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It seems the afterlife will not relinquish its grip on Mac Closkey, even after taking from him his marriage and human love. His unusual ministry calls him to investigate Victorian bodies discovered on the local mountain. Once hazed by the world of spirits, Mac Closkey has solved the legendary Jack the Ripper case. Soon his local chapter requires his help to look for the head of the ex-commissioner's wife whose disappearance is not as straightforward a murder as it first seems. Its repercussions will ripple through the highest realms of British society.

Angry Albert Alligator is large and has red angry eyes and a mouthful of very sharp teeth but he is actually a gentle soul and proves to be a caring friend who is interested in learning about his fellow creatures in the zoo. He has an adventure which takes place on one night only which is daring and fun and very special for him and his friends and hopefully for you too. His story is delightful and well-imagined and will captivate the very young and their older siblings who will learn to read the simple dialogue and read it to their younger brothers or sisters. Young children have great imaginations and Angry Albert Alligator will spark ideas and a visit to the zoo may never be the same again as they imagine the animals getting together at night once everyone has gone home.

A man was driving a lorry when it broke down. He got out of the cab to see if he could repair the lorry when a massive blast overturned it and rendered him unconscious. When he awoke, the world was on fire and he found some shelter in a partially ruined building. He remained there for some days before finally walking away to try to find other survivors. He found a small family and helped them in their difficulties. He realised then that his future mission in life was to find more survivors and help them as much as possible.

Natasha, raised in an orphanage in Hiroshima, has always been searching for the truth about her past. But when she becomes one of two female commanders on a space lab tracking two massive asteroids, she finds herself in the middle of a mystery that threatens to end life as we know it. With the Earth on the brink of destruction, everyday objects are appearing in the strangest places - over 250,000 years old, and seemingly out of time. From digital watches in museums to modern spectacles in ancient Egyptian digs, something is not right. And as the asteroids change direction, heading straight for the planet, a third, massive, metallic sphere appears. Will Natasha and the team be able to stop the impending extinction event, or will the Earth be lost forever?

Everyone wishes their dreams could come true, but what happens when they are under attack? Eager to evade the looming consciousness of her dreams, Galen Valentine strives to beat the strongest, darkest and most twisted power that exists-the Dreamcatcher. Galen is prophesised as a saviour meant to save her dreams, but is torn between two rivals keen to win her over and earn her undying trust. Does she fight for her own survival, or does she wage a war for love? From dream to enemy to lover, Galen Valentine is stuck in her own mind, and the only way out is to wake up.

Rosie O'Hara the theatre cat loves living at The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden London, where she can watch rehearsals and performances and have fun with the ballerinas. If you love ballet and animals, enter the world of backstage and front-of-house excitement as the children of The Royal Ballet School arrive for The Nutcracker rehearsals. Join Rosie in her adventures with the ballerinas and dancers as no area is out of bounds! Rosie is loved by everyone and is a welcome member of 'staff.' This beautifully illustrated children's book takes you into the magical world of The Royal Ballet Company, where children and adults will be captivated by the behind-the-scenes antics of Rosie before the audience arrives.

In the 1962 edition of Australia in the War of 1939-45, Dudley McCarthy describes his account as "the story of small groups of men, infinitesimally small against the mountains in which they fought, who killed one another in stealthy and isolated encounters beside the tracks which were life to all of them; of warfare in which men first conquered the country and then allied themselves with it and then killed or died in the midst of a great loneliness." The jungle warfare in New Guinea and throughout the Pacific tested troops and their support apparatus to the very limits of endurance. Often the test proved too difficult. Once hardened by experience, those fighting men who lived and died in the jungle, eventually became masters of their surroundings, with the strength and skill required to dominate and defeat their opponents. The jungle changed those who fought within its depths fundamentally. Survival in the jungle requires stamina, prudence, and imagination to compensate for the discomfort, disorientation, and isolation the jungle imposes on all who venture within. The jungle is a primaeval world in which sound and light, heat and damp collide, corrode and corrupt, until all that is left is sensation, fear, uncertainty, and McCarthy's 'great loneliness'. Against the Rising Sun is the first novel by Steven Sharman, born of a twin passion for history and fiction, dedicated to courage under fire.

