Black smoke stains a summer blue sky. A school is on fire. & one mother, Grace, sees the smoke & runs. She knows her teenage daughter Jenny is inside. She runs into the burning building to rescue her. Afterwards, Grace must find the identity of the arsonist & protect her children from the person who's still intent on destroying them. Afterwards, she must fight the limits of her physical strength & discover the limitlessness of love. ...

Back in the long ago nineties, Rachel Walsh was a mess.

But a spell in rehab transformed everything. Life became

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Sharrow was once a warrior-spy & leader of a combat team. Living in a state of semi-retirement, she suddenly found herself the target of the Huhsz, a religious cult, & realised that she had to find & reform her old team if she had any hope of survival. By the author of the " Culture" sequence. ...

When two police officers arrived out of the blue at Paul Connolly's door, he learned the shocking news that, out of the eight children with whom he had grown up in care, only two were still alive. The revelation unearthed painful memories of a childhood that, until this point, Paul had tried desperately to put behind him.

Abandoned at two weeks old, Paul came of age in the infamous St Leonard's Children's Home in East London. The children there were routinely abused, often over the course of many years. All were underfed & unloved & told that they would amount to nothing.

Angry & frustrated, Paul channeled his rage into boxing but when an accident shattered his ambition to turn professional, he found his true calling & became a successful trainer, even working as a consultant on the pilots for a top model s fitness video.

This paperback book has 278 pages & measures: 19.7 x 12.8 x 1.6cm





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When two police officers arrived out of the blue at Paul Connolly's door, he learned the shocking news that, out of the eight children with whom he had grown up in care, only two were still alive. The revelation unearthed painful memories of a childhood that, until this point, Paul had tried desperately to put behind him. Abandoned at two weeks old, Paul came of age in the infamous St Leonard's Children's Home in East London. The children there were routinely abused, often over the course of many years. All were underfed & unloved & told that they were would amount to nothing. Angry & frustrated, Paul channelled his rage into boxing
- but when an accident shattered his ambition to turn professional, he found his true calling & became a successful trainer, even working as a consultant on the pilots for a top model's fitness video. Paul has now finally found peace & fulfilment beyond anything he could have imagined all those years ago: he is happily married with two children &, through his work, he helps to heal broken bodies, build confidence & transform lives. But he will never forget his past & the unnecessary victims of a broken society...
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Diaspar is the last city on Earth in the year ten billion AD.

The inhabitants see no reason to be curious about the outside

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A Business Week, New York Times Business, & USA Today Bestseller " Ambitious & readable... an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition & fatalism. " -The New York Times " An extraordinarily entertaining & informative book. ...

It's July 1939 & even though Poland is trapped between Adolph Hitler & Uncle Joe Stalin, everyone hopes war can be avoided. Eighteen-year-old Jack Renouf is forbidden from associating with his own Uncle Fred because of his dangerous Communist views an ...

Four children separated by vast distances all undergo the same ritual, watched by cloaked strangers. Four flashes of light erupt, & from them emerge the unmistakable shapes of incredible beasts
- a wolf, a leopard, a panda, a falcon. Suddenly the paths of these children
- & the world
- have been changed for ever.


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An account of Yeates' ascent of one of the world's largest vertical rock faces, the 4, 000 foot Central Tower of Paine in Chile. The greatest difficulties come not from the elements but from within themselves; crippled with fear the team is forced into a r ...