Winter 1916. In St Petersburg snow is falling in a country on the brink of revolution. Beautiful & headstrong Sashenka Zeitlin is just sixteen. As her mother parties with Rasputin & her dissolute friends Sashenka slips into the frozen night to play her role in a dangerous game of conspiracy & seduction. Twenty years on Sashenka has a powerful husband & two children. Around her people are disappearing but her own family is safe. But shes about to embark on a forbidden love affair which will have devastating consequences. Sashenkas story lies hidden for half a century until a young historian goes deep into Stalins private archives & uncovers a heart-breaking story of passion & betrayal savage cruelty & unexpected heroism
- & one woman forced to make an unbearable choice.. .
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SASSY The Go-For-It Girl Guide to becoming Mistress Of Your Destiny Do you have any idea what it is like to be that girl? The girl who is totally badass speaks her truth makes money follows her heart & has crazy-mad adventures? The girl who people stop in the street & ask hey g-friend what is your secret? When you are that girl there is no secret. You are SASSY. SASSY from the creatrix of www.sassyology.com is a rather deliciously delightful cocktail of womanly arts make-life-betterness & magickal chutzpah that will switch your I am awesome levels to maxim-o. You will find ways to seek passion & pleasure to dig on your sweet self & to know your fabulosity. You will be inspired beyond measure by interviews & insights from divine Daring Dames like Pleasure Provocateur Sam Roddick & Queen of Burlesque Immodesty Blaize & most importantly you will learn how to conjure up & invoke whatever it is you want in life all while dancing to your very own beat & wearing completely inappropriate footwear. ...

Gripping & tense story of secret agents even more secret government facilities & a deadly virus from the acclaimed master of action & suspense. HELL IS ABOUT TO BE UNLEASHED... Five strands of high-voltage wire 200 yards of bare ground & double barbed wire fences patrolled by armed guards with dogs separated Mordon Research Centre from the outside world. Yet behind the locked doors of E block a scientist lies dead & a new toxin of terrifying power has vanished... ...

Lorne Campbell was an officer & enforcer for the outlaw biker club Satan's Choice for over thirty years before patching over to the Hells Angels. The product of a violent childhood with a hair-trigger temper & fearless nature he just wanted a place to belong. He found brotherhood with his fellow one per centers & a code he has lived his life by. In his time he's seen club life slip further into the criminal underworld & be transformed by cocaine dealing. He killed a rival biker to save his brothers & has been imprisoned for assault & drug trafficking. He's faced off police out to get him taken revenge on men who betrayed him & gone to extreme lengths to protect his honour & his club. Written with dark humour & raw honesty & filled with unforgettable characters living life on their own terms Satan's Choice is a unique insight into an outlaw world seen through the eyes of one proud & unrepentant biker. ...

Called The Black Pope" by many of his followers Anton La Vey began the road to High Priesthood of the Church of Satan when he was only 16 years old & an organ player in a carnival: " On Saturday night I would see men lusting after halfnaked girls dancing at the carnival & on Sunday morning when I was playing the organ for tent-show evangelists at the other end of the carnival lot I would see these same men sitting in the pews with their wives & children asking God to forgive them & purge them of carnal desires. & the next Saturday night they'd be back at The carnival or some other place of indulgence."I knew then that the Christian Church thrives on hypocrisy & that man's carnal nature will out!" From that time early in his life his path was clear. Finally on the last night of April 1966--Walpurgisnacht the most important festival of the believers in witchcraft--La Vey shaved his head in the tradition of Ancient executioners & announced the formation of The Church Of Satan. He had seen the need for a church that would recapture man's body & his carnal desires as objects of celebration. " Since worship of fleshly things produces pleasure " he said "there would then be a temple of glorious indulgence... "" ...

Praise for the first edition: It is a wonderful source of information & has the merit of going straight to the subject being technically precise although very easy to underst&. There are numerous pictures photographs diagrams which make the reading a real pleasure." --European Broadcasting Union Technical Review " The complexity of a satellite newsgathering system could be a four-month long college course with a high tuition rate & an enrolment number so large you have to watch your professor on a TV screen. Jonathan Higgins might have saved the independent learner a few attendance point deductions by fitting it into one book." --Satellite Broadband magazine An ideal introduction for anyone working or interested in satellite newsgathering (SNG). The new edition of this popular book builds upon the success of the first--an important & valuable work that is extermely easy to read comprehensive in its treatment & detailed where necessary. SNG used to be an immensely complex & expensive affair where broadcasting organizations were at the mercy of an expert who sat in a lonely corner until needed. Things have changed--everyone in a global news organization needs to know about it now. This is not only because of the high costs of mistakes but because now even non-technical journalists on the ground have to operate their own equipment. Learn the skills basics of equipment cutting edge technology & critical safety issues of satellite newsgathering." ...

A gripping thriller that follows assassin Nicholai Hel across Asia as he fights to regain his freedom. Sugamo Prison Japan October 1951. Nicholai Hel has spent the last three years in solitary confinement for the murder of his mentor. A formidable assassin as well as a master of hoda korosu or naked kill he has developed a supreme awareness of the presence of danger. Suddenly offered the chance of freedom he feels it now as never before... Overseen by Haverford his American spymaster he must go to Beijing & kill the Soviet Unions commissioner to China. In a landscape primed for war this is a suicide mission he has no choice but to accept. Can Hel succeed in winning his freedom & if so at what cost? & can he ever achieve his ultimate goal of satori
- the possibility of true understanding & harmony with the world?
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All primary schools are required to administer SATs (National Tests) in English & maths at the end of KS1 & KS2. The use of optional tests in the other years is also becoming increasingly popular especially with the continuing pressure on schools to perform well in the Primary School league tables. This photocopiable book provides three complete tests with accompanying guidance & answers. The tests are set out to mimic the real thing & so are ideal for the practice & consolidation in the run up to the tests which take place in May each year. ...

Saturday February 15 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man
- a successful neurosurgeon the devoted husband of Rosalind & proud
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Saturday at M.I.9 is the inside story of the underground escape lines in occupied North-West Europe which brought back to Britain over 4 000 Allied servicemen during World War Two. Airey Neave who in the last two years of the war was the chief organiser at M.I.9 gives his own unique account. He describes how the escape lines began in the first dark days of German occupation & how until the end of the war thousands of ordinary men & women made their own contribution to the Allied victory by hiding & feeding men & guiding them to safety. There isnt a page in the book which isnt exciting in incident ...