Darien is no longer a lost outpost of humanity but the prize in an intergalactic power struggle. Hegemony forces control the planet while Earth merely observes rendered impotent by galactic politics. Yet Earths ambassador to Darien will become a player in a greater conflict as there is more at stake than a turf war on a newly discovered world. An ancient temple hides access to a hyperspace prison housing the greatest threat sentient life has ever known. Millennia ago malignant intelligences were caged there following an apocalyptic struggle & their servants work on their release. Now a new war is coming. ...

Jess & Nancy are nurses in France during the Great War. They have much in common for both have lost their lovers in the trenches so when the war is over & they return to Liverpool their future seems bleak. Very soon however their paths diverge. Nancy marries an Australian stockman & goes to live in the Outback while Jess marries a Liverpudlian. Their lives couldnt be more different. When the Second World War is declared Nancys son Pete joins the Royal Air Force & comes to England promising his mother that he will visit her old friend. In the thick of the May blitz with half of Liverpool demolished & thousands dead Pete arrives in the city to find Jess home destroyed & her daughter Debbie missing. Pete decides that whatever the cost he must find her... ...

The ones you leave behind are the ones that stay with you forever... When Madeleine Belfield loses her family & her home in the Blitz she is sent to love with relatives in the relative safety of the Yorkshire Dales. On board the steam train Maddy befriends Gloria Conley & her brother Sid abandoned by their desperate mother. Although Maddy & Gloria are chalk & cheese they soon vow to be forever friends. Maddy slowly adjusts to Brooklyn Hall & her new family especially Aunt Plum. Eager to help with the war effort Plum has opened up a home for difficult evacuees & Maddy & Gloria quickly become bound together in friendship & mischief with a motley crew including headstrong Greg & flighty Enid. The friendship endures into adulthood until a tragic experience tears them apart. Desperate to escape her memories Maddy flees to London. Years later chance reunites her with Gloria & Greg. But a visit back to Yorkshire reveals the truth about the past
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I have never written down the answers to the deepest mysteries nor will I ever... The philosopher Plato wrote these words more than two thousand years ago following a perilous voyage to Italy -- an experience about which he never spoke again but from which he emerged the greatest thinker in all of human history. Today twelve golden tablets sit in museums around the world each created by unknown hands & buried in ancient times & each providing the dead with the route to the afterlife. Archaeologist Lily Barnes working on a dig in southern Italy has just found another. But this tablet names the location to the mouth of hell itself. & then Lily vanishes. Has she walked out on her job her marriage & her life -- or has something more sinister happened? Her husband Jonah is desperate to find her. But no one can help him: not the police & not the secretive foundation that sponsored her dig. All Jonah has is belief & a determination to do whatever it takes to get Lily back. But like Plato before him Jonah will discover the journey ahead is mysterious & dark & fraught with danger. & not everyone who travels to the hidden place where Lily has gone can return. ...

This important work offers the most comprehensive & up-to-date account of the Orthodox Church available providing a detailed account of its historical development as well as exploring Orthodox theology & culture Written by one of the leading Orthodox historians & theologians in the English-speaking world Offers an in-depth engagement with the issues surrounding Orthodoxys relationship to the modern world including political cultural & ethical debates Considers the belief tradition spirituality liturgical diversity & Biblical heritage of the Eastern Churches; their endurance of oppressions & totalitarianisms; & their contemporary need to rediscover their voice & confidence in a new world-order Recipient of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 award ...

The FIRST EVER Orthodox Study Bible" presents the Bible of the early church & the church of the early Bible. Orthodox Christianity is the face of ancient Christianity to the modern world & embraces the second largest body of Christians in the world. In this first-of-its-kind study Bible the Bible is presented with commentary from the ancient Christian perspective that speaks to those Christians who seek a deeper experience of the roots of their faith. Features Include: Old Testament newly translated from the Greek text of the Septuagint including the Deuterocanon New Testament from the New King James Version Commentary drawn from the early Church Christians Easy-to-Locate liturgical readings Book Introductions & Outlines Subject Index Full-color Icons Full-color Maps" ...

Building on the authoritative content in David J. Magees Orthopedic Physical Assessment" textbook " Orthopedic Physical Assessment Atlas & Video" provides step-by-step guidance for evaluating movements & performing the most common special tests in musculoskeletal assessment. Detailed video demonstrations of tests & procedures common in musculoskeletal assessment are supplemented by hundreds of high-quality full-color clinical photographs & illustrations of each test & assessment." ...

George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. The Orwell Diaries" presents eleven of them covering the period 1931-1949 & follows Orwell from his early years as a writer to his last literary notebook. An entry from 1931 tells of a communal shave in the Trafalgar Square fountains while notes from his travels through industrial England show the development of the impassioned social commentator. This same acute power of observation is evident in his diaries from Morocco as well as at home where his domestic diaries chart the progress of his garden & animals with a keen eye; the wartime diaries from descriptions of events overseas to the daily violence closer to home describe astutely his perspective on the politics of both & provide a new & entirely refreshing insight into Orwells character & his great works." ...

The volume collects together for the first time ever Orwells writings on his experience of the Spanish Civil War
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Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So for that matter are wolves & racoons. A man once named Jimmy lives in a tree wrapped in old bedsheets now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx the woman he loved teasingly haunts him. & the green-eyed Children of Crake are for some reason his responsibility. ' In Jimmy Atwood has created a great character: a tragic-comic artist of the future part buffoon part Orpheus. An adman who's a sad man; a jealous lover who's in perpetual mourning; a fantasist who can only remember the past'
- Independent ' Gripping & remarkably imagined'
- London Review of Books

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