When the Court clockmaker Mr Urseau is found dead in his workshop
- a dagger in his chest & a key clutched in his hand
- rumours

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Rhedae the Visigothic capital of Aquitaine still holds many secrets even to this day. This same terrain Rennes-le-Chateau still the hilltop village of mystery is loth to yield up her treasures. But now that the ancient cipher extracted from a Poussin painting & artefacts from Pompeii by Bill Kerseys yields its secrets. Much more the wily Visigoths now reveal in their wonderful system of concealment. Even Leonardo da Vinci proves this same cipher in both the Mona Lisas painted by him. There is much more in these pages.s day. Yet why did the Abbe Sauniere the Priest of Rennes insist in linking the ' Royal Treasure' with the ancient cipher for this generation to discover? The investigation of that hoard started in 1972 & has branched out into new dramatic discoveries following a secret cryptic document buried by the controversial priest of Rennes-le-Chateau. The trail leads back into the ancient past touches base with the Visigoths & lurches forward into the future. Beset with conflicting international interests & dubious secret societies the team try to resolve the enigmas but are overtaken by events beyond their control. But hopefully the out will not prove too disastrous but there is yet another secret in hidden caves. ...

Filled with practical down-to-earth & sympathetic advice this is a guide for parents raising children in the often-demanding contemporary environment. Using easy-to-read language that avoids unnecessary jargon psychologist Don Fontenelle provide proven methods for parents to interact with their teenagers on a daily basis
- & understand how to deal with common teen behaviour.
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Lavish parties. Passionate meetings in the night. Bone-chilling murders. Exams. The day-to-day life of Schuyler Van Alen & her Blue Bloods friends (and enemies) is never boring. But theres oh-so-much more to know about the beautiful & powerful Blue Bloods. Below the streets of Manhattan within the walls of the Repository lies a wealth of revealing short stories journal entries & never-before-seen letters about the vampire elite dating back through time. Wont you come inside? ...

Mary Jago donates her bone marrow to save the life of a complete stranger; a generous act of kindness that culminates in a violent break-up with her brutish boyfriend. Moving to the affluent edge of Londons famous Regents Park Mary believed she had finally escaped the threat of violence. She never thought that one simple act of kindness could put her own life in mortal danger. When the bodies of local homeless people are found impaled on the parks railings violently murdered by a deranged serial killer Mary could not have suspected a connection to herself. But on the dark & mysterious streets of Rendells labyrinthine London everyone is trapped in her tightly woven web of murder & mystery. ...

After failing to finish off the German Army in the 1941/42 Winter Counter offensive Stalin directed the Red Army to conduct a powerful blow in one sector of the Eastern Front in order to disrupt German plans. The sector chosen was Kharkov. Under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko the Stavkas remaining reserves were assembled & prepared to conduct a breakthrough attack intended to encircle the German Sixth Army near Kharkov. However Stalin was unaware that the Germans were planning their own riposte at Kharkov known as Operation Fredericus. When Timoshenko began his offensive in May 1942 he did not realize the limitations of his own forces or the agility of the Germans to recover from setbacks all of which contributed to one of the Red Army greatest defeats of World War II. This volume will pay particular attention to intelligence & logistics issues as well as how this campaign served as a prelude to the battle of Stalingrad. It will also focus on the nascent development of the Red Armys tank corps & deep battle tactics as well as the revival of the German Panzertruppen after Barbarossa. ...

Between February & March 1943 Ukraines second town Kharkov was the scene of a fierce struggle between the Red Army & Axis troops. Feeling optimistic after the Stalingrad triumph Stalin thought that his adversaries were in full flight. But Feldmarschall von Manstein kept a cool head. Thanks to the SS-Panzerkorps which had just been created he planned a counteroffensive. In mid-February the SS army corps managed to extricate itself from Kharkov with great difficulty & a few days later launched the great counterattack. In three weeks the Red Army found itself in full retreat & with great difficulty managed to get out of the grips of the enemy who demonstrated its great mastery of the war of movement. The SS recaptured Kharkov a month after losing it but by doing so probably deprived von Manstein of an even greater victory. The situation stabilised with the thaw leaving both adversaries completely exhausted. Although the situation had changed in favour of the Allies the Eastern Front now included new protagonists
- the Waffen-SS armoured units on whom Hitler was counting to work some miracles & defeat his mortal enemy.
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This 1949 novella about the violent expulsion of Palestinian villagers by the Israeli army has long been considered a modern Hebrew masterpiece & it has also given rise to fierce controversy over the years. Published just months after the end of the 1948 war Khirbet Khizeh (the kh A pronounced like the ch A" in Bach A") was an immediate sensation when it first appeared. Thousands of Israeli Jews rushed to read it the critics began to argue about it & a Palestinian journalist in Nablus described it as a sign that the Israeli army had a conscience & that peace was possible. Since then the book has continued to challenge & disturb. The various debates it has prompted would themselves make Khirbet Khizeh worth reading but the novella is much more than a vital historical document: it is also a great work of art. Yizhars haunting lyrical style & charged registration of the landscape are in many ways as startling as his wrenchingly honest view of one of Israels defining moments. Despite its international reputation the book has never before been translated into English." ...

With worldwide sales of more than 22 million albums & an international audience INXS were one of the biggest bands in the world. On 22 November 1997 the death of Michael Hutchence brought the INXS story or part of it to a halt. This book puts his mysterious death in perspective. It tracks the story of the six suburban boys who achieved fame & fortune & along the way acquired a tase for the high life. ...

Kate Brannigan is truly welcome. Hot on one-liners Chinese food tabloid papers & Thai boxing she is refreshingly funny Daily Mail Kate Brannigan feisty Manchester-based PI is back investigating the bizarre case of the missing conservatories. Before Long shes up to her neck in crooked land deals mortgage scams financial chicanery -- & murder. But when a favour for a friend puts Kates own life in danger bizarre is not the first word she thinks of! ...