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In this raw and provocative book, available for the first time in
paperback, readers wear desert camouflage, climb to rooftops, and
get behind the rifle with a platoon of elite Marine snipers and
scouts in Iraq. Author Mike Tucker embedded with the unit for its
entire combat tour in 2005–06 to tell this exclusive
from-the-frontlines story. Ronin captures true-grit Marines at war
as they reconnoiter Iraqi villages, track terrorist targets,
grapple with unrealistic rules of engagement, and get the kill. It
also contains the only firsthand accounts of such previously
unreported actions as an Al Qaeda attack on a police station and
the "winter of the sniper" when terrorist gunmen plagued Coalition
forces in Fallujah. This first-ever oral history of a Marine
scout-sniper platoon includes evidence of how Al Qaeda penetrated
the Fallujah police department and never-before-seen photos of
suicide bombings in Fallujah.
"Here on Saturn, it literally rains diamonds." For over fifteen
years the crew of Kollo-Zarnista Mining Facility 27 has been
extracting diamonds from deep within the atmosphere of Saturn,
diamonds that help to fund the ever-expanding Human Empire. But
when a mining operation goes wrong, a rescue mission must be
launched to save a worker lost overboard, a worker who claims that
he has seen something amongst the swirling clouds. Something that
can't possibly exist. When the Doctor and Bill arrive, they
immediately find themselves caught between hostile miners,
suspicious security guards and corrupt company officials as they
face accusations of sabotage and diamond theft. And below them, in
the crushing atmosphere of the gas giant, something is starting to
rise. An original novel featuring the Twelfth Doctor and Bill as
played by Peter Capaldi and Pearl Mackie.
Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for
the whole school. This exciting Graphic Texts pack includes
action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction, carefully selected
poetry and comprehensive guided reading support to meet the needs
of children at every stage of their reading development. Each book
contains inside cover notes with advice on supporting older
children with their reading, ideas for follow-up activities and
higher-level comprehension questions. Project X Origins guided
reading notes offer step-by-step teaching support for each book
with guidance about comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, spelling,
punctuation, grammar and writing. Each set of notes has in-built
assessment and is fully correlated to all UK curricula. This pack
contains 1 set of guided reading notes and 4 reading books, 1 each
of: Time's Pendulum, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Jabberwocky
and other poems, Great Scientists.
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The Warehouse (CD)
Mike Tucker; Directed by Barnaby Edwards; Starring Sylvester McCoy, Bonnie Langford; Richard Fox, …
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The Doctor and Mel land in what appears to be an orbiting
warehouse, a delivery facility with a dangerously eratic computer.
Whilst Mel is helping with repairs, the Doctor begins to realise
that not everything in the warehouse is as it seems. Why do no
goods ever seem to leave the shelves? Why are the staff so obsessed
with the stocktake? And who is the mysterious Supervisor? On the
planet below, the Doctor discovers that the computer might be the
least of their problems - and that they should be more concerned
with the spacestation's mould and vermin...Sylvester McCoy played
the Doctor from 1987 to 1996, but is also familiar to modern cinema
audiences as Radagast the Brown from Peter Jackson's The Hobbit
movies. Bonnie Langford played a companion to both the Sixth Doctor
(Colin Baker) and Seven Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), and her
subsequent career has included Chicago on stage, and Dancing on
Ice. Written by Mike Tucker, who was part of the Model Unit working
on BBC's Doctor Who over the last thirty years. CAST: Sylvester
McCoy (The Doctor), Bonnie Langford (Melanie Bush), Phillip Franks
(Supervisor/Acolyte), Dillie Keane (Lydek), Clara Buckfield
(Ann/Darl), Barry McCarthy (Fred/Terminal), Anna Bentinck
(Jean/Computer), Barnaby Edwards (Reef).
Everything you think you know...is a lie. The Doctor and the
Master; their conflict of light and dark has spanned many times and
faces across the universe. This collection - of five short stories
and a novella - explores the depths of darkness in the Master's
hearts; the arch-schemer's secrets and sinister ambitions revealed
through brand new adventures and encounters. Join six incarnations
of evil for undreamed of adventures: a quest to free alien
warlords... a dangerous mission to save a vital ally... a meeting
with Bram Stoker... a shattering of lives on a distant world... a
trial of wits to gain untold power... and drop in on the Master's
latest incarnation during his 77 years of imprisonment on Earth.
