Billy Fox a young boy from a rural area of Scullyman in England soon embarks on a quest to save the world from an alien invasion. One day he discovers a strange egg in his backyard which soon escalates into a matter of life or death for him and the whole of the human race. Soon a white witch and a duck team up with the boy to find a way to dispose of the egg before the Stellarlites invade earth.
One morning, Billy Fox finds a strange, long black mark on his life-line in the palm of his hand. As he searches online for any unbiased medical information he could find at his local library. He is soon befriended by a mysterious tall man called Mr Limerick. The stranger tells Billy, he has been marked with the Bloodstone Curse by someone. Then, very soon, as time goes by, his friends start going missing, as a demonic creature the Gadel is soon blamed for their disappearance. This leads Billy to make a very hard choice, and the only way to free his friends and lift the curse is to kill himself. Will he take his own life, to save the ones he loves? Or will Billy venture across the sands of Sandark, to slay the beast beyond the Black Rainbow?
When Billy Fox receives a parcel one morning. He opens it, only to find some macabre gift sent to him from Ms. Cain. But something seems to tell him, this strange item could not be from the white witch, but someone else. Then, from that moment on, his life spirals into a waking nightmare, when a voodoo spirit known as the Janitou is conjured up to possess Billy's body and soul. Will this be the end of Billy Fox? And will Vaul the black witch, finally have her ultimate revenge?
The Raven's Inn- was a four-hundred-year-old guest house, that welcomed travellers and locals alike. The inn was on an island called Lance- just off the coast of England, and was favoured for its fine food and accommodation. But, the island also had a darker side. Within its midst-were, a crew of fishermen who went by the name of the Anchormen. They were secretive and cruel and kidnapped travellers who came to the island. Once taken, they were sold to Europe and America as slaves, and personal treasures were looted to sustain their evil empire. One day, an eccentric, Jamaican born gentleman, Johnson Brown arrives at the island and soon disappears. The locals begin to talk, while the Anchormen harbour their deceitful secret. Left to die underground. The visitor not only brings a fatal disease to the island-he also curses Raven's Inn.
Based on a true story of a painting called 'the crying boy' painted by Bruno Amadio after the second world war. The portrait represented the children orphaned by the war. The prints made their way into the Uk and Europe and many house fires were blamed on the picture which came out unscathed. My story is fictional and has no connection to the facts of the pictures that were soon thought of as cursed. It begins in 1915 when children go missing in a residential area of Deadwood in Pinestork. Soon a body of a man is found at his burnt down house with a painting which survived the fire which resembles one of the missing children. Many decades later the ghost of one of the missing children tries's to warn a blind girl Rosie of an evil that lurks beyond the cursed painting of the Crying Boy.
What would happen if Mother Nature was a real person? What would happen if she came looking for the one's who betrayed nature? Over 25 years Cobble farm had remained a desolate and forbidden place. One day Jules Knight and his wife Kate who owns the farm discovers a skull on their land. Soon after their find, the crops begin to die and birds stop singing a tune. Then mysteriously they both disappear without a trace, which leads their daughter Lorraine to pick up the pieces and try to make sense of her parent's disappearance. Many years later after getting married to Bob and having a daughter Sandra, the Phoenix family moves into the farmhouse. Everything seemed normal until one day the skull resurfaces and the spirit of the Green Lady is released to seek revenge on the ones that had betrayed nature.
This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
This report sets out the findings of the public inquiry into the murder in March 2000 at Feltham Young Offender Institution of Zahid Mubarek, an Asian teenager. Mubarek died after being attacked by another young prisoner, his cellmate Robert Stewart, who had a history of violence and racist behaviour. The report identifies the systemic shortcomings which the attack exposed and makes 88 recommendations to reduce the risk of such an attack in the future. Issues discussed include: the events leading up to the public inquiry, including previous investigations by the Prison Service and the Commission for Racial Equality; the mental health background and custodial history of Stewart; the events on the night of the attack; and the wider ongoing problems at Feltham of staff shortages and low staff morale, lack of resources and overcrowding; poor working practices and evidence of racism by staff and prisoners. Recommendations made include: the elimination of enforced cell-sharing should be a high priority for the Prison Service and it should publish guidelines to assist officers in the allocation of prisoners who have to share a cell, taking into account issues of ethnic and religious background; there should be a general rule that an unconvicted prisoner should not share a cell with a convicted prisoner; full cell searches should be carried out at least once every three months; prisoner councils should be set up as part of violence reduction strategies in prisons; improved diversity training for prison staff; and the need for a national database for security information on prisoners to improve the flow of information between and within establishments to help prisoner risk assessment procedures.
Since the publication of earlier editions, there has been The new edition has a number of new contributors, a considerable increase in research activity ina number who have written on the nervous system, sense organs, of areas, with each succeeding edition including new muscle, endocrines, reproduction, digestion and immu chapters and an expansion of knowledge in older chap nophysiology. Contributors from previous editions ters. have expanded their offerings considerably. The fourth edition contains two new chapters, on The authors are indebted to various investigators, muscle and immunophysiology, the latter an area journals and books for the many illustrations used. Indi where research on Aves has contributed significantly vidual acknowledgement is made in the legends and to our general knowledge of the subject. references. Preface to the 'Third Edition Since the publication of the first and second editions, pathways of birds and mammals. New contributors in there has been a considerable increase of research activ clude M. R. Fedde and T. B. Bolton, who have com ity in avian physiology in a number of areas, including pletely revised and expanded the chapters on respira endocrinology and reproduction, heart and circulation, tion and the nervous system, respectively, and J. G. respiration, temperature regulation, and to a lesser ex Rogers, Jr. , W. J. Mueller, H. Opel, and D. e. Meyer, who have made contributions to Chapters 2,16, 17, tent in some other areas. There appeared in 1972-1974 a four volume treatise and 19, respectively.
