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    Princess of Shadows

    The Girl Who Would Be King

    by Colin Alexander ...
    Narrated by Susanna Burney ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 2 min

    Once upon a time, it was a tough world for a young princess. What happens to the world when the princess decides to get even?Aeryn Stonebreaker is the princess of Shadows, second in line to the throne of the Light, Shadows, and Dark. The singsong her nursemaids give her is “Gimlé is wide and bleak, Aeryn is small and weak”.It’s a hard life on Gimlé, a strange world with a red sun that does not ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Complicated: The Interstellar Life and Times of Saoirse Kenneally

    by Colin Alexander ...
    Narrated by Cassandra Parker ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 25 min

    Where is the hero who will save the people of a distant world from a brutal dictator and stop the flow of a deadly drug to Earth?Saoirse Kenneally is nobody's idea of a hero. An alcoholic and an addict, she has been disowned by her family. None of the rehabs she has been in will take her back. And she just woke up in jail. Again.All Saoirse wants is to stay out of prison. Her one chance: commit to ... Read more

    $14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Lucky Starman, The

    by Colin Alexander ...
    Narrated by Nick Flesher ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - Leif the Lucky

    Unabridged

    13 hours 20 min

    Is Leif really lucky? Stranded in orbit, viewing a destroyed civilization on Earth through the screens of a starship almost out of fuel and food, he doesn’t feel that way.It wasn’t supposed to be like that.As the starship Dauntless returns from a successful mission to the planet called Heaven, Earth holds no attractions for Exoplanetary Scout Leif Grettison. He wants only to complete the mission ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Railways of the Middle East

    The British Influence

    by Colin Alexander, Alon Siton ...
    The ‘British’ period in the Middle East began with Lawrence of Arabia's attacks on the Hedjaz Railway in the First World War and the eventual defeat of the Ottoman Empire. It ended with the creation of the state of Israel after the stormy British mandate in Palestine. New international routes were established into Egypt and western Lebanon. There was also a powerful British influence on the ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The Stephenson Railway Legacy

    by Colin Alexander, Alon Siton ...
    George Stephenson was born in 1781, the son of a Northumberland colliery engineman. Within a hundred years of his birth his railway legacy had opened up vast tracts of the planet, many of those routes engineered by George himself or his son Robert. Their locomotive factory at Newcastle upon Tyne soon outgrew its premises and a much larger site was founded at Darlington. The father and son are well ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Defensive Northumberland

    by Colin Alexander ...
    Thousands of years before the Romans and the Venerable Bede, Northumberland was a landscape of hilltop forts, many of which can be traced today. Military order was imposed on the region by Hadrian’s legionaries, who built the 73-mile northern frontier of the Roman Empire across the county. Through the Dark Ages and into Medieval times, the kingdom of Northumbria was governed from massive castles, ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The Tyne & Wear Metro

    by Colin Alexander ...
    August 2020 marked the fortieth anniversary of the opening of the first section of the Tyne & Wear Metro between Haymarket and Tynemouth. It is an exciting time for the system, with a new fleet of trains about to be ordered, and extensions to the network being proposed. This book explores the decline of the BR suburban lines that were replaced, the phased opening of the new system from 1980, and ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • Rail Rover: The Northumbrian Ranger in the 70s & 80s

    by Colin Alexander ...
    In common with many teenage railway enthusiasts on Tyneside in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Colin Alexander clocked up hundreds of miles per day travelling on a variety of classic diesel trains, especially their beloved Deltics. October half-term week 1979, for example, saw him cover just under 3,000 miles. How did they afford this? The answer is that good old British Rail always had bargains ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Elegance in Engineering

    The Classic British Steam Locomotive

    by Colin Alexander, Alon Siton ...
    Elegance in Engineering showcases an interesting and diverse collection of British-built steam locomotives from all builders, for railways at home and abroad. These examples of British engineering at its best tell the story of the development of the archetypal British steam locomotive from the 1830s to the end of steam locomotive manufacture. Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder and any ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Great Innovators of North East England

    by Colin Alexander, Bob Kelley ...
    North-east England, defined here as the historic counties of Northumberland and Durham, has a long, proud tradition of producing great innovators, some very well known and others almost forgotten. This book explores their stories and legacies, examining such titanic figures as the Stephensons, Swan and Hunter. The partnership of Richard Grainger and John Dobson, who together transformed Newcastle ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • The North Yorkshire Moors Railway

    by Colin Alexander, Mark Cessford ...
    The North Yorkshire Moors Railway is Britain's most popular heritage railway, and runs for 18 miles through the national park of the same name. The journey commences at the market town of Pickering, whose station has a recently restored overall roof. It continues through remote Levisham and into the spectacular glaciated gorge of Newtondale and onto Fen Bog, where George Stephenson floated the ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

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    Planet of Wrath and Tears, A

    A Leif the Lucky Novel

    by Colin Alexander ...
    Narrated by Nick Flesher ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - Leif the Lucky

    Unabridged

    14 hours 11 min

    A distant star is calling us. Will it end in tears?Could the first contact between humanity and an intelligent species from outer space come at a worse time? The signal arrives when Earth is only beginning to recover from an apocalyptic cyber- and nuclear war. Transportation is by horse. New construction relies on salvage from ruined cities, and indoor plumbing is a thing of the past.Leif ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus