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Hawk and Fisher, famous for their years of keeping the peace in Haven, are really quite happy being legends. They gave up the hero business when they decided they’d grown too old for it. Now they run the Hero Academy, training young hopefuls to be heroes. Legends never die, but it seems they cannot retire, either. Hawk and Fisher’s adult children, Jack and Gillian, have been kidnapped. They were taken by the Demon Prince, an old enemy from the Forest Kingdom who challenges the couple to one final battle for their lives.

On an unforgiving planet, a fragile ceasefire between the vast Unysean and Feran Empires was brokered by the stasis-imprisonment of one man. A criminal named Malefactor—the human symbol of an atrocity laden war that left both sides scarred and bitter. Now, decades later, the war has become more myth than fact.

"War Diary: The Diary of Mike Rogers" is a poignant historical record that chronicles the experiences of a young boy, Mike Rogers, during World War II. The diary begins in 1939, capturing the tense atmosphere as Britain enters the war. It provides detailed daily entries that cover the significant and mundane aspects of wartime life, from the fear of air raids and the impact of rationing to personal reflections and observations of everyday occurrences.

This book is for students in high school and university, who are preparing to become independent young adults or youths who are tired of moving from one aspect of life to another without any definite direction on where to go or what to accomplish in life. It is meant for people who are hopeful but seem not to have yet found their purpose on Earth. This book will help enable people and communities to progress with a peace of mind towards their destiny.

When a beer barrel containing the body of a man is delivered to the door of 221b Baker Street, an intoxicating new adventure begins for Sherlock Holmes. Together with his faithful companion, Dr. John Watson, Holmes travels north to Burton-upon-Trent to investigate the poisoning of a regiment in India from a contaminated batch of pale ale. The incident threatens the reputation of the mighty brewer, Houghton's, which supplies beer to half the world. But Holmes is not the only detective working the case.

“The time of reckoning is here, Gorilla Grant.” Jack “Gorilla” Grant, retired assassin and former spy, is living a new life as a peaceful, successful businessman. But when his daughter is kidnapped in Rome, it is just the opening gambit in a series of events that pushes him back into the “redaction” business that he once walked away from. Unseen forces are moving against Gorilla and dangerous enemies from his past are threatening his future, intent on turning a cold war into a hot war. But Gorilla has one rule: Don’t mess with my family.

Apropos is the unlikely noble whose life began in the lowest of ways: as the result of a gang assault by a group of drunken knights on a helpless tavern wench. Last time out, Apropos attempted to seize control of his own fate, and ended up with, appropriately, nothing. Time has passed since he fled the kingdom of Runcible, and Apropos leads a quiet existence as a tavern owner. All that changes abruptly, however, when the sorceress Sharee re-enters his life with the forces of the warlike Lord Bellicose hard on her heels. They want something they're convinced she has stolen.

The United Kingdom. A story based on real events. Few people are deemed smart enough to be selected and trained as a spy for Her Majesty’s Government, fewer qualify. The author is one such man, who, uniquely, was chosen at the age of 16, the only person still to pass selection without an education through the university system. Andy describes his unbelievable life, from the beginning, as a child, playing in the woods and fields around his home in Maple Cross, Hertfordshire, learning the skills he had no idea he would need in his future spy world.

When Chicago hitman Ray Dylan started out he was one more young professional struggling to get ahead of the pack. But he knows his world is about to change quickly when he takes on a job for high-level KGB elitist Leonid (The Professor) Volkov, founder of a unique Cuban-Russian spy community operating out of southern Florida. After Volkov double-crosses him and tries to have him killed, Dylan must take on the entire criminal spy operation even as a wild hurricane named Dennis ravages its way up the heart of the Florida peninsula.

