Three women have been savagely murdered by Jack the Ripper. To calm the public outcry, Scotland Yard approaches London's most eminent detective, Sherlock Holmes, & asks him to investigate the killer. Can Holmes solve the mystery of Jack the Ripper? And ...

' The whites want war & we will give it to them'
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Details: The eighth instalment in the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in the universe
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If you've ever flown paper aiplanes, then you know where they all eventually land
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Books Autobiographies Eddy de Wind, a Dutch doctor & psychiatrist, was shipped to Auschwitz with his wife Friedel, whom he had met & married at the Westerbork labour camp in the Netherlands. At Auschwitz, they made it through the brutal selection process & were put to work. Each day, each hour became a battle for survival. For Eddy, this meant negotiating with the volatile guards in the medical barracks. For Friedel, it meant avoiding the Nazis’ barbaric medical experiments. As the end of the war approached & the Russian Army drew closer, the last Nazis fled, taking many prisoners with them, including Friedel. Eddy hid under a pile of old clothes & stayed behind. Finding a notebook & pencil, he began to write with furious energy about his experiences. Last Stop Auschwitz is an extraordinary account of life as a prisoner, a near real-time record of the daily struggle to survive but also of the flickering moments of joy Eddy & Friedel found in each other
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Last Stop Tokyo is tense, engaging & insightful.' earlgreyandcupcakes.wordpress ` The story progresses to a thrilling & unexpected finale. Full of descriptive, fast-paced scenes & an interesting take on life in Japan made this such an entertaining read for me. ...

One mild summer evening in rural New Zealand the lives of Carla Reid, a middle-aged farmer's wife, & Ben Toroa, an illiterate teen, brutally collide. Neither will be the same again, their futures forever linked. Many years after their first encounter, Carla & Ben's lives once more intersect, again with astonishing consequences. ...

From the bestselling Irish novelist, here comes a sweeping tale of consequences that spans from the 1930s to the 1990s. " Last Train from Liguria" takes us on a journey from claustrophobic Dublin & the tense formality of London, to the heat & bustle of the pre-war Italian Riviera. This is a must-read for fans of books by Rose Tremain & Helen Dunmore. In 1933, Bella Stuart leaves her quiet London life to move to Italy to tutor the child of a beautiful Jewish heiress & an elderly Italian aristocrat. Living at the familys summer home, Bellas reserve softens as she comes to love her young charge, & find friendship with Maestro Edward, his enigmatic music teacher. But as the decade draws to an end & fascism tightens its grip on Europe, the fact that Alec is Jewish places his life in grave danger. Bella & Edward take the boy on a terrifying train journey out of Italy
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With a glorious colour picture on each page, Last Train to Haulage Heaven illustrates the changes & inevitable decline of diesel locomotive-worked passenger trains on Britain's rail network from the start of the 1970s when they were at their peak to the present day when they operate on just seven routes. ...

LAST TRAIN TO MEMPHIS is arguably the first serious biography that refuses to dwell on the myth of Elvis. Aiming instead to portray in vivid, dramatic terms the life & career of this outstanding artistic & cultural phenomenon, it draws together a plethora of documentary & interview material to create a superbly coherent & plausible narrative. The first of two volumes, covering Presley's rise to prominence up to his departure for Germany in 1958, LAST TRAIN to MEMPHIS will undoubtedly become the benchmark by which other biographies of him are judged. This book has 301 pages & is 19.6 x 13 x 2.2 cms ...