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Micky and Ysabel are an ordinary brother and sister living ordinary lives until Micky helps a homeless man and discovers a mysterious ring. Their adventures take them to the land of gods and monsters and the far distant past. Only if they put right what once went wrong can they save themselves ...

A famous author is invited to a party in the middle of nowhere, a party attended by some of the most powerful people in the world. On the way there, he meets a porn star. Later, when they're already at the party, he watches as the poor woman is taken away because some people want to have fun with her. And why was he invited to that party?Years later, that same writer takes a private flight to New Zealand. One of the passengers on that flight is the billionaire Samuel Obberbrunner. Unknown to everyone, Samuel is heading to his bunker where immortality is waiting for him. But to achieve immortality he will have to leave love and everything else behind him for a long time.

After being imprisoned and tortured for 72 days because of his writing and political views, a Chinese dissident turned short-story writer makes his way out of China through the mountains, stops in Vietnam for one day, and then ends up in Frankfurt, and later Brooklyn, where he writes short fragments of his life and of the nightmare he has left behind. This is his story, as told by him and those around him.Are we the lucky ones because we have no dreams to follow? ,,Just fragments of a life.

Lyrics spanning the last forty years or so, covering many aspects of life and uses of the imagination. They range over a wide list of topics from a haunting thumbnail biography of the French poet, Rimbaud, to the practical no-nonsense resilience of a prostitute. Songs of love, the blues, and rock and roll, sit comfortably side by side with comic song lyrics about trains and spoof Country and Western as well as a collection of themed lyrics about addiction, and another about animals which evokes ancient pagan English roots.Links are included to access the recorded songs online.

In the months leading up to the war in Ukraine, three CIA field agents go missing and a double agent is suspected in the Kyiv embassy or the network of contacts used to gather intelligence. Desperate to uncover the traitor, the CIA commit a top European operative but after narrowing the list of suspects, Brett himself goes missing, and his eight-year-old son Ben is abducted from his Virginia home.What the conspirators haven't reckoned on are the consequences of unleashing the wrath of Brett's wife, Ben's mother, Saffron...

Pete Peterson has cracked the United States as both a live artist and a recording star but at some personal cost to his health. Meanwhile the former policeman, Ray Law is climbing the greasy pole as a soul singer with a first hit, 'The Love Game' and as part of a revue with two Motown legends. And Janine is juggling her growing abilities as a manager with her complex love life. Having or taking it easy doesn't enter the equation.With special bonus video link of 'The Love Game'.

Help and revenge.They had always come at a price.But redemption?Redemption has a cost of its own.Donaldson's men have been asked to enter the heart of Stalin's Russia to rescue an imprisoned scientist and afterwards a grieving mother gives them a chance to gain what has long escaped them.....redemption.The stunning sequel to 'Mr. Donaldson's Company'

Mr. Ben - Chimezie Benedict Ihekuna - is a philosopher of sorts, playing with the words we bandy around in speech, dabbling in the peculiarity of the messages passed across in the form of 'talking', and TALKING THOUGHTS is simply thoughts that are talking! Or rather it isn't just that at all. It's a combination of poetry, inspiration, and stories touching on gender interests, politics, relationships, general knowledge, philosophy, and science. Above all else, it's about communication between human beings and the opportunity it brings for playfulness in the passing over of information on feelings and emotions - on our realities - and it's about how vital the quality of that communication really is.

Valverde del Camino, 2019. A serial killer leaves a third corpse with the same note in Huelva. It's the police's only lead. Three weeks and nothing.Ángela Ramírez left Valverde after her mother's death, and now, convinced by her partner and her best friend from her youth, she will have to return to face her most difficult case, and not only that, but also her past. A past she thought she had left behind.With the help of the Guardia Civil, Angela and Julieta, who dreams of becoming famous as a private detective, will have to find the murderer who has been tormenting the hitherto quiet Huelva for almost a month. And all this while solving something even more complicated than the crimes they're investigating - their own relationship.From Huelva to Valverde and throughout the province, Angela and Julieta will have to trust each other more than ever to unravel the identity and motives that have led someone to murder three people with no apparent connection.

