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Poor George is a gentle giant. But he is also clumsy. And when he tries to help others, he often makes things worse. Can Jimmy Bean help to make things better?All proceeds to be given to St Elizabeth Hospice, Ipswich.
Lewis Milken is a dying man who has one last wish: to find out what happened to his sister nearly forty years ago. Emma Milken supposedly died of tuberculosis while working as a governess in Spain. But Lewis believes there is more to the story. Part-time fixer Chance Yang has troubles of his own. His relationship with girlfriend Catherine Roxborough is on the rocks. But when his flamboyant former boss, Felipe Kazama, sends Lewis his way, Chance heads straight from London to Spain to search for the answers Lewis seeks.Just as everything seems to be cleared up, Felipe sends another suspicious case in Chance's direction. Detective Nigel Weatherby needs a murder investigating, and he has his reasons for keeping it under the radar. Daniele Vidas was stabbed to death by a former colleague, but her death is more baffling than it first appears. Tupperware boxes containing the bodies of dead cats are found in her backyard. Stranger still, the hair samples found inside them belong to the adopted Sudanese girl who lives in the multi-million-pound property next door.When Chance poses as a Maths tutor to gain access to the girl's household, he opens the door to a world of wealth and privilege and a dark, twisting mystery where learning the truth will be a painful feat...
Millie is having a bad day. Her book manuscript has been rejected, she has been fired from her job and then, on top of that, she witnesses a terrible hit-and-run collision. She calls an ambulance for the victim and, while she waits for it to arrive, he asks a favour of her - to deliver his briefcase to a man whose name and address he gives her - but then, when her back is turned, he disappears. The briefcase contains a document that she can't resist reading. It appears to be a report which claims that an extraordinary, secret truth belies the whole of humankind. Millie is certain that it's a product of someone's imagination and the victim must be a writer or publisher, but then why is a stranger trying to persuade her that it's true? What is Project Human? And how is Millie's future inextricably tied to whether it's fact or fiction?
It takes a community to save a King's lifeA creative re-telling of documented historical events in and around White Ladies Manor and Boscobel House in Shropshire, England during the future King Charles II's sojourn there after the Battle of Worcester in September 1651. Historical facts and characters are woven into a fictional narrative told largely by a herbalist, Dame Sarah Kinver, who uses her healing practice, alongside other members of the two households, in a desperate battle to save Charles from dying of hypothermia and exhaustion; and to help him escape from Parliamentarian forces who would execute him if they found him. The story addresses the tension between holy vocation and witchcraft in which healing was perceived in 17th Century England. Sarah's sacred calling to serve God through caring for others is tested and pushed to new limits as she cares for Charles. Will saving Charles' life cost Sarah her own? Can her vow of celibacy withstand the charms of this traumatised Prince in need of tender loving care?¿
I am simply just a woman who met the wrong person; I am a mother who just loves her kids; I am a person who strived to keep her family together against all odds; I was a naive, young bride and mother who could never have been prepared for the hand that I was dealt in life.I have written this book to hopefully address and help other people like me in a situation where you believe it is impossible to escape; a prison where you are wearing invisible chains; where you are constantly wondering what you could have possibly done so wrong to deserve this treatment; a mother racked with guilt at the thought of breaking up her family; a woman whose voice becomes silent for her own protection; and most of all a person who has absolutely no self-worth and accepts this as normal.My absolute wish is to eradicate domestic abuse, coercive control and parental alienation from this world - these acts KILL many thousands of people every year. We all need to be aware and speak out for victims of these despicable crimes who have no voice!- Ally Garbutt
If rhinos could talk, would we listen?On the plains of the Serengeti, Jake the black rhinoceros is beginning to realize that his idyllic life is under threat. Jake the Last is about poaching from the inside out. The author has given the animals a voice that explains this ever present threat to wild life and it's impact on the environment. Sometimes very funny, occasionally sad and always something to think about. Jake the Last is a story for all.
