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? ...

A beautiful collection
- charming witty & touching
- these stories give voice to a variety of different characters: from the

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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." ...

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. ...

Level 2 (highly dependent) patients are nursed in a variety of clinical areas. High Dependency Nursing Care has been written for pre qualified & post qualified students undertaking modules & placements to prepare them for nursing the acutely ill & nurses caring for these patients. Written by a team of nurses experienced in providing supporting & developing high dependency care it discusses practical issues & explores the current evidence base for clinical practice. This essential textbook covers the context of care with chapters on fundamental aspects such as sleep nutrition pain management & stress. It goes on to look at the main causes of critical illness & the treatments often given as well as the skills necessary for monitoring patients. Completely updated throughout this second edition also

Includes:: new chapters on infection control heart failure tissue removal & transferring the sicker patient. High Dependency Nursing Care is: Comprehensive: it covers all the key areas of knowledge needed User-friendly: it

Includes:: learning outcomes introductions time out exercises implications for practice useful websites & up-to-date references Clearly written: by a team of experienced nurses Practically based: clinical scenarios provide stimulating discussion & revision topics



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WHEN YOU LIVE THE DREAM YOU LIVE THE CONSEQUENCES... Cool blonde Carter Graham is a successful lawyer who believes she is well on the way to reaching all the goals listed in her glamorous life plan: first-class job a stylish flat in London & marriage to the man of her dreams Kim Betz. But Carter forgot that sometimes the best laid dreams turn into nightmares. Kim's ex-wife Sophie starts to stalk her & Kim turns from being the self-contained controlled husband into a man who lies not only about his past but about his present. Carter finds herself drawn into an expanding web of deceit corruption & evil which eventually threatens not only her sanity but her life. What is it that Sophie is trying so hard to tell her? Who is the sinister Mrs Mayfield who has such an influence on Kim? & what is the significance of the other new man in Carter's life her secretary Eric Tucker? Carter seeks help from the healers of St. Benets the enigmatic Nicholas Darrow the eccentric Lewis Hall & kind thoughtful Alice but even they cannot save her from a searing ordeal as she struggles to uncover the truth about the tormented man she has married. ...