Praise for the Sam Archer series:‘A nonstop, heart throbbing suspense thriller that has you on the edge of your seat’'Such a thrill ride’‘Barber's books are roller coaster rides, extremely entertaining. I read books like this to escape to be entertained and thrilled.’‘I’ve read every one of the series and have loved them all''Great writing; full of suspense''Been reading this s...

Praise for the Sam Archer series:‘A nonstop, heart throbbing suspense thriller that has you on the edge of your seat’‘Such a thrill ride’‘Barber's books are roller coaster rides, extremely entertaining. I read books like this to escape to be entertained and thrilled.’‘I’ve read every one of the series and have loved them all''Great writing; full of suspense''Been reading this series one after the other and can’t put them down.....

Praise for the Sam Archer thriller series:‘This has been one of the all-time favourites. Right there with Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan series and Vince Flynn’s Mitch Rapp’‘I read all of the books in the Sam Archer series and I cannot say enough good things about each one…I’ve never read a series where each book was just as good as the next’‘This is an incredible series...the action is non-stop from beginning to end’‘...

From the author of the Sam Archer thriller series comes a gripping new story and character.It’s almost the end of August 2021. Forty-eight hours before the deadline for Western forces to withdraw from Afghanistan and cede control of the country to the Taliban. On a dusty street in the capital city, a BBC World correspondent called Amira Adanti is stuck in traffic with her driver/bodyguard and cameraman. Their car is ambushed, the two men killed instantly, and after a foot ...

Praise for the Sam Archer series:‘A nonstop, heart throbbing suspense thriller that has you on the edge of your seat’'Such a thrill ride’‘Barber's books are roller coaster rides, extremely entertaining. I read books like this to escape to be entertained and thrilled.’‘I’ve read every one of the series and have loved them all''Great writing; full of suspense''Been reading this s...

Tom was approaching retirement. A friend showed him an article in the paper that said there were retirement benefits available for soldiers of World War One who served in the Italian army. The catch was that he would have to apply in person in Rome, Italy by a certain date.He decided to go back for the first time since returning from the war. His wife joined him for what was supposed to be a vacation with an added purpose. What happened next redefined his life forever.

Confronting Urban Legacy fills a critical lacuna in urban scholarship. As almost all of the literature focuses on global cities and megacities, smaller, secondary cities, which actually hold the majority of the world’s population, are either critically misunderstood or unexamined in their entirety. This neglect not only biases scholars’ understanding of social and spatial dynamics toward very large global cities but also maintains a void in students’ learning. This book specifically explor...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.Our September 2017 issue (#132) contains:Original fiction by A. Brym ("Antarctic Birds"), Eric Schwitzgebel ("Little /^^^\&-"), Suzanne Palmer ("The Secret Life of Bots"), Jess Barber and Sara Saab ("Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics"), and Gu Shi ("Möbius Continuum").Repri...

Pundits, politicians, and business leaders continually make claims for what standardized tests can do, and those claims go largely unchallenged because they are in line with popular assumptions about what these tests can do, what the scores mean, and the psychology of human motivation. But what most of what these opinion leaders say-and the public believes-about standardized testing just isn't so. However, few members of the general public, not even concerned parents, have the time or the ...

This biography of Tom Longboat is a high-interest, low-vocabulary book for adolescents and adults with limited literacy skills.Tom Longboat (1887-1949) of the Onondaga First Nation was raised in a log cabin on the Six Nations reserve. As a child, Longboat discovered a love for running and in 1907, he entered the most famous race in the world, The Boston Marathon, and set a new record. He became an army runner in World War I.

Old friends reunite on a long journey to reminisce about the good and bad old days. An intense study of group psychology and hierarchy. Or 8 mates get drunk on a London bound train and argue over discos, parenting, celebrities, coats, gangsters,golf and Falafel. Based on a true story.

Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump:Images from Literature and Visual Arts treats literature, film, television series, and comic books dealing with utopian and dystopian worlds reflecting on or anticipating our current age. From Henry James’s dreamlike utopia of “The Great Good Place” to the psychotic world of Brett Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, from science fiction and recent horror films, television adaptations of books such as Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, and new series ...