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Mike Tucker is the author of The Rip in the Wardrobe (2015), Doctor Who: The Crawling Terror (2014), Project X Alien Adventures: Grey Book Band, Oxford Level 13: Cyberbee Break Out (2014), Doctor Who: The Silurian Gift (2013), Doctor Who Book 3: Alien Adventures (2011).

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The Rip in the Wardrobe

release date: Jan 01, 2015
The Rip in the Wardrobe
Project X Alien Adventures takes you on an incredible reading journey with this fantastic story featuring the popular Project X characters Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger.Tiger is grounded. His brother, Toby, is looking after him. The dimension rip is stuck open. Could the day get any worse? Tiger is about to find out that it can. In fact it gets much, much worse when an army of Krush warriors starts to invade through the rip in Tiger''s wardrobe! Can themicro-friends repel the Krush attack and save their friends and family, or will they all be adapted?Carefully levelled and highly motivating, this book is ideal for independent reading. This book also contains notes on the inside front and back covers with advice on supporting older children with their reading, questions for readers, and a follow-up activity.

Doctor Who: The Crawling Terror

release date: Sep 09, 2014
Doctor Who: The Crawling Terror
"Well, I doubt you''ll ever see a bigger insect." Gabby Nichols is putting her son to bed when she hears her daughter cry out. ''Mummy there''s a daddy longlegs in my room!'' Then the screaming starts... Alan Travers is heading home from the pub when something rushes his face - a spider''s web. Then something huge and deadly lumbers from the shadows... Kevin Alperton is on his way to school when he is attacked by a mosquito. A big one. Then things get dangerous. But it isn''t the dead man cocooned inside a huge mass of web that worries the Doctor. It isn''t the swarming, mutated insects that make him nervous. It isn''t an old man''s garbled memories of past dangers that intrigue him. With the village cut off from the outside world, and the insects becoming more and more dangerous, the Doctor knows that no one is safe. Not unless he can decode the strange symbols engraved on an ancient stone circle, and unravel a mystery dating back to the Second World War.

Project X Alien Adventures: Grey Book Band, Oxford Level 13: Cyberbee Break Out

release date: Jan 01, 2014
Project X Alien Adventures: Grey Book Band, Oxford Level 13: Cyberbee Break Out
Blast off on the biggest micro-adventure yet with the popular Project X characters Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger and their new robot micro-friend, Eight. Carefully levelled and highly motivating, this book is ideal for independent reading. The crew of the Excelsa respond to a distress signal and go in search of a missing cargo of cyberbees.

Doctor Who: The Silurian Gift

release date: Feb 01, 2013
Doctor Who: The Silurian Gift
‘My new Fire-Ice will solve all the problems of the planet!’ The world is on the brink of crisis. As fuel runs short, society begins to break down. One man seems to have the answer. But is it too good to be true? The Doctor arrives at an old oil refinery near the South Pole, concerned by claims about this new form of energy. He soon discovers something huge and terrifying is stalking the refinery. It brings death and destruction in its wake. The battle has begun for planet Earth. A thrilling, all-new adventure, featuring The Doctor as played by Matt Smith in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television

Doctor Who Book 3: Alien Adventures

release date: Sep 01, 2011
Doctor Who Book 3: Alien Adventures
Exciting action-packed original fiction for younger Doctor Who fans, each containing two fast-paced fun-filled adventures. On the planet Xirrinda, terrible tiny creatures swarm down from the sky in Rain of Terror. Can the Doctor, Amy and Rory help the colonists escape from the alien infestation? The Doctor, Amy and Rory join an undersea exploration ship on the planet Hos in The Underwater War. When a virus infects the crew, they discover the ship is hiding a dangerous secret...

Spartacus Did the Right Thing

release date: Aug 01, 2011
Spartacus Did the Right Thing
"SPARTACUS DID THE RIGHT THING" "No matter how many lives you save, the most important life you save is your own." -Mike Tucker, from "SPARTACUS DID THE RIGHT THING" Inspired by the legend of Spartacus, "SPARTACUS DID THE RIGHT THING" is a classic journey story and a meditation on freedom. Raw, profane, gripping and poignant, Mike Tucker''s second novel is a tribute to the US Navy SEALS, a stunning homage to the Black Lahu, Hmong and Karen hill tribes of northern Thailand and a no-holds-barred tale of raids against Burmese Army slave labor patrols. Above all, it is Jake Deveraux''s story, the story of a US Navy SEAL veteran whose quest leads him to discover a truth ancient as the legend of Spartacus and real in every generation: No matter how many lives you save, the most important life you save is your own. Mike Tucker journeyed to northern Thailand to research "SPARTACUS DID THE RIGHT THING "in the winter of 1992-3, living with the Black Lahu, Hmong and Karen hill tribes on the Thai-Burmese border and throughout northern Thailand. He is the author of 22 books, including 14 volumes of poetry, and received Honors in Poetry in 1982 and a Masters in Literature in 1999 from James Madison University. The only author under fire with US Navy SEALS from DEVGRU (SEAL TEAM SIX) after September 11th, Mike Tucker now lives in the Near East, northern Thailand and the Straits of Malacca, where he is writing his third novel, "1931," which will be released internationally in the fall of 2012.

