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Wolfmagic
David is just sixteen when he discovers that his eldest brother, Olivar, has murdered their sibling, Friedel, to ensure his undisputed accession to their father’s throne. David’s friend and mentor, the royal magician, gives him a magic ring and urges him to flee, before Olivar kills him as well. Reduced from prince to pauper, David takes to the forest, where he meets a very strange wolf. Can he release Geran from the evil curse, and at the same time, avenge himself upon his murderous brother …?
Just a small point - the novel is written in a language style which evokes the late middle-ages - it may be slightly off-putting at first, but after ten pages - you'll love it!
(Note : Teen-rated gay themes.)
The Cuckoo Man
Nathaniel Blake wants to beat the system. The problem is he is part of that system, he is a Cuckoo Man. Working as a Reassignment Officer at the Midland regional offices of the Department for Reassignment and Bonding, a job that he utterly despises, he is the person that relocates children to their state selected parents. Reassignment, part of the process which awards parenthood and all of its associated privileges to these chosen parents, has been commonplace for nearly eighty years within what is truly a ‘nanny state’. In a society divided into the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’ a Lawson Integer (LI) value is everything, the system gives you a value, a worth, and rewards you accordingly. But now Sarah Blake, wife of this Cuckoo Man, is pregnant, it is his time to suffer the anguish of reassignment. A chilling look into a future that might be as modern youth becomes ever more empowered and the society which has enabled the young to control their elders through fear and social pressure fails to act.
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Jonathon And The Dream Master
Jonathon Fields is an ordinary middle-class government official, leading a very ordinary life, until a very strange and terrifying event takes place as he wakens one morning, which changes him for ever, and turns his whole life upside down. He is thrown into a battle for his own survival, and that of all he holds dear. This is a story of adventure, romance, and the courage of ordinary people in extraordinary times. For further details see the publisher's website -
www.milesco.co.uk
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American Ambition
American Ambition takes the plot of William Shakespeare's Macbeth and brings it up to date by placing it in the contemporary White House.
President Duncan King's most able lieutenant is Defense Secretary Ken Finlay. While travelling back from a NATO summit Finlay is approached by 3 journalists who tell him he will soon become Secretary of State and then President
On arrival in Washington he is informed that the President has sacked the Secretary of State and appointed Finlay in her place.
This sudden promotion feeds Finlay's ambition and that of his scheming wife Grace. They plan an audacious plot to disgrace King while he is staying at their weekend retreat. It is Ken and Grace who return to the White House as President and First Lady. Finlay is a popular leader at first but one by one his allies turn against him.
"The narrative is effective and never dull ...an intricate and suspensful mystery thriller."“
Tregolwyn Book Reviews
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Psyworm
Young Billy-Jo and her brother, Robbie-Dee, are about to discover that grave-digging can have dire consequences... Meanwhile, a boy named Hugh is inadvertantly advised to move in with a family of rabbits and the end of the world is, quite possibly, nigh.
Psyworm, an everyday tale of Heaven, Hell and all the idiots stuck inbetween.
www.freewebs.com/psyworm
Hardcover Print: $26.42
The Voss Manuscripts; MIRAAYA
With the threatened publication of ‘The Voss Manuscripts’, the ‘Arms for Iraq’ scandals of the 1980’s and early 1990’s return to haunt the newly-elected Labour Government. Geoffrey Voss, ex-Foreign Office Intelligence Liaison Officer, has decided to recount how he was recruited as an ‘alongsider’ for the Security Service ‘MI5’ and how he quickly discovered his mission had been compromised by those inside the establishment with deeply committed commercial interests. His revelations tell how misguided plots to subvert Iraq’s ambitions came to destroy his agents placed within and outside the Iraqi procurement network. His efforts to make amends draw him ever deeper into the intrigue and danger surrounding the illicit arms dealing network, and the disappearance of vast sums of Iraq’s oil revenues both before and after the ‘First’ Gulf War. But what or who is MIRAAYA and why does it have such a complete and dreadful hold on Geoffrey Voss; are Voss’s revelations all they purport to be?
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The Fastest Ship
At the close of the Golden Age of Sail... Elusive Pirate John Arthur McGwyer left trails of abduction and murder throughout the Caribbean. But the HMS Griswald, a British Royal Navy frigate, rescued one of his victims, a young girl named Elena. She was destined to marry the Captain, the man who would also build the HMS Warrior, England's first ironclad warship. Now Warrior's maiden voyage to the Caribbean will solve the mysteries of a lost treasure and a lost memory. Sail the Caribbean and the Atlantic in this tale of high adventure, romance, and technological revolution.
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Hotel Veronica
When Martin Lawrence starts his journey of recovery from alcoholism he is not on his own. He has a supportive family and a team of professionals to help him. But he also has a host of painful memories, stretches of time he
can remember nothing about and half a million pounds in his bank account that isn't his. As he struggles to come to terms with his past, make sense of the present and build plans for the future he collects a colourful array of
friends and enemies in an adventure, told at breakneck speed, that is as heartwarming as it is disturbing.
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Capcir Spring
On the Capcir Plateau in the mountains of the French Pyrénées the past and the present intermingle in a story of love and persecution. Mary is a historian researching the ancient heretics, the Cathars, and John is a priest reflecting on his vocation. Both have been damaged by experiences in the recent past and are both wary of relationships. Mary's terrifying nightmares confuse her research with past traumatic experiences of her own. The plot moves through the minefields of domestic violence, the boundaries of celibacy and mental illness. New age hippie travellers and local characters become involved as the story develops into a modern day battle for the soul of the mountains. Through their experiences together John and Mary have to come to terms with the events that have sent them to this remote area of the south of France.
John Butterfield's novel brings together insights from psychology, history, mysticism and theology in a modern love story.
