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GRAMWELL GLADE is Making Old Bones.
A care home, purpose built around a Georgian folly castle façade in Essex, Gramwell Glade is making a fortune for business developer Akin Akindele who, armed with an MBA foresaw that high-end care homes were going to return significant returns on his investment.
It's Making Old Bones of Pauline Graves' career since moving from hospitality to head up the staff at Gramwell Glade and putting her misplaced hopes...
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The Rainbow Warrior is an ancient warrior princess whose mission is to build an army full of potential. Her army's aim is to protect and enrich our beautiful planet. She has been resting for thousands of years. Now she has awoken and wants to awaken the rest of humanity but needs your help!
This book hopes to heighten our conscious awareness that every single person is uniquely important in the fabric of existence. If we endeavour to empower ourselves,...
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King Crumble is a stubborn chocolate chip cookie. He does not like to share, play, or take his milk baths. Most of all, he does not like to go to sleep. One night, King Crumble has a brilliant idea. He decides to get rid of bedtime once and for all! He gathers together a batch of cookies to battle sleep alongside him. Will King Crumble and his friends be able to fight off their fatigue?
4) The Door
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For the night began as it always had before, With a kiss on the cheek and a close of the door. As little eyes closed, and dreams danced on in, Those tired eyes saw a light where just dark should have been. Soon there were shadows and sounds that had not been there before, Could it be that it came from that old bedroom door? Was it laughing? How could it be? Should she get up to see? But how brave could one little girl possibly be? For shadows and...
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In the game of life, there will be many "firsts." There will be ups and downs with new beginnings that lead to smiles or frowns. When one door closes, another door magically opens. Tides ebb and flow and so does life. Leo Needs a Home of His Own begins with Leo realizing he needs to feel safe and secure. Knowing you are cared for, loved, and accepted satisfies the need, from a young age, that "home" sets the pace where good values can nurture successful...
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Meet the best friend every kid needs — Captain Courageous. She's the superhero with a difference. With her elastic arms, X-ray vision eyes and trusty sidekick, Bob the Cat, she will help you find the courage inside yourself to face any challenge and save the day.
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Will they end up killing one another? That's what concerns the authorities as much as the scientific and technical hurdles of sending folk to Mars. So they address the human issues, as they would in an army, by appointing a chaplain.
The Church of Scotland considers this post just right for Steve McKay, one of their more wayward recruits. Steve finds he is off to a parish more remote and barren than he had ever imagined. However, he discovers that...
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Lorela is a red planet...a dead planet! For several hundred years, the human colony of Lorela was thought to have been wiped out but they survived deep underground, out of sight of those who would use them. The lucky ones made it to the mines, locked in away from the harmful radiation. The unfortunate ones wept, surviving as best they could. Over time, the humans that were left breathing in polluted fetid air began to mutate. As the generations passed,...
9) Terra
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It all started with the lights failing on Jupiter... How did it end up like this?
Watching intently as one by one the domes begin to fill with light, Gabby waits for the remaining two to turn on. Frowning she asks, "Do the last two normally take a while?"
"No, the domes are timed to light up as soon as night falls…"
Vita and her crew explored the galaxy terraforming planets for the Federation, looked down on by everyone with a respectable job...
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Viktor Haas served with distinction during the Andevan Wars as Captain of the Sydney. The Sydney was a Deep-Space Class, Heavy Cruiser in the fleet of the Terran Space Exploration Administration, or TSEA.Captain Haas takes command of a very different ship – the Admiral Byrd. The Admiral Byrd, affectionately known as the 'Byrd,' is a Scout-Class science vessel. The Byrd has been tasked with a mission that is very different to those Captain Haas usually...
11) Secret Island
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Christopher and David are two lecturers who have come to Egypt to visit the magnificent pyramids. But awaiting them are not the mysteries of Egypt but of a land altogether unknown. Beyond a shroud of mist and raging seas, guarded by ferocious creatures, Atlantis is as mercurial as it is eerily familiar. Its people are proud guardians of all life on earth, from the dinosaurs they have given refuge to, to the eagles they revere.
This story tells of...
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A prophetic threat is headed toward Earth and it can't be stopped. The Bible calls it Wormwood but the dragons know it as Nimburu. Yet, it means the same to all; death, destruction, and unbelievable mutations. The knights of the Hampton Shire will face a multitude of challenges as they struggle to save humanity. President Strump sees an opportunity to rule the world. An evil, mutated general by the name of Victor Grasmere is hell-bent on conquering...
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Homo sapiens: development is deviating from projections. With 10 billion Earth-years of galactic experience, the Intelligence, the ethereal presence led by the Energy Masters, discerns something special in this complex creature and its accelerating scientific capabilities.
Their sub-processor and Earth project manager will surely explain. After 100,000 years with his client, the Homo sapiens, can 221 offer enlightenment?
Jimbo, a hesitant hero,...
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Probably as soon as our great ancestors could put faces on their fears and notice the patterns of decay, destruction, and death throughout nature, they cobbled together tales of woe. Prophets had foretold various doomsday scenarios-all the extent of some god's righteous wrath. As it turned out, doomsday fell on a Saturday, 27th of June, 2076 AD, when two immense saucers 'blinked' into existence over Earth's polar caps and began a reign of unimaginable...
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When he was at university, just a few years ago, Laszlo Goran had no shortage of affairs with women there. Now all he wants is to have Audrey for himself. But it is impossible. She belongs to the most powerful man on Earth, Jordan Rathbone--Jor, as the population refers to its beloved leader.
Even though Laszlo is the best neurosurgeon in the world and arguably the most popular individual, his lust for Audrey and power consumes him like a cancer....
16) Empire of Mars
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On Mars, some 65 million years ago, two civilisations live uneasily side by side. When a good friend of antagonist Aka-des is conscripted into the service of the god-Emperor, he has no option but to try and find him, unearthing unimaginable horrors at the seat of imperial power in the process.
Outside the Martian city the insectoid Antis, imperilled by the continued expansion of the humanoid Martians into their tribal lands, have to make a choice....
17) I Am Therian
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Mina Michaels wakes up at Clandestine Arts Academy only to realize it's a place she's all too familiar with but not what the brochure makes it out to be. Persuaded to enroll, she learns this place holds the key to her forgotten past. Enthralled by a world of spirit walkers, royals and alphas, her journey becomes a race against time to unleash her inner spirit and bring calm to a world breaking out in chaos whilst in the midst of finding true love....
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It is 2041, 10 years after the Iran-Israeli nuclear war. The Gulf is a radioactive wasteland. Fires continue to burn out of control and a warm blanket of smog envelops the earth. Sea levels rise as the polar ice melts. The world economy has stuttered to a halt. The UK emergency government continues in power, self-interested, unelected, and corrupt. Repression triggers a backlash from the radical groups, and 10 years of bitter civil war follow. A new...
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Prepare to be thrust into the heart of darkness as the gripping saga of The Endless Knight unfolds. Building upon the notorious legacy of 'the devil's haven,' our journey commences within the impenetrable walls of a clandestine maximum-security prison concealed deep in the desolate Nevada desert. Here, inmates undergo unspeakable transformations, their bodies turned into brutal cyborgs, vessels intended to be possessed by hordes of demonic entities....
20) Benevolence
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A highly advanced alien race arrives unannounced offering to help us make our world a better, safer place. With unbelievable technology far beyond human understanding, they seem able to ignore all known laws of space, time, and physics.
They deny all those natural laws that we find undeniable. They have the most profound knowledge of Earth's past as if they have experienced it. They know the most minor details of our lives. They seem to know our...
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