Match-fixing is one of the biggest issues surrounding sport at this time. John Daniell, a former professional rugby player, has written the fascinating novel about Mark Stevens, a former All Black playing professional rugby in Paris. Moving toward the end of his career Mark is drawn, through his relationship with a beautiful journalist, first into betting on matches and then into match-fixing. From on his own experience, Daniell shows how an innocent player can be drawn into an illegal wor...

The marriage effect teaches how the steps you take to destroy your marriage and how to make your marriage come back to perfect marriage

John Daniel writes from the ground he walks on and the landscape he inhabits in the northwest corner of America, spinning narratives that seek to discover how he belongs to the land and to the wholeness of life itself. He takes his readers to beaches, old–growth forests, sagebrush steppe–lands, and deep river canyons — wild places, and places scarred by human exploitation — and leads us too through inner terrains where he explores mortality, creativity, and spirituality.Both lyrica...

ATTEND HIS HONG KONG FUNERAL THEN UNCOVER HIS SECRETS… Follow the Dragon, an historical novel of British Hong Kong, hurtles from true events in south China during WWII to thirty-five years later in the colorful British colony. In 1980 Jake Salter returns to Hong Kong for his father's funeral and vows to unearth a problem hinted in their last phone call. Jake finds secret WWII journals with his dad's personal wartime history: the British Operation Remorse and the British Army Aid Group. The...

What if the biggest advantage in work and life isn't working harder, but thinking like a trained intelligence officer?In a world flooded with information, noise, and constant distraction, success belongs to the person who can filter what matters, read what isn't said, and act before anyone else does. Outsmart Anyone reveals the field-tested spy skills real intelligence operatives use to turn chaos into clarity, spot deception before it costs you, and build trust and influence that ...

Evil Is Coming – Worse than You ImagineWe live in an anxious age. Long-held certainties, cherished beliefs, and social trust are crumbling. Don’t expect things to get better. For too long we have taken our Christian heritage—the heritage upon which America was built—for granted. But we’re rapidly, and now inevitably, losing the Christian culture that shaped the American republic. What will take its place is a despotism—and a new paganism, worse than the old, becaus...

As they careened to the left, to his surprise the wounded Iroquois was not in a spin. Though the pilot was dead, the co-pilot was flying. Once the olive green bird slapped the ground and the twin rotor-blades were still, maybe there was just enough room for the escort gunship to land and get them out if the blades were rotated. Unfortunately while he turned the blades no one would be shooting at Charlie.

What if some dreams are more than dreams?What if Heaven still speaks through visions, revelations, warnings, and hope?In Dreams, Visions & Revelations from the Spirit Realm, licensed minister John Ferrell shares a deeply personal Christian exploration of spiritual dreams, visions, and revelations from a biblical perspective. Drawing from Scripture, personal experiences, and decades of ministry, this book invites readers to consider how God can use dreams, visions, ...

“Ain’t he the one killed Lee and Frank Lewis over some Mormon . . . a girl?” Joey was careful not to say what he was thinking. It was Judge that said all women were whores, and a lot of Mormon women were real pretty whores, especially Clara Williams, even if she was Jeremiah Beck’s! Joey certainly wasn’t afraid of Jeremiah Beck, even if his Uncle Jim had said Jeremiah Beck was dangerous! Nonetheless, unsure if Nate and Patrick would back him, Joey didn’t move. “If I know Frank and Lee . . ...

The world isn't just in crisis. It's in polycrisis, and plenty of people admit that. So why is it so hard to do much about it? This book aims to answer that question. In a word, the answer is power. More accurately it's because of something called the Maximum Power Principle. More accurately still it's down to the default manner in which people, collectively, have put this principle into practice. In order to unpack that claim this book joins the dots provided by a number of different disc...

Investing is a practice for the brave hearted, the ambitious, and the courageous. It is a practice that is for those who are ready to discover new ideas, try them out, and exploit to the maximum. Investing is for these who yearn to be successful. There are individuals who focus on achieving the best where others shy away, It is practice for which most would want to be participants.

Hope Hot Springs, high on a forested mountainside in Southern California’s coastal Matilija Range, was once the home of millionaire Joel Hope and his silent-picture-star wife Clara Bianca. They threw wild weekend parties back in the 1920s for the libertine Hollywood royalty, who cavorted naked in the hot mineral waters and in the hotel where the bedroom doors were never locked. Now, 60 years later, Hope Springs is the home of Karen and Nellie Hope, Joel’s constantly squabbling twin daught...