Millennia ago the last Sorcechanic, Vanir Shol, was defeated by the House Mathral and bound to a tower in the blasted wastes of Mornox. The only true enchantment left from the Sorcechanic Age is the binding spell. A spell that needs the help of a young boy, adept in the art of wood carving, from our world, this boy is known as The Sculptor.
Dean Matheson is the latest Sculptor, one of the few boys left in the world with the skill to carve the figure. When the quest goes wrong the people of the Greater Dominion call on him to help restore the balance of power. Has Dean got what it takes to survive a perilous journey through the Greater Dominion? And what will happen should he fall within the grasp of the ancient, terrible sorcechanic himself?
Paul Duffield wants nothing more than to be a working guy with a small house and the love of a good woman. Unfortunately, Q.T. - the woman he loves - isn't all that good and the trouble she ends up in could prove to be fatal for both of them.
Then an offer from Paul's guardian angel provides a means for salvation for both of their bodies and both of their souls. The responsibility for defeating Q.T.'s personal demon becomes Paul's and nobody's left him the instruction manual.
Paul finds himself caught inbetween the earthly forces of evil, represented by the murderous Buddha Wyndham, and the terrible forces of Hades, epitomised in the demon Marchosias. Not only that but the heavenly host aren't even all that sure they want to support some half-breed man-angel at all.
Can Paul watch over Q.T. with no support from his own side? Will he manage to negotiate the metaphysical minefield of the Cosmic Law? Or will salvation for his love cost him his own place in Heaven?
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Scandinal
What would you do if you were gay, and on the evening of your seventeenth birthday party a beautiful, charming and spectacularly-endowed boy asked if you wanted to have sex with him? What David actually did was drop his punch all over Mum’s new carpet … and then spend much of the evening trying to avoid his very persistent … and increasingly strange gate-crashing suitor. No shoes or socks and apparently no possessions, as bold as brass … and then of course, there was his almost uncanny ability to appear and disappear at will. If you like Norse legends with a twist, then this is for you! (Note: Teen+ gay themes.)
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GENOCIDE
Pure Evil Unleashed...
A Virus With No Cure...
A Hidden Government...
An Unspeakable War...
Mankind Facing Extinction...
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William Blake in Cyberspace
A work of creative non-fiction relating the works of William Blake to the mythos of cyberspace. A look at the information age at the turn of the century through gothic-styled lenses. A wild-eyed, prescient novella driven by pathos and the love of prophetic poetry and prose of Milton, Blake and Yeats.
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Estra
Every year, the merchant town of Giji attracts crowds from all across the land, as they come to witness a very special tournament. Every year, hopefuls come from just as far to test themselves against each other, and to earn the right to the title of 'Hero'.
The beginning of the epic Estra saga, this is where it all began...
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Out of the Wilderness
A Personal biographical Journal incorporating the social history of The Claddagh Village (Ireland, County Galway); Marlpool, Shipley & Cotmanhay (In Derbyshire); St Anne’s Well & St Anne’s (In Nottingham).
Hardcover Print: $21.44
La Vendetta
In a sleepy northern city in 1806, a young maid is attacked by a cruel and ambitious merchant and driven into the streets.
Years later, the merchant’s brilliant and beautiful daughters may be the ones to suffer the cold rage of her revenge.
They are Maria Vetri –innocent, fresh from school, and the most eligible woman in the whole of Polino; and Beatrice – worldly wise and newly widowed.
Time is running out for their wealthy, carefree world. The political turmoil of the Risorgimento movement is all around them, bringing them into contact with the disreputable freedom fighter, Massimo Alda, and dividing the sister’s loyalties.
All the while, the mysterious Signora Falchi is plotting a terrifying downfall that will destroy them all. Kidnapping, assassination, prostitution and insanity are just some of ordeals that await them.
Only Beatrice, with her quick wit and bravery can stop the terrible vendetta before it is too late, but can she save her family and the man she loves?
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Hooray - A Holiday!
HAVE YOU EVER longed for a holiday so much that it occupied your every waking hour with anticipation and meticulous planning? With the rain lashing down outside, have you found your mind constantly drifting into a day-dream and imagining yourself on a sun-kissed beach with hardly a soul in sight? Well, the time had finally come for one young family to make it a reality and take their first foreign holiday. On the remains of their overdraft limit and credit card balance (a budget that didn’t amount to very much) they set about making their dreams come true. With cases packed and a car full to the brim, it was Bon Voyage for this family as they set off for sunny France, chasing their dream holiday in the sun. What could possibly go wrong?
Hooray - A Holiday! is the hilarious true story of the misadventures and misfortunes to befall this young, naive English family. All they wanted was a break in the sun, not to end up as the subject for a book. Would the author's family ever forgive him?
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Night of the Whirlwind
June, 1943. Immense German and Russian armies face each other across the fortifications of the Kursk salient. Whoever wins the impending battle will win the war in the east; and the smallest factor could be the one that turns the tide.
For the Prime Minister, that small factor could be a German Panzer general visiting France; if he can be eliminated then the Russians might stand a much better chance of winning.
But removing a high-ranking enemy officer in too obvious a manner could compromise ULTRA, the highly secret code-breaking operation that revealed the officer’s location in the first place. Churchill has first to convince MI6 that the result will be worth the risk.
With the outcome of a war hanging in the balance, what better plan than to give the mission to a handful of intruder pilots flying near obsolete aircraft?
(See “Prototype” and “Assassin” for other books by the same author)
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Prototype
March, 1942. While British forces everywhere in the world are on the retreat, John Wren is completing the construction of the most powerful fighter prototype in existence. But the Ministry seems unimpressed and cancels it. Wren takes his case to the only man in the country who has the power to save his aircraft.
Churchill realises that Wren’s aircraft could be turned into the long-range bomber escort he needs to support the allied bombing campaign that is to be a vital part of his ‘Germany first’ policy, but as Wren throws himself into the task the challenges grow. His test pilot brother is injured; high-level opposition emerges mysteriously; and the new test pilot sent by the RAF seems bent on self-destruction. Technical and personal crises abound as Wren pushes his machine through a gruelling test schedule; and towards a critical demonstration.
