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A middle-aged man believes he is suffering from a mental health condition. Gilbert Martin can "see" things that others don't and predict the future with disturbing dreams and visions. Whilst on a school holiday to France during his teens, he meets a girl called Margaux on Chatelaillon-Plage. Somehow, she manages to leave the beach with him and since then, she has inhabited his life: he talks to her, he chats with her and she answers back. Seeking a resolution, one way or the other, he decides to write a book about his experiences and uses the interest in his novel to garner the sympathy of the public and to make it easy for him to travel to France where it all began. Will he able to resolve the mystery and to discover if Margaux is real and who is she? A suspense-mystery novel of love, courage and perseverance that will make the reader dwell on how, no matter how extreme the situation someone is going through, life can be a surprising journey.

KNOWING THEM Lorna Stevenson

MIRRORS AND WATERShort story for childrenOussama Safraoui

A Way without an EndProud to be the King's MessengerG. B. Zechendorf

Extracts from the life of an artist, an athlete, a philosopher; a man occupied with the determined and instinctive research of beauty, justice, and of the deepest truth. A search that crosses several fields: from the purely artistic one to the sacred one, from the most ancient and remote times to our modern and contemporary world. An observer that, thanks to painting, manages to escape from the day-to-day banality and human mediocrity. A fascinating text that proves the redeeming power of art.

This fast-paced novel sweeps the reader up into an amazing adventure, beginning with the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb. A cult, dedicated to the goddess Isis, will go to any lengths, including murder, to protect Egyptian antiquities from plunder by Osiris, an exclusive men's club. Two powerful Egyptian Queens, Cleopatra and Nefertiti, are resurrected by the cult through dark magic passed down through the ages from the dawn of Egyptian civilization. As Samara and Nigel get caught up in the web of intrigue between Isis and Osiris, they begin to unravel the mysteries of the ancients as well as dark family secrets.As preordained, only one Queen will survive, with the consequence of unleashing catastrophic forces threatening the world's very survival.In the cult's pursuit of a mystical talisman, the Blue Scarab, the reader is taken within the sacred halls of the Vatican, revealing intrigue and cloak and daggers as diabolical as any mad Roman Emperor's court, and back in time to the dazzling ancient civilizations of Egypt, Rome and Greece.All set against the backdrop of star crossed lovers, whose destinies have already been decided by the Fates...The novel is epic in its breadth, exploring the paradoxes of civilizations, religions and humanity's quest for immortality.

The sudden death of the head of the wealthy noble family of Valoria makes the young and frightened Saxon the new heir to the royal title, bythe will of the late Dorian. As a servant, therefore, this will lead him directly to become king of Valoria.Against this succession are nine of the largest and strongest families of Valoria, known for the great and terrible things they have accomplished: Novas (who wear white sashes), Glades (who wear cyan chains), Oligarchs (who wear green badges), Levanys (who wear orange gloves), Gilgoths (who wear grey shoulder plates), Mavenotorothos (who wear yellow ties and necklaces respectively), Tils (who wear black suitsand dresses respectively), Puris (who wear purple brooches) and the Arcines (who wear scarlet torques and bracelets). Because of these noblehouses, Saxon will face a series of intrigues, passions, and guerrillasthat will challenge Valoria’s existence. But what will never be lackingin Saxon’s soul is honor and patriotism. A young servant, who had traveled the roads to get to that noble house, just to be a butler, finds himself ruling an entire kingdom.

Joe was a normal guy with a normal life, dedicated to helping his mother in the family cafe. But events took an unexpected turn. They led him into the criminal world.But how far was the lad from South Wales prepared to go?How many lives was he willing to put at risk?How ruthless would he become?The only certainty was that The Organisation Leaves No Traces.

