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As Sofia continues to move in and settle into her new life in a small town, she begins to uncover the biggest mystery the town has ever kept hidden, a mystery going back to when the town was first founded. Is she prepared for what she will uncover, or will she herself become part of the mystery? What happened at the Ashwood Farmhouse?
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Life always has its ups and downs, but for Kevin O’Keefe, it feels more like a rollercoaster.
Set in the 1920s on the Isle of Man, seven miles from the city of Douglas, Kevin has thrown himself into his work after losing everything. His boatyard is now thriving, twice the size it once was, with over a dozen employees and even a secretary. Yet despite his success, there remains a deep emptiness that business alone cannot fill.
Everything changes when Kevin is called to Cove Manor. There, he discovers the woman he once loved, the mysterious and beautiful Elizabeth Churchill, also known as Biddy Bell of British Intelligence, or Liz Monaco. Alongside her is a surprise that turns his world upside down: a five-year-old son he never knew existed.
Kevin’s life seems to be on the rise. He now has a family, a prosperous business, and has even purchased the grand estate of Cove Manor to ensure a beloved friend could remain in the home he cherished. But all is not as perfect as it appears.
Treachery brews within the manor. Doris Kingsley, driven by greed and resentment, demands more from her ailing father and is furious to learn who now owns the estate. Determined to ruin everything for her own twisted satisfaction, Doris sets a dark plan into motion.
Can Kevin and Elizabeth rise up against her and win?
The Quest: Secrets of Cove Manor is the second book in The Quest trilogy, a story filled with mystery, betrayal, murder, and unexpected twists. You will be turning the pages to uncover every secret hidden within the walls of Cove Manor.
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The world has changed into an unpredictable and dangerous place with people in high positions running governments for their own purpose.
People are running scared from one country to another where certain individuals are using them for their own gains.
These people will stop at nothing to bring about civil unrest, hoping to de-stabilise any country while cyber-crime is used to infiltrate any organisation to add to the confusion of that country.
To try to locate these individuals of certain countries, the Secret Intelligence Services of the United Kingdom together with Special Forces move in real time to gather information, track these people and hunt them down.
Only certain assets of the SIS have the capability to do this, and the clock is ticking.
The outcome may lead to WW3 if they get it wrong.
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From the writer of ‘The Why Question’…
Amsterdam, a city under Eastern occupation, becomes a labyrinth of secrets: some to be kept, others to be solved. Within this turmoil, a zoo shelters humans among its animals. Generations of intertwined families are torn apart in moments. Now, there is no time for why—only how. How to stay safe. How to trust. How to remain loyal. As the world burns, one question haunts them all: can the truth ever emerge from the ashes?
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Tell me again why we’re doing this?
John, Soul ticked, Where’s your sense of adventure? A journey is its own reward.
I scoffed, There better be cake. I demand a cake after all the effort of putting up with you.
He feigned insult. I’ll have you know that most people are delighted to speak to me.
I laughed; I am most people!
Oh pish posh, he countered. Now stop sulking and let’s get going; you have a message to deliver.
I wondered how many people would care for the letter I carry. Would I be able to deliver my message, or would I get lost in these ill-forsaken roads of destiny? What a funny word that is. And how cruel it is to…
I winced away from the memory as I set about walking without thinking. Of course… where was I?
John? Soul’s familiar voice echoed through my skull…
Yes… that’s how we started it.
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Victoria: A Woman’s Story, A Love Story
Looking for a thrilling adventure around the world based on real life? Then, here's a novel for your eyes to travel to places you wouldn’t expect, for your soul to cry and rejoice along with ordinary and yet incredible people. An outstanding love story.
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Mother Earth Isn’t Dying presents a graphic and compelling exposé of the impact mankind is having upon the Earth and collaterally upon itself. The author identifies a massive plague of humans, with a quadrupling of the global population in the last 80–100 years, enabled primarily by mankind’s discovery and exhumation of the energy giant fossil carbon, which has fuelled the advance of civilisation.
Mankind no longer lives in sustainable consonance with the natural world but is in direct competition with it, leading to widespread destruction of essential terrestrial, marine, and atmospheric systems and resources.
Unfortunately, the intellect of mankind appears to be at variance with its genetic imperatives. The ideal of a happy, healthy, and liberated life in an unspoiled environment is in us all, but it is now a wish list, utopian, and mere fantasy. The elephant in the room is mankind’s inherent compulsion to reproduce. The human genome is that of an animal, and its mind, which is its heart and soul, is unable to compete.
If mankind can pull itself out of this predicament, it will have accomplished a truly superhuman feat.
“This is an excellent book, well written and researched. The author uses his solid and wide-ranging knowledge of the arts, sciences and humanities to present climate change as the worldwide phenomenon it truly is. Here is a graphic example of the interconnectedness of all things. There are some suggestions as to the steps we might take to address the situation, but it is primarily a work designed to open the eyes of everyone who believes that climate change is just a storm in a teacup. The reality is that your entire kitchen and the planet it sits upon are about to disintegrate.”
Sharon Shipman, Advanced Diploma of Land Management.
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Foisted onto an unwilling aunt as a refugee from the French Revolution, Elisabeth’s life is only made bearable by her cousin Lucy. Despite being given all the advantages of an only child, Lucy cares for Elisabeth like a sister.
They enjoy a carefree childhood in the Scottish Highlands with their good friend Billy from the local village.
But everything changes on Elisabeth’s eighteenth birthday.
