Showing results by narrator "Christopher Preece"

Glasgow, Scotland, 1981. The McLachlan family have dominated the criminal underworld for more than a decade. Masters in extortion, murder, and heroin trafficking, they hold the city in their iron fist. But a war is coming to Glasgow; a war unlike anything the McLachlans have known before. Over the course of one night, they will discover the wrath of one man: Jack "Gorilla" Grant, former spy and now freelance assassin. And he plays by his own set of violent, unforgiving rules.

In a world devastated by corruption, Father Darcy has lost his faith. After letting down the very people he pledged to protect, he decides to take a pilgrimage across the dangerous English countryside in an attempt to find his mission again. There, he meets men hungry for his blood. A vicious, relentless landscape. And two boys more dangerous than anything he has ever seen before. But can he save these children, or will they change his cause forever? 

Two-hundred years after its first publication, Ivanhoe remains both a timeless classic and a revered example of chivalric romance. With a fanciful and extravagant view of 12th century England, join Wilfred of Ivanhoe in Sir Walter Scott’s classic medieval romance novel as he battles rivals, faces off with nobles, and wins the heart of Lady Rowena. After being disowned by his father, Wilfred returns from the third crusade to an England in strife. Descendants of Saxons and families of Norman nobles all vie for control, with treachery and conflict rife.

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In a small town in southern England, a chance encounter triggers a catastrophic series of events from which no one will emerge unchanged. When Sebastian Briggs meets Ella she needs his help. The type of help required, however, is far from what he had expected; dragging him down a path of lust and violence. As a married father of three, Sebastian must fight between his loyalty to his family and the desire he feels for another woman, a woman full of secrets and with sinister intentions.

When Grace’s teacher asks her to write about the future, it’s the perfect opportunity to build her own time machine! Join Grace, and her pet monkey, Bobo, as they set off on a thrilling adventure to a strange land, and learn a valuable lesson from the creatures they meet. 

In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. Specifically, he accuses them of founding grand metaphysical systems upon the faith that the good man is the opposite of the evil man, rather than just a different expression of the same basic impulses that find more direct expression in the evil man.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" entering the vernacular to refer to people with an unpredictably dual nature.

The art of a proper haircut seems to be lost on many. Not in the shaping of the hair itself, but in the correct way to act while cutting. I needed a haircut, and finding an appropriate barber was going to be a challenge....

As an Englishman moving to San Diego, I found myself facing quite a cultural shift. Firstly, and most importantly, in finding a proper place to have a proper pint. 

Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the Underground Man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done? 

Vaping 101: History of Vaping takes a brief look at the history of this recent pastime, focusing first on tobacco and its place in various cultures through the past 2000 years. Vaping is built on the foundation of the smoking habit, with many people choosing to vape as an alternative to smoking tobacco in the form of cigarettes and cigars.

The best golfers in the world have left their spectators in awe. Their high level of motor skill when executing fine movements - in a game that breeds more frustration than inspiration - is difficult to comprehend. The complexity of golf's main aim, getting the little white ball in the hole by passing the obstacles presented around it, caused mathematicians to conclude that doing so more often than not is not probable. How do they do it?

Grae Edwards and his co-stars Chris Willoughby and Ben Clyde work together well. Maybe they even have a chemistry. Certainly, they are friends, and Grae is tempted to ask for more.... After the beautiful tart Chris has the temerity to turn him down, Grae settles into a comfortable loving relationship with the more chivalrous Ben. But the idea of Chris never quite goes away - and when Chris finally suggests the three of them spend a night together, Grae glimpses a solution he hardly dares hope for.

From start to finish, this audiobook gives you all the information you need after a diagnosis of Hashimoto's disease. First, it goes over the biological basics. As the audiobook progresses, you will begin to learn how your thyroid is affected by everything that you put into your body.

Dropshipping: A Step by Step Guide on How to Build a Dropshipping Business from Scratch takes you from the very first moments of conceptualizing a work-at-home solution through the entire dropshipping process of running your own store without ever purchasing a product to sell. Learning from experience of others and avoiding mistakes, you can build an online business with very little overhead and huge opportunities for expansion.

Taking the plunge and opening a business on eBay as either a side-hustle or your primary source of income, can be highly rewarding. It can help you make supplemental income, or even better, you can leave your unfavorable 9-to-5 job and work for yourself. Whether you're looking to expand your ecommerce business or you're just starting your ecommerce journey, eBay is a great solution for making additional income and sales.

Phenomenally Me is the first collection from Kansas-born African American poet Sarah J. Heidelberg, and a lively and impressive compilation it is; by turns emotional and thoughtful, joyful and melancholy, blending the discipline and technique of formal lyric verse with the brashness and daring of performance poetry.

It doesn't take a computer guru to be successful with an online business anymore. With Shopify and the willingness to learn, almost anybody can succeed in ecommerce these days. Do you want to take your financial future into your own hands with a limited amount of upfront capital? Are you willing to put in a lot of hard work? With help, you can make smart decisions along the way. It doesn't take thousands of dollars to get started; it just takes a smart approach.

The first time Emma walked into a ball, she experienced something she never would have expected, and could not imagine this would be the new world in which she lived. The first lady to capture Derek's eye brushed him off and his interest was sparked. She seemed nothing like any other lady he had encountered in his years roaming the London Seasons and she sparked something in him he didn't even know he could feel. Could Emma be his future duchess? Or would she be the one to get away?