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... ...

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
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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."" ...

To live well in the world one must be able to enjoy it: to love Freud says & work. Dejection is the state of being in which such enjoyment is no longer possible. There is an aesthetic dimension to dejection in which the world appears in a new light. In this book the dark serenity of dejection is examined through a study of the poetry of Hopkins & Coleridge & the music of depressive black metal artists such as Burzum & Xasthur. The author then develops a theory of militant dysphoria via an analysis of the writings of the Red Army Fractions activist-theoretician Ulrike Meinhof. The book argues that the cold world of dejection is one in which new creative & political possibilities as well as dangers can arise. It is not enough to live well in the world: one must also be able to affirm that another world is possible. ...

In a stunning first novel renowned hip-hop artist writer & activist Sister Souljah brings the streets of New York to life with ...

The spine-tingling thriller about a depraved female serial killer from the Sunday Times & New York Times bestselling author. Jordan Price doesn't look like your typical serial killer... Young & beautiful she exudes innocence & vulnerability. But after her latest husband dies in mysterious circumstances Rick Carson is forced to consider her capable of cold-blooded murder. The deeper he delves into the string of deaths which stalk Jordan the more dangerous the game of cat-&-mouse becomes. The targets are changing & suddenly no one is safe. If Jordan is as innocent as she claims Rick may have placed in a brutal killer's crosshairs. But if she's guilty Rick will pay in blood... ...