General Mac Kenzie Hawkins is a living military legend a hero & a rogue. When he gets kicked out of the army for conduct unbecoming to an officer his options are limited
- but not for long. He has a plan a plan so ambitious it will shock the world & make him a very rich man: he is going to get $400 million
- a dollar from every Catholic in the world. & hes going to do it by kidnapping the Pope...

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Based on his consultancy experience with churches & dioceses over the last three years & further research on the causes of church growth Bob Jacksons new book shows how the Church at parish diocesan & national level can overturn its old cycle of decline & begin a new cycle of growth. At its heart this book is about how local churches can thrive & grow in the early twenty-first century. Part 1 outlines the current context offering a sharp analysis behind the reasons for church growth & decline. Part 2 describes churches which are already experiencing growth both in numerical & ministry strength. It looks at lessons learnt & what is at the heart of a resurgent thriving Church. Parts 3 & 4 set out workable strategies & unpacks ways in which human & financial resources can be deployed to support & sustain the growth of the local church. This is not about glib short-term solutions promising quick results. The goal of this book is to help transform fragile signs of hope for the Church into a solid road to growth. ...

The epic story of one mans fight for his love his God & his country The Road to Jerusalem
- Book 1 in the Crusades Trilogy. Arn
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This is not a book about French Gardens. It is the story of a man travelling round France visiting a few selected French gardens on the way. Owners intrigues affairs marriages feuds thwarted ambitions & desires the largely unnamed ordinary gardeners wars plots & natural disasters run through every garden older than a generation or two & fill every corner of the grander historical ones. Families marry. Gardeners are poached. Political allegiances forged & shattered. The human trail crosses from garden to garden. They sit in their surrounding landscape not as isolated islands but attached umbilically to it sharing the geology the weather food climate local folklore accent & cultural identity. Wines must be drunk & food tasted. Recipes found & compared. The perfect tarte-tartin pursued. None of these things can be ignored or separated from the shape & size of parterre fountain herbaceous border or pottager. So this is a book filled with stories & information some of it about French gardens & gardening but most of it about what makes France unlike anywhere else. From historical gardens like Versailles Vaux le Vicomte & Courances to the kitchen gardens of the Michelin chef Alain Passard. There are grand potagers like Villandry & La Prieure D' Orsan & allotments & back gardens spotted on the way. Monty celebrates the obvious French associations of food & wine & finds gardens dedicated to vegetables herbs & fruit. It is a book that any visitor to France whether gardeners or not will want to read both as a guide & an inspiration. It is a portal to get under the French cultural skin & to understand the country in all its huge variety & disparity a little better. ...

In 1967 Celtic manager Jock Stein stepped from the tunnel of Lisbons Estadio Nacional & took up a position pitch-side as his team of home-grown journeymen trotted out to face Inter Milan the charismatic superstars of Italian football in the European Cup final. Celtic were a team forged in Steins own image steeled with a relentless industry & integrity by their inspirational manager whose character had in turn been honed by the horrors of the deep dark of the Lanarkshire coalfields. Martin Greig & Charlie Mc Garrys extraordinary novel delves to the very heart of that incredible season through the eyes of Stein
- as he plots & plans & drags his team to the very pinnacle of European club football
- & those of Tom an idealistic young fan from the East End of Glasgow whose dreams of life beyond the decaying slums of the Gorbals are inextricably tied to those of his heroes. The Road to Lisbon is a novel of hopes & dreams of self discovery & triumph over adversity
- & of an unerring love with an institution that represents so much more than just a football club.


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The definitive guide to the origin of J.R.R. Tolkiens books from The Hobbit to The History of Middle-earth series --



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A bestseller in England & celebrated as one of the great memoirs in many years The Road to Nab End is a marvelously evocative account of growing up poor in a British mill town. From William Woodruff's birth in 1916 (in the carding room of a cotton mill) until he ran away to London at the age of sixteen he lived in the heart of Blackburn's weaving community in the north of Engl&. But after Lancashire's supremacy in cotton textiles ended with the crash of 1920 his father was thrown out of work. From then on Billy & his family faced a life blighted by extreme poverty. For the ordinary families of Lancashire unemployment was an ever-present fear: If you worked you ate. If there was no work you went hungry." Billy's boyhood was not all misery. Working-class pride & culture made for tight family & neighborhood bonds & added savor to the smallest pleasures in life. Mr. Woodruff writes with an understated lyricism & an eye for telling details that effortlessly pulls us into another time & place." ...

Still a legend in his own lifetime the Hawk hero or anti-hero of THE ROAD TO GANDOLFO is back irrepressibly maddening a $500 million caper up his sleeve. Worshipped by the men he once led into battle General Mac Kenzie Hawkins is now in his sixties & shows no sign of retiring from the intrigue & politicking which is his lifeblood. Now he's planning to take on the Government. From the Oval Office to the Pentagon the President's men do all they can to stop him before he threatens national security. ...

A real-life adventure that inspired countless travellers in fact & fiction the Penguin Classics" edition of Robert Byrons " The Road to Oxiana"

Includes:: an introduction by Colin Thubron. In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut Jerusalem Baghdad & Teheran to Oxiana
- the country of the Oxus the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan & the Soviet Union. " The Road to Oxiana" offers not only a wonderful record of his adventures but also a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now inaccessible to most Western travelers. Robert Byron (1905-41) was born in 1905 & educated at Eton & Merton College Oxford. He died during the Second World War when the ship he was serving on was torpedoed by a U-Boat off Cape Wrath. Byrons " The Road to Oxiana" is considered by many modern travel writers to be the first example of great travel writing. If you enjoyed " The Road to Oxiana" you might like Charles Darwins " The Voyage of the Beagle" also available in " Penguin Classics". " The greatest of all pre-war travel books". (William Dalrymple). " What " Ulysses" is to the novel between the wars & what " The Waste Land" is to poetry " The Road to Oxiana" is to the travel book". (Paul Fussell). " In any list of the great travel books of the 20th century Robert Byrons account of his travels in Persia & Afghanistan " The Road to Oxiana" must be put somewhere near the very top". (" Telegraph")."


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Having survived the perils of a journey across half the world Romulus & Tarquinius are press-ganged into the legions which are under imminent threat of annihilation by the Egyptians. Meanwhile in Rome Romulus' twin sister Fabiola lives in fear for her life loved by Brutus but wooed by Marcus Antonius his deadly enemy. Soon after Romulus fights at Zela the vicious battle where Caesar famously said ' Veni vidi vici'. Tarquinius separated from Romulus in the chaos of war hides in Alexandria searching for guidance. But mortal danger awaits them both. From the battlefields of Asia Minor & North Africa to the lawless streets of Rome & the gladiator arena they face death daily until on the Ides of March the twins are reunited & must decide either to back or to betray Caesar on his day of destiny. ...