Station Square, a new and massive development set on The Thames is on the one hand a glittering tribute to financial worth but is on the other a subtle front for international money laundering on a vast international scale. But also infused into this development is a killer who makes his gruesome presence known on opening day by killing not one but two office workers in different parts of the complex. As murders rise almost on a weekly basis the level of absenteeism increases dramatically....

What's a girl to do? Someone like Carolyn Niskanen, whose family escaped Hitler when she was just a baby. Now she's a small town teenager who just wants to grow up and become a veterinarian. But things keep happening in West Palmerton. Evil things. She and her pal, Glenn, discover that the deacon in their church is a pedophile who runs a juvenile detention center. The kids rescue a friend who is a victim. The pedophile gets 14 years in prison.The town bully hates C...

A sudden storm with wind, rain, thunder and lightning crashed down around Grandfather. He had been searching for healing plants he used to help his friends in a Northern Thailand village. All at once a tiny creature fell through the trees and landed at his feet. It was a pink, sightless one-week-old spotted owl that had been blown from his nest. Surely, the baby would not last long.This is the story of his granddaughter, Mubu, who came to love the injured bird, to sleep with it, to...

Mubu's grandfather used his healing herbs to save the life of a young boy in the village. The grateful father gave an elephant to him in pay for his miracle. Mubu had never seen an elephant before. When she inspected every part of the elephant, the elephant inspected her! They liked each other. Mubu named him Goldie, and they became best friends. They went everywhere together, joined by her pet hen and the neighbourhood kids. Goldie learned their games quickly and joined in. But Mubu's lit...

Steve Harrah is an active man. A schoolteacher in his twenties. Marries a scintillating and mercurial Japanese beauty who divorced a rich and dangerous banker. Becomes a film editor in his thirties. Engages in a flirtatious relationship with his stepdaughter. Moves from Massachusetts to the Arizona desert when Kiko dies in an auto accident. His younger daughter joins him, while Yvonne, the stepdaughter, disappears from his life for 20 years. Fights off gangbangers at Santa Monica Pier. As ...

The cataclysm everyone had been fearing finally took place. Not many humans were prepared to survive what occurred all around the planet: earthquakes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions and every other imaginable disaster.One such person, however, was Dennis Quant, a bright, intuitive book and magazine writer, a survivalist and martial artist living in the New Hampshire wilderness. Building a durable, sustainable underground survival home, he survives the upheaval and manages to rescue ...

The Complete Works of Shakespeare contains the recognized canon of the bard’s plays, and his sonnets and poems. The texts were edited by the late Professor Peter Alexander, making it one of the most authoritative editions, recognized the world over for its clarity and scholarship.Described in the Guardian on its first publication in 1951 as ‘a symbol in the history of our national culture’, the Collins edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare, edited by the late Profess...

"Economic Epics: A History of US Finance" takes you through the crucial moments that shaped the American financial landscape. This comprehensive guide provides in-depth analysis, beginning with the birth of the US dollar, through the stock market emergence, Great Depression, and post-war prosperity.The book navigates the transformative transition from manufacturing to service sectors, the rise of Silicon Valley, the Dot Com Bubble, and its subsequent burst. You'll gain insights int...

At a time when the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge are again under sustained attack from activists and politicians, Two Shades of Blue takes the reader in two volumes from their founding in the early Thirteenth Century up to the reforms and advances of the modern era. The title, Two Shades of Blue, refers to the sporting colours of dark blue for Oxford and light blue for Cambridge. The first volume encompasses the 500 years between 1200 and 1700, starting with the pioneering Oxonians ...

This is a factually based story about a German woman, Helle Koch, who suddenly arrives at Ardeley, a village deep in the midst of Norfolk on a mission to find the remains of her GrandFather, Luftwaffe Oberleutnant Erich Koch who allegedly crashed his ME160 nearby in April 1943. However no record nor evidence exists whatsoever of his demise.Here she meets Richard Manners a recently retired British Airways long haul pilot who has recently bought a cottage close to Royal Airforce Stati...

The Quest for Freedom, a biography of Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky published in June 2020, commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the great socialist reformer who personified the Russian Revolution of February 1917 and yet who is remembered today, if at all, as 'the man who lost Russia'. In the first biography of Kerensky for more than thirty years, award-winning author Peter Alexander Thompson uses interviews with two of Kerensky's grandchildren, the Kerensky Family's pri...

When the Greek Civilisation finally faded in 10 A.D. Artemis, the goddess of the hunt and the Moon, an avowed virgin warrior led her Nymphs to a portal which took them to safety in a parallel universe where they lived happily without aging. Hades maintained his Hell hole under the earth, and Zeus, greatly depressed, dwelled in hideaways on Earth. As Earth began its current self-destruction, Artemis worried about her half-sister, Persephone, who had spent many centuries on Earth, trying to ...