The Broons & Oor Wullie have appeared in the Sunday Post in Scotland since the 1930s & still have a huge following today with the annual selling over 100 000 copies every year. This is a slip-cased facsimile of the first ever Broons & Oor Wullie annuals. Collecting together the first few years of publication the annual shows the stylistic development of the characters during this formative period of the classic cartoons lives. Now over 70 years since their original publication this brilliant two-in-one annual has saved a small piece of Scottish heritage from obscurity. Appealing to all generations who have read the strips the book offers a great insight to the early days of the Broons & Oor Wullie as well as fulfilling the promise of all annuals: to make you laugh. ...

Nathalie & David have been good & dutiful children to their parents & now grown-up with their own families they are still close to one another as brother & sister. Except that they arent
- brother & sister that is. They were both adopted when their loving parents found that they couldnt have children themselves. & up until now its never mattered. But suddenly Nathalie discovers a deep need to trace her birth parents & is insisting that David makes the same journey. & through this both learn one of the hardest lessons of all that sometimes the answers to who we are & where we come from can be more difficult than the questions...
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The cloistered walls of Shrewsbury Abbey have always protected Brother Cadfael from the raging Civil War. But when fighting escalates between Empress Maud & King Stephen the war takes a deadly step closer to him. Taken prisoner in the battle for Mauds land is Olivier de Bretagne Brother Cadfaels own son- born as a result of a brief encouter thirty years earlier. Now Brother Cadfael resolves to plead for his sons release at a peace conference scheduled to take place in Coventry; but there is no sign of Olivier there. After much soul searching Cadfael makes the difficult decision to break his monastic vows leaving Coventry without permission- because he knows he must do everything in his power to find his son. ...

Nearly 150 years ago Chief Seattle a respected & peaceful leader of one of the Northwest Indian Nations delivered a message to the government in Washington who wanted to buy his people's l&. He believed that all life on earth & the earth itself is sacred. This title offers a plea for an end to man's destruction of nature. ...

A girls body lies posed on the pale sand of a Hamburg beach a message concealed in her h&. I have been underground & now it is time for me to return home... Jan Fabel of the Hamburg murder squad struggles to interpret the twisted imagery of a dark & brutal mind. Four days later a man & a woman are found deep in woodland their throats slashed deep & wide the names Hansel & Gretel in the same tiny obsessively neat writing rolled tight & pressed into their hands. As it becomes clear that each new crime is a grisly reference to folk stories collected almost two hundred years ago by the Brothers Grimm the hunt is on for a serial killer who is exploring our darkest most fundamental fears
- a predator who kills & then disappears into the shadows. He is a monster we all learned to fear in childhood.
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Brother Jimmys is the incredibly successful & popular chain of southern cooking & BBQ cuisine that has been a Manhattan institution for over 20 years. The incredible ribs country fried steak pulled pork sandwiches blackened chicken fried red snapper & of course the delicious sides from macncheese to black eyed peas. Brother Jimmys BBQ is the definitive cookbook from this famed institution including over 100 recipes including starters sides beef pork chicken seafood rubs & sauces & more. ...

When you touch a Lipizzaner Frank Westerman was told as a child you are touching history. In Brother Mendels Perfect Horse" he explores the history of these unique creatures an extraordinary troop of pedigree horses first bred as personal mounts for the Emperor of Austria-Hungary. Following the bloodlines of the studbook he reconstructs the story of four generations of imperial steeds as they survive the fall of the Habsburg Empire two world wars & the insane breeding experiments conducted under Hitler Stalin & Ceausescu. But what begins as a fairytale becomes a chronicle of the quest for racial purity. Carrying the reader across Europe from imperial stables & stud farms to the controversial gene labs of today Westerman asks if animal breeders are so good at genetic engineering why do attempts to perfect the human strain always end in tragedy? Brother Mendels Perfect Horse a unique & engrossing fusion of history & travel writing is a modern fable in which the pure-blood horse ends up revealing mans own shortcomings." ...

With over 400 million copies of his books sold worldwide Dean Koontz is one of the most popular writers of our time. Read this page-turning heart-breaking thriller to find why Odd Thomas is the master storyteller's most-loved creation. He sees what no one else does. He does what no one else can. Odd a charismatic young man with a sense for the otherworldly & the downright strange is in self-imposed exile. Tragic events have led him from his sun-bleached desert home of Pico Mundo to a monastery in the High Sierra searching for peace. It's December & the remote abbey is besieged by icy winds & snow. But even in the silence of the mountains danger & desperation haunt him still... As ever where Odd Thomas goes strangeness goes too. A white dog named Boo befriends him
- as does the ghost of Elvis. & a world-famous physicist is conducting experiments in the catacombs of the abbey. Could this be why Odd can once again see bodachs shadowy harbingers of violence? They prowl the halls suggesting horror to come. But what form will it take? & how will Odd defeat an enemy that eclipses any he has met before?
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The story of Dave Pelzer is a legend of our times: the shattering tale of the child called ' It' who was forced to live in the basement. His mother was the perpetrator of the horror but she had a willing accomplice. It was Dave's brother Richard
- the author of this book. When Dave was twelve the police removed him from the household but the cycle of abuse continued. Mrs Pelzer had a new target for her crazed alcoholic wrath. The hunter became the hunted -- at the age of nine. This is his story. Recounting the warped dynamics of a family riven by abuse he reveals his guilt at being the abuser his scarring at being abused the complete lack of questioning within the family about what was happening -- & even the twisted respect the boys had for their mother. Richard became the target of his mother's artillery of insanity the victim of savage beatings leading to hospitalization the boy denied clean clothes the one who 'deserved' whole bottles of hot Tabasco sauce poured down his throat.. .
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Hal & his brotherband crew are hot on the trail of the pirate Zavac & they have one thing only on their minds: Stopping the bloodthirsty thief before he can do more damage. The chase leads down mighty rivers terrifying rapids to the lawless fortress of Ragusa. If Hal is to succeed he will need to go beyond his brotherband training. He will need to challenge the pirate one-on-one knowing only one of them will survive. The epic series from Ranger's Apprentice" author John Flanagan continues delivering pulse-pounding adventure & fun." ...