Emma, Rick, and Lee live in a community on an island south of the equator. their main love in life is to scuba dive. Emma's dad is a scuba diving instructor and has taken the trio out to dive on one of many pirate ships scattered about in the shallow waters surrounding Flagstaff Island. A strange map leads the three fun-loving trios to another island and to a chest full of gold, jewelry, and three handwritten books, hundreds of years old. Even before they can get the chest onto their boat ...

A young is raped by her father, and becomes pregnant with his child. Her mother blames her daughter for the rape and the consequent suicide death of her husband. The girl is locked in her room and given little food to eat and no help through to the birth. The 14-year-old managed with the birth but soon realized something was wrong with her son. So, putting him in a box she escaped her room, left the house, and made her way to an orphanage. Kissing her son goodbye, she lay the box on the to...

WWEmma, Lee, Rick, and Chelsey are four 15-year-olds who love to scuba dive. their home is an idyllic island where centuries before pirates used as the base. some While diving on the Twizzle, Rick comes within millimeters of a 20ft shark. Emma is trapped underwater with a cannon on her arm and the shark out searching for his lunch. she is running out of oxygen. when Emma, Lee, Rick, and Chelsey take The Naughty Mayor to the mainland to collect the skipper, the come under attack from modern...

This book is not a war story as such, but more along the lines of a 'What If.'What if Adolf Hitler had not gone into Russia, would the allies have gotten off the beaches on D–day, would the world be much different than it is today?What if Hitler's scientists had perfected his Wonder Weapons before the war began?What if the 'Nazi Bell' gave him Anti-Gravity Technology, what would he have done?What if his 'Bell' gave Germany, oil-free energy, would there have been...

Silence allows the restless mind to become still and in the stillness we enter a new world – a world in which our hearts are more directed to God and one where we find our true selves.Drawing on a tradition that has its roots in the experience of the Jesuit founder St Ignatius of Loyola, Fr Paul Nicholson invites readers, who are looking to the Christian contemplative tradition for inspiration and guidance, to develop their approach to prayer.Written with great clarity, dep...

Fee bidding still generates emotive reactions from within many sections of the architectural profession. Fee bidding is not taught in most schools of architecture, so practitioners generally rely on hunches and guesswork. It is these wild card guesses, which exacerbate the poor levels of income for which the architectural profession is renowned. This book introduces practising architects, architectural managers and senior students, to the philosophy and practice of analytical estimating fo...

Are you thinking about investing in real estate?Is this something that you have limited experience in and need help to get started?This book has the answers to your questions!Real estate is something that has stood the test of time when it comes to making a shrewd investment. Some people have been lucky enough to have made vast fortunes from it but even modest investors can see a healthy return from their outlay. And even when the market does take...

Twin sisters are the investigating police in this unusual three-part detective seriesAlice and Belinda are identical twins, and have grown up sharing everything: toys, rooms, and friends. But as they begin their careers as detectives - a job they have each wanted for as long as they can remember - a computer error sees them accidentally starting at the same North London police station.Work gives them enough mysteries to be investigating as they attempt to m...

HOW THE SIMPLEST IDEA IN MUSIC CAN CHANGE THE WAY YOU LEAD IN BUSINESSIt started in a practice room at a New York music school. A frustrated student. A patient professor. And a sentence so simple it almost didn't seem worth saying."There are only twelve notes."In music, no matter how complex the song, every note comes from the same twelve tones. Leadership works exactly the same way.Beneath every overwhelming situation, every impossible deadline, every team in crisis, there is a ...

A collection of forty crime and thriller short stories, with all profits from the sale of this book to be donated to Hospice UK and Sophie's Appeal.Do you think you know darkness? Think again. Bloodhound Books presents Dark Minds—a collection of stories by authors who have come together to produce an anthology that will lure, tantalise and shock its readers. What took place "By the Water?" What goes on behind "A Stranger's Eyes?" And what is so special about "Slow R...

BBC Radio 4 adaptations of George Meredith’s classic tragicomic novel and his picaresque romantic comedyNovelist and poet George Meredith is widely regarded as the last great Victorian author. He influenced writers including Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize seven times. This BBC collection features dramatisations of his most famous novel, The Egoist, and his witty bildungsroman The Adv...

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!