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Against the Machine: Evolution

Earth, 2212. The planet is ravaged by catastrophic climate change. Billions have died. The remnants of humanity are divided: the elite inhabit the MEGs, cities transformed into massive, high-tech protective domes, while the rest, the MASS, struggle for survival in the ruined landscapes outside.
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Against the Machine: Manifesto

Mel Buckworth, a dependable family man, loses his manufacturing job through recession. Having lost his sense of purpose, his pride sidelines him as he discerns his lack of digital skills, so apparent in his children's generation.
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Against the Machine: Luddites

At war against Napoleon, near-bankrupt English mill-masters experiment with a new factory system, acquiring machines to replace men. A young worker leads the Luddites, attacking mills and smashing machines. With increased assaults and even murder, North England feels the grip of terrorism.
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Adoring Andy

“We’re more than eagles, we soar even higher!”
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Jojay and the Joy of Anyway

So just what does Jojay have? His great story that is a 2025 ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose Adaptation Quarterfinalist
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Going to Williamsport

Second Edition, newly revised for KDP 2023 Sports Category Finalist--American Fiction Awards
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From Ground To Glory: The Definitive Guide To Becoming A Professional Airline Pilot

From Ground to Glory is a practical, step-by-step guide to becoming a professional airline pilot. Written by Captain Stephen Harrison-Thomas, it explains training routes, licences, costs, flight schools, job applications, interviews, simulator assessments and airline life—helping aspiring pilots avoid costly mistakes and build a safe, successful aviation career.
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Beckoning Skies: How a working class boy became a British “Top Gun” with 3 Air to Air Victories at 21

Written off from the start, he came from a working-class family, changed schools constantly, and had no connections or guidance. Yet through rejection, fear, brutal training, and sheer persistence, he achieved the impossible: becoming a Royal Navy fighter pilot. A powerful story of determination, belonging, and refusing to accept the life others expected for him.
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Falkland Skies

A vivid first-person memoir of a young Royal Navy Sea Harrier pilot in the Falklands War. From carrier scrambles to deadly air combat over San Carlos, Falkland Skies captures the fear, courage and split-second decisions of war in the South Atlantic.
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Civilian Skies

Civilian Skies follows a former Falklands Sea Harrier pilot as he enters airline life, business chaos, divorce and restless reinvention, discovering that peace, success and ordinary civilian skies were never quite enough.
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African Skies

A gripping true story of an ex-Royal Navy fighter pilot drawn into Africa’s dangerous world of diamonds, gold, coups and mining ventures. African Skies is a remarkable memoir of risk, ambition, survival and one final great adventure.
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Cocaine Skies

A gripping true story of a former Royal Navy fighter pilot drawn into Colombia’s cocaine war. Flying dangerous counter-narcotics missions under cartel fire, Cocaine Skies is a high-octane memoir of courage, corruption, survival, and the search for purpose.
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The Christmas Tree Forest’s Camouflage Animals

The children, family and friends are off to the annual Christmas Tree Forest Adventures and make new discoveries!
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A Rogue-Meister's Guide To Free Thinking

Do you desire an economic/business book that is easy-to-read and gives a different and unique viewpoint—not the same old, same-old? Then, this is the book for you.
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The Sagas of Vaelora - The Burrow and the Blade

Babax Merrifur went looking for his missing brother. He found something far older. Caravans are vanishing. The Burrowlands are fracturing. An ancient hunger is waking beneath the earth. And the ghost of Merris Brightpaw haunts his dreams. The blade rose once to save the world.
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American Moon

Winner of the Fugere Book Prize for Finely Crafted Novellas. Austen, broken by a turbulent past, sets out on a cross-country journey to California, seeking the faint promise of a new beginning. American Moon is a haunting, tender exploration of survival, connection, and the resilience of the human spirit.
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Camel from Kyzylkum

For twenty years, Lara Gelya worked in the Kyzylkum Desert of Uzbekistan, watching camels endure the harshest landscape on earth. They carried everything they needed inside them. When she finally escaped the Soviet Union with nothing but two suitcases and a hope, she became that camel carrying her own strength across continents. This is her story.
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The Cost of Crude: A Gwynn Reznick Mystery

“Murder for Oil” The brutal murder of her best friend sends Gwynn Reznick racing against the clock to find the assassin and stop a conspiracy that threatens a catastrophic oil and gas disaster. As horrifying events mount, Gwynn must outsmart the perpetrators if she hopes to survive.
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