John Green
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This 1874 history, a surprise bestseller, brought Green fame and fortune. The secret of his success was a radically new approach to history, one that, for the first time, gave substantial weight to the contributions and ambitions of the common people, rather than focusing exclusively on aristocratic elites.
42) The Trusted
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2016
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A secret band of radical environmentalists, under the name 9S have spent years secretly infiltrating industry and government, working themselves into the most trusted jobs... sleepers ready to act. As a series of global catastrophes erupt, Australian ex-CIA agent Dr Tori Swyft, finds herself at the centre of it all. Having once been briefly recruited as a 9S member at university, she may be the world's only chance of stopping the threat before it's...
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2017
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World leaders are being assassinated by toxic gas. An obscure group of Chinese terrorists claims responsibility, but are the Ten Brothers - a secret circle of China's political, military and business elite - using terrorists as a cover to justify the assassination of China's President and the overthrow of Beijing? Once again, ex-CIA operative, Tori Swyft, finds herself embroiled in the middle of an explosive conspiracy. Can she survive long enough...
45) Rod of Moses
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1923. When RAF airman Jack Toulson finds a wooden box buried in the desert, he hopes to uncover a cache of jewels or even an antique sword, but all it contains is a worthless old stick with Arabic writing on it. Disappointed, he shoves it into his bag and thinks no more of it. The next day, he decides to take a picture of the empty horizon with his new Kodak Hawk-Eye, but when the picture is developed, it shows a camel-train that had not been there....
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Madison was a virgin. She wasn't particularly pretty though she was not un-pretty. She was not tall nor short, dark nor light, heavy nor slight, blonde nor brown. She was mired in middle-class suburban existence, and had attended neither the right nor the wrong school. She was as talented as the next girl. If average was an absolute instead of being right smack in the middle, she would be extravagantly, dizzily, exorbitantly average. Zachary was a...
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John Green's family moved to Lee-on-the-Solent just in time for the outbreak of war in 1939. For a seven-year-old, war sounded like an exciting adventure, but as he sheltered with his mother and sister under the stairs during an air-raid, someone said they thought they heard machine-gun fire. They all held their breath and listened, but the noise turned out to be the rhythmic rat-a-tat of his mother's trembling knee knocking against the panelling....
51) Bright Spots
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Why Bright Spots?
In writing this book, my purpose is to identify the presence of light within those who have given thought to giving up. There have been many who have given up when faced with hardships. There are many who, as of this moment, are having thoughts of giving up. This book may inspire you (and them) to consider a different perspective and make a decision to live.
There are moments in our lives when we experience situations that leave...
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In “The Making of England”, esteemed historian John Richard Green examines British history from the year 449 up to the union of England under Ecgberht, a distinct period in England's history, the age during which the soil was conquered and settled and ending with an England united under one ruler.
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In “The Making of England”, esteemed historian John Richard Green examines British history from the year 449 up to the union of England under Ecgberht, a distinct period in England's history, the age during which the soil was conquered and settled and ending with an England united under one ruler.