With officialdom and fate dealing him blows at every turn, will Wren ever see his fighter engage the enemy? (See “Assassin” for the sequel)
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The Story of the Bandit King
On a hot and sultry night in Marrakech, Harry Abrahams hears a story that will change his life forever. As long as he can remember he has dreamed of leading the life of an explorer; a life of heroism, fame and fortune. But this life is not what Harry expects and a long and arduous journey into the desert leads him to a world he had a never imagined as the dream quickly becomes a nightmare.
Follow Harry as he treads a perilous path on an epic adventure across colonial Africa, a land of unknown risks and unimaginable rewards. Loneliness, fear and failure are his ever present companions as danger lurks at every corner, pushing him onwards in a desperate scramble to salvage something of the man he dreamt of becoming.
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Roper
The collected adventures of The Roper. Crimefighter, Astronaut, Detective, Weirdo and ordinary Tax Payer.
Illustrated edition. Free Download.
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Golden
Eighteen year-old David rides home in the family car late one night. With his GP father driving, and mother and sister in the front, David is squashed in the back with his two older brothers, gazing out of the window. He sees something black on the road. They get the moaning package home, unwrap it, and find a very strange young man … What was the ancient legend all about, and exactly who was trying to kill Karl? This is a gay vampire adventure story … with a difference. (Note: Teen+ gay themes.)
A compilation of hilarious jokes, grouped into nine fantastic categories:
Activities
Blonde Jokes
Lists
Puns
Riddles
Short Jokes
Story Jokes
Tongue Twisters
True
These jokes, fun for all the family, have been collected, sorted and re-written to provide you with hours of entertainment.
Enjoy finding out your Star
Wars name, how Rhonda the Blonde got around the Y2k issue, and the similarities
between Lincoln and Kennedy!
Tease your family with the hardest tongue twister in the English language, and test
out the 50 Fun Things to Do in a Lift!
Enjoy The Laughter File with your family!
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A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
Sarah Morgan arrives on her estranged husband Kevin's doorstep pregnant and homeless, asking him to give her temporary shelter while she finds a roof over her head. Her lover has deserted her and she is desperate. At first he refuses, but says if she would be prepared to work for nothing he would let her and the baby live rent-free over the shop he is opening. The shop is in a seedy, run down part of the city with a high level of immigration, and they are beset by serious problems due to the decay and poor state of the premises. Sarah is terrified of living over the shop with Emily, her daughter, but has nowhere to go. She is very much demeaned by Kevin's new love Julie, but initially helped by Robert, the son of a local electrician. After a seance over the shop one night, a supernatural presence brings terror to Sarah. Stress and squalor eventually take their toll on her health and she is driven to the edge of a breakdown. Will no one come to help her, and will Emily be taken into care?
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GUILT TRIP
A reproachful look from a famine victim sends divorcee Susan Clayfield on a "Guilt Trip" which will lead towards the loss of her job, her health and her home as she struggles to help her various charities, mainly for African victims of famine. Her work has suffered and she has been given three months to improve her appearance and general performance at EPITOME, the Insurance Company she works for. She has been moved from Customer Services to Accounts where she will work under the eccentric Mark Farriday. A bizarre trip to Italy with her new boss brings about a tour of Rome, Sorrento, Pompeii, and Mount Vesuvius. After an accident they are forced to spend a night on the volcano, and Susan realises her feelings have grown towards him. But he is besotted with Sally, a tart with muscular thighs. Back home, Susan's debts have spiralled out of control and her home is now at risk. Can she pull back from the brink to save it?
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Michael J Bird - The life and work of the man who created The Lotus Eaters Early in 1973 a group were on Crete filming a BBC drama series The Lotus Eaters. The star, Ian Hendry, was an alcoholic and at times difficult to handle. He was refusing to rehearse a crucial scene. The director turned to the series' writer and creator, Michael J. Bird, for help.
Bird disappeared and returned with a shotgun, which he pointed at Hendry. The actor, for once, was lost for words. Trying to stare down Bird didn't work, the writer was on higher ground, and the shotgun in his hands looked very much part of him. The director remembered tales of Bird's wartime service as a spook. Hendry must have heard the same tales: he picked up his script and continued as though nothing had happened.
The director believes it was not fear that made the actor change his stance - it was Bird's showmanship and mysterious past which Hendry, an artist of considerable talent, appreciated. The cast and crew were in no doubt. Michael Bird was more than the average television writer.
Chase the Wind
Steve Bentley lives in the forests of Northern Ontario with his two dogs.
Three men, who have been trapping in the forest, kidnap a young woman and hold her for ransom close to where Steve lives. He becomes involved in this and sets out to track the men with the help of his dogs, who prove time and again they surely are Steve's best friends!
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Centauran
David is nearly 16, the son of two scientists of the seeding-colony on Hope, orbiting Alpha-Centauri in the Centauri binary-star system. Life is hard; they have little technology except Fred, the ship’s computer, who controls the colonists’ lives in their secure, moated compound, together with his little sock-eating dusting-robots called ‘snufflers’. David has a tentative sexual encounter with his friend Peter, and is shocked when Peter later goes missing. Join David and the Ifshiri in their adventures to save their world from something very nasty (Note: Teen+ gay themes)
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A Scary Story
James Black is a serial killer whom the police believe is dead but somehow always survives...
Frank Thorn is a detective obsessed with the case and stopping him...
Everyone else is just caught in the middle...
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Summer Schooling
"...if he is to join what all the rest of them want to be at the very least a pleasurable and productive holiday community, then he has to be relieved of his choking suspicion of everyone else. Though really it is of himself, she thinks..."
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DO YOU REMEMBER ANNE ZIEGLER AND WEBSTER BOOTH?
