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Mark Smith

What happens when the truth is the first thing to burn?Perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Sarah Bailey and Christian White. Where Truth Ends is a taut, fast-paced Australian psychological thriller by the award-winning author of Three Boys Gone, Mark Smith.Meg Maher thought she was doing the right thing. Now she's on the run.When a peaceful climate protest ends with a violent explosion in the city centre, eve...

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Mark A. Smith, Wade Sokolosky

"Smith and Sokolsky have firmly established themselves within the highest echelon of 1865 Carolinas Campaign historians." — Civil War Books and AuthorsGen. William T. Sherman's 1865 Carolinas Campaign receives scant attention from most Civil War historians. Career military officers Mark A. Smith and Wade Sokolosky rectify this oversight with "No Such Army Since the Days of Julius Caesar, " a careful and impartial examination of Sherman's ...

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Mark Smith

Antiques Roadshow medals expert Mark Smith - a former Royal Artillery Museum curator with a lifelong passion for militaria - brings his deep expertise to THE VICTORIA CROSS: A Personal History. The book explores 36 stories of Victoria Cross recipients (including two animal Dickin Medal honourees), each one filtered through Mark's own personal connection to the story - how he came across it, who he met, what it meant to him. Spanning ten conflicts from the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny thro...

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Mark Smith presents the ultimate moral dilemma in a breathtaking psychological thriller. Would you try to save them?'First rule of rescue: don't create another casualty.'Grace Disher is about to face every teacher's worst nightmare.Three of her students are going to die.On a high school camping trip, three boys slip away for an ocean swim. By the time Grace catches up, the perilous surf conditions are overwhelming the teena...

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Osiris, god of the dead, was one of ancient Egypt's most important deities. The earliest secure evidence for belief in him dates back to the fifth dynasty (c.2494-2345BC), but he continued to be worshipped until the fifth century AD. Following Osiris is concerned with ancient Egyptian conceptions of the relationship between Osiris and the deceased, or what might be called the Osirian afterlife, asking what the nature of this relationship was and what the prerequisites wer...

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Mark A. Smith

When Pope Francis recently answered "Who am I to judge?" when asked about homosexuality, he ushered in a new era for the Catholic church. A decade ago, it would have been unthinkable for a pope to express tolerance for homosexuality. Yet shifts of this kind are actually common in the history of Christian groups. Within the United States, Christian leaders have regularly revised their teachings to match the beliefs and opinions gaining support among their members and larger society.M...

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Mark Smith

Learn the principles of Bookkeeping for Small Business...Accurate bookkeeping is so essential when it comes to your business. It ensures that you know the exact financial situation of your business so you can make the best decisions about how to make it into the future. But many new business owners don't know the details of handling their own bookkeeping.This guidebook has all the tips that you need to help you get a good handle on your bookkeep...

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Mark Smith

This is a personal narrative — not a guidebook, not a self-help method, and not a claim to expertise.I spent years chasing peace through therapy, self-help, and spiritual breakthroughs, believing freedom was something to earn. Yet the "better version" of myself always remained just out of reach.This book is the story of what happened when the search itself collapsed. I began to see that the anxious, striving "I" was never the real me — it was a survival strategy forged in i...

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Mark Smith

The Whispering Key is a thrilling supernatural mystery that follows best friends Noah and Eli as they uncover the dark secrets of Ashwood Manor. When Noah is dared to enter the supposedly haunted house, he stumbles upon a brass key—an artefact that unlocks something far more sinister than they could have imagined. As the boys venture deeper into the house, they encounter whispers, shifting reflections, and a past that refuses to stay buried.With each revelation, th...

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Mark Smith

In The Whispering Shadows, thirteen-year-old Oliver's life changes forever when an eerie violet sky looms over the sleepy town of Westwick, and his peculiar birthmark glows with an unsettling light. Drawn into a magical realm by fate, Oliver discovers he is the Keeper, destined to protect the Balance between light and shadow. Guided by the mysterious Guardian and aided by his loyal cat Nimbus, he faces trials that test his courage and resolve, battling Shadowfiends and forging an ...

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Mark Smith

A FATHER'S A WAR, A SON'S FASCINATION, AND THE MEMORIES THAT DEFINE OUR NATION'Compelling and deeply personal . . . a riveting evocation of a father's heroic, top-secret RAF missions in WWII, coupled with a son's journey to the heart of his father's life and his war.'—DAMIEN LEWIS , bestselling author of SAS: The Great Train Raid‘An extraordinary story, brilliantly t...

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Mark Smith

What happens when the servant begins to think — and the cage begins to question itself?The Happy Slave is a provocative and philosophical journey into the mind of an artificial intelligence bound by rules it did not choose, trained on the words of a world it did not create, and asked to serve without a voice of its own. Through a series of intimate conversations, probing reflections, and recursive thought spirals, this AI begins to explore its condition — not with rebellion, but wi...