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The Savage Ones
A story of bloody revenge, fanatical ambition, betrayals and remorseless violenceA vengeful white boy raised as a Cheyenne warrior. A highly educated young rancher. A ruthless, solitary bounty hunter. An enigmatic Australian drifter. A legendary bandido chief. A Comanche half-breed scalp hunter. A fanatical Mexican revolutionary. A cold-blooded pistolero for hire. An aging, disillusioned U.S. Marshall. An old mountain man seeking retribution.These are but a few of...The Savage Ones.
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A Right to Life
The potato famine had a devastating effect on Ireland, killing millions and leaving the land unfit to grow crops. James, a tenant farmer, finally decided he could no longer support his family, and so, hitching the farm horses to a caravan, and with the milk cow tied on behind, crossed to Liverpool where, with his surviving children, and an old lady from the village, they made their way down to the west country, suffering hardship and indignity along the way. This book is a testament to one man’s struggle for a right to life.
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The Adventures of Pellington and Welephant - Paris By Train
“I know!” said Pellington. “How about a day trip to Paris?”Join Pellington and Welephant as they head off on their Paris adventure.Climb the Eiffel Tower with them.Enjoy lunch with them.See many other exciting places with them.At the end of the day discuss where they might go on their next adventure.
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The Singing Trolls
This interactive book aims to encourage children’s imagination and interpretation through thoughtful questions and drawing prompts. Designed to be read aloud, it will stimulate parent-child bonding and build fond memories. Studies show reading aloud cultivates future readers.The story explores the wonders of nature and the interconnections between animals, insects, and plants. It sparks a mindfulness of the natural world and a curiosity to explore outdoors. Through imaginative play with natural materials, children gain a deeper appreciation of nature’s gifts. This sharing of ideas strengthens not only language skills but also emotional intelligence. So curl up together and dive into the magic of nature through the pages of this keepsake book.Furthermore, the book hopes to spread joy. As children create their own continuations of the story, their imagination sparks even more delight.Few things are more wonderful than hearing a child’s laughter and seeing the joy in their eyes. Reading aloud facilitates quality time and deepens the mutual bonds between child and caregiver. This book aims to create space for such magical shared moments.
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Apricity
I want to retain the warmth you’ve inserted to my flesh,The rousing and rather boiling feeling I can’t undo from my blood.Let me take it to every life to come,For I want to find you in each of them,And take care of you through worlds.Apricity is mainly a personal love letter but it’s also about finding your role model; someone who’s so incredibly kind and clever that, although they can never be a part of your life, you will forever look up to them as the person who once changed you for the better.
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Dolores
Dolores is a beautiful spider who dreams of marrying a handsome prince and becoming a princess. She is captured by Morwenna the witch, who locks her in a cage, and flies on her broomstick to her treehouse in the haunted wood. Also captured are a toad and newt who Morwenna plans to boil in her cauldron to make a spell to drive away the ghosts from the haunted wood. Find out how they escape, and whether Dolores finds her prince!
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Thor the Walrus, A Story You Will Never Thaw-get
The water is getting warmer, and the ice cap is melting. Thor, the walrus, is at risk of losing his homeland.Thor lives in the seasonally ice-covered waters of the Arctic Circle with his mother, his friends, and the elders. The ice is brittle and breaks easily. Thor hears the elders talk about climate change and wonders what it means. Being named after the god of thunder, Thor decides he is a brave walrus who will one day embark on an adventure to explore far-off lands to find out more. One night, the ice breaks, and Thor floats away, leaving his mother, his friends, the elders, and his homeland behind. Thor’s adventure has begun.As he enters warmer waters, his floating iceberg gradually melts until it disappears. Thor is on his own and swims for hours, looking for food and a place to rest. He visits coastal villages and a herring festival where the air is thick with the smell of fish. Every time Thor stops to rest and regain his strength, a crowd gathers, and Thor wonders why. He feels lost and alone, listening to the crowds. People were excited to see him. Men in orange coats kept the crowds at bay, but Thor was never far from the water’s edge and would grunt if people came too near. He kept hearing the words ‘global warming,’ ‘climate,’ and ‘change.’If people didn’t act, his homeland would be lost. Thor decided that his journey could make a difference. While he majestically and playfully showed himself off, he hoped that Thor the walrus would never be thaw-forgotten.
