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It has been two years since Nicholas lost his wife. Still bereft he decides to take a holiday on the Greek island of Rhodes, hoping that the break will help him in his recovery. Whilst there he takes a day trip to the tiny island of Halki. On the ferry he meets Alessandra, who is working as a researcher at the museum on Rhodes.
Usati is a four year old growing up in Sunnyvale, a small, poor and remote sugar cane farming village in Trinidad in the 1940's. He describes the world he sees, and captures the language and culture of the mainly illiterate peasant workers who live around him.
Vince is an accomplished liar and undercover Special Branch agent. Truth, for him, is the story we tell. Sworn to his country, committed to his work, he takes on a new mission - masquerading as an Islamic convert to infiltrate a British Jihadi group.
Luck is the story of Daniel - a man born with the gift of being able to influence others. He learns thathe can both charm as well as destroy. As his ability grows, so does his craving for acceptance.
On a cold December Sunday, book-seller Jack Carter struggles through the ritual of making breakfast for his wife Eva, whose dementia confines her body to her bed and her mind to a world of its own.
At 10am on the 3rd of May, 2013, Paul walked into John's therapy room. The sense of fear was immediate and palpable. He was shaking, hadn't slept meaningfully for weeks, was barely able to function and in unbearable psychological and physical pain.
January 1918: Franz Becker, a high-scoring, decorated ace, rejoins his fighter squadron in Flanders. He has been fighting since October 1914, and is suffering badly from the strain of war. Imperial Germany is almost finished, strangled by the Allied blockade, its people starving.
A bomb goes off at the Tobacco Market, London. John Chase, ex-Fusilier and Red Marine, is wrongly arrested. Along with Burns, a union official who has confessed to the bombing, he is taken to The Warrior, a prison hulk moored on the Thames. Discovering that he and Burns are to be murdered, Chase manages to escape to the safe confines of the Warren.
This book is the much awaited follow up to the 'The Poetry Bug'. The poems enable children to dream the world through different eyes. It gives a voice to how they feel about themselves, their loved ones and the exciting, confusing and scary world in which they find themselves. 'The Poetry Bug Strikes Again' is, above all, playful.
A light-hearted meditation on the role of luck, societal pressures, conventions and mores on success in science. The stories of fifty inventors whom history has all but forgotten in this treasury of facts that will amaze and amuse, together with a few myths debunked along the way.
Deals with all aspects of the role and responsibility of being a Churchwarden. The aim of this book is to encourage Churchwardens to approach their role with confidence, and with the knowledge that much can be achieved in their term of office. The C of E has 30,000 churchwardens, of which several thousand are elected for the first time every year.
In this spiritual biography, Patricia de Menezes offers her witness to the revelations given her by Jesus over three decades. These centre on the name Divine Innocence, which Jesus revealed to be an attribute of the Holy Trinity manifested in himself.
Rachel Holloway is a school teacher with an unremarkable life. That is, until one day when everything changes forever and she is given the gift (or is it curse?) of being able to see and speak with the dead - amongst others...
Free spirits or conflicted souls? Three friends embark on a journey but where they end up is their choice.
While there are many self-help books that promise the world, there are very few that answer the age-long question of how to achieve great success. Arise from Grass to Greatness: Parts One and Two fill the gap by showcasing the step-by-step principles of how to move from poverty to prosperity in an organized whole.
Until the appearance in the 1870 of the Memoir written by her nephew J.E. Austen Leigh, very little was known about Jane Austen beyond what could be deduced from her major novels. This had been her family's choice.
January, 1348. They say bad things come in threes...The day after an earthquake and tsunami have ravaged Venice, Malin Le Cordier, a successful English maritime trader, sails into the city with plans to mature a coup on behalf of Edward III and Genoa. His time? Short. His guilt? Strong. Keeping the coup a secret weighs heavy on his soul.
When Sarah Moore and her husband Gary learned that they were expecting a baby, they thought their wait was over. After a long and challenging path to become parents, they felt certain their deepest prayers had been answered and they would soon be parents.
The Good HSE Book is a complete guide to the process of creating a practical and implementable HSE Management System applicable to projects in the oil and gas industry.
Justine and her close friend Ka work for the Paris fashion house of Schiaparelli in the early fifties, when French haute couture is bursting with glamour and intrigue. Each has a reason for making a lot of money rapidly.
Which of Edinburgh's most gruesome murders has happened in your street? And were they committed by Burke and Hare, by the Stockbridge Baby-Farmer, by the Demon Frenchman of George Street, by the Triple Killer of Falcon Avenue, or perhaps by one of the Capital's many faceless, spectral slayers
After the shocking arrival of her new stepmother and horrid stepbrother, Elvie, an unloved princess, finds herself even more alone than ever before. The dreadful wounding of a young dragon changes her world forever along with that of the servant boy, Flint.
Introducing Beyond the Red Curtain and Other Plays, a compelling collection of four full-length plays which deal with individuals forced to confront unexpected and challenging situations with which they cannot cope.
In 1979 Helen returns from Algeria to a much-changed UK, where she must juggle sole parenthood with the demands of a successful career. Her life unravels when her older son develops acute leukaemia and his devastated brother spirals into depression and addiction.
The year is Nineteen hundred and eighty eight. A young Egyptologist, Cassandra Seldon, has been sent to Egypt to find proof to support a new timeline theory, called Dynasty Zero, predating the First Dynasty. However, the reserved Archaeologist, Mark McCormick, is also on this excavation for one reason, to prove her wrong.
When Hannah gets her own pony, she hopes it will signal the beginning of her being successful at something - because until then, she has been pretty much hopeless at just about everything.
Inspired by tales from author Laura Reynolds' grandmother's childhood and her penchant for fun sayings and riddles, Joanie May, The London Girl, introduces children to Cockney Rhyming Slang in a playful and poetic way.
'Rhythm and blues, psychedelia, surf rock, Latin grooves and a sprinkling ofsaccharine pop.... 'All found their way into the mix, not infrequently within the same song. A riot of distortedguitars, Farfisa organ, drums and brass, frequently overlaid with ethereally high-pitchedfemale vocals, that combined to evok
Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights stipulates that everyone should be guaranteed adequate food, housing, healthcare and social security.
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