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“The Genius and the Jester,
Crossed paths by chance one day.
They knew each other from the court,
But never had parleyed.”
Four lines, two rhymes, that introduce,
By way of a quatrain,
Two characters who asked of me,
Just who on earth were they?
And what was it that they should do?
What was their history?
Where would they go, who would they meet?
They seemed to say to me.
So, if you have the interest,
And then a little time,
Their unexpected adventure,
You’ll find here told in rhyme.
For the world a new history,
Which I commend to you;
Hoping it is interesting
Enough to see it through.
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This is the incredible true story with only some names changed of Derek Lubeck, a reasonable and decent man who, through no fault of his own, finds himself targeted by a ruthless criminal network. From drug dealers and bikers to junkies, Middle Eastern gangs, mafia types, various creeps and deadbeats, and even possibly corrupt police, Derek faces relentless pursuit from every direction.
The story documents his struggle to cope with and survive the stalking, threats, harassment, set ups, shootings, poisonings, and many other hostilities aimed at destroying his life. Yet, with some unexpected help, Derek miraculously emerges from this ordeal, somewhat scarred but ultimately victorious.
An enthralling read, with strange and surprising twists in nearly every chapter.
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Beards Auction House is holding a major sale of important sporting pictures, and Jasper is eager to buy a companion piece to one he already owns. But when sale day arrives, something unexpected happens: Lot number 59 has vanished!
What follows is a tangled mystery of tracking down the missing painting, complete with abduction, horse racing, and blackmail.
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Seagulls Shadows on Slantyrock
November is the month of remembrance. The quint of October, when warm days still seeped through, is gone. The landscape on the horizon is growing dark; the light from the sun seems to go dim wherever it goes.
Playing on the streets where the fiery leaves clung on under terraces of houses, coal smoke plumed up firmaments upon the skyline, illuminating the mysterious horizon beyond. At the top of Hampton Cove hill, nightfall began to settle with the ambient orange streetlights clicking light into a day now gone. I was alone with him for the first time in my life. The game was on, in light to dark. Manhunt was in play, and our other friends playing had cheated the streets.
At the top of Hampton Cove hill below the last lingering leaves on the trees. Lost with each other without purpose. We had lost the game of manhunt. This was the first time we were alone together, separated from our friends.
Awkward as we hung around. We loitered about, tired and worn out, in the futile pursuit. He spotted a Coke can on the road and went over. I felt very puzzled as he forced his foot in between the center of the can. After his foot was lodged in, he took the can and clink-clanked along the road. The sound was familiar to me before he had said it, ‘I AM ROBO-COP.’
I burst out laughing, like never before, with a peer together. A friendship began.
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For many years, the beautiful kingdom of Zallanda has been torn apart by conflict. The hordes of terrified Zallan creatures live in fear under the tyranny of the malevolent ruling Growls, and their plight is worsened by Sartok, the depraved Warlock who holds ultimate power.
But hope is not lost. Help arrives in an unexpected form: two “brave knights.” DAT, a spirited Tibetan terrier, and his loyal friend DEXY, a clever brown Labrador, are magically transported to Zallanda. Unknowingly, they are destined to aid the Zallan creatures in their fight to reclaim their freedom and restore peace to their homeland.
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Lola's Story in the Legend of the Dark Cavern
Lily and her young kitten Lola, along with the gang, are back in town! In the sequel to Lola’s Story, this edge-of-your-seat thriller takes you on a perilous journey filled with adventure, spills, thrills and humour. In a race against time and with the help from her trusted gang, Lola must retrieve and destroy the Stone of Certainty and save the world, but she has only one hour to achieve her mission. This is another charming and heartwarming tale in the adventures of Lily and Lola that highlights the importance of bonding friendships, but this time there is a twist in the tale! With little time to spare, will Lola, with the help of her trusted gang, succeed in her quest to save the world? Let’s find out…
The story is told through the eyes of Lola.
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Strange things happen at school on St Patrick’s Day!
The schoolchildren are astounded by the peculiar actions of their most beloved teacher, Miss Tower. She keeps talking about finding her crock of gold!
But why today and where will she find her gold?
Will she succeed, or will the new student stop her? Can Victor save the day?
