Irish Sunday Times Bestseller A true story of war peace & friendship: a Nazi colonel & an Irish priest The story begins in Rome at the outbreak of WWII when ardent Nazi Herbert Kappler SS Obersturmbanfuhrer & Monsignor Hugh OFlaherty would become adversaries in a real-life game of cat & mouse of epic proportions. Hide & Seek chronicles the intimate & intensely personal war between them. A fiercely fought rivalry that would culminate in failed attempts by Kappler to kidnap & then murder his Irish opponent. In July 1943 Rome was bombed for the first time during the war. As the swastika flew above the city it was a time of fear & a moment of choice: collaborate & compromise or resist & revolt. OFlaherty decided to quietly resist & fight the new rulers. Dubbed Irelands Oscar Schindler he masterminded a large-scale operation from within the Vatican to help Jews & escaped Allied prisoners on the run from the Nazis. He used a series of safe houses & church buildings & sheltered around 500 Jews in the Holy See & it is believed that sanctuary was found for some 4000 Jews across Rome & 4000 Allied escapees. After the Resistance killed 32 German soldiers in a bombing Hitler was enraged & declared that he wanted a revenge attack to make the world tremble". He instructed Kappler to draw up plans. Eventually 335 people would be executed in the Ardeatine Caves a labyrinth of tunnels outside the city. The massacre would become the worst atrocity committed on Italian soil during WWII. Kapplers handiwork would remain secret until Rome was liberated by the Allies in June 1944. The Nazi Colonel was found guilty on all the charges relating to the caves massacre. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with no parole. Amazingly OFlaherty would continue his relationship with Kappler going to see his former rival in prison. The discussions of the two men would become intense & searching & a friendship grew between them. In later life after much soul-searching Kappler became a Catholic & was baptised by the Irish Monsignor." ...

A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat spreadeagled cross-like on the floor between two burned-down candles a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict
- until John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference treachery deceit & sleaze that lurks behind the facade of the Edinburgh familiar to tourists. Only Rebus seems to care about a death which looks more like a murder every day about a seductive danger he can almost taste appealing to the darkest corners of his mind...
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A fish & a teardrop. Five black spots four blossoms blue & a T that is white. A heart & an arabesque. A smile a black Q & a reflection of you." These are just some of the hundreds of objects readers are invited to find in David Carters latest art pop-up book " Hide & Seek". His previous art pop-up titles " One Red Dot" "600 Black Spots" & other bestsellers have sold hundreds of thousands of copies around the world asking readers to find a single image hidden within ten pop-up kinetic sculptures. With " Hide & Seek" he has expanded the concept & now

Includes:: hundreds of images or words hidden within the pop-up landscapes inviting readers to explore & discover something new with each visit."

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Play i-spy with your toddler & theyll learn all about animals. Hunt for favourite pets farm animals & many more with your toddler
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Play I-spy with your toddler & theyll learn lots of first words. Hunt for hidden animals vehicles things from the home & much more with your toddler
- theyll love playing I-spy & learning first words. Read it together & help them turn the pages as they solve riddles & spot fun surprises. With over 300 fabulous objects to find your toddler will love learning their first words!
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Get ready for more girly games giggles & gossip in this bestselling series featuring a group of girls brought together by the boys & bunk warfare fun & sun of one cool summer camp. The girls are not happy campers when they return to Lakeview & find theyre in a bunk with two troublesome girls...so their counsellor Beth packs them off to the forest for an overnight bonding session under the stars. Their campfire tales take a spooky turn when Tori tells them about Cropsy
- a crazy one-armed man rumoured to have murdered a whole bunkful of boys at camp! Before long tempers explode & Chelsea storms off into the night. As the girls prepare to look for her they cant help wondering...could Cropsy still be out there? Girls will be lining up to share all the latest secrets in the next batch of Summer Camp Secrets which are sure to attract new fans everywhere!
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Kipper is one of the best-loved childrens characters of all time. In 2008 he celebrated his 18th birthday & we re-launched six of the original classic Kipper storybooks. Mick also wrote a br&-new Kipper story in celebration. Here it is now br&-new in paperback! This eagerly-awaited tale introduces two new characters
- a cat & a mouse & an exciting chase. It is bound to become as well loved as the original Kipper stories.
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Although accident victim Hatch Harrison dies en route to the hospital a brilliant physician miraculously resuscitates him. Given this second chance Hatch & his wife Lindsey approach each day with a new appreciation of the beauty of life
- until a series of mysterious & frightening events brings them face to face with the unknown. Although Hatch was given no glimpse of an afterlife during the period when his heart had stopped he has reason to fear that he has brought a terrible presence back with him...from the land of the dead. When people who have wronged the Harrisons begin to die violently Hatch comes to doubt his own innocence
- & must confront the possibility that this life is just a prelude to another darker place.

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Hiding Edith tells the true story of Edith Schwalb. The Schwalb family were amongst the many Jewish families who fled their homes as Nazi power increased in the lead-up to World War II. Edith was sent to Moissac a small town in the south of France where the whole village kept the secret of a couple (Shatta & Bouli Simon) who ran a children's home in the area & protected the identity of the Jewish children who stayed there. Eventually the home is forced to close & Edith experiences many other dangers surviving to tell her tale. Kathy Kacer captures the spirit of young Edith in this dramatic & moving account of Edith's personal experience during World War II. ...

From the three million copy bestselling author of Lady of Hay comes the big new novel by the bestselling author of WHISPERS IN THE SAND is a gripping tale of witchcraft & romance past & present as her modern-day characters are caught up in a battle that has been raging for hundreds of years. The parish of Manningtree & Mistley has a dark history. In 1644 with England in the grip of a Puritan government Matthew Hopkins Cromwells Witchfinder General tortured scores of women there. & today the spirits of Hopkins & his victims haunt the old shop in the High Street they say. Emma Dickson has given up her high-flying career but now she is being driven half-mad by visions of the past & the Witchfinders victims. In despair Emma turns to the local rector for help but he too is in the grip of something inexplicable
- something which threatens Emma. & as the feast of Halloween approaches Emma is caught up in a struggle that has been raging for centuries. Can she stop the forces unleashed from the past wreaking their devastation in the present?
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