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Our intrepid traveller sets off from London with next to no riding experience since gaining his biker's license, in the general direction of Greece, with Fiji, in the South Pacific, the ultimate aim and destination. Later he finds himself once again on a bike riding through the unfamiliar, this time sub-Saharan Africa. Bluestone Biker relates tales of these and other misadventures, and of a world both surprising and with not a little hope. The author tries to remember, within the pages of this book, that "No-one is interested in what you had for breakfast". Bluestone Biker can be read any day of the year - in the heat of a baking summer's day, or on a rainy day in February at the Laurel Inn at Robin Hood's Bay.

Oxford University students, Syrian national Ali, a devout Muslim and English-borne Atheist Margaret, succumb to a passionate romance. Issues regarding religion and Ali's eventual return to Syria are dismissed as they realise a love live theirs only happens once in a lifetime, if ever. They vow to 'live for today', hoping the parting day never comes.Through their joint detective work, they discover a connection with Pembroke and beautiful Barafundle Bay, which holds the secrets of Margaret's deceased mother's past. Which leads them to solve the mystery of Margaret's father, which has dogged her since childhood.Margaret moves to Syria to be with Ali and her newfound father. Their lives are idyllic; they make new friends, and 'live for today' has a different meaning.Then the Syrian Civil War erupts. Unlike most of their friends that flee from the war, Ali and Margaret decide to stay and help those in need. Margaret volunteers at the hospital and Ali joins the 'White Helmets'.They witness the horrific destruction of Aleppo and the terrorising of trapped citizens during the indiscriminate bombing by it's own government and allies. 'Live For Today' is all they can do.

Since Raffles discovered the secret of the Antique shop in book one, he has been waiting impatiently for his next adventure. On one cold wintery day, Raffles, Sunny and Grandpa fall into a land of dark, forgotten secrets. Through a labyrinth of sandy tunnels, guarded by hairy monsters and deceitful strangers, the three adventurers struggle to escape the Tomb of the Lost World. Will the contents of a scruffy book found in the dusty antique shop help them solve the ancient riddles that guide their way? The wisdom of an old man, the agility of a monkey and the loyalty of a dog make this an exciting read. Adults and children will be captivated by this wonderful story.

Pablo has a BIG problem. He's AFRAID of feeling trapped. He fears getting a panic attack in open or enclosed spaces or crowds, such as at an outdoor market or the movies. Pablo worries he won't be able to escape or get help if he gets too panicky. His good friend Ollie Owl has an idea. Pablo can overcome his fear by setting a goal. Taking several small steps toward that goal will help him achieve it. Wanting to attend the Mega Rock Concert, Pablo agrees. As the steps become more difficult, Pablo has to gather more and more courage to accomplish each one. Can Pablo achieve each step and overcome his fear even though sometimes his heart pounds and his wings tremble? Through storytelling, Dr. Madeleine Vieira's I'M AFRAID Anxiety Disorder Series teaches children to manage their anxiety symptoms. This book focuses on Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia, and includes an About Anxiety page along with a Coping Strategies page and a Stepladder page. Parents and mental health professionals will appreciate this series aimed at relieving children's anxiety symptoms. www.DrMadeleineVieira.com

A young girl searches for her parents, who left her at three years old, for reasons unknown to her. Brought up by various relatives, she decides on a quest to find them, so following various clues, her search takes her from Russia to Jazz Age New York.Set against the 1920s, the young woman now in her twenties, her search concluded and her parents found, settles into New York life with her new found friends. Her life is enriched by all she meets, and the experiences she has, including the Wedding of Mary and Robert, and the meeting and 'walking out' with one of the rising stars of the New York Yankees baseball team.A most enjoyable life marred only by the intervention of the Bureau of Investigation, constantly checking her papers, in their search for what, she is not really sure.A story resolved, or is it?

Why is Andy scared of stepping stones? Why can't Andy concentrate at school? Why doesn't Andy join in with the other children? Why does Andy keep making involuntary promises to perform mundane actions? Why is Andy fat? Do photographs show, between unrelated people, genetic links independent of matter?Here is a book about unorthodox persuasions, unexpected inhibitions, and the idea that matter may transcend physical limitations.

