A special edition of the acclaimed Naval adventure series! America is held hostage…in this timely and powerful new novel written by an experienced Naval officer. A group of armed insurgents have taken control of Cuba. They've shot down an American civilian aircraft, and are holding a U.S. Marine pilot hostage. Now, Admiral "Tombstone" Magruder is forced to lead his Carrier Battle Group into a reckless counterattack planned by overzealous politicians.This time, he's trapped ― between the violent excesses of Cuban revolutionaries…and a U.S. power play that's spun wildly out of control.

New Reformatted EditionThis book is a compilation of classic short stories by five great Indian writers – Raja Rao, Rabindranath Tagore, Premchand, Dr. Mulk Raj Anand and Khushwant Singh. Though not necessarily representative of the authors' complete works, the stories have been carefully chosen to showcase their versatility and skill as storytellers. The collection covers an extraordinary range of themes, styles and settings, allowing the reader a glimpse of another world gone by. Yet, these stories seem timeless, and the characters in them show the same foibles, fears and hopes as do people in the brave new world of the 21st century.

Alan Turing was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. He created one of the first designs for a stored-program computer and is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.During World War II, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre, where he was responsible for breaking German naval codes, including the supposedly unbreakable Enigma code, and helping the Atlantic convoys avoid German U-boat attacks. This work probably shortened World War II by up to four years, saving millions of lives.This is the story of the amazing life and work of a British hero and one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century.

Ella is trying to put the past behind her, but the past won't always stay hidden. The truth is, Ella is hiding from a scandal. A scandal that drove her family out of their beloved Lane End Cottage in the tiny Yorkshire village they had lived in all their lives. A scandal that her sister Alice was blamed for. But Alice is no longer here. So it's up to Ella to pick up the pieces and do the best she can for the family she loves so dearly. Ella's luck finally changes when she gains work in service at Grange House, a gentleman's residence on the outskirts of York. But can Ella keep her position there? Or will she follow in her elder sister's footsteps ... A gripping new saga series that fans of Dilly Court and Valerie Woodwill adore.

On May 13, 1945, twenty-four American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over “Shangri-La,” a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea.Unlike the peaceful Tibetan monks of James Hilton's bestselling novel Lost Horizon, this Shangri-La was home to spear-carrying tribesmen, warriors rumored to be cannibals.But the pleasure tour became an unforgettable battle for survival when the plane crashed. Miraculously, three passengers pulled through. Margaret Hastings, barefoot and burned, had no choice but to wear her dead best friend's shoes. John McCollom, grieving the death of his twin brother also aboard the plane, masked his grief with stoicism. Kenneth Decker, too, was severely burned and suffered a gaping head wound.Emotionally devastated, badly injured, and vulnerable to the hidden dangers of the jungle, the trio faced certain death unless they left the crash site. Caught...

The war is over... In Bristol, three very different women wait for their loved ones to return home. But Edna’s fiancé returns badly crippled. And Charlotte’s husband comes back a very different creature to the kind, gentle man she remembers. And as for Polly, her GI boyfriend doesn’t come back at all, leaving her with a bun in the oven and a scandal in the making... About the Author Lizzie Lane was born and brought up in one of the toughest areas of Bristol, the eldest of three siblings who were all born before her parents got round to marrying. Her mother, who had endured both the depression and war years, was a natural born story teller, and it's from her telling of actual experiences of the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century, that Lizzie gets her inspiration. Lizzie put both cities and rat race behind her in 2012 and moved onto a boat, preferring to lead the simple life where she can write and watch the sun go down without interruption. 

It began as a kidnap plot, but quickly became something even more deadly through the innocent instrumentality of the intended victim himself, a sickly ten-year-old boy. An avid pet collector, that day he brought home to Eaton Square and the awaiting kidnappers a crate in which–you could hear it–a living creature dryly rustled. It was supposed to be a harmless black house snake, but there had been carelessness along the route from Africa, and it was really a black mamba, most poisonous of all reptiles.Louise, the French maid and one of the conspirators, angrily tearing open the crate, was struck at once and was dead within the hour. And Inspector Nash, first policeman on the scene, was blasted into eternity by a panicky kidnapper when Nash pushed open the door on Eaton Square.Now began that grimmest of modern games, the game of hostages. With three of them in hand, Jacmel, the chief conspirator, bargained for a car and money and time. But outside in Eaton Square his adversary was the rocklike, contemptuous, implacable, seemingly indomitable Inspector Bulloch. And always lying in wait somewhere in the bowels of the house was the black mamba, its venom sacs scarcely depleted, ever ready to strike again . . 

Jake Wells has uncovered the shadowy and mysterious Order of Malichea. He has - briefly - had in his possession an ancient book belonging to the Order. However, other agencies are also desperate to get hold of the book and the knowledge it contains. Jake finds himself forced to give up the book, and then his girlfriend, Lauren, is blackmailed and has to leave the country for her own safety. But Jake is determined not to be beaten. To ensure Lauren can return to the UK, he knows he must locate another book from the Order, and this means he must contact those he most fears in a high-risk and life-threatening strategy . . .

Robert Altman--visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend--comes roaring to life in this rollicking oral biography. After an all-American boyhood in Kansas City, a stint flying bombers in World War II, and jobs ranging from dog tattoo entrepreneur to television director, Robert Altman burst onto the scene in 1970 with MASH. He reinvented American filmmaking, and went on to produce such masterpieces as McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Nashville, The Player, Short Cuts, and Gosford Park. In Robert Altman, Mitchell Zuckoff has woven together Altman's final interviews; an incredible cast of voices including Meryl Streep, Warren Beatty, Paul Newman, among scores of others; and contemporary reviews and news accounts into a riveting tale of an extraordinary life.From the Trade Paperback edition.

In the new World Order there is only one fear: A renegade state will gain control of a nuclear weapon and incinerate a city of innocent people. Now a team of cold, psychotic renegades is about to pull off the unthinkable… It's up to Lieutenant Blake Murdock and his SEALs to bring the bad guys down. He knows who they are. He knows where they are. And he faces a deadly double jeopardy. Not only must Murdock and his team go up against fanatics with training and bloodlust equal to their own, somewhere out there is a thermonuclear device. And it's ticking away the seconds to Doomsday…

Jake's girlfriend, Lauren, has been exiled to New Zealand by MI5, who ensure that the two of them never speak about the missing books of the Order of Malichea. The information in these books could destroy mankind if they fall into the wrong hands, but Jake and Lauren want to get to them first and use the wisdom for good. Then Lauren goes missing . . . When Jake follows the instructions of a mystery caller to go to a Scottish Island, he knows he could be in danger; the Russian government will do anything to get hold of one book in particular - a book that holds the secret to spontaneous human combustion. Jake has to race against time to intercept the book and prevent global warfare. Can he do it, and, at last, give Lauren her freedom?