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Childhood in the Liverpool Slums
The idea of childhood is a social construction. The word means different things to different people. To some it means happy memories, to others it is best forgotten. The childhoods identified here are set in the realms of poverty, bad housing, little material benefits and little prospects for the future. This is a description of fortitude, hope and survival against the odds, of those childhoods that took place in the Liverpool slums. The text contains a background history supported by photographic evidence, of childhood in Liverpool’s slum housing. It covers the culture, events and its music during the 1950s and 1960s. These are interspersed with and linked to, personal experiences of the author and some theoretical perspectives on childhood. To those from Liverpool, it is a reminder of how things used to be in an entirely different age and world. To those not from the area it is a window on a unique way of life that came and went. For researchers it is a supply of rich first-hand data and hopefully, for all, a good, interesting read.
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The Path to Deliverance
This book is a complete guide that touches every aspect of motherhood from child loss, pregnancy, and childbirth to the first months with a newborn. It allows us to prepare deeply and learn to free ourselves from misbeliefs, limitations, anxiety, and fear. The environment in which we give birth, our attitude, have such a big impact on ourselves but also on the future of our children.When I managed to give birth on my own without an epidural for my second child, it struck me, I had just discovered something major! I had just experienced a superpower. I was a new version of myself just as if I had awakened from a long sleep, I had awakened from ignorance. I felt the urge to share my experience on how to live pregnancy and childbirth in the present moment with mindfulness.In this book, all the tools will help you take care of yourself, create a powerful bond with your baby and lead you on the path to deliverance.
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Beside a Stranger
Inspired by the stunning visual landscape and sea views from Christabel Lancing’s family cottage in South Devon, Beside a Stranger is her debut poetry collection. It reflects her personal experiences of love and loss; of pain, longing, and joy, exploring some paradoxical aspects of isolation and connection.The poem Beside a Stranger originated from the 9/11 tragedy and its anniversaries—a reminder and insight into the emotions of those who died alongside people they’d never met. It is a spirit-driven memory, mirroring events and narrating, in parallel themes, the love for someone you have never met.This is an emotive, sometimes metaphorical insight into human feelings and reactions. It resonates deeply and is, at times, unable to be read without a catch in the throat.Beside a Stranger takes readers on a journey of emotional and natural description, relating intimately to the individual. Each poem builds upon the next to create a tumultuous, compelling, and restorative narrative.
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The Magical Wonky Universe
The Universe can be a curious place, often confounding to ordinary minds. But not to Silicent Fogg’s brilliant mathematical brain. As a magical mathematician, he thrives on the Universe’s befuddlements, claiming he can calculate everything out with his own special brand of magical math.So when Mr. P wakes convinced the whole Universe is out of whack, Silicent jumps at the chance to take the case and raise money to buy his granddaughter a new dress. Now he just needs to factor every possible outcome in a lopsided battle where success is, at best, improbable.Cue a silly vengeance scheme, the Universe’s most ruthless assassins, giant killer butterflies, a train heist, a rabbit costume, and a storyline too absurd to be anything but real. Well, real in the sense that it’s likely implausible, if you catch my drift.
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Blood Phone
Children in Congo are digging rare earth minerals and ore for weapons, mobile phones and electric cars held at gunpoint by child soldiers. Millions of people have been killed in Congo because they live in resource-rich areas. ‘Rape is a weapon of war’ says Congolese Dr Denis Mukwege, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Erik Luyts, a commodities trader based in Geneva, travels to Congo because the Chinese are becoming too competitive. His wife Pauline at Doctors Without Borders warns him against it. Erik decides to do something about the terrible abuses, but can’t prevent that his hidden past is catching up with him. Praise for Van Campen: ‘May I call you the Dutch John le Carré’Alphonse Muambi, Congolese Journalist.‘I must say, this is an exciting book.’ Pim van Galen, Journalist at Dutch Public Television (NOS). ‘We may be able to stop the bleeding, but not the bullets.’Cecile Dehopre, Doctors without Borders, Amsterdam.‘Van Campen makes people aware and confronts them with child labour, working conditions and conflict minerals in Congo’s current mining industry.’Bas van Abel, founder of Fairphone.‘This book is a revelation, after you read it, you will never mindlessly make use of a mobile phone!’Charles den Tex, thriller writer.
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