It is the beginning of the hottest July in decades & two men have come to Hopewell Illinois. One is not human a dark servant of the Void who will use the anger & frustration of the community to achieve a terrible secret goal. The other is John Ross a Knight of the Word. While he sleeps he lives in the hell the world will become if he fails to change its course on waking. John Ross has been given the ability to see the future. But does he have the power to change it? At stake is the soul of a fourteen-year-old girl & the lives of the people of Hopewell. & thats just the beginning. This Fourth of July while friends & families picnic in Sinnissippi Park & fireworks explode in celebration of freedom & independence the fate of Humanity itself will be decided.. . ...

Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year"
- This is shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. After years of
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Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year
- Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award Winner
- Best New Writer

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Running with the Krays lifts the liid off London's underworld from street gangs & race-course con games to protection rackets beatings maimings intimidation & even murders. It reveals elements of police corruption & provides insights into the interdependence of both sides of the underworld scene
- a compelling & gruesome account of how the other half of London lives. Born in wartime London's east end Billy Webb grew up in the violence of air-raids & street warfare. His first weapon was a knuckleduster which he had made to measure for the price of five cigarettes when he was 11. When he first met the Krays they were scraping a living by doorknocking for old clothes to be sold in street markets. For three years he & the twins were on the run together as army deserters & over the course of time he was a friend ally & foe of the Krays in their violent rise to fame.
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' Most of the serious thinking I have done over the past twenty years has been done while running.' Mark Rowlands has run for most of his life. He has also been a professional philosopher. & for him the two
- running & philosophising
- are inextricably connected. In Running with the Pack he tells us about the most significant runs of his life
- from the entire day he spent running as a boy in Wales to the runs along French beaches & up Irish mountains with his beloved wolf Brenin & through Florida swamps more recently with his dog Nina. Intertwined with this honest passionate & witty memoir are the fascinating meditations that those runs triggered including: how running makes him feel free a la Jean-Paul Sartre; how running injuries make him think of death & Heidegger; how running for him is play & therefore the antithesis of the American dream with its ferocious work ethic; & how pondering why he runs puts him in mind of Aristotle's search for causes. He ends by describing running a mid-life marathon with absolutely no training. Woven throughout the book are profound meditations on mortailty midlife & the meaning of life. This is a highly original & moving book that will make the philosophically inclined want to run & those who love running become intoxicated by philosophical ideas.


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Running is one of the most popular activities worldwide & provides an incredible feeling of achievement as well as offering an enjoyable & accessible way to get fit. This superb book is an ideal reference guide for beginners with easy-to-follow advice & guidance on getting started staying motivated & improving your performance. To help you begin to run the first part of the book provides practical advice including basic health checks progressive walk/run programmes a six-week plan of running for fitness & exercises to build up strength. Appropriate clothing & equipment stretching exercises & warm-up routines are described. Once you have achieved a certain standard you may want to try an event & there is a special section devoted to explaining what kinds of events are suitable from a 5K walk/run to a marathon. With over 300 photographs & illustrations including step-by-step instruction this expert book is essential reading for anyone who wants to begin & to improve their running. This title is the perfect introduction to one of todays fastest-growing & most popular activities full of tips to help you stay motivated. It provides a fascinating insight into the world of running & its history with a survey of the greatest runners & famous races. It

Includes:: start-up advice on basic health checks running kit & footwear core strength training & stretching exercises & more. As you develop your distance & running skills there are progressive walk/run programmes & guidance on building up miles & hill running. It contains expert advice on pre-run & post-run nutrition & entering & training for events. Clear & instructive step-by-step photographic sequences throughout make it easy to start & keep running.

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A complete history of Rupert Bear this beautifully presented book is the fascinating story of how one little bear became a national treasure. It begins with Rupert's first appearance in the Express newspaper & charts his journey to the present day paying particular attention to the writers & artists who have brought him to life over the years. In his ninetieth year Rupert Bear is still one of the most popular characters in literature beloved by generations of children. This book gives a unique insight into the secrets of his success. ...

Armed with this book even the least experienced spanner man will be able to not only rebuild a BSA Unit Single but make it go better & more reliably than even BSA thought possible! This book quite literally takes the BSA (and Triumph) Unit Single engine apart then it shows how to rebuild the engine correctly. The book

Includes:: wiring diagrams complete specifications hundreds of illustrations a wealth of invaluable advice & tuning tips to make your unit single perform! This book will also be of interest to all BSA enthusiasts since it charts the development of one of the last & most successful machines to come out of Small Heath. Long after the factory closed Unit Singles were still a competitive force in trials & motocross riding & many are still used for that purpose today.

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Find what you were looking for Inspector? Every day the same question. A different uniform but the same question. They thought Lucia enjoyed being here. They thought that was why she kept coming back. But they were asking the wrong thing. She had found what she was looking for -- she had found what she had been sent to discover -- but she had found out more besides. The question was what to do about it. The question was whether to do anything at all. In the depths of a sweltering summer teacher Samuel Szajkowski walks into his school assembly & opens fire. He kills three pupils & a colleague before turning the gun on himself. Lucia May the young policewoman who is assigned the case is expected to wrap up things quickly & without fuss. The incident is a tragedy that could not have been predicted & Szajkowski it seems clear was a psychopath beyond help. Soon however Lucia becomes preoccupied with the question no one else seems to want to ask: what drove a mild-mannered diffident school teacher to commit such a despicable crime? Piecing together the testimonies of the teachers & children at the school Lucia discovers an uglier more complex picture of the months leading up to the shooting. She realises too that she has more in common with Szajkowski than she could have imagined. As the pressure to bury the case builds she becomes determined to tell the truth about what happened whatever the consequences.. . ...

Travelling on horseback through southern England in the early 19th century William Cobbett provides evocative & accurate descriptions of the countryside colourful accounts of his encounters with labourers & indignant outbursts at the encroaching cities & the sufferings of the exploited poor. Ian Dyck's new edition places these lively accounts of rural life in the context of Cobbett's political & social beliefs & reveals the volume as his platform for rural radical reform. ...