Books published by publisher Pentam Press

Jack 'No Middle Name' Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age. This is the first time all Lee Child's shorter fiction featuring Jack Reacher has been collected into one volume. Read together, these twelve stories shed new light on Reacher’s past, illuminating how he grew up and developed into the wandering avenger who has captured the imagination of millions around the world. The twelve stories include a brand new novella, Too Much Time. The other stories in the collection are: Second Son James Penney's New Identity Guy Walks Into a Bar Deep Down, High Heat Not a Drill Small Wars

Robert Jackson's tenth and most ambitious book explores the factors and dispels the false ideas around how the fringes of Spain's empire in the Americas developed. He details how environmental differences and socio-cultural variations had a controlling influence on development of the missions in each region and how these factors explain the striking differences in the mission structure. Jackson's extensive on-site research covers New Mexico (1598-1580 and 1696-1833), the Rio de la Plata region (1609-1848), the Primeria Alta Region (1687-1833), Texas (1690-1695 and 1716-1815), Baja California (1697-1833), and Alta California (1769-1833).Missions and the Frontiers of Spanish America is a readable and generously illustrated book that puts the role of the missions, missionaries, and indigenous peoples into a broader historical context.

"Don't you see? I hate standing out from the crowd. It makes me feel uncomfortable." Jess was seething. "I just think people shouldn't judge you without knowing the facts." "That's life. You'll never change people's attitudes, Jess." "Wanna bet?" Seventeen-year-old Orianna Stewart is a promising sixth-form student at Wimborne Upper School, hoping to study fashion and art at university. All she's ever wanted is to be accepted for who she is and not judged on her outward appearance, but her disability, cerebral palsy, is attracting the wrong kind of attention - That is until she meets Ashley. Gorgeous, blue-eyed and definitely out of her league, Orianna's world gets turned upside down. But after a terrifying experience at a house party, life doesn't seem worth living at all and she can only pray for a miracle to help get her out of the mess she's found herself in.

Poppy Contrary’s innocent Christmas wish, made whilst pulling a cracker with her annoying twin sister, sets in motion a chain of events that throw the faerie kingdom at the bottom of her garden into chaos!More havoc ensues when troublesome goblins, Phlegm and Grim, get up to some of their nasty, goblin-like capers and Poppy has to help the faerie folk foil their plan and avoid the clutches of the dreaded faerie hunters.

WHAT IF IT WAS SOMEONE YOU KNEW?'Utterly engrossing . . . I lived inside this book for two days _ and I'm still thinking about it. Superb!' Shari Lapena, bestselling author of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR'Intelligent, insightful and compelling. A clever, twisting whodunnit that delivers an emotional punch. I loved it.' C L TaylorThe new must-read thriller from the author of Sunday Times bestseller, THE WIDOW, and the Richard & Judy No. 1 bestseller, THE CHILD.*********'The police belonged to another world - the world they saw on the television or in the papers. Not theirs.'When two eighteen-year-old girls go missing on their gap year in Thailand, their families are thrust into the international spotlight: desperate, bereft and frantic with worry. Journalist Kate Waters always does everything she can to be first to the story, first with the exclusive, first to discover the truth - and this time is no exception. But she can't help but think of her own son, who she hasn't seen in two years, since he left home to go travelling. This time it's personal.And as the case of the missing girls unfolds, they will all find that even this far away, danger can lie closer to home than you might think . . .*********'A stylish, beautifully written and perfectly pitched thriller that will have you racing to the denouement.' Cara Hunter, bestselling author of CLOSE TO HOME and IN THE DARK'A fast-paced whodunnit with heart, characters I feel I know and a deliciously dark twist. Superb writing, often blackly funny, and a scene that made me cry into my pillow.' Gillian McAllister, Sunday Times bestselling author of EVERYTHING BUT THE TRUTH'Fiona Barton is perceptive, empathetic and a talented writer' Daily Express

The moving and inspirational story of the friendship between ony boy and his dog. On a bitterly cold night in January 2012, Haatchi the dog was hit over the head, and abandoned on a railway line to be hit by a train. The driver saw the adorable five-month old Anatolian Shepherd moments too late. Somehow, the terrified puppy survived the blood loss from his partially severed leg and tail and managed to crawl away to safety. Fortunately, Haatchi was rescued, although vets couldn't save his leg and tail. A Facebook appeal brought him to the attention of a couple of kind-hearted dog lovers, Colleen Drummond and Will Howkins, who are also the dad and stepmum of Owen (known to his family as Little B for 'little buddy'). One look at Haatchi's expressive face told them all they needed to know and the lucky dog moved into the Howkins' family home just six weeks after almost being killed. Owen, now aged eight, has a rare genetic disorder which causes his muscles to tense permanently. Largely confined to a wheelchair, he was withdrawn and anxious and found it difficult to make friends. But when Owen awoke the morning after Haatchi arrived he immediately fell in love with the severely disabled rescue animal who would, in turn, rescue him. This book tells their inspiring true story -- one astonishing little boy and the very special dog who has changed his life forever.

Following on from Iris Button's novel The Fire Ruby, Zeek has found the long-lost precious heirloom and is now on board the Sun Stream, bound for Guinea, West Africa. He intends to carry out the wishes of the beautiful Countess Jeanette - a woman he owes his life to - and return the stolen gem to its rightful owner, Count Robert Daneau. But Zeek discovers that tragedy has struck Robert's ancestral home on the Oleander cotton plantation. The ancient legend suggests that the house of Daneau will fall without the precious talisman, the Fire Ruby. So does this priceless jewel have magical powers after all?

If you had one chance to change history... Where would you go? What would you do? Who would you kill? It's June 1, 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be. Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that will destroy European civilization and bring misery to millions in the century to come. He knows this because, for him, that century is already history. Somehow he must change that history. He must prevent the war. A war that will begin with a single bullet. But can a single bullet truly corrupt an entire century? And, if so, could another single bullet save it?