Im sitting on my couch watching the local news. Theres Chloes parents the mayor the hangers on all grouped round the pond for the ceremony. Its ten years since Chloe & Carl drowned & theyve finally chosen a memorial
- a stupid summerhouse. The mayor has a spade decked out in pink & white ribbon & hes started to dig. You can tell from their faces that something has gone wrong. But Im the one who knows straightaway that the mayor has found a body. & I know who it is. This is the tale of three fourteen-year-old girls & a volatile combination of lies jealousy & perversion that ends in tragedy. Except the tragedy is even darker & more tangled than their tight-knit community has been persuaded to believe. Blackly funny & with a surreal edge to its portrait of a northern English town Jenn Ashworths gripping novel captures the intensity of girls friendships & the dangers they face in a predatory adult world they think they can handle. & it shows just how far that world is willing to let sentiment get in the way of the truth.
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Its the night of the full Cold Moon
- the month of December according to the lunar calendar. A young man is found dead in lower
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A soldier wounded in the Civil War Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield & begins the treacherous journey home to Cold Mountain & to Ada the woman he loved before the war began. As Inman attempts to make his way across the mountains through the devastated landscape of a soon-to-be-defeated South Ada struggles to make a living from the land her once-wealthy father left when he died. Neither knows if the other is still alive. ...

When Jason Robbins arrives at the eerie Heron House in deepest Carmarthenshire for a writing course he soon meets its two weird servants who seem to exercise a sinister power over their scheming employer Monty Flynn. Another newcomer is Helen Jenkins a cook to whom Jason is instantly attracted. Together they discover what dangers really lurk behind those ivy-clad walls; how the terrible post-war past bleeds into the present when the tormented soul of the young woman haunting them will stop at nothing to have her story told. But is the ghosts version of events to be trusted? & at what cost to Jason & Helen when they attempt to find out the truth? ...

Cass is building a new life for herself & her young son Ben after the death of her soldier husband Pete returning to the village where she lived as a child. But their idyllic new home is not what she expected: the other flats are all empty theres strange graffiti on the walls & the villagers are a bit odd. & when an unexpectedly heavy snowstorm maroons the village things get even harder. Ben is changing hes surly & aggressive & Casss only confidant is the smooth charming Theodore Remick the st&-in headmaster. Not everyone approves of Casss growing closeness to Mr Remick & it soon becomes obvious hes not all he appears to be either. If she is to protect her beloved son Cass is going to have to fight back. Cass realises this is not the first time her family have been targeted by Theodore Remick. But this time the stakes are immeasurably higher... ...

WILL WAR SET THEM FREE? Trouble treachery & magic seem to follow Cat Barahal wherever she goes. The Master of the Wild Hunt has stolen away her husb&. The ruler of the Taino kingdom blames her for his mothers murder. An enraged fire mage wants to kill her. & Cat her cousin Bee & her half-brother Rory arent even back in Europa yet where revolution is burning up the streets. Rebellions to plot. Enemies to crush. Handsome men to rescue. Cat & Bee have their work cut out for them. ...

A brilliantly arresting historical work John Lewis Gaddis' The Cold War" takes us as never before to the time when the world stood on the brink of destruction. In 1945 war came to an end. But a whole new terror was only just beginning... Here is the truth behind every spy thriller you've read: why America & the Soviet Union became locked in a deadly stalemate; how close we came to nuclear catastrophe; what was really going on in the minds of leaders from Stalin to Mao Zedong Ronald Reagan to Mikhail Gorbachev how secret agents plotted & East German holidaymakers helped the Berlin Wall fall. It is a story of crisis talks & subterfuge tyrants & power struggles
- & of ordinary people changing the course of history. " Gripping". (Len Deighton). " Superb.. .brimful of racy incident". (" Independent on Sunday"). "A lively & readable history". (" The Times"). " Force 9 on the Richter scale". (" Spectator"). John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University & 'the dean of cold war historians' (" The New York Times"). He is the author of numerous books including " Security" & the " American Experience" the book recently pressed on his cabinet & senior security staff by President Bush."
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Cold War is the story of the half-century since the end of the Second World War
- the story of our lives. Its framework is the
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The historical & cultural aspects of the Cold War have been much studied yet its physical manifestations in England
- its buildings
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This guide exposes the reality behind the war between capitalism & communism two ideologies divided by the Iron Curtain. New revelations show that what was once regarded as simply a struggle between good & evil was in fact a far more complex affair. Merrilyn Thomas peels back the layers of deception & intrigue & offers a penetrating assessment of the legacy of instability that continues today. ...