Investigating a serial killer in an affluent suburban town is difficult & dangerous & with the added pressures from the town selectmen & the media the heat is turned up on Jesse. Hes spengin too much time with the bottle & with his ex-wife neither of which helps him or the case. & the harder these outside forces push against him the more Jesse retreats into himslef convinced despite the odds that its up to him alone to stop the killing. ...

On 14 January 2003 Steve Austin was voted the best professional wrestler of the last ten years in a WWE fan poll. In addition to the WWE he has wrestled in the ECW the WCW & WWF. He has been known as The Ring Master Superstar Steve Austin stunning Steve Austin & now Stone Cold Steve Austin. He has held the tag team belt in WCW & WWF the Million Dollar Belt & the Intercontinental Championship in WWF. He won the 1996 King of the Ring the 1997 Royal Rumble & the Larry Flynt Freedom of Speech Slammy. Steve Austin is by far the best & most exciting wrestler today. A notoriously private man this is the book his fans have been waiting for: his own personal story told in full for the first time. ...

A poor stone cutter who wished he was a rich man has his wish granted. He then keeps changing his wish & each wish is granted. Finally he wishes himself back as he was at the start of the story. * Turquoise/ Band 7 books offer literay language & extended descriptions with longer sentences & a wide range of unfamiliar terms. * Text type
- A story from another culture (Japan). * The flowcharts on pages 22 & 23 illustrate the story in sequence providing opportunities for speaking & listening & scaffolding writing. * Curriculum links
- Citizenship: Choices; Music: Exploring sounds.

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When the newly-released demons set the Order of the Crow an impossible ultimatum
- deliver the Philosopher's Stone or suffer fatal
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize the National Book Critics Circle Award & the Governor-Generals Award & short-listed for the Booker Prize. The Stone Diaries is the story of one womans life a truly sensuous novel which relects & illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. This is the story of Daisy Goodwill from her birth on a kitchen floor in Manitoba Canada to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Through Daisys life Shields reflects & illuminates the unsettled decades of our century in this rich & poignant novel. ...

The Stone Gods" is one of Jeanette Wintersons most imaginative novels
- an interplanetary love story; a travellers tale; a
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Friend becomes foe & trust is a thing of the past when the Misfits most relentless enemy on the cusp of ultimate revenge turns Elspeths world upside down. Before its too late Elspeth must rescue a former ally whose mind & body have been manipulated to unleash a plague that will destroy all it touches. ...

This title is now a major Hollywood film starring Robert Carlyle & Billy Boyd. Ian Robertson Hamilton was an unknown law student at Glasgow University until Christmas Eve 1950. On that night assisted by Alan Stewart Gavin Vernon & Kay Matheson he took the Stone of Destiny from beneath the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey & in doing so became a Scottish national hero. In England however the act had the opposite effect & a manhunt for the 'vulgar vandals' was started to satisfy the outrage of the English establishment & bring them to justice. In the end the Stone was given up but the gang were not charged. This solitary act set Hamilton on a path for the rest of his life from which he has not diverged. Although it is now nearly sixty years since that fateful night it is the actual events surrounding the taking of the Stone which hold people spellbound when Hamilton recounts them. In this book Ian Hamilton has set down the chain of events which led to his decision to go to London remove the Stone & a minute-by-minute account of the act & the aftermath. But this is not simply a retelling of a stunt that made nationwide news it is a book about how a nation's conscience was stirred by a symbolic act that changed lives of many. ...

In Osten Ard the evil of the Storm King covers the land & the country is riven by war. Nature unbalanced by the tide of evil slips into a permanent winter. Simon once a kitchen boy now a hero hiding in the troll stronghold of Yiquanuc has prophetic dreams. Only he & his companions can save the land but to do this he must embark on the second part of his quest.. .to the Stone of Farewell. ...

First rate epic fantasy from the man who deserves to become the Tolkien of his day. The young hero is just beginning to understand the magic he has at his command & only under the tutelage of the Sisters of Light can he control the Gift to combat the dark powers still arrayed against him. ...