatever cost Natalie grew up fast
- lonely & a misfit uncertain of her identity. At fifteen she had embarked on an affair with a director 30 years her senior she was brutally raped by a leading Hollywood star when she was sixteen -an attack which her mother forbade her to report. Her leading men frequently became her lovers including Elvis Presley James Dean Warren Beatty & the real love of her life Robert Wagner whom she eventually married twice. Her fear of being alone & the years of exploitation & abuse led to an addiction to sleeping pills & several suicide attempts & for the first time this book looks at evidence yet to be published surrounding her premature & controversial death
- drowning at the age of 43. Suzanne Finstad has spent 3 years researching this the first substantive biography of Natalie Wood conducting over 400 interviews with friends family lovers co-stars & the police officials who investigated her death.


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From the award-winning author of The Whisperers" Orlando Figes " Natashas Dance: A Cultural History of Russia" is a dazzling history of Russias mighty culture. Orlando Figes enthralling richly evocative history has been heralded as a literary masterpiece on Russia the lives of those who have shaped its culture & the enduring spirit of a people. " Wonderfully rich.. .magnificent & compelling.. .a delight to read". (Antony Beevor). "A tour de force by the great storyteller of modern Russian historians... Figes mobilizes a cast of serf harems dynasties politburos libertines filmmakers novelists composers poets tsars & tyrants.. .superb flamboyant & masterful". (Simon Sebag-Montefiore " Financial Times"). " Awe-inspiring..." Natashas Dance" has all the qualities of an epic tragedy". (" Mail on Sunday"). " It is so much fun to read that I hesitate to write too much for fear of spoiling the pleasures & surprises of the book". (" Sunday Telegraph"). " Magnificent... Figes is at his exciting best". (" Guardian"). " Breathtaking... The title of this masterly history comes from War & Peace when the aristocratic heroine Natasha Rostova finds herself intuitively picking up the rhythm of a peasant dance... One of those books that at times makes you wonder how you have so far managed to do without it". (" Independent on Sunday"). " Thrilling dizzying...I would defy any reader not to be captivated". (" Literary Review"). Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College University of London. He is the author of " Peasant Russia" " Civil War" "A Peoples Tragedy" " Natashas Dance" " The Whisperers" & " Just Send Me Word". His books have been translated into over twenty languages." ...

1925 a damp wintry night in Berlin. Englishman Philip Gibson in Germany to seek the answers to a tantalising mystery surrounding the Grand Duchess Anastasia witnesses an attack on Natasha a young woman who has fled from Russia. When Philip takes the fragile lonely Natasha in to help her recuperate she quickly falls for his kind & caring nature. But when further threats are made on her life Philip finds himself at the heart of another mystery. What is it that links Natasha to this mysterious damaged woman? & will her love for Philip survive the secrets that will be unearthed? ...