Hill is an instinctive & complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift Frances Fyfield Mail on Sunday They moved everyone that long hot summer fifteen years ago. They needed a new reservoir & an old community seemed a cheap price to pay. They even dug up the dead & moved them too. But four inhabitants of the valley they couldnt move for nobody knew where they were. Three little girls had gone missing & the prime suspect in their disappearance Benny Lightfoot This was Andy Dalziels worst case & now fifteen years on he looks set to relive it. Its another long hot summer. A child goes missing in the next valley & old fears arise as someone sprays the deadly message on the wall of Danby: BENNYS BACK! Music & myth mingle as the Mid-Yorkshire team delve into their pasts & into their own reserves of experience & endurance in search of answers which threaten to bring more pain than they resolve. ...

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF IRON MAIDEN. IRON MAIDEN are a global phenomenon. On board their customised Boeing 757 plane named ED FORCE ONE & piloted by lead singer & Airline Captain Bruce Dickinson the band crew & 12 tonnes of equipment traversed the planet & broke the mould of traditional touring forever by playing concerts in every continent except Antarctica! Setting off in early 2008 on the Somewhere Back In Time World Tour through to the epic Final Frontier tour which included an Around The World In 66 Days jaunt between February-April 2011 Maiden finally came in to land in August with two sold-out shows in their native London at the O2 Arena. The Final Frontier Tour celebrates their 15th & most successful studio album to date hitting the No 1 spot in at least 28 countries. Throughout this mammoth & ground-breaking undertaking the band's official photographer John Mc Murtrie accompanied them & the exciting results of his fly-on-the-wall coverage are represented here in this unique pictorial odyssey. John's unrestricted access has allowed him to capture exclusive images & moments both onstage & off in over 600 spectacular photographs annotated with individual insights & anecdotes. With a personal foreword by Captain Bruce Dickinson ON BOARD FLIGHT 666 takes you up close with IRON MAIDEN as they circumnavigate the globe playing to their loyal legions of fans & provides an unprecedented insight into one of the most adventurous rock tours ever undertaken; & into what makes this band so special. ...

In 1971 Henry Kissinger took the historic step of reopening relations between China & the West & since then has been more intimately connected with the country at the highest level than any other western figure. This book distils his unique experience examining Chinas history from the classical era to the present day describing the essence of its millennia-old approach to diplomacy strategy & negotiation & reflecting on these attitudes for our own uncertain future. ...

Denial anger bargaining depression & acceptance. The five stages of grief first formulated in this hugely influential work forty years ago are now part of our common understanding of bereavement. The five stages were first identified by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in her work with dying patients at the University of Chicago & were considered phases that all or most people went through when faced with the prospect of their own death. They are now often accepted as a response to any major life change. However in spite of these terms being in general use the subject of death is still surrounded by conventional attitudes & reticence that offer only fragile comfort because they evade the real issues. This groundbreaking book is still relevant
- giving a voice to dying people & exploring what impending death means to them often in their own words. People speak about their experience of dying their relief in expressing their fear & anger & being able to move forward to a state of acceptance & peace. Ideal for all those with an interest in bereavement or the five stages of grief this book contains a new extended introduction from Professor Allan Kellehear. This additional chapter re-examines On Death & Dying looking at how it has influenced contemporary thought & practice.
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On Deception presents the highlights of Houdinis writings on illusions revealing him to have been a remarkably prescient champion of rationalism & an ardent opponent of the duping of susceptible individuals. Throughout his life the worlds most famous escapologist strove to expose the methods & tricks of illusionists & sham spiritualists. Studying entertainers & criminals alike Houdini investigates the tricks of the mind & sleights of hand that have deceived people throughout history. The magicians writings caused a public sensation; legend has it that The Right Way to do Wrong was bought in bulk by burglars in an attempt to guard the tricks of their trade. This collection also

Includes:: Houdinis revelations about the methods behind some of his own most famous tricks & articles he wrote to expose his imitators demonstrating him to be unarguably the master of his craft.