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I Think There's a Monster Who Lives Under My Bed
“I think there’s a monster who lives under my bed. It rumbles and grumbles, and its eyes glow red.”
Come on a toe-curling adventure of mystery and fright, as one little boy looks for those bumps in the night.
I Think There’s a Monster Who Lives Under My Bed is a fun, fast-paced rhyming story about friendship, wild imaginations, and how our differences can truly bring us together in the end.
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Instilling Ethical Excellence Vol 2
The question is: What kind of world do we want to live in? The question appears time and again in the pages that follow. It is not a trifling one. We make the world we live in one act and one decision at a time, small and not so small. Few of us pause long enough to think deeply as we go about our everyday lives, busily meeting our everyday needs. It has taken far longer than it should have, but finally the field of applied ethics has expanded its horizons to return to the teaching of ethics across the age spans of elementary school-age children. In the early to mid-1800s, William Holmes McGuffey created a series of books (McGuffey’s Readers) that taught character development lessons to lay a foundation of moral and ethical precepts in very young hearts. Several generations of teachers fed the lessons of the Readers into several generations of their students, only to find their Readers falling into subsequent disuse. We are returning to the old to do something new.
Taking ethics education farther and farther back into younger and younger student cohorts is no longer out of fashion. Philosopher ethicists are stepping out of their academic ivory towers to create new and innovative age-correlated ethics teaching resources.
Education has gotten increasingly technical to the abandonment of the ethical. But all is not lost. Research in early childhood development shows that kids as young as two years old possess rudimentary forms of “morality” relating to judgements such as good/bad, right/wrong, and fair/unfair, among others. As publications multiply, focusing on the expanding domain of applied ethics, educational resources are needed to assist teachers in their classroom ethics teaching activities. Today, more than ever, we need resources to raise ethically minded adults-in-the-making able to stand well above today’s cultural currents, see dangers, and make fine-grained decisions as to the right and wrong of things.
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FROM BIG BANG TO BIG SCRUNCH
Two non-corporeal entities initiate the Big Bang, creating the Universe containing galaxies, stars and planets in which unicellular life and ultimately sentient life evolves…
Unaware of their intricately woven destinies inexorably drawing them towards each other, sentient life-forms cope with their realities…
From ruthless carnivores to teleporting sentients… From ancient gurus teaching astral travel to aquatic species travelling the stars… Who will emerge the victor in a Game conceived eons ago?
The atoms comprising your body existed at the time of the Big Bang 15 billion years ago… Are there entities in the roles of Creator, Preserver and Destroyer? Does simultaneity exist? Are karma and entropy inevitable in a physical universe?
What is the likelihood of a divine Creator controlling events ranging from the birth of a mosquito to colliding galaxies?
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This debut poetry collection comes from a writer born before World War II. Though not deeply affected by the war itself, she grew up during a time of hardship for much of Europe. A lifelong sense of not quite belonging in the many places she lived as a child eventually led her to settle in Suffolk, where she found her first true sense of home.
Her love of poetry was sparked by a schoolteacher and nurtured by her father, who enjoyed playful verse like The Hunting of the Snark.
Today, we are fortunate to live in an age of easy communication and travel, where rural life no longer means isolation. Suffolk, with its thriving poetry scene, has provided her with both inspiration and community.
This collection reflects a life shaped by place, memory, and human connection. Some poems explore landscapes like the King’s Forest, while others bring to life people and moments from her past, such as Granny and Rhos-on-Sea. The collection concludes with a medley of light-hearted poems, crafted to bring a smile to the reader’s face.
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Narkey Hole and the Quest for Immortality
Van 007 is out of touch and running out of time now that he’s losing his life-sustaining whiskers. Set in a world where animals break into song and several animal species have extraordinary powers that humans either choose to ignore or are persuaded into forgetting, Van, a cat-vampire, can’t even remember why the chicken crossed the road, let alone his own purpose. His world is torn apart by others and as he attempts to avoid death, he juggles inner, outer and surreal demons, whilst the overwhelming responsibility to the runt porker, Pavel, makes him far too human. But which one of them is out of their head when the other isn’t around?
Will Van realise his dream of becoming an Immortal?
Will he make it?
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