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The Cloth Elephant

The Cloth Elephant

It is 1927, and young German diplomat Peter von Saloman and his family are posted to Canton in China, only to find themselves caught up in vicious political turmoil which soon leads to a violent encounter with rebel communists. Cured of crippling injuries by ancient Chinese medicine, their young son Adam soon emerges as a boy with unusual spirit – and very special gifts. On their return to their homeland, the Von Salomans find themselves caught up in the rise of the Nazis in the prelude to World War II. Peter, his beautiful wife Kathe and young Adam will need all the courage and wisdom they learned in China to survive the iniquities of the Third Reich. Long after the war, when her professor boss and lover dies of cancer, Katerina Lindemann discovers that he is not at all the man she thought he was, and that the two of them share an unexpected link with the Von Salomans and their stand against the Nazis. This thrilling and intriguing story will draw the reader into an ingenious and stirring tale of fascism and bravery, love and loyalty.

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The Chessman Enigma

The Chessman Enigma

Somebody is killing innocent people all over Wales leaving headless chess pieces as a calling card. The four Welsh Forces are at their wits’ end and they have no clues. The killings seem to be without motive. A new dedicated unit, The Serious Crime Squad, is formed to work from a new base which is situated in a Cardiff terraced house. The team consists of two Detective Inspectors. Mike Karetzi is young unorthodox and a maverick, whereas Evan Jones is pedantic, works by the book and is nearing retiring age. The third member is a big, black sixty-year-old woman who is an expert in computers and forensics. Later they recruit an ex-con for his special expertise on gaining access to places normally inaccessible. However, the killer, codenamed ‘The Chessman’ by the unit, is no fool and he’s very clever and very cunning. The Chessman is hell-bent on completing his mission and won’t be denied by anyone. He wants to be rich, very rich.

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The Chalkface & Beyond

The Chalkface & Beyond

Eve Osborne began teaching in a primary school as a young woman and enjoyed a colourful career, working with fellow teachers who ranged from the inspirational to the incompetent and teaching children of all abilities and backgrounds. In this book she looks back on her time at the ‘chalkface’, reflecting on changes to the education system, beneficial and otherwise, and how her attitude to life, learning and teaching were moulded by personal experiences away from the classroom.

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The Butterfly's Cage

The Butterfly's Cage

The Butterfly’s Cage, is the moving and shocking story of a young Pakistani woman who endured years of violence and intimidation by her family, simply because she refused to accept her treatment at the hands of not one but two controlling, violent husbands. Shahnaz was born into a wealthy family with homes in Britain and Pakistan. At 12 she was made to give up school to look after her younger brothers. There followed two arranged marriages, first to a man who turned out to be a violent drug addict and petty criminal, then to a vicious, controlling sadist. Shahnaz’ family refused to listen to her pleas for the freedom to live her own life. Instead they cast her as the wicked, immoral daughter whose selfish desire to escape from her marital hell threatened to damage the family’s good name. After years of abuse and intimidation in both England and Pakistan, Shahnaz fled the family home to try to start a new life in London with her young daughter. Lured back to Pakistan under false pretences by her family, she was beaten up, stripped of her possessions, threatened with shooting and drowning and kept under house arrest for the next 18 months.

Now, six years after finally winning her independence, Shahnaz has published her story. She has written it to reveal the pain and suffering that can be caused by the misguided cultural attitudes and social values to which she has been exposed.

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The Burton Agnes Disaster

The Burton Agnes Disaster

The forgotten wartime rail tragedy which killed 12 innocent men. In the early hours of an autumn day in 1947, a truck laden with German prisoners-of-war and their English guards approached a level crossing in a sleepy Yorkshire village. At the same moment, an express train was thundering towards the crossing. For some inexplicable reason, with the train just yards away, the soldier behind the wheel of the truck did not stop. Instead he pressed the accelerator pedal…The scene was set for a terrible tragedy – one which was largely forgotten, until author Richard Jones began to investigate the story 60 years later.

