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Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival
What begins as a dream adventure for four amicable, if hastily met, muchileros (backpackers) quickly becomes a struggle for survival as they unravel under the duress of the jungle. They are an odd mix to be sure: Marcus, the Swiss mystic; Karl, …
Sun, Sea and Sex: True Confessions of a Holiday Rep
What really goes on at the world's hottest party resorts? Every year millions of pleasure-seekers head out to Lanzarote, Ibiza, Palma, Tenerife, and the Greek Islands. In this book, former holiday rep Cy Flood reveals the stories he's heard and …
Last Flight Out: True Tales of Adventure, Travel, and Fishing
Whether he's looking for wild orangutans on Borneo or diving off the coast of South Africa, Randy Wayne White is one of America's most adventurous travelers. In Last Flight Out, White challenges and charms us with tales of his excursions into the …
No Retreat/The Secret War Between Britai
In the late 1970s, racism was on the march. The bootboys and skinheads of the National Front and the British Movement paraded their extremist views and targeted etnic minorities and political opponents-until a group of working-class, left-wing …
An investigation of the families which form the new mafia and of the way in which their net has spread around the world. The book includes an account of the murder of the Irish crime reporter, Veronica Guerin.
The Girl with the White Flag: A Spellbinding Account of Love and Courage in Wartime Okinawa
New York Newsday called this memoir of a warhood childhood in Japan "one of the saddest and yet most uplifting books about childhood you will ever encounter." Separated from her family in the confusion and horror of World War II, seven-year-old …
Usborne's Young Reading series continues to go from strength to strength, offering two reading levels, series one is for beginner readers and series two for more advanced readers. This is a specially bound gift edition for young readers to …
This fabulous new gift edition, which is published in hardback with a ribbon marker. Will be something for your readers to treasure. The Young Reading Series is designed to encourage independent reading and covers a range of subject matter, …
The Greatest Adventure Stories Ever Told
In the gripping tale "Love of Life," told as only Jack London could tell it, a starving prospector fights for life in the rugged Yukon; in "Typhoon," Joseph Conrad takes us out to sea where a lonely ship braves a brutal and massive storm; and in "…
Gathers riddles, jokes and humorous poems about animals, school, sports, and brothers and sisters.
Previous edition sold more than 20,000 copies
fantastic new addition to the Usborne Young Reading series which continues to go from strength to strength.
Survivors! A True-Life Titanic Story
Two small boys, Michel and Edmond Navratil are among the crowds waiting to board the ill-fated Titanic on her maiden voyage. They are filled with excitement and fear, but their father has another reason to be anxious - he has snatched the boys …
This fabulous new gift edition, which is published in hardback with a ribbon marker. Will be something for your readers to treasure. The Young Reading Series is designed to encourage independent reading and covers a range of subject matter, …
children's classic and favourite of little girls everywhere. This specially bound gift edition for young readers is a book to treasure. It is printed in hardback format, with a ribbon marker and fabulous illustrations.
Also included is a bonus listing on serial killers
Eddie Rickenbacker: Boy Pilot and Racer
World War I flying ace, winner of the Medal of Honor, and racecar driver Eddie Rickenbacker was an adventurous boy who first attempted flight by riding his bicycle off the roof while holding an umbrella. The son of Swiss immigrants, young Eddie …
Better to Reign in Hell: Serial Killers, Media Panics and the FBI
Credited with superhuman intellect and abilities, the serial sex killer emerged in the 1980s as a dominant figure in American popular culture. In a decade marked by conservative politics and fundamental Protestantism, the serial killer was …
The Young Reading programme is designed to encourage independent reading and covers a wide variety of subject matter, from the retelling of children's classics to humorous stories about gnomes and monsters, princes and princesses.
Jack The Ripper - Pocket Essentials
look at one of the most frightening and mysterious serial killers ever known, including an introductory essay, considerations of his many proposed identities, a summary of his crimes, victims and the ill-fated investigation, plus a guide to the …
Inside Anne Frank's House: An Illustrated Journey Through Anne's World
Just in time for the 75th anniversary of Anne Frank's birth and the 60th anniversary of her last diary entries, readers are treated to an illustrated journey through the Anne Frank House, which draws nearly 1 million visitors annually.
This story is full of illustrations and includes cartoon speech bubbles to help bring characters to life. It encourages independent reading, and covers a wide variety of subject matter.
The Young Reading programme is designed to encourage independent reading and covers a wide variety of subject matter, from the retelling of children's classics to humorous stories about gnomes and monsters, princes and princesses.
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
The Young Reading series features full-colour illustrations on each double-page spread, which include cartoon speech bubbles to help bring characters to life. The Young Reading programme is designed to encourage independent reading and covers a …
This story is full of illustrations and includes cartoon speech bubbles to help bring characters to life. It encourages independent reading, and covers a wide variety of subject matter.
The role of the Japanese woman in modern society still retains many of the characteristics that it had in the late eighteenth century, when this novel takes place. In those days, the life of a woman, whether married or single, was one of unending …
A Vineyard in the Dordogne: How an English Family Made Their Dream of Wine and Sunshine Come True
generation ago, the Ryman family arrived in the Dordogne to follow a dream: to live in France in an elegant chateau and make wine in a vineyard of their own. It didn't take them long to discover and fall in love with Chateau de la Jaubertie, a …
Love comes in all forms, all shapes and sizes, from the unconditional love of a parent to a child, to the passionate, all-embracing love felt for a partner. The rich, famous and the funny have joined together to create this treasury of tales …
Bouncers/Their Lives in Their Own Words
Bouncers. Reviled, feared and admired in equal measure-yet rarely are their voices heard. What they can't tell the customers, their bosses or the cops, they have now told our authors Julian Davies and Terry Currie. From the nervous first-nighter …