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Tom Clancy fans open to a strong female lead will clamor for more." - Publishers WeeklyThe Antonov AN-124 Ruslan "Condor"-the heavyweight champ among production cargo jets. Russian tanks, American firefighting helicopters, rescue submersibles, satellites, city-sized power transformers...the Condor hauls them all over the world.But when one lifts a top-secret payload rated as too dangerous, the US government decides it must take action. Untrace...

The author traces the Queen Mother's formative years, her family life in the palace environment, her growing adoration and ascension to the British throne, how she arranged aid to Stalingrad and was ultimately named an honorary citizen of that city, and other little-known details from the life of the Queen and her circle. With a foreword by Yuri Fokin, Russia's ambassador to the UK in the period 1997-2000, who was personally acquainted with th...

In one of the most beautiful corners of England something very ugly is about to take place. A sniper with a mission…a young cop with nothing to lose…a CSI with everything to prove…a teenage girl with a terrifying obsession… There's a killer on the loose in the Lake District, and the calm of an English summer is shattered.For newly qualified Crime Scene Investigator Grace McColl, it's both the start of a nightmare and the chance to prove hersel...

A Tribute is a book of a collection of poems and prose written by the author to tie the beautiful things in life to the pain and heartache. The pieces in this book strive to help bring comfort to those who are going through unfortunate times in their life. Bringing the heartbreak from the past remembrance in mind to help the healing process along. The writer attempts to create a space where the reader can run to the pain in order to find the s...

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (15 October 1881 - 14 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the third son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school, he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His...

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (15 October 1881 - 14 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the third son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school, he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His...

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (15 October 1881 - 14 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the third son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school, he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His...

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (15 October 1881 - 14 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the third son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school, he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His...

Paisley Mott struggles with her own particular blend of anxiety and fear that can cause her to go into a hyper-focused state. After the tragic death of her mother, Paisley began to see her anxiety-induced hyper-focus as a strength. She has used this focus to become a paranormal investigator with an up and coming web series that she hopes will propel her into becoming an expert in her field.Hollis Grimm is a charismatic preacher from the small ...

2020 Reprint of the 1924 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. The novel describes the problems of a family in which husband and wife are oppressed and frustrated by the roles that they are expected to play. Evangeline Knapp is the ideal housekeeper, while her husband Lester is a poet and a dreamer. Suddenly, through a nearly fatal accident, their roles are reversed, Lester is con...

2020 Reprint of the 1924 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Old New York (1924) is a collection of four novellas by Edith Wharton, revolving around upper-class New York City society in the 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s. The decades indicated in the subtitles to the stories make them prequels, so to speak, to The Age of Innocence. All five might as well be cut from the same bol...

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (15 October 1881 - 14 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the third son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school, he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His...

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (15 October 1881 - 14 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the third son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school, he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His...

George William Foote (11 January 1850 - 17 October 1915) was an English secularist, freethinker, republican, writer and journal editor. George William Foote was born in Plymouth, the son of William Thomas Foot (a customs officer) and Ann Winzar.In his Reminiscences of Charles Bradlaugh he recalls coming to London in January 1868 with "plenty of health and very little religion". He was taken to Cleveland Hall by a friend, and "heard Mrs. [Harri...

George William Foote (11 January 1850 - 17 October 1915) was an English secularist, freethinker, republican, writer and journal editor. George William Foote was born in Plymouth, the son of William Thomas Foot (a customs officer) and Ann Winzar.In his Reminiscences of Charles Bradlaugh he recalls coming to London in January 1868 with "plenty of health and very little religion". He was taken to Cleveland Hall by a friend, and "heard Mrs. [Harri...

A family seeking an adventure and a change up from their ordinary work life took up a teacher exchange. Swapping jobs, home and everything that goes with it.Essentially, they engaged in a sociology experiment wrapped in an adventure. Simultaneously the participant and observer.Transplanted from laid back tropical northern Australia on the doorstep of the reef and rainforest to a land of snow and ice, pristine lakes, amazing wildlife and mounta...

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Calling all Princesses!Come along with Posh Princess and friends as they take Princess Marlow, the new girl in school, on a mysterious and magical adventure at Queen Lulu's Fashion House. She is not your typical princess and wearing a dress every day is just not her style. With the help of sweet new friends and the magical fashion chamber, she learns to be true to herself and embrace her uniqueness.

Calling all Princesses!Come along with Posh Princess and friends as they take Princess Marlow, the new girl in school, on a mysterious and magical adventure at Queen Lulu's Fashion House. She is not your typical princess and wearing a dress every day is just not her style. With the help of sweet new friends and the magical fashion chamber, she learns to be true to herself and embrace her uniqueness.

Before civilization... Before religion... Before language... Along came Little Fang. This charming story is a whimsical retelling of how the game of golf may have originated in humanity's distant past.