It is February 1813. With convoys from Canada & the Caribbean falling victim to American privateers Sir Richard Bolitho returns to Halifax to pursue a war he knows will not be won but which neither Britain nor the United States can afford to lose. Englands youngest admiral desires only peace. But peace will not be found in the icy Canadian waters where a young angry nation asserts its identity & men who share a common heritage die in close & bloody action. Nor will there be a peace for those who follow the Cross of St George: for the embittered Adam mourning his lover & his ship nor for Rear-Admiral Valentine Keen who must confront both grief & responsibility. Nor will there be peace from those enemies who use this struggle between nations as an instrument of personal revenge. ...

Multi-millionaire Anthony Spencer is trapped in a coma & finds himself in a surreal world that reflects the skewed priorities of the life hes lived on earth where he meets a stranger who turns out to be Jesus & a grandmother who is the Holy Spirit. Pleading for a second chance he is sent back to earth to redeem himself. There he must fight to put right the mess hes created experiencing events through others eyes before deciding how to use the miraculous gift hes been given. Before his illness he had set events in motion that he now needs to undo
- but will he have the courage to make the right choice? THE SHACK is an international phenomenon surpassing 1 million copies sold before being picked up by a mainstream publisher: its combination of radical spirituality with a heart-wrenching story made it a word-of-mouth hit & CROSS ROADS has all the ingredients to repeat its impact.
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CLAIRE RANDALL IS LEADING A DOUBLE LIFE. SHE HAS A HUSBAND IN ONE CENTURY
- & A LOVER IN ANOTHER... In 1945 Claire Randall is back
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In recent years embroidered samplers have become highly collectible. Jane Greenoff uses her own historical sampler collection as the inspiration for over 30 unique antique style cross stitch designs so that you can begin a collection of your very own. Each project chapter is inspired by a popular sampler style. Samplers were traditionally used to teach young girls a variety of skills: darning samplers enhanced mending skills while alphabet samplers helped with literacy & samplers with improving mottoes instilled morality. Band & spot motif samplers were used to record the stitches they had learned. Many of the superb designs are complemented by additional counted thread stitches to encourage you to extend your stitching repertoire including drawn & pulled thread techniques. ...

This title offers up-to-date & comprehensive coverage of cross-cultural social relations in the work setting & provides an evaluation of existing & emerging frameworks for understanding cross-cultural differences. The books international scope will be strengthened through the use of new case studies & examples taken from all regions of the world. The changes for the 2nd edition include: greater stress on emerging issues & frameworks underlying the study of culture
- for example the role of language diversity management & the concept of identity; greater emphasis on cross-cultural negotiation & intercultural team-building; more focus on the Stress & Coping Approach; & more corporate examples to stress the topicality of the subject area. The new learning features include: applying theory to practice boxes & review questions; enhanced web site with annotated web links & self- assessment exercises for students; & Power Point slides class exercises & additional case studies for lecturers.
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Rules are different outside the Society. Chasing down an uncertain future Cassia makes her way to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky
- taken by the Society to his certain death
- only to find that he has escaped into the majestic but treacherous canyons. On this wild frontier are glimmers of a different life & the enthralling promise of rebellion. But even as Cassia sacrifices everything to reunite with Ky ingenious surprises from Xander may change the game once again. Narrated from both Cassia's & Ky's points of view this hotly anticipated sequel to Matched will take them both to the edge of Society where nothing is as expected & crosses & double-crosses make their path more twisted than ever... This is the sensational second book in the series & follow-up to acclaimed international bestseller Matched"."

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Captain Thomas Forsyths tour of Afghanistan is cut brutally short when he is badly wounded by a roadside bomb. Returning home to his mother
- a racehorse trainer & the First Lady of racing
- Tom discovers the training business is on the edge & facing a threat far more dangerous than a run of bad form. Tom finds himself on a very different but just as deadly battlefield where his military skills are tested.. .kill or be killed?

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Ex-deniable operator Nick Stone is bodyguarding a TV crew on the streets of war-torn Basra. He seems certain to die when insurgent gunmen attack. Only a reporters swift action saves his life. When the reporter vanishes within hours presumed kidnapped Stone is asked by the Intelligence Service to find him. The trail leads from Iraq to London Dublin & Kabul
- the brutal city where governments terrorism & big business collide. Caught in the crossfire Stones nightmare is only just beginning
- for the hunter has suddenly become the hunter...

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Dr Ruth Galloway is in her late 30s. When shes not digging up bones or other ancient objects she lectures at a university in Norfolk. She lives alone but happily so in a bleak marshy area called Saltmarsh overlooking the sea & Norfolks vast skies with her cats & Radio 4 for company. Shes a salty character
- quirky. When a childs bones are found in the marshes near a dig that Ruth & her former boyfriend Peter worked on ten years before Ruth is called upon to date them. They turn out to be bronze-age bones & DCI Harry Nelson who called on Ruth for help is disappointed. He had hoped they would be the bones of a child called Lucy whos been missing presumed dead for ten years. He has been getting letters about her ever since
- odd letters with references to ritual & sacrifice & including"es from the Bible & Shakespeare. Then a second girl goes missing & Nelson gets another letter
- like the ones about Lucy. Is it the same killer? Is it a ritual murder linked in some way to the site near Ruths remote home? Then one of Ruths cats is killed & clearly shes in danger from a killer who knows that her expert knowledge is being used to help the police with their enquiries.. .


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As he rose through the ranks of various departments of the Metropolitan Police Christian Plowman dreamt of being an undercover cop. When he finally achieved his ambition becoming one an elite group of officers the reality of covert work turned his life into a nightmare. To catch criminals Christian bought & sold drugs with taxpayers' money been beaten up arrested at gunpoint & barricaded in a pub by a gang of marauding gypsies
- all in a day's work. At one stage he was running almost a dozen mobile phones to keep track of his different identities & had so many aliases that he nearly forgot who he was. He put his life on the line for the job but was to find that being the 'best of the best' wasn't all it was cracked up to be. The pressure became so intense that he even contemplated suicide. Crossing the Line is a visceral gripping account of what it really takes to be an undercover cop. It exposes how the Met conducts its business behind the scenes & reveals the harsh realities of modern covert police work.
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