The marriage of Marcia & Curt Ratheter seemed idyllically happy. As much in love as on their wedding day nothing could mar their joy. But one fateful day in 1931 brought Marcias world tumbling about her ears & left her & her two daughters bereft. Barty Bendall had always loved her he said; & the girls needed a father. Marcia moved to Blackburn with him where she tried to forget the past. Barty though sank into bad ways tyrannizing the family. In particular he would vent his aggression on Polly Curt & Marcias first-born blonde as an angel but afflicted since birth with an ominous shadow over her health. Even in troubled times lovely raven-haired Marcia was a fighter. But the news that Curt Ratheter had reappeared would render her the helpless prey of wildly conflicting emotions. ...

The sole survivor of a brutal crime Reece Gilmore has been on the run desperately fighting the nightmares & panic attacks that haunt her. She doesn't intend to stay in the sleepy town of Angel's Fist one second longer than she needs to despite its friendly
- if curious
- inhabitants & the irresistible attraction of local writer Brody. However on a hike into the mountains she witnesses a couple having a vicious argument that culminates in murder. By the time Reece finds Brody & brings him to the scene both killer & victim are gone. Faced with a lack of evidence the authorities in Angel's Fist find it hard to believe Reece's story. After all she's a newcomer in town & yet has already gained a reputation for being jumpy
- maybe even a little fragile. But when a series of menacing occurrences makes it clear that someone wants her out of the way Reece must put her trust in Brody
- the one person who does believe her
- to find the murderer before it's too late




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Harry Bosch finds himself yet again in charge of a case that no one else will touch. This time his job is to nail the killer of hot shot black lawyer Howard Elias. Elias has been found murdered on the eve of going to court on behalf of Michael Harris a man the LAPD believes guilty of the rape & murder of a twelve-year-old girl. Elias had let it be known that the aim of his civil case was not only to reveal the real killer but to target & bring down the racist cops who beat up his client during a violent interrogation. Now it's all down to Bosch
- & he's got to take a long hard look at some of his colleagues in a police department that is rife with suspicion & hatred.
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Part One of Angels in America" subtitled " Millennium Approaches" erupted on to the stage of the National Theatre in January 1992. Part Two " Perestroika" followed in November 1993. Since then " Angels in America" has become one of the most studied American plays with over 30 000 copies of both parts sold in the UK alone. It has also been filmed for television by Mike Nichols with Al Pacino Meryl Streep
- & Emma Thompson as the eponymous Angel. Now 15 years after that first production & with Tony Kushners latest play " Caroline or Change" still running
- & winning prizes
- at the National both parts of " Angels in America" are available in a single volume. Parts One & Two will also stay in print in separate volumes."


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Angels In My Hair" is the autobiography of a modern day mystic an Irish woman with powers of the saints of old. When she was a child people thought Lorna was 'retarded' because she did not seem to be focusing on the world around her. Instead Lorna was seeing angels & spirits. As Lorna tells the story of her life the reader meets as she did the creatures from the spirit worlds who also inhabit our own
- mostly angels of an astonishing beauty & variety
- including the prophet Elijah & an Archangel but also the spirits of people who have died. This remarkable document is the testimony of a woman who sees things beyond the range of our everyday experience."

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The Hell's Angels leader Sonny Barger is toasted as an American legend & the bikers work hard to promote their folk-hero image. But the facts tell another story. The Hell's Angels are America's major crime export. Their membership has spread to 25 countries including the UK Australia & Holland where they have inspired a violent subculture of biker gangs who traffick drugs & suppress any attempt to stop them. ANGELS OF DEATH opens at the darkest moment of the Hell's Angels story with the beheading of a woman at a chapter meeting. It tells the true story of the bikers their crime empire & the attempt of the police to stop them
- with only a few successes. With eyewitness accounts from police officers who have infiltrated the gangs & gang members who have turned informers & undercover interviews with the bikers themselves this is a chilling insight into the world's fastest growing crime empire. N.B. Also

Includes:: exclusive material from the leaders of the Hells Angels
- Sonny Barger & George Christie
- who have agreed to be interviewed for the book.




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Growing up in the suburbs of Dublin Aidan Storey was the youngest of seven a much-loved happy child who enjoyed family life & all the usual rough-&-tumble games he played with friends in his garden. The only difference was when the friends left & the garden was quiet Aidan was visited by Angels. Unafraid of the beautiful luminous spirits who watched over him it wasnt until much later that Aidan realized not everyone could see what he could see
- & not everyone shared what was to prove to be an exceptional gift for healing. In this extraordinary autobiography Aidan vividly recalls how the presence of angels sustained him through years of great turmoil
- years when his happy carefree world turned into one of misery & torment. As he recalls the sexual & mental abuse he suffered at the hands of two teachers in his Christian Brothers primary school & the desperate dark days of depression & isolation which followed he tells of how the Angels helped him to claw his way back to life & through the power of angelic healing taught him how to bring light & love into his life & the lives of many others. Profoundly moving
- & with a range of questions about issues such as death relationships the state of the planet & many more all answered by the Angels
- this is an inspiring story of hope & forgiveness & a testament to the healing power of Angels that will stay with you for ever.



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This is the story of the wartime experiences of a group of women who ran a field hospital near the trenches during World War I often under conditions of great hardship. The text draws on the women's diaries & letters home. The Scottish Women's Hospitals unit offered their services to France & opened a hospital in the ancient Abbey of Royaumont near Paris. The hospital operated from 1915 to 1919 & became famous for its nursing care cleanliness & efficiency recognised by the French authorities as a key wartime hospital. ...

' They came at a run side by side seeming to wade through the thick swamp of mortar smoke & dust & they appeared monstrous & inhuman in the stark light of the star shells. One of them was a huge Matabele. He had lost his helmet & his head was round & black as a cannon ball his open mouth was a pink cave lined with ivory teeth & his bull bellow rose above even that storm of gunfire. The other was a white man the top of his battledress torn half off his body exposing the pale flesh of his chest & shoulders but his face was daubed with fiendish streaks of dark green & brown paint.' At the dawn of a new century the pioneers of Rhodesia have staked their claims & stocked their farms in the land they have carved as their own. But in the hills the Matabele indunas are preparing for the bloody rebellion which will scar the opponents for ever
- & etch for them the same tragic legacy for generations to come...
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Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux knows shes the best
- but she doesnt know if shes good enough for this job. Hired by the dangerously
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