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Sentinels
Isabella Krakowska set out on her quest to becoming the person she was born to be.
But, do dreams ever come true?
Do ambitions ever satisfy the soul?
Does love really exist?
And who, or what, are the sentinels? What part do they play in Isabella’s life as she struggles through the mire of her misfortunes and climbs the rough peaks of her life, in an attempt to conquer her own Everest?
Will Isabella be finally released from the chains of her past or will she forever remain a prisoner?
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Send the Healer
Ben had always harboured hopes of becoming more than he was, but nothing could have prepared him for this sudden leap forward. Up until recently, it was him watching others helping the sick where he worked, but now he had the power to do far more than all of them. He could actually take away people’s cancer or diabetes in an instant. The only problem was, he had never healed anyone before, and the person who had given him this power was a complete mystery.
There was only one thing he could do: he was going to have to take a leap of faith. This would mean putting his trust in a person he didn’t fully know. It would mean running the risk of losing all his friends. On top of all that, it would mean facing enemies who were determined to stop him at all costs.
No-one ever told him that believing would be easy, but he would never have imagined it would lead to this much adventure or such a stunning conclusion.
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Semper Fee
Semper Fee, set in an old-line Boston law firm, is a ribald comic novel about greed, infidelity, betrayal, and worse. Unfolding through two distinctive first-person narratives, the novel explores the entwined but wholly different lives of two partners, Andrew Millard and Eliot Lawrence, rivals since childhood.
In their differing ways, the covetous Millard and Eliot, the aging Eagle Scout, betray or simply take for granted the women for whom they’ve so strenuously competed. However, it is the women who advance and deepen the narrative, delighting, tormenting, illuminating, and invariably controlling the two men. Essential to the lives of both are the incomparable Clare Lawrence and her subversive daughter, Ceci.
Semper Fee lays bare the joys and humiliations of desire and tallies the cost of choices made or not made by its two central characters in a claustrophobic universe of unsavory shenanigans.
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Second Chances
Jordan, Florence, Zoe and Madelyn's friendship is put to the ultimate test when a terrible tragedy is revealed. How far will these women go to prove their loyalty? And will they take matters into their own hands? Each one of them is on a journey of their own, hiding secrets they believed had been firmly left in the past. But all is uprooted again when they decide that helping a friend in need is the right thing to do. In the end, they must face their own demons along the way. Each one of them will determine their destiny and what truly matters in life. True friendships are hard to come by. When you do find it, you will surely know, your sisters will take a bullet for you.
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Scrabble Babble Rabble
Four prison inmates are thrown randomly together during recreation time, to play scrabble, with the added zing of occasionally telling stories about a word on the board. The stories reveal their characters and histories, but the scrabble itself is a mere transient remission from the vagaries and harshness of prison life, which continues unabated around them and through them.
We are party to a voyage through calm settled waters of support, camaraderie and story-telling, to storms of violence, abuse and abject despair in a rigid, alien and unforgiving environment. We feel the emotions of the highs and lows of prison life through the victimisation, determination and hope of our players, who ultimately all show resilience in one way or another.
It is a fable about humanity, garnered with wit, insight and encouragement, with a little whodunnit? thrown in for good measure.
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School Ties
England, 1945: while still a boy, Paul Elliott loses his parents in a car accident. Whisked away to West Yorkshire from his home in High Wycombe, Paul finds a new home with his father’s brother, Don, the headmaster of Oxton House, a small preparatory school. Despite some setbacks, Paul quickly encounters academic success, setting him on a trajectory that will see him become, by his mid-twenties, Don’s presumed successor at the school.
In the ensuing years, as he begins to build Oxton House into a thriving, modern school, Paul will experience highs and lows in both his professional and private life. His troubled marriage to the captivating and capricious Catriona start rumours that will threaten to overturn Paul’s reputation and destroy his career.
School Ties’ authentic and engaging insight into the prep. school world of a different era owes much to the author’s own experience as a headmaster. The book’s narrator, Paul, is an intriguing combination of humility and ambition, keen to do his best but sometimes his own worst enemy. The novel abounds in well-drawn, often quirky characters, from pushy parents to eccentric colleagues. In particular, Paul’s uncle Don is wonderfully portrayed as a kindly pedagogue, who relies more and more on the loyalty of his nephew as the story unfolds.
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Ripe Dreams
Teme is an embodiment of that recurrent news footage of a young unaccompanied migrant rescued of yet another capsized boat on the Mediterranean Sea. Surviving the treacherous Sahara Desert then the raging sea was not the end of his battles though. Final destination in Norway, the past with a stranglehold, future uncertain the likes of Teme face adulthood, migration trauma, cultural shock, toxic comfort zone all at once while being shadowed by the long arms of the law.
With Toure his partner in crime, a loving local girlfriend, an objective child psychologist appearing intermittently in his life, would Teme shake off his troubled past or would he let the darkness consume him…?£3.50 -
Retroland
Retroland is an illustrative look back at the lifestyle and popular culture of the 1970s and 1980s Britain with a humorous twist. From fashion to music, television, toys, computer games and more – dive in, have a laugh and roll back the years with this collection of cartoons.
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Reincarnation For Beginners
Happiness is all about being who you want to be and believing in who you think you are. In the plot of Reincarnation for Beginners, there are brave souls who pursue this goal no matter what others may think or say about them!
In this story there are those who reinvent themselves or actually believe themselves to be Elvis, Gandhi, Napoleon, Florence Nightingale and Marilyn Monroe.
This book is a revolution of a read. Go on the march brothers, sisters, and everyone else. Find yourself and then flaunt it!
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Redemption
Two princes, one nation. A country at odds with its monarchy. As the dust settles on a broken land, the two brothers that would be king face off for one last civil conflict.
Again, the land of Albion suffers at the hands of the privileged few; Mad King Blaine is the rightful heir, but not all consider him to be suitable to rule, so they back the younger prince’s, Jobe’s, claim to the throne.
Influenced by unseen and powerful forces, who will rule the land of Albion and who will Jason de Silva support in the final struggle for absolute power over the Kingdom of Albion?
The third book of Devastation, set in the land of Albion on Planet Keltica. Will Jason de Silva find the cure for mankind’s folly?
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Reality
An emotional journey of eroticism, danger, entrapment, escapism, hope and faith in love and triumph over adversity, and the dark secret that lay hidden in the shadows of the lies that surrounded her. Gripped and trapped in the sinister evil, lurking and twisting around every step of her strong will to survive and succeed. Will she succumb to the cruel twisted fate of her adversaries, the sexual temptation of her misguided path or find the strength within to reach for her destiny and succeed?
Jade, one woman’s journey, this is her story, this is her reality. Inspired by true events.
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Raspberry Juice
Although this is a novel, it is full of true life experiences that we all encounter at times: the break-up of a marriage and the anger and heartache it brings to all who are involved, our children being bullied at school and the pain surrounding that, the feeling of failure, lack of confidence in ourselves and the torture of following the procedures when someone dies, let alone dealing with our emotions. This book offers a possible way to look back at these experiences and view them from a totally different perspective, a more healthy and accepting one and not full of guilt for not being ‘good enough’. We are all ‘good enough’ and we do the best we can with the resources we have at the time, we can do no better. Scattered throughout there are references to books, song lyrics and poetry that give a positive aspect to changing our whole view of our lives and seeing it all as a true learning experience to accept and welcome even though some of our experiences may have been horrendous at the time, there is still a way to gain from them, in retrospect.
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