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Welcome to the world of the New England elite. The more understated scions and power brokers who choose to live behind the suburban curtain of anonymity. Behind the velvet rope their chosen life maintains privacy and hides the truth from the outside world. For some a private paradise, for others a gilded cage. Be careful what you wish for. Mirage in the Mirror interweaves a tapestry of multiple families in one story as they all meet at the crossroads. The Armstrong's appear to have a charmed life. Amanda Armstrong comes from the best family lineage and her husband John is a self-made businessman eyeing a life in politics. When their son Teddy is diagnosed with severe autism their family, portrait, masterpiece begins to crack down the middle. They open a school and residential program for autistic children but don't have the skills to deal with their own son one on one. Both find refuge in their own sordid diversions. Their mantra is, why suffer if you don't have to? Caitlin Mayfair and Carol Simeone are both high profile professional women who once had the trappings of their blue blood, entitled employers. Both lose their genteel futures at the hands of misogynous men. Now they will recapture what was taken from them and execute justice upon those who robbed them. Women power prevails at long last. If someone dies along the way, it's nothing personal. Tom and Libby Houston have a prominent but empty marriage. That wasn't the plan it's just how things turned out. With bad memories of a deceased son, they have too much time and money on their hands to help escape the past. An explosive day of reckoning awaits. Sometimes we never really know the ones we love most. Brad Goguen and Rick Tavares are two outside criminal grifters who charm their way into the lives and wallets of Mansfield Country Club's finest. Services rendered come with an unexpected cost. Mirage in the Mirror takes an unflinching look at today's most pressing social issues with unrelenting suspense leading to an ultimate showdown. Glamour is eclipsed by gritty realism as an eclectic cast of characters remove the mask from their faces in one powerhouse, family saga. The truth versus the mirage in the mirror.

A comprehensive timeline of pop culture, news events, football, television and pop music from England in the 1980s.Over 300 pages of memories and nostalgia (laid out in 5,000 headline bullet points) for people that lived in England between 1980 and 1989.A brief chronology of events: A pint of lager in the Red Lion costs 64p, Mrs Thatcher at No. 10, Telex machines, ZX80 home computer, Mork & Mindy, West Ham win the cup, Business Enterprise Zones, Alan Sugar, Amstrad tower hi-fi, Asteroids, Bob Paisley's Liverpool are champs, Who shot JR? Ford Escort XR3, CND, Protect and Survive, Austin Metro, John Lennon murdered, Adam and the Ants, Flash Gordon at the pictures, Hi-Di-Hi on TV, Thatcher meets Reagan, New Romantics, Two million unemployed, Street riots, Lilt, Charles and Di get married, Botham wins the Ashes, Only Fools and Horses, Don't You Want Me Baby, CB Radio, Rubik's Cube, Two point five million unemployed, Greenham Common, Erica Roe, ZX Spectrum, Pac Man, Three million unemployed, Falklands War, Bananarama, Spurs win the cup, Villa conquer Europe, Fame, Legwarmers, Three point one million unemployed, Boys from the Blackstuff, Young Guns - Go For It, Daley Thompson, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, The all new Ford Sierra, Boy George, Channel 4, Commodore 64, Breakfast TV, Sam Fox on Page 3, Kajagoogoo, Wispa chocolate bar, Pound coin, Blue Monday, Tucker's Luck, Landslide victory for Mrs. Thatcher, Um Bongo, Vauxhall Astra GTE, Blockbusters, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Acorn v Sinclair, BMX bikes, Now That's What I Call Music, Torvill and Dean, FGTH, Crafty Cockney, Break Dancing, The Miners strike, The Smiths, Joe Fagin's Liverpool are champs, Flying pickets, The enemy within, Choose Life, YTS schemes, Mario Bros, Indiana Jones, Virgin Atlantic, Brighton bomb, Vauxhall Astra MKII, Do They Know It's Christmas, Amstrad CPC 464, Trivial Pursuit, Filofaxes, Racal Vodafone, Next, Tears for Fears, Mullet hairstyles, Sinclair C5, EastEnders, Fire at Bradford City, You Spin Me Round, Max Headroom, Howard Kendall's Everton are champs, 19, Band Aid Concert, A View To A Kill, Madonna, Gary Lineker, Money For Nothing, Hole in Ozone Layer, Back to the Future, Amstrad PCW8256, Maria Whittaker on Page 3, West End Girls, Today newspaper, Dalglish's Liverpool do 'the double', Wham! split up, Jossy's Giants, The Hand of God, Privatisation, Tell Sid, Yuppies, BMW 325i, M25, House music, Don't Die of Ignorance, Dirty Den divorces Ang, Cynthia Payne, Gatting's England win the Ashes, Castlemaine XXXX, Herald of Free Enterprise sinks, Everton are champs, Coventry City win the cup, Grolsch flip top beer, Rita, Sue and Bob too, Terence Trent D'Arby, Timothy Dalton is 007, Never Gonna Give You Up, Third term for Mrs. Thatcher, Black Monday, Share prices plummet, Hilda Ogden says 'Ta-ra', Fairytale of New York, Eddie the Eagle, Red Nose Day, Simon Mayo on Radio One, Hello magazine, Crazy Gang win the cup, Loadsamoney, Acid, E's and Wizz, Scampi Fries, Rolling Rock beer, The all new Vauxhall Cavalier, Jason and Kylie, Lockerbie, Mistletoe and Wine, Del Boy falls through bar, Dirty Den shot dead, Sky TV, Frank Bruno, Nick Faldo, Hillsborough Disaster, Arsenal are champs (just!), Jive Bunny, Batman at the pictures, Terry Butcher's blood soaked head bandage, Ulrika on TV-AM, Ambulance drivers on strike, Happy Mondays, Baggy jeans, Bucket hats, Stone Roses, A pint of lager in the Red Lion costs £1.22

The 12 short stories featured in this volume were the catalyst for the first literary fandom, the success of The Strand Magazine, and Arthur Conan Doyle's lifelong career as the writer of the Sherlock Holmes adventures.

This volume features 12 enthralling Sherlock Holmes stories, culminating in 'The Final Problem', which caused much uproar and controversy among the fictional detective's loyal fans.

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Knowledge should make the world seem smaller, but for this royal runaway, it will be the exact opposite. Rubi is the youngest child of a famed rebellion leader, and also a Collector - a rare human sorcerer. Unbound by the laws of natural magic, it is said that a Collector can learn to do anything imaginable. Onboard her ship and far from human cities, she is free of the politics and hatred between humanity and magical beings. Things are better this way. She has the time to chase her own needs and leave a place whenever she pleases. Then one day, a pair of mysterious drifters with blue striped cheeks board her ship of misfits, and fate engulfs her and her friends into unimaginable danger. Thrust into a world of elemental demons and their regenerating counterparts, the Tsuki, Rubi learns of the three mythical Perfect Immortals and the War of the Gods that preceded them. Now dragged into the fray, Rubi must harness her power and strive to protect the youngest of the immortals, a seven year old girl with the limitless potential to become a savior or a monster.