Hazel Bannock is the owner of the Bannock Oil Corp one of the major global oil producers. While cruising in the Indian Ocean her yacht is hijacked by Somalian pirates & her nineteen year old daughter Cayla is kidnapped. Major Hector Cross is an ex-SAS operative & the man behind Cross Bow Security the company contracted to Bannock Oil to provide all their security. His loyalty to the Bannock family goes beyond the call of duty. The pirates demand a crippling ransom for Caylas release & complicated political & diplomatic sensitivities render the major powers incapable of intervening. With growing evidence of the horrific torture to which Cayla is being subjected Hazel calls on Hector to help her rescue her daughter. Between them Hazel & Hector are determined to take the law into their own hands. ...

A practical approach to creating wealth-based on the established principles of ancient Jewish wisdom-made accessible to people of all backgrounds The ups & downs of the economy prove Rabbi Daniel Lapin's famous principle that the more things change the more we need to depend upon the things that never change. There's no better source for both practical & spiritual financial wisdom than the time-tested knowledge found in the ancient Jewish faith & its culture. In the Second Edition of Thou Shall Prosper Lapin offers a practical approach to creating wealth based on the established principles of ancient Jewish wisdom. This book details the ten permanent principles that never change the ten commandments of making money if you will & explores the economic & philosophic vision of business that has been part of Jewish culture for centuries. The book's focus is on making accessible to individuals of all backgrounds the timeless truths that Jews have used for centuries to excel in business. Outlines ten fundamental commandments" relating to business & money

Includes:: insights that will increase your potential for creating wealth no matter what your faith or background may be Blends contemporary business stories & Lapin's own business experiences with the wisdom of the Torah & Talmudic prescriptions This Second Edition provides new examples especially of Internet related business opportunities. In addition each chapter highlights specific action steps that can lead to wealth opportunities in both difficult economic times & periods of prosperity."

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This book is for anyone who would like to take faith seriously but finds their intelligence getting in the way. It outlines in 37 short chapters many of the objections raised to formal Christian religion & suggests ways of dealing with them which do not compromise peoples intellectual integrity. It sometimes seems that religion is only for those who can switch their brains off & so many bizarre things are said in the name of Christianity that its hardly surprising if most thinking people want nothing to do with it. The claim made here is that Christianity is far more about the way we live than the way we think that faith can work for all of us & that what we may or may not believe must never be allowed to get in the way of faith. ...

Thoughtings
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Everyone has to make decisions about love. Wilfred Price overcome with emotion on a sunny spring day proposes to a girl he barely knows at a picnic. The girl Grace joyfully accepts & rushes to tell her family of Wilfreds intentions. But by this time Wilfred has realised his mistake. He does not love Grace. On the verge of extricating himself Wilfreds situation suddenly becomes more serious when Graces father steps in. Up until this point in his life Wilfreds existence has been blissfully simple & the young undertaker seems unable to stop the swirling mess that now surrounds him. To add to Wilfreds emotional turmoil he thinks he may just have met the perfect girl for him. As Wilfred struggles in an increasingly tangled web of expectation & duty love & lies Grace reveals a long-held secret that changes everything... Wendy Jones charming first novel is a moving depiction of love & secrecy set against the rural backdrop of a 1920s Welsh village & beautifully told. ...

A classic thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed. After five years' hard time ex-soldier Hugh Marlowe emerges into the free world ready to fight anyone who stands in his way. Rough justice is all he knows. But when a beautiful vulnerable woman asks for his help Marlowe quickly finds himself a world away from the London gangland that he knows in a different life with its own problems. & its own dangers. Marlowe can see a light at the end of this tunnel but the devil is waiting along the way & not one of his faces is the same... ...

Following Dolphins Under My Bed & Turtles in Our Wake comes the third leg of the Claytons voyage two early retirees who decided to live life sailing from place to place to fulfil their dream. Told uniquely from the wifes perspective Sandra Clayton was initially a reluctant sailor but became a keen yachtswoman by the end of the first book when the couple sailed from the UK to the Mediterranean. In this installment she describes their transatlantic crossing from Gibraltar via the Atlantic Islands to the Caribbean & ending up in Fort Lauderdale. Sandras previous two books have attracted a loyal & growing readership both in the UK & the US no doubt due to her engaging writing style. A Thousand Miles from Anywhere is a similarly entertaining travelogue about the Claytons experiences detailing the wonderful places they visited the fascinating people they met & the humorous situations they got involved in. Acclaim for Sandras writing: With her eye for detail & vivid descriptions Sandra carries the reader with her
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Ben & Helen Armistead have reached breaking point. Once a privileged & loving couple widely envied & respected it takes just one afternoon
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Censured at the Council of Nikea for his flagrant use of sorcery Magnus the Red & his Thousand Sons Legion retreat to their homeworld of Prospero to continue their use of the arcane arts in secret. But when the ill-fated primarch forsees the treachery of Warmaster Horus & warns the Emperor with the very powers he was forbidden to use the Master of Mankind dispatches fellow primarch Leman Russ to attack Prospero itself. But Magnus has seen more than the betrayal of Horus & the witnessed revelations will change the fate of his fallen Legion & its primarch forever. ...

Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later a friendship grows between Mariam & a local teenager Laila as strong as the ties between mother & daughter. When the Taliban take over life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation brutality & fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways & lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism. ...