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Alexander McCall Smith is one of the w orld's most prolific and popular authors. He has won numerous awards for his writing, including the British Book Award Author of the Year Award and a CBE for services to literature. Sam Usher has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Prize and the Red House...

In The Game of Rat and Dragon, Cordwainer Smith delivers a strange, unforgettable science fiction tale in which telepathic humans and highly intelligent cats join forces to defend starships from invisible horrors lurking in deep space. Blending cosmic danger, psychological tension, and Smith’s...

Sister Maria-Fiore dei Fiori Montagna, who is suffering from an acute identity crisis, wants to know more about her own past, and after doing a DNA test, she discovers that she has a relative she didn't know about. But her newfound family causes a bit of a rift between her and her flatmate, Antonia Collie. Bertie's dream of moving to the promised land – the Dear Green Place – comes crashing down as he learns that he is to move to the far northeast – Peterhead, near Aberdeen, leaving poor Ranald Braveheart Macpherson a little heartbroken and lost.

The Distance Learning Playbook for School Leaders applies the wisdom and evidence of the VISIBLE LEARNING® research to understand what works best. Spanning topics from school climate at a distance, leader credibility, care for self and colleagues, instructional leadership teams, stakeholder advisory groups, and virtual visibility, this comprehensive playbook details the research- and evidence-based strategies school leaders can mobilize to lead the delivery of high-impact learning in an online, virtual, and distributed environment.

Hector Cross, tidligere major i det britiske specialkorps SAS, har lagt sit risikofyldte job som sikkerhedsekspert på hylden, efter han har giftet sig med sin elskede Hazel Bannock. Deres nye, lykkelige tilværelse bliver dog på tragisk vis ødelagt af et dødbringende attentat, og han mistænker, at en gammel fjende står bag. Hector er fast besluttet på at få hævn og samler derfor et hold bestående af sine mest loyale venner og tidligere soldaterkammerater, som får til opgave at jage dem, der truer ham og hans familie.

Tara Courtney er et produkt af sit land. Hvid og opvokset i en rig og magtfuld familie, men med en følelse af, at de sorte i Sydafrika bliver uretfaerdigt behandlet. Det må føre til, at hun tager stilling - og hun vaelger at støtte de sorte, ikke mindst fordi hun forelsker sig i Moses Gama, en af de sorte ledere. Men denne kaerlighedshistorie bliver katastrofal for dem begge.

Sean Courtney er professionel jæger og forhenværende guerillasoldat i Zimbabwe. Under en safari befinder han sig pludselig midt i en ny krig. Fanget mellem to rivaliserende hære i Mocambique og af sin kærlighed til den smukke Claudia må han træffe sit livs sværeste valg. Han er jægeren, der selv bliver den jagede, i denne storslåede og utroligt spændende roman. Wilbur Smith er født i Zimbabwe (det tidligere Rhodesia) i 1933.

The Finance Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 6 classic works focused on the building of wealth, economics, and critiques of capitalism itself. Including works by authors as diverse as James Allen, George Samuel Clason, Adam Smith, and Karl Marx

Grandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farm boy and a kid with chickenpox and a soldier and, most of all, an artist. In this captivating new audiobook, listeners follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson into a garden he created, a fantastic world where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten.

Eventyrere, pirater og spekulanter - alle jagter de land og rigdomme i et Afrika, der snart er gennemsøgt på kryds og tværs af den hvide mand. Familien Ballantyne har allerede været i Afrika i et par generationer og har tjent store formuer. Familien tæller både helte og skurke blandt sine medlemmer, som også har dannet stærke venskabsbånd med sorte familier. Men alt dette smuldrer, og venner bliver til dødsfjender, i det oprør negrene indleder for at erobre det tabte land tilbage.

Each of us, even the most simple, is called to a journey. We may be asked to leave behind everything we have grown dependent on. And when this is the case, the tale of Frodo and his friends offers hope that we will be given the strength and the help we need to overcome every obstacle and defeat every foe. This book is meant to help you find the way.

"Sometimes you meet your future wife in a bookstore, with someone between her legs..." She was to be my wife. I was to be her husband. Fate had other plans. She was falling for someone else while I was waiting for her. When you come from one of the most ruthless families in the country, you're...

I loved him from the beginning. In the middle. But maybe not at the end. His love for me was full of possibilities, hopes, and dreams a girl like me wasn't accustomed to. He was a nightmare that cracked and bled through my hands, and I stood there watching as it seeped into the ground. Until him. He put me back together without even knowing he was doing so. And he wasn't even my husband.

Drawn into a sprawling family riddled with theft, addiction, and prostitution, retired publisher and author Brian W. Smith witnessed a multigenerational saga of betrayal, treachery, and death. In this unsparing account of abuse and heartbreak, he follows one family member after another as they struggle to break free. Many don’t. In the end, two young boys do.

Going Deeper in Christ With Sandra Welcome to Going Deeper in Christ With Sandra, a Bible study designed to help you take God’s Word from the page into your life.I'm Sandra Smith, and I'm so glad you've joined me.This isn't just about reading Scripture. It's about understanding God's Word, applying it to our lives, and taking one step at a time toward a deeper walk with Christ.In the first season, we will walk through the Step By Step Into A Deeper Walk In Christ Devotional together. Then we will do a different Bible study each week after that.So grab your Bible, grab your Step By Step Into ...

Did I Ever Tell You…? is a podcast about finding ways to capture, share and preserve the ordinary moments that become extraordinary stories - the memories, people and experiences that make you, YOU. kindredhq.substack.com

Of Canoes and Crocodiles is a story of adventure in the remote and threatened landscapes of Papua New Guinea. In 2018, Tony Robinson-Smith and his wife Nadya Ladouceur bought dugout canoes and paddled down the Sepik, the country's longest river. Traveling with local guides and staying in their villages, Tony and Nadya ate smoked piranha and sago pancakes, heard tales of river gods and sorcerers, marvelled at rainbow bee-eaters and cat-size flying foxes, sank in a tropical storm, got lost in mosquito-infested swamplands, and hid from pirates in mangroves near the sea.

Join the New Famous Five in a brand-new Christmas short story by bestselling author Chris Smith. The New Famous Five are on the case when Santa Claus goes missing before the Christmas Eve parade. But can they find him in time to deliver presents to the local children? Filled with Christmas cheer...

An entertaining history of our small canine companions, told in tender, engaging stories and featuring the most famous pocket-sized pups and their owners across the centuries “What a respite from the woes of the world, to dive into this brilliantly researched and wittily written study of the...

Who could resist a wager from London's most popular detective, Sherlock Holmes? Certainly not his scientist neighbor, Elise Hamblin. The challenge: Study the primal nature of men; but not just any man for her study will do. Sherlock has chosen the Earl of March, a man with a scandalous and...