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An invaluable and up-to-date reference book listing every battle honour awarded to ships of the Royal Navy. Although the honours go back to the Spanish Armada in 1588, surprisingly the system was not officially sanctioned until 1954.

In a world where virtual reality has become humanity's refuge, a failed writer begins detecting stories that don't feel human. A government investigator follows the trail to its source: quantum interference patterns that suggest something vast and alien is exploring our systems—and us.A science fiction novella about first contact, the nature of narrative, and what it means to be noticed by something that thinks in ways we cannotcomprehend.

He thought he was saving the future. He didn't realise the future had been arranged.Jake Firelli is a mid-career operative in the Corps—one of a handful of people born with the rare genetic marker that makes forward time travel possible. The Corps has a noble mission: travel to the future, identify extinction-level threats, and prevent them. Forty million lives saved in Chennai. A nuclear exchange averted over Frankfurt. The record is public and celebrated....

No matter what the circumstances, death shakes us to the core. It seems so wrong, and it is! We long for comfort, but we don't know where to look. Can God really help when we are overwhelmed with grief? With compassion and biblical wisdom, Paul David Tripp shows us how to think and what to do when death enters our door in CCEFs Grief: Finding Hope Again.He reminds us that we have a Savior who knows our sorrows, hears our cries, and promises to one day wipe away all tears. Hope and ...

In Malta Convoys David Thomas, the distinguished naval historian, gives a fascinating account of the vital battles fought by sea and air to ensure that essential supplies got through. He vividly describes the appalling cost in men and ships. Here is an important contribution to naval history in the Second World War and, at the same time, a rattling good read.

The pattern was already there. He just happened to notice.Professor Frank Nolan is seventy-one, Irish, unremarkable. He has spent a long academic career at Trinity College Dublin doing competent work that nobody has ever called important. Then, late one night, he notices something in the historical record: the rise and fall of empires lands on Fibonacci intervals. One year. One year. Two. Three. Five. Eight. Thirteen. The numbers grow. The empires last longer as th...

Near what was once the Pacific northwest, Ryan Cawdor and his roving band of post-holocaust survivors discover a beautiful valley untouched by the nuclear blast that changed the earth forever.Resisting the temptation to settle in that idyllic land, the group is captured and forced deep beneath an extinct volcano to an isolated community of in-bred scientists.These psychopathic descendants of a twentieth-century government research team are blindy laboring to find better way...

Intriguing, bone-chilling, heartwarming, and thought-provoking speculative fiction stories by various genre authors.Mysteries of the Wetland by Erika M Szabo and Lorraine CareyJoin Ava Jenson on vacation in her grandmother's old country when all mysterious events are connected to an ancient legend about a cursed church bell.The Zanna by David W. ThompsonA potential stepmother and stepdaughter seek common ground at the family...

Seven interconnected stories exploring the quiet tyranny of algorithmic optimization—and the human cost of lives curated for maximum efficiency.Connected through Elias Vance and his book "The Curated Self," these stories follow people at different stages of recognition: those who never notice,those who almost wake, and those who choose to see.

For nearly 40 years "among the glades of Epping Forest" Churchill found a base for his parliamentary life. This book relates with anecdotal and archival evidence the attempt to unseat him after what many supporters considered an injudicious Munich speech.

A collection of the year's best fiction, poetry, and personal essays, featuring thirty-seven recipients of the Olive Woolley Burt and Typewriter Awards: Linda Allison, Alice M. Batzel, Joseph A. Batzel, Lauryn Christopher, Emily Robyn Clark, Megan Condie, Vince Font, Gina G, Alexis Hansen, Jo Lynne Harline, Danielle Harward, Amanda Hill, Lorraine Jeffery, Rachelle Knapp, L. S. Kunz, Caryn Larrinaga, C. H. Lindsay, Terra Luft, Inna V. Lyon, Wm David Mallery, Paula Murcia, Eve Oeme, John M. ...

Marooned in another universe, a young American musician leads a motley army in battle against an enemy that threatens to destroy their world and oursJon-Tom just wanted to go home. Trapped in a world where animals speak and magic is real, the American college student yearned for an ordinary dorm-room life. But here his music has magical power—even if he can't control it—which may be able to save the world from the army of the Plated Folk, whose sinister queen plans on killing and e...