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Antsy Clansy and the Ghostly Encounter
Antsy Clansy is at it again! Waking on Farmer Footes farm, very thirsty and hot, Old Clansy the donkey sets off to find somewhere to cool off. At Farmer Foote’s creek he encounters a strange, ghostly phenomenon. With help from his brother Sebastian, once again, Old Clansy finds himself in a whole world of hilarious trouble!
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Meadow Fog, Burnt Away by a Red Dawn
In 1988, Nick Valko works as a doctor in Glasgow, but also takes on the responsibility of caring for his alcoholic and disorientated father. As the elderly man recounts fragments of his Soviet past, Nick begins to confront a difficult and enigmatic revelation.
Meadow Fog, Burnt Away by a Red Dawn explores Nick Valko’s struggle to untangle the complicated history of his alcoholic father and the reasons for his father’s disillusionment with the Soviet Union. Unsure if his father’s stories are fantasy or reality, Nick grapples with his father’s questionable reliability as he tries to decipher the contradictions and hidden truths within his father’s tales. While Nick cares for his ailing father, fragments emerge of the elder Valko’s eventful life in Moscow and the Ural forests, revealing his participation in clandestine Soviet experiments that led to his realisation about a challenging truth and drove him to betray his homeland.
Told from Nick’s sceptical viewpoint, Meadow Fog, Burnt Away by a Red Dawn unfolds as an adventure, a love story, and a testament to friendship and betrayal against the backdrop of wartime survival. It develops themes of childhood exploration, discovery, and the allure of the natural world, whilst contemplating the sacrifices one makes to uphold personal integrity, in the face of conflicting truths and ideals, when we try to understand and reconcile with the past.
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Stick or Twist
Having never kissed a girl, 16-year-old Niko has a lot on his mind. But things get much worse when returning home from school, he finds his dad being tormented by criminals. They are trying to extract valuable information about secret government testing on the River Thames. With his own life now in danger, Niko must make a decision...
Does he stick or does he twist?
He twists, and makes his escape helped by his friend, Jacinta. Chased by the criminal gang, the teenagers flee along the Thames in a battered old canoe towards London. They try to unlock the mystery held by the water by following a set of weird clues linking old gravestones to pollution, death and even murder!
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Ally and Angel's Backyard Adventure
Five-year-old Ally is enjoying her last summer holidays before starting school when her parents surprise her with a puppy. Ally names the puppy Angel, and the two quickly become inseparable.
But everything changes when Ally receives a tablet. She spends all her time glued to the screen, neglecting her new best friend. One day, Ally is sent outside to play with Angel again, only to discover that an extraordinary adventure awaits them.
What wonders will Ally and Angel uncover right in their own backyard?
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The Queen's Halloween
One day the Queen’s maid, Alice, brings the Queen her usual morning cup of tea to find the Queen looking very glum.
To Alice’s horror, she discovers the Queen would like to put aside her royal duties for one night in order to experience some Halloween fun.
The Queen’s Halloween follows the innocent antics of the Queen who, like many of us, feels the urge to experience a little escapism and spontaneity.
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The Cost of Capital and Company Valuation
The Cost of Capital and Company Valuation fundamentally challenges Modigliani and Miller’s treatment of taxation in their ‘correction’ from 1963. It provides new propositions around how taxes affect the distribution of cash flows and capital values between the suppliers of financial capital, leading to alternative ways of calculating the cost of capital, including, by extension, the weighted average cost of capital (WACC). Finally, it explores how to appropriately calculate the intrinsic value of companies and additional projects or investments, under different assumptions.
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The Road to Ruins
‘Young man required to drive overland to Australia.’
In October 1963, the 22-year-old Robert Grant, recently invalided out of the army and demoralised by the stifling conformity of postwar Britain, responded to this advertisement in The Times. It had been placed by another young Englishman, Gordon Lindsay, who needed a second driver for an ambitious land journey as far as South Asia, before a planned final leg to Australia by sea. The following year, after meticulous preparation, the two of them would embark on an extraordinary expedition in their customised Land Rover, taking them across Western Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent – a world of ancient wonders and modern challenges.
