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Do old houses hold secrets? Can those secrets affect the lives of people who live there now? Jack O'Hagen has moved to a house in Cornwall that certainly has a secret - a secret it is determined to share. Two hundred years ago, a young Martha Jax enters into service in this house. Because she has a superb singing voice, she becomes embroiled in her employer's smuggling activities. She is made to dress as a ghost and walk the smuggler's route with her singing to scare away anyone who is not involved. She hates what she is being made to do and, in desperation, she searches for her brother, a young dragoon who works for the king's excise men. Together they expose the smugglers, but disastrous consequences emerge for Martha and her brother. The locals, dependent on free trading for their income, mete out a savage revenge.When Jack steps over the threshold of the house for the first time, he is swamped by the overwhelming force of dj vu. He is convinced he's been here before, and he knows the building's layout with unnerving clarity. When doors lock, Jack's only means of access is a rusted key found in the cellar. Using this key thrusts him back to the world of Martha Jax where he relives her story. Each time he returns to the present, however, only vague impressions of the past remain with him.It is only when Jack finds out something more about Martha Jax that he attains a final peace for the house.

A young soldier injured on the battlefield of modern-day Afghanistan awakens to a nightmarish world of cannon smoke and gunfire and the realisation that he has somehow been transported back to 1880 on the eve of one of the British army¿s worst defeats, the battle of Maiwand.

For Ben and Lily, two clinical trial participants with nothing in common other than mutual dislike, is this real love? Or is it merely a side effect of their prescription drugs?

Jimmy, Ann and Kaz are fed up with the System. So, swearing to a suicide pact, they vow to take it down.

Autumn, 1914. Clara, a passionate young London wife and the mother of two small girls, has seen both her husband and the man she loves go off to fight on the front. The inept generals take over from the inept politicians, and so the war drags on, while Clara waits fearfully to see which, if either of her men, will return. It looks as though Clara has lost her chance for happiness. Can she find the courage for one last desperate attempt to make her dreams come true?

Kim is a young trainee reporter in the Cotswolds. He has the luck to be swimming every morning with the astonishingly beautiful Sasha. Men go crazy for her. Kim dreams up a plan to win her heart: for a full year, he'll pretend he's not even interested. Then Kim eventually does the unbelievable. He wins Sasha round. She is everything he's ever wanted - fun and beautiful and supremely sexy. But can something this good ever last for long?

When Joyce Hetherington loses her half-sister in a mysterious railway accident, she calls on her old school friend, Greg Mason, to investigate. As the two sink deeper and deeper into the case, they begin to realise that certain seemingly unrelated threads in her family story ? some stretching as far back as WWII ? have the potential to weave a web with far greater implications than either of them could have ever imagined.

Focusing on the emergence of Christianity and its suppression by the Romans in the first century, To The Death provides a riveting fictional account of the historical beginnings of Christianity.

When Cape Town is chosen for the World G8 Summit on AIDS, Scimitar ¿ a militant Islamic cell based on the tip of Africa ¿ plans to raze the hotel where the world¿s leaders are scheduled to gather for their final press conference. The National Intelligence Agency¿s best officers, Tau Molepe and Gerry Viljoen, are responsible for neutralizing the threat. But no matter what they do, they always seem to be one step behind and time is running out fast.

Richard Feynman’s evolutionary idea of ‘There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom’ is making striking innovations in our everyday life. Our body is composed of over 32 trillion of cells, which functions by virtue of nanoscale phenomena and nano-devices. The perfect orchestration of the mechanical and molecular devices at the cellular level is the most fascinating source of motivation for scientists, engaged in the research of nanoscience and biology. A picomolar volume of DNA nicely stores all the genetic information, needed to carry out cellular differentiation, programmed cell-proliferation and cell death, and the overall functioning of the living organisms. Inter and intra-cellular exchange of ions, nutrient molecules, or protein trafficking within a cell also occur via a whole system of complex guards and finely tuned molecular apertures. The biological network, which is developed in microbes, are again controlled with a molecular biosystem, distinctly different from human or higher grade of plants. These biological nanomachines inspires biologists and engineers to simulate the working-finesse of these molecular biosystems for scientific and industrials benefits and purposes.The major goal in the nanoparticle research hence is aimed at developing new drugs for precise targeting to the disease site, effective killing of harmful microorganisms, bio-sensing in the agricultural and food industry, acute and precise bioimaging for better diagnosis of a disease or for continuous improvement of bioinstruments like microscopes etc. The list is expanding and including almost all aspects of our life. One of the major challenges in exploration into the sub-atomic size is to obtain a stable nanodevice, since at nanoscale most of the elements become highly reactive yet unstable.Along each chapter of the book, readers will realize with amazements and wonder that at the nano-size how a materials behaves dramatically different, compared to their bulk size. It’s highly interesting to observe, how different nanomaterials (metal, non-metals, polymeric, or magnetic) have been implicated for different biological and biomedical problems. Each chapter provides an insight into the applications of nanomaterials in different biological and biomedical purposes. Undoubtedly, it is a ready reckoner for both the young and advance level researchers in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

'The Charlton Men', the first part of a trilogy set in South London, follows two ?Charlton Men? as their lives become intertwined with the fortunes of their local football club.

A love story, tested to its limits by the uncertainties imposed by a war-torn Europe, the devastating effects of long-buried family secrets and the incessant drive for retribution. The sinking of the RMS 'Lusitania' will change their lives forever...