On a wintry day in St Petersburg, Katya - the Countess Ekaterina Polkonina - gives birth to a baby girl. But outside the cloistered confines of the Polkonin family palace, the Russian Revolution stalks the streets.All too soon, Katya's aristocratic world crumbles around her. With her husband Andrey away at the front, she must learn to adapt to protect herself and her two young daughters. As the tumult in Russia spills onto the global stage - and Katya and Andrey's relationship splinters under the pressure - the Polkonin family find themselves adrift in a rapidly changing world. A world where old ways, old rules and old loves fall away in the face of new dangers, new passions and newfound courage.This sweeping family saga follows Katya across the world during one of the most turbulent periods in modern history, from the turmoil of the First World War and the Russian Civil War to exile in Manchuria and then China. When Japan enters the Second World War, Katya will once more find herself at the heart of history, in a time of affairs, betrayals and adventures.
It's not always easy trying to figure out who you are in this ever-changing world.
When Coco and his friends discover a sustainable energy source on their island, they set out to get their skyorbs into the hands of world leaders at COP26. But will they get to Glasgow in time to save the planet?
James Macfarlane - whisky tycoon and dilettante freedom fighter - is beginning to suspect his antagonists have a good point. His plan to overthrow Caledon's despotic leader, the Marischal, had been going swimmingly. That was before he was thrown in a dungeon, shot in the face, and damn near shipwrecked.
You get the insurgents you deserve. The UK lies in ruins, torn apart by fear, arrogance, and an inexhaustible supply of stupidity. England teeters on the brink of economic disaster, while behind a giant wall, Scotland labours under the tyrannical rule of the Marischal. The people cry out for a hero. Unfortunately, they've got James Macfarlane.
Using stories drawn from over 20 years' of working with leaders from across the globe, Rob debunks the myths around what it truly means to 'be a leader', replacing old and obsolete leadership models with a new human-led philosophy fit for the 21st century.
A story of finding new love late in life. Love is not always straightforward and Sara and Harry must find a way to overcome the tragedies of his past in order to make sweet music together in the future. Printed in a large format with a clear font on bright white paper for easier reading.
The SYSO System is a one stop self-improvement system that can be applied wherever you are on your journey. You can change your life by following 7 simple steps and the book's 70 practical exercises help you DO the changing, rather than just read about it.
Jon Stone is a revered psychiatrist, doting husband, loving father. But he has many secrets.Maddy Stone, Jon's daughter, has her own secrets. But she can't tell anyone.Zara, Maddy's stepsister and best friend, faces a race against time. Can she unearth the family's dark secrets before a tragic history repeats itself?Two girls: one living and lost, the other scarred and silent, must join forces to prevent the unspeakable…
Emma and Joshua both have dark secrets, which threaten to alter the course of both their lives forever.
The Book of Understanding is lost. Can Aaron and Stella, two children transported to a strange and mystical land, find it and restore peace to the Land of the Mind?
Become a company the world will get behind.
A beautiful fugitive. A secret treaty. A decadent age. And the lost papers of the greatest diarist that ever lived. Tying together historical fiction, espionage and crime, Camille is a historical adventure to mirror a glorious age.
SOMETIMES IN ORDER TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM, YOU NEED TO BECOME IT. On Prisons tells the stories of the men and women who live behind the walls of our prisons and of the staff who keep them there. Written by Danny McAllister, a former Governor and Director of High Security for prisons in England and Wales, these tales chronicle the thirty years he spent governing gaols and the lives of the prisoners he came to know. The stories are often troubling, desperate and deeply shocking, but even in the depths of despair there is humour and optimism. An unprecedented account of prison life at home and abroad, from the 1980s to the present day, On Prisons shows that it is possible to keep your humanity behind bars - just.
The Daylight Thief is a piece of historical fiction inspired by actual events.
Autumn 1914. Farmer Tom Bomford leaves his life in rural England for the sands of Eqypt. He is a member of the Worcestershire Yeomanry and he is at the start of a long and extraordinary adventure that will stretch across the whole of the First World War. Based on a true story, Testament is a remarkable portrait of violence and friendship, of war and the people affected by it. Of the soldiers struggling against an unforgiving enemy and extreme heat, and of the families back home facing the bottomless fears and uncertainties of having their sons fighting on the other side of the world in one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history.
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