Discover the hidden potential of the walnut tree - nature's very own pharmacy, whose benefits have been known since antiquity. From its use in house and furniture building, where it is regarded as a true aristocrat among woods, to its pharmaceutical properties, every part of this tree has a valuable purpose. But did you know that a mere 28g of walnut kernel provides 7g of protein - equivalent to 13% of your recommended daily intake? No wonder it's nicknamed 'the vegetarian meat'. And as well as its popularity as a nutritious snack, the walnut has many culinary uses. Try some of the recipes in this book to find out for yourself! Don't miss out on the true power of the walnut - unlock its benefits for a healthier you.

Everything has a time. Everything has a place. Everything has a balance. The world exists because it was allowed to. A delicate system that was handcrafted by Time himself to be perfect, to be balanced. His workers, forces as timeless as him, ensured the balance was kept so life could continue to thrive, to grow, to evolve. No one threatened the balance more than humans. Humans, who rarely saw the world beyond what was right before them. Ignorance was something they had perfected over years of existence, and ignorance fed Chaos. Chaos wanted nothing more than a world unbalanced, a world broken and fearful, where order was no longer present, and he was determined to succeed, through any means necessary. For Time, it was a battle, for Chaos it was a game, but whether it was a battle or game, losing wasn't an option. The fate of the world was left to the humans, the unknowing pawns in the game. But Chaos is not so easily overcome.

How do we ensure that people undertake higher education (HE) only when they have adequate information? Why are there higher numbers of people enrolling into HE studies than ever before? Why are there so many students dropping out of so many institutions? How do we balance learning in HE with our private life? What skills are acquired in HE? What are the challenges associated with learning in HE? These are among the questions the book will attempt to respond to. Indeed, several people begin HE with little or no information about the structure, changes, and practices in HE. Some are not even aware of the skills they desire to acquire and that will be required of them in the job market. People commence HE blindly, partly due to external pressure and partly due to the availability of financial support through scholarships, among other things. This unawareness of what it takes to be a student and the current complexity of HE learning environment have become a stumbling block for many students. This book is designed to provide HE stakeholders (parents, students, institutions, supervisors, teachers, governments, and donor agencies) with information on HE that is otherwise missing. It will help people to make better decisions on whether they need a degree in the first place, and if they do, what kind of skills they will require. The book consists of information that no institution, counsellor, academic supervisor, or scholarly literature will provide to you. (This is the main reason which motivated the author to write this book.) The author has collected useful data from diverse sources and from people who are responsible for implementing the required practices in HE. Moreover, she was able to capture testimony from students who dropped out of higher education. Their experiences will educate and inform readers about situations that may lead to failure or success in higher education learning. It is important to have the right information at the right time and from a reliable source such as this book, and the information in this book will surely benefit the readers to make better decisions before engaging in high-demand HE business, as well as supporting those who decide to join HE to be more conscious about what they need and what is expected of them. Similarly, by reading this book, some may find that they probably do not need the degree they are about to embark on. Information is power!

Juliet Fisher is a prosperous businesswoman with years of experience in the hospitality industry under her belt. She has five wonderful children whom she adores and a beautiful home in the Suffolk countryside. Yet life has not always been plain sailing. In this publication of Juliet's personal diaries - a task she has been devoted to for decades - an honest and reflective account of the heartbreaks and immense joys of travel, work, marriage and motherhood is brought to life. Juliet sheds light on the journey that so many women face, and with it brings a message of hope and survival; that we can overcome the trials we face and become stronger because of it. Growing Wings is a story of growth, understanding and the journey that life takes us on. There are certainly twists and turns, unforeseen circumstances, and bumps in the road along the way. But one thing we can be sure of, despite all of this: life is amazing.

The contents of this book are dear to me. They represent a part of my life that I have had to live and deal with. We are a broken object. We are all broken in different ways. Some of us in a small piece, some in a big piece, and some in several pieces all over. As the author of this book, I was looking for those pieces I had lost, trying to puzzle over where they belonged and where they should be. It felt like I was picking up pieces of broken glass: it cut me every time I picked up one of the pieces. In the end, though, I found a way to merge them with a little bit of gold.

