A game of cat and mouse in which the cost of losing is death.Eighteen-year-old Colette's peaceful life in France is shattered when the Nazi panzers steam-roll across her country. As her world crumbles around her, Colette escapes to England and is thrust into the dangerous world of espionage.She undergoes intensive training to become a radio operator in France, a perilous role and one for which her superiors – and Colette herself – doubt her aptitud...

Seventy-year-old Will Johnstone dozes off one afternoon, half a glass of red wine beside him. He wakes in 1962 crouched beside a railway line, in his twelve-year-old body.What's more, his twelve-year-old self is about to escape his abusive father … by committing suicide.Will recoils from this and resumes his troubled life as a seventy-year-old trapped in a teenage body. But this world is different from the one knows and he has no choice but to accept the un...

As the Cold War rages, twelve-year-old Colette (Col) Schmidt, flees Leipzig with her mother after they discover her secret policeman father is a Nazi war criminal.Settled in England by MI6, the lies Col must tell to hide her true origins weigh down her budding friendships. She makes inadvertent slips that expose her origins to her friends, but these reinforce and deepen their relationships. After MI6 use the pair as bait to lure out communist agents, they ship Cole...

Forest gardening is a way of working with nature which is not only productive and requires minimal maintenance, but also has fantastic environmental benefits.You don't need a forest for forest gardening. Based on the model of a healthy natural woodland, a forest garden incorporates a wide variety of useful plants, including fruit and nut trees, perennial herbs, and vegetables in vertical layers. They rarely require any weeding, digging or pest control and as plants...

Elise survives the parachute jump but can she survive the cat and mouse game with the Waffen SS?Elise Henderson is a Special Operations Executive radio operator. She is parachuted into southern France in May 1944 to track and report on the movements of the 2nd SS (Das Reich) Panzer Division which is there recuperating from the Eastern Front. The Allies know that when the D-Day landings commence, the division will be moved north. Whilst resting and refitting, the di...

Thomas and Naomi Archer live on the River Dart in Devon, in the shelter of the Hoodown Woods—their lives overshadowed by a dreadful family tragedy. One spring day, their granddaughter, Willow, runs in from the garden. “Grandpa, come see what I’ve found!” What they discover in the woods transforms all their lives forever.

Ordinarily, when we kids go with our parents at night, we stay in the car bundled up together on the leather back seat of the car. This is a totally new and different kind of experience. While in the parked car we cannot see the lighted lantern, which is normally set on the sand behind the car, where it is easily seen by Mom and Dad when digging clams. But now we have no car, no back seat, and only a blanket on the sand to lie upon, with the lantern lighting the surrounding area -- corpse,...

“Talent Calling” is the indispensable sales book for recruiters. In this book, I discuss the secrets of calling candidates to establish meetings. You will discover ten steps which comprise effective candidate cold-calling. Traditional sales and whole brain thinking techniques are demonstrated in order to easily overcome candidate objections. In “Talent Calling,” you’re empowered with powerful scripts, techniques, candidate value statements, and strategies for circumventing gatekeepers, and...

In this new translation, a world-renowned scholar brings out the metaphysical, moral, and poetic power of Laozi’s classical Chinese textDrawing on his extensive study of philosophy, religion, and literature across traditions, David Bentley Hart, with the help of Patrick Robert Hart, presents Laozi’s timeless work and its paradoxical wisdom with clarity and grace.Mesmerized by the Tao Te Ching’s condensed and elliptical nature, and moved by bo...

Master Oracle Recovery Master Protect your databases from hardware, software, and operator failures using the detailed information in this Oracle Press guide. Oracle RMAN 11g Backup and Recovery explains how to configure databases, generate accurate archives, and carry out system restores. Work from the command line or Oracle Enterprise Manager, automate the backup process, perform Oracle Flashback recoveries, and integrate cloud computing technology. This authoritative resource also show...

Calarel, a one hundred forty-eight year old High Elf, Highmen mixed-breed female, decided it was time to leave home and find out what the world had to offer. What she began to find were friends, then she found enemies and evil. She came to the conclusion that she was to fight for the good. And good came her way before she even started to fulfill what she thought was her dignity. She learns stories told to scare children are truth. And unbelievable fantasies are true.

Calarel, a one hundred forty-eight year old High Elf, Highmen mixed-breed female, decided it was time to leave home and find out what the world had to offer. What she began to find were friends, then she found enemies and evil. She came to the conclusion that she was to fight for the good. And good came her way before she even started to fulfill what she thought was her dignity. She learns stories told to scare children are truth. And unbelievable fantasies are true.