This book tells Pamela Davies' story of her keen admiration of Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth in the forties and early fifties. Shortly after Anne and Webster returned to the UK from South Africa in 1978, Pamela began corresponding with Anne and became good friends with her.
The book includes THE BODY OF WORK OF ANNE ZIEGLER AND WEBSTER BOOTH, compiled and edited by Jean Collen. Jean has listed many of their engagements on stage, screen, radio and television from 1924 to 1994.
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Lolita Revisited and Other Poems.
An insight into the mind of an exiled poet in Central France as he comes to terms with the women, real or imagined, who have been a part of his life.
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Italian for tourists
After the success of the ebook, this is the much requested paperback version.
Italian For Tourists is a basic guide to the Italian language covering phrases and words most needed by tourists. It includes all the words and phrases a tourist is likely to need during their stay in Italy as well as a pronunciation guide and a map of Italy. It is divided into 17 sections to help you find what you are looking for in the shortest possible time
Print: $19.00
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194 Radio City - The Heart of Liverpool
Radio City claimed Kathy Barham early. In the 1970s it provided the soundtrack to her adolescence, inspiring a devotion to music, disc jockeys and request writing. It took a shock telephone call in 2002 to send Kathy back to those days. 194 Radio City - The Heart of Liverpool is the story of her journey to understand how those lost times, voices and songs influenced and shaped not only her life, but the lives of many. Amusing, insightful and full of fresh stories from the people who made Radio City great, this book will strike a chord in anyone who cares about the magic of radio. If you listened to Radio City in the early years, or are simply nostalgic for the 1970s, 1980s and the music of that time, this is the book for you.
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Pyramid
The successful author of a series of fantasy novels, Cliff Face is advised by his agent that if he changes his name, sales will instantly cease. Struggling with the latest adventure in his ‘Pyramid’ universe, Cliff decides to take his dog for a walk one morning … and finds himself inside his own creation, where he is forced to deal with a very nasty monster - before it eats everything. (Warning! – this book has dragons in it + teen-rated gay themes.)
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Eugenics;The Intrinsic Design of the Self
It is possible to argue that the role of the scientist and the designer are in fact interlinked, the designer with the extrinsic values of the self, and the scientist with the intrinsic. This book explores the processes and implications when science takes on design methodologies in order to create the *perfect species* and its effects on the role of the evolutionary process.
Please feel free to aquaint yourself with the book by reading the introduction.
Print: $8.00
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Sweethearts of Song: A Personal Memoir of Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth
Jean Collen began her singing studies with the famous British duettists Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth, in Johannesburg, when she was 17. Two years later they asked her to act as Webster's studio accompanist when Anne - who accompanied their students - had other commitments. This was the beginning of a close friendship which lasted until their deaths.
The book gives a summary of Anne and Webster's rapid rise to fame, which is already well documented in their own autobiography entitled "Duet" (1951). Its main focus is on their lives and careers from 1956 in South Africa and their "third" career when they went back home to the UK in 1978.
Throughout the city are reminders of it's violent and turbulent past. This large format photo book shows the key locations in its history, as well as some lesser known ones.
The book should be of interest to anyone interested in recent European history, as well as tourists to the city, who want to see how Berlin has changed over the years and find locations not in the usual guide books.
Visit Berlinphotos.co.uk for more information.
Print: $19.99
How to Heal: A holistic approach to cancer
How to heal on every level - physically, mentally and spiritually. Practical advice on diet. Conventional versus complementary treatments. An overview of different therapies available. Top ten steps for self-recovery after illness.
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Gypsy Teacher: A Yank in 'Brum
After about 18 months of partial employment in Florida, chronicled in Gypsy Teacher: “Every Wednesday…?!”,in June of 2004 I was offered a great full-time teaching job…in England.
So in the middle of four hurricanes we packed up and moved suitcases, boxes, and eventually cats from coastal Florida to inland Britain. And I wrote about it every Wednesday.
I’d love to know what you think: kaydee@gypsyteacher.com.
Print: $18.35
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One Last Around The House Before We Go
From the cold depths of banality in the Midlands, comes a slight glimmer of hope.
The poetry of James Brightman could be enough to snap you out of a daze!
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Abacus Dreams For Darcy Edwards, time is running out. He has ten days to find True Love, and the latest mystic tip says that she is waiting in a gallery, somewhere in London. All he has to do now is find her, fall in love and convince her to marry him before Day 100 comes rolling in...
"This extremely witty story will have you laughing out loud at its irrepressible good humour and charming, crazy, and colourful characters ... Darcy and Sophie are not your average romance couple, but then, this is not your average romance" Review by Autiotalo
Page Length: 55
Word Count: 12,131
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Mrs Jones's Gingham Panties (...and other stories)
A collection of thirty-five stories, completely unrelated. From the lunatically absurd to more thought-provoking, they include short stories, novelettes, and novellas. The humour is dark and the serious pieces are even darker. There are five complete stories in the preview, to give you a flavour of what's to come.
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Genie Step 1. Close door: Carefully.
Step 2. Put down keys
Step 3. Walk over to kettle
Step 4. Switch kettle on and start whistling
(preferably a nice piece of Gershwin,
although Beethoven also seems to go
down well).
Step 5. Approach urn.
Step 6. Caress, lightly.
“Hello Genie.”
Page Length: 24
Word Count: 6,861
Free download: reviews and ratings, both good and bad, are much appreciated :-)
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Japan. From the sky to the sea.
Take a journey down Japan in full colour. From the nations magnificent alpine peaks and volcanoes, through the cherry blossoms and maples of spring and autumn, through the historical and cultural lowlands and finally to the sea. With a basic background of water, the author follows it's natural course, through various forms (clouds, snow, rivers) and representations (carp streamers, gravel gardens, sake) as it strives to become one again with the sea.
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Rafe 'n' Me
The comedic tale of a gay lad who has been dealt a cruel blow by nature, being seriously underendowed in the penis department. On the night of his sixteenth birthday, he makes a wish for someone, anyone, to do something! And that's when the demon appears ... Follow Rafe and David's hilarious adventures as they try to save everything from a masquerading megamind!
