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The Mortal Edge
An unusual partnership was strained to the limits when the man was moved into the barren interior, with a small number of others, to a ramshackle and grossly neglected school building in an abandoned village at a great distance from the city.
The woman fought the enemy, suffering physical wounding in his absence.
When captured, the enemy put his skills to the opposite purposes that had been intended, compelling him to fight a long-standing ignominy in his mind, variously employing him for wildly different tasks.
He encountered a series of chance liaisons with women in bizarre circumstances – including the nurse who saved him from typhoid, a woman captive later assassinated, a policewoman killed by a tripwire, a cousin he never knew he had, and the consul of a foreign country.
He himself finally fled in propitious circumstances to solve his personal mental problem. After fifteen years of anguish, by a most fortuitous event, he recovered his long-lost partner.
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A Watery Grave
On a tranquil morning on the peaceful shores of Lake Jindabyne, a piercing scream rends the air and shatters the still sleepy tranquillity of the small country town. The lake had provided a peaceful and calm backdrop to the town of Jindabyne ever since the old town was flooded back in 1967.
But now, thanks to a severe drought, that peace and quiet has quickly become a thing of the past when three young boys wagging school make a shocking discovery on its banks. Part of an exposed human skeleton!
The discovery reveals a gruesome murder dating back thirty years. It’s a secret the lake has jealously guarded – until now!
DS Bradfield and DC Evans are immediately called in to investigate. Their enquiries will soon unearth past grudges and conflicts that will lay bare years of bitter truths, turning neighbour against neighbour while triggering a series of murders in the tight-knit community.
Who would go to such lengths to keep this murder in the past? And who could be so ruthless and cold-hearted in this pursuit?
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Gio and the Broken Line
Nothing stirs the soul like jealousy and greed…
During the late nineteen sixties, two vastly different worlds collide, and a rollercoaster journey begins for an intriguing young couple.
Gio, the guilt-ridden fugitive from Switzerland, works in Rome’s Candle Light Club and struggles to make ends meet. But he has bold plans to elevate himself and sets out to live his dream through the boxing world. However, this handsome and likeable young upstart soon finds that boxing and the nightlife scene make an effervescent cocktail.
But managing this routine is not the only difficulty in Gio’s life.
The beautiful heiress, Sofia, is much maligned by her jealous brother, who has been passed over in their father’s will. By nature, Tony is ill-tempered, selfish and downright unkind – particularly to Sofia. But, heavily in debt to the mob through his gambling addiction, the beleaguered brother shows his changeable side once too often, and an old family friend draws the line!
Jealousy and greed lead to extortion and murder. Gio gets entangled after a dark shadow is cast over the lives of those he holds dear.
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Larry & Bobby’s Cat Tale
Larry is a rescue cat who believed the only good thing in his life was his brother Percy. But when Percy passes away, Larry becomes more and more sad and grumpy. Then a young rescue cat called Bobby comes to live with Larry, who has a happier and more upbeat outlook on life.
These two different cats will have to learn to live together, cope with just over twenty hours a day to sleep and with humans that don’t always answer their morning meal calls.
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Don't Get Sucked Down the Plughole!
Everyone loves bath time. Well...everyone except me!
The bubbles are my enemy, I’m suspicious of shampoo, the rubber ducks are guarding a secret…the plughole is after you!
But how long can you not have a bath for before your family starts getting cross?
How long can they stand the stench of sweaty, smelly socks?
I found out the hard way… I pushed it way too far. I became so smelly; there was only one cure!
Join me on my journey and help me face my fear. I just hope the plughole doesn’t make me disappear!
Get ready to ‘urgh’, ‘ahhh’ and laugh out loud at this hilarious tale—but just remember next time you have a bath… Don’t Get Sucked Down the Plughole!
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Love, Labour and Loss
Who knew what the wide-mouthed seven-year-old you see before you would go on to encounter as an adult?Can any of us be fully prepared for the life that we are to embark upon?How much of this is in our control or predestined?This is not just one woman’s story of how she arrived at 50, at a crossroads which proved crucial. It is your story too.If you have ever experienced any form of battle with mental health, physical illness, trauma or relationships, then this book is yours too.It is quite simply a story of how love can prevail, how labour must not define or crush us and how loss can be a catalyst for change.This is a book ‘half full’, not a book ‘half empty’, and offers to be your friend as you travel on your own journey.