Cleverly drawn in a lucid prose style, the history of Cephan the horseman and his familiars, the hound Khan, the falcon Phaedra and a mule called Mule. Back to the ancient city of Sirika they bring the king's long lost stallion, the fabled Messiah, in a time of turmoil where according to tradition the king's successor is chosen by the priests and the multitude from a contender of the Chosen, the descendants of the city's founder. At the same time an Chinese army led by the envoy Zhang Qian is approaching to take Sirika. In a web of plotting, intrigue and violence Cephan tries to school Messiah for the king's son Mylon but instead Mylon flees the city and is captured by the Chinese envoy. What follows then is a king's choice between his unloved son and the stallion he worships and the price of his decision. In the doomed city Messiah becomes part of the bargain for Sirika's deliverence, but finally his fate is determined by the horseman.¿
Sussing Life and the OracleSussing Life describes in three steps how I have tried to follow the Oracle of Delphi's instruction to "Know Myself". PersonalitiesContemplating personality types helped me to understand myself and other people, develop my interpersonal skills and understand my inner nature. The word personality comes from Latin persona meaning a mask. Human beings are all made of the same stuff, but manifest with different masks, strengths, weaknesses, and habitual tendencies. SkillsContemplating personality types helped me recognise my strengths to build on, and weaknesses and habits I needed to manage. I saw clearly, how to improve a wide range of interpersonal skills.HappinessWhen I looked carefully within, I saw that behind my mask I am not my 'personality'. I saw clearly that my thoughts, emotions, habitual reactions, and actions are what I do, not what I am. What I am is awareness or consciousness and I was delighted to find this world view is supported by some leading scientists and non-scientific thinkers. Sussing Life has given me a happy understanding of myself, other people, and the world. May it do the same for you.Hamish Somerville, Basel, November 2021
In October 2012, at a time of nascent moral panic over sex crimes allegedly committed years ago by now ageing public figures, the Metropolitan Police - using the code name Operation Yewtree - adopted the mantra 'You will be believed'. Hundreds of people, mainly women, came forward with allegations that resulted in household names facing prosecution.Rolf Harris was one of the many who were accused.This is the story of what really happened to Rolf Harris, told from the perspective of the private investigator who, along with his dedicated team, exposed flaws in the police investigation and uncovered evidence that in no small way contributed to Rolf's acquittal at the second and third trials.
Join part-time fixer Chance Yang as he delves into a world of mystery in this 2023 Readers' Favorite Book Award Urban Fiction Finalist!On April Fool's Day 2015, married pharmacist Tilly Wurman gets a surprise text message; one that definitely isn't a joke. Her ex-girlfriend Joyce Peng has been forced out of her Holborn flat by an underground fire and needs somewhere to stay the night. It soon becomes clear that something isn't right with Joyce. So, when Joyce's dead body is discovered a few days later, it looks like an open and shut case of suicide. But is everything really what it seems?In another part of London, just returned from a year-long trip to India, Catherine Roxborough also gets a surprise when a man appears at her kitchen window and smashes the glass. Recently separated from her fiancé, Catherine lives alone and is terrified that a stalker is lurking in the shadows.These two very different mysteries bring two very different men to London. Reticent Chance Yang and flamboyant Felipe Kazama, consultants for Mercury Investments and Securities, are tasked with investigating Joyce's supposed suicide and keeping Catherine safe. This isn't an ordinary day's work for Chance and Felipe, especially when personal feelings start to emerge. And the deeper their investigations go, the harder it gets to uncover the truth...
A concept is described for the creation of matter from energy based on an entity I have named a forcicle, an entity of energy, which must form the basis for a theory for everything. It is a building block for matter but will not really be understood until a method has been discovered for studying forces and forcicles, the basic building blocks of life. Only then will it be possible to fill in the blanks to create a real theory for everything. This theory describes one possible format which seems to encompass everything necessary, not only for the creation of matter and life but also for matter itself to be recycled indefinitely. It also described what light, heat and frequency could be. This may or may not be close to the truth but if it makes people think, then this document will have served its purpose.
The heart-rending and dramatic sequel to DownhillIn 1990, seventeen year old Elaine McCairn was involved in a tragic accident - an accident which took the life of an innocent child, and rocked the close-knit mining community of Castle Ridge. Unable to deal with the venomous accusations and small-town gossip, Elaine moves away and re-invents herself. Hiding behind a new name, she finds love, and finds success as an author.But the past won't let her go. And now she's being followed. Is it all connected? Will Elaine ever be able to lay the Castle Ridge ghosts to rest?Or will she always be followed by her dark shadows?
How can we integrate the scientific image of the world with our own experience of existence, without compromising either?How can the macro-scale events of cosmology, biological evolution and cultural acquisition, which are evolving through time and have a history and a memory, be the same thing as the micro-scale events described by physics and chemistry, which remain constant, without either history or memory?For philosophical monism to be plausible, systems at different scales must have different ordering principles. There must be asymmetries between them, so that the evolving systems at the macro-scale can co-exist with the constant systems at the micro-scale.
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