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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. INTRODUCTION If you have ever walked past a gleaming "For Sale" sign on a grand estate and wondered what really goes on behind the gates - or behind the scenes of the agency that put it there - this book is for you.Real estate is often painted as a game of numbers, commissions, and flashy listings. It is spoken of in square footage, acreage, price per square foot, and return on investment. We measure homes by how much they cost, how fast they sell, and how high they rise in value. But what the spreadsheets and valuation reports never quite capture is the truth at the very heart of this business: it is not about the buildings. It is about the people who live in them, the memories they build within them, and the trust they place in the hands of those who guide them through one of the biggest decisions of their lives.This story began with a simple idea: what happens when rivals who have spent years fighting one another are forced to stand side by side? What happens when the man who set them against each other leaves behind a final wish that changes everything they thought they knew about winning, losing, and what it truly means to succeed?The characters you are about to meet are drawn from the very best - and occasionally the most frustrating - of the real estate world I have known. Arthur Cohen carries the quiet dignity, deep history, and unshakeable integrity that defines the very best of the old guard. Chloe Jacobs brings the flair, the passion, the eye for beauty, and the showmanship that turns a viewing into an experience. Eli Goldsmith and Zara Bernstein represent the precision, the analysis, the careful calculation that ensures every deal stands firm. Brad Goldberg and Arnold Vane bring the sparkle, the boldness, and the reminder that life - and business - should never be taken too seriously. Isaac Hebrew brings the glamour, the warmth, and the truth that style without heart is just empty noise. And Barry Einstein arrives with all the confidence, resources, and blind spots of anyone who has yet to learn that money opens doors - but only character keeps them open.Above them all stands Julian Thorne: a man who knew better than anyone that you cannot truly understand the value of something until you have fought for it - and that you cannot truly know your rivals until you have stood alongside them.When I first began writing these pages, I wanted to explore the difference between competition and rivalry. Competition pushes you to be better. Rivalry can blind you to the fact that you are all playing the same game. I wanted to ask: what does it mean to win if you have to leave your integrity behind? What does it mean to sell a dream if you cannot deliver the truth? And what happens when the loudest voice in the room is not the one worth listening to?Over the course of this story, you will see agents who once sabotaged each other's billboards, pranked one another with terrible accents, and raced to outbid each other at every turn. You will see spectacular mansions, floating palaces, historic homes, and hidden gems. You will see Oscar nights, fashion battles, cigar rooms, and open houses that feel like royal premieres. You will see tricks exposed, mistakes corrected, and lessons learned the hard way.But beneath all the glamour, the humour, and the drama, this book carries one simple message: the most valuable asset you will ever have is your word.In a world that often shouts louder than it speaks, that promises more than it can deliver, and that measures success only in figures on a cheque - there is something timeless and priceless about doing what you said you would do, treating people with respect, and remembering that every property you handle is someone's home, someone's history, someone's future. Welcome to Selling the Dream.Jacob Lazard<br / Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The Giants of the Savannah NBA PlayersPrologue: The People of the Long ArmsIn the sun-drenched heart of the Great Rift Valley, where ancient baobabs stand like sentinels over golden grasslands and the sacred river winds through red earth as old as time itself, there dwells a people unlike any other walking beneath the sky. They are the Mwalimu-The Teachers-a tribe touched by mystery, shaped by land and water and generations of quiet strength. They are not merely tall; they are built on a scale the rest of the world can scarcely comprehend.The average Mwalimu stands seven feet nine inches tall. But it is not only their height that sets them apart. Their arms are extraordinarily, impossibly long-spanning such reach that their fingertips brush their knees even when standing straight and upright. Their hands are legendary: thirty inches from the tip of the middle finger to the wrist, and twenty inches across when fully spread. Palms broad as serving platters, fingers thick and powerful yet graceful as palm fronds, each one capable of curling entirely around a basketball as easily as a child grasps a marble. A single hand can cover the face of the ball completely, hiding it from sight, releasing it with gentle precision or hurling it with the force of a launched stone. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - FANTASY FILMSby Jacob LazardINTRODUCTION: THE LIGHT THAT UNLOCKS THE WORLDSSome doors are not made of wood or iron. Some do not open with keys or hands. They open only when the lights go down, when the screen glows alive, and when a certain golden light wakes from its long sleep.The Royal Picture House had stood quiet on its corner for nearly a century-its stone walls holding the dust of a thousand tales, its velvet curtains hiding secrets older than the films it played. No one guessed that its projection booth held more than reels and projectors. No one guessed that the brass flashlight resting on a high shelf was not just an old usher's tool, but the very bridge between every story ever dreamed.Dragons that breathe poison instead of fire; demons that hurl ice from their eyes; twelve-toed shadow-cats that move like smoke; two-headed serpents that rule the ruins; flesh-eating dwarfs that tear giants apart with bare hands; beasts that never belonged in our world-all of them are real. They live behind the frames, in the spaces between scenes, bound tight by the weave of fiction and memory. Until the bridge wakes.When that light flares bright, the cinema walls dissolve like mist. One moment you are buying popcorn, laughing at a poster, or sweeping dust from the aisle-the next you are falling through thunder and colour, landing hard in dust-choked wastelands, primeval jungles, gothic dungeons, or war-torn skies where myth and nightmare rule unchecked.Zapped from safety into realms where every shadow bites, every legend walks, and every genre turns deadly-five ordinary people, and one curious boy, must learn fast that the stories we watch are not always make-believe. Sometimes they reach out, pull you in, and make you live them.This is not just a tale of monsters and magic. It is a tale of how we hold the line between what is real and what is imagined-and how, when the line snaps, friendship and courage are the only light that will ever lead you home.Turn the page. The show is about to begin.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Tom Flannigan is one of the fastest swimmers in the world - Olympic champion, holder of world records, and a man who has fought his way back from public disgrace and betrayal to reclaim his place on the podium. But when he meets Mandy Laurent - talented swimmer, daughter of one of the most powerful families in Europe - he discovers that the greatest victory of his life will not be won in the water.Together, they face every test the world can throw at them: rivals who will stop at nothing to defeat Tom, a press that hounds their every step, storms that threaten to destroy the dream they build, and the quiet, unrelenting pressure of living under the spotlight. After winning Olympic gold, they turn their backs on fame to build training camps for young swimmers - giving children from every background the chance they themselves were lucky enough to find.But their greatest story begins when their son Ian is born - a boy with extraordinary gifts, carrying a name that opens every door and casts a long shadow. As Ian grows into a young man, he must choose: will he follow in his parents' footsteps, or forge his own path When he steps onto the greatest stage of all, he carries not just the hope of victory, but the weight of a legacy - and learns that true greatness means standing tall, not as someone's son, but as himself.Spanning three generations, Last Length for Success is a story about what truly lasts: not medals or records, but love, family, and the courage to build something that outlives you.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Restaurant RumorsA NovelBy Jacob LazzardPrologue - A Recipe for DisasterParis kept its restaurants the way it kept its churches: reverently, expensively, and with a quiet understanding that most of them would eventually need saving.Henri LeMore had stopped believing in miracles roughly the same year he'd stopped believing his accountant's optimism, but he still opened the restaurant himself every morning at six, alone, before any of the staff arrived, because some habits survive long after the reasons for them have gone bankrupt. He walked the dining room the way a sailor walks a ship he suspects is taking on water - checking the corners, running a thumb along the brass, pretending the creak in the third floorboard from the door was structural rather than symbolic.Seventy years of LeMore hung on the walls in black and white: his grandfather shaking hands with a president who no longer had a country; his father laughing beside a film star who no longer had a career; Henri himself, decades younger, beaming beside a Michelin inspector he'd been too naive to recognise until the review arrived. The photographs did not care that the tables beneath them now sat empty four nights out of seven. Photographs never do.Two streets away, behind hoardings the colour of a coffin, workmen were finishing the interior of a restaurant that did not yet have a dining room but already had an opinion of itself. The sign above the door, when it finally went up, would read only ÉCLAIR, in gold letters cut with the confidence of a man who had never once doubted that Paris was waiting for him specifically.Across the Atlantic, in a television studio smelling of hot lights and reheated coffee, a chef named Frederick LeMore delivered his four hundred and twelfth episode of easy weeknight cooking to a camera that loved him more reliably than his own conscience did. He smiled through the closing segment, thanked the crew, and sat alone afterward in his dressing room with his father's most recent phone call still playing in his head - the careful, deliberately unworried tone Henri used exclusively for delivering catastrophic news.And in a narrow flat above a bookshop on a street nobody photographed, a woman with silver hair and steady hands finished editing a photograph until the shadow fell exactly where she needed it to fall. She had waited eleven years for the right two men to be standing close enough together for this to finally work. She uploaded the photograph, wrote a caption short enough to travel faster than any explanation ever could, and made herself a pot of tea while Paris began, without knowing it yet, to eat the bait.Within days, three lives that had spent thirty years circling one another without ever quite touching would collide on a single street - and an anonymous blog with excellent timing would make sure nobody missed it.