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Kidz Play Better Under the Gun
What would you do if, instead of securing the profitable deal that promises financial security and peace for your family, you find yourself hunted by a relentless, unseen force? A force that knows everything about you, outnumbers you, and shows no mercy.
Would you try to negotiate with it?
As the clock ticks, you realize the threat extends beyond you to your beloved wife, your child, and the unborn baby you’ve been longing to meet. And this enemy? It doesn’t take prisoners.
With no safe haven, nowhere to hide, and no one to trust, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Losing isn’t an option, but the line between victory and defeat is razor-thin. One misstep could cost you everything.
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Public Participation Involvement and Engagement in Cancer Research
Patients and the public have a history of participation and advocacy in cancer research, generally for the benefit of future cancer patients rather than themselves. Participation is necessary if drugs and treatments are to be properly tested. Advocacy adds a unique perspective that enables the integration of two valuable and powerful viewpoints, the experiential disease and treatment knowledge, needs and priorities of the patient, and the professional disease and treatment knowledge and priorities of the researcher or clinician. This synergistic combination is a key enabler for focused and relevant diagnostic and treatment advances in cancer research. However, recruitment of the right numbers and profile of patients and the public into participation and advocacy remains a challenge. This book seeks to take the mystery out of participation and advocacy in cancer research trials by explaining the whole process, in lay terms, in the hope that more people will be encouraged to participate and become advocates.
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The Vilelands
In a world where sorcerers with apocalyptic powers mercilessly rule over the realms, there’s a small barony, the Vilelands, built upon the carcass of an ancient machine which is accused of murdering a sorcerer king and has to fend off a massive army from the Yllengardian empire set to destroy it, whilst a devastating new threat, a monster walking in the skin of man has set out to use this chaos to devour every last sorcerer on earth.
Will the forces of the mighty Yllengardian empire that has been set out to destroy the Vilelands find the monster before it’s too late, will they get entangled in their own internal conflicts before they can handle or get too distracted in the war with the Vilelands?
Immerse yourself in a fantasy world, where magic is poisonous for humans but gives those who can wield it incredible power and thrones and rulership is maintained through assassinations and intrigues.
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The Rattle of the Rosary
When Valma’s father abandons her mother during the Great Depression, her mother is forced to make an agonizing decision. At the tender age of four, Valma, along with her two younger siblings, is placed into foster care, beginning a life of uncertainty and hardship. After years of being shuffled between foster families, Valma, now 14, is bitter, angry, and deeply vulnerable, sent out into the world to fend for herself.
The year is 1943, and World War II continues to rage. Brisbane is alive with activity, its streets bustling with servicemen, including many from the USA. Amid this whirlwind of excitement, Valma, longing for love and connection, meets a man who will leave an indelible mark on her life.
In November 1944, Valma receives devastating news – a blow like a knife to her heart. By 1945, shamed, shunned, and utterly alone, she makes a fateful decision that will haunt her for the rest of her life. Swearing to keep her secret forever, Valma carries the weight of her vow, never fully understanding the heartbreak it caused. But could her secret remain buried forever?
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Ice Cold Summer
Niles Roan is a dashing agent from the Triple A, a top-secret unit specializing in martial arts, counter-terrorism, and reconnaissance. Established by Prince Albert in 1850 to protect Queen Victoria, the Triple A has been covertly funded by royalty to maintain its secrecy.
Now, Niles’ mission is to recover stolen government secrets, leading him into a dangerous web of deceit, murder, and intrigue, where he faces agents from across the globe.
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The Trouble With Max
Why does everything seem to go wrong for eleven-year-old Max?
All he wants is to fit in at school, have a few good friends and not be made fun of by the ‘cool kids’. Even his budding friendship with Cleo, a new girl in his year six class, ends in disaster.
When his mum starts seeing a new boyfriend, Max’s life only gets worse. He doesn’t like Jeff, and Jeff certainly doesn’t like him. Jeff makes it plain Max is in the way, and to make matters worse his mum spends so much time with Jeff she doesn’t have much time for Max any more. His feelings of isolation lead him to befriend a group of older boys and join in some of their activities. But are they really friends?
Then Max meets some-one who takes a real interest in him. Could this be the turning point in his life?
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An Unusual Therapy
Max and David agreed that it was going to be only for a month…
Max Cooper was a passive-aggressive therapist with a sordid secret and two ground rules: no second dates, and no falling in love.