HUMANS SHALL BE FREE compares how the gods peck at humans as they scramble for human souls with how men trample upon women as women compete for men's attention : a physical model evincing spirituality in action.The main characters, Rose and Rhahaab, in spite of their beauty suffer at the hands of men and are victims of prejudice towards women - an instantiation of the subjection of humanity to cosmic forcesby men treading on and crushing women.Rose, a sixteen-year-old of uncommon beauty, turns out to be, as fate would have it, the seventh wife of a rich old man. Frustrated and unhappy with her life as she faces sexual starvation and strife, she turns to infidelity, suffers blackmail and ends up divorced. At this point, she resorts to paying men back in their own coins. Another pawn of fate, Rhahaab, as is her portion becomes the mother of a child without a father. She faces the problems of Paternity fraud, single motherhood, and litigations - all to make known the deeds (pre-arrangement), and evince the manipulations of the spirit-kind.Down the line, it dawns on Rose and Rhahaab that, like the inevitability of death, their exploitation by men is their fate, that women are made for men, they desire men and the protection that comes from serving a husband as testimony witnessing humans' need for protection that stems from serving God.

When Kayley and her brother Stephen decide to buy and renovate an old house near the beach in west Adelaide, murder was the last thing on either of their minds. The body found under their newly built patio changes everything. It turns out to be Stephen's ex-fiance. To make matters worse ...

Alter is a story of courage, passion, and selflessness. In a world ruled by Gods, Goddesses and Fate, two Princes meet - perhaps it is better to say clash. Alter, The Chosen One, tells his memoirs at a breathtaking pace. Flashbacks, returns to the present, twists and turns set the pace for the writing of this compelling story. The son of the Gods and the son of Demons: what can happen when two opposing people, two worlds that have always fought each other, come together? Intrigue, kidnapping, revenge, and magic frame the meeting of two souls. The royal obligations of Alter and Malager only complicate the relationship between the two. Not even the help of all the Gods and Goddesses will prevent the Reader from getting involved in this overwhelming adventure.

The monster and forty. A woman lost among her chaos wants to reach her goals, but she falls victim of different and distinguished groups and finds herself receiving punishment.

A book which is read at a slow pace. In these times, it would be good ifwe all made a little pause. And read slowly. We will certainly better and to a larger extent understand the essence of what we have read. And the essence is that in life everything depends on perception. Rhinoroces Piluis a little guy who sees nothing wrong in rearranging a few syllables. What are syllables compared to life? Just a mere appearance of letters on the whiteness of a piece of paper. He is a happy rhinoceros because he has got all the love in the world. He has got his mum, his dad and Masha. As the pages slowly turn, we will discover the whole world of this smiling rhino who can sing, draw and who has understood the algorithm of living: you need to love and to feel loved. Everything elseis less important. Even that dyslexia is not more important than the smile he gets when he looks Masha in the eye. And when he looks at his teacher who grows with him, directly into that love.You should grow too, till you reach a smile, a love. In this way, the magical world of this book turns into your need to read slowly and to enjoy. The beauty is not somewhere else. It is inside of us.

Georgescu's Champion belongs to that rare and precious kind of winners who stand out from the crowd and yet inspire with their own unique example of life, which is inextricably bound to both the light of the scenes and the need to exceed physical limitations in order to create their own myth.By tracing the lines of the first steps to the narration of the most mature and captivating competitions, Georgescu makes the reader enter the deepest thoughts of his athlete, who is always aware to represent more than the attempt to reach a personal achievement, or the intimate claim of redeeming the soul from the sufferings and the sacrifices of the past, thus showing the strength which proudly soars from the banner of a whole nation in the moment of a single movement. Looking out of place, in the search for infinity, The Champion is an ode to remembrance and the mystifying power of glory.

While exploring Clare Island with his friends Tubs and Zara, Shane Donnegan is kidnapped. He wakes up as a prisoner of the Fomorians, an ancient people who colonised the West of Ireland thousands of years ago. ...

Letters to a Friend is a compilation of brief tales or 'snapshots' of the author's life, loves, thoughts and dreams, captured in a series of letters to a friend.It is a tribute to firm friendships, a philosophical review of life after divorce and cancer diagnosis, and a light-hearted examination of ...