The heartbreaking true story of a love that transcended tragedy. On 1 May 2000 Hasso von Bredow's life was forever changed. The young and active father of three suffered a massive stroke at the base of his brainstem, leaving him totally paralysed and unable to speak. With his mind as cognitive and as active as it had always been, his body became his painful prison. IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE is Hasso's moving and life-affirming memoir. At 42 Hasso had to come to terms with a life 'locked in', being dependent on others for every breath, but worst of all, losing his most precious of possessions: his voice. The only way Hasso could communicate with the world was by blinking his eyes. And using coded blinking and state of the art technology, he wrote this incredibly moving memoir letter by letter, helped only by his wife and carer, Catherine.

Arty Baxter is certain that hes living in the Last Days described in the Bible. He helps lead his wife back to Jesus, but will he reach his daughter? Meanwhile General Clarence Brandt is the countrys point man to deflect a giant asteroid away from Earth. He thinks they are going to just make their launch window when, all over the world, hundreds of millions of people disappear in the blink of an eye.

The first in a series "In The Blink of An Eye" tells the unraveling of mysteries behind a strip club and the rape and murder of the women who work there. Beyond seductive strip club walls you will see that the women are not the only things to be uncovered. As the crimes are being investigated, Zac Harmon, together with his fellow cops, will find themselves drawn into the investigations farther than they ever thought imaginable.

If someone you love has suffered a traumatic brain injury I pray reading this book will provide insight, and most of all hope. This book will depict things we did and, in hindsight, things we wish we had done in dealing with my son's TBI. Hopefully it will help someone else on his or her long journey; whether they have a catastrophic illness, a TBI or some other injury and whether they are cared for at home or at a medical facility. The most important thing I can tell you is to get on your knees and pray; there is hope and there is healing. God is still in the miracle business.

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER • Two detectives: one human, one AI. And a case that will test them both. LONGLISTED: The Crime Writers’ Association’s John Creasey New Blood Dagger; Theakson’s Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year NOMINATED: Capital Crime’s Overall Crime Book of the Year; Crimefest’s Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award Kat Frank knows all about loss. A widowed single mother, Kat is a cop who trusts her intuition, honed through years of on-the-beat police work. Picked to lead a pilot program that has her paired with Lock, an AIDE (Artificially Intelligent Detective Entity)—a hologram that is activated by a device on Kat’s wrist—Kat’s gut reactions about people and motives come up against Lock’s statistical calculations and data analysis that can be devised in seconds. But as the two missing person’s cold cases they are reviewing suddenly become active, Lock is the only one who can help when the case begins to target Kat personally. AI versus human experience. Logic versus instinct. With lives on the line, can the pair work together to solve the mystery in time? A dazzling debut from an exciting new voice, In the Blink of an Eye asks us what we think it means to be human.

Life is hard for Danielle who fi nds herself left alone to bring up her three children. Her future looks bleak when she comes to terms with the cruel cards that she has been dealt with. Emotionally and fi nancially she is drained as she faces this harsh reality. Mick owns his own car yard, and Bill is his number one mechanic, and over the years their relationship deepens as their lives enter a new and unfamiliar stage of singleness. Mick is an alcoholic who is very much in denial, and is oblivious that his problem is the cause of his marriage break up. Mick decides to get away for a few weeks to the Greek island of Skiathos, and invites Bill along to join him. He knows the host family well, and is overjoyed that Bill agrees to go with him. Bill takes this opportunity to ask Danielle to accompany them, and after some persuasion by both him and her family, she decides to take him up on his kind offer. Stuart is a regular in the pub, so when he hears about their escape, he asks if he can join them. Danielle is taken completely by surprise when Pannos the son of the hotel owner falls unexpectedly in love with her and her with him. This is not only a journey of discovery for her, but also for her three friends, unravelling a story that will be very hard to put down.

Written by the son of one of the lead scientists involved, this book offers a firsthand account of the development of the meningococcal meningitis vaccine, one of the most important historical events in the world of medicine.

From monocles to pince-nez and goggle-eyes, a cultural and technological history of glasses in fact and fiction. This book examines those who wore glasses through history, art, and literature, from the green emerald through which Emperor Nero watched gladiator fights to Benjamin Franklin’s homemade bifocals, and from Marilyn Monroe’s cat-eye glasses to the famed four-eyes of Emma Bovary and Harry Potter. Spectacles are objects that seem commonplace, but In the Blink of an Eye shows that because they fundamentally changed people’s lives, glasses were the wellspring of a quiet social, cultural, and economic revolution. Indeed, one can argue that modernity itself began with the paradigm shift that transformed poor eyesight from a severely limiting disease—treated with pomades and tinctures—into a minor impairment that can be remedied with mechanisms constructed from lenses and wire.