Fen works in a bookshop & is devoted to her young son Connor but she keeps herself to herself. Haunted by guilt & a terrible secret Fen lives a compromised life isolated from her family far from home & too afraid of the past to risk becoming close to anyone. She is constantly looking over her shoulder knowing that one day the truth will catch up with her. Sean on the other hand is enjoying a seemingly perfect life. He has a successful career lives in his dream home & adores his beautiful wife Belle & their six-year-old daughter Amy. That is until the day Belle announces she has found someone else & wants Sean to move out. Circumstance throws Fen & Sean together. Slowly their quiet friendship turns into something much deeper & the joy they find in one another eventually gives them the confidence to trust & love again. But will the past tear them apart just as they find happiness? ...

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
- & perhaps even hero.


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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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Lost in the jungle! Beck Granger is on a trip to Colombia in his school holidays. His anthropologist uncle has taken him along on a visit to Don Rafael de Castillo a descendent of a great explorer who is claimed to have discovered a lost City of Gold. But the secret of the city died with the explorer
- until now... His uncle & Don Rafael believe they know where to find the city & Beck gets to go along for the ride. But when the two men are kidnapped Beck is left to solve this new mystery on his own. With Marco & Christina the Don's children. he must set off into the wilds of Colombia to find the city
- & bring his uncle back. Beck must build a raft & negotiate wild river rapids make camp defend his friends from wild animals & keep them all alive in the jungle. A fast-paced exciting new adventure full of real survival details & gruesome tips.

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In this his crowning manifesto on behalf of continued space exploration & travel legendary space statesman Buzz Aldrin argues passionately & articulately for continuing to push the boundaries of our knowledge of the universe & specifically for focussing assets intellect & policy toward sending humans to the planet Mars by the year 2032. A pioneering astronaut & a rocket scientist who helped develop the orbital rendezvous technique critical to America's moon landings Aldrin presents his unified space vision by tracking the history of space flight & plotting the path of future exploration & discovery that must be followed for the United States & the world to reach his stated goal. ...

Frederic Stahl a Hollywood film star travels from Beverly Hills to the boulevards of Paris. It is a dangerous difficult seductive time: Europe is about to explode & the Parisians are living every night as though it were their last. As filming progresses Stahl is drawn into a clandestine world of foreign correspondents embassy officials & spies of every sort. His engagements take him from the bistros of Paris to the back alleys of Morocco; from a Hungarian castle to Kristallnacht & the chilling heart of the Third Reich. But can he survive as German operatives track him across Paris? Gripping haunting & deeply passionate Mission to Paris is the ultimate portrait of a people at war & Alan Fursts most panoramic lovingly described & finest book to date. ...

If your shelves are overloaded with books on how to do mission create some space to engage with this book. No to-do lists. No win-win strategies. Instead this discerning book reflects on the inner resources & attitude of mind required to engage in mission in a post-modern pluralist society. Combining real-life case studies with vital lessons from her own personal journey Susan Hope explores what happens to us on the inside when we embark on mission. This gently provocative book will help us to listen to the Holy Spirit & the cultures in which we find ourselves. This book encourages the reader to discover a spirituality that envigorates & revives enthusiasm & personal vision for mission. ...

In The Missional Leader consultants Alan Roxburgh & Fred Romanuk give church & denominational leaders pastors & clergy a clear model for leading the change necessary to create & foster a missional church focused outward to spread the message of the Gospel into the surrounding community. The Missional Leader emphasizes principles rather than institutional forms shows readers how to move away from church as usual " & demonstrates what capacities environments & mindsets are required to lead a missional church." ...