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Word Worries
The Feel Good Fairy visits Milly to calm her thoughts and help her sleep. Milly has been really worried about her learning at school, she was so scared every time she had to read or write in class. She thought she was slow and not as clever as the other children. Each night she just tossed and turned, not knowing what the next day would bring and what she would be asked to do. Then one day she was given some magical keys which were special positions or poses for her to put her body in. If she did these poses each day they would unlock four boxes in her brain called: Anxiety, Focus, Confidence and Memory. These were all things that were either happening too much or too little for Milly. By following the wisdom of the Feel Good Fairy, Milly gets to access her own superpowers and feel good again!
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World of 10 Adventures
Marlena, Christopher and friends are faced with many adventures and challenges, taking them to far-flung places from the usual to the unusual.
Follow them to the beach, pond, shoe shop, neighbours, Egypt and beyond.
Read about their friends on a Russian doll holiday, the cloud family high up in the sky far from home, or delve deep into the ocean to join Inky and the Sea Band at the awards ceremony.
Their adventures range from spending time with friends and family, being face to face with an ancient Egyptian god, to a visitor from a distant world.
There are all sorts of exciting discoveries to be made with strange and wonderful characters in exotic places.
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World War One - The Meakin Diaries - Sheffield in the Trenches
In 1915, the newlywed Frank Meakin signed up to the new Sheffield City Battalion and joined the fight for King and Country in the First World War. Although diaries were forbidden during active service, Frank rebelliously and comprehensively kept one throughout his whole service - from 1915 until he was discharged in 1918, 22 days before his Battalion disbanded. Through these diaries we can see the horrors of life on the Western Front first hand; from the Battle of the Somme and its aftermath, to the horrendous conditions in the trenches and the disillusionment of these young soldiers. This is a prosaic and fascinating insight into the Great War through the eyes of a survivor, brought to life 100 years on.
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Wrangler the Anglerfish: Obeying Rules
Did you know that the ugliest, scariest fish in the sea has a “flashlight” at the end of a pole on top of her head? Wrangler the Anglerfish uses her light to help a group of fish friends, who disobeyed their parents, find their way back home.
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Write of Passage
Gerald Wainwright is a self-obsessed narcissist, but never-the-less a world-renowned author who is murdered — and that’s just the beginning of his problems! Waking in a celestial half-way station, he needs to complete a series of tasks. These are designed to teach him some serious life lessons while at the same time helping others to find solutions for their own current crises thereby setting them on the road to fulfilling and happy lives. Helped along the way by his supervisor, Mr Smith, Jerry learns things he never knew about himself — nor wanted to know— but will it be enough for him to finally become the man he was always meant to be and in turn to earn his own ‘Write of Passage’?
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X Ray Vision
Ray’s small world is about to get a whole lot bigger. With his busy, regimented routines and affinity for drawing, his autism and Tourette's syndrome don’t bother him.
What really starts troubling Ray is what goes on behind closed doors? What hides within four walls? And what lurks beneath the river?
How will he cope seeing things differently?
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Yaad, the Girl With No History
It’s 1987. Namo, the politically active bookseller, is preparing to save his marriage after his wife left to stay at her mum’s after an argument. Nazdar is at home, preparing for her wedding which will be taking place in her home village the next day. Friba, the pregnant Peshmerga, is on her way to the city’s hospital, together with her husband. They don’t know one another, but destiny will bring them together.
Sarwar Joanroy follows the fates of these people from the moment their daily lives are interrupted and they end up in the desert.
The novel is a journey through the black pages of the history of the Kurds in Iraq, before the invasion of the United States. Yaad, the girl with no history makes you face the facts about what Saddam Hussein’s regime did to the country and its citizens. It makes you understand why this country is still in turmoil, even today. Sarwar Joanroy based the events in his book on true events, some of which he experienced himself.
Yaad, the girl with no history is a story that is as moving as it is fascinating and educational.
