Mahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba a schoolteacher is greater than any love she's ever known But their happy middle-class world-a life of education work & comfort-implodes when their country is engulfed in war & the Taliban rises to power Mahmoud a civil engineer becomes a target of the new fundamentalist regime & is murdered Forced to flee Kabul with her three children Fereiba has one hope to survive she must find a way to cross Europe & reach her sister's family in England With forged papers & help from kind strangers they meet along the way Fereiba make a dangerous crossing into Iran under cover of darkness Exhausted & brokenhearted but undefeated Fereiba manages to smuggle them as far as Greece But in a busy market square their fate takes a frightening turn when her teenage son Saleem becomes separated from the rest of the family Faced with an impossible choice Fereiba pushes on with her daughter & baby while Saleem falls into the shadowy underground network of undocumented Afghans who haunt the streets of Europe's capitals Across the continent Fereiba & Saleem struggle to reunite & ultimately find a place where they can begin to reconstruct their lives ...

London 1910 Twins Lester & Lillia Holdsworth are destined for the stage Lester is a brilliant pianist; Lillia a magnificent opera singer But their cruel father has other ideas for their future Lester is sent to a military academy while Lillia must marry Lord Dalton
- a self righteous pompous friend of her father's looking for a young wife to give him an heir Yet their plans to defy their father's wishes are put on hold when war breaks out in 1914 Suddenly Lester is flying planes for the RFC & Lillia trains as a nurse to help those wounded at home & then abroad For both twins the fighting brings hardships & difficult choices They wait in hope like the rest of Europe for the war to end & the music to start again
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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERTwo young girls Two unspeakable crimes Fifty years separate them
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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERThe twenty third instalment of the NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING DCI Banks Series The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market Try one & tell me I'm wrong
- Stephen King Two young girls Two unspeakable crimes Fifty years separate them
- their pain connects them When the body of a 15-year-old is found in a remote countryside lane beaten & broken DI Annie Cabbot is brought in to investigate how the child could possibly have fallen victim to such brutality Newly promoted Detective Superintendent Alan Banks is faced with a case that is as cold as they come Now in her 60s Linda Palmer was attacked aged 14 by celebrity entertainer Danny Caxton yet the crime has never been investigated
- until now As each steps closer to uncovering the truth they'll unearth secrets much darker than they ever could have guessed


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A sweeping saga of the centuries to come from the new dark age that followed a global war to the new civilization that arose from the ashes to colonize the stars At first the colonists use ships with gigantic sails cruising on the waves of starlight their captains having to become something part human & part machine; then later moving by planoforming ships which travel faster than light but must defend themselves against the malevolent mind-devouring creatures lurking in the dark between the stars Then came the reign of the all-powerful Lords of the Instrumentality who ruled Earth & its colony worlds with ruthless benevolence suffocating the human spirit for millennia—until the time of the Rediscovery of Man when the strange lost concept of freedom was reborn An extraordinary vision of a future unique in science fiction praised by readers critics & major writers in the field About the Author Cordwainer Smith was the pseudonym under which Dr Paul Linebarger wrote science fiction His first story “ Scanners Live in Vain” appeared in 1950 & rocked the science fiction world as few first stories have He was born in Milwaukee & grew up in Japan China (where he became the godson of Sun Yat-Sen then president of China) France & Germany He was a Professor of Asiatic Studies at Johns Hopkins University was on the US Operations Planning & Intelligence Board during World War II & became a Colonel in Army Intelligence After the war he was advisor to the British forces in Malaya & to the US Eighth Army in Korea & wrote the book Psychological Warfare regarded for decades after as the most authoritative text in the field He died in 1966 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Fictionalized account of the events which lead to the 1996 murder of journalist Veronica Guerin Sinead Hamilton (Joan Allen) is a reporter employed by the Irish Sunday Globe In the course of her work she becomes interested in the possibility of exposing the corruption which allows Dublin&s drug lords to lead the lives of respectable businessmen & of working towards a reform of Ireland&s notoriously ineffective criminal laws But her investigations earn her some enemies in high places & Sinead soon receives threats to her own well-being ...

A magically informative book illuminating the mysteries of our night-time world from the history of human sleep to the secrets of outer space 64 pages Edwards Nicola ...

When the Republic of Cinnabar doesn't have enough battleships to deal with all the crises in its war with the Alliance it sends the next best thing Commander Daniel Leary & his friend the spy Adele Mundy This time they're off to help the Bagarian cluster in its rebellion against the Alliance but they'll quickly find that the worst threats to the rebels are the treacherous politicians Leary & Mundy use electronic espionage sub-machine guns & shipkilling missiles to outwit political rivals put down mutiny & capture an Alliance fortress When all else fails they'll strike for the heart of the Alliance--and then throw their tiny corvette into a major fleet action ...

When the Republic of Cinnabar doesn&t have enough battleships to deal with all the crises in its war with the Alliance it sends the next best thing Commander Daniel Leary & his friend the spy Adele Mundy This time they&re off to help the Bagarian cluster in its rebellion against the Alliance but they&ll quickly find that the worst threats to the rebels are the treacherous politicians Leary & Mundy use electronic espionage sub-machine guns & shipkilling missiles to outwit political rivals put down mutiny & capture an Alliance fortress When all else fails they&ll strike for the heart of the Alliance—and then throw their tiny corvette into a major fleet action A cascade of non-stop action as vivid as only David Drake can write it! About the Author David Drake was attending Duke University Law School when he was drafted He served the next two years in the Army spending 1970 as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th armored Cavalry in Viet Nam & Cambodia Upon return he completed his law degree at Duke & was for eight years Assistant Town Attorney for Chapel Hill North Carolina He has been a full-time freelance writer since 1981 Besides the bestselling Hammer’s Slammers series his books for Baen include Ranks of Bronze All the Way to the Gallows Redliners & many more His “ Lord of the Isles” fantasy novels for Tor are genre best sellers Some Golden Harbor is the sixth novel in the popular RCN series The previous titles are With the Lightnings; Lt Leary Commanding; The Far Side of the Stars; The Way to Glory & Some Golden Harbor The next in the series In the Stormy Red Sky is coming in May 2009 ...

Raymond Briggs' now famous bestselling comic cartoon book depicts the effects of a neuclear attack on an elderly couple in his usual humorous yet macabre way ...