The news-breaking book that has sent schockwaves through the White House Ghost Wars is the most accurate & revealing account yet of the CIAs secret involvement in al-Qaeadas evolution. Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll has spent years reporting from the Middle East accessed previously classified government files & interviewed senior US officials & foreign spymasters. Here he gives the full inside story of the CIAs covert funding of an Islamic jihad against Soviet forces in Afghanistan explores how this sowed the seeds of bn Ladens rise traces how he built his global network & brings to life the dramatic battles within the US government over national security. Above all he lays bare American intelligences continual failure to grasp the rising threat of terrrorism in the years leading to 9/11
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Back for an amazing ninth printing this is our bestselling book ever a Catcher in the Rye for its generation & the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film. It tells the story of Enid & Rebecca two above-it-all best friends confronted with the prospect of adulthood & the uncertain future of their friendship. ...

Viola Hatherley was a writer of ghost stories in the 1890s whose work lies forgotten until her great-grandson as a young boy in Mawson Australia learns how to open the secret drawer in his mothers room. There he finds a manuscript & from the moment his mother catches him in the act Gerard Freemans life is irrevocably changed. What is the invisible ever-present threat from which his mother strives so obsessively to protect him? & why should stories written a century ago entwine themselves ever more closely around events in his own life? Gerards quest to unveil the mystery that shrouds his family & his life will lead him from Mawson to London to a long-abandoned house & the terror of a ghost story come alive. ...

Charlotte Usher has always felt invisible at school. But now she has a plan to break into the popular crowd & nothing is going to stop her. Not even death. Its the first day of the rest of Charlottes life. She isnt going to be invisible any more. & shes not going to stop at just getting noticed shes determined that shell be envied! Much to Charlottes surprise her plan actually seems to be working: Petula the most popular girl at school has finally acknowledged her existence & her lab partner for the rest of the term is none other than Damen Dylan school heart-throb & object of Charlottes desire. Its only a matter of time before shes accepted into their elite circle...that is until in her excitement Charlotte chokes to death on a gummy bear. So OK its the first day of the rest of Charlottes death
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Charlotte may have graduated Dead Ed but thats not the end of her story Life for Charlotte was one bitter disappointment after another. & it seems death isnt going to be much different. Convinced that graduating Dead Ed was her route to the afterlife Charlotte is a little surprised to find she has to complete an internship! Answering the phones at a help centre for troubled teens isnt proving brilliantly exciting. Until Scarlet calls: a pedicure-gone-hideously-wrong has landed Petula in a coma & Scarlet thinks Charlotte is the only person who can help... ...

Fetlocks Hall is in trouble! The school is desperately short of funds & unless some money can be found it may have to close! The Headmistress is not sure what to do. Penny is determined to help & draws on her magical powers in a nail-biting bid to solve the problem. Soon Penny & the ghosts as well as many of the schools ponies are involved in an exciting race to the finish! ...

From reports of haunted castles stately halls hotels public houses Roman forts stone circles & even Englands deepest lake to heart-stopping accounts of apparitions poltergeists & related supernatural phenomena Ghostly Cumbria" investigates twenty of the most haunted locations to be found in the area today. Drawing on historical & contemporary sources this selection

Includes:: a phantom friar said to walk the lanes near Grey Friars Lodge Hotel in Clappersgate; the ghost of Mary Queen of Scots at Carlisle Castle; a cavalier at Moresby Hall in Whitehaven; & several ghosts at the Kirkstone Pass Inn at Ambleside including a young boy killed by a coach outside the building a young woman who died whilst travelling along the road during a snow storm & a seventeenth-century coachman who lurks around the bar. Illustrated with sixty photographs together with access details for each location this book will appeal to all those interested in finding out more about Cumbrias haunted heritage."

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Fast hard & knowing: this is an amazing debut full of intrigue tradecraft & suspense. Read it immediately!' Lee Child. I make things disappear. It's what I do. This time I'm tidying up the loose ends after a casino heist gone bad. The loose ends being a million cash. But I only have 48 hours & there's a guy out there who wants my head in a bag. He'll have to find me first. They don't call me the Ghostman for nothing... ...

Murder & ghosts go h&-in-hand & vengeful spectres seeking justice or haunting the scene of the crime or their killers have adorned the pages of literature since before Shakespeare. This chilling collection of true-crime tales dating from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day all feature some element of the paranormal. Gathered from across the UK cases include the discovery of a body by a spiritualist medium a murder solved by a dream of the mother of the victim & evidence at a Scottish murder trial provided by the ghost of the victim herself. Featuring visions psychometry ghosts haunted prisons possessions & spiritualist detectives this book is a fascinating look at criminology & ghost hunting. Paranormal historian Paul Adams has opened the case files of both the criminologist & the ghost hunter to compile a unique collection of crime from British history. No true-crime bookshelf is complete without Ghosts & Gallows. ...

James Van Praagh knew he was different from a young age. Not only could he see ghosts but he could talk to them & interact with them. He realised that whereas some ghosts can be full of malice others actively want to help the living. In this extraordinary book he tells his incredible ghost stories & reveals the lessons he learned from his amazing encounters with the spirit world. He explains what it is really like to see ghosts how to recognise which sort of energies surround a person or place ways to protect ourselves from negative presences & techniques for becoming closer to those spirits who truly want to guide us. Uncovering the truth about the Other Side Ghosts Among Us also shows us how to develop our psychic powers & how we can all transform our fears of the paranormal into a source of inner strength & support. ...