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... ...

Lieutenant Lorraine Page had everything -- a devoted husband two beautiful daughters & an impressive career with the Homicide Squad. It's impossible to believe that she could be thrown out of the police force & end up on Skid Row. Lorraine's ex-colleagues soon forget her as the hunt for a nightmare serial killer spirals into an all-out search for a missing witness: a victim who escaped. Lorraine Page is that witness. Against her will she is drawn into the investigation & forced to face her past & her overwhelming guilt... ...

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. ...

A body hangs from a wind turbine a bullet hole in his chest: Earl Alden millionaire property developer. His wife Missy is the prime suspect. It wouldnt be a problem for Joe Pickett if Missy werent his mother-in-law. Missy claims shes innocent & for his wifes sake Joe would like to believe her...but all the early signs point to her being as guilty as sin. With his wife on one side & the law on the other Joe needs to get to the truth before his family is ripped apart."" ...