StoryFrames: supporting silent children in the classroom. How does a teacher support a child who has recently arrived at school, speaking another language, and who remains completely silent at school for weeks or months, not participating in class and not even playing with other children? The child's parents often report that the child speaks and plays normally at home, with their family and with other children who speak the child's language. These children, undergoing the "Silent Period", are usually children who have relocated from another country, either voluntarily or as refugees or migrants,. For a variety of reasons, these children do not have the resilience needed to cope with the many changes and anxieties they have experienced. The losses for these children are more than the loss of familiar faces, places and conversations; the loss of their home language is experienced as a loss of the self they had known before the relocation. The psychoanalytic theories of Colette Granger provide a way to understand the experiences of these migrant children. The StoryFrames book sets out an easy-to-follow, low-cost method of supporting these children, enabling them to emerge from their silence, and to play with other children. The book is written by a speech and language therapist, but any teacher, social worker or volunteer, who is experienced in working with young children, can run this programme. The methodology of this programme is grounded in the developmental theories of Winnicott and Vygotsky and as such it stresses the nature and quality of the teacher/child relationship which is at the core of this kind of work. The book explores the feelings not only of the child in this situation, but also of the teacher working with such a child; such a teacher must deal with their own anxieties about what the child is experiencing, and about whether they, as the teacher who is expected to solve these problems, could be doing something different. The StoryFrames method is not only for second language learners. It has been successfully used with children who have a wide range of communication disabilities. Children with Developmental Language Disorder, children who stutter, children with intellectual disabilities and Highly Sensitive Children have all benefited from the use of this programme, which uses narrative and pretend play to help the child to develop linguistic and cognitive skills, as well as to have the confidence needed to communicate with others, in spite of the difficulties. This book is an invaluable source of information for anyone wanting to understand the nature of the teacher or speech therapist's relationship with children with communication difficulties, and should be essential reading for trainee speech and language therapists, as well as for teachers training in early years education.

Independent. Divorced. Stuck. Aurora Beltrame's life is about to change without her permission. When the past brings both love and pain into her life in the form of her favourite rock band, how far will her ideality become her reality?A chance meeting with Oliver, the lead singer of Morpheme, throws them together. Neither aware of the impact this will have on their lives. Their attraction to each other becomes all-consuming, but is there more to their relationship than either of them will admit? Is this work or pleasure? As Aurora is introduced to a world of rock band politics, money and egos, her own career rockets and soon it is her success that brings a shift in their relationship. Then the buried, forgotten, ignored rise up to threaten Aurora's life. Harry, her best friend at college, only a trapped memory fighting to be free, but Aurora is too scared to face the reality to let go. And David, her ex-husband, who wants to reprise his role, making all the old promises, only for Aurora to stand strong against him. So, he resorts to Plan B. Aurora has no choice but to deal with the past to save her future, but is it too late to save her relationship with Oliver? Has the ideality been severed?

The book, Prayer Rain is about the holy sites in The Holy Land for Christian pilgrims. It is a well researched and an invaluable resource that will help the reader understand every holy site mentioned in it. This book will assist you to pray "point of contact" prayers at the holy site(s) of your choice while in The Holy Land. Alternatively, you can use this book for a personal knowledge, as one of your devotional materials, or for your Retreat wherever you choose. Each section of the book discusses a holy site with lots of prayer points provided as inspired by the Holy Spirit. Included in this book are:The Triumphal Entry story, the spontaneous reaction of the public at that time, the peculiarities and the Messiaship of Jesus Christ. You can read about Mount Carmel where fearless Elijah confronted King Ahab and Baal prophets and see how the challenge was won when fire fell from heaven. And unravel the relevance of the heavy rain that ended the drought. Prayer Rain reveals what really happened at the Place of Ascension, wars and the rumours of war as predicted by Jesus and His lamentation over Jerusalem and its fulfilment have also been discussed.Learn about Jesus' place of prayer called Gethsemane which became the venue for His arrest and the consequent betrayal, walk into the Garden and see some of the reputed Olive trees since Jesus' time alive till today. Have your questions answered about Mount Sinai and discover whether it is the same as Mount Zion as discussed in Prayer Rain. Further, discover the significance of the Upper Room and the three events that make it different and fundamental amongst all the holy sites. Read about how God kept the account of the suffering of one man at a place called The Pools at Bethesda. Unlock the mystery behind the multiplication of the loaves and fishes, (Tabgha Mensa Christi), and how Jesus changed water to sweet wine at Cana's wedding.In the book, Prayer Rain, be ready for the revelation about the power of the unification among two important Old Testament servants of God- Moses, Elijah and Jesus Christ who held their meeting on Mount Tabor, and learn about the significance of the Transfiguration. Jesus as the Resurrection and Life raises His friend from death at Bethany after four days and later He (Jesus) made His own tomb empty when He rose again and ascended to heaven, and many more.

