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Two years after he blew up the Channel Tunnel to foil the Franco-German invasion, Harry Lampeter returns to England, hoping for employment with MI6. The political climate in Europe has changed. The Roman Catholic Church, led by mad Pope Benedict XVII, is attempting to fill the power vacuum in Europe by reviving the Holy Roman Empire, with himself as Emperor. The CIA has other ideas, as do the leaders of the European nations.

In the final story of the Summer Palace Series, Wiley Breuder uses his influence to relocate his family to their original destination and find themselves at Cavalier House in Saxony. This pivotal story takes place during The Great. Northern War involving Sweden, Russia, Poland, and Saxony. Entire villages are crushed, countries shift allegiances, and borders change at the whim of the invading forces.

The world has returned to the Steam Age. Incensed by cross-border raids from England, the Scots decide it's time to march on London. The English army heads north to stop them and MI6 send Harry Lampeter to report on the hostilities. General Malina’s American peacekeepers arrive as the battle for York begins. In between amorous entanglements, Harry discovers the Americans have a hidden agenda: the invasion of Europe. Meanwhile, Harry’s friend, Telford Stephenson, has joined the Scottish Air Force and is enjoying his own adventures.

It’s 1698. Paul has gone after a boy taken by slave traders and is befriended by a young Janissary who teaches him valuable lessons in life with and without a saber. Katia makes a fateful decision to follow her uncle to her newly discovered homeland while Wiley and Pavel search for his son. Wiley learns, from his daughter who escaped the treachery at Brumal Castle, the fate of his beloved wife who was taken to Hungary under false pretenses. Blanche incurs problems of her own when she’s pursued by the enemy. They must travel the length of the Ottoman Empire to rescue her.

That our ecological future appears grave can no longer come as any surprise. And yet, we have so far failed, collectively and individually, to begin the kind of action necessary to shift our path away from catastrophic climate collapse. In this stark and startling little book, Rupert Read helps us to understand the direness of our predicament while showing us a metaphor and a method a way of thinking by which we might transform it.

Ignium was supposed to solve the world's energy crisis. Instead, it destroyed the planet. In the darkness of the 22nd century, survivors fight to endure what's left.

The much anticipated sequel to The Summer Palace begins 14 years after Wiley, Katia, and Hans’ flight from the Ukraine in 1682. Foregoing their original destination, they settle in the fortified town of Lvov, then a part of Poland. The struggles and hard life in this exciting time and place in history set the scene and the story continues.

Extinction Rebellion (XR, for short) is an emergency response. Politics as usual, governments, as usual, have let down the peoples of the world in an extreme way: We are on course for eco-driven societal collapse, and we are extinguishing other species very rapidly. We could even end up making ourselves extinct. XR suggests that when your government is driving you and your family over a cliff, it is no longer a legitimate government. Rebellion against it is permitted - indeed, it is required. But XR is insistent that such rebellion must be nonviolent.

Urban anarchist Harry Lampeter is employed by MI6 on a casual basis. Modern technology has collapsed, returning the world to the steam age. The war between Scotland and England, is on hold while the United States army of occupation keeps the peace. The Americans are in no hurry to leave, they plan to make Great Britain the 54th State of their Union. Scotland and England eye one another with mistrust and an arms race seems inevitable as the English plan building a fleet of Ironclad warships.

This book is especially pertinent to weary migraine warriors - migraineurs, anxiety sufferers, depression carriers PTSD victims and those that are curious about the miraculous Daith Piercing that “cures migraines”. Recent studies have shown that this, surprisingly simple technique can have radical positive effects on migraine and other conditions, without the use of drugs. VNS Daith Piercing - Not Just for Migraine is a companion guide to ensuring that one receives the correct kind of daith piercing when seeking out this curious but nonetheless highly effective treatment.

Nick Sullivan expects to be bored when his boss sends him on a routine surveillance operation but things aren’t what they seem. He soon discovers that the man he has been assigned to follow is a small player in a chain of ruthless criminals selling counterfeit drugs to the National Health Service. Nick vows to stop their evil trade but there are fortunes to be made and the men involved will do whatever it takes to protect their lucrative scam. But Nick is stubborn and even when they almost succeed in killing him, he doggedly stays on the case.

