It is 1866, and there is trouble in the world's oceans. What is the extraordinary thing that people have seen there, travelling faster than a whale and cutting holes in the bottom of the strongest ships? Dr Aronnax joins the search for the 'monster', hoping for an exciting adventure. But when he meets the mysterious Captain Nemo, his adventure becomes more extraordinary than he had ever imagined, and he discovers a new underwater world, full of wonders, but of strange dangers too...
Ned Kelly: A True Story - Bookworms 1 When he was a boy, he waspoor and hungry. When hewas a young man, he wasstill poor and still hungry.He learnt how to stealhorses, he learnt how tofight, he learnt how to live– outside the law. Australiain the 1870s was a hard,wild place. Rich people hadland, poor people didn’t. Sothe rich got richer, and thepoor stayed poor.Some say Ned Kelly wasa bad man. Some say hewas a good man but thelaw was bad. This is thetrue story of Australia’smost famous outlaw. When he was a boy, he was poor and hungry. When he was a young man, he was still poor and still hungry. He learnt how to steal horses, he learnt how to fight, he learnt how to live outside the law.
In snowy Manhattan a client asks private investigator Nat Marley to help with a family problem. But after someone dies, things turn serious and Marley has an unusual case on his hands. As his client says, 'Snakes and drugs don't go together.'
A plane crashes in the middle of the desert in Oman leaving a pilot and his family hurt and stranded. The pilot begins a journey across the desert to get help but collapses from exhaustion. He is found and taken to a nearby hospital but he is unconscious and no one has any idea who he is or where he has come from. Meanwhile time is running out for his wife and son who are waiting in the desert for help to arrive.
