Recommended Reads
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Mr Movie Man
Films. Cinemas. Movies.
They capture our imagination throughout our lives for whatever reason. Everyone has a different memory to associate with a film title or cinema name. Be it your very first experience at a young age, your first date and that kiss and cuddle in the back row or perhaps even a film that scared the life out of you!
This book brings back to life a distant memory to each and every one for their own reason. Be it your favourite movie star or that musical’s song that wouldn’t leave your head for weeks, that journey to a far distant galaxy or just being chased by a giant man-eating shark.
Cinema is the only place to capture all these adventures.
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Mr Sloth Crosses the Road
Mr Sloth loves to explore new and exciting places, and one day decides to walk along a muddy pathway which leads him to the big city. It's much busier than the forest, full of fast cars, lots of people, and loud strange noises! Lost and confused, he asks a little girl for directions. Did he follow her directions to the letter? Find out in Mr Sloth's exciting city adventure!
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Mr. Hadlow Has...Too
Mr Hadlow has a large young family who care for animals in a rambling house and garden near the sea. Mr Hadlow’s children and the creatures that enter their lives get involved in suspense-filled and humorous situations. Guinea pigs, seagulls, cats, chickens, prehistoric squid and five children are all part of the entertaining life at Mr Hadlow’s house. The Mr Hadlow Has…Too short stories are based on true events. They are engaging and fun tales for children to enjoy reading and for parents to enjoy reading to their children.
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Mud and Thunder
Ed Roberts is a young, talented and ambitious midfielder playing for Northtown United, a club buried in the depths of the Football League. A new owner and manager transform its fortunes and steers it into the First Division. Roberts plays a pivotal role in that progress and goes on to represent England before becoming one of the first English footballers to play abroad. This is his warts-and-all story of what it was like to play at all levels – before the advent of the Premier League, the influx of foreign stars, the appearance of the super agent and vastly inflated salaries. He writes, candidly, about some of the men he played with and for, how he didn’t always toe the club line, his failed international career and his off-field relationships. He broaches subjects such as racism, alcoholism, homosexuality and early player power. It all amounts to one of the most honest and compelling accounts yet written by a former footballer.
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Mummy's Tummy
What is growing in Mummy’s tummy?
Follow the passing seasons, from summer to spring, and enjoy this fully illustrated and heart-warming story about a family awaiting a new arrival, which is told from the perspective of the baby’s elder sister.
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Mundane Insurance
Manufacturing industries are a common knowledge as are the likes of the motor car, television, foodstuffs and electrical goods that exist around us every day and are forcefully advertised. Banking too but it is only true to a lesser degree regarding insurance because if canvasing the average person in the street about insurance they would think only about their life insurance, health insurance, motor cover, house and contents, pet plan insurance and so on. Put like that, it is all very wearisome and therefore hardly a subject worth writing about, or is it? That was certainly the author’s impression of insurance even up to the point of moving into the financial sector from manufacturing industry.
Pursuing the subject a step further, hazarding a guess, if those very same people were quizzed regarding the types of people they imagined are employed in insurance they would probably describe their insurance broker or simply a voice at an insurance call centre. This account therefore will, in all probability, dispel the notion that all insurance dealings are routine and in the main, predictable as did an international group of young insurance delegates at a Middle East seminar, many of whom were totally unaware that the insurance industry’s activities were so diverse.
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Murder for A Sideline
In 1960s Ireland, 19-year-old Will Daniels is out hunting rabbits when he comes upon a tinker poaching fish in the river. Thinking to have a bit of fun, Will calls out to the poacher. Things turn nasty when the tinker threatens Will with a knife. Will’s reaction will change his life forever.
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Murder Never Sleeps
Victor Madison was a man who never took "no" for an answer and Private Investigator Paul West immediately sensed that he could be trouble the moment he walked through his office door. He didn't ask, he demanded that West find his only daughter, Cindy, who had been missing for over two years. Money was no object. Police Inspector Charlie King, West's former partner, was the lead investigator into Cindy's missing case which was a cold one but was once again active when he was given permission to work on it with West. Their investigation took them to Alabama where they became involved with a collection of fascinating and questionable characters, including a local sheriff who made them his deputies; a bank manager with self-serving interests; a charismatic pastor and cult leader who knew a dark secret; and a besotted enabler who would go to any devious means to protect him… and she did. Madison's daughter was found, but not in the manner the reader could ever guess, or imagine. The suspense, in this page-turning mystery, never wanes right up to the last page and the chilling climax.
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Murder Spells Trouble with a Capital M
In a world of technological advancement, political correctness to the point of absurdity and bright vibrant colours. One man dares to live in sepia.Detective Joseph Quincy Kingly is back. And he’s back with inadvertence.When a dastardly murder is committed, Detective Kingly is the only person in the immediate area who can possibly solve the case. Of course, it won’t be that easy for the man who should be everyone’s favourite private eye. This time he must answer to the local police inspector Mary McCaskill, a no-nonsense, by-the-book cop with whom Kingly shares a sordid past. This will the biggest test of Detective Joseph Quincy Kingly’s abilities yet.Can he solve the case without being pulled into a predictable romantic sub-plot? Or is he in well over his hat once again?
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Murder Unchained
When Private Investigator Paul West took on his next case, it seemed easy and one that would pay handsomely. All West had to do was compile a profile of Jason Knox for his only son, Matthew, who had no memory of him. His father had walked away from Matthew’s mother when he was an infant and left him the sole beneficiary of his multi-million-dollar estate.
It didn’t take long before he was thrust into one of the most complex cases in a long and illustrious career. It took him to Ebony River, a small town, on Vancouver Island’s east coast that seldom gave a wink or nod to the outside world.
What he found was the two-year-old unsolved murder of Jason Knox and his wife that was still baffling RCMP Sergeant Andy Holt. When West told him why he had come to Ebony River, Holt asked him if he would go undercover and help him solve the case.
West’s investigation concentrated on an eclectic range of residents including: bikers with an agenda, a former member of the town council with a grudge to settle, a small church time had left behind, a farmer’s Sunday dinner that revealed hidden secrets and a mayor desperately trying to get re-elected.
Murder Unchained is a page-turner. It will keep the reader guessing up to the last page.
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Mustang Man And Me
Maria Lawson’s family farm will never be the same now the Shadow horses have taken up residence. Her neighbours, the Sandford family, have also changed her life, while their late son’s best friend only complicates matters. Handsome, charismatic, wealthy and well known, he’s brought his own brand of trouble from the outset.
Has Maria lost her mind in becoming his wife? She must draw on all her courage to ride the roller coaster of emotions, doubt and jealousy, intrigue and unexpected danger that ensues. Can her love for him survive? Will it save her marriage and even their lives?
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My Brother John
The book is a collection of memories of childhood and adolescence, of growing up as one of a family of seven in a small South Staffordshire mining village in the 1940s and 1950s. The family home had no electricity and relied on an open fire for all cooking and heating. The book looks at different aspects of life, such as earliest memories, starting school, wartime experiences, chores and scavenging for fuel, Christmas and leisure activities, immersing the reader in a time, which, though still within living memory is a world away from the 21st century. It is very much a personal account of how a less fortunate family coped in these difficult times and is very different from the usual memoirs of these times. Its final two chapters deal with the death of the parents, when the writer and his brother become the legal guardians of their five younger siblings and can now be considered as finally out of childhood and adolescence.
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