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X Ray Vision
Ray’s small world is about to get a whole lot bigger. With his busy, regimented routines and affinity for drawing, his autism and Tourette's syndrome don’t bother him.
What really starts troubling Ray is what goes on behind closed doors? What hides within four walls? And what lurks beneath the river?
How will he cope seeing things differently?
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Yaad, the Girl With No History
It’s 1987. Namo, the politically active bookseller, is preparing to save his marriage after his wife left to stay at her mum’s after an argument. Nazdar is at home, preparing for her wedding which will be taking place in her home village the next day. Friba, the pregnant Peshmerga, is on her way to the city’s hospital, together with her husband. They don’t know one another, but destiny will bring them together.
Sarwar Joanroy follows the fates of these people from the moment their daily lives are interrupted and they end up in the desert.
The novel is a journey through the black pages of the history of the Kurds in Iraq, before the invasion of the United States. Yaad, the girl with no history makes you face the facts about what Saddam Hussein’s regime did to the country and its citizens. It makes you understand why this country is still in turmoil, even today. Sarwar Joanroy based the events in his book on true events, some of which he experienced himself.
Yaad, the girl with no history is a story that is as moving as it is fascinating and educational.
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Yasibear and His Worldly Adventures
Teddy bears don’t experience life, do they?
Desperately wanting that teddy bear from a toyshop, Yasin begs his grandmother to buy it for him. There is something special about that one.
The day before his Uncle Sean goes travelling, Yasin gives the bear to him as a gift and decides to name him Yasibear! And this is where the story begins…
Can teddy bears experience life? Yasibear can!
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Yasibear Travels to Mexico
Fresh from their globetrotting adventure, Yasibear and Uncle Sean are ready to go travelling again but to somewhere new. Desperate for Yasibear to show his ability to talk, Uncle Sean tries his best to encourage Yasibear, but it just won’t happen. What will it take? Another travelling expedition. The destination… Mexico!
Alongside Aunty Kerry, Uncle Sean, Yasin and Yasibear go on an amazing adventure to the gorgeous country of Mexico. They encounter dolphins, flamingos, iguanas and much more but is this enough to make Yasibear talk in public?
This charming story demonstrates that if you are nice to people and have belief, then the best time of your life awaits you.
Join Yasibear, Yasin, Uncle Sean, and Aunty Kerry in their glorious, cultural journey across the enchanting country of Mexico.
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You Are Not Alone
A collection of honest, vulnerable poems written from the perspective of a heart-broken nurse. Through faith, and by taking one day at a time, she learns to overcome her struggle with mental health and faith, and to finally accept that it’s okay to not be okay. Through a mixture of written poetry, hand-illustrated artwork and photography, You Are Not Alone examines experiences and understandings of struggles with mental health from multiple angles and aesthetic mediums, drawing to the surface the rich emotional details of our inner lives.
By turns, a riveting exploration of mental health, the importance of seeking help, guidance and reassurance, and a profound reflection on the challenges of faith in God through meditations on scripture and prayer, these poems will help readers to better understand their own struggles and to find a path to happiness and to God.£9.99 -
You Can't Beat a Good Laugh
When a man opens the car door for his wife, it’s either a new wife or a new car.
Sit back, relax, and enjoy some of the funniest jokes and one-liners ever told.
After reading some of these hilarious jokes you will realise that you can’t beat a good laugh.
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You Don't Have to Be a Champion... to Be a Winner!
From fitting wheels to wheelbarrows in a builders’ merchant, Brian rapidly climbed the business ladder and became a Xerox salesman. He was unaware that the professional selling skills he was learning would one day propel him into the glamorous and overtly commercial world of F1.
A disastrous debut at a racing driver school was the spark that lit his passion for motor racing. Aware of the need for some serious financial backing to be able to take part, Brian embarked on a variety of highly innovative and often extremely entertaining ways of securing sponsorship, including working with the cast of a top 1970s’ BBC sit-com, as well as with John Cleese, of Monty Python fame.
A chance meeting on a plane with Max Mosley offered an opportunity of managing one of the most popular F1 Grand Prix circuits. This, in turn, led to the heady heights of a factory drive for Mercedes and the establishment of South Africa’s first racing driver school.
