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After 25 years of vicious conflict, the IRA and the British have agreed to an uneasy ceasefire as a first step towards lasting peace. But, faced with the prospect that decades of savage violence and loss have led only to smiles and handshakes, those on the ground in the border country question whether it really is time to pull back - or quite the opposite. When an IRA man’s wife turns informer, he and his brother gather their comrades for an assault on the local army base. But old grudges boil over. The squad's feared sniper refuses to risk his life to defend another man’s pride.

In this meditative memoir - a compelling fusion of Barbarian Days and the journals of Thomas Merton - the author of Saltwater Buddha reflects on his "failing toward enlightenment," his continued search to find meaning and a greater understanding of grace in the world’s oceans as well as everyday life. Born to a family of seekers, Jaimal Yogis left home at 16 to surf in Hawaii and join a monastery - an adventure he chronicled in Saltwater Buddha. Now, in his early 20s, his heart is broken and he’s lost his way.

Ted Hughes wrote a series of stories for children from the early 1960s through until 1995 about how the world, and the creatures in it, came into being. Meet the Polar Bear whose obsession with her snowy white fur is so great that she can live only in a landscape surrounded by her own reflection; the Whale, growing in God's garden beside the carrots; King Leo, who began life because God was hungry for his sausages; poor Parrot's painful defeat in the marriage song contest at the wedding of Man and Woman; and Sparrow's heroic battle against the bird-swallowing Black Hole.

Have you ever thought of the time you spend working on repetitive tasks in Excel? No doubt, not all of us are gurus in Microsoft Office, most especially Excel. So we sometimes have a problem knowing all specificities of calling that or this option. Also, it might be difficult to tell the difference between the speeds of VBA in various Excel versions.

Many conspiracy theories have emerged over hundreds of years ranging from the Freemasons being accused of being Satanists who are controlling the New World Order, to manipulating the world’s economic systems and food sources, to faking the Moon landings. They claim to be a "secret" society only to preserve their sacred signs, symbols and words of the Order traditionally used by Masons to identify and communicate with those within their ancient brotherhood. Although generations of Freemasons have steadfastly taken their oath to secrecy, some within the Order are speaking out for the first time.

Liverpool, 1945. Three women, the strongest of friends, return home, trying to fit back into their old lives after they've been demobbed. They've been thrown together by the war and shared all sorts of good and bad times. Now their old lives seem dull in comparison. But not for long.... Maggie and Nell are both 21 and full of hope and excitement. Iris, on the other hand, is feeling apprehensive about returning to civilian life. At the age of 30, her only wish is to have a baby, but sadly this wish is yet to come true.

My 18th birthday party is just about to happen and I can't wait to share it with my friends, even though my boyfriend, Daniel has decided to fly off to LA for an interview that he didn't tell me about. How can I be with a guy who hides things from me? And if I forgive him for this, how can I ever trust him again? Join me and Daniel in the final book of our journey and see just what happens after Daniel's interview.... Will we stay together or will Fame destroy what we've built?

Sarah Jacobs meets Zari Heller when Zari arrives in Cleveland, Ohio, after three years in a German displaced persons camp. It is 1948 and Sarah is twelve years old. When Zari moves into Sarah’s family house, they begin a friendship which lasts throughout their lives. Zari opens Sarah to the world beyond her neighborhood, and Sarah helps Zari survive her life after the war. Together, they bear witness to the Jewish Experience in Europe during the Second World War.

Research shows that a leader's behavior is the most important predictor of a team's success. Leading with Your Upper Brain helps you understand why. It provides an innovative framework to shift your behavior in ways that help employees tap into their upper-brain resources that drive higher levels of performance.

1944. American bomber pilot Jack Swaggart has led his squadron countless times into hostile German territory, hit the assigned target, and returned to base none the worse for wear. Eventually, Jack's luck runs out. With his B-26 Marauder heavily damaged by flak, Jack is forced to ditch his crippled airplane in the German countryside. Jack trusts an unlikely ally, Hilde Augsburg, a plucky young woman, a decision which catapults them into an adventure neither could have envisioned. They spot a new type of German warplane in flight—a design unlike anything they've ever seen before.

Crushed by gender dysphoria and the pressure of disappointing her fans who paid for a new face, she answers a sketchy ad seeking transgender women for a free, experimental feminization treatment. The grotesquely flawless Dr. Skurm has gruesome methods, but he gets unbelievable results, and Isa is finally feeling comfortable in her skin. She even gains the courage to ask out her crush: an alluring and disfigured alchemy-obsessed artist named Rayna. But Isa’s body won’t stop changing, and she’s going from super model to super mutant.

As the new custodian of the ancestral home, Treweham Hall, the divinely handsome Tobias Cavendish-Blake soon discovers exactly what he's inherited. Not only a fabulous estate but mounting debts and imminent financial disaster. Megan Taylor has also inherited property, but rather less than Tobias.... She is delighted to be bequeathed her grandmother's country cottage in the village of Treweham and decides to make a fresh start there, taking a job in the village pub.

With unprecedented access to Google's top management, Randy Stross reveals for the first time the audacious scope of Google's new plan, including such potentially disruptive initiatives as free downloadable software, which could put providers like Microsoft out of business, and GoogleEarth and GoogleMaps satellite technology, which is rapidly mapping the entire surface of the Earth in high-powered detail.

A starlet's plot to blackmail a film-studio executive results in her murder. Only the "trouble chaser" can clear her volatile lover and solve the crime.

A Manhattan gumshoe pursues a convict to St. Louis, where he gets mixed up in a cop killing and nearly loses his own life at the hands of a B girl.

Real Estate Investing Made Simple takes listeners through personality assessments, explains how to approach a property investment and leverage your portfolio, and so much more. In this book, you'll find techniques that the authors not only teach, but use in their own journeys to financial freedom as investors and developers.

Operation Car Wash is the inside story of two Brazilian Federal Police officers who found themselves at the centre of the biggest corruption scandal in history; uncovering a web of political and corporate racketeering which would lead them all the way to the arrest and imprisonment of the nation’s President. Through engrossing first-hand testimony, Pontes and Anselmo recount the uphill battle faced by the Federal Police in apprehending Brazil’s white-collar criminals.

Giving is a simple act that is often overlooked or undervalued. You sometimes give out of obligation or perhaps even guilt, but nowadays, it rarely comes from a place of pure generosity. This isn't to call you out or make you feel guilty; it's simply a reality that many people face. People deal with different challenges and obstacles in life, and it's easy to get caught up in your own struggles and forget about the problems of those around you. But here's the truth: Being generous doesn't necessarily mean giving money or material possessions.

Top tech leaders have been stressing their concerns over the dangers of AI’s imminent rise in knowledge and power that will one day present a dire threat to humanity, and warn that if restrictions aren’t put in place immediately, the destructive consequences will happen sooner than later. AI’s eventual control of nuclear weapons, disinformation campaigns, deadlier biological weapons, and social control spell certain doom for mankind.

We've all heard of UFOs being seen by everyday people. What we don't hear about is how strange some of these encounters have been reported to be. From beams of light invading homes to relationships with aliens from other worlds, there may be more to the Alien/UFO phenomenon than previously thought.