After Tom moves in with his grandmother next to the Bywater-by-Sea Model Village he makes a wish on a shooting star & gets the curious ability to shrink things. The first thing he shrinks is Jupiter then some sheep & a boat. But without Jupiter in place the Earth is slowly being drawn towards the Sun. With the angry (and miniaturised) school bully yelling from his pocket Tom has to return Jupiter & save Earth
- all while trying to make friends in his new home. Debut author F. R. Hitchcock has written a hugely imaginative & quirky story that is good clean fun.
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James Hunt is remembered more for his girlfriends & wild personal life than for his skills in a race car. But the excesses of his glamorous life in the seventies cannot hide the fact that he was in many people’s opinion the fastest driver on the Formula One circuits in the 1970s. In an era dominated by the likes of Emerson Fittipaldi Niki Lauda & Ronnie Peterson Hunt stood out in terms of raw speed & the ability to effortlessly plant a Formula One car on pole position. The first chapter will be very emotional & tell the story of his death. It started on the Sunday morning of 13th June 1993 when he cycled the six miles from his home in Wimbledon to the BBC Television Centre in London’s White City to commentate on the Canadian Grand Prix with Murray Walker. When the race finished he cycled home & began a marathon snooker match which lasted into the early hours of the following day. At around 2am on Tuesday morning about to get into bed he suffered a massive heart attack & collapsed beside his bed wearing his dressing gown. For nine hours he remained undiscovered on the floor with his two dogs Jackson & Muffy laid one each side guarding their master. He was pronounced dead at 10am at the age of 46 his heart muscles had been fatally weakened by a life of hard drinking recreational drug taking & smoking cigarettes. In the book the author & his researchers have examined every detail of the driver’s life from his very earliest days to the last hours of his existence -and the people he left behind. It is a story many have tried to tell
- but never in such a complete way. The book is about James Hunt’s life his victories on the track the girls he loved & lost & the huge amounts of money he earned & spent. No stone has been left unturned no fact too small to include including his lifelong devotion to dogs & budgerigars. It is the first proper story of a man loved by all those that knew him well but despised by people who did not understand the rules by which he lived his life. It is a story of a man whose like will almost certainly never be seen again.
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The Sweeney broke the mould for British cop shows. Until it was broadcast they'd been rather stolid sometimes quaint dramas like Dixon of Dock Green Z-Cars & Softly Softly about policemen
- or even bobbies: not cops. They were about upholding the law: not breaking it: about smart blue uniforms not kipper ties & long hair. They were about preventing or punishing violence
- not about inflicting it with pleasure on villains. Then in 1975 The Sweeney burst onto commercial television. Based on the notoriously corrupt activities of Scotland Yard's Flying Squad it followed two dishevelled uncouth detectives Regan & Carter played by John Thaw & Dennis Waterman who hurtled around unsalubrious parts of London in a battered Ford Granada roughing up anyone who failed to spill the beans quickly enough. Where Dixon of Dock Green would bid his viewers Goodnight all 1" with a cheery salute this pair snarled " Shut it!" at toe-rags who spoke out of turn & " Put 'em away love" at gangsters' molls whose boudoirs they'd burst in on. Philip Glenister's Gene Hunt in Life on Mars is both parody & homage. Now Pat Gilbert has written the book on this cult cop show interviewing dozens of people who made it happen from screenwriters to stuntmen. It's an essential companion to one of the DVD box sets."

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When their mother is called to Iraq with her National Guard Unit 17-year-old Mario Barajas & his 10-year-old brother Eddie are sent to live with their Aunt Carmen. Soon after the boys move in their aunt's boyfriend Denton begins spending more & more time at Carmen's particularly with Eddie. When Mario notices that his little brother is laughing less & behaving rather strangely he soon discovers the sexual abuse that Eddie has been suffering at the hands of Denton. With their mother miles away their aunt's boyfriend threatening to split the boys up into different foster homes & his brother refusing to tell anyone else the truth Mario must do whatever he can to keep his brother safe. This is a gripping & moralising tale of trust betrayal & secrets that should never be kept. ...

Tie-in to the major motion picture released on 12th March 2010. US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane to find an escaped murderer named Rachel Solando. As a killer hurricane bears down on the island the investigation deepens & the questions mount. How has a barefoot woman escaped from a locked room? Who is leaving them clues in the form of cryptic codes? & what really goes on in Ward C? The closer Teddy gets to the truth the more elusive it becomes. & the more he begins to believe that he may never leave Shutter Isl&. Because someone is trying to drive him insane... ...

' Serious moving & often very funny indeed' Observer Prentis senior clerk in the 'dead crimes' department of police archives is becoming more & more confused. Alienated from his wife & children & obsessed by his father a wartime hero now the mute inmate of a mental hospital Prentis feels increasingly unsettled as his enigmatic boss Mr Quinn turns his investigation towards him -- & his father. Gradually Prentis suspects that his father's breakdown & Quinn's menacing behaviour are connected & the link is to be found in his father's memoirs ' Shuttlecock'.. .' Excellent profound' Alan Hollinghurst London Review of Books ' An astonishing study of forms of guilt laced with a thread of detection & puckering now & then into outrageous humour' Sunday Times 'A superbly written claustrophobic account of power that corrupts private & public life & of guilt that becomes obsession' Daily Telegraph ' Swift's central strength as a writer is his integrity. Story & character are treated with a seriousness & respect that while allowing for the oddity of human behaviour -- Shuttlecock is thoroughly & beautifully odd -- always honours them' Times Literary Supplement ...

Molly loves animals & wants to be a vet when she grows up just like her dad. As everyone says she's got the magic touch! When Molly goes on a trip to the local petting zoo she meets a lonely piglet. Will Molly's magic help him get over his shyness? More MAGIC MOLLY titles available: THE WITCH'S KITTEN THE WISH PUPPY THE INVISIBLE BUNNY THE SECRET PONY. ...

During the adolescent years teens learn to grow more independent of their parents & families & focus instead on social development. But millions of teens with social anxiety & shyness would much rather bypass this critical stage. Shy teens may want to break out of their shell but feel uncertain how to do so or may be anxious about being judged by their peers. The Shyness & Social Anxiety Workbook for Teens" offers a complete program based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) & acceptance & commitment therapy (ACT) for helping teens break free from social anxiety & stop worrying about what others think. This book helps teens come to see that painful emotions such as embarrassment are inevitable & survivable. The comic-strip-style illustrations exercises & worksheets in this book address all aspects of social anxiety from missing out on high school dances to going to job interviews. It also

Includes:: help for teens who have anxiety about blushing in public & speaking up in class."

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The new edition of Power System Analysis & Design" provides students with an introduction to the basic concepts of power systems along with tools to aid them in applying these skills to real world situations. Physical concepts are highlighted while also giving necessary attention to mathematical techniques. Both theory & modeling are developed from simple beginnings so that they can be readily extended to new & complex situations. The authors incorporate new tools & material to aid students with design issues & reflect recent trends in the field." ...

By the age of six Nicolai Lilin had been given his first 'pike knife' by an uncle & by the age of twelve he had been convicted of attempted murder.. . Nicolai Lilin gained his 'education' as a member of the Siberian Urkas
- a small & tight-knit community of 'honest criminals' in a forgotten corner of Eastern Europe.. . Siberian Education is his tale of an extreme childhood
- exotic violent & completely unique.

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