Did she once have a sister? Has her mother lied all these years? Why? After a painful divorce Maisey Lazarow returns to Fairham the small island off the North Carolina coast where she grew up She goes there to heal-and to help her brother Keith a deeply troubled man who's asked her to come home But she refuses to stay in the family house The last person she wants to see is the wealthy controlling mother she escaped years ago Instead she finds herself living next door to someone else she'd prefer to avoid-Rafe Romero the wild reckless boy to whom she lost her virginity at sixteen He's back on the island & to her surprise he's raising a young daughter alone Maisey's still attracted to him but her heart's too broken to risk Then something even more disturbing happens She discovers a box of photographs that evoke distant memories of a little girl a child Keith remembers too Maisey believes the girl must've been their sister but their mother claims there was no sister Maisey's convinced that child existed So where is she now? ...

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The Soviet Union 1956 after Stalin's death a violent regime is beginning to fracture Stalin's successor Khrushchev pledges reform But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget the past Leo Demidov former MGB officer is facing his own turmoil His adopted daughters have yet to forgive him for his part in the brutal murder of their parents They are not alone Leo his wife & their family are in grave danger from someone with a grudge Someone transformed beyond recognition into the perfect model of vengeance Leo's desperate mission to save his family will take him from the harsh Siberian Gulags to the depths of the criminal underworld to the centre of the Hungarian uprising
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Recovering from a hip replacement operation & suffering from a mid-life crisis Iain Gately sets out to catch a tube This is no London underground train but rather that evanescent space beneath the lip of a breaking wave that every surfer yearns to visit In all his years of surfing Iain Gately has never caught one He realises it is now or never His quest takes him to the Atlantic beaches of England's West Country & to the sandbars & reefs of Galicia & the Canary Island By turns funny energetic & inspiring The Secret Surfer is a tale of self-knowledge through endeavour a beguiling blend of black humour adventure & soul searching Above all it is a rousing call to all of us not to give up too soon ...

An alternative travel book about the author's quest to achieve his surfing dream before it's too late 304 pages Gately Iain ...

The Secretis an international phenomenon that has inspired millions of people to live extraordinary lives The Secret to Teen Powermakes that material accessible & relevant for today's over programmed stressed-out teens It explains how the law of attraction can help teens navigate their friendships relationships schoolwork money & even more global issues like politics & the environment It all happens through the basic principles outlined in The Secret to Teen Powerthat will bring happiness & fulfilment for all who embrace it ...

Espionage & counter-espionage between the Soviets & the British during London's Roaring Twenties At the height of the hedonistic Jazz Age many in British society became convinced that they were under attack from the new Soviet state Still reeling from the Russian revolution of 1917 disturbed by the development of militant workers movements at home & deeply paranoid about the recent wave of Russian immigration to the UK the British government tasked the intelligence services to look for evidence of espionage Over the next decade as the political pressure mounted the spooks began to cast their net of suspicion wider to include not only suspect Russians but British aristocrats Bloomsbury artists ordinary workers & even members of parliament It was the biggest spying operation in British Intelligence's peacetime history to date undertaken with enthusiastic support from anti-Red crusaders like Winston Churchill & its ramifications were profound On the strength of the evidence uncovered Britain deported hundreds of Russians & broke off diplomatic links with Moscow for more than two years This was the first Cold War & it not only set the rules of engagement for Russia & Britain for decades to come but also sent shockwaves through the British establishment bringing down a government & ending careers Drawing on a wealth of recently declassified & previously unseen material Timothy Phillips uncovers a world of suspicion & extremism bureaucracy & betrayal set against the sparkling backdrop of cocktail-era London The Secret Twenties shines fresh light on a glamorous decade & offers a gripping account of the lives of the first Soviet spies the British Secret Services that pursued them & the double agents in their midst ...

A brilliantly original & dazzling novel for younger readers from the author of THE EVERYTHING MACHINE Coffin-stealing boat-burning telling lies
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As gripping as any spy thriller Hastings's achievement is especially impressive for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times Authoritative exciting & notably well written' Daily Telegraph A serious work of rigourous & comprehensive history royally entertaining & readable' Mail on Sunday In The Secret War' Max Hastings presents a worldwide cast of characters & extraordinary sagas of intelligence & Resistance to create a new perspective on the greatest conflict in history The book links tales of high courage ashore at sea & in the air to the work of the brilliant boffins' battling the enemy's technology Here are not only the unheralded codebreaking geniuses of Bletchley Park but also their German counterparts who achieved their own triumphs & the fabulous espionage networks created & so often spurned by the Soviet Union With its stories of high policy & human drama the book has been acclaimed as the best history of the secret war ever written SPECIFICATIONS testing NULL ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play During the six long years of World War 2 behind the fighting forces there was another war a secret war fought by scientists & engineers Produced by the BBC in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum ' The Secret War' lifts the veil of secrecy on the crucial role science & intelligence played behind the lines in winning World War 2 Presented by William Woollard (Top Gear Tomorrow's World) & largely based on the book ' Most Secret War' by Reginald Victor Jones (key consultant & interviewee of the series) it first aired in 1977 to critical acclaim This insightful & revealing documentary series covers the rivalry of the British & the Germans as they struggled to create a winning edge with innovations from radio navigation to naval mines & missiles Each technology is investigated in thorough scientific detail Yet throughout it is the triumph of the human spirit that sets this series apart The focus is on the science but the heroism of the everyday individual fighting against the odds through those terrible times shines through Actors William Woollard Format Import PALLanguage English Subtitles English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 2 ...