You don't tell an American to switch off her light; you build her a better light bulb.A leading British doctor with a radical plan to save the NHS and a Silicon Valley billionaire with a radical plan to halt climate change, meet outside an abandoned train on a salt flat in South America.A landscape so bright in its whiteness that it isn't easy to look at, and so uninterrupted in its flatness there's no echo.For Kimsa and his daughter who live there, the arri...

Andrew Jackson fought a duel in rural Logan County, Kentucky. Jesse James robbed a bank there, and frontier lawyers began political careers. But a resentful Al Smith knew none of this when he got off the bus at Russellville, rented a room at a shabby hotel and asked for the nearest bootlegger. After losing two newspaper jobs in New Orleans, he was the new tramp editor of Russellville's little country weekly. He was thirty-one, and his life was in shambles. Fifty sober years later, his stor...

Taming the Money Beast is often a conquest that is never achieved even by those who put forth the effort. One could get multiple university degrees with honors, but never be instructed on even the basics of handling money.Money is simply a tool. In the hands of someone who has acquired and cultivated the skills to use it, money can bring about incredible benefits to be enjoyed by many. In the hands of a novice or one void of skills, money can bring tremendous trouble and even destr...

LEARN TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN YOUR HOME AND CAREERFormer NFL All-Pro linebacker Al Smith shares his personal experiences and the lessons he learned from his mentors. Included are 17 lessons on what it takes to go from amateur to pro in all aspects of life, not just in sports or in business. This book will encourage you, maybe even challenge you to take an all-in, all-pro mindset embracing the attitude and character it takes to both think like a pro and act like a pro!

Frequently humerus verse written about the gay and BDSM communities intended for adults.

World-renowned Attorney Alexandra Phillips has a knack for turning open and shut cases for the prosecution into wins for the defense. In the third installment of the Behind Closed Doors Series, Attorney Phillips defends another victim who is accused of murdering her abuser.With the world still reeling from the effects of COVID-19, Protagonist Attorney Alexandra Phillips is determined to uncover the truth behind the mysterious HIV strain that is discovered as she se...

Mostly humorous verse written as an expression of moods reflecting real life with a couple of just for fun poems.

From the Flight Engineer’s station on board the Nimbus almost any kind of weather could be produced to order and order it was for purposes galore. Whether it is for fund raising, industrial sabotage or TV Dramas, it was available from Wythenshawe Weather Centre, and aboard the Nimbus it was the Flight Engineer who controlled it all. This is the third book on weather making by the author, the first being –‘Making Rain and Other Things Is Our Business!’ and the second, - ‘A Clouds Life’. Ton...

The life of a cloud, or at least, one of those made by a machine operating from Wythenshawe Weather Centre, is unbelievably varied. Rain and drizzle you might expect but delivering spies, saving ships in distress, helping with missile tests and keeping amorous couples apart will probably come as a complete surprise, but the man in the driving seat sees it all and more. Why not join him or her and see (well at least read) for yourself.

Eddie Stormbart had a winning idea and he created a huge cloud machine that had a rain-making capacity four times that of current models and he called it ‘Cloudtanic’. In Scarborough the town council hired a drizzle to quell any trouble from agitated holidaymakers. Oban’s ‘Fresh Food Gathering’ was saved by fresh water deliveries and watercress was the main beneficiary. Great Yarmouth’s ‘slot machines’ provided a jackpot shower. The Cloud Museum in deeper Salford is a revelation. Crime ext...

The Zombie Apocalypse starts here...The masters of flesh-munchingly, gut-wrenchingly, eyeball-poppingly great zombie fiction bring you three of the best books from the first years of the critically-acclaimed Tomes of the Dead line.The Words of Their Roaring: In a London overrun by the zombie hordes, former thief Gabe O’Connell’s loyalty to his employer Harry Flowers is challenged when a routine job goes south and he uncovers the full extent ...

All five series of the tense, fast-paced drama set in an ambulance control room'Ambulance service - is the patient breathing and conscious?' It's a simple question, but call handler Carrie never knows where it might lead. Some calls are life-or-death, others hoaxes - and it's not always easy to tell the difference. The truth is often in the words her callers aren't saying - and it's only by listening hard and reaching out that Carrie can discover what's re...