A black dog appears outside the Hope family's home. As each member of the household sees it & hides the dog grows bigger & bigger. Only Small the youngest Hope has the courage to face the Black Dog. When it chases her through the forest she shows no fear so it grows smaller & smaller. Finally back to the size of a normal hound the Black Dog is welcomed into the Hope household as their newest addition. ...

Behind The Black Door anything & everything can happen.. . Ariel Vaughn is a high powered attorney & a partner at her firm dating one of the most eligible bachelors in New York City. She's living the high life but her sex life has hit a low point. Then a hot young escort introduces her to The Black Door club & her best friend encourages her to try it out. There she finds a fantasy playground for women full of every obsession & erotic temptation a girl could dream of. Soon she meets a man who taps into her darkest desires. But it's not long before everything she holds dear becomes threatened by this new found passion.. . ...

LAPD detective Harry Bosch is a loner & a nighthawk. One Sunday he gets a call out on his pager. A body has been found in a drainage tunnel off Mulholland Drive Hollywood. At first sight it looks like a routine drugs overdose case but the one new puncture wound amidst the scars of old tracks leaves Bosch unconvinced. To make matters worse Harry Bosch recognises the victim. Billy Meadows was a fellow 'tunnel rat' in Vietnam running against the VC & the fear they all used to call the Black Echo. Bosch believes he let down Billy Meadows once before so now he is determined to bring the killer to justice. ...

Throughout its chequered history snooker has had more than its fair share of heroes & villains champions & chumps rascals & rip-off artists. In the last 20 years every sleazy scandal imaginable has attached itself to this raffish sport: corruption match fixing bribery sex recreational drugs performance-enhancing drugs ballot rigging fraud theft domestic violence common-or-garden violence paranoid politicking dirty tricks
- all against a background of inept petty tsars fixated on the pursuit retention & abuse of power. In Black Farce & Cue Ball Wizards" Clive Everton recounts the glory & despair the dreams & disillusion & the treachery & greed that have characterised the game since it was invented as an innocent diversion by British Army officers in India in the nineteenth century. He tells the true & unexpurgated tale of snookers transformation into a television success story second only to football & exposes how its potential has been shamefully squandered."
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It is the Black Dawn a time of environmental apocalypse. It is the Bright Day a time generations hence when a peace has descended across the world. In each era a child undertakes a perilous journey to find a dark messiah known as the Crowman. But is he our saviour
- or the final incarnation of evil?
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Maggie ODell is back in an explosive new thriller. Silence. Smoke. Then the Screaming begins. As suicide bombers strike at the heart of America FBI profiler Maggie ODell faces the toughest deadliest case of her career. Sifting through the debris for answers ODell discovers that worse is yet to come with more attacks imminent
- & the consequences unimaginable. In less than twenty-four hours ODell must figure out what the next target is & who exactly she is fighting against. Struggling to put the pieces together in time she realizes just what is at stake
- & that her own brother may be in the firing line.

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Colin & Prill were looking forward to their summer holiday in Ireland but almost from the moment they arrive things start to go horribly wrong. This modern family on holiday awake memories of the Irish famine. Colin & Prill were looking forward to their summer holiday in Ireland but almost from the moment they arrive things start to go horribly wrong. Whilst Colin is plagued by a terrible smell rising from the land as if from the land of the dead Prill is visited by a strange creature creeping into her dreams. Who is she & what does she want? Only cousin Oliver seems untouched by the danger. As the hot summer days continue their terror mounts & their baby sister becomes critically ill. Oliver links the present horror with the terrible famine in Ireland of the 1840s
- & he must bring about a reconciliation to save himself & his cousins. An atmospheric play which gradually builds the tension & will have the audience on the edge of their seats... The book contains a haunting playscript suitable for classwork & school production accompanied by resources including background material & lively activities.
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Already winning acclaim as one of the best accounts of combat ever written Black Hawk Down is a minute-by-minute heart-stopping account of the 1993 raid on Mogadishu Somalia. Late in the afternoon of Sunday October 3 1993 140 elite US Soldiers abseiled from helicopters into a teeming market neighbourhood in the heart of the city. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord & return to base. It was supposed to take them about an hour. Instead they were pinned down through a long & terrible night in a hostile city fighting for their lives against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. Two of their high-tech helicopters were shot out of the sky. When the unit was rescued the following morning eighteen American soldiers were dead & more than seventy badly injured. The Somali toll was far worse
- more than five hundred killed & over a thousand injured. Authoritative gripping & insightful Black Hawk Down is destined to become a classic of war reporting. It is already the most accurate detailed account of modern combat ever written.
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Theres a new ship of vampirates roaming the seas leaving a trail of fear & devastation in its wake. When a high-profile pirate is slain the Pirate Federation takes decisive action & begins training up a ship of dedicated vampire hunters. Amongst the dynamic crew is young pirate prodigy Connor Tempest. Meanwhile Connors twin sister Grace enjoys a bittersweet reunion with their mother Sally who has some important & shocking news for her daughter. As Grace uncovers the truth about her familys past she realises that she & Connor face a daunting & uncertain future. ...

Wait wait! Save us! Whatll we do? Simon is determined to become a painter when he grows up so he sets off to London to make his fortune. But the city is plagued by wolves & mysterious disappearances. The Twite household where Simon is lodging seems particularly shifty. Before he even gets a chance to open his glistening new paints Simon stumbles right into the centre of a plot to kill the King. & worse than that Simon is kidnapped & sent to sea! Luckily there are two friendly stowaways aboard
- the feisty Dido Twite & the spoiled young Justin. But when the ship catches fire things look pretty dire. Can they escape? Will they save the king in time?
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