Im torn between throttling you & kissing you. Lana Kelley never imagined the magical night she shared with a stranger would result in pregnancy. But when shes kidnapped Lana is shocked to discover one of her captors is none other than the father of her unborn child. Mercenary Deacon Holt cant understand Lana. She should hate him. Instead she refuses to believe hes cold-hearted. Though Deacon tries to remain detached he cant deny he still wants Lana. & when Lanas life is threatened Deacon will risk all to help her escape. ...

Head bowed rifle on his back a soldier is silhouetted against the going down of the sun looking at the grave of a dead comrade remembering him. A photograph from the war is also a photograph of the way the war will be remembered. It is a photograph of the future of the futures view of the past. Geoff Dyers classic book is an original & personal meditation upon war & remembrance. It weaves a network of myth & memory photos & films poetry & sculptures graveyards & ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of & relationship to the Great War. ...

Her story adds to the growing literature related to individual life stories of Holocaust survivors. There is much we can learn from her book."
- Benjamin Schlesinger Professor Emeritus University of Toronto Until age seven Olga Barsony Verrall lived an idyllic life in Szarvas a small town in Hungary surrounded by her doting observant Jewish family. After the Nazi invasion in 1944 Olga found herself along with most of her family interned in the Auspitz (Hustopece) labour camp. Eventually reunited after the war the family returned to Szarvas only to face a different kind of oppression at the hands of the new Communist government. After immigrating to Winnipeg in 1957 Olga met & married Orland Verrall the cantor at Rosh Pina synagogue. Together they built a new life in Canada & soon welcomed two daughters Judy & Lesley. Yet Olga continued to be haunted by her past. Though she was very young during her time in the camp Olga had vivid & painful memories of the horrifying things she had seen & experienced there. A nagging sense of emptiness & anger stayed with her all her life. After her beloved husband Orland passed away her emotional state became increasingly fragile & she became dependent on prescription drugs to numb her pain. A long journey of physical & mental healing along with the support of her family helped Olga piece her life back together. For Olga writing her memoir was a catharsis. For her readers it will be an inspiration."
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At absolutely no point in Swallows & Amazons does Susan cry John look out theres a patch of shit-eating jellyfish ahead! Yacht racing
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The so-called missing years of Jesus constitute the 18 years that are unaccounted for in the Bible from when Jesus was a boy of 12 to his sudden reappearance at the age of 30. Archaeologist & classical scholar Dennis Price has investigated the clues in Blakes evocative poem Jerusalem" & has paid meticulous attention to the accounts in the ancient Aramaic & Greek versions of the Bible & hes also conducted an exhaustive & unprecedented study into the myths & legends of Christ in Britain. With the assistance of specialists in their own fields & by viewing this enthralling subject as a modern missing persons investigation Dennis Price has pieced together the various pieces of the jigsaw & now presents compelling & highly original evidence that Christ did indeed visit Britain in the company of Joseph of Arimathea in ancient times. The weight of new material suggests that Christ remained in Britain for several years before eventually returning to his homeland in the east & this truly extraordinary book now provides a wealth of new information for all those who are intensely curious about this otherwise undocumented period in the life of the most famous person the worlds ever known. The implications are astonishing & they are presented here in the greatest story never told." ...

In May 1945 Italy was liberated from Nazism & Fascism by the British Eighth & American Fifth Armies. By that time the Italian resistance movement had emerged as one of the strongest in Europe
- crucially aided & abetted by the UKs Special Operations Executive. As what Winston Churchill graphically described as the red-hot rake of the battle-line advanced bloodily up the Italian peninsula clandestine cells in the cities & partisan bands in the countryside fought to free their country from enemy occupation & shape the politics of Italys post-war future. SOE in Italy known as Number 1 Special Force parachuted in dozens of missions to supply the underground with weapons & ammunition food & supplies. In a remarkable twist it also secretly collaborated with its former enemy the Italian military intelligence service & with the Italian navy which used fast torpedo boats & rubber dinghies to land British agents on heavily defended beaches. Based on recently released official files documents retrieved from other agencies diaries memoirs & personal interviews Mission Accomplished" provides the first ever complete & authoritative account of Britains secret war in Italy
- the heroic exploits the larger than life participants & the extraordinary against-the-odds achievements."

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Bruno Salvador has worked on clandestine missions before. A highly skilled interpreter he is not stranger to the Official Secrts Act. But this is the first time he has been asked to change his identity
- & worse still his clothes
- in service of his country. Whisked to a remote island to interpret a top-secret conference between no-name financiers & Congolese warlords Salvos excitement is only heightened by memories of the night before he left London & his life-changing encounter with a beautiful nurse named Hannah. Exit suddenly the unassuming happily married man Salvo believed himself to be. Enter in his place the pseudonymous Brian Sinclar: spy lover
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Lost amid the desert sands! When Beck Granger & his friend Peter join Becks Uncle Al for a holiday in Africa they arent expecting to find themselves stranded in the Sahara Desert. But when they stumble upon a smuggling ring & have to bail out of a plane over the desert Beck knows their chances of survival are slim. Somehow they must find their way back to civilisation but there are snakes scorpions & the merciless rays of the sun to overcome first! This is a gripping African adventure packed with real survival details & dangers at every turn! ...

Mission: Survival. Location: The Alaskan mountains. Dangers: Blizzards; grizzly bears; white-water rapids. A fatal plane crash. A frozen wilderness. The world's youngest survival expert is in trouble again... Beck Granger must find help across the mountains
- but even if he survives the deadly cold can he escape the hungry wolf that is on his trail? The second book in an explosive adventure series from real-life survival expert Bear Grylls.
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Mission: Survival. Location: The Indonesian jungle. Dangers: Lava flows; fearsome tigers; orang-utans. Young survival expert Beck Granger is supposed to be enjoying a holiday. But when a volcano erupts he is stranded & must flee from red-hot lava & molten rocks crashing out of the sky. If he is to stay alive he must make his way across the jungle to safety
- travelling right through the heart of tiger territory... The fourth book in an explosive adventure series from real-life survival expert Bear Grylls.
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