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Ever been to Taured before? No? In fact, you’ve never heard of it? Well, neither had the rest of the world when in July of 2020 a European businessman showed up at Tokyo International Airport claiming not only to hail from a non-existent country but showing a legitimate passport to prove it.

What follows is a breakneck tale full of mystery, intrigue, and action that will keep you turning pages well past your bedtime.

Paris, 1924. The Olympics.

Lucy Morton, an ambitious Blackpool swimmer, waits to find out if she has defeated her American rival. If she has, she’ll become the first British woman to win Gold in an individual event. At 26, she’s a veteran of the sport, competing against the odds in a world where women’s achievements often go uncelebrated.

If she wins, it will be despite the car accident she survived just 48 hours before — one that left her with five missing teeth, a cracked rib, and unconscious until the morning of the biggest race of her life.

Her journey began as a 10-year-old who nearly drowned the first time she tried to swim, thrown into a pool to overcome her ‘dunce-like’ ways. Yet Lucy’s resilience and dedication saw her rise to become a trailblazing athlete, breaking World Records and competing during air raids, while the suffragettes fought their own battles and the First World War raged on.

Set against the political backdrop of 1910s-1920s, Swim is a compelling work of historical fiction about pioneering women in sports history, courage in the face of sexism and politics, and the extraordinary story of Britain’s first female Olympic champion.

Does an ancient marker found in the Bahamas hold the key to the survival of humankind?The last thing Dr. Tegan Strong ever imagined was having to run for her life. As a gifted virologist, she thought she’d be enjoying recognition for her incredible medical breakthrough. Instead, the leader of a clandestine government agency wants her dead and she has to disappear. Tegan assumes a new identity and finds sanctuary aboard a charter sailing yacht. Just when it looks like she’s escaped her past and can enjoy life again, she makes an amazing discovery off of Great Guana Cay. Thirty feet below the surface and covered with strange symbols lies a marker of unknown origin. The artifact isn’t kept secret for long. Before Tegan and her friends can unravel the mystery, she is once again forced to hide. This time it’s not only the covert agency hunting her. The President of the United States also wants control of the marker, and his interest in it is far more sinister than anyone would ever believe. Time is running out. Tegan and her friends must decipher the meaning of the symbols before it’s too late. The fate of humanity is at stake.

Fortune teller Sunny Meadows and mind reader Kalli Ballas meet on a cruise ship, never imagining they will be cruising into danger…

The cruise starts out with so much potential until a fellow passenger is found dead at sea. Murder on the Palace of the Seas forces the captain to put the ship on lockdown so the killer can’t escape while the investigation ensues. Detectives Mitch Stone and Nik Stevens offer their services, while Sunny and Kalli team up and use their gifts to do a little investigating of the clairvoyant kind.

Mitch and Sunny just want some adult time away from their daughter and son, who are back in Divinity, New York in good hands. While Nik and Kalli are taking their first romantic trip alone together away from their meddling Greek families in Clearview, Connecticut. Chaos ensues, putting the women in crazy situations and the detectives solving more than a murder if they wish to save their relationships.

Will the couples be able to salvage their two tickets to paradise, or will they end up at destination disaster permanently?

A truly magnificent “ancient” diet for modern times… allow yourself to indulge in hearty, mouth-watering recipes in this fundamental title, “50 Top Paleo Recipes,” from the author of the stunning, best-selling title, “How I Lost 100 Pounds!” and never look back.
Paleo is the diet humans were designed to eat. But is it really worth it? I mean, getting started on any new diet regime can be extremely challenging, even one as ancient as the paleo style. 50 Top Paleo Recipes is your definitive, easy-to-do cookbook. With amazing recipes for feeling energized, losing weight, and increasing your healthy living as a great staple for weight loss enhancement. And, by maintain a focus on great low-carb, high-protein meals that negate the need for processed foods, this title will allow you to feel great and act as a preventative to common health issues like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, and many, many more.

The creator of Winnie-the-Pooh shares his musings on some of the matters of his day in this delightful collection of essays, short stories, and poems.

Not That It Matters is “a collection of essays from the end of that extraordinary silver age of English belles-lettres at the turn of the last century, when men such as Shaw and Belloc earned their daily bread by scribbling in newspapers and magazines about anything they could scrape a thousand or so words out of: socialism, dogs, the weather, how they celebrated Christmas, capital punishment, Wagner. For those who like this sort of thing, this volume is very nearly perfect. There are pieces on snobbery, oranges, cricket, bad fiction, ‘Smoking as a Fine Art’ (‘My first introduction to Lady Nicotine was at the innocent age of eight’), chess, thermometers, Holy Writ (‘Isaiah was the ideal author… He kept to one style’), and — prophetically — those bores who fetishize ‘good brown ale'” (National Review).

“Milne writes on goldfish, daffodils, writing personal diaries, the charm of lunch, intellectual snobbery, and even what property program presenters would now call ‘kerb appeal’ — but which was simply ‘looking at the outside of a house’ in Milne’s day… It is still a delight and a joy to have Not That It Matters and its ilk waiting on my shelf.” — Stuck in a Book