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Millie Loves Football
Millie Loves Football is a fun and uplifting picture book about a six-year-old’s observations at her first football match. This provides young children with a little taste of what to expect should they ever decide to attend a professional match: the crowds and the chants in the stands, the drama on the pitch…
Traci Carroll’s first book Millie Doesn’t Mind was voted one of the best books for teaching children about diversity and self-acceptance.
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What Love Does to the Soul
Love is the universal concept that has challenged many to seek meaning in their lives whether they are filled with emotion or not. This is the author’s perspective on how love moves in the world and within her own life. These poems are for the writer and reader to come to understand the phenomenon that plays a part in one’s meaningful existence. What Love Does to the Soul is a creative investigation of life experiences related to this concept.
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Arya
Arya, an attractive young white woman, is employed in a remote Capetonian mansion as governess, carer, and temporary house manager to a Black French-speaking millionairess known only as Madame. Arya is disturbed to find that the staff are being used for harsh secret work on the property and investigates, putting herself in grave danger.
Does she have the will, courage, and determination to overcome the challenges she faces – corrupt staff and officials, a conniving witch doctor, a crazed giant, ruthless syndicate gangsters, a family culture of modern slavery, an unfair racist political system, and the ravages of a Covid pandemic under the harshest lockdown rules in the world?
Only time will tell… Will fate reward her if she succeeds? And what will she do with those rewards? Will power corrupt her also, or will the purity and goodness of her soul win against all the odds to right some of the wrongs in her society?
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I Thought He Was My Friend
“I Thought He Was My Friend” is a compelling and sensitively crafted children’s book authored by psychotherapist and victim services counsellor Karen Phillip. This empowering story addresses the important topic of protecting children from predatory behaviour by a family adult friend. In this heartwarming tale, young readers are introduced to the brave and curious child who navigates the world with trust and innocence. The story revolves around the young child’s experiences with an adult friend who initially seems friendly and caring but ultimately demonstrates inappropriate behaviour. It delicately explores the emotional journey of a child, emphasising the importance of recognising boundaries, speaking up, and seeking help from trusted adults. With a sensitive approach, the author skilfully communicates the essential message that no child should endure inappropriate or harmful behaviour, even if it comes from someone they trust. “I Thought He Was My Friend” encourages open dialogue between children and their carers, promoting awareness and providing valuable tools to protect against potential dangers.
This thoughtfully written children’s book offers a safe and age-appropriate platform to discuss a difficult topic, ensuring that children gain the knowledge and confidence to recognise, prevent, and respond to inappropriate situations. By empowering children with essential information, “I Thought He Was My Friend” equips them to protect themselves and seek support from trusted adults.
This new book, “I Thought He Was My Friend”, is a vital resource for parents, guardians, educators, and counsellors. By addressing a sensitive subject matter with compassion and empathy, this book offers a powerful tool to help children navigate their personal boundaries and foster a safe and nurturing environment for all.
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Maria the Nurse
Maria has spent over forty years as a dedicated nurse, helping children and adults with learning disabilities reach their full potential. Her career in psychiatry was not just about caring for others, but also about learning to extend that care to herself.
Maria’s journey took her from Ireland to Australia and Saudi Arabia. She lovingly cared for premature babies, unaware that she would later have a premature baby of her own in her forties.
At its core, this book is about Maria’s quest to be seen and loved, ultimately discovering that she needed to see and love herself first. Despite confronting bullying, loss, divorce, illness, and grief through countless nursing courses, Maria lived and worked in an unconscious environment.
Her journey towards consciousness was transformative, awakening her to the power and authenticity of understanding her own story. Embracing her true self without judgment became her path forward.
This is Maria’s story – a truly inspirational account of navigating from a large family to living her one true life, overcoming emotional struggles along the way.
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GCSE English Language Paper 1: Practice Tests
GCSE English Language Paper 1 Practice Tests is a workbook geared towards mastering your skills as you prepare to sit the AQA English Language Paper 1 Examination.
It features 30 complete practice tests and five exam-style questions modeled on the AQA English Language Paper 1, supported by a range of resources to help you practise effectively, gain valuable tutor feedback, and perfect your responses. Each test is carefully designed to develop the skills and knowledge essential for success in the English Language Examination.
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Special Friends
Special Friends weaves a heartwarming tale of Fly and Fizz, two stray border collies, as they embark on an exciting journey that will resonate with children and parents alike. Through the eyes of these lovable characters, readers will discover the enduring importance of kindness and friendship, as Fly models these virtues in a delightful way that captures the imagination.
