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A Mishmash of Observations and Emotional Verse
In A Mishmash of Observations and Emotional Verse, D. V. Whiteland transforms a lifetime of experiences into raw, honest poetry. These verses emerge from what he calls “the most emotive time of his long life” – offering both personal revelation and universal truth.
With unflinching honesty, Douglas captures the full spectrum of human experience: history’s weight, family’s comfort, betrayal’s sting, and the resilience that carries us forward. A powerful collection that proves our most difficult moments often yield our most essential truths.
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Riley Quintin and the Journey of the Mystery Potion
One portal, two separate distinctive worlds, and an ordinary yet extraordinary girl known as Riley Quintin, distraught by her father’s strange disappearance, set out on a journey beyond her wildest imaginations. A girl looked down upon in the mortal world travels to a world where her name echoes a shockwave among all witches, wizards, and the magic folk.
Witnessing and unraveling the secrets and dangers set upon her and the peace of all the magic folks, Riley Quintin sets out on a dangerous adventure along with two of her friends to stop the wicked witches from unraveling their evil intentions and powers among all the magic folks.
Despite the struggles and divulging her new powerful identity, with confusion luring her, Riley braves her will into discovering, learning, and using her powers, her very own magic that seemed like a dream one could only grasp.
While Riley wrestles with her new inner identity, her two friends in this strange new world, Sophie and Aurora, go out of their way to guide, train, and fight alongside her.
With a new determination set for her and a new will to discover more about this world and the strange disappearance of her father, Riley Quintin must give her win and her will to find the secret potion, protect her people and fight against the wicked witches, and make the most important decisions along the way.
A mystery potion,
a dangerous wicked witch,
and a race against the clock.
Riley Quintin’s adventure is just beginning,
can they find the mystery potion before it’s too late?
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For Each a Road
Follow the lives of JP, Jamie, Anto, and Deco, four young friends growing up in the working-class neighbourhood of Tallaght, Dublin. This coming-of-age story traces their journey from the age of twelve into their twenties, navigating a world where life is far from easy.
For Jamie, childhood was marked by tragedy. When he was just four years old, his father was murdered on a cold winter’s night while walking home from the pub. The trauma lingered, but having JP by his side gave him a sense of safety and belonging that helped soften the harshness of life.
As the boys grow up, they face the weight of a world that demands too much, too soon. Drink and drugs become part of their daily lives as they try to cope with the chaos around them. Along the way, they experience the pain of losing loved ones, the intensity of first sexual encounters, and the violent realities that shape the roads they walk.
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My Journey from Orthodoxy to Authenticity
From the moment of birth the soul is on a journey to return home to its origin. In this book Bruce Elisha records some poignant moments of that journey and provides the reader with the tools for making that journey. Used together, these tools create a synergy of movement towards that goal of total transformation to unconditional love, the state from which we all came. A work that has been a lifetime in the making is now in your hands to assist you in making your own journey back home.
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Hey! Can You Help Me Find My Syllables?
This book emphasises the importance of developing syllable awareness in pre-readers and early readers to enhance their pronunciation, reading, spelling, and writing skills. Research shows that effective pronunciation is essential for improving communication skills, as it ensures clarity and understanding (Prikazchikov et al., 2024). By recognising syllables, young learners can identify sound units within words, which fosters phonological awareness. This awareness is crucial for understanding the complex sound system of a language, including words, sentences, syllables, onsets, rhymes, and phonics (Gillis, M., 2019).
Research indicates that early awareness of syllables helps children connect letters to syllable-sound units, which in turn enhances their phonemic awareness. This skill is crucial for mastering reading, writing, and spelling (Zagar et al., 2020). An example of syllables and phonemes can be learnt from the word “passionfruit”. This word can be phonetically analysed into 3 syllables: Pas-sion-fruit, each with a distinct vowel sound and 12 phonemes, represented as p-a-s-s-i-o-n-f-r-u-i-t.
To further improve children’s reading and writing abilities, research from the Effective Provision of Preschool Education (EPPE, 2004) shows that high-quality preschool programmes significantly benefit children’s intellectual, social, and emotional development. Additionally, a supportive home learning environment—characterised by activities like reading, singing, shared thinking, and modelling positive behaviours—plays a crucial role in enhancing children’s academic and social skills. These factors help increase children’s proficiency in reading and maths by age 6.
Sylva et al. (2004) The Effective Provision of Preschool Education (EPPE) Project: Final Report: A Longitudinal Study Funded by the DfES 1997-2004. SSU/FR/2004/01. [online]. London: EPPE. Pp. 1–9. Available at: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10005309 (Accessed: 13 July 2025).
