Once again theres death on her doorstep
- Thea throws herself into house-sitting for Babs & Cedric Angell in Lower Slaughter following
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At 07.30 hours on 1 July 1916 the devastating cacophony of the Allied artillery fell silent along the front on the Somme. The ear-splitting explosions were replaced by the shrill sound of hundreds of whistles being blown. At that moment tens of thousands of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches on their part of the Western Front & began to make their way steadily towards the German lines opposite. It was the first day of the Battle of the Somme. By the end of the day a number of the battalions involved had met with some degree of success; others had suffered heavy losses for no gain whilst a few quite literally ceased to exist. That day the old infantry tactics of the British Army clashed head-on with the reality of modern warfare. On what is generally accepted as the worst day in the British Army's history there were more than 60 000 casualties
- a third of them fatal. In this publication the authors have drawn together for the first time ever all the War Diary entries for those battalions that went over the top" that day
- a day which even now still touches so many families both in the United Kingdom & around the world. The result is a vital work of reference to the events of 1 July 1916 a valuable information source for not only for those interested in military history but genealogists & historians alike."

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Prisoner of war optometrist time-traveller
- these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim hero of this miraculously moving bitter
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Mende Nazers happy childhood was cruelly cut short at the age of twelve when the Mujahidin rode into her village in the remote Nuba mountains of Sudan. They hacked down terrified villagers raped the women & abducted the children. Mende was them. She was taken & sold to an Arab woman in Khartoum. She was stripped of her name & her freedom. For seven long years she was kept as a domestic slave an abid without any pay or a single day off. Her food was the leftover scraps & her bed was the floor of the locked-up garden shed. She endured this harsh & lonely existence without knowing whether her family was alive or dead for seven long years. Passed on by her master like a parcel to a relative in London Mende eventually managed to escape to freedom. Slave is a shocking first-person insight into the modern day slave trade. It is also a fascinating memoir of an African childhood & a moving testimony to a young girls indomitable spirit in the face of adversity. ...

Sarah Forsyth has spent most of her life in fear. Born in Newcastle in 1976 from the age of three the very people who were meant to be looking after & protecting her were sexually abusing her. Somehow overcoming the hurt & heartbreak of this horrific childhood Sarah managed to build a new & happy life for herself as a nursery nurse. Then one day Sarah spotted a newspaper advert for a job in a creche in Amsterdam. Thrilled by the prospect of a fresh start away from Newcastle & all the memories it held she eagerly signed up. But within minutes of stepping off the plan in Amsterdam her life began to fall apart. There was no creche & no job: Sarah was a victim of sex-trafficking. That night a just twenty-one years of age her life
- her real life her life as Sarah Forsyth
- ended. Fed cocaine & cannabis & forced at gunpoint to work as a prostitute in the Red Light District of Amsterdam Sarah was turned from a young innocent English girl into a desperate & terrified crack whore. Riddled with fear about what her pimps would do to her if they caught her trying to run away it took Sarah almost a year to find the strength to fight back & escape. But unlike many of the girls that she was forced to live & work beside she did get away. Sarah Forsyth is a survivor. This is her heart-rending story.

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In a world that denies emotions where the ruling Psy punish any sign of desire Sascha Duncan must conceal the feelings that brand her as flawed. To reveal them would be to sentence herself to the horror of 'rehabilitation'
- the complete psychic erasure of her personality.. . Both human & animal Lucas Hunter is a Changeling hungry for the very sensations the Psy disdain. After centuries of uneasy co-existence these two races are now on the verge of war over the brutal murder of several Changeling women. Lucas is determined to find the Psy killer who butchered his packmate & Sascha is his ticket into their closely guarded society. But he soon discovers that this ice-cold Psy is very capable of passion
- & that the animal in him is fascinated by her. Caught between their conflicting worlds Lucas & Sascha must remain bound to their identities
- or sacrifice everything for a taste of darkest temptation.. .


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A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this precise & eloquent work
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A welcome reissue of one of Patrick Hamiltons best with an introduction by Doris Lessing. The Slaves of Solitude" is set in a wartime boarding house in a small town on the Thames. The Rosamund Tea Rooms is an oppressive place as grey & lonely as its residents. For Miss Roach slave of her task-master solitude a window of opportunity is suddenly presented by the appearance of a charismatic American Lieutenant. His arrival brings change to the precarious society of the house & ultimately to Miss Roach herself." ...

The city of Aramanth has become a kinder place but in becoming kinder it has also become weaker making it the perfect target for the ruthless soldiers of the Mastery. After a swift & brutal battle that leaves the city burned & the Manth people destined for slavery Kestrel fi nds herself alone angry & bitterly sworn to wreak her own revenge. But first she must fi nd her beloved brother Bowman & he in turn must find a way of understanding the secrets of the mysterious Singer people. Only then can the pair begin to strike out against the Mastery & begin a voyage that will bring the Manth people back to their former stature. ...

More chills & thrills in Darren Shan's horrifying Demonata series. Let the Slawter commence... Never trust fairy tales. There are no happy endings. There's always something new around the corner. You can overcome major obstacles face great danger look evil in the eye & live to tell the tale
- but that's not the end. As long as you're breathing your story's still going..." Nightmares haunt the dreams of Dervish Grady since his return from the Demonata universe but Grubbs takes care of his uncle as they both try to continue a normal demon-free existence. When a legendary cult director calls in Dervish as consultant for a new horror movie it seems a perfect excuse for a break from routine & a chance for some fun. But being on the set of a town called Slawter stirs up more than memories for Grubbs & his friend Bill-E."
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