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Tales of adventure, misadventure, love and loss - this collection of non-fiction short stories from the Australian rock legend turned writer is vintage Jimmy. Outrageous, witty, warm and wise, Killing Time shares more than forty yarns reflecting an epic life - from an encounter with a soul...

Raduans Gefolgsleute haben seine engste Vertraute Heli endlich auf einer abgelegenen Insel im Sperrgebiet von Pers aufgespürt. Ohne zu zögern, begibt sich Raduan auf Rettungsmission ins feindliche Territorium. Um unentdeckt zu bleiben, nimmt er die Gestalt eines dort stationierten Soldaten an.

Als Toby, begnadete Hackerin und Karatecrack, neu an die Bayport High kommt, ist das wirklich Allerletzte, was sie vorhat, den Cheerleadern beizutreten. Als aber eine mysteriöse Nachricht sie zwingt, an der Vorauswahl teilzunehmen, merkt Toby rasch, dass sich hinter deren pinken Pompons etwas völlig Unerwartetes verbirgt. Die Cheerleader sind DIE Geheimwaffe der Regierung – Elite-Spione, die sich in aller Öffentlichkeit verstecken! Und sie brauchen Toby.

Set more than 6,000 years ago, She Who Rides Horses: A Saga of the Ancient Steppe (Book One) begins the story of Naya, the first person to ride a horse. Daughter of a Clan Chief, bolder than the other girls but shunned by the boys because of her unusual appearance, Naya wanders along through the vast grasslands where her people herd cattle and hunt wild horses for their meat. But Naya dreams of creating a different kind of relationship with the magnificent creatures. One day, she discovers a filly with a chestnut coat as uncommon as her own head of red hair.

No one has a better perspective on life on both sides of the channel than Julian Barnes. In these exquisitely crafted stories spanning several centuries, he takes as his universal theme the British in France: from the last days of a reclusive English composer, the beef consuming 'navvies' labouring on the Paris-Rouen railway to a lonely woman mourning the death of her brother on the battlefields of the Somme.

Julian Barnes's Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's extraordinary real-life fight for justice. Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, George remains in hardworking obscurity.

Bloomsbury presents The Soviet–Afghan War by Gregory Fremont-Barnes, read by Chris Courtenay. An overview of the USSR’s bloody conflict in Afghanistan and its long legacy. The Soviet invasion of its neighbour Afghanistan in December 1979 sparked a nine-year conflict until Soviet forces...

Embark on an enlightening journey through the cosmos with "Astrology for Beginners: A Simple Zodiac Guide to Understand the 12 Star Signs and Unlock Self-Discovery, Personality Traits, and Compatibility". This captivating guide is your key to unraveling the rich tapestry of astrological wisdom, offering insights into the unique dynamics of each zodiac sign.

In The 4 Day Week, entrepreneur and business innovator Andrew Barnes makes the case for the four-day week as the answer to many of the ills of the 21st-century global economy. Barnes conducted an experiment in his own business, the New Zealand trust company Perpetual Guardian, and asked his staff to design a four-day week that would permit them to meet their existing productivity requirements on the same salary but with a 20 percent cut in work hours. The outcomes of this trial, which no business leader had previously attempted on these terms, were stunning. 

Brought to you by Penguin. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and...

Elizabeth Finch was a teacher, a thinker, an inspiration—always rigorous, always thoughtful. With careful empathy, she guided her students to develop meaningful ideas and to discover their centres of seriousness. As a former student unpacks her notebooks and remembers her uniquely inquisitive mind, her passion for reason resonates through the years. Her ideas unlock the philosophies of the past and explore key events that show us how to make sense of our lives today.

Maximizing Human Health and Performance. We discuss: optimal health, nutrition, high-performance, cognitive excellence, biohacking, longevity and more with top experts around the world. Hosted by Kayla Barnes-Lentz.

Raw, gritty, compassionate, surprising and darkly funny - Australian legend Jimmy Barnes' unforgettable childhood memoir. A household name, an Australian rock icon, the elder statesman of OzPubRock - there isn't an accolade or cliché that doesn't apply to Jimmy Barnes. But long before Cold Chisel and Barnesy, long before the tall tales of success and excess, there was the true story of James Dixon Swan - a working class boy whose family made the journey from Scotland to Australia in search of a better life.

The oldest children of the settlers on Avalon are now in their late teens and want independence from their parents and guardians. And they especially don’t want them around for the initiation ceremony held on Black Ship Island for the younger children just reaching their teens. But when previously unknown creatures make their deadly appearance, things go horribly wrong.

Brought to you by Penguin. A FORGOTTEN PAST. Kira vividly remembers the moment Cady Bennett and one of her search and rescue dogs found her as a child, living alone in the wild, with no memories of her life before. Years later, now adopted into the Bennett family, Kira has spent most of her life...

'This may conceivably be Barnes’s best work yet' Marcus Berkmann, Daily Mail ‘For 30 years I was the voice of sport at The Times – but that’s enough about me. What matters is sport.’ This is an autobiography from which the author, award-winning writer Simon Barnes, has been surgically...

It has been some years since Jonathan and Mina Harker survived their ordeal in Transylvania. But shadows linger long in this world of blood feud and superstition - and the older their son Quincey gets, the deeper the shadows that lengthen at the heart of the Harkers' marriage. Jonathan has turned back to drink, Mina finds herself isolated inside the confines of her own family. Quincey himself struggles to live up to a family of such high renown.

Eigentlich hat Jocasta alles, was eine normale Studentin braucht: einen sicheren College-Platz an der renommierten Beecher Universität, einen Job und eine verkorkste Affäre mit ihrem Dozenten. Doch Jo ist alles andere als normal. Als Tochter des Todes muss sie sich von negativen Gefühlen ernähren, um zu überleben: den kleinen Toden des Alltags, Enttäuschung, gebrochene Herzen, Misserfolgen. Niemand in ihrem sorgfältig errichteten Umfeld kennt Jocastas wahres Gesicht.

What if you could feel inspired every day of your life? What if you got to work on the projects you love and could make a positive difference to the world? Author, coach and hypnotherapist, Joe Barnes presents the journey to escaping from a purposeless life, based on society's expectations, to...

Confidence, emotional intelligence and resilience are vital to children's mental well-being, and this book gives early years practitioners all the tools they need to promote these skills in young children. The book explores how three approaches - Growth Mindset, Forest School and Multiple Intelligences - can be key to building these skills.