A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor's examining table, missing yet another day of school. Just twelve, she's tall, skinny, & weak. It's four o'clock, & she hasn't been allowed to eat anything all day. Her mother, on the other h&, seems curiously excited. She's about to suggest open-heart surgery on her child to 'get to the bottom of this.' She checks her teeth for lipstick &, as the doctor enters, shoots the girl a warning glance. This child will not ruin her plans. From early childhood, Julie Gregory was continually X-rayed, medicated, & operated on-in the vain pursuit of an illness that was created in her mother's mind. Munchausen by Proxy (MBP) is the world's most hidden & dangerous form of child abuse, but Julie Gregory not only survived, she escaped the powerful orbit of her mother's madness & rebuilt her identity as a vibrant, healthy young woman. ...

Covering Sid's early years in South Africa & life as a ladies' hairdresser, his obsession with gambling & women, his questioning by Scotland Yard in a murder case, Hancock's Half Hour & the Carry On films, & Sid's death on stage at the age of 63, Cliff Goodwin reveals the amazing truth behing the legend. ...

Siddharth dreams of India where he used to live. He doesn't like this new place
- the cold, the grey & the strange food of Engl&.
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' Has everything
- a terrifying plot.breakneck pace.vividly drawn characters' John Saul Dr. Kate Bennett is a brilliant young pathologist
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Midsummer approaches, & Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life, hopeful that his wayward daughter & his ageing father will cope without him. But his summer is ruined when a girl commits suicide before his eyes, & a former minister of justice is butchered in the first of a series of apparently motiveless murders. Wallander ...

Midsummer approaches, & Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life, hopeful that his wayward daughter & his ageing father will cope without him. But his summer is ruined when a girl commits suicide before his eyes, & a former minister of justice is butchered in the first of a series of apparently motiveless murders. Wallander ...

August, 1098. After countless battles & sieges, the surviving soldiers of the first crusade are at last within reach of their ultimate goal: Jerusalem. But rivalries fester & new enemies are massing against them in the Holy L&.

Demetrios Askiates, the Emperor's spy, has had enough of the crusade's violence & hypocrisy. He longs to return home. But when a routine diplomatic mission leads to a deadly ambush, he realises he has been snared in the vast power struggles which underlie the crusade. The only way out now leads through the Holy City.

From the plague-bound city of Antioch to the heart of Muslim Egypt, Demetrios must accompany the army of warlords & fanatics to the very gates of Jerusalem where the crusade climaxes in an apocalypse of pillage, bloodshed & slaughter.



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August, 1098. After countless battles & sieges, the surviving soldiers of the first crusade are at last within reach of their ultimate goal: Jerusalem. But rivalries fester & new enemies are massing against them in the Holy L&.

Demetrios Askiates, the Emperor's spy, has had enough of the crusade's violence & hypocrisy. He longs to return home. But when a routine diplomatic mission leads to a deadly ambush, he realises he has been snared in the vast power struggles which underlie the crusade. The only way out now leads through the Holy City.

From the plague-bound city of Antioch to the heart of Muslim Egypt, Demetrios must accompany the army of warlords & fanatics to the very gates of Jerusalem where the crusade climaxes in an apocalypse of pillage, bloodshed & slaughter.



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