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THE ANTHILL IS AN ANT'S WHOLE WORLD.ITS LIFE, SMALL IN ALL SENSES, LAPSES AS ONE MORE GEAR TO COMPLEMENT ALL THOSE BEFORE IT.IF IT CAME TO BE AWARE OF THIS, YOU MIGHT THINK IT WOULD TAKE NO HESITANCE IN ESCAPING.BUT HOW CAN YOU ESCAPE FROM ALL YOU HAVE EVER KNOWN?

Why was an elderly man murdered on DCI Jarrod Fischer's patch?This question leads Jarrod Fischer into the history of the murdered man and what he discovers is the sordid past of a Nazi SS unit.Kurt, a young German Corporal in charge of an SS unit is retreating through Poland and they come across a village. When one of their unit is killed they are in no mood to take sympathy on the villagers. In a fit of rage, the SS massacre everyone.The SS c...

Hitler's war is coming to an end, but his desire for world domination will not cease with the fall of Berlin, for deep in the depths of the earth and far beneath Antarctica's ice, plans for another war are brewing. From Berlin to Venezuela and then on to Antarctica, a convoy of German submarines carry their most treasured cargo, the Fuhrer, a secret prototype and the materials for a new deadly fighting machine.The free world hears of another p...

Rose Well Holiday Park needs a hero. This once shining icon of the Great British Holiday Camp is dying, and the last residents are more interested in preparing for a zombie apocalypse or fighting off imaginary UFOs than playing Crazy Golf or Bingo. In addition, a foreign bottled water company is attempting to force a sale so they can seize the last asset of Rose Well Park, the Rose Well Spring. The famous spring water claimed to bestow great h...

What a wonderful world we live in! And how lucky I am to have seen so much of it - not just once but again and again, through the pages of my diaries. Stroll amongst the steaming geysir fields of the Andes and beneath the crumbling rocks of the Karakorum ... watch the sun rise over Mount Everest: "The sun gilds first the summit, then the plume of spindrift snow blowing off the peak, then the western ridge and finally the vast snowfields on ...

Kevin Fife, " his teacher started. "To look at you, you wouldn't think butter would melt in your mouth. You look much younger than you are, freckles and glasses. A cheeky little boy face. But for all that, you are always getting into trouble. Always up to some mischief. It was you who put that cat in Mr Olney's cupboard, nearly gave him a heart attack when it jumped out onto his head and clawed off his wig."In January 1940, when 14-year-old Ke...

The story of Tommy BungeleeneTwo aboriginal brothers, sons of Chief Bungeleene, the supposed captor of the fabled 'White Woman of Gippsland', are taken under the wings of well-meaning Europeans on the death of their father.The older brother, Wurrabool, passes away, leaving young Tommy Bungeleene the focus of the Protector of Aborigines attention.It is the declared aim of the Protector and his superiors to turn Tommy into a gentleman - a patern...

Humanity's timeless quest for immortality-we couldn't discover the secrets of eternal life for ourselves, so we bestowed immortality on our gods. But what if these secrets exist and have been sought by world leaders for thousands of years, only recently having fallen into the hands of the global elite? When the Director of Security for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Anthony Leonardi, and Special Officer Vicki Lange find themselves pulled into...

From the time people first began to live in groups, successful societies have relied on the individual sense of duty as a means of creating and maintaining a moral, and law-abiding society. The performance of a duty is a deliberate, voluntary moral action undertaken by a person for the perceived benefit of others. However, this undoubtedly positive social concept is invariably undertaken at a cost to the person performing the duty, and during ...

This book is a selection of short articles and essays that resulted from clearing out texts, poems and sketches in an old desk-top computer together with the addition of a few memories recorded in old diaries and notebooks. You never know what you could find in a book of jumble such as this. Hidden treasures can often be found in jumble, particularly if it contains antiques. There may even be some here! The author is an octogenarian caver, wal...

Invoking the old saw, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts begins this story. While the sum of a person's parts may be formidable, the whole person may be greater still if those parts are melded together by pain, tempered by acute stress and polished by maturity, intelligence and, yes, love.Demon Slayer continues the saga of Sonya Keller, an extraordinary person with physical skills and strength of purpose that are rarer still. In ea...

In 1930s New York, David Tarniss leads a quiet life as a cab driver-too quiet-In reality he is hiding a dark secret, his homosexuality, something for which he will pay dearly due to the unique circumstances of the time.A fascinating, if disturbing, story about the challenges that confronted gays (and Jews) in 1930s New York.

Full of thought-provoking symbolism leavened with both crazy antics and danger, Possessed President follows Resman-the responsibility man-and his bodyguard Osray. The pair descend from the celestial city of Atlantis to travel across America, teaching its citizens to take responsibility for not only their own actions, but the effects their actions have on everything around them. Their goal: confront the president of the United States about the ...

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A little girl scarred for life. A neglectful granny. A family rift.Olivia disfigured her granddaughter, Winnie. For life. So why should she ever see her again?Rejected by her daughter, Olivia devotes herself to her art and her love affairs. Male artists sleep with their models so why shouldn't she? But being banned from seeing Winnie is breaking her heart. A sexy older woman can't be a good granny. Olivia knows this is what her daughter thinks...

A stroll through an Irish forest would normally be nothing more than a pleasant ramble. But King Brion, on a wander through the woods, not only lost his way, but also his kingdom!Determined to recover his throne Brion had to contend with wolves, a talking seagull, unidentifiable twins and a mischievous leprechaun - and an unpleasant brother.How could such a situation possibly come to a happy ending?

Gugu and Pule have just married and will be heading to Clarens for their honeymoon. As they prepare to leave, Pule is summoned to the hospital where his mum has just been admitted. Pule's mom divulges an absurd secret before relating a dream about a serial killer in Clarens. En route to Clarens, the couple suffer a tyre puncture along a dark secluded road with no network coverage. Pule goes to seek help leaving Gugu behind. An unkempt man in b...

My father disappeared the day after he rescued the young girl which was on the day after my 9th birthday. It was in all the papers.And so begins Amy Appleton's account of growing up as a lifeboatman's daughter on the North Norfolk coast as she seeks to unravel the events of that fateful night, 31st March, 2001. We journey with her through this sometimes gentle, sometimes not, coming-of-age story as she bears witness to the triumphs, thrills, t...

Turn out the light and sit with me in the dark again, my love.Delve once more into the marriage between horror and romance, the fine line that divides passion and madness.Pit your wits against masked intruders who gatecrash your wedding night. Take another trip across the Channel to celebrate your wedding anniversary - with a difference. Test your luck against those souls who will do absolutely anything - even commit the most terrible, unlikel...

Turn out the light and sit with me in the dark again, my love.Delve once more into the marriage between horror and romance, the fine line that divides passion and madness.Pit your wits against masked intruders who gatecrash your wedding night. Take another trip across the Channel to celebrate your wedding anniversary - with a difference. Test your luck against those souls who will do absolutely anything - even commit the most terrible, unlikel...