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The President in the ShadowsA Novel of Donald Thump - Crime FighterIntroductionThe world knew him as Donald Thump: forty-fifth President of the United States, real estate titan, builder of empires, voice of the common citizen, and the most talked-about figure on the global stage. By day, he strode the halls of the White House in tailored elegance, spoke with unshakable confidence before cameras and crowds, and steered the course of nations with a steady hand and a bold vision. But what the world did not know - what not a single soul beyond three trusted engineers and himself ever suspected - was that the President had a second life. A secret identity. One that emerged when the sun went down and the work of state gave way to the work of shadows.It began long before he took the oath of office. Decades spent mastering every trade, traveling every continent, and acquiring knowledge beyond the reaches of ordinary men had taught Thump one vital truth: the systems put in place to protect the people were too often slow, too bound by red tape, too easily manipulated by the very forces they were meant to oppose. Where governments moved in months, evil moved in minutes. Where committees debated, villains acted. And so Donald Thump had resolved to do what no man in his position had ever dared - to become the shield the world did not know it needed.His tools were not the weapons of war, nor the machinery of state. They were creations of genius, born of his own imagination and brought to life by three of the most brilliant minds ever to serve beneath the White House roof. These were his Gadget Men - handpicked, sworn to silence, and bound by loyalty that transcended duty.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - DEATH METALBased on a True Story.Author: Jacob LazardINTRODUCTIONSomewhere between the quiet fields where he learned to tell wheat from weeds and the roar of two hundred thousand voices shaking the Taj Mahal Stadium, Ben Storm walked a line stretched thin as a guitar string. He was the farmer's son who'd grown up with mud under his nails and a dream in his chest-humble, honest, rooted deep in the soil. But when the amps roared to eleven and the tour bus rolled out, another side of him woke up: wild, unchained, living every moment like it might be his last.This is the story of those two men, living in the same skin. It's the story of sold-out nights and endless highways, of groupies who'd wait by the stage door and parties that spilled from penthouse suites into the morning light. It's the heavy sound shaking the foundations of every continent, the riffs that tore through the silence like thunder, and the wild nights that became legend before the sun even came up.And nowhere is that wildness more gloriously, recklessly on display than at the Pear Tree Hotel-where a clumsy butler, a dropped bottle of Jack Daniel's, and one very fed-up rock star turned a quiet evening into the most talked-about exit in tour history. Orgies, laughter, music loud enough to rattle the chandeliers. and then, furniture flying through the first-floor window alongside the help, courtesy of Ben Storm himself.From quiet country fields to throwing the furniture out with the butler, this is the journey of one man who walked both worlds: the boy who never forgot his roots, and the hellraiser who played so loud and lived so large that even the grandest hotels couldn't hold him.Strap in. Crank it up. And remember-when the music stops and the window's open, anything that gets in Ben Storm's way might just go flying.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - WILD WACKY RACESWhere Speed Meets Madness - and Every Mile Is an AdventureSTART YOUR ENGINES AND HOLD ON TIGHT.Get ready for the most spectacular, most absurd, most utterly unforgettable race the world has ever seen!From the frozen peaks of snow-capped mountains to the sun-baked heat of endless deserts, through misty jungles, glittering harbour streets, and ancient roads where emperors once walked - a colourful crew of drivers from every corner of the globe is about to set off on the wildest race in history.Their cars are marvellous, their methods are mad, and their journey is pure joy - packed with breathtaking stunts, brilliant inventions, friendly rivalries, and unexpected friendships. There will be slippery tracks, clever shortcuts, breathtaking views, and plenty of laughter along the way. But one thing is certain - no matter how fast they drive, or how crazy the course becomes, the greatest victory isn't always crossing the line first. sometimes it's who you travel with.Fast cars. Exotic places. Larger-than-life characters. And a heart as big as the open road.WILD WACKY RACES - a globe-trotting adventure full of fun, excitement, and surprises at every turn. Once you start reading, you simply won't want to put it down.A MUST-READ FOR RACING FANS AND ADVENTURE LOVERS OF ALL AGESBy Jacob Lazard Author of Great Unique Fiction Novels.