In the Galactic Census, idyllic Strellin is recorded as a Grade
Three planet - its inhabitants possessing neither advanced
technology, nor knowledge of other worlds. Accordingly, Strellin is
protected: landings by off-worlders are strictly prohibited.
Unless, of course, those off-worlders are officials of the Galactic
Census itself, come to investigate the origin of a mysterious
sub-space signal - a signal no native of Strellin should be able to
send. Breaking all local by-laws, the time-travelling Doctor and
his companion L/Wren Mrs Constance Clarke (AWOL) have only just
landed on Strellin, too. But they and the Census officials aren't
the only off-worlders to have come here. Inside a nearby monastery,
the monks of the reclusive Brotherhood of the Black Petal are
guarding a strange and terrible secret. Something might bring
disaster not just to Strellin, but to every civilised world in the
galaxy! Colin Baker's Doctor has proved hugely popular to fans of
the Big Finish Doctor Who releases, with his television adventures
continued across a range of stories with both old and new
companions.Director Jamie Anderson is the son of Gerry Anderson,
the producer behind such shows as Thunderbirds, UFO, Captain
Scarlet and Terrahawks. His work influenced generations, and Jamie
inheriting this storytelling gene! Scriptwriter Mike Tucker has not
only written Doctor Who novels, and other audio adventures, but
carried out model work on both the classic and new series of Doctor
Who!The Doctor's companion in this story - Mrs Constance Clark - is
played by Miranda Raison, star of TV's Spooks. CAST: Colin Baker
(The Doctor), Miranda Raison (Constance Clarke), Nicholas Briggs
(Tanapal), John Savident (Pendle), Olivia Hallinan (Asta), Robbie
Stevens (Boswyck/Raspak), Sam Fletcher (Rosco/Gabber), Joseph
Kloska (Habrild).
On a lonely stretch of Welsh coastline a fisherman is killed by a
hideous creature from beneath the waves. When the Doctor and Rose
arrive, they discover a village where the children are plagued by
nightmares, and the nights are ruled by monsters. The villagers
suspect that ancient industrialist Nathanial Morton is to blame,
but the Doctor has suspicions of his own. Who are the ancient
figures that sleep in the old priory? What are the monsters that
prowl the woods after sunset? What is the light that glows in the
disused lighthouse on Black Island? As the children's nightmares
get worse, The Doctor and Rose discover an alien plot to resurrect
an ancient evil... Featuring the Tenth Doctor and Rose as played by
David Tennant and Billie Piper in the hit Doctor Who series from
BBC Television.
Know your enemy. The Daleks are the most evil creatures ever
created - genetically engineered mutants encased in a machine that
is optimised to kill. They hate all other life forms and will stop
at nothing to destroy those who stand in their way - their
single-minded imperative? To become the dominant species in the
universe. The Dalek Combat Training Manual collates intelligence
gathered by Time Lords over centuries of raging wars through time
and space, and is invaluable to anyone engaging the Daleks in
battle. It furnishes the user with an in-depth guide to their
construction, their strategies and how they are to be ultimately
defeated. Discover full schematics of Dalek spacecraft, insights
into the Dalek factions, a history of the Time War, detailed
analysis of their creator Davros, and much more. This manual is the
definitive guide to one of the most feared races in the Whoniverse.
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Doctor Who: Star Tales (Hardcover)
Steve Cole, Paul Magrs, Jenny T. Colgan, Jo Cotterill, Joanna Cotterill, …
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'Even though they're gone from the world, they're never gone from
me.' The Doctor is many things - curious, funny, brave, protective
of her friends...and a shameless namedropper. While she and her
companions battled aliens and travelled across the universe, the
Doctor hinted at a host of previous, untold adventures with the
great and the good: we discovered she got her sunglasses from
Pythagoras (or was it Audrey Hepburn?); lent a mobile phone to
Elvis; had an encounter with Amelia Earhart where she discovered
that a pencil-thick spider web can stop a plane; had a 'wet
weekend' with Harry Houdini, learning how to escape from chains
underwater; and more. In this collection of new stories, Star Tales
takes you on a rip-roaring ride through history, from 500BC to the
swinging 60s, going deeper into the Doctor's notorious
name-dropping and revealing the truth behind these anecdotes.
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