The world is changing, it's getting increasingly more difficult to be a young person and to raise young people. Without a plan to navigate the change, you'll end up in ice-cold water you thought was warm. We get so attached to the identity of being a student, or an athlete, or the fact that we'll never be young again that we end up losing sight of what we can sustain long-term.If you're in school now in your 20s, it's likely you're performing at less than 5...

Ben Brown's political thriller takes us behind the doors of Number Ten in May 1940 during three pivotal days in British History when, extraordinarily, giving in to Hitler was seriously considered.Having urgently assembled the British war cabinet, the new Prime Minister is confronted with an intense game of political chess as he tries to persuade peace treaty supporters, including Neville Chamberlain, that Britain must not concede. Divided on whether to negotiate terms through Musso...

Moscow, 1987. As the cold war begins to thaw, an extraordinary reunion takes place between one of the great novelists of the twentieth century, Graham Greene, and his old MI6 boss, the notorious Soviet spy, Kim Philby. It's taken thirty years and the beginnings of a new world order.As the two men raise their vodka glasses under the watchful eye of Philby's last wife, Rufa, Ben Brown's compelling political drama asks whether Philby betrayed his friend as well as his country, and how...

It's the beginning of World War I and Herbert Samuel - the first practicing Jew ever to sit in a British Cabinet - dreams of using British power to back a return of the Jews to Palestine after 1800 years. However, his cousin, Edwin Montagu - also in the Cabinet - is implacably opposed to the idea, a conflict complicated by Montagu's passion for the beautiful aristocrat, Venetia Stanley, a confidante of the Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith.Politics, religion and love collide with wor...

Ever wondered what it is like to work in a war zone? ‘We live more in one year than most people do in a lifetime,’ is Danny Lowenstein’s simple retort. Set in a world where life is cheap, vengeance is long and betrayals can be deadly, “Sandstealers” is a masterly thriller – infused with a deep knowledge of modern war and its witnesses.Danny Lowenstein is a big shot war correspondent with the world at his feet. But when an interview goes wrong and he's ambushed on a lonely road in I...

I board a plane marked with the swastika and take the noon postal service flight from Stockholm to Berlin.In the final days of World War II, a secret meeting takes place between a member of the World Jewish Congress and one of the most powerful Nazis in Germany - without the knowledge of the Führer.Dr Felix Kersten, Himmler's trusted personal physiotherapist, uses his unique position of influence to facilitate a meeting between the architect of the Holocaust and Swed...

‘This is a book of memories. Some of them are my own. Some of them belong to others. They are as true and as fallible as any memories—distorted by time and distance and a writer’s choice of words…’ In the debut memoir that kickstarted a writing career that has spawned more than 20 books, including many award-winners, Ben Brown writes of a quintessentially New Zealand way of living that may not change the world or even ripple its waters, but is replete with meaning. Gathered from the tobacc...

Foreword by Dean Ornish MD This is your CRASH CART! Inside this pocket-sized book you will find everything you need to survive Medical Residency. It offers 50 concise, easy-to-digest nuggets of wisdom that will make your life better both in and out of the hospital. It's meant to be read wherever you are: between rounds, on the train, when you are feeling like you are going to crack. Nothing in life prepares you for Residency, but this book will give you life-saving tips and tricks, includi...

Reverend Ben Brown-Okoh is a Pastor and a Prophetic Psalmist by calling. He started serving as a chorister with the then Faith Foundation International (Now Omega Community Church) In 1986.After completing his Bible College in 1993, he rose through the ranks to become the Music Pastor and later became the Assistant Resident Pastor for several years. In February 2012, God, through him, planted a branch church of Omega Community Church in Kasoa, Central Region. Over the years, God ha...

This is the next book in the series after Ben Brown and the Right of Passage. In this book, we find our hero returning wounded from the battle of Barque Roads, arriving home on the Hospital Ship, along with the other severely wounded men. He is attended by three of his men, who volunteered to bring him home. Although, suffering from a ghastly head wound and hard of hearing now, he makes a remarkable recovery when he arrives home amongst his family.Unfortunately, most of his family d...

For readers of Winesburg, Ohio and To Kill a Mockingbird, Michael Strelow weaves the story of a town and its mysteries in this lyrical debut novel and Oregon Book Award FinalistMichael Strelow weaves the story of a town and its mysteries in his debut novel, The Greening of Ben Brown, an Oregon Book Award Finalist for fiction 2005. Ben Brown, the protagonist, becomes a citizen of East Leven, Oregon, after he recovers from an electrocution ...

(cont'd) Ultimately, it's a story about faith and a young man's quest for love and redemption for his father's untimely death.Three short excerpts from Ben Brown's Flying Machine.Excerpt 1. Chapter 11, No AccidentBen glided out of the barn on his platform and passed the dimly lit farmhouse and skimmed over the wheat fields towards Maryann's house.He approached her bedroom window and saw her unclipping the back of her bra. He froze, too terrified to move, and ...