Between 1964 & 1992 Leeds United won 11 fabulous trophies but the team were runners-up just as often. They missed out on many more titles & cups not least club footballs greatest prize the European Cup in 1975. In No Glossing Over It" lifelong Leeds United fan Gary Edwards reveals why the club has dramatically lost out on victory in many of these competitions & how it has been the victim of a pattern of serial abuse by the footballing authorities
- most recently seen in the unprecedented 15-point sanction meted out at the start of the 2007-08 season. Featuring the views of former Leeds players & managers as well as top-flight referees & die-hard fans " No Glossing Over It" examines the injustices that have befallen Leeds United & sheds new light on the shocking events that have long rankled with the clubs supporters."
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Jameson Walker approaches Joe Hunter when his daughter Jay & her friend Nicole go missing at a gas station in the Arizona desert while on a cross-country trek across the North American interior. He mentions that a robbery/homicide at the gas station as worrying as the girls were due to be in the vicinity at that time. Joe accepts the job of locating the girls though not at first convinced theres much to worry about. As Joe picks up the girls trail he discovers that other young women have also disappeared in the area & comes across the brutish Logan family. ...

Jameson Walker approaches Joe Hunter when his daughter Jay & her friend Nicole go missing at a gas station in the Arizona desert while on a cross-country trek across the North American interior. He mentions that a robbery/homicide at the gas station as worrying as the girls were due to be in the vicinity at that time. Joe accepts the job of locating the girls though not at first convinced theres much to worry about. As Joe picks up the girls trail he discovers that other young women have also disappeared in the area & comes across the brutish Logan family. ...

In 1779 driven out of his home Calum Mc Donald set sail from the Scottish highlands with his extensive family. After a long terrible journey Calum settles his family in the land of the trees" until they become a separate Nova Scotian clan with its own identity & history." ...

Raised in the slums of Edwardian Tyneside spirited & out-spoken Maggie Beaton joins the ranks of the suffragettes determined to prove herself to her more wealthy comrades in particular Alice Pearson haughty daughter of the powerful local shipbuilder. But the consequences are devastating & Maggie is soon a fugitive spurned by family & friends. Only militant trade unionist & passionate man George Gordon stands by her & for a blissful time his love is enough. But war is looming & Maggies courage & endurance will be tested to the limit in this heartbreakingly moving novel of one womans fight for personal freedom. It is a new version of The Suffragette novel to mark the centenary of suffragette martyr Emily Wilding Davisons death. ...

Theodore Honey is a shy inconspicuous aircraft engineer whose eccentric interests in quantum mechanics & spiritualism are frowned upon in aviation circles. But when a passenger plane crashes in unexplained circumstances Honey must convince his superiors that his unorthodox theories are correct before more lives are lost. ...

As one of the fastest bowlers the world has seen Michael Holding went by the haunting nickname Whispering Death claiming 249 Test wickets. Despite having not laced his bowling boots since 1989 it remains a fitting sobriquet. As a commentator & administrator Holding has delivered his views on cricket in the same manner that he played the game: he speaks softly with a rich Jamaican rhythm & is calculated in either criticism or compliment. NO HOLDING BACK charts his effortless transition from one of the great players to one of the great pundits. Holding graphically describes his days as a player looking back at how he tried to deliberately hurt batsmen on the wastelands of Kingston & his first match for Jamaica when he almost collapsed from exhaustion
- after only four overs! There is time too to divulge what it was like to tour with the West Indies & unmissable insights about sharing a dressing room with other legends of the game like Clive Lloyd Sir Viv Richards & Malcolm Marshall. Holding does not shirk the big issues as he discusses how the West Indies have slipped following their halcyon days openly assesses Brian Lara & laments the hypocrisy over the state of the game in the region. The controversy surrounding the Allen Stanford $20m spectacle the ICCs handling of the abandoned England v Pakistan match player power illegal bowling actions & the threat of Twenty 20 to the Test game are all subjects which Holding tackles with characteristic knowledge & class.
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On August 8 1944 the Canadian Army launched Operation Totalize a massive armoured & mechanised infantry attack that aimed to break through enemy defences south of Caen & trap the German Army in Normandy by linking up with Pattons Third Army. ...

NO HUMANS INVOLVED stars necromancer Jaime Vegas. She's on a television shoot in Brentwood Los Angeles when weird things start to happen. Invisible hands brush her arms she sees movements out of the corner of her eye unintelligible fragments of words are whispered in her ear. Jaime's used to seeing the dead & hearing them clearly. But now for the first time in her life she knows what humans mean when they say they're being haunted. Jaime is determined to get to the bottom of this but she doesn't realise how low her investigation will take her or what human-based horror she will uncover. As Jamie delves through the dark underside of Los Angeles she'll need as much Otherworld help as she can get to survive unscathed. But Jeremy the alpha-werewolf is there by her side to offer his protection. & maybe more than that.. . ...

Wesley Curnow a young Cornish miner arrives in the United States to seek an uncle who is working on the mines in Missouri. Taking passage on a boat from New York bound for New Orleans he meets up with a charismatic U.S. marshal who is en route to the western territories to bring law to the area. After many exploits Wes parts company with his companions only to find his uncle has moved away. Wes faces German miners meets an old Mountainman who teaches him proficiency with a revolver & then battles overland through inhospitable country. But can he survive the journey? ...