I do not think that Malan could join a squadron without improving it however good it was. Not by sword-waving but by a strength of mind & integrity that are at once recognisable & effective...he was the best pilot of the War
- Air Commodore Al Deere C.B.E. D.S.O. D.F.C. Malan was thirty years of age during the Battle of Britain old for a fighter pilot but his maturity gave his leadership a firm authority. The Battle of Britain produced many airmen of great skill & accomplishment; high achievers who made their mark in one of historys most memorable & demanding campaigns. But only a few of these men distinguished themselves in such a way as to become legends in their own lifetimes. Among the greatest of these was Sailor Malan. Here is the story of this talented man eloquently told by Philip Kaplan who manages to strike a balance between objectivity & reverence in order to commit Malans story to paper. Featured too are a series of evocative black & white illustrations which supplement the descriptive text & work to create a real sense of the character of the man flourishing as he did in this dramatic wartime context. As Malan continues to inspire young Aviators this record looks set to preserve his legacy for a new generation of pilots as well as hardy Aviation enthusiasts.
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One hundred years ago. On the foggy Hudson River a riverboat captain rescues an injured mermaid from the waters of the busiest port in the United States. A wildly popular--and notoriously reclusive--author makes a public debut. A French nobleman seeks a remedy for a curse. As three lives twine together & race to an unexpected collision the mystery of the Mermaid of the Hudson deepens. A mysterious & beguiling love story with elements of Poe Twain Hemingway & Greek mythology drawn in moody black-&-white charcoal Sailor Twain" is a study in romance atmosphere & suspense. " Sailor Twain "is one of " The Washington Posts " Top 10 Graphic/ Comic Reads of 2012" ...

This omnibus edition follows the second cycle of the Gaunt's Ghost stories in a collection called The Saint." It

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Simon Templar is the Saint
- daring dazzling & just a little disreputable. On the side of the law but standing outside it he dispenses
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In these three classic stories the Saint investigates crimes that have left the police confounded. In The High Fence he hunts down a villain who somehow manages to kill people just before they can reveal his identity; The Elusive Ellshaw sees him on the track of a man meant to have died a year before; & a letter calling for help sends him to a sleepy seaside pub disturbed by mysterious underground rumblings in The Case of the Frightened Innkeeper. One thing is sure: despite death threats gunfire & kidnapping the Saint will go on until his curiosity is satisfied. ...

In Prohibition-era New York criminals rule the city: the gangsters do what they like & pay the judges for the privilege; the few honest cops are helpless; & above them all the Big Fellow pulls the strings. With that many sinners cleaning up the town will take a Saint... Simon Templar is a long way from home & facing great danger from directions both expected & entirely unforeseen. But he promised to do the job; & a saint never goes back on his word. ...

In this collection of short stories the Saint intervenes to teach a motley bag of criminals the error of their ways. Crooked financiers bookies fake inventors dodgy bankers dealers in pornography unethical businessmen murderers thieves & liars
- all will come to regret the day their actions caught the Saints attention.
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Simon Templar is the Saint
- daring dazzling & just a little disreputable. On the side of the law but standing outside it he dispenses
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Someone had told Dex that the Queen lived in Victoria. So did he but she had a palace & he had one room in a street off Warwick Way. Still he liked the idea that she was his neighbour. Dex works as a gardener for Dr Jefferson at his home on Hexam Place in Pimlico: an exclusive street of white-painted stucco Georgian houses inhabited by the rich & serviced by the not so rich. The hired help a motley assortment of au pairs drivers & cleaners decide to form the St Zita Society (Zita was the patron saint of domestic servants) as an excuse to meet at the local pub & air their grievances. When Dex is invited to attend one of these meetings the others find that he is a strange man seemingly ill at ease with human beings. These first impressions are compounded when they discover he has recently been released from a hospital for the criminally insane where he was incarcerated for attempting to kill his own mother. Dexs most meaningful relationship seems to be with his mobile phone service provider Peach & he interprets the text notifications & messages he receives from the company as a reassuring sign that there is some kind of god who will protect him. & give him instructions about ridding the world of evil spirits... Accidental death & pathological madness cohabit above & below stairs in Hexam Place. ...

Every Catholic saint local & liturgical is honoured on a particular day of the year. In many cases an order of precedence has been worked out to determine which saints are most important. In Saints" Rosa Giorgi has chosen up to three saints for every day of the year along with representations of those saints ranging from world-famous works of art to more modern depictions. From a wide variety of sources Giorgi has composed a short explanation of each saint to accompany the illustration including etymology of names historical background occupations cities & countries of patronage. Although many well-known saints are depicted including Francis of Assisi Joan of Arc & Thomas Aquinas some relatively obscure saints are pictured as well." ...