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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Peter was having so much fun exploring the cave that he didnt notice what the rest of his family were doing so when the car starts up he had a terrible shock. Had his parents really driven off & left him alone in the French countryside. Not sure what to do for the best Peter decides to hide out & wait for his parents to come back but managing in a strange country is not an easy matter & Peter has to rally all his resources to survive. ...

As the Nazi madness swept across Europe a quiet watchmaker's family in Holland risked everything for the sake of others & for the love of Christ. Despite the danger & threat of discovery the ten Boom family courageously offered shelter to persecuted Jews during the Nazi occupation of Holl&. Then a trap brought about the family's arrest. Could God's love shine through even in Ravensbruck? ...

Learn to decipher the language of the pharaohs & solve the riddle of the pyramids with The Hieroglyphs Handbook". This is hieroglyphics for beginners; an opportunity for the child on the street to walk into a museum & using their handbook translate an Ancient Egyptian inscription from scratch. A visit to the museum will never be the same again & a trip to Egypt will become evenmore of an adventure. The book is divided into three sections: a background history giving the historical context; a practical section explaining how the language works & is written; & a glossary/phrasebook containing the alphabet & all the essential words & phrases." ...

The hunt for the Higgs particle has involved the biggest most expensive experiment ever. So exactly what is this particle? Why does it matter so much? What does it tell us about the Universe? Has the discovery announced on 4 July 2012 finished the search? & was finding it really worth all the effort? The short answer is yes. The Higgs field is proposed as the way in which particles gain mass
- a fundamental property of matter. Its the strongest indicator yet that the Standard Model of physics really does reflect the basic building blocks of our Universe. Little wonder the hunt & discovery of this new particle has produced such intense media interest. Here Jim Baggott explains the science behind the discovery looking at how the concept of a Higgs field was invented how the vast experiment was carried out & its implications on our understanding of all mass in the Universe. The book was written over the eighteen months of the CERN Large Hadron Collider experiment with its final chapter rounded off on the day of the announcement that a particle consistent with the standard model Higgs boson has been discovered.
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Allowing us to travel mid-air through London High Above London" leads us to a thoroughly new appreciation of a city that has always been foremost in peoples imagination. These splendid aerial photographs reveal a complex city of contrasts. An urban cluster without regular order the city is actually a collection of villages that grew up around Roman Londinium & today each has its own history character architecture & even rhythm
- & all are illustrated in the beautiful photographs. The sky offers a perfect vantage point to view & understand this city of contrasts with its cultural diversity & multi cultural nature."
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Double action thrillers by the classic adventure writer set in the South American Andes & British Columbia. HIGH CITADEL When Tim OHaras plane is hijacked & forced to crash land in the middle of the Andes his troubles are only beginning. A heavily armed group of communist soldiers intent on killing one of his passengers
- an influential political figure
- have orders to leave no survivors. Isolated in the biting cold of the Andes OHaras party must fight for their lives with only the most primitive weapons...LANDSLIDE Bob Boyd is a geologist as resilient as the British Columbia timber country where he works for the powerful Matterson Corporation. But his real name & his past are mysteries
- wiped out by the accident that nearly killed him. Then Boyd reads a name that opens a door in his memory: Trinavant
- & discovers that Bull Matterson & his son will do almost anything to keep the Trinavant family forgotten forever...
Includes: a unique bonus
- My Old Mans Trumpet a previously unpublished short story about a New Orleans music shop owner.





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This collection of Joe R Lansdale stories represents the best of the Lansdale genre -- a strange mixture of dark crime even darker humour & adventure tales. The stories are varied in setting & theme but they are all pure Lansdale -- eerie amusing & occasionally horrific. In The Pit modern gladiators square off against one another using Roman methods. An alternate-history tale called Trains Not Taken shows Buffalo Bill as an ambassador & Wild Bill Hickok as a clerk. Lansdales love of large lizards & humour are evident in the stories Godzillas Twelve Step Program & Bob the Dinosaur Goes to Disneyland. ...