The book is a quest to discover what happened to British manufacturing in the decades after the Second World War. People say that we don't make things anymore. Is this true?I try to answer this question by exploring what happened in manufacturing sectors and to major manufacturing companies. I seek out manufacturing heroes, and try to map out where we are with the twenty-first century well underway.In 1951, the Festival of Britain was celebrating British manufacturing; we built ships, wonderful aircraft like the Viscount and cars a plenty. Seventy years later a British company and a British University teamed up to produce a vaccine that saved thousands of lives from Covid.It has been a period of astonishing change, from a third of the working population employed in manufacturing to now just one tenth. Britain now ranks eighth among the world's top manufacturing nations.This book seeks to explore what has changed: the story of British manufacturing from steam trains to semiconductors; from cotton mills to 3D printing; from ocean liners to satellites.

Sophocles, the Greek Dramatist, who lived from 497-406 BC, was one of the great dramatists of all time and his tragedy, Oedipus Rex among the greatest of plays ever written but Sophocles had the benefit of another play, Laius, now long-lost, based on the same mythic story, by the Greek dramatist Aeschylus (525-456 BC). John Wright has now recreated the story of Laius, the king of Thebes, and the father of Oedipus in the form and style of Shakespearian drama and thus written mainly in blank verse, sometimes using rhyming couplets to end scenes. The only real liberty taken with the original narrative is with the location of Laius' death, killed, unbeknownst, by his own son, Oedipus in fulfilment of the prophesy of the Oracle of Delphi that Laius would die by his son's hands and that Oedipus would go on to marry his own mother.

Martial arts stories are usually about fighting, punching and kicking, but these stories are about how lives can be changed for better or worse, about how not all training is physical and not all of it takes place inside the dojo, dojang or kwoon, and how sometimes it doesn't even look like martial arts training at all! These stories are about the dangers and difficulties posed by martial arts and about the pleasures which keep people practising them for a lifetime.

The career of Burning Spear - the Rastafarian roots reggae singer otherwise known as Winston Rodney

A relationship is a numbers' game.Sometimes positive, sometimes negative,Some multiply, some divide,Mainly odd, rarely even.Life is a magic trick.It comes and then it goes,And no-one knows the solution. A collection of short prose and verses about life and relationships.

Whitechapel 1888The anatomy of a bloody murderer...Thirteen year old Thomas Edilstein has ample grounds to seek revenge on any number of his former neighbours in the East End of London, holding them responsible for the deaths of his parents and the good people poised to adopt him but where will following his murderous instincts take him?

Sammy is thirteen and lives with his mum in Tipton-on-Sea. His dream of deep sea scuba-diving is thwarted when his first lesson is brought to a halt by a commotion. A fishing boat has gone missing.Mrs. Anderson claims the boat has been stolen and she knows who did it putting the town's residents in complete shock - no such crime has been committed in living memory.Sammy and his scuba teacher, Mr Murphy, seem to be the only two who question Mrs Anderson's evidence but when they challenge her, they discover the town is turning on them for not trusting her.Can Sammy and Mr Murphy find the truth of the missing boat before their warm, friendly town is lost forever?

Josh reluctantly goes to spend part of the summer in a remote area of Wales, where his dad is working. He expects boredom, but by the sea and in the shadow of the ancient village church, he ends up discovering a mystery that he's determined to solve before time runs out.A frightening farmer, a long-lost tunnel, glimpses of mysterious barrels floating out to sea and reports of a ghost ship, are all part of the puzzle and Josh has to work out if and how they are connected before he can solve the mystery.Will his daring plan succeed?

A tale of two livesOne life:Stoker James Jolly - left school hardly able to read and write. Self-educated and eventually enlisted in the Royal Navy. Destined to fight in the Battle of Jutland in 1916Another life:Olav Peterson - shipwrecked off the coast of Iceland. Destined to find love in a nation for whom his knowledge and talents are vital.

The story of M÷, the science fiction author and counter-hero of the illusion of movement and cast away your dreams of darkness, continues in the final volume of Peter Raposo's trilogy.Is Artificial Intelligence the image of the Beast as described in the Bible? Will the Machine be our last invention? Are reptilian shape shifters living amongst us? Is time travelling possible and are time travellers visiting us now? Or are we just characters in a game?Set at the start of 2023, those who lie will fade and die finds M÷ trying to move on with his life after his latest breakup. Easier said than done. On his journey towards a new life, he's told about an ancient race of snake-like people who have lived among us since the beginning of time and he even meets a time traveller. And as if that wasn't enough, Donald Trump is making a comeback and Steven Seagal is teaching martial arts to troops in Russia.Maybe Musk is right and we're living in a computer simulation, forever bound to repeat the mistakes of the past.

