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I Think There's a Monster Who Lives Under My Bed
“I think there’s a monster who lives under my bed. It rumbles and grumbles, and its eyes glow red.”
Come on a toe-curling adventure of mystery and fright, as one little boy looks for those bumps in the night.
I Think There’s a Monster Who Lives Under My Bed is a fun, fast-paced rhyming story about friendship, wild imaginations, and how our differences can truly bring us together in the end.
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The Chase
A glimpse of her made me a walking calamity.
A dismissive smirk instead of her name scorched me.
I’d hunt her down till I find and claim her as mine.
An evening at the La Scala in Milan twirls the lives of five people into a web of rivalry, intrigues, heartaches, obsession, murder, loss, and revenge. All triggered by two of them.
Roman: I never chased after a woman. Then I caught a glimpse of the woman I would kneel for, but didn’t even know her name. Heck, I was determined to find her if it took me the rest of my life.
Shana: He stood in the room with me. The frisson in the currents freaking between us knocked me senseless. The mutual force of predator and prey blasted into my core ... my soul ... Danger. Keep far away from him.
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Instilling Ethical Excellence Vol 2
The question is: What kind of world do we want to live in? The question appears time and again in the pages that follow. It is not a trifling one. We make the world we live in one act and one decision at a time, small and not so small. Few of us pause long enough to think deeply as we go about our everyday lives, busily meeting our everyday needs. It has taken far longer than it should have, but finally the field of applied ethics has expanded its horizons to return to the teaching of ethics across the age spans of elementary school-age children. In the early to mid-1800s, William Holmes McGuffey created a series of books (McGuffey’s Readers) that taught character development lessons to lay a foundation of moral and ethical precepts in very young hearts. Several generations of teachers fed the lessons of the Readers into several generations of their students, only to find their Readers falling into subsequent disuse. We are returning to the old to do something new.
Taking ethics education farther and farther back into younger and younger student cohorts is no longer out of fashion. Philosopher ethicists are stepping out of their academic ivory towers to create new and innovative age-correlated ethics teaching resources.
Education has gotten increasingly technical to the abandonment of the ethical. But all is not lost. Research in early childhood development shows that kids as young as two years old possess rudimentary forms of “morality” relating to judgements such as good/bad, right/wrong, and fair/unfair, among others. As publications multiply, focusing on the expanding domain of applied ethics, educational resources are needed to assist teachers in their classroom ethics teaching activities. Today, more than ever, we need resources to raise ethically minded adults-in-the-making able to stand well above today’s cultural currents, see dangers, and make fine-grained decisions as to the right and wrong of things.
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Scilly Adventures; St. Mary's is on Fire!
What will today bring on the Isles of Scilly for the boat buddies?
Scilly Adventures is about a group of brave boats helping the islands and the people on them.
The boat buddies work as a team, led by Mary. They all listen to, trust, respect and understand Mary. She is the driving force behind the boat buddies, making sure they are in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing.
By pulling together they save the day time after time.
How will they solve today’s excitement? So much to organise to keep people safe and save the church tower.
Go Boat Buddies…
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Cosmic Roulette
FROM BIG BANG TO BIG SCRUNCH
Two non-corporeal entities initiate the Big Bang, creating the Universe containing galaxies, stars and planets in which unicellular life and ultimately sentient life evolves…
Unaware of their intricately woven destinies inexorably drawing them towards each other, sentient life-forms cope with their realities…
From ruthless carnivores to teleporting sentients… From ancient gurus teaching astral travel to aquatic species travelling the stars… Who will emerge the victor in a Game conceived eons ago?
The atoms comprising your body existed at the time of the Big Bang 15 billion years ago… Are there entities in the roles of Creator, Preserver and Destroyer? Does simultaneity exist? Are karma and entropy inevitable in a physical universe?
What is the likelihood of a divine Creator controlling events ranging from the birth of a mosquito to colliding galaxies?
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Origins
This debut poetry collection comes from a writer born before World War II. Though not deeply affected by the war itself, she grew up during a time of hardship for much of Europe. A lifelong sense of not quite belonging in the many places she lived as a child eventually led her to settle in Suffolk, where she found her first true sense of home.
Her love of poetry was sparked by a schoolteacher and nurtured by her father, who enjoyed playful verse like The Hunting of the Snark.
Today, we are fortunate to live in an age of easy communication and travel, where rural life no longer means isolation. Suffolk, with its thriving poetry scene, has provided her with both inspiration and community.
This collection reflects a life shaped by place, memory, and human connection. Some poems explore landscapes like the King’s Forest, while others bring to life people and moments from her past, such as Granny and Rhos-on-Sea. The collection concludes with a medley of light-hearted poems, crafted to bring a smile to the reader’s face.
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Narkey Hole and the Quest for Immortality
Van 007 is out of touch and running out of time now that he’s losing his life-sustaining whiskers. Set in a world where animals break into song and several animal species have extraordinary powers that humans either choose to ignore or are persuaded into forgetting, Van, a cat-vampire, can’t even remember why the chicken crossed the road, let alone his own purpose. His world is torn apart by others and as he attempts to avoid death, he juggles inner, outer and surreal demons, whilst the overwhelming responsibility to the runt porker, Pavel, makes him far too human. But which one of them is out of their head when the other isn’t around?
Will Van realise his dream of becoming an Immortal?
Will he make it?
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The Moody Cook
Our mood affects so many aspects of our lives – motivation, concentration, relationships, and even our careers. The list goes on.
