Modern Proverbs is dedicated to all who love proverbs, sayings and idioms tripping off their tongues, or off the tongues of others. If the old proverbs sometimes seem a little bit too old, then perhaps what you need is a modern proverb, designed for our age, the 21st century. This book contains over 500 new proverbs I decided to write during the down times of many a business trip. It's amazing how inspiring it can be to stare out the window of a jet at 30,000 feet and watch huge cloud banks drift across the landscape far below. I fell in love with proverbs and idioms around the age of ten,...

When Nick Kangles, the wealthy host of a global warming TV show, and Kate Stanton, the top notch microbiologist, try to solve the mystery of seven obelisks that are sending out signals, they uncover the countdown of a threat to our civilization. Kate meets Nick in the square of the Pantheon in Rome, when they share a table to avoid the rain. He is travelling the world to convert people to fighting global warming by setting up greenhouse gas trading schemes, while she has been called in to help find out what is eating the carbon in the massive oil deposit in the Ghawar Field in Saudi Arabia....

In his office in the City in London, banker Keith Lawton picks up the telephone. "Listen to your son, banker." Another voice spoke into the phone, a young voice, trembling a bit. "Hello, Daddy. This is me, Henry." Keith Lawton felt a surge of hope. They were still alive ... "Daddy, you must do what they want. They say they will hurt me if you ..." the voice ended in a gasp and then there was a long scream, rising up and up and the telephone clicked in his hand and he stood, his body rigid with shock, the screams of his little son echoing in his ears. He had spoken so clearly, without the...

The Euros: Notre Dame Point Zero How would you rescue women and children held hostage in Notre Dame cathedral in Paris by a band of faceless, nameless and ruthless men, who have attached bombs to each hostage, and threaten to blow up the cathedral if their demands are not met? That is the problem that The Euros face in this, the first book of the series about them. The Euros is the name for the Euro Protection Bureau, the highly skilled, well trained super cops unit formed to protect the European Union from threats to its integrity. With five headquarters - the Puzzle House in London, the...

Small Steps to Bigger Book Sales is for every author with books to sell, or anyone who wishes to improve their participation in social networks. You will be guided to do 20 Tasks, as part of your very own Small Steps Plan to market your books. You will start with the first 10 tasks over 3 months and the next 10 over the next next 6 months. Then you review and revise your next Small Steps Plan. You will prepare a book promotion plan that will show you how to take methodical, small steps every week to market your books where they stand the best chance of being bought by readers. You will learn...