Steve Hayes

Many years ago, a friend of Hollywood screenwriter Steve Hayes had traveled to the Virunga Mountains of Africa, to see the gorillas there. She had looked into the eyes of a giant silverback, and it looked back at her without malice or guile but instead questioningly -- as if it too was engaged in the moment, the wonder of meeting a fellow creature who might be a distant relative. The feeling she experienced was nothing short of spiritual, and Steve was hoping for something similar. But the trip was not without its dangers, for Congolese rebels regularly waged war in the region. Then a fluke accident led to a chance encounter with Dr Robert Odoki ... Robert had devoted himself to healing the sick of this poverty-ridden country, and the two men hit if off immediately. Traveling the road to Bwindi together, seeing Africa in all its moods, they were to forge a friendship that neither expected.

The Portuguese slavers called him Sam because they couldn't pronounce his real name. They tore him away from his homeland and put him to work picking cotton in the Tennessee Valley. But the big, fleet-footed Zulu was nobody's slave, and to prove it he escaped and headed west. Throwing in with a medicine show conman named Doc Jonah, Sam started entering county footraces to earn enough money to go back to Africa. But then his trail crossed that of Major Lawrence Devlin, and nothing was going to stop the ruthless rancher's man from winning the Fort Stockton Carnival Week race. From that moment forward Sam was cheated, beaten, shot and hunted like an animal. Worse, they took his beautiful grullo mare, U-Shee-nah, away from him. But that was Devlin's biggest mistake, because it only made Sam more determined to get his revenge ...and as Shadow Horse he became Devlin's worst nightmare.

TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME ... The first four volumes in Steve Hayes's remarkable semi-autobiographical record of a world at war, seen through the eyes of a young boy THE GRANTLEY SAGA Meet the Grantleys ... Mimi, who sacrificed wealth and family to marry the man of her dreams; and Carl, who took his young wife and baby son to America, where he hoped-in vain-to become a matinee idol. And their children, devil-may-care Roger, chorus girl Elaine, and young Eric, whose childhood was to be overshadowed by a war of worldwide proportions.

Can you: Tell a Gigahertz from a Megabyte? Tell a titlebar from a toolbar? Install and use free open-source programs? Organise and back up your files? Swap two names everywhere in a document? Make a table of contents in 30 seconds? Work with dates and times in a spreadsheet? Draw and adjust pictures in a document? Send out 100 letters in a morning? Learn how to do these things and much, much more. This aims to be the only computer book many people will need. Simple hands-on exercises show you how to work with Ubuntu and LibreOffice Writer and Calc - demonstrating concepts and explaining jargon. You'll learn a bit about the computer itself so you understand it and it's not so scary. Exorcise your computer fears without breaking the bank or your bookshelf. Other versions of this book are available covering Windows XP & LibreOffice, Windows XP & MS Office 2003 and Windows 7 & Office 2010

Thomas Howard of Missouri came out of nowhere, one foggy night, to rescue Countess Elaina Montague from rape and robbery. He was in England, he said, to find his brother, who had disappeared. To repay him, the beautiful Countess offered to enlist her friend, Sherlock Holmes, to help in the search. At the time Holmes was investigating a rash of audacious jewel-thefts, and much to Watson's dismay spending altogether too much time at the music-hall. But because the Great Detective felt that there was more to the mysterious Mr Howard than met the eye, he accepted the case. This in turn led to their involvement in a vicious blood-feud, a spectacular - not to mention death-defying - daylight robbery, the possibility of a serious diplomatic incident and finally, a thrilling climax below the brooding River Thames.

Can you: Tell a Gigahertz from a Megabyte? Tell a titlebar from a taskbar? Organise and back up your files? Swap two names in a document? Make a table of contents in 30 seconds? Work with dates and times in a spreadsheet? Draw and adjust pictures in a document? Send out 100 letters in a morning? Learn how to do these things and much, much more. This aims to be the only computer book many people will need. Simple hands-on exercises show you how to work with Windows, Word and Excel - demonstrating concepts and explaining jargon. You'll also learn a bit about the computer itself works so you understand it and it's not so scary. Exorcise your computer fears without breaking the bank or your bookshelf. Other versions of this book are available covering LibreOffice, Ubuntu (not available at publication date of this version), Windows XP and Office 2003.