What did my father do? He killed my mother my sister & my brother then waited to kill me... Steve Farris is an architect who lives with his wife & son in the suburbs. His world changes drastically when he is contacted by Rebecca Soltero who wants to interview him for a book shes writing about men who murdered their families. For in 1959 Steves father shot his wife & their teenage daughter & son then vanished. Nine-year-old Stevie desperately missing his gifted older sister managed to block out all thoughts about the deaths. Now Rebecca lures him into talking & he is forced to acknowledge the questions that have haunted his subconscious mind: did his father mean to kill him too? What secret did his father & his sister share? The novel shifts back & forth in time from the present to the years before Steves birth to the immediate aftermath of the deaths but always comes back to the horrible deed
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Thomas Nagels Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning nature & value of human life. Questions ...

During the US book tour for his memoir Hitch-22 Christopher Hitchens collapsed in his New York hotel room to excoriating pain in his chest & thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of deeply moving Vanity Fair pieces he was being deported from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady. Over the next year he underwent the brutal gamut of modern cancer treatment enduring catastrophic levels of suffering & eventually losing his voice. Mortality is the most meditative piece of writing Hitchens has ever produced; at once an unsparingly honest account of the ravages of his disease an examination of cancer etiquette & the coda to a lifetime of fierce debate & peerless prose. In this eloquent confrontation with mortality Hitchens returns a human face to a disease that has become a contemporary cipher of suffering. ...

A special bumper edition of the exciting adventure stories that are as gripping as a computer game! Great for boys with a huge collectability factor bolstered by the collectors' cards in the back of the book & links to an excellent interactive website. Mortaxe the Skeleton Warrior has risen from the grave! He controls Avantia's six good Beasts with dark magic forcing them to fight Tom in a gladiatorial battle. Tom & his companions are about to face the most terrifying Quest of their lives... Don't miss Beast Quest series 7: The Lost World CONVOL THE COLD-BLOODED BRUTE HELLION THE FIERY FOE KRESTOR THE CRUSHING TERROR MADARA THE MIDNIGHT WARRIOR ELLIK THE LIGHTNING HORROR CARNIVORA THE WINGED SCAVENGER ...

Le Morte DArthur" is Sir Thomas Malorys richly evocative & enthralling version of the Arthurian legend. Recounting Arthurs birth his ascendancy to the throne after claiming Excalibur his ill-fated marriage to Guenever the treachery of Morgan le Fay & the exploits of the Knights of the Round Table it magically weaves together adventure battle love & enchantment. " Le Morte DArthur" looks back to an idealized Medieval world & is full of wistful elegiac regret for a vanished age of chivalry. Edited & published by William Caxton in 1485 Malorys prose romance drew on French & English verse sources to give an epic unity to the Arthur myth & remains the most magnificent re-telling of the story in English." ...

The sister is a knife-thrower in a magicians stage act the brother an undertakers assistant. Neither orphan knows of the others existence. Until that is three terrible Aunts descend on the girls house & imprison her guardian the Great Cardamom. His dying act is to pass the girl a note with clues to the secret he carries to his grave. Cardamom was one of three explorers on an expedition to locate the legendary Amarant a plant with power over life & death. Now pursued by flesh-eating crow-like ghuls brother & sister must decode the message & save themselves from its sinister legacy. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

In 1988 Katherine Swift arrived at the Dower House at Morville to create a garden of her own. This beautifully written utterly absorbing book is the history of the many people who have lived in the same Shropshire house tending the same soil passing down stories over the generations. Spanning thousands of years The Morville Hours takes the form of a medieval Book of Hours. It is a meditative journey through the seasons but also a journey of self-exploration. It is a book about finding one's place in the world & putting down roots. ...

One of the most admired gardening writers of her generation Katherine Swift returns to describe a year in the life of her garden she created over twenty years in the grounds of the Dower House at Morville Shropshire meditating on everything from the terrain & its history to the plants & trees & the odd habits of the animals & humans who inhabit the garden. Following the turning wheel of the Morville seasons from the green shoots of spring through summer & autumn to the stark beauty of winter & back to spring again The Morville Year is a journal full of surprises & enchantments that will appeal not only to gardeners but to all who enjoy the natural world. ...

Demonstrate your expertise with Microsoft Office 2010! This all-in-one guide is designed to help you practice & prepare for the four core Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) exams. With the MOS 2010 Study Guide you get full objective-by-objective coverage for: * Exam 77-881: Microsoft Word 2010 * Exam 77-882: Microsoft Excel 2010 * Exam 77-883: Microsoft Power Point 2010 * Exam 77-884: Microsoft Outlook 2010 Use the books easy-to-follow procedures & illustrations to review the essential skills measured by the MOS exams. & you can apply what youve learned hands-on-using the downloadable files for all the books practice tasks. ...