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The Little Blue Hen
Hello my friends. I am a Baby Pigeon and I have just hatched along with my brother at a stud farm in the midlands. My mother has named me ‘The Little Blue Hen’ and I am about to take you on a journey that you will never forget for the rest of your life!
We will meet friends that you will love and enemies that you will hate, and we will laugh till we cry at some of the things that we will see and do. As I am being trained to race all over England and France, before long, you will know everything about me, ‘The Little Blue Hen’.
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The Biter Bit
Embark on a captivating journey through the diverse and intriguing lives of lawyers and those they encounter in this compelling collection of short stories.
‘Stranger In A Strange Land’ follows the adventures of a trainee lawyer as he navigates the dizzying social scene of the 1950s, while ‘An Even Stranger Land’ delves into the lawyer’s experiences during National Service and the challenges of his first job.
In ‘Pressure Point,’ a lawyer on the brink of a mental breakdown finds solace in the care of a renowned psychiatrist, who harbours his own inner demons. ‘Deputy Dog’ offers a candid and humorous look at a lawyer’s experiences as a Deputy Judge, revealing the ups and downs of the role.
‘Greypower’ tells the story of a retired accountant who sets out to assist a struggling family but finds himself on an unexpected path of self-discovery. Finally, ‘The Biter Bit’ showcases a renowned divorce lawyer who takes on what appears to be a routine case, only to discover that the client’s husband has a very different agenda.
This eclectic mix of short stories promises to engage, entertain, and provide insight into the complex lives of those in the legal profession and the individuals they encounter along the way.
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The Storyteller
Fear and grief alter those who experience them. Trauma teaches lessons we never anticipated and imparts wisdoms for which we never prepared. The characters in The Storyteller embark on the most vital adventure of their lives – the one deep into their minds and most profound heartaches. They battle curses and hardships to survive, fighting fang and witch’s nail to break free.
Set in the small South African town of Klerksdorp, we follow a group of apparent strangers united by their adversities and rallying against an entire world concealed behind an ominous veil. This is a story to make you feel and think in equal measure, until your heart breaks one final time.
Casey, Liam and James show us fear stems more from thoughts than imagined monsters. By finding courage through hardship and confronting the past, they transform terror into strength. This is how we overcome, how we ascend: through ties that bind. We adapt or die.
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Well-Keeper Island
"Hey, you listen to me now,' Daniel's tone was gentle. 'The opposite of brave is not scared, it's cowardly, and you're no coward. If you do something that puts you in danger, even though you're scared, it makes you even braver than if you weren't scared in the first place. Do you get me?" Sara sniffled and wiped her nose with her sleeve. "I think so. I never thought I could be brave and scared at the same time. I guess I can lead for another bit then, seeing that I'm so brave!" She turned slowly in the passageway to continue in the direction they had been moving. Journey with Daniel and Sara on a wild adventure across a mystical land. Undertaking a daring quest in search of three strange treasures, our pair find themselves in a magical world full of wonder and danger at every turn. Their quest becomes a race against time, aided by new friends and hindered by dark forces. Will they make it? For not all is as it seems on Well-Keeper Island.
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The Rockwall Brothers
The world's most secret service, MI60, is at risk of being exposed. Their agents can no longer go into the field. The brains behind MI60, James S. Brogan, turns to the most unlikely source to protect the nation's security by covertly recruiting two unwitting boys to undertake a dangerous world-roaming mission. Brothers, Jack and Charlie, become the youngest and newest secret agents of MI60; the Rockwall Brothers are born.
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The Owen Girl
Jenna is fifteen, a couple of weeks away from her sixteenth birthday. After her step-father abuses her, she runs away to a beach house owned by her grandmother, Glenys, which has been empty for years.Looking after herself, determined to be independent and to stay safe, she cautiously gets to know the local shopkeeper, the elderly Maori man who leaves freshly caught fish on her doorstep, and a teenage boy on holiday in a neighbouring cottage. She uncovers the history of her nan and finds that history can repeat itself, but in a good way.This is a beautifully written, heart-warming story set in New Zealand. The characters are lightly but cleverly drawn, and the environment is vividly brought to life. This charming book will appeal to young adults and readers of all ages.