The adventure continues as the bold heroine of Zhetybay emerges to reveal her true character. Forceful but gentle, determined yet compassionate; but is she really as Matt imagined? They thought the worst was over, and that the fear and horror was all behind them, believing that they were about to embark on a happy and peaceful life together. Some people most certainly had other ideas about what their future would entail, and as dangers from the past resurface to confront them, the obstacles increase accordingly. Their latest adventure takes them into a new arena where boardroom politics and hidden agendas replace "hands-on" operations, but the underlying threats remain as serious as ever.

Contained within the numerous items on display at the DDR Museum in Berlin is a brief though detailed account of a 1980 initiative on the part of the East German Politburo whereby the objective of this initiative was the seizure, by force, of West Berlin. Although the East German leader Erich Honecker and his colleagues in government were serious as regards to their incorporating West Berlin into East Germany, the Soviet Union, at that time, did not share the East German enthusiasm, due to the potential impact any invasion of West Berlin might have had on the Moscow Olympics and also because Brezhnev was conscious of Soviet presence in Afghanistan. However, two years later, with Leonid Brezhnev close to death, there are shenanigans afoot involving his would-be successors. One of the gambits is a plan by Yuri Andropov to resurrect the Erich Honecker initiative and deliver West Berlin for the Warsaw Pact. How would the West respond if this audacious Andropov power grab strategy was put into practice?

The gods - a story told over and over in different cultures. Norse, Greek, and Roman mythologies are all different versions of a similar story. But what about the Kahitiean gods? What about a world where gods, magic and fate intertwine to defeat evil? In the Kingdom of Solaris, all will be revealed to an unsuspecting girl whose destiny is predetermined. Facing trials more death-defying than the last, creatures unknown to this world, and horrors of the evil force threatening to take over the world, all to prove she is worthy of her destiny. Just to top it all off, complex riddles only she can solve, a new friend who tests the boundaries between love and hate, and a stowaway in the form of a six-year-old sister who has an incessant need for pancakes. Will she save the world? Or will she crumble and let humanity perish, destroying the kingdom of the gods?

In October 1957, Jeremy left his island paradise to become a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm, leaving behind, Maureen, the young girl he intended to marry as soon as he had completed his training. Unbeknown to him, family quarrels instigated by his controlling mother caused a breakdown in communication as their letters went undelivered, leaving the young couple to think that the other had broken the vow. Finding herself pregnant, Maureen leaves the island to live with her married sister in South Africa so as not to bring shame to her family. The Cold War is in full swing and the "Wind of Change" about to sweep the continent, soon bringing with it some of the toughest battles since WW2, on the borders of the country. Maureen, married and now widowed, returns to her island with her married son and small family. What had become of him, she often wonders. Did he ever think about her and their child? Had time erased his love for her?

IT IS THE LATE 1800S AND THOUGHTS OF HELL AND THE DEVIL ARE ALL SCARY BEDTIME STORIES TO JOSEPHINA. THAT IS UNTIL A SON OF HELL COMES TO EARTH. In the small village where she lives, Josephina's life is predictable and mundane. Desperate for adventure and excitement, she turns to unconventional hobbies that feed her soul. When a handsome duke arrives in town, Josephina becomes the envy of all the other girls. However, their courtship takes a dark turn, and Josephina will stop at nothing to escape. As she seeks refuge with Zephyr, a mysterious and alluring figure from a dangerous world, Josephina finds herself torn between her familiar life with her family and the allure of the underworld. With Zephyr's undeniable charm and the revelation that not everyone wants her there, Josephina must weigh all of her options and determine the fate that will ultimately shape her future.