Prepare to be entertained as you follow Fly and Fizz on their amazing adventure, watching them face life’s little challenges with energetic optimism. Along the way, readers of all ages will learn timeless lessons about compassion and the power of friendship.
This charming story provides the perfect opportunity for families to cozy up together and become wrapped up in the page-turning exploits of Fly and Fizz. Both adults and children will find themselves captivated by the heartfelt narrative and the lovable characters that bring it to life. Special Friends is a tale that will leave a lasting impression on readers long after the final page is turned.
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More Money than Bills – Part Two
They said I couldn’t have written it. They were right.
When I handed my first manuscript to my proofreader, her words stung: “Eric, you didn’t write this alone. You don’t have the intelligence.” For a moment, I felt like that unsure kid again, until she finished her thought: “God helped you write this book.”
She saw what I felt. This wasn’t just a book; it was a calling. A self-taught guide to financial freedom, built from a belief that prosperity isn’t a secret for the few but a future available to all.
That first book, More Money Than Bills, was just the beginning. This new volume, Part Two, is the culmination of that journey. It’s smarter, clearer, and packed with the refined wisdom and practical steps I wish I’d had from the start. It’s designed not just to guide you but to transform your relationship with money faster and more effectively than ever before.
If you’re tired of financial stress and ready to build a life of abundance and peace, your journey starts here.
Your prosperity is waiting. Get ready, get set. And go!
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Child Abduction During the Covid Pandemic
Written by a practising barrister of more than four decades, this book tells and analyses the stories in relation to the abduction of children during the Covid 19 Pandemic. The issues in the cases are based on real life stories of families and their disputes arising out of the breakdown of their relationships and abduction of children in certain circumstances. However, the names are fictitious, and I have protected the anonymity of the parties’ identities, and their real-life stories with fictional situations rather than the actual stories. Any resemblance to the people either living or dead are purely unintentional. The countries involved could not be anonymized because the laws are applied and set out in the court orders based on the jurisdiction of the geographical areas of the country where the parties reside.
This book outlines the procedure to deal with urgent applications where necessary in such cases. The stories and court orders predominantly deal with the cases during the pandemic. I have included certain scenarios and court orders pre-pandemic for the reader to understand the difference between the court orders pre-pandemic and post- pandemic. This book also deals with relevant family law statutes and family law Practice Directions to inform the reader that such cases could not be dealt with in isolation. I have also dealt with a brief historical introduction to the evolution of matrimonial legislation where necessary. I hope the readers will find the book interesting.
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The Temp Is It
Why are we all expected to do something to make money?
Why must we work?
There must be a better way.
This book is a tale of a less-than-ordinary life that some choose to lead.
This is an everyman struggle set in the 1980s. Mrs T is in number 10, it is grim up north, and there is not a full job to be found. Simon therefore sets off on the temp trail. This is a true tale of trying to find some worthwhile work and something more than a meagre payslip.
These are the jobs no one wants, and you are the misfit no one wants. If there is a positive, it is that the time spent in each is mercifully short.
Will the sun come out along the way? Who knows?
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Live Donkey, Dead Lion
On August 6, 1914, Able Seaman Timothy McCarthy departs Plymouth onboard Endurance, worried that he is missing the great adventure of war. By the following January, Tim is embroiled in his own adventure, trapped in ice, facing the crushing loss of his ship, forced to live for months on an ever-shrinking ice floe, and undertaking two desperate attempts to reach safety onboard the unseaworthy James Caird. Tim endures all of this and more, all while being pitted against the most extreme weather conditions, with dwindling food supplies, inadequate clothing and protection, and no means of communication with the rest of the world.
Within three weeks of his return to Britain, Tim is belatedly given his opportunity to join the war effort. Onboard the SS Narragansett, Tim again faces many of the ordeals he has so recently survived, this time with the added threat of his fellow mariners turned enemy. This is Tim’s story as a Live Donkey, Dead Lion.
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'One-Take Weller'
In 1971, Al Weller, 25, married with a young daughter, is content with his blue-collar life. Though skilled in commercial art, he prefers manual labour and truck driving, enjoying pints with mates after work.
A chance suggestion from his friend ‘Lawse’ leads Al to moonlight as an ‘ad face’ (advertising model). For nine months, he juggles an odd double life - delivering dairy products to posh hotels while posing for knitting patterns and romance magazines.
Al’s world turns upside down when his face suddenly appears on deodorant posters plastered across London’s buses and Underground. This unexpected fame catapults him into a new reality, challenging his comfortable working-class existence.
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