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Exciting book of extreme sports adventures by daring, lifelong adventurer, Gary Paulsen

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Most of us face petty frustrations like post office queues, parking tickets and automated phone lines. Most of us just grin and bear it - but not Bob Howard and Bob Johnstone. They've taken action. They send ludicrous invoices to anyone and everyone they think deserves them. The responses they receive - from Ikea and Southern Railway to the Archbishop of Canterbury - range from the incredulous and bemused to the good humoured and witty. Initia...

A stirring tale of love and feud Captured by the swashbuckling pirate, Edward Christian, Eleanor feared degradation and, possibly, death. Instead she found herself swept into a turbulent future, her life spent against the background of the seventeenth-century Isle of Man and the long-lasting feud between the powerful Christian clan, fighting for their lands and their rights, and the even more powerful Stanleys, the Lords of Man who claimed the...

In this chilling investigation of foul deeds and mysterious deaths, former police inspector, Peter N Walker leads the reader through this native countryside in search of the truth behind many unexplained mysteries and unsolved murders. Isolated moorland inns and quiet dales conceal memorable tales of passion and despair from ancient times right up to the present day. This wide-ranging and breathtaking collection of murders and mysteries are in...

The war had been going on for nearly a year and the Sirian Empire had a huge advantage in personnel and equipment. Earth needed an edge. Which was where James Mowry came in. If a small insect buzzing around in a car could so distract the driver as to cause that vehicle to crash, think what havoc one properly trained operative could wreak on an unuspecting enemy. Intensively trained, his appearance surgically altered, James Mowry is landed on J...

As detective Superintendent Mark Pemberton investigates the death of a woman nick named The Princess, he finds himself asking the same question time and time again. Accident or murder? The last of the wealthy Milverdale family, The Princess has been found shot in the grounds of her estate. Was the bullet that killed her a stray from a local poacher's gun? Or did someone deliberately set out to shoot her dead? Pemberton soon begins to suspect m...

81, 82 new hostile worlds discovered: 83 - and then another five propulsors blew their linings simultaneously and Scout-Officer John Leeming knew he would have to make a crash landing. Soon he was a prisoner of the Zangastans - and filled with a determination to get back to Earth just as soon as possible. It took the failure of an orthodox escape attempt to make him realise that his alien life-form captors knew precious little of human nature....

Three very different experiences of nursing training. Barbara has always loved singing, but her accompanist wants more commitment from her, and to go for the big time. Nursing and singing don't mix, which means Barbara has a big decision to make. Nikki feels she has nothing in common with her community nursing patients, until she realises that some problems are the same wherever you are. Now she needs the courage to face her own problems... Ni...

Two stories of nurses in training. Claire's looking forward to getting back to St Ag's for the new term. Working in Accident adn Emergency sounds so exciting - and of course, Jan will be back too. She can't wait to be with him again... But somehow the term doesn't work out quite as she'd planned. It's tough on the ward - and so easy to make mistakes. Jan seems cold and distant... and then there's her dashing cousin patrick. He seems keen to pa...

Two exciting stories told in an easy to read form. The Time Street Gang Tom, Dan and Em are the Time Street Gang. They have two secrets - a dinosaur egg and a Time-Machine. They hope to travel to the past and the future. Things do not work out as they planned when Tom's aunt puts the Time-Machine and the egg on the bonfire! The Rag and Bone Boy When school is over, Jack does a rag and bone round. His mum can't do it anymore, she's ill. One day...

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Felicia found the strength to escape from her evil stepfather. But, without money or position, how could a single girl win the struggle to be independent in Victorian England? Then, a chance meeting with the debonair Charles brings Felicia to Dryford as governess. But the ancient family home is overshadowed by mystery, and she has to earn the trust of her new family before dramatic events reveal to her the whole truth - and her love for the Ma...

Nothing was ever the same after Perdita entered Abby's life. She was dressed in rags, but no one noticed that, only the extraordinary beauty of the exhausted child which grew even more haunting as the years passed. So too did the air of danger that clung to her, and Abby was plunged into a web of fear as Edmund, whom she had always loved, was caught up in Perdita's spell.