A powerful novel about family secrets spanning a generation, from war-torn Somerset to modern-day London - perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Rachel Hore 'Full of intrigue, fascinating historical detail and brilliant characterisation . . . A truly fabulous novel!' LOUISE FEIN'Nikola Scott is the queen of dual narrative fiction. The Orchard Girls takes us on a beauti...

The Stunning and Emotional Autobiography of an Auschwitz SurvivorApril 7, 1944—This date marks the successful escape of two Slovak prisoners from one of the most heavily-guarded and notorious concentration camps of Nazi Germany. The escapees, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, fled over one hundred miles to be the first to give the graphic and detailed descriptions of the atrocities of Auschwitz.Originally published in the early 1960s, I Escaped from Ausch...

The unforgettable novel from Nikola Scott about two women - decades apart - each with a man in their lives who is not what he seems . . . Perfect for readers of Dinah Jefferies and Kate Morton'An atmospheric and gripping read' My Weekly'Wonderful characters and a very moving storyline' Sun'I was completely enthralled' Kathryn Hughes'I loved this touching explorati...

Guy Newell Boothby was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the turn of the nineteenth century. He lived mainly in England. He is best known for such works as the Dr. Nikola series, about an occultist criminal mastermind who is a Victorian forerunner to Fu Manchu, and Pharos, the Egyptian. Rudyard Kipling was his friend and mentor, and his books were remembered with affection by George Orwell.This book is contained 12 ...

Nicola Tesla is as much man as he is legend. Born into a Serbian family during 1856 in what used to be the Austrian Empire, Tesla became a modern Merlin by inventing all sorts of amazing contraptions, providing the electrical power necessary for an economy increasingly dependent on it and creating an electronic revolution based on his theories and ideas. Considered the father of Alternating Current (AC power), the means to distribute it and the AC motor, he also demonstrated the first use...

Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and futurist. He is best known for his contributions to the modern alternating current (AC) electrical supply system. Tesla's patents and theoretical work helped form the basis of wireless communication and radio. His many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism were based on Michael Faraday's theories of electromagnetic technology.Bo...

The fascinating autobiography of the legendary inventor behind the radio, wireless energy, robotics, and much more.Famous for his pioneering contributions to the electronic age, his lifelong feud with Thomas Edison, and his erratic behavior, Nikola Tesla was one of the most brilliant and daring inventors and visionaries of his time. My Inventions is Tesla's autobiography, with meditations on his major discoveries and innovations, including the rotating mag...

Collected here are twenty of Nikola Tesla's essays, letters, and speeches all with figures. In total there are some 214 figures. Now you can read these famous articles as they were intended to be read. Included are A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers; Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination; Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency; On Light and Other High ...

London, 2004. Frankie didn't always have it easy. Growing up motherless, she was raised by her grandmother, who loved her - and betrayed her. For years, the rift between them seemed irreparable. But when their paths suddenly cross again, Frankie is shocked to realise that her grandmother is slowly losing control of her memory. There is a darkness in her past that won't stay buried - secrets going back to wartime that may have a devastating effect on Frankie's own life....

Just as Mary thinks she can handle her sudden deluge of marriage proposals, she finds herself the unwilling third in yet another love triangle. Lilianne has won Gainas’s heart, but Parfette still has feelings for him…and now Gainas’s family has eyes on Mary! Lilianne leaves destruction in her wake as she speedruns the reverse harem route of Heart High 2, and now Mary’s caught up in the chaos.Meanwhile, Mary seems to drift further from Adi than ever before, but help is on the way. A...

With a few words spoken aloud, everything is about to change for this servant of House Albert. Adi wished for a noble title so he could court Mary in earnest—but Mary’s solution is to offer her own hand! In the blink of an eye, announcements are made, letters are sent, and wedding arrangements are all but complete—but Mary still doesn’t know how Adi really feels. Can they go to the altar like this?! Will this will-they-won’t-they story go on even after they tie the knot? With a few words, ...

Nikola Tesla dreamed of a wireless future. In this fully illustrated volume we have collected fifteen of his essays having to do with wireless. These include the "True Wireless," "Tesla's Wireless Light," "The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires," "The Future of the Wireless Art," "Nikola Tesla Sees A Wireless Vision," and many others. Nikola Tesla has been called the most important man of the 20th Century. Without Tesla's ground-breaking work we'd all be sitting in the dark wi...