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The Boy Who Learned to Read

The Boy Who Learned to Read

Mohamud Ege grew up in the heat and dust of northern Somalia, the son of a family of nomads who were kept constantly on the move by the need to find water and grazing for the camels and sheep which were their only possessions. When Mohamud was five, his father was killed by a snake. A wise uncle then suggested that Mohamud, alone of his family, should go to school – a rare privilege in their culture. To attend school, Mohamud had to sleep on a rush mat, survive for long periods on nothing but pancakes and do his homework by moonlight. The hardships did not prevent him from discovering the joy of reading books and developing a keen appetite for learning. By the time he was in his teens he was determined to break free of the poverty of the nomad life and become a doctor in the West. Thanks to hard work and help from his friends he managed to qualify as one of Somalia’s first doctors, but he had to battle the strife and unrest of his native land, as well as prejudice and red tape from those in authority, for more than twenty years before he finally managed to qualify as a doctor in the UK. This is his story.

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The Blood of Jesus as a Weapon

The Blood of Jesus as a Weapon

Rarely do the physical and the spiritual agree. But it is only in the matter of the blood that there seems to be an understanding and connection between them. The blood is the currency of value in the spirit realm, and the life we live in the physical realm is in the blood. Therefore, the blood is of universal importance to both realms. In this book, Pastor Uzor Ndekwu explains the limited role of blood in the Old Testament and the comprehensive deliverance package in the Blood of Jesus in the New Testament. He equally draws from his many years of experience as both Deliverance Minister and Counsellor to explain how the blood of living creatures can be used by demonic powers to hinder the destinies of people.

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Thank You Mister Bosh, That’s Close Enough!

Thank You Mister Bosh, That’s Close Enough!

In 1914 Herbert Hoskins joined the British Army and soon found himself as a Major serving in the muddy, disease-ridden trenches of the Somme in war-torn France. Carefully collected by his grandson, Major Hoskins’ letters are printed alongside startling images and illustrations to provide a fascinating picture of the horrific world these soldiers inhabited. The letters show the extraordinary courage and stoicism by serving soldiers as they faced illness, weather and an indefatigable enemy through years of non-stop conflict. Major Hoskins letters record not only the unimaginable hardship endured every day, but also the good spirit and optimism that helped him survive. Full of tragedy and peril but also laughter and triumph, Thank You Mister Bosh, That’s Close Enough! is an eye-opening collection of Major Hoskins’ personal letters in one of the most complete visions of life in the trenches

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Ten Bob an Hour

Ten Bob an Hour

When Steve Phillips started as a 15-year-old apprentice with a Birmingham engineering company in 1961, the Beatles were still the Quarrymen and a pint of mild cost one shilling and threepence. Five years of dirt and grind, leg pulls, laughter and sheer hard graft later, Steve was a skilled turner and fitter, schooled the old-fashioned way by senior craftsmen who knew how to turn a screw, mill a die or grind a component to half a thousandth of an inch using manually-controlled machine tools, a micrometer and the skill in their fingers. He had also found the time – and saved the money – to marry his teenage sweetheart and buy a house. Steve went on to a varied and successful career in the manufacturing industry. Half a century on, now retired and living in Cyprus, he looks back on an era before computers and CNC machines, when Birmingham and its factories were the backbone of industrial Britain and families and workmates stuck together.

Ten Bob an Hour is a fascinating portrait of an era long gone.

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Tallulah Tumour: friend or foe?

Tallulah Tumour: friend or foe?

Fiona Goldsby has emerged triumphant from the terrifying experience of suffering a serious brain tumour. She found very little written material was available to help her in her battle, so she has written Tallulah Tumour, friend or foe? to help others dealing with a similar diagnosis. It is intended to provide information about what the patient may expect, with hints and tips to deal with the various side effects. The information in the book will not only be helpful to patients but to caregivers and family members. And as you may guess from the title, there is plenty of humour as well.

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