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Sometimes the truth lies hidden for years.Sometimes it is merely mislaid. Joshua Ambrose, poet and merchant of the Georgian town of Wisbech, rubs shoulders with some very interesting neighbours in his everyday life. Among them are the anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Clarkson and the Quaker banker Jonathan Peckover. In 1799, with its wealthy merchants and prosperous port, Wisbech is enjoying its heyday as a centre of progress, vitality and trade.Yet none of this helps Joshua with the choices he has to make. Their repercussions will still be creating havoc more than two centuries later.Monica Kerridge, in her battle to save her beloved Poet's House Museum, has only a few flimsy clues to guide her. Her search for the truth leads her from the Fens to Corfe Castle in Dorset, as she follows in the footsteps of the poet.But neither Monica nor her small team, nor even the Poet's House itself, can change the past, however much of its mystery they unravel.They can only hope to escape it.
Zara, a 17-year-old girl from Sierra Leone, arrives in England in the '70s to further her education. The period was characterized by political instability in Africa.She happily settles down to University life, at Carindale College, Cambridge. In her final year, however, her world begins to crumble. Zara's father is over thrown, as her country's Head of State, by a military Junta. While still shattered by this news, death threats to her life kept increasing. The College therefore, requests she withdraws from the institution, as it could no longer guarantee her safety. Zara is left devastated, destitute and betrayed.Then, kidnapped, because of her father's corrupt $29.5 million diamond "deal", for which she knew nothing about.What is the ill-prepared young Zara to do? Has she got inner strengths to device her own survival strategies? Can she surmount and navigate through unimaginable challenges, and attain her objectives?
Back in time before the dark ages, a farmer discovers a strange large egg, from which hatches an unusual green dragon.On it's thirtieth birthday the dragon ventures off on a quest.During his travels he not only discovers giants, beasts and mystical creatures but also learns who and what he is.Strong bonds of friendship are formed with those he meets. When two of these friends face danger from the evil side of nature, it falls to the green dragon with the help of others, to embark on a dangerous mission that leads to a fearsome battle.When the truth is discovered a cunning plan is put into action.Often exciting, humorous and sometimes emotional. A story of courage, loyalty and determination.
"One day I noticed among her books one, I had never seen before. I looked inside and read the beginning-it was the Gospel in Turkish."This would be Muhammed Shükri's first encounter with the truth of Jesus Christ as testified to in the writings of the Christians, the New Testament. It would not be his last.This Muslim and mullah, this dervish and descendant of the prophet Muhammad, from the distant province of Erzerum in the Ottoman Empire, would continue to follow in Jesus' footsteps, leading him to Persia, Russia, Sweden, China, England, Germany and Bulgaria. He would come to live and work with Americans, Europeans, Turks, Armenians, Persians and Chinese from various backgrounds.And his desire, that his own Turkish people and Muslims in general should hear the words of the Gospel, would never diminish.Here is his story in his own words.
Jack Green is a seemingly ordinary fifteen-year-old boy who lives with his grandfather, Noah, in an old gamekeeper's cottage on the edge of Heywood Forest. But when strangers try to kill Jack and his grandfather by burning down their cottage one night, he discovers that he is anything but ordinary.Noah tells Jack he is an Elf and that he's certain the people who tried to kill him in the night are also Elves. He learns that his real mother had left him in Noah's care when he was a baby as she was frightened for both their lives.Jack decides to find his mother and embarks on a magical journey of discovery to his home village and beyond that leads him towards the answer to the most pressing question of all. Why his people, the Elves, want him dead … www.ianoneill.co.uk
During 1942 a special unit of the Royal Air Force is given the task of eliminating the threat which would expose the biggest secret of the war. By carrying out precision raids based on intelligence from agents in occupied Europe, a small anonymous group set out to achieve the impossible - a sure strike on small target. A shadowy team call on some unlikely men and women of the RAF to get the job done - using the ancient language of the British, subterfuge and skilful planning.
Through the fairy doors, shih tzus are enjoying love and friendship in the secret, happy and enchanted world of Tzu Kingdom. Yet, something happens one day and a daring sea rescue ends with a surprise visitor that begins to solve the secret that Wolfgang Waters has held in its murky depths since 1945...
Well it's about a love story, family, going through rough and tumble, but things pick up in time.Mum and dad fell in loveFor the first time other things pick up on the Cornfield.In the beginning mother, 4 boys died, young daughter survived. She grew up and kept on the Cornfield house, house on hill.She was named Alisha.The young daughter got married. She had twin boys, 1 died.Alisha had many children, another twin boys and a baby girl Rosie, also Billy one boy died very young, 7 years old.Now family got over all that.Alisha died. Johnny died.Mary, Aunty Julie are bringing 3 babies up.Lovely family now.
Ajaka is a play which parodies wanton greed, lust, and shenanigans of the power-drunk. It chronicles the dilemma of a great warrior of Imade town, Ajaka, who is ordered by his king to break an agelong vow and lead his soldiers into Ipesi, a small town they swore to protect. He refuses to obey the order and reminds the king and chiefs of the consequences of such betrayal on their part.The king is insistent; he breaks tradition and removes Ajaka as generalissimo and replaces him with Akilapa, Ajaka's closest lieutenant and bodyguard. Akilapa promptly mobilises. Knowing the implication of the breach, Ajaka tries to find a way of avoiding the looming calamity.
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