(Note: Teen-level gay themes.)
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Altered Life
"I wish I could say that the first time I met Rory Brand I knew he was a dead man
walking.
But I can’t... "
Private Investigator Sam Dyke is hired by Rory Brand to find out what's happening to his business. He knows that someone is trying to steal
it from him. He thinks it's someone close to
him. Very close.
Sam won't get involved because no crime has been committed. But that
changes when Brand is found dead in his office, with a taunting clue left on his
computer screen.
Now Sam is determined to find out who killed Brand, and makes a discovery that takes him back twenty years into his own past. And into a secret
that had been kept from him by the prime suspect for
Brand's murder ...
In the first of a series of books featuring Sam Dyke, Altered Life transplants the
attitude and pace of the American private eye story into a contemporary English
setting.
"Know Your Onions" contains recipes and household hints from books and magazines published from about 1820 to the 1860s; books and magazines that may have influenced Mrs Beeton. Some of the recipes and household hints are from Samuel Beeton's "Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine" and may well have been contributed by Mrs Beeton herself.
"Know Your Onions"is a treasure trove jam-packed with old recipes and household hints. In this book you will come across such delights as:
* how to cook and prepare a boar's head (not for the squeamish!);
* how to pacify a cross baby;
* how to restore rancid butter by using animal charcoal;
Contents listed at http://lulu.wikidot.com/know-your-onions-index
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And The Baboon Played Chess With The Emperor
A modern recreation of a Victorian scrapbook made up of cuttings from books and magazines published in the early to mid nineteenth century. You will come across such delights as
the artificial duck that ate, drank and quacked;
the tax on bachelors;
early attempts at ballooning;
the clever cat;
horse-racing by machinery;
leeches;
powdering the hair;
early steam carriages.
And of course the baboon playing chess with an Emperor. And much, much more.
If you enjoy loitering amongst literary and historic trivia, then you will love this book.
THE GOLDEN PYRAMIDS
This is a fantasy novel. The fate of the world lies in the hand of a young rebel, Clark, and his half-brother Alexander. Their task is to capture one of three golden pyramids, which the evil Galacian Empire is currently hunting for. The golden pyramids are powerful objects, which when brought together at a special gateway will open the way to another world - a spirit world, and the person to do so will receive almighty powers and immortality. Thriving with action, as well as love, faith, passion and sorrow.
Set in the age of flintlock weaponry, in a time of magic and spiritual powers.
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catchymonkey
When a woman’s body washes up on a Sydney beach, it sparks an investigation spanning four continents and leading back twelve years to the disappearance of a British hitchhiker in Italy.
Can Detectives Conrad Moretti and Andy Cameron identify the woman and catch the killer?
And will Professor Jim Donaldson uncover the
anonymous letter-writer threatening to put a bomb
under American interests in South East Asia?
"Writes with piercing clarity"
"Excellent stuff"
"Great work"
"Very hard to put down"
Print: $12.47
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Pillboxes - Images of an Unfought Battle
In 1940 a network of defences was hastily built all over the British Isles to prevent an anticipated German invasion. Sited at road junctions, canals and other strategic points these constructions were called "pillboxes".
Despite the passage of time many of these remain as permanent monuments and a silent tribute to the courage and tenacity of the British people in the dark days of 1940.
This large format photo book records some of what remains today.
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A Gathering of Storm Clouds
The discovery of Atlantis has led to the British Empire waxing in power in the early 20th century instead of waning. The discovery of power crystals allowed the construction of great monolithic dreadnaughts which rule the skies and waves, enforcing the Empire’s will. A British archaeological team exploring Atlantean ruins discover an amazing artefact called the Nucleus which is a massive depository for long forgotten Atlantean knowledge. On investigating an outpost of Atlantis for power crystals, the elite Nightshade Division are attacked by strange deadly creatures and barely get out alive. The British Empire's top agent, John Murdoch joins forces with the elite Nightshade Division's Captain John Riley in a desperate race against time to stop unseen evil forces from launching a deadly attack against the greatest empire the world has ever seen.......
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Boy Entrant
What begins as a boyish adventure results in a 15-year old boy’s fateful decision to commit himself fully to a course of military training that shapes the remainder of his life for the better.
The author recalls his enlistment in the British Royal Air Force as a 15-year old Boy Entrant.
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Future Echoes in the dark - publishers sample
A girl is found just outside of Cambridge. The police find many artefacts, which single her out as being of a strange origin. She has been attacked and assaulted but there is no sign of how she got there and little forensic evidence to go on.
She remembers nothing of her past. Everything she sees is strange in this place where sinister black uniformed guards block the exits and perform strange ritualistic rites onto her. Blacking out at moments of stress, bringing a terrifying ordeal of shattered memories interfering with the life she is living now. The memories are disturbingly realistic and the reality becomes so fragmented that she begins to doubt what is real.
The two timelines interweave a pattern of exhilarating events and barbaric savagery. In the mists of dawn and the alarming reality of now, a fight in the dark, capture, torture and assault enrage the inexperienced Merith to kill using her new found powers of shape-shifting and majick.
Wendi O'Neil - it pulled me in and I want to read more
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Gypsy Teacher: Dixon Donnelly @ Sea
A chronicle of my adventures with My Irish Husband Tony on
study abroad programs
in the Summer of 2002, originally
recorded for the Radio Reading Service,
WLRN-FM, Miami
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The Legacy of Hafod
"Coping very badly," is hardly an adequate description. What seems like an unexpected fantasy life is devoid of magic, elves, or giants, or even decent sanitation. There's an awful lot of death, however, and all of it directed at him - the one person least able to cope with it: The one person content to fulfil his life in futile, meaningless and introverted obscurity. Start a war, face the single, most powerful - and utterly evil - person in the Land, and acquire mind-bending skills along the way? And my reward is progressive death? Who...me?