Zagar, D. et al. (2020) ‘Syllable-first rather than letter-first to improve phonemic awareness’, Scientific Reports, 22103(10), pp. 1–8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79240-y
Prikazchikov et al. (2024). Teaching Pronunciation with Confidence. Ames: Iowa State University Digital Press.
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The Shield
Travel back in time to 1965, to the tropical capital of the Philippines, Manila. Protagonist Jessica Hernandez runs the busy student newspaper, The Shield.
A local detective case pulls her away from her duties, and a scholarly stranger becomes a new friend. The Shield is a fictional story set in a historical past. A tale of time gone by, culture, and people.
It is a charming retrospective told through the lens of an empowered female lead character.
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House in the Dump
Hermit Crab is growing up fast and needs a new home. On his search for a new shell, he encounters many interesting alternatives along the way. Alas, none of them feel quite right
As his journey unfolds, he comes to the horrible realisation that his beautiful beach has been turned into a dump!
What will poor Hermit do? Can he come up with a plan to save his beautiful beach?
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Hard Lessons, Hard Learned
If you are eager to improve your capabilities and knowledge and want to avoid the mistakes that are commonly made when dealing with life, business and people, you should read this book.
If you are intent on advancing sometimes against the tide of opinion of those who are stuck in the glories of the past and opposed to the opportunities of the future, you should read this book.
If you want to prepare your mind and find out how to implement change and success strategies while the world around you is continuously changing, you should read this book.
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Your Special Garden: Aloneness and Anxiety
Bedtime can sometimes feel a little scary. But what if your child could create a special place using their imagination – to build a garden of extraordinary abundance, have fun, feel safe and experience a peaceful night’s sleep? In this heartwarming story, children are invited on a gentle journey to their own Special Garden—a peaceful haven where they can feel calm and safe, no matter what’s happening in the world around them. Through soothing words and beautiful illustrations, Your Special Garden: Aloneness and Anxiety shows children that, like a loving hug or a treasured memory, there’s always a safe space for them to return to when the lights go down. Inspired by Christine’s own experiences, this book offers children a tool to cope with their worries, honour their emotions, and find comfort in sleep. Aloneness and anxiety can create a sense of disconnection. A guiding poem provides inspiration, but how they see and use their garden is only limited by their imagination – and yours! A perfect bedtime read, this book will leave children feeling ready to drift into dreamland with peace in their hearts.
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Letters to My Son
Letters to My Son by Nguyễn Đức Tùng, translated by Võ Thị Như Mai, is a profound collection of insights, journeys, and wisdom—a father’s gift to his children and to all young minds stepping into the future.
Through meaningful experiences and thoughtful letters, the author shares life’s lessons, urging the next generation to embrace change, think freely, and live with courage, honesty, and joy.
“The path of humanity is forward and upward. You will live differently from us, just as we lived differently from our parents. Live wisely. Live meaningfully. In this vast universe, Earth is but a fragile speck. To keep it whole, we must care for it—today, tomorrow, and for generations to come.”
A book of love, hope, and deep contemplation—Letters to My Son is a conversation across time, reminding us of our shared responsibility to life, nature, and one another.
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Sir Edward Grey’s Liberal Critics: 1905–1914
Sir Edward Grey was the Liberal Foreign Secretary [1905-16], the longest continuous post holder in British history and arguably, through his foreign policy, was instrumental in Britain’s entry into the First World War. The decision for war, whilst exercised by a nominal Liberal Cabinet, was considered by his own Liberal Party critics to be a failure of policy.
This book, relying on relatively newly archived material for the first time in over fifty years, challenges certain historiographical assumptions surrounding the way colleagues within his own party endeavoured to bring about a directional change of policy.
Whilst several leading scholars have dealt with Anglo-German foreign policy, drawing on new research, this book identifies and carries out a detailed evaluation of the criticisms to establish justification for Grey’s policy. The argument will be presented that the activities of the so-called ‘Liberal Radicals’ laid the foundation stones for a complete change in the way that foreign policy was carried out after the cessation of conflict and that no longer was Britain’s foreign policy in the hands of the few but became fundamentally within the control of the parliamentary structure.
This book will be useful reading for those who are interested in Edwardian Liberal Politics.
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Saffron Rosa
‘Who has a key to open all doors?
When all doors open into closed rooms?
One room contains the happiness of human lives.
One room is furnished with desolation.
One room is a silent swirling cosmos.
But who has a key to open all doors?
The golden key to a golden existence...?’
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