When Ludlow Fitch's parents cruelly betray him he steals away on the back of a carriage & leaves behind the stinking City. He arrives in the dead of night at a remote village where he crosses paths with the tall & limping figure of Joe Zabbidou
- a pawnbroker with a difference. For Joe trades secrets not goods for cash. Ludlow is employed to record the villagers' fiendish confessions in The Black Book of Secrets. Bodysnatching; thievery; murder. The people of Pagus Parvus have much to hide. But is Ludlow Fitch ready to release his own skeletons? & will he ever learn to trust his mysterious master?
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May 1992 & after four LAPD officers were acquitted after the savage beating of Rodney King Los Angeles is ablaze. As looting & burning take over the city law & order are swept away in a tidal wave of violence. But under threat of their lives homicide detectives like Harry Bosch are still stubbornly trying to do their job. With no effective police presence on the streets murder just got a whole lot easier
- & investigating them got a whole lot harder. Escorted by national guard soldiers from murder scene to murder scene Harry & his colleagues are only able to do the bare minimum in terms of collecting evidence. & for Harry that's not enough. When he finds the body of a female journalist executed in an alley he cannot accept that he will never be able to bring her killer to justice & her tragedy starts to eat into his soul. But then twenty years later Harry finds himself working in the Open Unsolved Unit & suddenly the past comes back to haunt him once again in a way he could never have imagined.
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May 1992 & after four LAPD officers were acquitted after the savage beating of Rodney King Los Angeles is ablaze. As looting & burning take over the city law & order are swept away in a tidal wave of violence. But under threat of their lives homicide detectives like Harry Bosch are still stubbornly trying to do their job. With no effective police presence on the streets murder just got a whole lot easier
- & investigating them got a whole lot harder. Escorted by national guard soldiers from murder scene to murder scene Harry & his colleagues are only able to do the bare minimum in terms of collecting evidence. & for Harry that's not enough. When he finds the body of a female journalist executed in an alley he cannot accept that he will never be able to bring her killer to justice & her tragedy starts to eat into his soul. But then twenty years later Harry finds himself working in the Open Unsolved Unit & suddenly the past comes back to haunt him once again in a way he could never have imagined.
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May 1992 & after four LAPD officers were acquitted after the savage beating of Rodney King Los Angeles is ablaze. As looting & burning take over the city law & order are swept away in a tidal wave of violence. But under threat of their lives homicide detectives like Harry Bosch are still stubbornly trying to do their job. With no effective police presence on the streets murder just got a whole lot easier
- & investigating them got a whole lot harder. Escorted by national guard soldiers from murder scene to murder scene Harry & his colleagues are only able to do the bare minimum in terms of collecting evidence. & for Harry that's not enough. When he finds the body of a female journalist executed in an alley he cannot accept that he will never be able to bring her killer to justice & her tragedy starts to eat into his soul. But then twenty years later Harry finds himself working in the Open Unsolved Unit & suddenly the past comes back to haunt him once again in a way he could never have imagined. Read by Michael Mc Connohie. Michael Mc Connohie has had a long career as both an on-camera & voiceover actor. He was two of the original Transformers as well as a GI Joe in the cartoon series which are still airing today & has lent his voice to countless TV shows & motion pictures. He has also been a major part of many of the most popular video games voicing the Lich King & other characters for World of War Craft " the Voice of the Agency for Crackdown & Crackdown 2. For almost ten years he traveled the world supervising foreign-language versions of major motion pictures for Warner Bros. & Dream Works. He has been an audiobook presence for decades. From true crime to fiction to self-help he's read just about every kind of audiobook there is. He's an Audio File Earphones award winner for Stuart M. Kaminsky's " Always Say Goodbye " & was part of the Grammy-nominated " Lincoln-Douglas Debates" with David Straithairn & Richard Dreyfuss. Michael makes his home in Southern California."
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May 1992 & after four LAPD officers were acquitted after the savage beating of Rodney King Los Angeles is ablaze. As looting & burning take over the city law & order are swept away in a tidal wave of violence. But under threat of their lives homicide detectives like Harry Bosch are still stubbornly trying to do their job. With no effective police presence on the streets murder just got a whole lot easier
- & investigating them got a whole lot harder. When Harry finds the body of a female journalist in an alley he is forced to hand over the case to the Riot Crimes Task Force knowing that it will never be solved. Twenty years later new evidence confirms her death was not a case of random violence but something much more personal. This time Harry is determined that the killer isn't going to escape
- even if it means stepping back into the darkest days of the city he loves...

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People of African & Caribbean descent have inhabited Great Britain for centuries. Eminent professor Paul Gilroy renowned for his work exploring the social & cultural

Dimensions of British blackness & black Britishness has assembled a living visual history of their social life in the modern British Isles. Watershed moments include the rise & commercial circulation of black culture & music the world wars the Manchester Pan African Congress the historic settlement of the Windrush generation & the riots of the 1980s. Luminaries drawn from politics art & sport appear alongside many pioneers
- the first Jamaican immigrant to Brixton London's first ' Caribbean Carnival' the first black publican & the first female plumber. Just as important are the everyday experiences & anonymous faces. The ordinary lives of people captured here vividly document the country's difficult & unfinished process of becoming postcolonial. Published in association with Getty Images this volume faeture 321 b&w photographs commentary by Paul Gilroy & a preface from Professor Stuart Hall.


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The 11th Armoured Division famous for its Black Bull insignia was widely recognized as being among the best armoured divisions in north-west Europe during the Second World War. This book tells the story of the Division in the words of the soldiers who fought with it: of its part in the three ferocious battles in Normandy
- Operations EPSOM GOODWOOD & BLUECOAT the great Swan to Amiens the taking of Antwerp; right flanking for MARKET GARDEN back-up in the Ardennes & the final slog into Germany across well-defended river barriers to the liberation of Belsen Lubeck & the Danish frontier. The Division suffered 10 000 casualties with almost 2 000 lost in action & so this is also a story of courage & the hardships of a winter campaign of being wounded comradeship & fighting fear. Contributions are included from twelve of the regiments who proudly wore the sign of the Black Bull. Memories from troop commanders & riflemen bombardiers & signalmen tank crews troop leaders & from the dashing GOC are brought together to reveal what life was like at the sharp end. The Black Bull is liberally illustrated with contemporary photographs showing the Division in action. It will appeal not only to those who still have memories of the battles & to those who fought in the Second World War but also to readers interested in the day-to-day actions & thoughts of soldiers in the front line for almost a year.
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When a terrible fire claims his parents Ciel Phantomhive must step up as the head of his father's company & as Earl Phantomhive. It would be a lot for the young boy to handle were it not for his faithful butler Sebastian. Ever at Ciel's side it seems there's little Sebastian can't do whether it's saving a dinner party gone awry or probing the dark secrets of London's underbelly. He's almost too good to be true...or at least too good to be human... ...

Just a stone's throw from London lies the manor house of the illustrious Phantomhive earldom its master one Ciel Phantomhive. Earl Phantomhive is a giant in the world of commerce Queen Victoria's faithful servant...and a slip of a twelve-year old boy. Fortunately his loyal butler Sebastian is ever at his side ready to carry out the young master's wishes. & whether Sebastian is called to save a dinner party gone awry or probe the dark secrets of London's underbelly there is practically nothing Sebastian cannot do. In fact one might even say Sebastian is too good to be true...or at least he is too good to be human... ...

Grelle's chainsaw-like scythe cuts through anything quickly overpowering Sebastian as Madame Red attacks Ciel. Grelle kills her when she refuses to kill Ciel. Memories of her sister & her sister's husband the Earl of Phantomhive are played out an effect of the scythe. Sebastian attacks Grelle & tangles Grelle's chainsaw with his coat. Sebastian tries to kill Grelle with the scythe but the shinigami William Spears stops him. William apologizes for Grelle's actions & takes Grelle away for punishment. After Madame Red's funeral Ciel is warned against sinking into darkness. Ciel's aunt & fiancee visit the estate. Ciel & the Marchioness engage in a hunting competition but when the group is attacked by a bear Ciel protects Elizabeth & Sebastian kills the bear although it appears to be the Marchioness' handiwork. The Middlefords & the servants wish Ciel happy birthday the true purpose of the visit ...