She is given a letter which changes her life. Elisabeth discovers she has a twin brother and wants to look for him.
Her aunt has other ideas. She has high expectations of Lucy, but the best Elisabeth can hope for is to become a governess.
At the eleventh hour, a suitor appears on the horizon, which resolves Elisabeth’s immediate problem.
But it is then that Elisabeth’s life takes an unexpected turn. Lucy falls ill and is sent to Switzerland for treatment in a sanatorium close to Elisabeth and Felix’s honeymoon chalet.
Lucy’s suitor is called to her bedside, despite being in the middle of covert negotiations with Britain’s enemy, France.
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A Mother, An Artist and the Red Lights in Amsterdam
Imagine discovering one day that your beloved mother or your precious daughter had worked—or is still working—behind a red-lit window in Amsterdam’s Red Light District, where sex work is entirely legal.
This book explores the struggle to come to terms with the unimaginable.
The life of Lihi van Dijk, a young arts student living in Amsterdam, has never been sweeter. She has everything: unique artistic talent, stunning beauty, a loving partner, his five-year-old daughter whom she has adopted as her own, a warm and supportive family, and a circle of devoted friends who all call her ‘The Princess’.
But all of that is about to change, unravel, and fall apart when everyone discovers that the previous summer, unbeknownst to anyone, Lihi worked in the Red Light District.
Her loved ones all turn their backs on her, abandoning her and burning every bridge—everyone except her little girl.
As loneliness and despair close in, Lihi returns to the Red Light District in Amsterdam, the one place where no one will judge her.
There, in a world painted in shades of red, black, and grey, caught between painting and selling her body to strange men, Lihi finds her way back to her loved ones, her family, and to herself.
This is a story about motherhood and art, about pain and distress, about love and friendship, and the hope that tomorrow morning the sun will shine on a green and blossoming world, illuminating a new path toward goodness and well-being.
It’s said that it’s always darkest just before dawn. This is Lihi’s story: in the darkness and in the sunrise.
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Hoonamajabies - A Collection of Adult Short Stories
Ever wondered what if superheroes went on a date, you got your revenge on an ex-partner, got chased by hit men on your wedding weekend, or had a nightmare trip to the Oscars? Worry no more because this latest book from the mind of PJ Aitken will grip you from the first page and not let go. The successful author of The Run has written a no-holds-barred attempt to stay busy during the pandemic and let his mind wander into magical, wonderful and hilarious genre-bending worlds, one short story at a time.
There will be something for everyone amongst the countless stories within this single volume. Action, comedy, romance, horror and science fiction are only some of the genres you will experience before the final page. You will laugh, cry, scream and accidentally wet yourself flying through this thrill read. Sometimes at the same time! By the end you too will be screaming Hoonamajabies!
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With vivid prose and compelling characters, Along the Eagle’s Way offers a captivating glimpse into Biblical times. The destinies of Linus Flavian, Maria of Magdala, and their son, Marcus, play out in this dramatic first-century story that spans the extremities of the known world of that time, from Britannia to India.
The Roman Empire is rising to its Flavian height while a fledgling religious sect of Judaism reconciles itself with the mystery of its crucified leader, Joshua of Nazareth. Growing from a clash between nationalistic Judaism and a messianic universalism, followers from Saul of Tarsus to Simon Cephas take the fledgling faith out to the Gentile world on the trading routes of the House of Arimathea. Their witness, however, differs from the very personal understanding of divinity that Maria believes that she learnt from her lover, the crucified Lord. She passes this legacy on to her son, Ben Joshua, a child whom Joshua never knew. Ben Joshua finds this message enhanced when he travels to India as a partner in the House of Arimathea—but his survival is anything but certain.
Longley's prose skilfully navigates a complex and intricate narrative. An intriguing read and a great alternative telling of a very old story.
– Portland Book Review
The politics of faith are as complex as the politics of nations. Exploring the politics of Judaism and the will of the Empire throughout the first century as well as many challenges to personal faith, Along the Eagle’s Way is a riveting read that should prove hard to put down.
– Midwest Book Review
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Alien Being Human searches via a quasi-Gonzo-style of writing to stretch the notions and ideals of what it ‘is’ to be human whilst engaging with, and in, ‘identity’, the ‘who’, ‘what’ and ‘should’ I—that is ‘me’—‘be’ in this artificial intelligence-meets-human and manufactured-beings pandemonium. Set in the 2050s, which is the end result of an AI-driven affliction decades long in the development of a borderless world.
A machination-driven hostile environment is what has been forced on Mother Earth.
Other—how does one say?—‘Assemblies’ have begun to live on Earth and ‘they’ are many types of beings. The problem is the manufactured beings, or ‘droids’ as they are colloquially referred to by those chasing them down and bringing them ‘into line’, or if not possible, have ‘them’ ‘ended’. Call it what you will. Possibly… no, certainly, droids are getting smarter. Infused-AI? And more to the point, ‘they’, the droids, seem to be evolving ‘feelings’—and there is another undertone beginning to happen; some humans, or purebreds, as they are known, are suggesting droids now have a ‘soul’. Surely not! Perhaps? What! Impossible! No! Surely not? Incredible! Down there on Mother Earth droids have had help ‘evolving’ by one particular recalcitrant pure-breed scientist and it is he who has made them think, consider, contemplate, nuance, be proactive, and… plan. How does one arrest such a situation? How do you outwit the sagacious? How do you outwit an evolved being—a droid—that has become ‘wiser’?
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