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Captain Morgan Pendray is a career soldier, a Welshman serving in Cromwell's English army sent to invade Scotland. As if life isn't complicated enough by these conflicting loyalties, he is drawn to Hannah Kincaid, a Royalist spy he suspects has spirited away the Scottish Crown Jewels from under Cromwell's nose. Is it true love or a cat-and-mouse game that will end with each betraying the other?

Brothers Rhys and Knox have been in love with the same woman for years. While Rhys has been open about his feelings toward Mandy, he's kept her firmly locked in the friend zone. Mandy is tired of the drama. As secrets unravel her friendship with Rhys, Knox steps in to pick up the broken pieces of her heart. Mandy must decide who to choose - the charming reprobate she desires, but who always wrecks her life, or the merciless bad boy who wants to give her the world.

After winning the Battle of Ermol and sharing the location of Alpha Base with the Alliance Defense League, Keelic is invited to attend the elite Pathfinder Academy. He leaps at the offer, but not for the reasons everyone believes. Keelic has a mission. Though he's not sure where to begin, he finds the training of the Pathfinders of Midgarth is unlike anything else in the galaxy. Exactly what he needs. Life at the academy begins to feel like his fondest daydreams until one brave act to help a friend escalates into a battle that leaves the fate of millions in his hands.

Do you want the power to change your thoughts, behaviors, and your future? Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) can help you to do just this. Through various practical techniques, NLP empowers you to be a better individual both inside and out. Your enthusiasm for life and positive demeanor become infectious, and people will flock to you for advice on how they can achieve the same outcomes. Once you transform your mind, you open yourself up to exponential change. NLP provides all the tools to obtain this transformation.

The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy presents a profoundly original theory of drama that speaks to modern audiences living in an increasingly volatile world driven by artificial intelligence, gene editing, globalization, and mutual-assured destruction ideologies. Tragedy, according to risk theatre, puts us face to face with the unexpected implications of our actions by simulating the profound impact of highly improbable events.

Keelic Travers isn't just the new kid on the block; he's the new kid on the planet. No friends. No life. School bites. And so do some of the critters in the alien forest he explores to get away from it all. Just your normal everyday frontier world about to be destroyed. Except, Keelic isn't your normal everyday kid, and what he discovers out in the alien woods will change the course of human history...if he can get his homework done first.

Fourteen-year-old Peter Green can’t remember how he died. All he has are his pajamas, a silk tie, and a one-way bus ticket to Mrs. Battisworth’s Academy and Haven for Unliving Boys and Girls, a strange and spooky school for dead orphans like himself. But that’s all he needs. The Unliving Academy has everything, from vampires in the hallways to monsters in the cafeteria to ghosts in the basement. And that’s just the teachers; the students are far stranger.

As the Red Army marches from the east and the Allies from the west, Germany's Third Thousand Year Reich is about to come to an abrupt, violent end. Trapped in the middle are men like Otto Kunkel, forced to fight in a war that he didn't want but has to pay for the consequences nonetheless. To what limits would you go to survive in a world of death that is falling apart from around you?

How could anybody steal a dog like Gizmo...? When petty criminals "Flash Harry" Smith and Jack ("The Lad") Jones start nicking dogs, they soon realise they’ve bitten off more than they can chew...Their victim, Elizabeth Parker-Smyth, is a high-flying movie producer with a Grand Design of a house and a designer dog to match. Their hostages, Gizmo and Doodle, are the co-stars of her next film: "Nobody’s Poodle". Their nemesis, Annie Capello, is a quirky, big-hearted pet detective, who tracks the dognappers through cyberspace and finds herself entangled in their shenanigans.

Tyrian purple, the color that denotes Byzantine imperial power, is embargoed and under close guard in Byzantium. To steal it is punishable by death. However a Jewish merchant from Venice has sourced an illegal supply, and Tobias, a minstrel, and his twin brother, Tomas, begin a dangerous journey to retrieve the dye and deliver it into the merchant’s eager hands. But is this supply as secret as they had hoped?

Christmastide. A time of feasting and good cheer. Gifts, cards, and blazing holly logs. Snow falls while family and friends trim the tree and kiss under the mistletoe. But it isn’t always joyful. It’s the coldest time of year. The days are short, the nights long. Chilling myths lie concealed behind the raucous revelry...The ghoulish events in the frozen workhouse...The undead presence at the costumed ball...The pantomime that became a massacre...The winter goddess with the heart of ice...The thieves who woke the dark side of the festive spirit...

The alien Big Foot, Athelstan, is back, but this time he is not alone. Accompanied by a trio of trouble who need him for their dissident organization, Athelstan must make hard choices and come to terms with the consequences of his actions. Meanwhile, James is still recovering from the emotional and social backlash he incurred helping Athelstan escape from Earth during his first visit. Both James and Athelstan are caught between opposing forces that could prove too great to overcome.

In the year 1843, embittered Afghan War veteran John Sparrowhawk is released from the debtors’ prison by the beautiful and enigmatic Miss Evangeline. Penniless and alone in the world, he takes employment with his mysterious benefactor, agreeing to stand guard over a house in Bloomsbury for the duration of that December. The task sounds simple, but in fact is anything but.

The Australian Citizenship Ceremony tells the story of Awsame (awe-sa-me) and Barrisa (ba-ris-a), who escape their homelands in Africa and face the trials of hunger, people smuggling, exploitation, and the politics of being a modern-day refugee. The hardships they face forge the characters they become with hope, determination, and humor, their only ammunition as they tackle the challenges of integration and migrant life.

High above the Black Mist, Grand Fortune city is cloaked in a strange Night of Darkness. Isabella and her father must escape the city before the fury of Angus Grand destroys them. When her father is mortally wounded, the young Isabella is left behind in the dangerous city with her uncle. Her life hangs in the balance as Angus Grand seeks to burn her alive, but when Isabella learns she has a brother, she resolves to both find and save him.

Twenty-five years of fame comes at a price for Nick, leaving him hard - a machine to produce nothing but his music. True to his British upbringing, he's very set in his ways. Things are just as he wants them - no deviance. In steps Kate - a studio musician who, by a strange twist, manages to get hired into his band. Everything starts out with the boundaries firmly placed, and it doesn't take long for Nick to realize she's going to change his world.

Welcome to the first Kurt Lobo Casefile. Welcome to the Endless, Sprawling, Neon City beneath the broken EverNight. Welcome to the life of WolfSpliced Detective Kurt Lobo. There are many, many cases before the events of Kneel Downe’s first book Virulentblurb: Fractures. Here is just one of them…A damaged serial killer is stalking the city streets. Bodies left at random. Ritualistic in their method. Brutal. Can Detective Lobo find the JackPort Killer before events get too close?

This is the ultimate guide for women in education. Written by leading members of the grassroots #WomenEd movement, it offers guidance on how to attain and succeed in leaderships positions, alongside nuanced analysis and debate of topics including: the gender pay gap, gender stereotyping in schools and beyond, the realities experienced by BME leaders and how flexible working cultures can redress inequities.

Twelve-year-old Ankido is on a quest to save his missing father through the magical realm of Mesopo. Mesopo is the land where all fantasy originates, a land whose words and language are in peril. Can Ankido save his father and restore all these words in time? It was a red velvet box, the size of a school book. Ankido lifted the lid, revealing an old-fashioned quill made out of a reed.

Czechoslovakia, 1938 - Friedrich Pflommer, a married man with two children, has fallen hopelessly in love with the most unsuitable person possible - the young, volatile Kai, an exchange student living under his own roof. As Nazi forces gather on the border, Friedrich is playing a high-stakes game and risks losing everything.