Sinking the battleship HMS Royal Oak in the Royal Navys home anchorage with the loss of more than 800 of her crew was Germanys first shattering blow against Britain in the 1939-45 war. Within six weeks the long-standing German dream of breaching the defences of Scapa Flow had been achieved. Germany claimed the sinking for the submarine U-47 commanded by Lt. Gunther Prien. Prien & his crew became instant folk heroes lauded interviewed & exploited to extract the maximum glory from their deed. A few months later Priens autobiography Mein Weg Nach Scapa Flow" was published & sold an astonishing 750 000 copies. However there are also Royal Oak survivors who while accepting that their ship was torpedoed say: Prien & his crew cant ever have seen the inside of Scapa Flow because Priens story is almost totally at variance with the truth. Four books & dozens of articles have been written on what is now generally accepted as one of the greatest submarine exploits of all time. Yet nobody has managed to sift fact from falsehood & reconcile the apparently irreconcilable German & British stories. The author has interviewed Royal Oak survivors members of U-47s 1939 crew Lt. Priens widow & members of the firm which published his autobiography. His quest for the truth led through England Northern Ireland Wales Scotland Orkney Norway West Berlin Cologne Freiburg & even distant Amman. He has patiently investigated every point of controversy until he was able to set down a documented definitive account of the Royal Oak naval disaster. It was previously published by Cressrelles Ltd." ...

Theres a secret you need to know. A secret about how nightmares are made. Welcome to the Nightmare Factory. When Andrew Lake & his twin sister Poppy are stolen from their dreams they find themselves trapped in a strange realm parallel to our own. There the evil Vesuvius rules over the Nightmare Factory with his army of Shadowmares extracting fear from children to create nightmares all over the world. But Vesuvius wants more. He wants power. He wants Andrew...A thrilling adventure story that will leave you gasping for more: compelling exciting...and just a little bit scary... ...

Im falling
- falling down steep narrow stairs
- If I hit the bottom asleep I know Ill never wake. Every night Kirsty wakes up

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In the California wilderness no one can hear you scream. San Francisco Forensic Psychiatrist Jo Beckett doesnt dissect the body or the crime scene -- she dissects a life & a mind recreating the victim as a person piecing together the story of their death to get to the truth. & then she goes after the killer. Autumn Reiniger wants something special for her twenty-first birthday. Daddys bought her the car & the apartment but now she wants excitement. & what Autumn desires she gets. Her father signs-up her & five friends for an ultimate urban reality game. Edge Adventures alert the SF police that a crime situation is underway so the authorities will ignore any squealing tyres or desperate cries for help. Then -- when working on a case nearby -- Jo Beckett encounters a group of men carting six sullen college kids to the woods for a wilderness adventure. Suspicious she takes a closer look. & winds up with an invite to a birthday party she may never leave! ...

The Stephen King Amusement Park
- an unnerving experience with rides every which way to hell.. .and a few to glory.A solitary finger
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Journalist Philip Dryden is shocked to be informed by police that his father has been killed in a car accident
- he drowned during
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Nevada USA. Fourteen-year-old twins Jamie & Scott Tyler are performing a mind-reading act in a dingy theatre. But when a sinister multinational corporation Nightrise kidnaps Scott Jamie is left alone
- & wanted for murder. He becomes embroiled in a corrupt presidential campaign & breaks into the American prison system before being propelled ten thousand years into the past where he encounters the other Gatekeepers & witnesses the creation of Ravens Gate
- & the first fateful battle against the Old Ones.

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Is Sophie Fevvers toast of Europes capitals part swan.. .or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wales & painted by Toulouse-Lautrec she is an aerialiste extraordinaire & star of Colonel Kearneys circus. She is also part woman part swan. Jack Walser an American journalist is on a quest to discover the truth behind her identity. Dazzled by his love for her & desperate for the scoop of a lifetime Walser has no choice but to join the circus on its magical tour through turn-of-the-nineteenth-century London St Petersburg & Siberia. ...

Two fragile people. One desperate second chance. Reeling & desolate Adrienne Willis needs space to rethink her life after her husband leaves her for a younger woman. Fleeing everything she jumps at the chance to look after her friends guesthouse in the coastal town of Rodanthe North Carolina. But there is a storm heading for Adrienne in more ways than she can imagine. Stranded & isolated as the weather closes in Adrienne has only one guest: Paul Flanner a man running from his own shattered past. Taking refuge Paul & Adrienne have only each other to turn to. Against all the odds their one weekend sets in motion feelings that will resonate through the rest of their lives. ...

David Munro has everything a man could want
- a beautiful wife two adoring daughters a top academic position & a circle of devoted
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