SCRAPS, the full title being Scientific Charles Recalls a Poetic Stevenson, written by Charles Alexander Stevenson, was an idea the author had recalling and correcting some impressions of his cousin Robert Louis Stevenson and of life in Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders, in the 19th century.Much has been published about RLS as a writer, however here we have a first hand account from his cousin, of the young man, his family, within the context of the environment in which he was brought up. Charles Stevenson provides an intimate and authentic description of this Scottish writer in his early years before he became famous.In the latter part of his life, Charles Stevenson, despite his failing health, remained determined that the manuscript of his compiled recollections should be completed as a published book.With the help of his daughter, May (Evelyn Mary Yeoman), he was able to dictate his thoughts, which she would transcribe each day prior to his corrections and amendments. The process ended on Charles' death in 1950 and it is only now that this project has finally come to fruition.

It's 1973 and The Rocky Horror Show is about to be launched onto an unsuspecting world for the first time. Martin Fitzgibbon was the young drummer recruited specifically to play an integral part in the show's success. Here, for the first time, Martin gives his unique insight into how the show and its participants became an overnight success and created a cultural phenomenon which fifty years on still reverberates around the world.But there was a life before and after "Rocky" too, which although not straightforward, was overwhelmingly one of fun, laughter and surprises. Behind The Curtain is a tale of contrasting worlds. Of optimism and resilience when dealing with the challenges of life. The authors intention is to take you into that world and leave you with a smile.

1990s. The London Underground system is emerging from the austerity of the 1980s. New budgets have created the financial backing for security fencing and CCTV. Despite this, graffiti persists on the trains and the playground of subterranean tunnels and infrastructure...Two rival graffiti crews come head to head when a shadowy figure from the past threatens the balance on the lines. The old master 'Stainer' has warned of an oncoming war in which the trains themselves are the prize and, simultaneously, the target for destruction!

During a 65-year working life in various kinds of local public services (Environmental, Local Councils, etc.) and past graduate studies in administrative and management, Malcolm Plumb has acquired extensive managerial and organisational experience in a wide range of Local Government Bodies. This experience includes both the good and the bad, as well as direct contact with electors, over the span of his employment history. This includes determining "spoilt" ballot papers, counting, statistical returns for votes cast, and percentage of "non-voters". It also includes monitoring compliance with the Councillors Code of Conduct both during elections and afterwards.

This book began as a series of blog posts, each post based on the most recent Carlisle United match. It charts the club's decline in the 2021-2022 season to a point in February 2022 when the club found itself in the League Two relegation zone. The return of Carlisle-born former manager Paul Simpson saw the club embark on a dramatic revival which resulted in Carlisle United comfortably avoiding relegation. The author was present at many of those games that ensured the team's climb to safety.Following retirement in July 2022, the author was in a position to buy season tickets for himself and his son, meaning that they were able to attend about 75% of the club's games in the 2022-2023 season, clocking up well over 7,000 miles in the process. in addition to the physical journey, It was a remarkable metaphorical journey for the club. Mild expectation grew into optimism, grew into ambition, grew into expectation, before the remarkable denouement that saw Carlisle win an unlikely promotion to League One in the most dramatic fashion, via a penalty shoot-out in the play-off final at Wembley. This book recounts that two-season journey blow-by-blow, each post written within two or three days of the relevant game and not revised with the benefit of hindsight. It is an essential read for any supporter of Carlisle United, but will also resonate with any supporter of a lower-league football club who has endured years (sometimes decades) of disappointment, despair and frustration before achieving that brief, but precious, moment in the sun.

Abandon disbelief, all ye who enter here. Or face problems when you encounter an ancient mariner with no tale worth telling, wild parties at Pooh Corner, John Betjeman moonlighting as a trapeze artist, Shakespeare assembling flat-pack furniture without the Instructions, Pam Ayres and her teeth on Judgement Day, Longfellow's reaction to the gift of a paper-shredder, the real writer of the Bard's plays, Robert Burns as a hater of the haggis, a very seasick John Masefield, the Lady of Shalott with a shotgun, Ogden Nash on the facts of life (no, not those facts), Philip Larkin's views on child carol singers and Noel Coward's on Council flats.This excursion through the left field of English verse also features comments by word-smiths including Old Nokomis, Joan Hunter-Dunn, Wordsworth's ghost, Christopher Robin, Andrew Marvell's coy mistress, Betjeman's bit-swallowing pony, Tennyson's garden-phobic Maud, Cleopatra's Executor, Mrs Polonius, Nigel Molesworth, Maya Angelou's Christmas turkey, Eeyore and a cheese and pickle sandwich.A light-heartedly irreverent read for all but the most po-faced of poetry fans. Several of its poems have already appeared in public, chiefly in The Spectator.From the author of I Think I Thought which laughed wryly at the rites and wrongs of childhood, youth and ageing.

