Twenty-one outstanding black men & women illustrated the progress of black achievement from the 14th to the 20th century in widely different fields of endeavor. This book covers Frederick Douglass, Mary Mc Leod Bethune, Daniel Hale Williams & W E B Du Bois. ...

Takes readers around London district by district, stopping at a range of unusual locations including the hatters Lock & Co, patronized by Napoleon & little changed since the early 18th century; & Highgate Cemetery, with chains leading up through gravestones to tiny bells as an insurance policy should someone be buried alive. ...

Looking for a lift through the vast empty landscape. A woman stops, & offers a ride. She is young, rich & beautiful.

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It is fall in Philadelphia & the mutilated body of a man is found in one of the poorest neighbourhoods of the city. The victim has been viciously tortured to death. It's the work of a sadistic mind in free fall. When homicide detectives Kevin Byrne & Jessica Balzano investigate, they soon realise that their crime scene is linked to the past. ...

Details: In 1993 Harry Bosch was assigned the case of a missing person, Marie Gesto. The young woman was never found
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From gigs in tiny church halls in the mid-sixties to multi-million selling albums & spectacular stadium shows all around the world, the Pink Floyd story in a rock legend. This remarkable book is a celebration of Pink Floyd's entire career
- 2007 marks the official 40th anniversary since they started recording. It contains a biographical account of the band's collective & individual careers from their pre-Floyd origins in 1962 right through to the present day. Echoes also combines, for the very first time, a meticulously researched chronological listing of every single Pink Floyd & solo concert, set list, TV & radio appearance plus a UK & US discography. Illustrated throughout with a wealth of rare & previously unpublished photographs as well as rare graphic memorabilia, including posters, advertisements, handbills & tickets from every era of the band's remarkable history, it is, quite simply, the most omprehensive account of Pink Floyd in print.
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In a small seaside Irish town in the late 1950s, two very different children are growing up, shouting their hearts' desires into the echo cave, praying their destiny will lead them far from Castlebay, a place empty & grey in the winter but overbustling with visitors in the gaudy days of summer. One of the children is Clare, shopkeeper Tom O' Brien's younger daughter. A favourite with the local schoolteacher, she wins a scholarship to University College, Dublin & seems set for academic glory. The other is David Power, the doctor's son. He dreams of escape, also via Dublin, as a medic. But the paths of these two children cross again in a quite unexpected way, & eventually both their destinies lead back to Castlebay. ...

Young Jane Towland lived in Linden Mews, in the flat over the garage. She was the housekeeper's daughter, the chauffeur's daughter, & even though she was a bright & sensitive child, she had been taught to know her place when it came to going round to the big house
- the Marchant House
- in Linden Square. But the two families
- on the surface separated by a gulf of birth, wealth & breeding
- were deeply involved & reliant on each other. Old secrets, old emotions, seethed beneath the respectable facade they preserved between them. & then the war came. As the barriers between the Marchants & the Rowland's began to crumble, so Jane -quiet, beautiful, & with a great capacity for love
- began to become more & more the hub of the wealthy Marchant family, the one on whom they all depended, the one who had to unravel & solve the emotional disasters left over from the past.




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The concept of the Echoing Reflection is the idea of constant self examination, & finding the same things time & time again. These poems are what I have found within my personal reflections & examining the people & the world around me. ISBN: 978-0-9559839-0-0 ...

Ecko: Rising is a unique genre-bending fantasy
- sci-fi epic following a savage, gleefully cynical anti-hero. After awakening
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