A boy takes home a seal skull that he finds at the beach. It has dark empty eyes that stare back at him. Now a storm is brewing & his room is filled with shadows
- will he be able to calm the storm? This mysterious story by Anne Curtis is evocatively illustrated by Chris Corner. * Collins Big Cat Progress builds confidence helping struggling pupils not only to read but to love reading * Dual-banded books provide age-appropriate interest level material matched with a lower reading ability level * Every book is levelled by reading expert Cliff Moon to ensure precise systematic measurable progression to help close the ability gap * The books use a range of reading strategies: phonic graphic syntactic & contextual to build confident accurate fluent readers * Designed to build speaking & listening skills as well as reading skills the books are highly visual & include incredible illustrations & photographs * Every book has a Key Stage 2 look-&-feel to engage older pupils & avoid stigmatisation * Topics are relevant for children in years 3-6 & connected to the curriculum & framework objectives for these years to support inclusion * Progress titles contain a Reader Response page to encourage the pupil to respond to & recall what they have read. This offers an ideal opportunity to check comprehension * Ideas for Reading written by primary literacy expert Gill Howell are included in the back of every book to help you support the reading needs of each child
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A boy & his grandfather watch as a baby seal is born on the rocks near their home & from that day a special friendship is created between them. Despite his disability the boy is a keen surfer & he enjoys many afternoons surfing with the seals. One day however he gets into trouble in rough seas & the young seal saves him. Their friendship brings happiness & meaning at the important stages of the boy's life. ...

Trained by the U.S. Navy to become one of the worlds most elite soldiers former Navy SEAL Platoon Commander/ Sniper & Senior SEAL Instructor Cade Courtley presents his SEAL Survival Guide as a way to give readers the tools to live with complete confidence & security in an increasingly dangerous world. With insight into how to think & act like a SEAL & step-by-step instructions for dealing with anything from earthquakes to terrorist attacks to mall shootings this is the authoritative guide to overcoming life-threatening situations from the preeminent American survivalist. Delivered in a user-friendly fashion & with a voice that is both relatable & backed by extensive experience SEAL Survival Guide is a manual that no modern household should be without. ...

On May 2 2011 at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation room of the White House in Washington D.C.: ' Geronimo Echo KIA'. These words spoken by a Navy SEAL put paid to Osama bin Laden's three-decade-long career of terror. This is the story of Bin Laden's relentless hunters & how they took down the terrorist mastermind told by Chuck Pfarrer a former assault element commander of SEAL Team Six. After talking to members of the SEAL team involved in the raid Pfarrer shares never-before-revealed details of the historic raid & the men who planned & conducted it in an exclusive boots-on-the-ground account of what happened during each minute of the mission
- both inside the building & outside. Pfarrer takes readers inside the operation as the SEALs flew over the wall of Bin Laden's shabby compound & then penetrated deeper & deeper into the terrorist's lair telling us just what it looked sounded & smelled like in that sweltering Pakistani suburb. He takes us to the exact spot where the al-Qaeda leader was cowering when the bullet entered his head. SEAL Target Geronimo is an explosive story of unparalleled valour clockwork military precision & deadly accuracy carried out by one of the most elite fighting forces in the world
- the U.S. Navy's SEAL Team Six.

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When the US Navy send their elite they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite they send SEAL Team Six. SEAL Team Six is a clandestine unit tasked with counterterrorism hostage rescue & counterinsurgency. Until recently its existence was a closely-guarded secret. Then ST6 took down Osama bin Laden & the operatives within it were thrust into the global spotlight. In this behind-the-scenes chronicle former ST6 shooter Howard Wasdin takes readers deep inside the world of Navy SEALs & Special Forces snipers. From descriptions of the gruelling selection processes involved in reaching this elite within an elite to his terrifying ordeal at the Black Hawk Down battle in Somalia Wasdins book is one of the most explosive military memoirs in years. ...

After a separation of many years Emily Fido Faithfull bumps into her old friend Helen Codrington on the streets of Victorian London. Much has changed: Helen is more & more unhappy in her marriage to the older Vice-Admiral Codrington while Fido has become a successful woman of business & a pioneer in the British Womens Movement. But for all her independence of mind Fido is too trusting of her once-dear companion & finds herself drawn into aiding Helens obsessive affair with a young army officer. Then when the Vice-Admiral seizes the children & sues for divorce the womens friendship unravels amid accusations of adultery & counter-accusations of cruelty & attempted rape as well as a mysterious sealed letter that could destroy more than one life.. . ...

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- When a wheel breaks on 20-year-old Betsy Palmers trap as she is crossing the North York Moors on her way to Rosedale with
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At the height of the Second World War this small pocket-book was issued to all ratings on board ships of the Royal Navy. In straight period prose it outlines all the basic expressions & tasks a seaman needed to know to perform his duties efficiently. Chapters are broken down into: Sea Terms; Navigation; Steering the Ship; Rigging; Anchors & Cables; Boatwork; Miscellaneous (which

Includes:: details on uniform & folding a hammock etc); & Ship Safety. Functional black line illustrations are used throughout as well as a few pages of colour (used sparingly) for flag recognition. Faithfully reproduced with a short introduction by Brian Lavery which explains the importance of a book like this to a navy that had to take on vast numbers of civilians or Hostilities Only men to meet the manning needs of the war this volume provides a real mixture of wartime nostalgia & historical authenticity. It makes a world now lost to us accessible again explaining as it does the terms skills & conventions of ship board life a life that required a common language & where failure to respond to orders instantly could mean the difference between life & death. The book is sure to appeal to those who served in the war as well as the current generation who are becoming increasingly interested in the role their grandparents fathers & uncles played during that time.

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Describes the proper historical development of seamanship among the major navies of the world. In order to explain even the most complex evolution clearly over 350 line drawings were specially commissioned. Every aspect of handling a man-of-war is detailed & illustrated from original sources. ...

Maria Duenas's million copy best-selling tale of adventure tragedy love & war The Seamstress" a Richard & Judy 2012 book club pick. Spain 1936 & the brink of civil war. Young poor Sira Quiroga is swept up in a whirlwind romance with her wily love Ramiro. Fleeing Madrid together for Morocco her love blinds her to his real failings. Soon abandoned left penniless & in debt to the authorities she has to rely on the one skill she still possesses: sewing. Taken under the wing of the bullish but caring housekeeper Candelaria Sira is able to sew for the glamorous foreign English & German women in Tetouan. Privy to their unbridled gossip Sira becomes invaluable to the British secret service a position that is filled with untold risk. A story of danger espionage romance & war " The Seamstress" is a WWII tale like no other. " Maria Duenas is a true storyteller. Read this book & prepare to be transported." (Kate Morton author of " The House at Riverton"). "A wonderful novel with intrigue love mystery & tender audacious & clean-cut characters." (Mario Vargas Llosa). "A magnificent novel that flawlessly brings together history & intrigue." (Juan Gomez-Jurado author of " The Moses Expedition"). Maria Duenas holds a Ph D in English Philology & is currently a professor at the University of Murcia. She has also taught at American universities is the author of several academic articles & has participated in various educational cultural & editorial projects. She is currently writing her second novel." ...