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - IntroductionSome families inherit houses.Some inherit fortunes.The Jenkins family inherited something far more dangerous.For generations, they lived by a simple rule: loyalty was worth more than money, silence was worth more than gold, and family came before everything else. Their business existed in the shadows of London, hidden behind respectable faces, quiet streets, and ordinary lives. To outsiders, they were just another East End family. To those who truly knew them, they were a dynasty built on precision, intelligence, and a code that had survived every rival who had tried to break it.Until someone finally did.The deaths of Ted and Joan Jenkins were dismissed as a tragic traffic accident. The newspapers printed their names for a single day before moving on. The police closed their files. Insurance companies settled their claims. London forgot.Their children didn't.Billy Jenkins knows accidents don't happen to people like his father. Not when routes are changed, witnesses disappear, and powerful people suddenly become interested in old warehouses and forgotten streets. What begins as a search for the truth uncovers a conspiracy stretching far beyond organised crime-a hidden war over the future of London itself, where politicians, billion-pound corporations, and criminal empires all play by the same ruthless rules.In this world, loyalty is a weapon.Trust is a luxury.And stealing money is often the least dangerous crime.Because some fortunes are built by taking banks.Others are built by stealing cities.The Sleek Steal is a story of family, revenge, ambition, and the price of power. It asks one simple question: What happens when the people who have always robbed the rich discover someone is stealing the entire country The answer begins with one family.And one funeral.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The Forgotten EnglandAuthor: Jacob LazardIntroductionOnce upon a time - not so very long ago, yet a world away from the life we know today - life moved at a gentler pace. A slower pace. A pace that gave us time to notice, time to remember, time to stand still and simply marvel at the wonderful, ordinary things that made every day feel like a gift.This book is not a history lesson. You will find no dates, no battles, no grand treaties or great leaders here. What you will find is life - ordinary life, lived by ordinary people, in the days when community meant something, when neighbours knew your name, and when the simple joys were the ones that stayed with you forever.Herein lie the streets we walked, the shops we visited, the cinemas where we sat wide-eyed and wonder-struck. Here are the great steam trains that roared across the land, breathing fire and steam, carrying us toward adventure. Here are the factories where our forebears toiled, the hospitals where Matron ruled with a firm hand and a kinder heart, the fish-and-chip shop on every corner where Friday always meant supper wrapped in warm paper. Here is home - the hearth, the wireless, the black-and-white television where we guessed which footballer wore which colour, and the sound of our mother's voice calling us in from play as dusk fell.These were days when we valued what we had, because we had so much less. Days when we cherished company, conversation, and shared laughter more than anything money could buy. Days when the journey mattered every bit as much as the destination, and when the people beside you were the greatest treasure of all.Much has changed since then - and not all for the worse. We have comfort, speed, convenience, and wonders our ancestors could scarcely dream of. Yet something precious slipped away as we hurried forward. We lost the stillness. We lost the closeness. We lost that quiet, steady rhythm of life that bound us together, generation to generation, neighbour to neighbour.This book is a tribute to those days. A loving look back at a world that was imperfect, yes - yet full of warmth, character, and humanity. It is written with love, with nostalgia, and with gratitude - for all those who walked before us, who built this world brick by brick, kindness by kindness, memory by memory.Turn the page, walk with me, and let us step back together. Back to the streets where we played. Back to the warmth of home. Back to the days gone by - the days that shaped us, the days that made us who we are, and the days that will live forever, deep in our hearts.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - BRUTAL BLOOD - THE BOXERINTRODUCTIONThey told him he didn't belong.They told him it was wrong to fight the way he fought-wild, unbowed, unafraid to be seen exactly as he was. They told him pink was for show, that softness was weakness, that respect was something you took with your fists, not something you earned with your heart.Callum Voss heard every word. And then he proved every single one of them wrong.Raised on the hard streets of the Bronx, he learned to box not for glory or gold, but to survive. He traded alley brawls for prison corridors, where he stood between the bullied and the bullies, and turned a brutal prison wing into a place where quiet respect ruled. He stepped into the ring against champions and legends alike-men who hit like hurricanes, men who thought power was everything-and beat them not with brute force alone, but by moving like the streets that raised him: never straight, never where they expected, always true to himself.He walked out in bright pink shorts with tassels flying. He laughed when they taunted him. He dared the world to stare. And one by one, the legends-Rafael Cruz, Mike Tyson, Emanuel Steward-saw what the crowd couldn't see at first: a fighter who didn't just win fights, but changed everyone who watched him.From basements and mountains to the brightest lights of Madison Square Garden, from the Bronx to the Maldives, from the man who once had to hide who he was to the champion who stood tall and proud beside the love of his life-this is the story of a boy who fought his way home.This is not just a story about boxing. It is a story about what it means to be strong when the world wants you to be small. About how respect is earned, not given. About how love is the only title that never fades. And about how no amount of money, fame, or fear can ever outmatch the heart of someone who refuses to back down.This is Callum Voss's journey. This is BRUTAL BLOOD.