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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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The Tale of Goby and Snappy and How to be Happy
Dive into a delightful underwater adventure and discover the magic of friendship.
When Goby the fish and Snappy the shrimp meet by chance, an unexpected bond begins to grow — one that could change everything.
Join them beneath the waves in a heartwarming tale about trust, teamwork, and finding joy where you least expect it.
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The Vapour That Vanishes
It’s not easy to stand alone. But it’s harder to compromise your very essence striving for the unattainable approval and expectations of others.The world will threaten, mock and abuse to contain the free spirit. Yet some people will not be cancelled, cowed nor silenced. And despite their vulnerability they seek authentic and transparent honesty, whether the world likes it or not.Through our tears and our laughter, we each journey onward until it is over, teaching, learning from and inspiring one another by the telling of our stories.
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The Nest: Where Wildflowers Grow
After being cast out of the wasteland like many women before her, Tara, a fifty-three-year-old former psychologist, sets out on a mission to bring freedom and joy back into the lives of women. Set in an off-grid community, surrounded by trees, mountains and a vast open lake, this is an exceptional story where the beauty and deep wisdom of nature override the harshness of a concrete society that thrives on order. The Nest illustrates the coming together of those who have been treated most harshly by inhumane systems and who are now looking to Tara for guidance on the greatest question of all.
How do we heal ourselves and the world in which we live?
From connecting with Mother Nature, letting go of the past and dropping into the sweetness of the present moment, The Nest unearths the remarkable potential of each human being through nourishing relationships, meditation, and the connection of mind, body and soul.
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Jean
When Travis first meets Jean in 1925, he is immediately taken by him. Jean seems everything Travis isn’t: firm, charismatic, and sure of himself, as Travis has never been able to be. He exerts a strong pull on the younger man, and a friendship seems inevitable.
This friendship will carry them through the following decade as the two men navigate the changing tides of political and social circumstances in southern Germany between the World Wars and realise the full potential of their connection… and what it will cost them.
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Alana's Adventures in Egypt
Alana, a young girl from Cairns, finds herself adjusting to life at Stanton’s Girls Boarding School, struggling with homesickness and the challenges of fitting in. Her world changes dramatically when she is transported back in time to ancient Egypt, where she serves as Cleopatra’s handmaiden. Immersed in the grandeur and intrigue of royal court life, Alana witnesses Cleopatra’s struggles against Octavian and the complexities of leadership. She forms a close friendship with Alexander, and their romance unfolds amid political upheaval. As the threat of invasion closes in, Alana faces difficult choices about love and loyalty. When Cleopatra’s fate is sealed, Alana is magically returned to her own time—forever changed by her experiences. “Alana’s Adventures” is a coming-of-age tale that blends historical drama and personal growth, exploring themes of identity, belonging, and the definition of home.
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Feral Fruit
Events conspire against Esmeralda in her search for the truth about Pili’s murder: the arrival of an attractive legionnaire and the internecine rivalry which results; a prophecy made to Lisa by a Santeria priest in Cuba while investigating her father’s bigamy, a prophecy disregarded as superstition but eerily fulfilled by a character key to the mystery of Pili; a perplexing trial; risky sexual adventure with consequences; and not least, natural forces in the rocky, clifftop plot.
As Esme struggles to keep afloat her fruit, vegetable and chalet business off the Santiago Way in northern Spain, she finds herself spiralling into criminality.
Pili’s unquiet spirit leads Esme into ever more ethereal terrain until she is compelled to bore through the life-death interface, to conquer disbelief and meet Pili face to face.
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Where Secrets Lie
They had it all.
Until one broke the pact.
For Lea, Chloe, Iris, and Rose, the isolated cottage in the heart of the Highlands was meant to be a peaceful haven after gruelling exams. But the wild beauty of the Ben Nevis landscape conceals latent tensions that explode with Rose’s sudden disappearance, leaving her twin sister and her cousins consumed by grief and uncertainty.
Haunted by anonymous and terrifying packages, the three young women embark on a desperate search, unearthing buried secrets and severely testing the fragile bonds that unite them. When an intimate page from Rose’s diary resurfaces on an obscure online forum, their certainties crumble. Who is watching them? And what sinister design lies behind this intrusion?
Their quest leads them to a nocturnal and gruesome rendezvous.
In the heart of the night, the truth erupts, revealing a horror far deeper than their initial grief. In this poignant psychological thriller, the survivors must confront danger and find a fragile glimmer of hope in the ashes of the past, while unlikely allies seek their own path to redemption.
Secrets can kill. So can silence.
£8.99
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