David Smith was as attractive as he was self-centered, and thought he was irresistible for any woman. Sadly, David was right, until Linda walked his way.
Life keeps moving. One day you’re thriving in your loneliness, and the next day you find yourself involved in a love triangle.
It will take Max and David a month to realize that rules are made to be broken, and that life is full of choices that have to be made.
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The Culvert
In 2014, during a birthday celebration in a country pub, members of historic researcher Naomi Wilkes’ family are intrigued to see an old and faded, countryside photograph attached to a chimney breast entitled ‘The Man In The Photo’. Despite careful studying by everyone else, the only person who can see anyone is Naomi’s six-year-old daughter Francesca, who says that she can see the man’s eyes, that she doesn’t like him, and that he is trying to escape from a hole.
In 1854, a work detail of selected prisoners from a nearby gaol arrive at Wordale Nabb in Lancashire with the intention of extending an abandoned mine to help improve the water supply to the nearby Whitewall Estate. But nobody is aware that their endeavours are going to take them through land that has for the previous three hundred years been believed to be the domain of underground demons.
And the outcome for both parties, separated by one-hundred-and-sixty years, is just as gripping and terrifying.
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The Legend of Circe
“Everything in the present has links to the past!”
Circe Goodwin hoped that defeating the Fomorians would be the hardest thing she would face, and that her life would return to normal. She was wrong. Her life has gotten more complicated. She is now a full-time hero in training at Sunsport Super School and the girlfriend of Princess Edelgard.
Not helping matters are events from both Circe and Edelgard’s pasts threaten Hibernia. How will she react when she learns the identity of The Voice that guided her during her first adventure? Can Circe deal with abandonment, assassinations and ancient deities before they destroy everything she holds dear?
The Legend of Circe continues in this exciting sequel to The Legend of Circe: Circe’s Awakening!
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Tales of Dublin and Friends
Told from the charming perspective of Dublin, an Irish Setter, this collection of first-person stories follows his adventures in and around his home. From encounters with wild animals and quirky humans to navigating the ups and downs of friendship, these tales offer humor and heartwarming moments for dog lovers of all ages.
Meet Joseph, a retired builder who insists he doesn’t need a dog’s help – even when he forgets his diabetic medication while repairing a roof. Then there’s PupPup, a small dog with a knack for trouble and tall tales. And what about the time the canoe’s motor died on the lake? Why wouldn’t Dublin swim? Or the retriever who decided the best way to get a hunter’s attention was to deliver his duck… underwater?
Join Dublin and his friends for a series of delightful escapades filled with canine capers and human foibles.
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The Forever Xpansion
Jack Silver’s life changes in an instant after witnessing a brutal murder outside a London eatery. Relentlessly pursued by the victim’s psychotic brother, Silver finds himself falsely accused and caught between reality and a dystopian otherworld as he desperately seeks to escape. Darting from shadow to shadow, he finds allies and understanding in unexpected places. Meanwhile, in the cold blackness of space, an ancient artifact of immeasurable power awakens and hurtles towards Earth. A chain of events is in motion that threatens not only Jack Silver’s life but the fate of all humanity…
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Cascade Smith: The Hydra Sanction
THE HYDRA
A giant sea serpent of Greek mythology with nine heads, one of them immortal. The task to slay the Hydra was the second labour of Hercules – no easy task, as for every head cut off, another would grow in its stead.
To kill the Hydra, its immortal head must be cut off then cauterised in flame.
It is the year 2031, and Australia has just turned back a Chinese invasion force in the naval Battle of the Arafura Sea, ensuring stability in the South Pacific for the foreseeable future.
But China is playing the long game, moving its focus to a massive cyber-attack across the West, aimed at world domination through stealth in lieu of military conquest.
To this end, China’s MSS has developed Hydra, the most advanced quantum computer the world has ever seen, and in 2032 they start to use it, successfully attacking the governments of the Philippines and then Japan with devastating effect.
The ‘brain’ of Hydra is sunk 1000 feet deep in the Dragon Hole, a sinkhole in the South China Sea, from where it beams attack codes to eight satellites orbiting the key capital cities of the West.
America’s NSA identifies the location of Hydra, but President Sigourney Owen rules out a tactical nuclear strike, as that would be a prelude to a Third World War.
It is resolved to mount a commando operation, with US Navy SEALs launched by submarine to attack the Dragon Hole with a specially-designed depth charge code-named Hercules.
Four SEALS volunteer for the suicide mission.
One of them is Cascade Smith.
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