In this alternate reality, Prince William succeeds to the throne and his mother, Princess Diana, rejoins the Royal Family as a Muslim Queen Mother. Meanwhile, her grandson James, the next in line to the throne, is under the spell of a Saudi Arabian Princess who want him to convert and become the first Muslim King of England.

The 15 years from 2020 to 2035 could be the most turbulent of human history. Revolutions are gathering pace in four overlapping fields of technology: nano, bio, info, and cogno, or NBIC for short. In combination, these NBIC revolutions offer enormous new possibilities - enormous opportunities and enormous risks. Rapid technological change tends to provoke a turbulent social reaction. Old certainties fade. New winners arrive on the scene, flaunting their power and upturning previous networks of relationships.

Will physicist Martin Riley get the rewards he feels he deserves? He's discovered a way to receive news stories from two weeks in the future but the Government has cloaked the technology in secrecy. Riley sees the danger in altering the Timestream but despite his warnings, politicians on both sides of the Atlantic make radical alterations to political events. The first temporal alteration saves Princess Diana, the next saves the Twin Towers, but ripples travel far ahead and disturb Earth's future civilisation. The Timestream must be realigned, but at what cost?

When Nick Sullivan is sent to Uganda for a routine assignment, he doesn’t expect trouble, but news of his arrival has preceded him and someone wants him dead. His enemies are powerful people and in a country where life is cheap, he is soon fighting to survive. He doggedly battles on, refusing to acknowledge the danger, but when his stubbornness causes the death of an innocent woman, he has no choice but to concede defeat and return to Britain. Eaten up with guilt, he sets himself the task of finding out who betrayed him and bringing them to justice.

Kenyon is an outcast Asloran warrior who decided to team up with a group of cyborgs from planet Earth. Their business is exploring the galaxy to find new worlds for people to settle when their homeworlds have become inhospitable. He really enjoys having a job that doesn’t involve beings shooting at him. He has given up on happiness, is quite sure he’ll never find someone to love and anchor his life. Kenyon is so sure it will never happen, he doesn’t recognize the love of his life when she bursts into his life.

Arantxa thought her best friend was crazy to even think about applying to an alien matchmaking agency to find a husband. Samantha thinks it’s a great opportunity for them to escape their mundane lives and get husbands. She will even pay Arantxa's fee. She finally gets Arantxa to agree to a plan for them to only look for mates on the same planet. When Samantha finds her mate first, Arantxa convinces her she should go ahead and meet him. With Samantha gone, Arantxa decides to take a chance on a man named Biurk from the same planet. Things start to go haywire from there.

The war was over, yet the Sargans came and bombed his world to ruin…They stole his life by making him a slave, but Kragyn Vermaktu was no slave! He was a Farseek Warrior. His rebellion landed him on Julconi Prison Planet...No guards, no rules....A place where strength meant survival…Stolen from Earth, sold as a slave Reanne Winter is forced to kill or be killed...Earning her a one-way trip to Julconi...He calls her solmatu and offers to get her to safety. A shock of attraction flashes between them as soon as they touch....

Flynn was one of the elite, a highly trained sniper in the British army who was proud of his skills and lived by a strict moral code. But even the best can crack when the stress becomes intolerable and now he’s on the rampage bearing a grudge and carrying an arsenal of stolen weapons. He believes that good soldiers are being killed because governments go to war over oil. In his twisted mind, anyone who drives a gas guzzling four by four is the enemy and deserves to die. As he carves a trail of terror and death across the country, the authorities are closing in.

These guided meditations and prompts unlock the powers of your subconscious mind, so you can experience lucid dreaming and astral projection. Drifting first into a near sleep state of relaxation, your mind opens with the help of this guided meditation. Through simply listening and observing your mind and body, you can easily enter a lucid dream state. You’ll also be taught how to memorize your dreams, so you can reenter them the next night.