The extraordinary third novel from Chris Cleave author of the internationally bestselling Costa-shortlisted THE OTHER H&. Kate & Zoe are friends but also ardent rivals
- athletes at the top of their game fighting to compete in the world's greatest sporting contest. Each scarred by tragedy & each with a great deal to lose they must choose between family & glory & ask themselves: what will I sacrifice? GOLD captures the extraordinary effort & dedication that go into the pursuit of victory. But this life-affirming novel is about more than sport. It is about human endurance motherhood & love & what enables us all in our different ways to achieve the remarkable. It is a story told as only Chris Cleave could tell it. & once you begin it will be a heart-pounding race to the finish.
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There are times when everyone has problems making decisions or resolving issues. Every one of us has a left or logical active part of the brain & a right or intuitive passive side. Only when these are working effectively together can we come to balanced decisions & lead a happy existence. In her Gold & Silver Guardian Angels Angela Mc Gerr provides two products for the price of one! Guardian Angel Cards offer a means to seek advice & guidance from gold (active) & silver (passive) angels (to see both sides of a problem) with a key card that adds balance. The Book of Angels describes how to use the cards & features detailed portraits of over 100 angels. The reader can use it in two ways: to find out more information about the angels they have drawn with the cards or to learn more about all the angels featured. It is in fact an angelic bible for those already intrigued by the subject of angels. ...

Gorgeous widow Karen Di Cilia just found out what it really means to be married to the mob. Her Mafia husband Frank left her millions & a Florida Gold Coast mansion. He also left orders that shed lose everything the day she slept with another man. With his boys as enforcers Karen was soon a lonely lady. Then she met Detroits Cal Maguire a sexy street-smart ex-con with a scam to get Karen her money & her freedom
- or get them both killed.
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The warmth of him the glorious warmth was fading by the minute. In a huge old school house by the sea full of precious paintings Thomas Porteous is dying. His much younger wife Di holds him & mourns. She knows that soon despite her being his sole inheritor Thomass relatives will descend on the collection that was the passion of both of their lives. & descend they do. The two needy daughters who were poisoned against their father by their defecting mother are now poison themselves. The family regard Thomass wealth as theirs by right with the exception of young Patrick who adored his grandfather & is torn between his parents & Di the interloper. The family know Dis weaknesses & she has to learn theirs. After all she met Thomas when she came to his house to rob him. With the help of an unlikely collection of loners & eccentrics she sets a trap to hoist the family members on their own greed. & on the night they are lured to the house Di will be ready. Or will she? ...

Glamour intrigue lust & betrayal merge in the sizzling new blockbuster from The Sunday Times bestselling author of Daddys Girls New York billionaire Adam Gold is moving to London. Hes sexy single & about to come face to face with The Gold Diggers. Karin the jet-setting swimsuit entrepreneur & Londons most glamorous socialite. Adam Gold could be her perfect accessory. Erin the naive country girl who snares the job as Adams PA. But the bright lights & obscene money threaten to lose her everything she once held dear. Molly a fading eighties supermodel with an expensive drug habit. Adam could be her last chance at gaining the ultimate lifestyle before time finally catches up with her. Summer is Mollys daughter. A burgeoning beauty living in the shadows of her famous mother. Now the tables are about to turn when she lands herself a television deal & becomes the next big thing. From Monte Carlo to Lake Como St Moritz to St Barts Gold Diggers takes us on a heady journey through the social circuit of the super-rich plunging the reader into a world of sex murder & scorching betrayal. Tasmina Perry is bringing sexy back! ...

Lovejoy discovers how the lure of gold brings out the worst kind of treasure seeker when broke as usual & earning a crust as an unlikely babysitter he stumbles across the diaries of a painter that appear to point to the whereabouts of a fabled hoard of Roman gold coins. Lovejoy is tempted to dismiss the whole thing as a hoax but vile threats & violent intimidation have a way of changing his mind. He sets out to unravel the clues in the diaries with some particularly nasty characters dogging his every move. ...

Big King was at the shaft station when they heard the water coming. It sounded like an express train in a tunnel a dull bellow of irresistible power. The water was pushing the air from the drive ahead of it so that a hurricane of wind came roaring from the mouth of the drive blowing out a cloud of dust & loose rubbish. Rod Ironsides ambitious & hard-living mining expert knows that the general managership of the Sonder Ditch gold mine is the chance of a lifetime. But the price of unquestioning obedience to the coldly obsessive genius of Dr Manfred Steyner proves impossible to pay. Both men are but unwitting tools of powerful people -- for whom the control of a gold mine is only part of the realization of dreams & ambitions which include the destruction of the very mine itself.. . ...

High Performance Anthropologist Rasmus Ankersen brings his first-hand study of success to a mass audience for the first time. We all want to discover our unique talents & make an impact with them. But how? Rasmus Ankersen a 26 year old ex-professional footballer & performance specialist quit his job spent his last pennies booking flight tickets & for six intense months travelled the world & literally trained & lived with the worlds best athletes & their coaches in an attempt to answer this very question. Why have the worlds best middle distance runners grown up in the same Ethiopian village? Why are 137 of the worlds 500 best female golfers from South Korea? How did one athletic club in Kingston Jamaica succeed to produce most of the worlds best sprinters? What is the secret behind Brazils mass production of soccer super stars? In The Gold Mine Effect Ankersen presents his surprising conclusions in seven lessons on how anyone
- or any business organisation or team
- can defy the many misconceptions of high performance & learn to build their own gold mine of real talent.

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Elite athletes arent born. Theyre made. Michael Johnson From a living icon of the Olympic Games -- as both an athlete & now as a BBC broadcaster -- Gold Rush is a compelling analysis of the fascinating combination of psychological & personal qualities as well as internal & external factors that go to create an Olympic champion. This exciting new book is based on Michael Johnsons own experiences as an iconic four-time Olympic champion & on the knowledge he has gleaned as a top-class coach & motivational speaker. It also features uniquely more than a dozen exclusive & insightful interviews with Olympic legends from across several different sports who between them have claimed more than 50 gold medals over the past 30 years. In essence Johnson has assembled his very own Olympic Hall of Fame in assessing the DNA of true champions. Gold Rush is themed around chapters in which Johnson will discuss each of the key qualities/factors. He expertly feeds in fascinating first-person testimonies from the Olympic legends. In the process he builds up a definitive knowledge bank of expertise & experience from athletes who have been on this fascinating journey encountered the highs & the lows but ultimately reached the summit
- an Olympic gold medal. Johnsons interviewees include: Usain Bolt Carl Lewis Sally Gunnell Seb Coe Daley Thompson Cathy Freeman Ian Thorpe Michael Phelps Rebecca Adlington Chris Hoy Steve Redgrave Matthew Pinsent Lennox Lewis & Michael Jordan.
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Elite athletes arent born. Theyre made. Michael Johnson From a living icon of the Olympic Games
- as both an athlete & now as a
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