From his grandmother, Alex Cross has heard the story of his great-uncle Abraham & his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a novel he's written
- a novel called " Trial'. As a lawyer in early-twentieth-century Washington DC, Ben Corbett represents the toughest cases. Fighting against oppression & racism, he risks his family & his life in the process. When President Theodore Roosevelt asks Ben to return to his hometown to investigate rumours of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan there, he cannot refuse. Arriving in Eudora, Mississippi, Ben meets the wise Abraham Cross & his beautiful daughter, Moody. Ben enlists their help, & the two Crosses introduce him to the hidden side of the idyllic Southern town. Lynchings have become commonplace & residents of the town's black quarter live in constant fear. Ben aims to break the reign of terror
- but the truth of who is really behind it could break his heart. Written in the fearless voice of Detective Alex Cross, Alex Cross's Trial is a gripping story of murder, love, &, above all, bravery.

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Three killers are on the rampage in the capital & dead bodies are piling up almost as fast as the police can count them. Alex Cross is in charge of all three investigations & has never been under more pressure. But with a crisis at home that threatens to tear his family apart, Alex's attention is divided. While Cross tracks the killers, he doesn't notice that someone is tracking him. Can Alex unravel the cases & find the killers in time? Or will he be the next dead body on the list? ...

Find out all about football's most famous coach! Alex Ferguson, has had an amazing career in the beautiful game. He is famed for his dedication to Manchester United, his passion for football & his determination to win. Today, he is widely credited as the most successful coach in English football history. Until his retirement in 2013, Sir Alex Ferguson was the most famous football manager in the world. During his time at Manchester United, the club won the Premier League 13 times & the FA Cup five times, as well as numerous other titles & trophies. No other football manager has come close to equalling Fergie's record. This book gives you the story behind this incredible man
- from his upbringing in a tough part of Glasgow, through his career as a football player in Scotl&, to his 26 years in charge of one of the most famous & successful football clubs in the world. It focuses on his management techniques & his star players, from David Beckham to Ryan Giggs, Eric Cantona, Cristiano Ronaldo & Wayne Rooney, & explains how he transformed Man Utd into a global phenomenon
- the club every footballer wanted to play for. Biographical information, "es from the man himself, support the narrative. Discover how Alex began his career as a professional footballer, why he decided to become a coach, how he turned Manchester United into one of the world's greatest football teams & why Fergie was the most respected manager in football! A fantastic resource for biography based project work!

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Sir Alex Ferguson's compelling story is always honest & revealing he reflects on his managerial career that embraced unprecedented European success for Aberdeen & 26 triumphant seasons with Manchester United. Sir Alex Ferguson's best-selling autobiography has now been updated to offer reflections on events at Manchester United since his retirement as well as his teachings at the Harvard Business School, a night at the Oscars & a boat tour round the Hebrides, where he passed unrecognised. The extra material adds fresh insights & detail on his final years as United's manager. Both the psychology of management & the detail of football strategy at the top level can be complex matters but no-one has explained them in a more interesting & accessible way for the general reader than Sir Alex does here. MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY is revealing, endlessly entertaining & above all inspirational. ...

When Alex Higgins' first manager, John Mc Laughlin, bestowed the nickname ' Hurricane Higgins' on the young, feisty snooker

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In this must-have guide Alex Polizzi, presenter of Channel 5's The Hotel Inspector, takes the hassle out of hotel selection, revealing the very best places to stay in Great Britain. & you can rest assured that all 52 of the outstanding destinations featured
- one for every weekend of the year -live up to Alex's famously exacting standards.
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as smooth & trouble-free as possible. With its winning combination of expert advice, insider tips & sumptuous photography, Alex Polizzi's Little Black Book of Hotels makes compulsive reading for the armchair traveller, as well as essential reference when planning any trip away. ...

Alex Prager is one of the truly original image makers of our time. Working fluidly between photography & film, she creates large-scale projects that combine elaborately built sets, highly staged, complex performances & a ` Hollywood' aesthetic to produce still & moving images that are familiar yet strange, utterly compelling & unerringly memorable. In her career she has won both popular acclaim & the recognition of the art establishment
- her work can be found in the collections of Mo MA & the Whitney Museum in New York as well as institutions worldwide. This book is the first career retrospective of this rising star. In 120 carefully curated photographs, it summarizes Prager's creative trajectory & offers an ideal introduction for the popular `breakout' audience who may have only recently encountered her work. Structured around her project-orientated approach, Silver Lake Drive presents the very best images from her career to date: from the early Film Stills through her collaborations with the actor Bryce Dallas Howard on Week-end & Despair to the tour de force of Face in the Crowd
- shot on a Hollywood sound stage with over 150 performers
- & her 2015 commission for the Paris opera La Grande Sortie. Supported by an international exhibition schedule, & including an in-depth interview with Alex Prager by Nathalie Herschdorfer & supplementary essays by the curators of renowned museums & galleries, this book will be an essential addition to the collection of anyone who has followed Prager's career & all with an interest in & appreciation of contemporary art.


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Cool, contemporary & brave, bestselling author Anthony Horowitz created a phenomenal character in Alex Rider
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Anthony Horowitz launched a phenomenal action-packed adventure series with Stormbreaker, the first book starring teenage superspy, Alex Rider. His teenage hero is cool, contemporary & brave
- just the right sort of hero to entice reluctant readers aged 9 & over to get reading. As the book begins, Alex discovers that his uncle
- who has looked after him since he was a baby
- has been killed in a car crash. What's more... he was a spy not a banker
- & now Alex is being recruited to help on a MI6 mission. Told at breakneck pace & with tons of suspense, this is an irresistible read.



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