The mountain paths are as treacherous as they are steep
- the more so in the dark & in winter. Even for the fit the journey is
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The Illustrated Police News is often dismissed as a crude publication which aimed to thrill the undiscerning reader with gruesome pictures. Cruel Deeds & Calamities sets out to correct that belief by demonstrating the diversity of its subject matter examining its social & political agenda & revealing the power & compassion in its images. The Illustrated Police News was a promoter of social change & a campaigner against the evils of cruelty poverty drink & crime. It anticipated by many years the features of todays journalism in the rapidity with which it provided pictures of current news events its appeal to the emotions & the involvement of its readers in the reporting process. This is the first book exclusively about the Illustrated Police News to reproduce the pictures as high quality images provide a balanced account of its content & cover the full period of its publication. There is substantial new research into how the paper was produced the men who made it a success & the stories behind the pictures. ...

Cruel Enchantment is a stunning collection of unique & breathtakingly beautiful erotic fairy tales. Winged demonesses otherworldly ...

Cruel Harvest lifts the lid on the reality of Afghanistans skyrocketing drug trade & the role played by the US military. Conventional accounts blame the Taliban for the expansion of drug production. However in Cruel Harvest Julien Mercille shows that the US in fact shares responsibility by supporting drug lords refusing to adopt effective drug control policies & failing to crack down on drug money laundered through Western banks. Mercille argues that the best way to address drug problems is by reducing demand in consumer countries not by conducting counternarcotics missions in Afghanistan. ...

Readers can discover all the foul facts about Cruel Kings & Mean Queens including which king died after falling off the toilet why people thought King John was a werewolf & why Queen Anne feet were covered in garlic With a bold look these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. ...

In 1919 Sian Busby's great-grandmother Beth gave birth to triplets. One of the babies died at birth & eleven days later she drowned the surviving twins in a bath of cold water. She was sentenced to an indefinite term of imprisonment at Broadmoor. The murder & the deep sense of shame it generated obviously affected Beth her husband & their surviving children to an extraordinary degree but it also resounded through the lives of her grandchildren & greatgrandchildren. In Sian's case ill-suppressed knowledge of the event manifested itself in recurring nightmares & contributed towards a prolonged bout of post-natal depression. After the birth of her second son she decided to investigate the story once & for all & lay to rest the ghosts which have haunted the family for 80 years... ...

Colby Cavendish has finally been invited to join the popular clique. Even though it meant ditching her old best friend for Amanda the coolest girl in school shell get to spend her senior year as a member of the in-crowd shes always envied. Colby even hooked up with her long-time crush Levi who didnt know she existed until she started hanging out with Amanda. Colby is excited about spending the summer holidays with her new friends but her world soon comes crashing down. Her parents begin a messy divorce & send her away to spend the summer in Greece with her aunt. & just like that Colby finds herself living on a remote island & worrying that her new friends have forgotten about her. But when she falls for a cute Greek native they strike up something deeper & more intense than a summer fling & Colbys forced to see herself in a new way...and the life she left behind. ...

Allyson Jaymes has it all
- celebrity power & a glamorous marriage. Until her world is destroyed by the bitterest betrayal of all:
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It is 1925. The goldrush town of Nome sits two degrees below the Arctic Circle & there are few more forbidding places on earth. When signs of diptheria broke out Dr. Curtis Welch knew it was the biggest crisis of his life. Supplies of the serum were dangerously low & it was winter. There would be an epidemic if the medicine didn't arrive in time. Welch's urgent plea for help made national headlines & all of America watched with bated breath to see if an expedition could reach Nome in time. The dangers were immense for Nome was utterly isolated. The only option was to get the serum to the nearest point by rail & then use a relay of dog sleds to trek through the remaining 700 miles night & day & in blizzards raging at
- 60 degrees. It was to be a desperate race against time
- one that captured the imagination of America & turned the drivers & their heroic dogs into celebrities of the time. THE CRUELLEST MILES is the heart-pounding account of the famous Serum Run. Unbearably thrilling & tense this is a classic story of human (and canine) endurance & heroism.

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It's Easter & on a glorious Spring day in peaceful Three Pines someone waits for night to fall. They plan to raise the dead... When Chief Inspector Gamache of the Surete du Quebec arrives the next morning he faces an unusual crime scene. A seance in an old abandoned house has gone horrifically wrong & someone has been seemingly frightened to death. In indyllic Three Pines terrible secrets lie buried & even Gamache has something to hide. One of his own team is about to betray him. But how far will they go to ensure Gamache's downfall? ...