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Yasibear and His Worldly Adventures
Teddy bears don’t experience life, do they?
Desperately wanting that teddy bear from a toyshop, Yasin begs his grandmother to buy it for him. There is something special about that one.
The day before his Uncle Sean goes travelling, Yasin gives the bear to him as a gift and decides to name him Yasibear! And this is where the story begins…
Can teddy bears experience life? Yasibear can!
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Yasibear Travels to Mexico
Fresh from their globetrotting adventure, Yasibear and Uncle Sean are ready to go travelling again but to somewhere new. Desperate for Yasibear to show his ability to talk, Uncle Sean tries his best to encourage Yasibear, but it just won’t happen. What will it take? Another travelling expedition. The destination… Mexico!
Alongside Aunty Kerry, Uncle Sean, Yasin and Yasibear go on an amazing adventure to the gorgeous country of Mexico. They encounter dolphins, flamingos, iguanas and much more but is this enough to make Yasibear talk in public?
This charming story demonstrates that if you are nice to people and have belief, then the best time of your life awaits you.
Join Yasibear, Yasin, Uncle Sean, and Aunty Kerry in their glorious, cultural journey across the enchanting country of Mexico.
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You Are Not Alone
A collection of honest, vulnerable poems written from the perspective of a heart-broken nurse. Through faith, and by taking one day at a time, she learns to overcome her struggle with mental health and faith, and to finally accept that it’s okay to not be okay. Through a mixture of written poetry, hand-illustrated artwork and photography, You Are Not Alone examines experiences and understandings of struggles with mental health from multiple angles and aesthetic mediums, drawing to the surface the rich emotional details of our inner lives.
By turns, a riveting exploration of mental health, the importance of seeking help, guidance and reassurance, and a profound reflection on the challenges of faith in God through meditations on scripture and prayer, these poems will help readers to better understand their own struggles and to find a path to happiness and to God.£9.99 -
You Don't Have to Be a Champion... to Be a Winner!
From fitting wheels to wheelbarrows in a builders’ merchant, Brian rapidly climbed the business ladder and became a Xerox salesman. He was unaware that the professional selling skills he was learning would one day propel him into the glamorous and overtly commercial world of F1.
A disastrous debut at a racing driver school was the spark that lit his passion for motor racing. Aware of the need for some serious financial backing to be able to take part, Brian embarked on a variety of highly innovative and often extremely entertaining ways of securing sponsorship, including working with the cast of a top 1970s’ BBC sit-com, as well as with John Cleese, of Monty Python fame.
A chance meeting on a plane with Max Mosley offered an opportunity of managing one of the most popular F1 Grand Prix circuits. This, in turn, led to the heady heights of a factory drive for Mercedes and the establishment of South Africa’s first racing driver school.
It was only a matter of time before Brian’s exceptional sponsorship-acquisition skills took him to F1, where he quickly made a name for himself by securing multi-million pound deals with three of the most sought after global corporations.
However, Brian’s greatest achievement in motorsport was to establish the Motorsport Industry Association in 1994, in a bid to secure government recognition of the industry in its own right. Once again, Brian’s sales skills played a key role.
Without ever becoming a household name as a motor racing champion, Brian’s story of how he most definitely became a winner is not only inspirational, but highly entertaining, amusing, often irreverent and informative.
You Don’t Have to Be a Champion... to Be a Winner is the story of Brian Sims, who left school in 1963 with just 5 GCE O-Levels and a shattered dream of following in his father’s footsteps as a Royal Air Force pilot.
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Young Samuel, An Ancient Story Retold
Can you imagine a time many hundreds of years ago when you slept on a pallet on the floor, ate fruit, yoghurt and flatbread that your mother baked in a small outdoor adobe oven, and you travelled everywhere by foot or donkey back?
Come along with me on this journey to this far-off time and land and watch young Samuel begin an extraordinary life that can still affect people today. His story might even make a difference in your life. Who knows? Would you like to see for yourself?
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