Operation Hotel California

release date: May 04, 2010
Operation Hotel California
Operation Hotel California is the definitive inside account of the secret CIA mission that paved the way for the Iraq War. Based on exclusive interviews with the team leader, Charles S. Faddis—who retired in 2008 and whose name was publicly revealed in this book for the first time—it is also the most blistering indictment by any U.S. counterterrorism officer of America’s blunders vis-à-vis Al-Qaeda and Iraq. Its lessons are vital as a new administration seeks to withdraw securely from Iraq and fight extremists in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

The Labyrinth of Gedref

release date: Jan 01, 2010
The Labyrinth of Gedref
Out on a hunting trip, Arthur kills a unicorn. Merlin rushes to the animal''s side, obviously upset, as the knights cheer Arthur for killing this most highly-prized of beasts. But, it seems that by killing the magical creature Arthur has cursed Camelot and until he makes amends for his actions the great city will be damned. Could this be the end of Camelot and her people . . . ?

Bring the Heat

release date: Dec 01, 2009
Bring the Heat
Author of eighteen books and Director of RONIN Counterterrorism LLC, Mike Tucker is a Visiting Lecturer at the Center for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies and the Irregular Warfare Working Group at the US Naval Academy, counterterrorism specialist, poet and US Marine infantry veteran.

The Art of War

release date: Jan 01, 2009
The Art of War
The Darksmiths have the Eternity Crystal and are eager to finally fulfil their contract with their mysterious client. The Darksmiths have also reprogrammed Gisella, the robotic ''daughter'' of Varlos, who now seems to be working for them. The Doctor learns that the Darksmiths are due to hand over the Crystal to their client as a secret rendezvous on present day Earth. Will the Doctor be able to intercept the transaction in time? Or will the Crystal begin a war that will continue for all eternity? Continue the amazing Darksmith adventure with the Doctor online at www.thedarksmithlegacy.com

Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Black Island

release date: Sep 19, 2008
Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Black Island
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.

Doctor Who: Snowglobe 7

release date: Sep 04, 2008
Doctor Who: Snowglobe 7
Earth, 2099. Global warming is devastating the climate. The polar ice caps are melting. In a desperate attempt at preservation, the governments of the world have removed vast sections of the Arctic and Antarctic and set them inside huge domes across the world. The Doctor and Martha arrive in Snowglobe 7 in the Middle East, hoping for peace and relaxation. But they soon discover that it''s not only ice and snow that has been preserved beneath the Dome. While Martha struggles to help with an infection sweeping through the Dome, the Doctor discovers an alien threat that has lain hidden since the last ice age. A threat that is starting to thaw. Featuring the Doctor and Martha as played by David Tennant and Freema Agyeman in the hit series from BBC Television.

A Time for You

release date: Jan 01, 2007

Hell Is Over

release date: Apr 01, 2006
Hell Is Over
Here is the first inside perspective on what it was like to endure the horrors of Saddam Hussein. In Hell Is Over: Voices of the Kurds After Saddam, author Mike Tucker offers frank and evocative accounts of the Kurdish people, from veterans of the Kurdish uprising, the Revolution of 1961, to members of the peshmerga who helped U.S. forces quickly take key northern cities. Hell Is Over is a testimony to the anguish of political prisoners, survivors of chemical attacks, and victims of torture. Tucker also offers readers the unbridled joy and optimism of Kurdish artists and poets and of old warriors who now look forward to putting down the guns they''ve carried for decades. Hell Is Over is the moving narrative of a long-suffering nation, chillingly told one precious individual at a time.

Among Warriors in Iraq

release date: Jan 01, 2005
Among Warriors in Iraq
"... is a street-level view of the struggles of maintaining control in the anarchy that pervaded Iraq after Coalition forces declared victory. Tucker journeyed--and fought--with Special Forces groups in both Mosul and Fallujah, cities unconvinced the war was over, and willing to do anything to ensure that the struggle would continue."--from publisher description.

Journal of a Lonely God

release date: Jan 01, 2005

The Bellotron Incident

release date: Apr 01, 2003

Dust Breeding

release date: Jun 01, 2001
Dust Breeding
On nineteenth Century Earth artist Edvard Munch hears an infinite scream pass through nature. Centuries later his painting of that Scream hangs in a gallery on the barren dust world Duchamp 331. Why is there a colony of artists on a planet that is little more than a glorified garage? What is the event that the passengers of the huge, opulent pleasure cruiser ''Gallery'' are hoping to see? And what is hidden in the crates that litter the cargo hold? The Doctor''s diary indicates that the painting is about to be destroyed in ''mysterious circumstances'', and when he and Ace arrive on Duchamp 331, those circumstances are well underway. This story takes place after "Survival."

Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Stone's Lament

release date: May 01, 2001

The Genocide Machine

release date: Apr 01, 2000

Matrix

release date: Jan 01, 1998
Matrix
"The Doctor is on the run from a faceless enemy that knows his every thought and move. He flees to his past, planning to leave Ace in safe hands in order to fight on alone. But his enemy has other plans, and the Doctor''s history no longer exists. The TARDIS is finally drawn to London in the winter of 1888, where the Doctor and Ace discover a dark secret from Gallifrey''s past, and the name of their unseen opponent. It is Jack the Ripper."--Page 4 of cover.

The red admiral butterfly

release date: Jan 01, 1998
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