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Kommunalka Child
Nine months after she was conceived as a way to contribute to population growth, just like every other Soviet kid, Kommunalka Child was harvested from a cabbage patch. She was brought up in a bilingual family in a communal apartment in Riga. As she was searching for a place in the world, the Soviet way of life slowly collapsed in the face of Western luxuries.Kommunalka Child takes its time-travellers onboard and triggers the reader’s personal memories and senses of smell, taste and touch. The cinematic storytelling in these funny, touching, embarrassing and absurd illustrated micro-memoirs reveals what life was like in the last decade of the Soviet Union, all through the eyes of a Latvian child.
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Lady
On his eighteenth birthday David is given a six-month-old German Shepherd puppy, and immediately a bond is formed between David and Lady, as he calls her. They become inseparable, working together on the family farm in Yorkshire.It is, however, 1944, and the country is still engaged in World War Two so it is only a short time before David receives his call up papers to fight for his country. He wants to do his duty but is worried about leaving Lady behind, David then discovers he is able to enlist her as a guard dog to work alongside him.Although the Germans are in retreat there is still fierce fighting and David, along with Lady, is taken as prisoner of war. Whilst in the camp Lady offers comfort to the internees, and is even a link between the internees and the German guards, and the bond between her and David becomes even stronger.This bond, indeed love, for each other makes them even more inseparable right to the very end.
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Last Touch
Dean Jamieson was murdered on 04/04/2006, leaving an irreplaceable void in the lives of those who held him dear. Dean's mother, Josephine, pens a devastating novel that is a deeply intimate and personal examination of the life and death of her child and the grief that accompanies such a loss.Jamieson critiques the landscape following an untimely death; the support of the social sector and the police, the role of the media and reportage and the effect on family.Jamieson's prose, whilst at times visceral, portrays the emotional weight of burying a child but offers, amongst the darkness, hope. This is a work, whilst being intimate, that transcends the personal and offers solidarity to those who have suffered the loss of a loved one.
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Leading Theories Of Delinquent Behavior And Criminology
Leading Theories of Delinquent Behavior and Criminology covers major theories of crime, delinquent behavior, and criminology. This introductory primer criminology book demonstrates the contemporary uses of each criminological theory and summarizes the major points of each. The text primarily focuses on providing students with uncomplicated elucidation of each theory's fundamental concepts and perspectives. This book offers a fruitful approach to understanding major theories of crime, delinquent behavior, and criminology.
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Leaves in a Holocaust Wind
The Holocaust, the final solution for Jews, is infamous in history. Robert Dawson's Leaves in a Holocaust Wind is the story of another community that suffered in the Holocaust: the Gypsies. Told by Demeter Fox and Zuzzi, Leaves in a Holocaust Wind follows their journey to freedom in the German occupied territory of Slovakia. From the horrors of slaughter in the woods, the lies of a safe future, the concentration camp of Majdanek and the hiding away in the countryside, Fox and Zuzzi must come to terms with what they have witnessed and find the courage to survive until freedom comes. It is a novel of the playful mind-set and culture of the Romanies in the face of a most brutal regime, and in which most of the major events are based on real incidents.
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Leo the Lion's Birthday
Leo is excited… it’s his BIRTHDAY! His friends are invited, the party is planned, and all he needs to do is some shopping. But buying a few party treats can prove quite tricky when what comes out of your mouth isn’t what you want it to be!Will Leo ever be able to get what he needs? Will the shopkeepers ever recover from meeting him?One thing’s for certain… the party will be a ROARING success!!!
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Let's Play Hide and Seek
Psst…! Come and meet the Hawkins family…There’s Harry, 8 years old, the eldest of the children, who does the smelliest of farts.Then there’s Ben, 6, who likes to mend things, taking them apart, then has trouble putting them back together.What about Ruby, 5, the only girl in the family, who just talks, talks, talks and TALKS.The baby of the bunch is Jonny, 3, who lives for his trains. Choo! Choo!And not forgetting Dad, who single-handedly brings up the children, ensuring they look out for one another, as their individual personalities and characters grow within each story.
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Love In, Air In
When Paul awakes in another dimension, bereft of time and space, he is certain he has died, for his memory is intact and he can recall the moments leading up to his death – but he is unable to speak. When he is urged to “find his voice” by his spirit guide, Ulysses, he is met with a startling realization of his post-life fate, as Ulysses assists him in charting a new course.Set in the southern bayous of Louisiana and beneath the majestic skies of Mississippi, Love In, Air In explores the very essence of the human experience and the connections between souls throughout.
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Love Letters in the Wall: Agapé Edition
Demetra Demi Gregorakis has found herself feeling that technology has overtaken love in the priorities of life. In an age where whole relationships are carried out by IM, text and email, she remains a dreamer, a hopeless romantic, who wishes that her 'Memories throughout her time she wishes she could keep in jars' will inspire love, romance and happy memories in her readers as she seeks – and hopes that we all find - that which she calls ‘Agapé love,’ the type of perfect love that transcends all others. Her journey is the somewhat convoluted one which most of us take, ebbing and flowing through this stage and that, meeting the right one, the wrong one, the next one … love and adoration, heartbreak and happiness, they all appear here, in thoughts and poems written from the ever-romantic heart.
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Love YOU for YOU!
LOVE You For YOU! is a book that will inspire children, teachers, parents, social workers, social activists and humanitarians to want to continue making a difference in the lives of others.The crafty flow of words and the charming message will raise multi-cultural awareness in addition to teaching self-empowerment and accepting diversity in others.
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Lured by a Mango Daiquiri
Lured by a Mango Daiquiri is a humorous account of a young woman who, whilst working in the London fashion industry, decides, after a late night out and sequence of events, to apply for a job in Sri Lanka.On securing the position, she changes continents and embarks on an adventure of a lifetime.This book is about adapting to change both inside and out – a quantum leap when one’s foot is in mid-air, propelled forward by courage and intuition.
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Lydia Greenfingers
When Lydia's parents pass away,to her wicked aunt's, she goes to stay.The house is dark, cold and bare,the garden overgrown and without care.Lydia decides to make things right,by growing flowers, tall and bright!
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