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This book is to teach young people how to use money wisely to become financially free. The skills I share with you in this book are what has given me the lifestyle I want, free time and passive income to enable me to enjoy life, free from money worries. These skills are now doing the same for my sons. My 23-year old Luke has planned to be financially free by the time he is 35. My 19-year-old Alex even earlier; and I have written here exactly how they are doing it and how my five sons and I are doing it as a family.

A young magician in a pub opens his hands to release a cloud of tropical butterflies; a female bookseller is forced to attend a dance in drag to atone for a misdemeanor; a lonely man searches for a mysterious woman on a cruise; four school friends experience terror on a caravan holiday, and a macabre stranger wanders the streets at midnight, stealing dreams. Ranging from just 100 up to 4000 words, these and 106 other memorable little stories are found in this eclectic and tantalizing collection by Simon J. Wood, an exciting new voice in the Flash Fiction genre.

The year is 1691. Fifteen years have passed since the inconceivable events of King Philip's War. The Reverend Israel Brewster and his family have returned to Middleborough. Brewster has found a new faith, a new pulpit, and a wonderful life as father and husband. Meanwhile Linto, captured in the waning days of the war and sold off into slavery, toils away in bondage. He is serving the cunning sugar baron, Elijah MacTavish, on the island of Bermuda. It is, however, unlike any servitude he could have imagined.

Author Jeremy Gray provides a comprehensive and intellectually stimulating introduction to Bernhard Riemann’s life and paradigm-defining work. Beginning with his early influences - in particular, his relationship with his renowned predecessor Carl Friedrich Gauss - Gray goes on to explore Riemann’s specific contributions to geometry, functions of a complex variable, prime numbers, and functions of a real variable, which opened the way to discovering the limits of the calculus.

Sam, Alan, Alice and Aurora continue to fight against the German forces occupying England. The guerrillas sabotage SS plans to build a concentration camp and also prepare for L-Day: the Allied liberation of the Occupied South. The partisans take steps to deal with a traitor amongst their ranks.

When Fiona and James Brett move into their fashionable London home, they discover the attic room harbours a dark and deadly secret. James locks himself away inside, ostensibly to take up oil painting, but he soon becomes moody, even violent. Local prostitutes are being attacked, and then the Bretts’ Polish cleaner is murdered. Another murder soon follows and this time it is even more close to home. James’s former lover is found mutilated, mirroring the Whitechapel killings of over a century ago.

Without a doubt, Jimmy Giddion’s previous hacking exploits appear to reap everything he hoped for, until by chance he discovers his adversaries were responsible not only for his parents' sad demise, but with duping him into taking part. Although he now has the life he craves with his family and new wife, the deep-seated urge to reverse the wrong that had been done overwhelms him. Once again with the help of his friend and confidant Paul Max, they devise an ingenious hacking scam so sophisticated, even our pair of computer vigilantes doubt it would succeed.

Following the tragic disappearance of his parents and unborn sibling, Jimmy Giddion is torn from his life in the States to a solitary existence in Africa. During these formative years, he discovers a rare talent for computer hacking and decides to use his skills to find his family, but is soon thrown into a world of corruption embroiled in modern-day diamond mine claim jumping. With the reward for his deception intact and his newly-found ally Paul Max, he embarks on an expedition that fires his imagination as a more sinister element to his family’s last encounter is unearthed.

Sam, Alan, Alice and Aurora continue to sabotage SS plans to arrest and eliminate a list of targets written in a secret Black Book. The Partisans discover the existence of a shadowy ancient Resistance organization with their own hidden agenda. The Nazis devise a plan to destroy the Hereward guerrillas once for all. Young Lions Attack is the fourth book in the Young Lions series and is a fast-paced, gritty war novel set in an alternative history of the Second World War.

Three narrative strands follow the lives of three individuals–Peter, Cathy and Ivan–through the second half of the 20th century, from post-war austerity and mediocrity in the 1950s and 1960s to the fast-moving life-style of the present decade, whereby the plot is embedded in real events of the period. The three biographies intersect at crucial points, which reveals their internal landscapes and the different ways of understanding reality. Things are not always what they seem, and we do not always know the whole truth.

The extraordinary challenges facing our well-established character now known as ‘Bill Pascal’ are all too evident as William Forester seeks to remain invisible to the outside world. A chance encounter leaves him feeling vulnerable once more and he steps up his efforts to discredit and bankrupt the man he holds responsible for the years of struggle he has encountered.

These fun stories for children aged 5-7 years are about the adventures of different buses in the Little Bus Company, and are set in rural England during the last twenty years.

Alan, Sam, Alice and Aurora operate behind enemy lines on L-Day: the Allied liberation of the Occupied South. The partisans suffer grievous losses linking up with friendly forces. Hitler mercilessly crushes an SS coup. The Brotherhood of the Purifying Flame takes advantage of the chaos to pursue its Holy Mission.

Alan, Sam, Alice and Aurora continue to fight against the German Forces occupying Hereward. The Nazis plan to achieve a Final Solution of the Jewish problem in Great Britain. The partisans carry out a daring and audacious mission to kidnap two top ranking enemy officers visiting Occupied England.

In Nazi Germany, young Manfred is hardly aware of the influence that draws him into the existing political system. After the War he changes his name and builds up a new career, starting a family, first in the States, later in Britain. While his friends and family have no idea of his activities during the War, his daughter Nora and his grandson Andrew, being interested in recent history, begin to suspect their (grand-) father’s dark secret.

Nessie the Loch Ness monster needs a holiday! She takes a secret tunnel to the ocean, where everything is very different from Loch Ness. The water is salty, the waves are big and the fish are strange. But the biggest surprise is yet to come...there are rumors that a unicorn has been spotted. Can Nessie find the mysterious visitor? An audiobook about friendship and tolerance.

Miles Platting is pulled from the ruins of a shipwreck into a world in which no one will speak to him. The founder of Lingua Franca - a naming-rights agency committed to renaming every UK town after a corporate sponsor - Miles recounts the story of his quest for linguistic supremacy to anyone who'll listen. Confined to his hospital bed in a deathly quiet ward, Miles seeks to find his colleagues and reunite with his true love. But in doing so, Miles must confront his deepest held convictions and consider what's in a name in a world where the spoken word has been replaced with silence.

Marcus Slater decides to forgo the cold, wet, wintry weather of England to join a walking party in the sunny climes of Morocco. There, against a backdrop of the curious, ancient towns of southern Morocco he meets the enigmatic Sylvia and finds himself embroiled in a game he cannot possibly afford to lose.

Award-winning author James W. George transports his readers to Puritan New England once again in this short novella inspired by the Book of Job. Sometimes solemn, often zany, but always sincere, this quick listen explores the powers of good and evil influencing our lives in unimaginable ways, as well as the importance of thankfulness and praise.

This collection of 29 short stories, poems, and essays will take your breath away, break your heart, and even inspire transformation in your life. Because there’s no time like the present to break out of your shell, spread your wings, and embrace your own metamorphosis.