When Buster eats his Grandma's Christmas Cake, it's the final straw - he's banished to live with his Mum, Kitty, a teacher in an English boarding school.A fateful meeting with a school bully turns Buster's life upside down. He goes from a happy gregarious life to the misery of bullying, loneliness and separation anxiety and the differing attentions of the vet and the Headmaster.Salvation comes when he befriends Leon, the President of America's 10 year old son who teaches him to love music and dance. But when Buster discovers a plot to kidnap Leon he must face terrible danger if he is to save his new friend , his mum and the school..A delightful contemporary story for 6-12-year-olds of school friendship, animal welfare and cultural understanding and the final thrilling surprise ending will excite everyone - especially Buster - The Dog Who Danced With Danger.

On the eve of the Royal Navy's Zeebrugge Raid of 23rd April 1918, Chief Inspector Knocker Harris is hunting a vicious murderer of young women. And where better for a murderer to hide than in plain sight where his peculiar talents would be readily concealed and most highly prized … in His Majesty's armed forces.

The Mute Swan - a giant star-ship setting off on a long, one-way voyage. On board a new, young, maintenance engineer, Pen Pleasant, about to find his contract for thirty hours of duty over a two year period superseded by events beyond his control turning a routine job into the adventure of a lifetime.

Sixteen year old Callie Crossan is a harvester, left on Earth and forced to support those who fled to EarthMoon. When her illegal relationship with Ben Rhea is discovered, to avoid punishment they must undertake a mission deep into the Wilds to find Dealga, the cure, because the medication mankind now relies upon is failing and the final eradication of the species is at hand.A dystopian romantic adventure for young adults about a future in which mankind has ceased to be mindful and respectful of our planet.

It's the end of the Swinging Sixties: a hedonistic time of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll - and violence. At the opening night of the brand new million-pound music club The Lexxicon, coloured spotlights slice through the atmospheric haze, enveloping the three figures standing centre stage: multi-millionaire club owner Gerry Fortuna, his wife Janine, and rock star Pete Peterson. All three, harbouring secrets they know must never be revealed.Gerry Fortuna is hell bent on building his empire, Janine is intent on having lots of fun and lots of sex, while Pete Peterson is rapidly climbing the ladder of success in the cut-throat music industry. Three lives inextricably intertwined in a world of sordid affairs, drugs, terrorism ... and murder. Sometimes, even all the money in the world is not enough.For those who enjoy their drama dark, gritty and brutally honest - the debut novel from Des Tong.

From enlistment in Lord Kitchener's army, through the great set-piece battles in Flanders, two northern lads struggle to survive through the long years of static warfare and the advent of the tank until the armistice of November 1918. Heroism and abject fear - the lives of the Tommies in the trenches of Flanders fighting the Hun brought graphically to life in the story of Matti and Enrico.

An anthology of short fiction themed around Birmingham written by authors attending the Author City 2023 event at the Council House Birmingham on 15th July 2023. Stories by Lee Benson, Jill Griffin, TG Campbell, Andrew Sparke, Pat Spence, Dawn Torrens, Martin Tracey, Punam Farnah, Mike Chinn, Maggie Fogarty, Jane Andrews, Catherine Hytner and Darren De Toni.

Fourteen year-old Sophie Gordon's life changes forever when her mentally frail mother loses her fight with depression and takes her own life. Her father seeks solace in alcohol, and Sophie finds comfort in food which transitions into compulsive dieting.The Diet rapidly takes over her mind and body until it becomes life-threatening. Will Sophie break free from her obsession with losing, or will it overcome her?A novel of secrets and loss, reality and obsession, coping and going under - and of survival.

This book tells the story of Sutton Coldfield between 1800 and 1914. With a focus on the struggles to bring to an end the self-appointed corporation, the arrival of the railway, shops, schools, law and order and leisure, it is a work of social history. During the period that this book covers, Sutton was transformed beyond any origins asa mere suburb of Birmingham. It could fairly be said that more of consequence happened in Sutton in the nineteenth century than any preceding century, including the sixteenth century when Bishop Vesey secured a royal charter. The book includes many contemporary images.

I'll turn into f…. Houdini and disappear.When the woman he loves says that she no longer wants to see him, M÷ doesn't know what to do, what to say. Instead of pleading, he walks away while trying to keep the pieces of his broken heart together. Around him, the world is spinning out of control.A new war has started, the Queen has died, Elon has bought Twitter, Tate is trying to escape the agents of the Matrix, while the mysterious Invisible Hand is trying to take over the entire world. The sequel to the illusion of movement finds M÷ searching for God, meeting all sort of crazy characters along the way, including a possible time-traveller, while trying to forget the woman he loves. But damn love is hard to forget.