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Psalms for a Lost World
For thousands of years, the world has been enthralled by the Psalms of David – timeless words that have offered comfort, challenge, and inspiration across generations. I began to wonder what it might look like to capture that same spirit today.
This collection explores the idea of modern Psalms, written from the perspective of a contemporary Psalmist trying to make sense of the world around us. Through these reflections, I hope to bridge ancient wisdom with modern experience, inviting readers to see familiar struggles and hopes in a fresh light.
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The Beginning
Before the beginning of time, the Eldest God created the Lesser Gods. They then all turned to the creation of the worlds. They created the stars, the moons and all the worlds of the universe. When all was completed, they took their rest.
As they looked upon the world below them, darkness was seen creeping across the surface. “What is it that creeps across the world below us?” they asked the Eldest God.
“It is something that tries to turn everything it touches to evil. It will go throughout the world trying to maim and destroy,” answered the Eldest God.
“It should be destroyed,” the lesser gods decided, but the eldest stopped them.
“It cannot ever be completely destroyed. It must continue with this world on the path that has been appointed. But someone must be chosen to be the one to fight the darkness at the appointed time. Which of you, therefore, wishes to take up this weighty position?” he asked.
The lesser gods shifted uneasily, but not one of them stepped forth to take up the position. The eldest was angry at this stance. “I will travel this world, then, and choose a man from among the inhabitants of this world. A man who shall have the power to defend this world against all evil.”
The lesser gods looked at the eldest, shamefaced. “So be it!” they intoned.
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The Rock, Into the Ocean and the African Penguin
Glenda McLean has written short stories of the Wild Life in Africa from her own experiences in the wild. She has a love of all animals both on land and in the ocean.
The purpose of these short stories is to share her experiences with children who do not have the privilege of visiting the wild, giving just enough information to spark their interest and open their minds to find out more.
These stories aim to help children appreciate what nature gives us, and in turn pass this onto their children. We can all constantly be learning from the whole of creation, and hopefully become better stewards of our precious planet.
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Caenis and Caeneus
“A story about a god.” That’s how Northrop Frye defined myth. But the Greek myth of Caenis and Caeneus is less about the god Poseidon than about his paramour, the nymph Caenis, a “lesser” god whose favour he grants to become a man. As Caeneus, perceived male, she fights valiantly in war and is later elected king. This story takes up only a few sentences in Robert Graves’s The Greek Myths.
In Caenis and Caeneus, Paul Matthew St. Pierre writes it large, shifting the setting from Ancient Greece to the First World War and making the nymph a Birmingham chambermaid, Celia Richards, who becomes a man when she impersonates her twin, Cedric, a deserter from the Brummagem Guard, and goes off to war in his place.
In France, she distinguishes herself in battle and daring reconnaissance and search and destroy missions behind enemy lines, a woman taken for a man not through magic, the hand of god, or a transformation, but through performance, her ingenious portrayal of Cedric to save him from the gallows. Celia Richards is a new kind of war hero, a woman capable of doing all a man can do, only better. She makes the supreme sacrifice, giving up her life for her brother, heeding the call of king and country.
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Because You Were There
“Reminders of you are everywhere, but you are nowhere, and this absence of you is forever.”
As the finality and aloneness of her husband’s death started to dawn, Sally realised the only person who would have understood her feelings of loss was him. In the silent spaces that were left behind, she started to write to him, aware of the absurdity of what she was doing. Her letters, intended only for them, stopped as the process of recovery began, but sometime later she shared them with her new partner. He felt that the letters provide a rare, at times brutally raw and honest chronicle of the early stages of grief that could be of help to others still lost in the early stages of bereavement when a return to a full life seems impossible.
She hopes that by publishing her letters, she will provide hope and support to others struggling through the grieving process.
This second edition benefits from a postscript in which the author looks back on the process through the lens of the twelve years that have elapsed.
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Annabel's Garden
When Annabel Marchmont decided to go on her little adventure to Honfleur in France, she little thought that she would uncover a continuing hatred and suspicion between certain French & German residents. So long after the 2nd World War, her plan to uncover what had happened to her great-aunt Daisy after her marriage to a German doctor in Himflow during the war also revealed surprising and very disturbing events that would have a great effect on her life.
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