Mention the name of Aldameus Vuelen to his friends, let alone his enemies, and watch them cringe. There are monsters here - and most of them are human.
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Colours from a desert
Fourteen poems recalling life in Israel, the army, love pain and friendships.
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Hidden Treasure
The third youngest of four brothers, David is gay, but still firmly in the closet. He has no reason to come out until one day, the boys’ father receives a strange phone call - would the English family be prepared to give a young American State ward a holiday for two months? They are unsure whether to agree, particularly as the boy is apparently somewhat ... disturbed. A little reluctantly, they eventually consent ... but none of them is quite prepared for this guest!
(Note - Teen+ gay themes.)
A message from the Author.
Fellow Universarians! It was my transference through the wormhole which upset me. The engulfing monstrosity of my planet’s final days might have been enough.
But this Otherworld!
And now it seems I cannot get back.
Frank S Smith
Consciousness
Somewhere
The Universe
E MC2
Do you want to improve your ability to think ‘outside the box’ and boost your creativity?
From the author of Test Your Creative Thinking (The Times) comes this truly mind-altering and inspirational book of more than 300 brand new lateral puzzles, which provide a fantastic opportunity for anyone to improve their creativity and mental flexibility. It is packed with all kinds of fun and imaginative problems of varying degrees of difficulty that encourage you to break out of familiar thought patterns and to think creatively and ‘outside the box’. In addition, the
puzzles have extremely rewarding and addictive “Aha!” answers absolutely guaranteed to make you both groan and smile at the same time. Puzzle wizards, young and old, will absolutely love this book as well as be completely enchanted by it! All about Lloyd and the other available versions of this book.
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isolated voices
Assaultingly funny, E. J. Lipman’s first collection is the work of a dark but playful comic genius. The tales depict a range of subjects—from fast-talking party crashers, to solitary travelers and inebriated spacemen. Yet there is a gentle cohesion detectible therein: the self-aware but light-handed voice of the embedded author. Lipman’s narrators reveal a world where our relations with the inanimate, the utilitarian, the fantastic, and the ethereal are as much a part of his character’s general cognizance as their internal musings, highlighting a simple but often imperceptible truth of human life in the postmodern era.
The tales of Isolated Voices are to be read and read again. They are punctuated in this collection by the beautiful and complex drawings of Eva Roca, which aside from their synergy with the text are themselves objects of wonder and rumination for the reader.
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Albert and the Christmas Elf
If you have already met Albert ‘I am NOT a snail’ Aiten on his website at www.althought.com then you will know that he lives his life in the local park. He has thoughts on everything from billboard advertising to his perception of everyday objects.
In this, the third story, Albert finds himself having to help save Christmas.
Santa is not a fat, jolly man in a red suit, he doesn’t live at the North Pole and reindeer are not what they seem.
Trolls, Elves, a Hulf and computer wizz Vincent all go to make an unforgetable Christmas for Albert.
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Something for Nothing
It's kind of a mixture: horror/sci-fi/fantasy/action. It starts off in England, with this company -Shin-Cho Travel they're called, having found a strange device that opens up a portal to another world. After a failed attempt to access the world, using their own workers, the leaders, Berg and Handel decide to recruit 28 members of the public, who they trick into heading out through the portal. Knowing that they will be at risk, and that some will probably die, they send with them 4 mercenaries. The aim of the mission is to find out how humans adapt to this world, but due to the mysteries and monsters that exist here, as well as the terrifying mercenaries, the outcome of the group is quite terrifying. Bursting with action from the start - ultimate survival horror novel.
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The Adventures of Me and My Mate Merv
This story, illustrated by the author is about an adventure the author had when he was a little boy growing up in the forties and fifties. It tells of an adventure he had with his mate Merv as they explored the bush around the town he lived in. Peter grew up in New South Wales, Australia and his stories and artwork are heavily influenced by the land he lived in.
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Change Management In I.T.
Change Management In I.T.
Year: 2009
Change Management and the changes to Configuration, Release and Assets as a whole group of activities have traditionally been concerned with finding effective solutions to specific operational problems. The purpose of this book is to look at current problems and new, better methods, techniques, and tools for processing changes.
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Cheffin' Australia
To fly out with £50 and survive, to fall in love with a girl and the world, to face demons that have stalked for years, to have as much fun as is possible, cheffin' Australia is a story about the man who wanted more.
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My Enemies' Enemies
Who are the Moslem Alliance? Why would Iraq and Iran back terrorist groups? Where would France fit into the picture? What would bring Russia, the USA, the UK, Norway, Israel and Canada together as an active military alliance? Where does organised crime fit in? Could OC and state backed terrorists bring down the US and Russia? How would they do it? Can Canada's JTF-2 stop them?
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FREAKY LANDS
Tormented in his childhood, an adopted boy finds love and security. In adulthood, as a doctor he travels extensibly. In New York he falls in love and while on their honeymoon, unwittingly they get involved in international politics. In saving a family from kidnapping, with their new friends they explore unknowm parts of the rain forest. There, they discover a wild girl brought up by primates. The girl learns how to survive in her new environment, where she grows into prominence...
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The Correspondence of Sir Ernest Satow, British Minister in Japan, 1895-1900 - Volume One
This book contains part of the voluminous work-related private correspondence sent to Sir Ernest Satow while he was Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan (1895-1900) from the Satow Papers held at The National Archives, Kew, London, transcribed and published in full from handwritten originals with annotations for scholars and researchers. Some of the letters are from superiors at the Foreign Office and some from the Office of Works about buildings, but most are from subordinates (Tokyo legation staff and consular staff at Hakodate, Kobe and Nagasaki). A very few replies from Satow himself are included. This book offers a rare glimpse at hitherto unpublished material. Crown copyright material is reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO. Also on all amazon websites.
