This book is full of simple & fun tips that will help the daring romantic feel comfortable positive & relaxed when travelling on the dating merry-go-round looking for their soul-mate. The adventure of searching to find that very special someone should be fun -- but sometimes we need to kiss a lot of frogs before we meet the one of our dreams. There are however many little hints in this book that can make the journey exciting positive & fun. This little book has the ability to offer wisdom & reality about the concept of internet & speed dating & is written with light-hearted information while still addressing many of the important areas of this activity. ...

In September 1939 the Germans & the Russians descended on Pol&. Country houses & churches were stripped of everything of value. ...

Among Holocaust survivor stories Eva Kors experience as a 10-year-old guinea pig of Dr. Josef Mengele in Auschwitz is exceptional. It is the story of a child facing extraordinary evil & cruelty written for young teens & ending with an uplifting message. Eva Mozes Kor was just 10 years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents & two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers she & her twin Miriam were herded into the care of the man known as the Angel of Death Dr. Josef Mengele. Subjected to sadistic medical experiments she was forced to fight daily for her & her twins survival. In this incredible true story written for young adults readers will learn of a childs endurance & survival in the face of truly extraordinary evil. The book also

Includes:: an epilogue on Evas recovery from this experience & her remarkable decision to publicly forgive the Nazis. Through her museum & her lectures she has dedicated her life to giving testimony on the Holocaust providing a message of hope for people who have suffered & working for causes of human rights & peace.

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Many of the prisoners held by the Japanese during the WWII were so scarred by their experiences that they could not discuss them even with their families. They believed that their brutal treatment was literally incomprehensible. But some prisoners were determined that posterity should know how they were starved & beaten marched almost to death or transported on 'hellships' used as slave labour
- most notoriously on the Burma-Thailand railway
- & how thousands died from tropical diseases. They risked torture or execution to draw & write diaries that they hid wherever they could sometimes burying them in the graves of lost comrades. The diaries tell of inhumanity & degradation but there are also inspirational stories of courage comradeship & compassion. When men have unwillingly plumbed the depths of human misery said one prisoner the artist Ronald Searle they form a silent understanding of what solidarity friendship & kindness to others can mean. The diaries & interviews with surviving prisoners drawn on in SURVIVING THE SWORD will tell a new generation about that solidarity friendship & kindness.

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One of the most extraordinary & poignant survival stories to come out of World War II. Misha was only six years old when her Jewish parents were taken away from their home in Belgium by the Nazis. She was given a new name a new home & forced into a new religion. No one told her why her parents were no longer with her only that they had gone East. So one day equipped only with a tiny compass & a few provisions she set out East to find them. Alone Misha crossed Belgium Germany & Poland on foot
- hiding in woods stealing scraps of food
- until close to starvation she was adopted by a family of wolves. She ate & played with the wolf cubs & was protected by their mother. Thanks to the wolves she survived the war & eventually found her way home via the Ukraine Romania & Italy.

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Fatima Whitbread had the worst possible start in life. Abandoned as a baby she spent much of her childhood in & out of childrens homes. A brief disastrous stay with her birth mother saw her raped by her mothers drunken boyfriend
- while her mother held a knife to her throat to quieten her down. Fatima was only twelve at the time. Athletics was her saviour: local athletics coach Margaret Whitbread took the young Fatima under her wing eventually adopting her. Fatima competed in three Olympics winning bronze at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. In 1986 she set a world record & the following year in Rome became world champion & was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year. But then Fatima faded from the public eye leaving many to wonder where she had gone. After the cheering stopped Fatima faced prejudice penury scandal & heartbreak. Survivor" describes how she defeated all her demons to rise triumphantly from the ashes once again this time as queen of the jungle. Almost 13 million people watched her on " Im a Celebrity" & after surviving 20 days in the Australian heat she has millions of new fans eager to know more about Fatima the woman: the forthright focused slightly bossy charismatic single mum who knows how to transform even the most devastating experiences into lessons in life. This is the unforgettable story of a true champion who triumphed against the worst hardships imaginable."
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From the eleventh storey of a Los Angeles high-rise Nate looks out on the city
- the traffic the trees the beach beyond. He breathes
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Tender Branson the last surviving member of the Creedish death cult has commandeered a Boeing 747 emptied of passengers in order to tell his story to the planes black box before it crashes. Brought up by the repressive cult & like all Creedish younger sons hired out as a domestic servant Tender finds himself suddenly famous when his fellow cult members all commit suicide. As media messiah he ascends to the very top of the freak-show heap before finally & apocalyptically spiralling out of control. ...

Samuel Carver makes bad accidents happen to worse people. He's very good at his job. But nobody's perfect. & one of Carver's targets has got away. Now the world faces a new age of conflict driven by religious fanaticism. In Russia the government have admitted they no longer know the whereabouts of one hundred small-scale 'suitcase nukes'. In Afghanistan & Kosovo ruthless terrorists plot the downfall of their hated enemies. In Texas a dying billionaire plots his own personal Armageddon. & Carver can do nothing to stop them. He was beaten & tortured & left to die but Samuel Carver is a hard man to kill. When he awakes in a Swiss sanatorium from weeks of torment he discovers that the woman he loves has vanished. Somehow he must find the strength to track her down. Carver's hunt will take him deep into the heart of a conspiracy in which the lives of millions are at stake. He must confront an agonizing choice between his duty & his heart & face the ultimate sacrifice. As the clock ticks down to doomsday who will survive the final explosive conflagration? In The Survivor" the worlds of fact & fiction collide in a thriller that grips from the first page to the last." ...

Murder was always an insult. But the murder bloody & brutal of an entire family in their own home was a different form of evil. Nixie Swisher crept down the stairs for a drink
- & saved her own life. When Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called to the house minutes later she finds the whole family murdered in their beds. But the killers made a mistake: they left a survivor. Nixie saw everything. & unfortunately for her these elite killers soon realise they need to finish the job. So Eve & her billionaire husband Roarke give everything they can to keep Nixie safe in their own home. & then a terrifying climax reveals there may be more to Nixie than meets the eye.. .
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