It was only a matter of time before Brian’s exceptional sponsorship-acquisition skills took him to F1, where he quickly made a name for himself by securing multi-million pound deals with three of the most sought after global corporations.
However, Brian’s greatest achievement in motorsport was to establish the Motorsport Industry Association in 1994, in a bid to secure government recognition of the industry in its own right. Once again, Brian’s sales skills played a key role.
Without ever becoming a household name as a motor racing champion, Brian’s story of how he most definitely became a winner is not only inspirational, but highly entertaining, amusing, often irreverent and informative.
You Don’t Have to Be a Champion... to Be a Winner is the story of Brian Sims, who left school in 1963 with just 5 GCE O-Levels and a shattered dream of following in his father’s footsteps as a Royal Air Force pilot.
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Young Samuel, An Ancient Story Retold
Can you imagine a time many hundreds of years ago when you slept on a pallet on the floor, ate fruit, yoghurt and flatbread that your mother baked in a small outdoor adobe oven, and you travelled everywhere by foot or donkey back?
Come along with me on this journey to this far-off time and land and watch young Samuel begin an extraordinary life that can still affect people today. His story might even make a difference in your life. Who knows? Would you like to see for yourself?
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Your Face My Light: Maurice Zundel, the Gospel of Man
Maurice Zundel (1897-1975), Swiss writer, priest and theologian, addresses himself not only to practising believers but to all those who, in a humanity and a Church in crisis, are seeking for a transcendent meaning or purpose to existence. Marginalised by the Catholic Church for his unorthodox, modernist views which present the individual as the source of his own freedom and becoming. Zundel's existential approach to 'being' is complemented by a profound spirituality of interiority and discovery of one's 'person' as the route to true encounter with the 'other'. The 'self' is also the 'creative source' which seeks itself through creative and artistic endeavour. These multiple facets of a theology attuned to the modern world and psyche, combined with a strong ecumenism embracing Islam encountered through long periods in Egypt and Lebanon, have ensured Zundel a huge following. Yet he is hardly known in the English-speaking world. The present book seeks to fill this void. It combines an introduction to Zundel's thinking by reference to his life and person with an analysis of selected extracts from his work translated by the author into English.
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Yuck! Food is from where...?
On each of the adventures, our characters get caught up in situations sometimes exciting, sometimes dangerous, and sometimes comical. Along with a host of other interesting characters attached to their adventures, these stories are written to help introduce children to a new way of looking at something that may ordinarily present a challenge. The adventures attached to discovering new tastes will have the reader and listener alike drawn into what happens next as both fun and danger await our brother and sister trio on their quest for information about how our food is grown and produced.
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Yummy for My Tummy
Imagine a shop that sells the most delicious treats that one can only dream about.
A magical shop that is not easy to find and only appears in certain places around the world and only for a short amount of time.
Billy the bunny has been searching and searching for such a store.One, he has heard, sells the most amazing carrot pie.
A pie so good that he is willing to travel for miles around so he might one day get to try it.
He finally finds what he has been looking for after many adventures. But will it live up to his expectations…?
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Yvonne, Child of the Somme
Yvonne Millet was born into poverty in Paris during La Belle Époque, in the shadow of Notre-Dame cathedral. Taken to a childminder in the countryside a few days after birth, she became a ward of state at the age of three when her mother disappeared. A stable childhood in the beautiful Somme region of northern France was shattered when, aged fifteen, she was sent to work as a maid in a military town, during the First World War. Her devastating experiences would change her life and haunt her forever.
As a troubled young woman facing a precarious future, chance led Yvonne to marry a former British soldier. Hopes of fulfilment with a husband and family were marred by profound insecurities and the Second World War.
A moving, true account of one girl’s formative years in early 20th century France, Yvonne, Child of the Somme is also the story of thousands of children like her, who shared a similar fate. Most were too ashamed of their background ever to reveal their heart-rending stories. The echoes of their pain reverberated down the generations, unexplained.
‘Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.’
― Søren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher, 1813-55
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