It begins on a winter afternoon when schoolgirl Nicky Day runs from a gang of bullies. Then her little brother starts the fire. But the nightmare that is engulfing Sue & Terry Day is only beginning.. .A single mother who left a six-year-old on his own while she went clubbing on a Friday night. An absent father with a hot teenaged girlfriend who didnt seem to care who was minding his former family. The police the neighbours the friends the lovers turn accusing eyes on them both. Suspicious voices ask whether Nicky has run away; whether the fire is really an accident. & meanwhile time is running out for Nicky. Bestselling author Martina Cole loved Mandasue Hellers second novel Forget Me Not. She wrote Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel. Now thousands of readers have discovered Mandasue Heller. Have you read all her books? ...

Jamie & Tom head off to Dino World to watch the Triassic sunrise. Above the noise of the screeching buzzing dawn chorus one sound is louder than anything else so the boys & their dino friend Wanna decide to investigate. The eohraptors that they find take a shine to Wanna & while the boys are distracted they lure him away. Its up to Jamie & Tom to find their little friend but when they do eventually catch up with him on the clifftop they realize they have a bigger problem-an enormous tidal wave is heading their way.. . ...

From lions & tigers to mice & monkeys Wild Faces shows you how to create over 40 fantastic animal faces. Find out how to paint feathers & fur spots & stripes beaks & bills noses & eyes & much more! A comprehensive guide to materials & basic techniques is included while dynamic photographs illustrate every design. ...

Quick & easy...just the way snacks should be. These fabulous snack recipes are perfect for after school nibbles a speedy lunch or dinner on the run. Many of the recipes also double as delicious finger food for parties. All recipes are fantastically simple & quick to make & range from toasted sandwiches quick fritters & spring rolls to spicy chicken wings dips & simple eat-out-of-hand snacks such as trail mixes. ...

The Star-Bellied Sneetches have bellies with Stars but the Plain-Bellied Sneetches have none upon thars! Rivalries rocket when Sylvester Mc Monkey Mc Bean steps in to prey on their prejudices but in the end we realise that prejudice is nothing more than a rediculous waste of time. With his unique combination of hilarious stories zany pictures & riotous rhymes Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children & helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat & ranked among the UK's top ten favourite children's authors Seuss is firmly established as a global best-seller with nearly half a billion books sold worldwide. As the first step in a major rebrand programme Harper Collins is relaunching 17 of Dr. Seuss's best-selling books including such perennial favourites as The Cat in the Hat Green Eggs & Ham & Fox in Socks. In response to consumer demand the bright new cover designs incorporate much needed guidance on reading levels with the standard paperbacks divided into three reading strands
- Blue Back Books for parents to share with young children Green Back Books for budding readers to tackle on their own & Yellow Back Books for older more fluent readers to enjoy. The Sneetches & Other Stories belongs to the Yellow Back Book range.
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Reminiscent of We're Going on a Bear Hunt this story is an absolute delight to read aloud enabling a child to really join in. An alligator is creeping up the stairs slithering down the hall & swishing & swooshing its tremendous tail & the children are very scared. Until they decide they've had enough of all this scary alligator stuff! & they banish him back to where he came from. Beautifully designed & illustrated this reissue of the award-winning picture book Snip Snap! is a real treat! ...

Throughout World War II German snipers were obliged to carry a Scharfshutzen Buch which recorded every kill. Each success noted had to be verified by a witness & signed by a superior officer. The journal of Sutkus is one of only a few such books to have survived the war. It records more than 200 kills placing him as one of the wars most successful snipers. A large part of his journal is reproduced for the first time here. As a Hitler Youth member his skill as a marksman was quickly noted & in July 1943 aged 19 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. A month later he was sent on a five month snipers course in Wilna after which he was posted to the Eastern Front. He was so successful that his superiors sent him to crucial positions. Despite his age he was regarded as one of Germanys best snipers & in November 1944 he was awarded the Scharfshutzenabzeichen 3 Stufe
- the highest award for a sniper. After being wounded in January 1945 Sutkus was given time to recuperate away from the Eastern Front. During this time he met a Red Cross nurse to whom he gave all his journal. When the war finished Sutkus was forced to join the Red Army. He deserted to join the Lithuanian resistance fighters. After being captured again he was tortured by the KGB & deported to Siberia to endure forced labour. It was not until the collapse of the Soviet Union that he was able return to Germany & find his journal still in the hands of the same nurse.
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Revered by some as the ultimate warrior & condemned by others as ruthless assassins
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We all saw it at once. Half a dozen voices screamed Grenade! simultaneously. Then everything went into slow motion. The grenade took an age to travel through its 20 metre arc. A dark small oval-shaped package of misery the size of a peach.. . April 2004: Dan Mills & his platoon of snipers fly into southern Iraq part of an infantry battalion sent to win hearts & minds. They were soon fighting for their lives. Back home we were told they were peacekeeping. But there was no peace to keep. Because within days of arriving in theatre Mills & his men were caught up in the longest most sustained fire fight British troops had faced for over fifty years. This awe-inspiring account tells of total war in throat-burning winds & fifty-degree heat blasted by mortars & surrounded by heavily armed militias. For six months they fought alone: isolated besieged & under constant enemy fire. Their heroic stand a modern-day Rorkes Drift. ...

The Sniper Pocket Book the next in the planned series of handy must have Military Pocket Books. Sniper is a collaboration between Frank Fletcher (ex-Parachute Regt Sniper & Master Sniper Instructor) & Rupert Godesen (military artist & ex-soldier). Rupert: When I took on the job of re-writing/illustrating Soldiers Pocket Book I decided to write it for the young me who had joined the Army 22 years ago & knew nothing. I tried to make it a cross between a comprehensive guide & sitting chatting with an old sweat. We applied the same approach to sniper combining my pictures with Frank's lifetime of experience in the field". Frank: " And I think we've achieved what we set out to do it contains an explanation of how the sniper came to be details of the longest shots in history some of whom were my students & a Q&A with me & Ru about the ins & outs of my trade I'd have snapped it up when I was a lad just joining." & there's more where that came from the new team at Military Pocket Books are working from the solid base that Major John Hobbis Harris established with the original " Volunteer" to enshrine all the skills & drills he had acquired in previous forces service for the next generation we owe a debt to Major JHH for that. To look forward most of our titles will become Apps for Tablet & Phones with interactive functions so they become more than just a digital book. Our prospective portfolio of new titles will extend & enhance our reader's knowledge & skill." ...