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Japanese Students at Cambridge University in the Meiji Era, 1868-1912: Pioneers for the Modernization of Japan
(Paperback). CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY 800th ANNIVERSARY EDITION. This well-researched history, first written by Noboru Koyama and published in 1999 in Tokyo, has been translated by Ian Ruxton. This fascinating case study is centred on the first Japanese graduate of Cambridge University, mathematician and academic Kikuchi Dairoku (1855-1917). Others who went on to distinguished careers include the scholar and statesman Suematsu Kencho (1855-1920) and the scholar-diplomat Inagaki Manjiro (1861-1908). This story, told for the first time in English, should interest all students of the Meiji era. The book includes nine black & white images, an introduction, a preface, seven appendices, an expanded bibliography and an improved index. Hardcover and download are also available on lulu.com. (KINDLE EDITION NOW ON AMAZON.COM)
"...[T]his is of interest to historians and Cambridge graduates alike." (Kansai Time Out, June 2006, p. 24)
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Anyway...Who's in Charge of Your Health?
For years I have been fascinated by how one’s thoughts and mental attitude can seriously affect one’s health. I believe that most people take their mind for granted and have no real idea of how powerful it is or how they could use that power to improve their health and well-being.
Whilst western medicine makes huge strides in the treatment of symptoms of sickness and disease using man-made drugs, the role of the mind and the body’s own powerful immune system is often overlooked. In my book I have tried to explain some of the very simple ways to use the power of the mind to control both physical and mental health. Also ways to reduce the chance of sickness and injury, maintain the correct weight and live a longer, happier and more productive life.
As an ex-smoker of 16yrs, I have outlined a quit smoking method that finally worked for me as well as many of my friends.
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Cardiac Road - (Living with Angina and Coronary Heart Disease)
Many healthy people have heart disease in their blood, and know nothing about it. This compelling story, while warning those happy and unsuspecting people, will also be welcomed by newly diagnosed patients of Angina. Veterans of Coronary Heart Disease, will identify with the authors experience of stroke, heart attack, and open heart surgery, but his narrative goes on to expose the unexpected emotional trauma, which appears without warning, and can destroy family relationships through suicidal desperation.
This is a true story, written by an Engishman for a world readership. The disease is not an English disease, and we need to face up to it together. It is a book of amusing insights, and anecdotes surrounding clinical proceedures, and will be enjoyed by consultants, doctors, nurses, and technicians throughout the world, who deal with people suffering from this debilitating disease. It is a wonderful story of a patient's experience, which should help many victims, and those people who care for them.
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Knit and Stitches Calendar 2007
This is the UK calendar version, presented in a coil-bound colour booklet, which you turn on its side to hang up as a calendar.
For knitting and stitching enthusiasts, this calendar would be an inspirational daily reminder of the brighter things in life as they prepare for their days throughout 2007. Every month in this calendar-book is illustrated with photos of colourful and innovative original knitted textile designs created by Linda Jackson of Artika Designs.
Every design comes with its own pattern grid which knitters and stitchers can use to re-create the design at home for personal non-commercial use.
Designs include Art Deco, optical illusions, patchwork designs, monochrome Japanese-style designs and others. Charts and disks for calendar designs also available separately from Artika@compuserve.com or www.Artika.co.uk.
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The White Crow: The House on Ghost Hill
There was a noise above him, and a small pile of snow dislodged from a branch fell with a thud hitting him squarely on the head. Two bright black eyes looked back. Another crow alighted on the branch, then another, and another. They came out of the trees behind him in their hundreds fixing him with chilling eyes, black beaks pointed at him like hundreds of horribly sharp knives.
When Thomas and his twin sister Emily are sent to live in England with their eccentric grandparents they have no idea of the adventure that awaits them.
They quickly become embroiled in a bitter struggle with an ancient evil that seeks to find the only weapon that can destroy it. The Revenants are coming, and with them comes chaos.
Can Thomas, Emily and their friends survive to find the weapon first?
The White Crow is a dark and twisting tale for children of all ages from 13 to 100. Not for the faint hearted.
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Immigrants part one
Part one in a series of 6 short books about a ship of Nigerian immigrants trying to make it into the EU.
In this short story, a boat en route to the Canary Islands is boarded in spanish waters by the police.
I wrote this books to talk about the suffering and hardships that illegal immigrants face.
There is a foreward by the author.
Thank you
Matthew Hughes
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Direct Action
NOW AVAILABLE IN W.H.SMITH, WATERSTONES & leading BOOKSTORES! A BRUTAL, CALLOUS CRIME; AN OBSCURE LEGAL DEFENSE; A CITY UNDER SIEGE FROM ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR - SOMEONE IS FIGHTING BACK - WITH VENGEANCE! Direct Action is a gripping thriller. Secret societies, jurisprudence, philosophy and a superabundance of human nature (sex and violence). This fast-moving, erudite, Polemic is set in the Scottish city of Aberdeen near the famous high mountains of Royal Deeside and the stunning Scottish coastline.
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A PERFECT GIFT!
As featured in The Press and Journal and the Evening Express.
(select STANDARD shipping for lowest price and scroll down and use the currency convertor on the left to change to UK pounds sterling).
WWW.LANCE-BLACK.COM. Get the LATEST VERSION ONLINE: "Aberdeen's Union Street is now the 'crime-capital' of Scotland. It's like a war zone!" The Sunday Times, 18 March 2007.
Direct Action a.k.a. "DORIC ACTION"
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Poems and Articles on Emotions seriously ignored!
This book contains few articles and poems (mostly emotional but rational ) on varied topics like love, leadership, victim's cries, life, depressions, etc. I have concentrated on small things, that we think are unimportant but their effect is drastic. Take for instance not talking while you are angry, leading others , etc Hope you will find them really interesting and touching too.
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Animals Are Automata
A dark science fiction novel about a man who works as a make-up artist for artificial humans, one of the few jobs in a future dystopia that cannot be best accomplished by a machine.
