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Things seem to be on the up for builder Mark Poynter. He's got himself a nice little earner taking care of the sizeable property portfolio built up from the career earnings of former Premier League bad-boy and local celebrity, Danny Kidd. But when Danny puts an interested party's nose out of joint by using his star status to gazump them on a development site - the derelict Admiral Guthrie pub - things turn ugly, leaving Mark to deal with the consequences.

The title catalogues the major personal crises that presidents have endured over recent decades, from the Watergate scandal leading to Nixon's resignation to the impeachment of President Trump. The Debategate scandal between Carter and Reagan is also covered, as is the Iran-Contra affair, and the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Presidential responses are given in their own words from the time of the event.

This book includes key presidential speeches on the exploration of space from President Kennedy to President Trump. It includes the fascinating speech that Nixon had written, and subsequently recorded, but fortunately never delivered. The speech was in the event that the Apollo 11 mission did not succeed. Others include Kennedy's bold 1961 speech setting out the goal of sending a man to the moon, which was then achieved within the decade.

This book explores presidential reactions to major crises of recent decades, such as the Second World War, the build up of arms in Cuba, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the Iran rescue mission, September 11th, Somalia, Hurricane Katrina, the BP Oil Spill, and gun violence. Reactions to these events are given in the president's own words through the speeches they gave at the time with additional commentary by Matthew Ross.

This collection charts the history of American civil rights from the perspective of seven different US presidents in the modern era from the 1950s to the present. The collection includes speeches from Presidents Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton and Obama with additional detail and context from Matthew Ross. Presidential speeches are presented in a full and in context. This offers a unique way to follow the topic of civil rights over decades.

This book details some of the key presidential speeches over the past century, from Roosevelt to Obama, putting them in context. Speeches are given by the presidents themselves with additional narration from Evan Harris. Speeches include Roosevelt's four freedoms speech (the 1941 State of the Union); Kennedy's speech on sending a man to the moon; Johnson upon signing the Civil Rights Act; Nixon's remarks as he departed the White House; Ford on whipping inflation now; Carter's "crisis of confidence"; Reagan's "Evil Empire" speech.

Thea Mendel is living in her car because there's a ghost in her house. At a Halloween party, she meets someone who believes her, a boy with green eyes and ghosts of his own named Thomas. Someone wants to do worse to Thea than kill her, and in order to find out who they are and what they want, the two of them will have to deal with a clan of unusually helpful vampires, unexpected Shoggoths, and all the weird that Rhode Island can throw at them. And that's a lot of weird.

Monica was on the corporate ladder striving to be a high-flying executive, but when the misogynistic bullying from the privileged pale stale males becomes too much she snaps and quits on the spot. At her lowest ebb, a chance remark from her charming slacker brother Paddy identifies a business opportunity – she becomes a pet-sitter! She’s enthusiastic, she loves animals, and she’s got the management skills: it’s bound to be a success, isn’t it? Monica quickly finds dealing with her team of misfits as easy as herding kittens.

Grant Falloon isn’t just good at track; he’s close to breaking the world record 100-meter time for his age group. So when the mega-rich Babblemoney sneaker company announces an international competition to find the fastest kid in the world, he’s desperate to sign up. But not so fast. Nothing’s ever that easy with the eccentric Falloon family. Turns out, his non-conformist parents never got him a legal birth certificate. He can’t race for the United States, so now if he wants to compete, he may just have to invent his own country.

A trivia podcast for kids where the destination is fun.

Gridiron Xtra branches out from the writing world into the broadcasting world (sort of!) as we present to you The Franchise 33 NFL Show. James, Ben, Mark and Tayyib are on hand to discuss and breakdown the latest news and stories from around the league as well as tackling the toughest questions others don't want to discuss. Franchise 33 is not your average franchise.

Welcome to The Way To Go. We’re hosting this podcast in the midst of the greatest collective crises the world has encountered in the last 75 years. Behind these extraordinary challenges there is a bigger story to be told. Steven Ross and Matthew Choate are two friends who have found ourselves in the unusual position of observing many stories from the life-journeys of others and we use the lens of these experiences to grapple with real world issues - exploring the spiritual perspectives around these topics and providing intuitive insight. We connect the dots between the chaos of the outer ...

When builder Mark Poynter discovers a murder on his worksite all of his financial problems suddenly seem a lot closer to home: was this a warning his debts are overdue? Suspected of being the killer and worried at being the intended victim, the murder only makes Mark's money problems worse, leading him to turn to the local villain, Hamlet, who has his own unique repayment plan in mind for Mark. When two more deaths plunge him even further into debt, Mark finds himself faced with a choice - help the police and clear his name or help the villain and clear his debt.

A Podcast looking at Star Trek the original series with an old school fan (Matt), and a first time TOSer (Mike). The hosts will discuss Trek as it means to them as well as any other sci fi or interesting topics along the way.

You wanted the jolly fat man to bring Yuletide joy, but the season has gifted you with a heart breaker and a life taker—Badass Santa. Grab your eggnog and camouflage candy canes, strap on your bulletproof holiday stockings, and prepare for thrills and kills.