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On Dublin Street by Samantha Young is the hottest new romance bestseller. Jocelyn Butler has been hiding from her past for years. But all her secrets are about to be laid bare... Four years ago Jocelyn left her tragic past behind in the States & started over in Scotland burying her grief ignoring her demons & forging ahead without attachments. Her solitary life is working well
- until she moves into a new apartment on Dublin Street where she meets a man who shakes her carefully guarded world to its core. Braden Carmichael is used to getting what he wants & he's determined to get Jocelyn into his bed. Knowing how skittish she is about entering a relationship Braden proposes an arrangement that will satisfy their intense attraction without any strings attached. But after an intrigued Jocelyn accepts she realizes that Braden won't be satisfied with just mind-blowing passion. The stubborn Scotsman is intent on truly knowing her.. .down to the very soul. Incredibly passionate & downright romantic On Dublin Street is a captivating & bittersweet story of the redemptive power of love. Scotland's answer to E.L. James". (Sunday Post). " This extraordinary debut combines a true gift for storytelling with a liberal dose of racy encounters. But what really sets it apart is exquisite characterisation so vivid that the cast seeps into the reader's psyche". (Daily Record). " Highly recommend this one". (USA Today). Samantha Young is a 27-year-old Scottish book addict who graduated from the University of Edinburgh. She currently lives in Scotl&."
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Though most of my life seems to have been spent on the banks of lakes & rivers I have always been drawn to the sea. Through twenty-two casts Britains best-known freshwater fisherman quits land in favour of the sea. There he discovers the many pleasures of the coast: wild shores unpredictable waves the violent collision of the elements & of course fish that glisten & dart beneath a never-still surface. From childhood remembrances of saltwater escapades to more recent discoveries Chris Yates brings the sea & its many wonders to scintillating life. ...

Four forms of energy pulse through each of us at all times: physical emotional mental & spiritual. To thrive we must recruit all four of these energies in the service of a specific mission. To be fully engaged means to be physically energized emotially engaged mentally focused & spiritually vested. Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz draw on 30 years of research & experience with thousands of world-class atheletes FBI hostage rescue teams emergency service workers & corporate executives who must sustain high performance in the face of pressure. In this book they offer their precise understanding of how to help individuals & organizations manage energy to drive full engagement
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Edinburgh & Glasgow enjoy a famously scratchy relationship. Resembling other intercity rivalries throughout the world from Madrid & Barcelona to Moscow & St. Petersburg to Beijing & Shanghai Scotland's sparring metropolises just happen to be much smaller & closer together--like twin stars orbiting a common axis. Yet their size belies their world-historical importance as cultural & commercial capitals of the British Empire & the mere forty miles between their city centers does not diminish their stubbornly individual nature. Robert Crawford dares to bring both cities to life between the covers of one book. His story of the fluctuating fortunes of each city is animated by the one-upping that has been entrenched since the eighteenth century when Edinburgh lost parliamentary sovereignty & took on its proud wistfulness while Glasgow came into its industrial promise & defiance. Using landmarks & individuals as gateways to their character & past this tale of two cities mixes novelty & familiarity just as Scotland's capital & its largest city do. Crawford gives us Adam Smith & Walter Scott the Scottish Enlightenment & the School of Art but also tiny apartments a poetry library Spanish Civil War volunteers & the nineteenth-century entrepreneur Maria Theresa Short. We see Glasgow's best-known street through the eyes of a Victorian child & Edinburgh University as it appeared to Charles Darwin. Crawford's literary detailed account affirms what people from Glasgow or Edinburgh have long doubted--that it is possible to love both cities at the same time. ...

In 1867 Lisa See's great-great-grandfather left China in search of riches on the ' Gold Mountain' the Chinese name for the promised land of America. His son Fong See later built a mercantile empire & married a Caucasian woman in spite of laws that prohibited unions between the races. Through sheer endeavour & entrepreneurial genius he became one of the most successful Chinese men in the country. Over the decades each generation of the See family strived to grasp their dreams realise their ambitions & overcome their disappointments & sorrows. This sweeping chronicle of five generations of a Chinese-American family encompasses stories of adventure & heartache racism & romance secret marriages & sibling rivalries. On Gold Mountain is a powerful social history of two cultures meeting in a new world. ...