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The ground shakes beneath your feet. You’re unsure what to do next—will you stay calm and act smart?
Earthquake Safety & Me is here to turn uncertainty into confidence, empowering young readers to face the unexpected with clear, practical guidance. This engaging guide takes children on a journey through earthquake preparedness, teaching them essential steps to stay safe before, during, and after the shaking starts.
Through relatable examples and easy-to-follow advice, readers will learn how to create a family emergency plan, pack a life-saving kit, and find the safest actions to take in the moment.
Designed for children aged 8 and above, this book transforms safety knowledge into empowering life skills, ensuring young readers are ready to handle emergencies with courage and clarity. Because when the earth moves, being prepared makes all the difference.
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‘On Pegasus’ wings, I fly like a phoenix
Soaring across continents, clans and counties
Gliding over mountains and seas
Inspired by Euterpe’s secret melody
While singing Orpheus’ lamentable hymn.”
– Starchild
“They say poetry makes it a bit easier to live life,
I hope that these sonnets surmount such heights.
Burning like fire and quenching like water.
The truth, spoken through the word
Of a child staring at the bright star.
A chance, at least, to live twice, here and afar.”
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My Precious Hands Mes Mains Précieuses
Hands can do so many wonderful things—help, create, comfort, and show love. But most importantly, they can be used for good! My Precious Hands / Mes Mains Précieuses is a heartwarming bilingual picture book that encourages children to think about how they use their hands in everyday life. With simple yet powerful words and engaging illustrations, this book inspires young readers to choose kindness, generosity, and creativity.
Designed for both English and French speakers, this book is perfect for families, teachers, and carers who want to nurture positive values while introducing children to a new language. Whether at home or in the classroom, My Precious Hands / Mes Mains Précieuses opens the door to meaningful conversations about empathy, responsibility, and the beauty of using our hands for good.
Let’s teach the little hands in our lives that they are precious—because the way we use them can shape the world.
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One day at school, whilst fidgeting and struggling to focus, the girl who likes to bounce finds herself bouncing higher than she ever imagined possible. Above her school, above Earth and even further. Where does she go? What does she see? Does she stop bouncing? Follow along to find out.
An imaginative story written for all children who find it hard to sit still.
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The Amazing Adventures of Levi the Guinea Pig
A mystery guinea pig and a high school garden?
Destiny, it seems, has dropped Levi the guinea pig exactly where he was meant to be. From lost and homeless to the star of the show, adventure awaits this pint-sized character amongst the hustle and bustle of school life. The library, the oval, and the science laboratories – nowhere is off-limits for Levi and his new friends. Whether starring in a short film or calming an anxious study group before yearly exams, Levi’s friendly and relaxed personality spreads joy and resilience wherever he goes. Little do the staff and students of Daisy Hill High School realise just how amazing and important to the school community one little guinea pig can be. Levi is out there stealing hearts and scaring teachers – well, maybe just one teacher. High school has never been so much fun!
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Back in the Day: Growing Up in Colonial Central Africa
After World War 2, British colonial countries like Southern Rhodesia were abuzz with renewed energy and excitement for the future, as the language and culture were British, yet the country, unlike Blighty, was tropical with interesting and different geology, archaeology, fauna, flora and people, with fantastic agricultural and mining potential for the rapidly expanding population. The warm, sunny climate reflected a gloriously happy disposition amongst its people.
Willie MacDougall was born under these warm, umbrella-blue skies and enjoyed growing up in a carefree environment where friends and family had value. Whether it was cycling to school and back; sleeping in a tree house; camping in the Matopos Hills or Khami Ruins; going by steam train to the Victoria Falls; enduring long holiday trips to South Africa; exploring disused gold mines; horse riding; or playing the bagpipes, it always involved friends and family.
Inevitably the political landscape changed, and the ‘white bubble’ was unsustainable. Jake, his elder brother and friends were progressively enlisted to fight insurgents on the border. Ultimately, though, it was when the family of his first real love, Hazel, decided to move to Cape Town that he also fully understood his future direction: to go to South Africa, get a degree and work as a biologist.