Humanity is in trouble and it's not looking good for our future. The way we use our minds has caused untold damage through personal anxiety, national disruption, and the threat of global annihilation. This book reveals how we innocently misuse our thinking to create emotional and behavioural instability and how to interrupt dysfunctional patterns and experience a higher quality of thought. We explore how present-day spiritually based psychology is re-aligning with ancient biblical principles, providing an opportunity for everyone to participate in change from the inside-out. Unboxing this ancient wisdom reveals that there has always been two conflicting routes to enlightenment operating in our world, both promising a life beyond the material realm, so discernment is required, and this is where the renewed mind will be our guide. To understand the source of these routes and the invisible forces behind them we journey back to the very dawn of the human era, to the first moment humans were offered the choice between spiritual life or death. Back then we made the wrong choice resulting in spiritual isolation and the need to develop a mind suited to self-survival, but the way is still open for redemption and the choice of life or death for all humanity is one for the ages. We each have freedom to choose. It's not too late for renewal of the mind....and the heart and the soul of humanity.

Climb aboard the rollercoaster of life's ups and downs as we try to grow old gracefully (or even disgracefully!) while navigating the changes in our minds, bodies and world around us. From the menopausal mayhem of brain fog and hot flushes, to the consternation of creaking bones and inexplicably shrunken jeans, from the mysteries of modern technology to the horrors of the magnifying mirror,¿¿from all the inevitable indignities of ageing tö¿the freedom to misbehave, from the joys of cake and new hobbies to the health benefits of red wine and mince pies. All life is here. Luckily, we are all in this together and know that it can help to see the funny side. So join Judy Rose as she shines a humorous and mischievous light on a woman's world.

What if you have the chance to live three lives? Which one would you choose?An answer to these thought-provoking questions is at the heart of the intriguing memoir, Essentially: Being Me in a Becoming World. It emerged as a rebirth from the ashes of a near-tragedy and life-defining experience of a single mother as she breaks the barrier of stigma and silence.In the book, the author craftily weaves her intensely personal journey and life-changing experiences as she grapples to find meaning and purpose in a trilogy of lives conflictedly interwoven in one destiny through first choices, second chances and everything in-between.Through the lenses of her personal experiences, she explores themes such as susceptibility, fighting addiction, and aloneness. The book is an open invitation to introspection, self-conversations and self discovery through the turbulent storms and uncharted waters of the inevitability of change.I've learnt that we can only find our authentic selves in vulnerability and only when we find ourselves can we truly find and empower others.

Jazmin and Emma, have been best friends since school and tell each other everything, well almost everything. That is until just after Jazmin's 18th birthday, when the loss of her parents, changes her life forever. Time in hospital, shows her things, she never new were possible.Follow Jazmin on her journey of discovery. Find out about the secret she hides and what happens when she tells Emma and her new boyfriend about it. How will her life change, now she doesn't have to hide any more. Will it go well, or will she lose everything she has worked so hard to accomplish.

This insightful commentary on Matthew's Gospel illuminates the text, making the book come alive for the new Christian andthe old alike. MJ Flower brings her academic expertise and a lifetime of faith to the Gospel, with well-researched details to helpinform the reader as they journey through the life of Jesus. The reader is drawn closer to the text, opening up their hearts tomessage God wants to share 'that we may behold wondrous things out of His law' (Psalm 119:18).

This book has been developing, like an embryo in the womb, for seven years. The first part which was originally called 'Can You Make It Up the Mountain?' was a study of the nature and character of our God so far as He has chosen to disclose it to us through the scriptures. The second part is probably summed up as 'How we should react to what we learned from the ascent of the mountain?' Perhaps subtitled 'The Challenges of Discipleship'. It is inspired by the writings of a 15th century monk, and I suspect, will be a greater challenge than the trek up the mountain. So, this is an account of one man's journey following Christ; out of his love for God and his desire for obedience, he was compelled to undertake this quest with little understanding or just how much he would have to rely on the one he was so desperately seeking. He has likened his journey to that of a mountaineer, and similar to such an adventurer, he learned some hard lessons, had moments of rest and moments of pushing on with great determination. He now invites you to share in his experiences and embark on your own journey up the mountain and into the dark night. Do not think however, that you will be able to make it by relying on your own strength and wisdom; that will come from God. However lonely the climb might be, rest assured that you will never be travelling alone; as promised, the comforter, the Holy Spirit, will be there to guide, encourage, sustain, and motivate you. Please treat this labour of love like a banquet; a feast of exquisite delicacies, each individual dish to be savoured and absorbed before indulging in the next.