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The Omega Chronicles
A giant cosmic dust cloud is first noticed in 1962, its discovery kept a secret so as not to cause worldwide panic, finally hits the Earth fifty-five years later with catastrophic devastation that wipes life from the face of the planet. One man, Colton Lee Steele, miraculously survives whilst stationed in Antarctica and thus starts his struggle to at first comprehend the enormity of his predicament and then plans and travels to the Northwest Territories to finally find a place he can call home. It is a harsh environment he finds himself in but through perseverance and true grit, he discovers an inner strength that will guide him through his final years, and along the way discover that life will always find a way.
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The Mountain on the Other Side of Light: A Cry for Help
On holiday at a small seaside resort, Bridget meets Tom, whose aunt pilots the airship Goodcheer that takes lucky tourists on sightseeing trips around the bay. She does not guess what a role the airship will play in her life as she gazes out to sea with her wheelchair-bound brother and remarks casually: “Isn’t it funny how we often see clouds on the horizon and like to think they’re mountains?”Nor does she foresee the role of the sinister Madame Retsinis, a fairground fortune-teller who talks darkly of opportunities to travel to far lands…Or what it all has to do with the strange local tales of Manny Reeve, a local eccentric who claimed to have visited a land whose people were threatened with ecological disaster, fierce tribal conflicts and power-hungry tyrants.
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Red Dawn Rising
“Had she known that in a world of gods and mortals, she was a Titan?”It’s the middle of the 23rd century, and life has never been better. But for those less privileged, things have never been worse. Torn from her childhood at just four years of age, Morgan has known only suffering. Her young life spent locked up with others just like her in one of many underground facilities known as Basements, where they’re used for torturous experiments so severe that many never make it out. And even those who do are never truly free of the horrors they have experienced.After years of suffering, Morgan, whose eyes have turned a chilling metallic grey from the experiments she’d endured, is freed by the Rebellion.Now known to many as Titanium, Morgan seizes the opportunity to inflict revenge for everything that was ever done to her and quickly works her way up until she becomes the leader of her own army, the Titans, named after their fearless metallic-eyed leader.
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Lured by a Mango Daiquiri
Lured by a Mango Daiquiri is a humorous account of a young woman who, whilst working in the London fashion industry, decides, after a late night out and sequence of events, to apply for a job in Sri Lanka.On securing the position, she changes continents and embarks on an adventure of a lifetime.This book is about adapting to change both inside and out – a quantum leap when one’s foot is in mid-air, propelled forward by courage and intuition.
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Jinxed
This novel follows the story of Alice and Redmond Gilraine from Achill Island to London, Brisbane and Rochester, New York and back to Achill. It chronicles their adventures, tragedies and joys. This collection of characters live ordinary lives illuminated by love of family, stoic resilience in the face of misfortune and a grounded sense of place. It focuses on the challenges the family overcomes in coping with emigration, adoption, loneliness and depression. Lily’s life-search mirrors the problems adopted people have in accessing their roots, heredity and medical history. Above all, the tale celebrates the indomitable spirit and zest for life of an Irish family abroad.
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Expendable Soldiers 2
It’s 1942 and the Second World War’s Pacific Theatre has started. John Knight and his soldier colleagues have escaped being prisoners-of-war of the Japanese. They established a Coastwatcher network who report on the Japanese from the islands of New Guinea.Since the war started, John’s group of part-time soldiers have transformed into an effective group of killers. The group operates from a stolen Japanese gunboat and engage the Japanese on both land and sea while they continue to rescue people from the clutches of the advancing Japanese army.The group’s unlikely successes have been recognised and they now also work with the army’s special forces directly engaging the Japanese in high-risk missions behind enemy lines. John knows that capture by the Japanese means certain death.On the battlefield, the Japanese receive no quarter and John’s group expect none from the Japanese. It is a desperate time and no one is playing by the gentleman’s rules of war.John and his group have survived through stealth, innovation and ruthless efficiency but is that enough to survive the imminent invasion of New Guinea’s capital? John’s group need the luck of the Irish if they are to survive the war.This book is a sequel to the highly successful book, Expendable Soldiers: Invasion.
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