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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Jonathan Swift

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  This century of literature reveals bold strides in the art of story telling.  Characters and narratives begin a wonderful journey that express themselves on a wider canvas, a more global landscape.  The people and the societies they represent are easily recognisable in our more modern times. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - The 18th Century - An Introduction 
  2 - Directions to Servants by Jonathan Swift 
  3 - Jeannot and Colin by Voltaire 
  4 - The Apparition of Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe 
  5 - The New Paris by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
  6 - The Female Husband by Henry Fielding 
  7 - The White Pigeon by Maria Edgeworth 
  8 - The Criminal from Lost Honour by Friedrich Schiller 
  9 - The Story of Sir Bertrand by Anna Laetitia Barbauld 
  10 - Betty Brown, the St Giles Orange Girl by Hannah More 
  11 - Fantomina or Love in a Maze - Part 1 by Eliza Haywood 
  12 - Fantomina or Love in a Maze - Part 2 by Eliza Haywood

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  George Müller - A Life of Prayer...

  Faith Coxe Bailey

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  It began with George Müller—rebellious, absorbed in the world and its pleasures.It became George Müller—miraculously transformed by the power of Christ, daring to dream a dream and to trust God to bring it to pass.In jail by age sixteen, few people would have believed that George Müller would become a great hero of the faith. He and his wife cared for over 10,000 orphans. Discover the incredible true story of the man of faith whose missionary work was built on prayer and who still inspires us today. Taking his biographical details and putting them in an exciting novel form, this short book will stir your heart, move you to greater faith, and lead you to worship the God who answers prayer.

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  Other Ways to Win - A...

  Lee Craigie

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  WINNER: Vikki Orvice Women’s Sports Writing Award, Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards
   
  ‘I rode back down the hill to the athlete’s village. Some of Team Scotland had been watching on the big screen and I arrived to hugs of congratulations. I went inside for a shower and ceremoniously dropped my heart rate monitor into the bin. It was the first day of the rest of my life.’
   
  A little before 1.30 p.m. on Sunday 21 July 2013, Lee Craigie crossed the finish line at Cathkin Braes in the southern outskirts of Glasgow several minutes ahead of her nearest competitor to become the British cross-country mountain bike champion. Lee’s win was the culmination of seven years of training and sacrifice, but it marked the beginning of the end of her competitive career; less than a year later, at the same venue, this time representing her native Scotland at the Commonwealth Games, she crossed the line and quit professional bike racing for good.
   
  Lee Craigie is one of Scotland’s great bike racers, yet she has accomplished much more since retiring. In Other Ways to Win she tells her story of growing up near Glasgow and discovering the freedom of cycling – skipping French lessons and heading off into the Campsie Fells to see just how far she could ride. These teenage adventures established cycling as the thread which would run through her life – not only through her racing life and into a new life of two-wheeled adventure, but also through the positive impact she would have on the lives of others, particularly encouraging other women through her work with the Adventure Syndicate. Written with breathtaking honesty, she recounts epic adventures along the Tour Divide, Silk Road and the Highland Trail 550, and examines themes of friendship, loss, identity and the power of the outdoors – and of course cycling.
   
  Lee's story is a welcome reminder that there is more than one way to win at cycling – and life.

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  Pearl and Bessie - A baby...

  Julia Bishop, Andy Bull

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  On the rubbish dump, a baby cried.  
  The cry was weak, and fading. The wild dogs had picked up the cries, and the scent, and were circling, closing in. 
  Bessie walked towards the sound and found a day-old baby girl. She had been abandoned because of her sex. It happened often here, in south west China. 
  If Bessie did nothing, the baby would be torn to pieces. So she picked her up, carried her to safety, and later adopted her. Yet, in saving her life, did Bessie condemn the baby she named Pearl to a life of fear and persecution? 
  This is Pearl’s story, and that of Bessie, plus Alf – Bessie’s then fiancé, later husband – and John, a second Han Chinese child the couple adopted. 
  Bessie and Alf were Methodists missionaries in Yunnan province, China, in the first half of the twentieth century. They lived through momentous times, including the Japanese occupation, the Second World War, the civil war, the Communist takeover and the Cultural Revolution. 
  This book follows their personal stories against the backdrop of a turbulent century.

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  Becoming By Grace - Expanded...

  Nebolisa Arah

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  Nebolisa was pioneer CEO of Fidelity bank Plc, Nigeria (1988 - 2003) and of Afribank Plc , nigeria (2009 - 2011).   
  In becoming by grace he stresses that enduring success does not come because one is smart, has attended the best business school or has the best social skill but by god’s grace. 
  Becoming by grace is a moving narrative that highlights where faith, chance, opportunity and hope meet God’s grace. Nebolisa is married to Philomena and blessed with children and grandchildren.

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  Kargil - From Surprise To Victory

  V.P. Malik

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  In February 1999, Pakistani Army personnel, disguised as jihadi militants, infiltrated into mountainous Kargil and occupied key vantage points. Their intrusion triggered a limited war between the world's newest nuclear states. It was a bitter battle, and one that threw up important lessons for India's defence preparedness, as also its responses to conflicts such as this. This incisive book by General V.P. Malik, former Chief of the Army Staff, analyses the reasoning behind the Pakistani Army's moves and tactics and reviews crucial issues such as the extent of intelligence and surveillance failure on the Indian side and the measures necessary to redress these failings. Away from questions of strategy and tactics, however, Kargil is also a reminder of the unalloyed heroism that was on display during those grim weeks, heroism that become a benchmark for valour.

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