The Road to Ruins chronicles their odyssey through some of history’s most significant cultural sites, from Chartres and Granada to the Taj Mahal and the Ganges. They navigated through sandstorms, passed through perilous border crossings, and encountered both danger and extraordinary kindness. Their story encompasses the great archaeological treasures of Giza, Timgad, Leptis Magna, Palmyra, Babylon and Persepolis, many of which have since been damaged or destroyed by conflict.Illustrated with some two hundred colour photographs taken during this journey, The Road to Ruins captures a moment in time when these ancient sites still stood in splendid isolation, waiting to be discovered by two young adventurers armed with curiosity and courage.
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Actualism - The Way It Is
Actualism – The Way It Is offers a bold rethinking of how we see the world. Artist and former gallery owner Lawrence B. Salander draws on a life shaped by art, loss, and time spent in prison to explore a powerful idea: that much of our suffering comes from living in a world we have constructed, which he calls ‘Reality,’ rather than the world as it truly is, which he calls ‘Actuality.’
In this provocative and personal work, Salander introduces Actualism, a way of seeing that strips away illusion and reconnects us with the truth beneath appearances. He challenges the modern forces that deepen our disconnection, including capitalism, technology, and distraction. He also champions direct experience, particularly through art and nature, as the path back to clarity and freedom.
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Why Deceive Me?
This gripping crime fiction novel will keep you turning pages late into the night.
Corruption runs deep, and no one is innocent. Robert Sudden, a seasoned stock market professional, is depraved and desperate. His affair with a prostitute, who insists on being called Juicy, spirals into a nightmare when she threatens his life with blackmail. Consumed by a thirst for revenge, Robert embarks on a dangerous quest for justice and retribution, forming the backbone of this riveting narrative.
Meanwhile, Robert’s wife, Jill, is no mere victim of his betrayal. Fuelled by a mix of rage and heartbreak, she becomes a force to be reckoned with, determined to make her husband pay. The emotional depth and moral complexity of the characters make this story an unforgettable journey into the dark recesses of deceit and desperation.
Brew a cup of coffee and dive into a world of betrayal, corruption, and raw human emotion.
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Bipolar
For most of my life, I have been running from the memories of a traumatic childhood. For years, I have been battling against a growing darkness within my mind. From this darkness an entity was created, an entity filled with pure evil, sending me into the biggest battle I have ever had to face with my mental health. For most of my life, I have fought against the stigma of mental health and felt the need to keep it hidden.
But now I have come to a point in my life where I no longer feel the need to keep my condition hidden, and to share a small portion of what I face every day that governs the way I process the challenges life has given to me.
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Big Breaths
Both Wombat and Bear, who live on opposite sides of the world, are off to school with their friends. It is summer in the southern half of the world and winter in the northern half. They both have to give a speech to their class, and they are both as nervous as can be! Perhaps a few helpful tips to overcome the butterflies will help them in these situations with these very common feelings.
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Life Story
Congratulations, you are alive!
This is the adventure story of Life, the ultimate survivor. It is an account of the never-ending battle life wages against competing organisms, the great accidents of existence in the solar system, and the meteorological and geothermic events of a young planet. This is how life fought its way through unimaginable challenges, and how it will do so again.
So far, life has endured five mass extinctions and a global warming event. You carry a survival kit that has protected you from fire, flood, famine, and poisoning. You are made of stardust that is 13.8 billion years old. You are a home, a partner, and a life support system to billions of organisms, surrounded by your fellow survivors.
This is a story of big numbers: billions of stars, neurons, genes, cells, eggs, spores, and connections. Life has taken an unfathomable amount of time to reach this point, overcoming catastrophe after catastrophe with a mix of luck and remarkable engineering. Every living thing around you and within you is both a refugee from countless disasters and a testament to resilience and adaptation.
The gift of evolution has bestowed humanity with great intelligence, and with great intelligence comes great responsibility.
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