In 1939, when Elizabeth, the daughter of a wealthy cotton mill owner, meets the dashing honourable James, she is overwhelmed by a handsome young man who is the opposite of her retiring, shy nature. Elizabeth has been schooled in etiquette at a Swiss finishing school but suffered slights from other girls from the 'best' families in Europe, titled and arrogant. Her father has no love of the aristocracy, wasters and scoundrels, he calls them, but for his daughter to be a future countess of Cumberland, that is something to contemplate. They marry but Elizabeth soon tires of the London scene. On the estate, Castle Hemgarth in the county of Cumberland, Elizabeth feels safe. World War 2 intercedes and takes James away, leaving Elizabeth to nurse her dying father-in-law and the estate. What Elizabeth and James want so badly is an heir but when James, an officer rising rank by rank, is away, what chance is there of that? Elizabeth finds courage and finds her feet as Countess of Cumberland and James has a wandering eye and a life away from Hemgarth.

''We ourselves, at the outset of the war, received from a responsible Serbian source this frank announcement: "We will extirpate the Albanians." Now that this system of annihilation is being persisted in without modification, despite all European protests, we deem it our duty to reveal the designs of the gentlemen of Belgrade without more ado... In this matter facts speak more loudly than any confessions could. Since Serbian troops crossed the borders last autumn and occupied districts there inhabited by Albanians, one blood-bath has followed another in sequence. In isolated cases the conqueror may have been forced in self-defence to proceed with all martial vigour against an Albanian village from which his troops were perhaps fired on from behind. But to raze hundreds of villages to the ground, to butcher tens of thousands of non-combatants, men, women, and children, these are deeds which no martial law, no precept of self-preservation enjoins..."

Whilst the purpose of this book is to discuss the dangers of the foods on the supermarket shelves, it is also autobiographical. The author has based it upon a period of her own life and the trials and tribulations she encountered. It includes spiritual matters, women's issues, social problems, politics, self-help, psychology, food intolerances, and family matters. One day she heard a man's voice speak to her. She knew instantly it was God's voice and He proceeded to tell her that she was going to be made into a very strong person where she would be able to travel around freely on her own (she had been slightly agoraphobic for years) to enable her to do the work she had come to do. Stella has been divorced, remarried, and has had sons and stepsons. She has in the past owned and run a property development company. She is a practising spiritual healer, counsellor, food allergy and intolerance advisor, and life coach. Because of her having to learn all about food she has since helped a lot of people with all types of illnesses both physical and emotional, by changing their diets, and it brings enormous satisfaction to see how the advice has helped them get their health back and lead full lives again. The book also discusses freedom and the lack of it in relation to social and political issues.

When a bird catcher forces Parakeet Pete to leave his tree in a land far away, he finds his way across the sea to London. Being new to city life, Parakeet Pete must call upon others for help as his adventure unfolds in this strange new place. Where will his adventures take him?

A child awakens alone in an alien land, not the country of her birth. This is the scene of her original pain, her original trauma. Picking through fragments of memory, she retraces her steps. Addiction, sex, loneliness and hurt. Each poem is a single shard on a journey of self-realisation, from the poet's life on an East London housing estate, to understanding the power of motherhood. As a child she is witness to domestic violence; as an adult, she becomes a victim. Addictions become her escape, only to find herself falling ever deeper into a fractured and numbed pain. Memories of her time in a mental hospital, reuniting with her mother and then losing her again, the pervert in the park, the man who jumped to his death. But there are also rare and brilliant flashes of gentleness that inspire the impulse to survive. Both brutal and tender, all told in raw honesty.

A series of spectacular disasters leads to the destruction of the Old World. The few survivors flee, settling in the tri-systems forged in the outer reaches of space. The legacy of this settlement was the establishment of the first Board of the conglomerates, which organised and provided the means of survival under the motto of 'contribute to survive.' However, when the shining Rose City, a monument to not only humanity's victory over extinction but also a promise of prosperity for the future, fell during the traumatic event known as the Capital Collapse, a stark truth was realised. To survive is to struggle. Now, the common worker is fearful of the retribution of the powers that be, seemingly blaming the underlings for the fall of their great city. But there are some who resist. From this sect of resistance, one member of a humanoid species that had once known the worlds as their own sets out to learn the real truth of why so many have to suffer, delving into the horrors and nightmares that lie at the heart of the forlorn Capital. With the self-exiled Elite Commander Nathan Winter returning to the fray, could the secret of the Capital Collapse set the people free? Or will it bring only conflict and further ruin?