5 Biographies eBooks

A Clear Case of Genius: Room 40's Code-breaking Pioneer by Reginald 'Blinker' Hall
Finding Earth, Finding Soul: The Invisible Path to Authentic Leadership by Tim Macartney
No Return Ticket – Leg One: Outward Bound — California to Australia by Skip Rowland
Was This in the Plan? by Stephanie Nimmo
A Twisted Faith: A Minister's Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a Church by Gregg Olsen

A Clear Case of Genius: Room 40's Code-breaking Pioneer by Reginald 'Blinker' Hall
English | August 1st, 2017 | ASIN: B071HXKQYM, ISBN: 0750982659 | 257 Pages | EPUB | 13.05 MB
IN 1933 the Admiralty banned ‘Blinker’ Hall from publishing his autobiography, but here, for the first time, those chapters that survived are presented in full. See what the renowned spymaster had to say about the British Naval Intelligence – the pinnacle of the world’s secret intelligence services.
He explores the function of secret intelligence in wartime, censorship, subterfuge, the significance of Churchill in the Dardanelles campaign, the Zimmermann Telegram, the USA’s entry to the First World War and more. With supporting text and images by Philip Vickers and a foreword by expert author Nigel West, A Clear Case of Genius provides a unique insight into the thinking of one of Britain’s pioneering intelligence leaders

Finding Earth, Finding Soul: The Invisible Path to Authentic Leadership by Tim Macartney
English | January 1, 2007 | ISBN: 1903998999 | EPUB | 192 pages | 1.4 MB
Finding Earth, Finding Soul is the story of one man's search for meaning and purpose in a society that is captivated by values and beliefs that are assaulting the Earthís lifesystems and collapsing society in upon itself. Tim Macartney intertwines several themes in the quest for meaning and purpose, organisation leadership, nature, conformity, and the role of ordinary women and men in seeking and securing a future that will serve our children well.
Finding Earth, Finding Soul vividly asserts the power of imagination, the joy of walking our own way, and the profound intimacy of finding relationship with others, and with life. It demonstrates how pain, loneliness, and some measure of suffering can become doorways to courageous acts that have the potential to illuminate our lives. It tells how Tim Macartney, starting as a gardener in a management training centre, went on to become Head of Consultancy there within three years, and then started a 'people and organisation development' company, working with the chairmen of multinationals. His inspirational approach to leadership development resulted in him being given a 50-acre Devonshire smallholding by an appreciative client to develop his vision.

No Return Ticket – Leg One: Outward Bound — California to Australia by Skip Rowland
English | August 20th, 2017 | ASIN: B074JH6G62, ISBN: 0999183621 | 295 Pages | EPUB | 4.05 MB
Captain Skip Rowland shares his gripping true story of the theft and subsequent torching of his beloved sailboat on a desolate Mexican shore. After personally catching the thieves he later escapes the captivating allure of California’s glitzy lifestyle to sail his new 43 foot Endymion through the jaw dropping beauty of the South Pacific to Australia.
This however is no ordinary voyage. Endymion is knocked down in the mid Pacific, nearly sliced in half by a vagabond freighter, grounded on a coral reef and survives the most severe weather in over 100 years crossing the Tasman sea.
Courage, love, faith, bravado, and endurance are all in this openly honest memoir about the value—and cost—of resurrecting old dreams and living them out despite the risks.
Rowland’s authentic voice will have you believing you are on deck as romance of the seas meets the reality of the journey.

Was This in the Plan? by Stephanie Nimmo
English | September 12th, 2017 | ASIN: B075K7J5NG, ISBN: 0995780625 | 173 Pages | EPUB | 0.98 MB
Far from being a misery memoir, Was this in the Plan? Is a frank, open and no-holds-barred account of how a family was determined not just to survive but to thrive when the odds were against them. It will make you question your own attitude to life and how you choose to respond when unexpected events throw you off course.

A Twisted Faith: A Minister's Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a Church by Gregg Olsen
English | March 30th, 2010 | ASIN: B003DX0I5S, ISBN: 0312360614, 1616648058 | 319 Pages | EPUB | 0.47 MB
New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen investigates the sensational story of a minister who seduced four of his female congregants, and hatched a cold-blooded plot to murder his wife.
On December 26, 1997, near the affluent community of Bainbridge Island off the coast of Seattle, a house went up in flames. In it was the shy, beloved minister's wife Dawn Hacheney. When the fire was extinguished, investigators found only her charred remains. Her husband Nick was visibly devastated by the loss. What investigators failed to note, however, was that Dawn's lungs didn't contain smoke. Was she dead before the fire began?
So begins this true crime story that's unlike any other. It investigates Nick Hacheney, a philandering minister who had been carrying on with several women in the months before and just after his wife's death. He would be convicted for the murder five years to the day after the crime.
From one of the foremost names in true crime, Twisted Faith is a gripping and truly unforgettable story of a man whose charisma and desire rocked an entire community.