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Regeneration offers a visionary new approach to climate change, one that weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, equity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation that can end the climate crisis in one generation. It is the first book to describe and define the burgeoning regeneration movement spreading rapidly throughout the world.

Ancient history lecturer Lucian Brufos has suffered the worst tragedy imaginable; his wife and twin daughters were killed in a car accident leaving him alone and so depressed he attempts to end his life. When he wakes he refuses to speak and is committed to a psychiatric ward for evaluation where he meets The Dark Man who calls himself Jolly.

Reba Harlow is an average housewife and mother of three, unaware of a hidden hand that controls her life. She is tuned into the frequency of everyday Earth life, marriage, children, and work, cradle to grave. In 2003, seeing Mars, Reba feels something is awakening deep inside her. After much research online, she is inspired to write a fiction book featuring Mars and an elite corporation with an evil secret agenda of turning humans into radio waves controlled by frequencies. It is easy to get into the writing zone, so easy, maybe too easy!

Can dreams foretell the future? Every night, Jonathon returns to the same nightmare…where a cat that seems spawned from hell is always waiting for him. The dreams began at the stroke of midnight, but the following dreams happen one minute later than the night before. A sense of dread looms over him as the clock ticks ever closer to 13 past midnight. Will he realize they’re nothing more than frightening dreams…or will he die in his sleep?

In 1999 Australia, Sergeant Rick McCoy investigates the murder of a woman found packed inside a suitcase. The killer abducts another victim and threatens to dismember her slowly. His life is further complicated by a marriage in tatters. Frustrated at every turn, he is paired with glamorous criminal psychologist and profiler Patricia Holmes. While trying to rebuild his marriage, he finds himself in a desperate race against time to free the victim and fight his desire for his new partner.

A rape victim raising a biracial baby. A drug addict haunted by a dead girlfriend. A homosexual mourning a dead lover. A teacher having an affair with his student. And a businesswoman sexually harassed by her boss. What do they all have in common? They all sit at Lorraine White's holiday dinner table; they are also her children. But Lorraine's children are not the only ones in the family dealing with ghosts of the past. This is the first Christmas the Whites have spent together since the death of their father.

Dreams are the perfect shelter for fantasies, safe havens to step inside without changing our daily lives. For Lark Braithwaite, all that is about to change. During the last six months, Lark has dreamt of a mysterious Irish lover who knows what she wants and gives her exactly what she needs. In her waking life in busy London, things aren't as ideal, as her long-term relationship with her controlling fiancé, Charles, has hit a dry spell. When Lark is called home to Oregon for her father's funeral, she never expects to meet her dream lover in the flesh.

Paul Williams is an ex-SAS soldier who suffered physical and psychological injuries during an Afghanistan battle. After his wife Amanda leaves him, Williams begins a search to find and murder her. The army has trained him never to fail, never give up, and survive at all costs, and he is determined to succeed on his final, sacred mission. Using disguises, Williams passes for "normal" but he strikes ruthlessly when he finds any woman who resembles Amanda because he is incapable of mercy.

After his wife loses interest in him, 50-year-old Dave Barndon turns to the dark side of the internet and sex chat rooms. There, he finds willing partners who are happy to fulfill his needs with no strings attached. But they aren't the only ones looking to play. When a woman he had an affair with is murdered, he becomes the prime suspect. He thinks his alibi is solid, until a second woman is murdered, and then, a third.

This book takes you through a different world of mankind. Starting by telling you the story of the creation of man in a way never told by anyone: the Golmaz gods and the Anzul gods; before immersing you in a royal feud between brothers, games of the Dregorian crown of the southern realm. But the question at the end remained, was he who was found guilty of all his inequities, truly guilty of his sins? Will nemesis come back to hunt the Dregorians?

Martin's wife is dead—murdered—and the authorities have it all wrong when they arrest Martin for the crime. He's devastated, confused, vulnerable, and lost after being released on bail. Desperate to reconnect with someone, he confides in a beautiful redhead. She offers to help him recover from this crisis, but nothing seems to go right, and life becomes a razor's edge upon which he must walk.

Bruce thinks he is helping mankind and playing his part in saving the planet when he develops his serum for speeding up the development of lab-grown cultured meat. What Bruce has actually done is send us to the bottom of the food chain. Well, not all the way to the bottom. We are still above ducks. Nobody gets eaten by a duck.

A horrific beast stalks the bush of Australia’s Northern Territory. For centuries, it has devoured any who have crossed its path. The native Jawoyn have a name for this prehistoric horror...Burrunjor! Famed cryptid hunters Jack and Karen Rastun are on their honeymoon when the monster attacks their tour group. Cut off from the outside world, they flee deep into the forest, with the Burrunjor in pursuit. And this time, Jack and Karen do not have state-of-the-art weapons or equipment, nor do they have a team of experienced soldiers and scientists to back them up.

This case would test Gammon on a professional and private level. Things were about to get worse for Gammon. Turmoil was to be the order of the day, and could he cope? Months had passed and with all cases closed, life seemed quite slow for DI Gammon, that was until the phone rang in his office. "Yes, Sergeant?" "A young man has been found dead in Dilley Dale, Sir. I have asked DI Lee and Smarty to attend and I have also sent forensics." "Good man, I will make my way there now." Gammon set off for Dilley Dale.

DI Gammon will go into dark places in his mind and his life as he battles with right and wrong, good and evil. The Cure is set in the beautiful Peak District of Derbyshire. Many tourists walk the same paths that our hero does. If you are one of them, see if you can work out the fictitious villagers and hostelries that Detective Inspector Gammon frequents. Although Gammon is noted as being an excellent detective, the hierarchy has concerns about his maverick ways. Will this hold him back?

In a throwback to the literary era of Mike Hammer and Shell Scott, Denver private investigator Bryson Wilde lives in an edgy 1952 world where the women are dangerous, cigarettes dangle from ruby-red lips, and the nights are hotter than Havana asphalt. In this riveting pulp noir thriller that will keep you guessing to the very last minute, Wilde finds himself spiraling into a string of murders, with the next one likely to come by Friday.

In this riveting Nick Teffinger thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end, a young lawyer is hired to find out if her client has been marked for murder. Formerly a longstanding trial attorney before taking the big leap and devoting his full time attention to writing, RJ Jagger is the author of over 20 hard-edged mystery and suspense thrillers. In addition to his own books, Jagger also ghostwrites for a well-known, best-selling author. He is a member of the International Thriller Writers as well as Mystery Writers of America.

The follow-up to The Poet and the Calling Card. In this book, we find John Gammon unsure who he can trust and why all this is happening.

Left without parents in a post-apocalyptic world, 15-year-old Parker tries to provide for himself and his little sister - but he faces obstacles even more challenging than merely finding food. In this lawless new non-society, Parker tries to navigate around criminals, despots, and desperados, while trying to make or find a place suitable enough to call home. When he discovers a gift that he never knew he had, it only complicates their lives, making it both harder and sweeter for the both of them.

Back by popular demand as the next installment of The Diaries of a Doorman series of books, Bouncers & Bravado is a further collection of true short stories based on the years that Armstrong has worked the doors in the UK and abroad. This book is another real insight into the funny, tragic, and completely bizarre people and experiences encountered by a doorman. Yes, maybe there is a bit of artistic license in there, but only a bit. Names have been changed to protect the innocent and the guilty!