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We meet wormlet Ferret Lumbric who is on the road to rack and ruin, but all he really wants is to be is a clown. Next, Ivy Glue emerges, ambitious and frustrated. After a series of mishaps, she discovers she absolutely loves singing and is good at it too! We encounter George and Binky, who are childhood pals.

It‿s the twins‿ first sleepover - Flo and Ludovic have some friends over. When it‿s time for bed and Dad turns off the light, Ludovic becomes quiet. The other children snuggle into their comforters, but Ludovic hides under his. Suddenly, from under the blanket, he hears a noise. One by one, the dogs printed on the others' comforters come to life!

Alice and her mother meet a stranger on a bus and minutes later find her on a bench panicking. For Alice, it‿s simple: the three of them need each other. Rachel fights against imposing her disability on the pair. Rachel‿s seizures trigger painful childhood memories for Beth, and Alice is torn between loyalty to her mother and standing by Rachel.

When an extraordinary superspecies emerges in Afghanistan, humans do what they do best: declare war and make a reality TV show.

A unique fusion of fiction and non-fiction, follow Ava as she explores the effects of air pollution on climate change. See how her friends change her attitude toward the environment, how she learns to express her thoughts and ideas about the birds and animals endangered by the chemicals and gases in our air and how she gets active to help!

This book provides an encouraging space for anyone to be a leading positive presence in the workplace, building strong attributes and skills to coach teams using sound workplace practices and tools. It is an essential toolkit for management and workplace matters. It also serves those wanting to build a positive and mindful workplace culture.

What is the ‿something fishy‿ that Petroc Tremayne believes is going on at St Cadoc‿s Abbey on the Cornish island of Morgarrow? He asks his great-niece, Iris Grant, for advice, but before she can visit him, Petroc dies. Iris‿s friend Persephone Brown brings Gawaine St Clair and David Powers to investigate.

A young woman, Idunn, and a young man, Heimdar, make a perilous journey to gather momentum for their religion, The Old Faith. Along the way, they are joined by others, including a minstrel, a young warrior who is testing her sexual boundaries, and a wolf. Meanwhile, the neighbouring kings decide to attack over the differences between their faiths.

Vivien Brandt loves all things British and has done since she was a child. So when she moves from California to live with her gorgeous new English husband, in a small Yorkshire village, she doesn‿t foresee any problems beyond negotiating when to put milk in her tea. But she soon finds herself tripping over cultural differences. Oh, and a body.

Life is full of ups and downs. Powell reflects on a secure but challenging start in life, followed by a police career that took him all over the United Kingdom and the world, witnessing the aftermath of many significant events. These reflections are often in verse, ranging from crime and riot to the lighter side of life, featuring everyday issues.

Aiming to be a clan chief is easy when you have the right credentials. It‿s a bit more tricky when you haven‿t any. But lack of proof need be no barrier when you‿re absolutely brimming with all the right stuff to make a great chief. At least that‿s the theory according to billionaire, ego-maniac, Gordon Weever.

Trudi Penislow is a seriously feisty (and precocious) nine-year-old Cornish girl on a mission to save the world from climate catastrophe. Though her dad‿s a former Prime Minister she reckons she‿s got the better handle on political activism.

There were always fires in my marriage. Fires that were never quite put out and wetted down by tears, before starting up again with even more ferocity and vengeance. The atmosphere in the house was uncomfortably humid as a result of this. Four Humid Months is a deeply personal reflection of my marriage and the four months we spent living together.

Are you one of the people in the UK who are waking up to climate and ecological catastrophe, and the possibility of societal collapse in the future? This book does not attempt to lay out how dire our predicament is. For most people this requires profound psychological, emotional and spiritual inner work - this book guides you through the process.

Adventure, intrigue, and a dog named Ted. A daring escape across water, wartime service on convoys, a glittering career in professional sport, the larger-than-life central character is marked, sadly, not by his successes but by his failures; a lack of empathy with his fellow man.

Terry Brennan spent a lifetime researching his family tree. Never Give Up is the remarkable story taking Terry to Ireland and Scotland and East London and Kent.

In the Shadows is a collection of topical stories offering different perspectives that transport the reader.The Impersonator tells the story of an ordinary Russian man who gets a breakthrough posing as Putin. Trans-Atlantic follows a young Russian-American couple after Russia's annexation of Crimea, The Ice Cream Woman relates the slow awakening of a loyal citizen whose son is arrested in the protests of summer 2019 in Moscow, and Bicycle Summer is set during the exodus of Syrian refugees seeking shelter in Europe. In The Cockroach, a Chinese entomologist and his wife see their attempt to be patriots go horribly wrong. Flight takes a tenser turn, when a North Korean diplomat on his way home to Pyongyang gets stuck in transit and contemplates escape. Illumination examines the unfolding relationship between a French expat manager's wife and a local man in Armenia. The title story, In the Shadows describes a divided future world, in which a woman and a teenage boy start looking for an exit. Farewell to Ada, written in 2022, brings together wars past and present.A rich palette of protagonists with all their human frailties explore freedom, personal and political, in this collection of stories offering insight into lives overshadowed by the starker shades of media headlines.

Mattie Stories is a beautifully illustrated children's story based on the author's Miniature Schnauzer named Mattie. It follows her through her interactions and fears which many young children will be able to relate to!

An exciting and serious story which is a work of fiction, but is inspired by the real life experiences of a village policeman enlisted into the Military Police in First World War. Set on the small island of Menorca and the huge Arab city of Cairo.

When immortal Hope makes a promise she has no business to make, she finds herself drawn into a dangerous game with her cousin and arch enemy, Trouble. If she fails to take care of the two mortal children she has pledged to protect, she will be thrown into the everlasting Void.

After her mother's death, Siduri's search for her missing father is derailed when she discovers she belongs to a persecuted supernatural race.

This book reveals how a member of the gang that assassinated President Abraham Lincoln went on to be a leading suspect in the Jack the Ripper killings of 1888. It tells the gripping story of a celebrity American doctor in AmericaâEUR(TM)s Gilded Age who had a dark, murderous secret âEUR" he was linked to the two greatest crimes of the 19th century.

A gripping dystopian story which transports you into a future world emerging from the brink of extinction. A YA thriller which will challenge your perceptions of power, resilience, and the responsibility that comes with knowledge.

Twelve year old Pip is snatched from a caravan park by Sava, an old and unhinged vampire. Six months later and now a vampire, Pip is sent to Sundown Academy to learn how to exist with other communities. Secrets are uncovered by Pip and his friends as they embark on a mission to discover the truth about Sava, the academy and its pupils.

Jane and the Jackal is a fast-moving historical romance revealing the inner strengths and weaknesses of Jane Austen's heroines in a lawless and brutal world far from the familiar peace of rural England.

An action adventure story, deeply rooted in nature and ecology, carrying a message of hope and resilience. Covers themes of loss, bullying, resilience, inner resolve, empowerment, and friendship.

In the summer of 2005 Elizabeth Reilly sustained an injury from a seemingly trivial accident, after which she had chronic pain for the next fourteen years. This is a story to inspire, with many pointers for readers who might also be suffering from chronic pain or other unexplained symptoms.

A girls‿ boarding school in the Devon countryside. A headmistress, who relies on religion for discipline, and Sister Ellis, the matron, who appears to have a hearty dislike of teenage girls.

In volume two of The Forgotten Past, Andrew Vinken continues to explore the history that did not make it into the school curriculum, predominantly focussing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.