Food, too, plays a powerful role in how we feel.
This book encourages you to cook based on your mood, not what society or others expect. On low days, it’s perfectly fine to eat mashed potatoes straight from the bowl – I certainly do.
Once you embrace the idea of cooking what truly comforts and nourishes you, life will feel a whole lot simpler and much brighter.
Think of this book as self-help through the power of delicious food. Now, all that’s left to do is put on your apron and treat your taste buds to mood-boosting recipes made just for you.
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Requiem for the Australian Dream
‘Requiem for the Australian Dream’ examines the origins of the Australian Dream and its importance to Australian society. Under the Robert Menzies government, the ‘Australian Dream’ became the measure of a mature society, built on the collective values of the ‘fair go’ and the notion that no one will be left behind. Menzies likened it to ‘the greatest expression of democracy is when a man and his family own their own home’. During his tenure as Prime Minister from 1949 to 1966, home ownership would become the cornerstone of his ‘emerging middle class of ‘little capitalists’. He believed if Australians were happy and content, they would not stray to communism, which was gripping the world at the time. At just 50.3% in 1945, home ownership would peak in 1966 at a staggering 72%. The book examines the economic and political factors which made home ownership obtainable in Australia during this ‘golden era’ and then what happened to turn the dream into a nightmare.
From the turbulent 1970s to the 1990s – the final years when housing was affordable in Australia – the book takes you on a journey that identifies the key political, economic and societal decisions which conspire to end the Australian Dream of home ownership for so many. Starting with the Whitlam years and moving to the Hawke, Keating and Howard prime ministerships, we witness the rise of neoliberalism and globalisation and their erosion of wages and employment stability for the majority. Labour reforms, the rise of negative gearing, and the deregulation of the banking industry will all play a role in turning the dream. Other monumental changes, such as Howard’s capital gains reform, will be examined, particularly when combined with negative gearing, which would supercharge property investment from 2000 onwards.
The 2000s, which promised to be a period of safety and stability with the ‘Cold War’ at an end, would prove to be a powder keg of conflict and uncertainty that would drive government decisions and economic policy that would turn against housing affordability. Existential factors such as the September 11 attacks, the war on terror and the global financial crisis and their influence on monetary policy in Australia would create ‘cheap credit’ that would incentivise a property boom that would last for 23 years. The rise of China and immigration into Australia would put pressure on town planning and housing supply, which would fuel property price growth. The 1-in-100-year event of COVID-19 would prove to be the last nail in the coffin for the crisis, causing an unparalleled rise in the cost of housing construction, resulting in a reduced housing supply and record bankruptcy of builders. Collectively these factors, combined with political blunders, would define the crisis that we have today.
The final chapters will examine 8 key initiatives to solve the housing crisis and how housing affordability and the dream of home ownership can be restored to future generations. We reflect on what Australia looks like in 2050 if the crisis continues and examine the importance of home ownership to the future of Australia’s society and democracy. A must-read if you are interested in the housing issue.
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The Most Beautiful Species Alive
The same two Autumn days are repeating over and over again. Five teenagers in New Zealand know what is going on.
They have several tasks to do to help to defeat the bad aliens who are doing it. The five are Polly, Kimmy, Oli, Issiah and Hector. Most of the action happens in the city of Courtney on Planet Shogasaah.
They need to solve clues to complete each task. They need to think all the time, and it’s a bit like they are playing a strategy computer game and constantly figuring out what they need to do. The clues get more and more complicated as the story progresses.
Perhaps you as the reader could figure things out before the five do?
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Finding Grampy
Maybe Grampy is at his shack, Nucleus
Authentica, inventing something very special?
Or maybe he is out at sea?
Nine-year-old Leon sneaks out into the woods all by himself just before midnight. Grampy, Leon’s grandfather, simply can’t be dead and buried – at least not after what the adults keep saying: “The old man is not gone; he is still very much with us.” Determined to find him, Leon sets out on his quest.On his journey, Leon is guided by the winged Gabriel, who teaches him to play music from each colour of the rainbow. But soon, Leon finds himself fearing for his life as he walks the tightrope of forgiveness high in the mountains, tumbles into wild rivers, encounters a mischievous mouse, soars in a balloon, and rides on the back of a wolf cub.
Finding Grampy is a little hero’s journey for all of us – children and grown-ups alike – who are still children at heart and who never stop pondering the questions of life, love, loss, forgiveness, friendship, and the search for one’s voice and inner truth.
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Tramontana
In Tramontana, the author invites readers on an intimate journey of spiritual transformation, weaving together a tapestry of emotions and insights that explore the profound depths of the human experience.
From the trembling precarity in facing the unknown to the radiant embrace of unconditional love, these poems traverse a wide range of themes that speak to the soul. Grounded in the author’s vulnerability as a writer, each verse is an illustrative exploration of the human condition intersected with the unfailing capacity of the awakened heart to bring us home within ourselves. Each verse captures the essence of nature’s stillness woven into the warmth of human touch mirroring the serene turbulence of inner growth. Mountains, oceans, and trees become metaphors of resilience, connection, and renewal.
Whether you are seeking solace, inspiration, or a moment of reflection, Tramontana, titled after the majestic North Wind, offers a space to pause and reconnect with the boundless beauty within and around us. These poems are a celebration of life and true love’s transformative power, reminding us that even in the darkest moments, there is light – and in stillness, there is strength.
£6.99
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