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Saint-Simon spent a lifetime seeking out scandals at the court of the Sun King, whom he thought an arrogant monster whose extravagant wars and buildings would bankrupt France and bring about the fall of the French monarchy – as it did, ultimately causing the French Revolution. He knew precisely who was who at court, whose genealogies were fake and who slept with whom and how many bastards they had and how much they drank. During the dissolute Regency that followed, he held high office but was involved in the tragic Mississippi bubble. He spent his last ten years writing his memoirs. He had the last laugh. Many who thought they were his friends would have been amazed.
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George Enfield had inherited a house and a fortune after his granddad had suddenly died. However, the inheritance came with the condition that George would keep his granddad’s inventing business going.
It came as a bit of a shock when George discovered that his first invention was to be a device that would hover without using wings and vertical propellers. When he investigated the details, it became obvious he would need to invent a device with antigravity properties.
Eventually, George got in touch with his university sweetheart, Sparky, who had a gift of understanding electromagnetism.
The two of them set about devising a combination of coils that, when combined in a certain configuration and connected electrically, eventually produced a form of levitation.
After some time, they constructed a device that could levitate to a height of approximately fifty metres. Elsie (their housekeeper who was inherited from Granddad) witnessed the grand event; subsequently, they demonstrated it to several businesses who said they would be interested in investing.
During the construction process, George and Sparky’s love for each other became rekindled, and they married.
Subsequently, Sparky was kidnapped by a company who wanted to discover the secrets of their device.
Eventually, George and Sparky were able to resolve a long-standing family mystery.
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In order to drop her past, she had to drop a lot more than she wanted to… including the love of her life.
In the fifth part of the Colour Coded series, Tide finds herself grappling for air in more ways than one after her identity is revealed during a hostage situation in Hamilton. When the team learn how her identity was uncovered by Neon, they race against the clock to locate and rescue a key character from The Teal Tide’s past, as well as many other innocent people that Neon kept under his thumb.
But Tide’s emotional state has the whole team questioning her motives as well as her competency when she suddenly finds a courageousness that she never had before.
Is it bravery or stupidity? Will it have colour coded succumb to Chromatic’s plans? And will they manage to have Tide be the only one to keep her past a secret while she’s in the line of fire?
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When women set out to buy a car, they invariably take a man with them. Why is this so? Why is it that women are so poorly represented in all forms of motor sport?
Although women are increasingly infiltrating both these male-dominated arenas, they are still well within a minority. Why is this so?
One Lady Owner is unique in that it attempts to answer these vexed questions while at the same time delivering a reasoned and humorous dissertation on cars and on motor racing. It will inform and enliven, and, by the end, readers will have well-grounded and well-thought-out knowledge of both the industry and the sport.
This book is unique in its breadth of information. It’s a must-read for all women and men who set out to buy a car or to venture into the realms of motorsport.
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1889. Farringdon Chase is a Lord of the Realm and the greatest amateur detective of his time, loved and admired all over the world. However, following a tragic event involving his arch nemesis, Sylvanus Sharp, he dramatically retires from public life.
But it is not long before London becomes gripped with fear by the terrible crimes of a new horror, The Gaslit Ghoul!
With the population of the capital looking for a saviour, Chase is tempted out of retirement as the crimes and clues become ever more personal, leading to a conclusion which will rock his very world to its foundations.
Leaving him asking himself the question…WHO IS FARRINGDON CHASE?
A tale of mystery and surprises, a tale of two sides of Victorian London, from the splendour of Piccadilly and Kensington to the poverty of the East End. A city filled with characters, some comical, some terrifying, some strange. Enter the world of Farringdon Chase and be amazed!
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Blackmail, kidnapping, and murder were the tools used by gentlemanly villains to cover the tracks of a crime that netted millions of pounds annually for almost two decades. The story unfolds through the eyes of Johnny Cobbold, a City of London wine shipper who is under continuous threat and perceived to hold the key that could reveal the crime and the identity of its perpetrators. Gripping and tantalising to the last, the narrative also reveals fascinating, little-known facts about wine and London itself.
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