A story contemplating the question of identity, trust, and purpose; a looking-glass into ourselves - who we are, how we love, and whether we should always give society the best of our talents.
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Friday Afternoons
An exciting collection of writings sure to be a stimulating and thought provoking read. Proof that everyone has an imagination waiting to be unleashed.
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Eva-Christ
A "Macho" ex-military man, still in Iraq finds true love; or does he? The end of time may be closer then you think.
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Thursday Nights
An eclectic mix of poetry and short stories by a range of talented new authors. Providing an exciting variety of genres and styles of both fiction and non-fiction. A charity fund-raiser which will raise fun as well as money.
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Ipswich at War
In the days after Sept. 11, author Douglas McDaniel watched the world change before his eyes after moving to Ipswich, a town on the North Shore of Massachusetts. This collection includes heartfelt reflections of a nation turning its fears into an appetite for war. Includes the essay, “Media Arts in War.”
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The Brontës by the Sea Including Six Walks
Charlotte and Anne Brontë, the famous novelists, loved the seaside. This illustrated book is an account of their various visits, which spanned fourteen years, to Scarborough, Bridlington, Filey and Hornsea on the Yorkshire Coast. Anne begged to be taken to her beloved Scarborough when she realised she was dying and she is buried above the town in St Mary's Churchyard. As well as visiting Haworth in West Yorkshire, many Bronte fans make pilgrimages to Anne's grave (see cover). Charlotte walked the magnificent cliffs and sweeping bays of the coast in sadness when all her siblings had died and she worked on her later novels by the seaside.In Agnes Grey by Anne the town A..... referred to is Scarborough and in Villette by Charlotte the town of Bretton is based on Bridlington.
Six walks in the footsteps of the famous novelists are included, complete with maps.
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The Eye
The Tynasian Sequence Volume I: THE EYE embodies the spirit of adventure in a richly drawn fantasy world where city-states wrestle for power in the void left by a fallen empire. It is a time of political intrigue, of swordplay and the warmongering of kings. A place where religious fanaticism meets more liberal minded cultures head on in bloody conflagration. Yet within this world is another, more intimate realm where the human spirit endeavours to conquer new heights. It is a time of opportunity and change, where fortunes can rise and fall on the whim of Fate. Where love can surface from the most unlikely of sources.
See also: The Crystal of Mamanoth The Tynasian Sequence Volume II
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Farther Up and Farther In
Are any religions true? What is life for? What
happens after we die? Cynical, hard-headed
reporter Gerok doesn’t waste time on such
things - till he dies, and suddenly it matters.
Being sent to Hell was a shock, but not a
surprise: after all, he’d been warned. Being
rescued from Hell was the surprise. And that’s
just the start of an adventure that
takes him from the cold depths of Nifleheim to
the peaceful heights of the Pure Land of the
Sages, to the Old Gods and beyond, to a
logical end that has a meaning for us all.
By turns poetic, crude, wry, reflective, violent
and philosophical, Farther Up and Farther In is
a practical man’s search for practical answers
to the deepest of questions.
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Aynhoe Village Life. The Way it Was -Then, Before and Beyond
'Aynhoe Village Life, The Way it Was- Then - Before and Beyond' is a social commentry on village life in a small Northants village. This book covers the background history of the village, villagers, with stories from family members, local characters, and herself. Then; is from 1940 to 1948, the war years, and afterwards as seen through the eyes of a child. Before; is from 1880 to 1940 with many humerous village stories. Beyond; is from 1949 to 1956 with a heartbreaking move to Oxford, and the many visits back to Aynhoe. While living in Oxford, the author and her siblings had the unique experience of being an unofficial part of a rehab hospital for the war headinjured. These men were their playmates and partners in all manners of fun.
This is the first of at least three books. The others will cover nursing at the Horton Hospital in Banbury, when care to the local people really mattered. The last, about life and nursing in America from 1965, until 2005 when the author returned to her homeland.
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The Crystal of Mamanoth
The Tynasian Sequence Volume II: From the heady heights of Corag Trymath to the dingy depths of Wineskin Alley, the city of Tynash lives and breaths. Not just through the opulent splendour of her buildings, nor through the less salubrious dives of her dark alleys, but also through the people who live, work and play there. These are the start of their tales, told through the voices of nobles and thieves alike.
The adventure continues in The Earthworks at Rimin.
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When No Light Shines
The Earth is close to its ending. Its human population has destroyed it and all that remains is an odd corner where life clings desperately. Before life was finally reduced to its dregs they built the High Centre where androids were charged with preserving any humans who had survived the apocalypse, a task they took a bit too literally, even designing a male android intended to satisfy the sole human female. Not so far away, but across the poisonous Black River, was the Scrublands populated by largely deformed remnants of humanity. Further off were The Burrows where the Dina lived, creatures said to have evolved from humankind, though they were capable of direct mind-to-mind communication, which they used in their all-consuming sex lives. Then there was the Range, and the beautiful Rena, possibly the last real human being. There were others too. Did they hold the secrets of a possible future? This is THE apocalypse novel – a must for adults curious enough to ask the question
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The Gentleman of the Road
The book introduces us to the kind of teenager we might not notice if he passed us on the street, unless, of course, we noted his presence in order to avoid him. He is Kevin Stonewell and he is almost universally despised because of his ill-kempt appearance and the stench he frequently disperses as he walks along. He is bullied by those who enjoy bullying, kicked and battered and generally abused. Yet he has his dreams: the beautiful and classy Amanda Drayton is one of them. But before he can do anything about those dreams he’s got to climb above his status, and The Gentleman of the Road tells us of the start of that climb. He runs away from home to become a tramp, a hobo, because he sees that as a step up, and his mother is accused of his murder (although there is no body). The arresting officer (married, importantly, to Kerry who prefers to share her bed with other women) is slowly driven mad by a combination of circumstances. And the aforementioned Kerry takes him under her wing…
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