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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The king of horrors demonic symphony in ten volumes now available in omnibus editions
- each containing two titles in the spine-chilling
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Doon in the glen there were three ferms. The men that had these ferms were aboot as scunnersome & grippy as ony men ye could meet. They were cried Fermer Bodge Fermer Bauchle & Fermer Beek. On a brae above the glen there wis a widd. In the widd there wis a muckle tree. Unner the tree there wis a hole. In the hole steyed Mr Tod Mrs Tod & the fower Wee Tods. Ilka nicht as soon as it wis gloamin-time Mr Tod wid say tae Mrs Tod Weel ma deerie whut itll be this time? A sonsie fat cookie fae Bodge? A deuk or a goose fae Bauchle? Or a braw bubblyjock fae Beek? And when Mrs Tod had telt him whit she wantit Mr Tod wid jouk doon intae the glen in the mirk o the nicht & help himself. And so the scene is set for a grand confrontation between the scunnersome fermers & the tremendous Tods. Following on from the phenomenal success of the bestselling The Eejits & Geordies Mingin Medicine Scots translations of Roald Dahls The Twits & Georges Marvelous Medicine Itchy Coo presents another Scots version of a Roald Dahl classic. This time Fantastic Mr Fox has been transformed into Sleekit Mr Tod & hell require all his wily wits to escape Fermers Bodge Bauchle & Beek while at the same time raid their well-stocked stores for a full-scale banquet. But who will win? ...

As haunting as Susan Hill's The Woman in Black & as dark as James Herbert's The Secret of Crickley Hall F. R. Tallis's The Sleep Room is where your nightmares begin.. . When promising psychiatrist James Richardson is offered the job opportunity of a lifetime he is thrilled. Setting off to take up his post at Wyldehope Hall in deepest Suffolk Richardson doesn't look back. One of his tasks is to manage a controversial project -- a pioneering therapy in which extremely disturbed patients are kept asleep for months. As Richardson settles into his new life he begins to sense something uncanny about the sleeping patients -- six women forsaken by society. Why is the trainee nurse so on edge when she spends nights alone with them? & what can it mean when all the sleepers start dreaming at the same time? It's not long before Richardson finds himself questioning everything he knows about the human mind as he attempts to uncover the shocking secrets of The Sleep Room.. ...

One issue dominates the lives of many new parents
- sleep. Why wont their baby sleep? What is the best position to put him down
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This is a gentle heart-warming bedtime tale featuring the popular Big & Little Bear. Little Bear has found a little-bear-sized cave to play in...and when night falls he decides to sleep there too. But as he looks out of his cave at the moon shining through the dark trees Little Bear starts to wonder whether Big Bear might not be lonely without him... This is the fifth book in the award-winning Big & Little Bear" series that has sold over six million copies worldwide." ...

Sleep
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- is one of the most common 21st century health complaints. Only 1 in 10 of us say we always sleep well;

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