There's a lot Jean hasn't said over the years about the crime her husband was suspected of committing. She was busy being the perfect wife, standing by her man while living with accusing glares and anonymous harassment. Now her husband is dead, and there's no reason to stay quiet. People want to hear her story. They want to know what it was like living with that man. She can tell them there were secrets. There always are in a marriage. The truth - that's all anyone wants. But the one lesson Jean has learned in the last few years is that she can make people believe anything.

Room 101 is the anti-Desert Island Discs. Instead of picking the tracks, books and luxuries they love, guests are invited to banish their least favourite things to Orwell's eponymous chamber of horrors. Twenty-seven episodes of the show were broadcast on Radio 5 between 1992 and 1994, and it went on to run for 18 hit series on BBC TV before relaunching on Radio 4 in 2023. This specially curated collection contains 16 of the very best editions of the original radio series.

The Story of the Fly explores how a humble insect, with its fascinating history and manifold talents, holds the answer to profitably solving some of the most significant environmental challenges we face today.

A female executive, Amanda Waterman, dies in suspicious circumstances at the same location at Canary Wharf. One man knows why and how she died: the secretive CEO of a mysterious drug company, who is hellbent on making trouble for DCI Philip Lomax, leading officer of the Serious Murder Enquiry Team. As evidence comes to light, Lomax becomes convinced the case is connected to the death of both his father and brother. Yet still the bodies pile up. Lomax soon realizes he has a serious and deadly opponent, who’ll stop at nothing to destroy him and everyone he loves.

Real estate agent Ryan Chaise lives a quiet life in Southern Spain with his beautiful girlfriend. Everything in his life seems perfectly ordinary. Except that Ryan has a secret. A former agent for the British Secret Intelligence Service, Chaise gets embroiled in a world of drug-pushers and gangsters after accidentally killing a petty criminal absconding with a package of cocaine. Forced to protect himself and his family, Chaise’s old skills come to the fore as danger and death tolls rise.

Abel’s new magical alliance brings him ever closer to the heart of Castle House. Barely surviving he and the Taverners finally realize what true intent, honed and concentrated, can accomplish. Elsewhere, an enemy hides from Creepio and God's SAS, and the game character sorceress K'liss becomes a reality. Jenny sets off to contact new Tavern hopefuls in Canada and finds a magical hornet nest. American history, the magical part, is nothing like the history books! Closer to home, Abel finally arranges an important meeting of sorcerers and fears the worst about the date, Halloween.

There's something wrong about Edwin, the new kid at school. After Richard befriends him, strange things begin to happen. After young Edwin disappears, Richard starts digging into the history of the family, and discovers a shocking secret. Can Richard figure out the mystery in time,? A murderous, dark force from the past may just claim everyone he holds dear.

In this, Andy’s second book, he describes one short operation that could have stopped the Falklands War with Argentina. SAS were in position, only the final go-ahead was needed from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. She chose to fight the war. Perhaps if the PM had decided to give Operation Saponify a chance, 907 soldier’s lives would have been saved.

After escaping from the "fat camps" Jenna, Starling, and Kasey think they are finally free. Commander Sharpe is on the hunt for the girls, after finding them he kidnaps and holds them prisoner in his compound. Camp was nothing compared to what Sharpe does to them. Can they survive this new situation? Will they finally win against the man who ran the camps? Find out in the conclusion to Fat Free Nation.

Lifelong friends turned enemies, Graham Deaver and Mick Laurie, wage a secret war that can leave only one man standing. What could a man who has everything possibly want? Driven by mutual hatred they unwittingly trigger a series of dark events that leave three towns devastated. Who are the mysterious men wearing shades? And why do they need to keep a short leash on their shadows?

Success Habits of High Achievers will reshape the way you think about success and growth, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your situation, whether you are a team looking improve your performance, an organization hoping to increase profits, or simply a person who wishes to get a better job, become fit, learn something new, or achieve any goal. Backed up by several pieces of research conducted all over the world, The Happiness Edge presents eight groundbreaking principles of happiness which made a radical shift in the life of the author.