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. IntroductionSome families inherit houses.Some inherit fortunes.The Jenkins family inherited something far more dangerous.For generations, they lived by a simple rule: loyalty was worth more than money, silence was worth more than gold, and family came before everything else. Their business existed in the shadows of London, hidden behind respectable faces, quiet streets, and ordinary lives. To outsiders, they were just another East End family. To those who truly knew them, they were a dynasty built on precision, intelligence, and a code that had survived every rival who had tried to break it.Until someone finally did.The deaths of Ted and Joan Jenkins were dismissed as a tragic traffic accident. The newspapers printed their names for a single day before moving on. The police closed their files. Insurance companies settled their claims. London forgot.Their children didn't.Billy Jenkins knows accidents don't happen to people like his father. Not when routes are changed, witnesses disappear, and powerful people suddenly become interested in old warehouses and forgotten streets. What begins as a search for the truth uncovers a conspiracy stretching far beyond organised crime-a hidden war over the future of London itself, where politicians, billion-pound corporations, and criminal empires all play by the same ruthless rules.In this world, loyalty is a weapon.Trust is a luxury.And stealing money is often the least dangerous crime.Because some fortunes are built by taking banks.Others are built by stealing cities.The Sleek Steal is a story of family, revenge, ambition, and the price of power. It asks one simple question: What happens when the people who have always robbed the rich discover someone is stealing the entire country?The answer begins with one family.And one funeral. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Restaurant RumorsA NovelBy Jacob LazzardPrologue - A Recipe for DisasterParis kept its restaurants the way it kept its churches: reverently, expensively, and with a quiet understanding that most of them would eventually need saving.Henri LeMore had stopped believing in miracles roughly the same year he'd stopped believing his accountant's optimism, but he still opened the restaurant himself every morning at six, alone, before any of the staff arrived, because some habits survive long after the reasons for them have gone bankrupt. He walked the dining room the way a sailor walks a ship he suspects is taking on water - checking the corners, running a thumb along the brass, pretending the creak in the third floorboard from the door was structural rather than symbolic.Seventy years of LeMore hung on the walls in black and white: his grandfather shaking hands with a president who no longer had a country; his father laughing beside a film star who no longer had a career; Henri himself, decades younger, beaming beside a Michelin inspector he'd been too naive to recognise until the review arrived. The photographs did not care that the tables beneath them now sat empty four nights out of seven. Photographs never do.Two streets away, behind hoardings the colour of a coffin, workmen were finishing the interior of a restaurant that did not yet have a dining room but already had an opinion of itself. The sign above the door, when it finally went up, would read only ECLAIR, in gold letters cut with the confidence of a man who had never once doubted that Paris was waiting for him specifically.Across the Atlantic, in a television studio smelling of hot lights and reheated coffee, a chef named Frederick LeMore delivered his four hundred and twelfth episode of easy weeknight cooking to a camera that loved him more reliably than his own conscience did. He smiled through the closing segment, thanked the crew, and sat alone afterward in his dressing room with his father's most recent phone call still playing in his head - the careful, deliberately unworried tone Henri used exclusively for delivering catastrophic news.And in a narrow flat above a bookshop on a street nobody photographed, a woman with silver hair and steady hands finished editing a photograph until the shadow fell exactly where she needed it to fall. She had waited eleven years for the right two men to be standing close enough together for this to finally work. She uploaded the photograph, wrote a caption short enough to travel faster than any explanation ever could, and made herself a pot of tea while Paris began, without knowing it yet, to eat the bait.Within days, three lives that had spent thirty years circling one another without ever quite touching would collide on a single street - and an anonymous blog with excellent timing would make sure nobody missed it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Giants of the Savannah NBA PlayersPrologue: The People of the Long ArmsIn the sun-drenched heart of the Great Rift Valley, where ancient baobabs stand like sentinels over golden grasslands and the sacred river winds through red earth as old as time itself, there dwells a people unlike any other walking beneath the sky. They are the Mwalimu-The Teachers-a tribe touched by mystery, shaped by land and water and generations of quiet strength. They are not merely tall; they are built on a scale the rest of the world can scarcely comprehend.The average Mwalimu stands seven feet nine inches tall. But it is not only their height that sets them apart. Their arms are extraordinarily, impossibly long-spanning such reach that their fingertips brush their knees even when standing straight and upright. Their hands are legendary: thirty inches from the tip of the middle finger to the wrist, and twenty inches across when fully spread. Palms broad as serving platters, fingers thick and powerful yet graceful as palm fronds, each one capable of curling entirely around a basketball as easily as a child grasps a marble. A single hand can cover the face of the ball completely, hiding it from sight, releasing it with gentle precision or hurling it with the force of a launched stone. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …