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An exciting middle grade adventure about a missing child, some dangerous fairies and two intrepid children.Since Alfred and Saga put a stop to the mayor''s motorway and saved the land of Faerie everything has been a bit quiet. Too quiet, for Saga. All she wants is to go back to the mystical world they discovered, but for some reason Alfred can''t stay far enough away...But when Mayor Underwood announces a new construction project, the Faerie world yet again comes under threat and Alfred must journey deeper into the magical land than ever before. As her friend is whisked away to a place where she cannot follow, Saga has her own mystery to unravel – the disappearance of a child 12 years ago. Saga is sure that the truth of this event could be the key to everything, but what if its secret lies in the one place she cannot go?In this thrilling sequel to H.S. Norup’s Into The Faerie Hill, it is yet again up to Alfred and Saga to save the natural world. As ever, Mayor Underwood’s plans for expansion endanger the fine balance between the mortal world and the Land of Faerie, and this time, the faeries are preparing to fight. Can Alfred and Saga restore the peace between the two worlds and uncover the mystery of the lost child, or will the faeries bring devasatation upon the human land?The Changeling Child is a stunningly imaginative book where fantasy mingles with the everyday. Filled with magic, it is a beautiful story about the importance of friendship and of believing in yourself.

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A sensually romantic, feminist retelling of the Scottish “Ballad of Tam Lin,” combining folklore, desire, and sacrifice in a tale perfect for fans of Natalie Hayes, Genevieve Gornichec, Holly Black, Quicksilver by Callie Hart, and Outlander.“I am Faery and Faery is me.”On Samhain in medieval Scotland, pregnant Janet rescues her lover Tam Lin from being sacrificed by the Wild Hunt—but the callous Faery Queen is not finished with them yet. Over the span of a single night, the Queen and Janet spar over Tam Lin’s fate. The Queen aims to win, knowing how fickle mortals can be. Long before she was royalty, she was simply Bess, the changeling daughter of a midwife.Born with magical and mortal blood, Bess feared there was no true place for her on either side of the veil. She found refuge in the arms of the charming Thomas Shepherd, the bastard son of a local noble. While villagers viewed her as a scandal, Bess’s cunning knowledge and secret dark gifts attracted the attention of the elf lord Adaman. Wily and silver-tongued, Adaman led Bess into Faery’s realm of decadence, where her heart warred against her destiny. She fought to keep both—but at what cost?Inspired by Scotland’s famous “Ballad of Tam Lin” and weaving together mystical folklore and tragic romance, The Changeling Queen’s journey into memory, betrayal, and redemption will enchant you.

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Thirteen-year-old Tom Curdie, the product of a Glasgow slum, is on probation for theft. His teachers admit that he is clever, but only one, Charlie Forbes, sees something in Tom and his seemingly insolent smile. So, Forbes decides to take Tom on holiday with his own family, with tragic consequences.From one of Scotland''s greatest writers, The Changeling explores how goodness and innocence is compromised when faced with the pressures of growing up and becoming part of society.

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A mysterious white-clad figure leads a girl towards a family mystery in this moving middle-grade adventure story of family change and buried secretsFreja arrives in Singapore during the month of the hungry ghost, when old spirits are said to roam the streets. She''s struggling to settle into her dad''s new, ''happy'' family, and dreams only of escaping home and leaving this hot, unfamiliar city.Then one night, a mysterious girl in a white dress appears in the garden. Freja follows this figure to lush, secretive corners of the city, seeking to understand the girl''s identity. Her search will lead her to an old family mystery - one that must be unravelled before the month is over, to allow both girls to be freed from the secrets of the past.

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** Published in the U.S. as The Self-Driven Child**A hands-off parenting guide to nurture independent thinking and collaboration for happier, smarter and stress-free kids.''Sometimes the most helpful thing we can do as parents is to parent our children a little less. This humane, thoughtful book turns the latest brain science into valuable practical advice for parents on how to pull back, when to engage and when to let go. Read it. Your children will thank you.'' Paul Tough, New York Times bestselling author of How Children SucceedAs parents we all want the best for our child, but so often we give in to societal pressures which can result in us over-managing every aspect of their lives leaving them overwhelmed, over-scheduled and lacking motivation. This can terrifyingly lead to mental health problems as adolescents and adults. How can we prevent this happening to our child?Over their combined sixty years of practice, William Stixrud, a clinical neuropsychologist, and Ned Johnson, the founder of an elite tutoring agency, have worked with thousands of children all facing this problem. Together they discovered that the best antidote to stress is to give kids more of a sense of control over their lives. In this ground-breaking book they reveal how you can actively help your child to sculpt a brain that is resilient, stress-proof and ready to take on new challenges.The Thriving Child offers a combination of cutting-edge brain science, the latest discoveries in behavioural therapy, and case studies drawn from the thousands of kids and teens Bill and Ned have helped over the years. They will teach you how to set your child on the real road to success and share their successful techniques to show you the best ways of helping your child to:· Reduce their stress and anxiety · Foster independent thinking· Find their internal motivation· Achieve their full potential· Transform defiance into decision making· Tame rebellious tendenciesThe Thriving Child is essential reading for every parent and demonstrates precisely how nurturing independent thinking, and collaborating with your child rather than micro-managing them, will lead to happier, smarter and stress-free kids.''This serious and probing look at how to give our children the right kinds of independence shows us how much power we have to ensure they can function optimally. It is a book about how to make our children more meaningfully independent, and to set ourselves free in the process.'' Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the Tree''Compelling, revolutionary, and wise, The Thriving Child empowers parents with the courage, the tools, and the mindset to reduce toxic stress, and to foster our child''s capacity for resilience, success, and optimal development. Its message-that we should trust kids to have more control over their own lives-is one every parent needs to hear.'' Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, co-author of The Whole Brain Child and The Yes Brain

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‘And then came the session where I felt I would give up. I felt frustrated as I’d worked so hard on trying to speak but the most important words; the worst ones, had simply not come out. I implied I would not necessarily come back the following week and as I got up to leave the room, Pat said, ‘Try detaching from it entirely. Try writing it as a fairy story. Start with the words, once upon a time there was a little girl’.  That evening, I tried. I sat on my bed and typed on the note’s app of my phone Once Upon A Time … and finally, four decades after the abuse began, the words started to flow.’ This book documents the therapeutic journey undertaken by Sophie and her therapist, Pat. It includes all chapters of the fairy tale and the drawings Sophie created to help her make sense of her experiences and to reconnect with herself. It also contains the many in-between session conversations Pat and Sophie had by email, WhatsApp, and texts, with important insights into how to work safely with trauma.  Essential reading for all therapists, counsellors, health professionals, educators, and social workers, interested in understanding or working with survivors of child sexual abuse, and for those who are survivors of sexual abuse, The Flying Child – A Cautionary Fairy Tale for Adults- Finding a purposeful life after Child Sexual Abuse through compassionate and creative therapy – is a must- have for your bookshelf.  Today, Sophie is a survivor activist, writer, founder and managing director of The Flying Child: a non-profit, National Lottery Community Funded organisation improving the awareness of child sexual abuse and the consequences of trauma. The core aim of The Flying Child is to normalise speaking about CSA. The Flying Child Project brings lived experience into the heart of professional settings, providing training in Education, Social Work and Healthcare.  Pat Walsh is an experiential and intuitive counsellor with over forty years’ experience of working in trauma. Her background in nursing and occupational therapy taught her that to heal properly, wounds must be deeply cleansed, and purpose and meaning must be established to build any long -lasting recovery. She brings these learnings into her therapeutic work with survivors of sexual violence and childhood sexual abuse.

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''Real sagas with female characters right at the heart'' Woman''s HourIf you love Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin, you''ll LOVE Glenda Young''s ''amazing novels!'' (ITV''s This Morning presenter Sharon Marshall)''In the world of historical saga writers, there''s a brand new voice'' My WeeklyWhat readers are saying about Glenda''s dramatically powerful saga of secrets, friendship, motherhood, love and betrayal:''What a gripping writer, pure passion for her world on every page'' 5* reader review''You are totally transplanted into the life or our heroine. Wonderful characters and evocative descriptions'' 5* reader review''Unique, captivating . . . will definitely pull at everyone''s heartstrings'' 5* reader review......................................''She''s not worth more than tuppence, that child!'' Those are the words that haunt Sadie Linthorpe. She is the talk of Ryhope when she arrives there, aged seventeen, alone, seeking work and a home in the pit village. But Sadie is keeping a secret - she is searching for her baby girl who was taken from her at birth a year ago and cruelly sold by the child''s grandmother. All that Sadie knows about the family who took her daughter is that they live in Ryhope. And the only thing she knows about her daughter is that when the baby was born, she had a birthmark on one shoulder that resembled a tiny ladybird. But as Sadie''s quest begins, a visitor from her past appears - one who could jeopardise the life she''s beginning to build and ruin her chances of finding her beloved child for ever.........................................Praise for Glenda Young: ''I really enjoyed Glenda''s novel. It''s well researched and well written and I found myself caring about her characters'' Rosie Goodwin ''Will resonate with saga readers everywhere . . . a wonderful, uplifting story'' Nancy Revell ''All the ingredients for a perfect saga and I loved Meg; she''s such a strong and believable character. A fantastic debut'' Emma Hornby ''Glenda has an exceptionally keen eye for domestic detail which brings this local community to vivid, colourful life and Meg is a likeable, loving heroine for whom the reader roots from start to finish'' Jenny Holmes ''I found it difficult to believe that this was a debut novel, as "brilliant" was the word in my mind when I reached the end. I enjoyed it enormously, being totally absorbed from the first page. I found it extremely well written, and having always loved sagas, one of the best I''ve read'' Margaret KaineLook out for all of Glenda''s compelling sagas - Belle of the Back Streets, The Tuppenny Child, Pearl of Pit Lane, The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon, The Paper Mill Girl and The Miner''s Lass - out now!Plus, Glenda has launched a brand-new cosy-crime mystery series - don''t miss Murder at the Seaview Hotel and Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel - out now!

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Now in a revised and updated 6th edition, the groundbreaking, research-based approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other challenging behaviors, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the field.What’s an explosive child? A child who responds to routine problems with extreme frustration—crying, screaming, swearing, kicking, hitting, biting, spitting, destroying property, and worse. A child whose frequent, severe outbursts leave his or her parents feeling frustrated, scared, worried, and desperate for help. Most of these parents have tried everything-reasoning, explaining, punishing, sticker charts, therapy, medication—but to no avail. They can’t figure out why their child acts the way he or she does; they wonder why the strategies that work for other kids don’t work for theirs; and they don’t know what to do instead.Dr. Ross Greene, a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the treatment of kids with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges, has worked with thousands of explosive children, and he has good news: these kids aren’t attention-seeking, manipulative, or unmotivated, and their parents aren’t passive, permissive pushovers. Rather, explosive kids are lacking some crucial skills in the domains of flexibility/adaptability, frustration tolerance, and problem solving, and they require a different approach to parenting. Throughout this compassionate, insightful, and practical book, Dr. Greene provides a new conceptual framework for understanding their difficulties, based on research in the neurosciences. He explains why traditional parenting and treatment often don’t work with these children, and he describes what to do instead. Instead of relying on rewarding and punishing, Dr. Greene’s Collaborative Problem Solving model promotes working with explosive children to solve the problems that precipitate explosive episodes, and teaching these kids the skills they lack.

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Offering a sociocultural approach to education and learning, this fascinating exploration of childhood provides an in-depth understanding of how children make sense of the world and the people in it. Examining the ways in which children express their thoughts, feelings and actively generate meaning through experience and interaction, this fully revised and updated new edition is illustrated throughout by extensive case studies and covers a diverse range of topics, including:socio-historical and global child development over time and place;the child as meaning-maker and active learner;learning in the context of family, culture, group, society;representing and re-representing the world;understanding roles, identity, race and gender;making sense of science and technology;the implications of neuroscience. Taking a clearly articulated and engaging perspective, Sandra Smidt draws upon multiple sources and ideas to illustrate many of the facets of the developing child in a contemporary context. She depicts children as symbol users, role-players, investigators and creative thinkers, and follows children''s　progress in forming their understanding of their environment, asking questions about it, and expressing it through music, dance, art and constructive play. Highly accessible, and with points for reflection concluding each chapter, The Developing Child is essential reading for teachers, lecturers and students taking courses in early childhood, psychology or sociology.

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From the bestselling authors of The Montessori Toddler and The Montessori Baby, this book guides parents through the principles of Montessori to enhance their children's development and foster respectful relationships with their families and the world. When children are given independence, the tools to succeed, and the encouragement to build on their abilities, it’s amazing what they can achieve. The newest book in the bestselling Montessori series is an everything-you-need-to-know guide to raising your school-aged child (from 3–12 years old, with a bonus chapter for the teen years) in the Montessori way. Educators Simone Davies and Junnifa Uzodike provide an in-depth, practical guide to incorporating Montessori principles into readers’ everyday lives, with advice on everything from setting up your home in ways that encourage curiosity and independence to supporting your child’s social and moral development with a balance of limit-setting and age-appropriate freedoms. The book includes dozens of hands-on activities to help foster your child's love of numbers and literacy, art and science, and ones that encourage community-building, social awareness, and connection with the natural world. The Montessori Child offers a powerful alternative for parents who feel that family life has gotten too complicated by showing parents how to make more intentional choices for your family, how to better understand the needs of your children, and support them as they develop their unique potential.

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Were you looking for the book with access to MyPsychLab? This product is the book alone, and does NOT come with access to MyPsychLab. Buy The Developing Child with MyPsychLab access card 13e (ISBN 9781447964247) if you need access to the MyLab as well, and save money on this brilliant resource. Provides students the most support for learning and success The Developing Child, 13e gives students the tools they need to organize, retain, and apply information from the broad field of child psychology, while offering balanced coverage of theory and application. Through The Developing Child, 13e Helen Bee and Denise Boyd generate excitement about scientific inquiry by connecting research with applications. All integrated features within the text are designed to engage students and provide them with the support they need to understand, learn, and apply the material. Interactive resources like MyPsychLab with MyVirtualChild offer students additional support and the ultimate hands-on learning experience. Teaching & Learning Experience Personalize Learning – MyPsychLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals. Improve Critical Thinking - Interactive resources like MyPsychLab with MyVirtualChild encourage students to apply chapter content to real life situations. Engage Students - A strong balance of research and applications maintains student interest. Explore Research – Every chapter includes a research report and a “Conduct Your Own Research” feature that allows readers to replicate the findings of a developmental study. Understand Culture and Diversity — Cross-cultural differences in language, identity, and gender are explored. Support Instructors - MyPsychLab’s Class Prep, MyVirtualChild, video embedded PowerPoints, MyTest, clicker questions, and an instructor’s manual provide instructors with extensive materials to supplement the text.

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Even though the Irish child sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church have appeared steadily in the media, many children remain in peril. In The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature, Joseph Valente and Margot Gayle Backus examine modern cultural responses to child sex abuse in Ireland. Using descriptions of these scandals found in newspapers, historiographical analysis, and 20th- and 21st-century literature, Valente and Backus expose a public sphere ardently committed to Irish children's souls and piously oblivious to their physical welfare. They offer historically contextualized and psychoanalytically informed readings of scandal narratives by nine notable modern Irish authors who actively, pointedly, and persistently question Ireland's responsibilities regarding its children. Through close, critical readings, a more nuanced and troubling account emerges of how Ireland's postcolonial heritage has served to enable such abuse. The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature refines the debates on why so many Irish children were lost by offering insight into the lived experience of both the children and those who failed them.

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Inspired by a true story, a beautiful novel-in-verse about a child far from home. From award-winning poet Liz Berry.*WINNER OF THE WRITERS'' PRIZE - BOOK OF THE YEAR**WINNER OF THE WRITERS'' PRIZE FOR POETRY*''A profound act of witness to a long injustice, and a beautifully crafted conjuring of a life lived as truly as possible'' Guardian ''Book of the Day''''Ground-breaking'' Benjamin Zephaniah''Exquisite'' Hannah Lowe, author of The Kids''Home''s not a place, you must believe this,but one who names you and means beloved.''In 1908, Eliza Showell, twelve years old and newly orphaned, boards a ship that will carry her from the slums of the Black Country to rural Nova Scotia. She will never return to Britain or see her family again. She is a Home Child, one of thousands of British children sent to Canada to work as indentured farm labourers and domestic servants.In Nova Scotia, Eliza''s world becomes a place where ordinary things are transfigured into treasures - a red ribbon, the feel of a foal''s mane, the sound of her name on someone else''s lips. With nothing to call her own, the wild beauty of Cape Breton is the only solace Eliza has - until another Home Child, a boy, comes to the farm and changes everything.Inspired by the true story of Liz Berry''s great aunt, this spellbinding novel in verse is an exquisite portrait of a girl far from home.''Vivid, compassionate and makes Eliza Showell''s voice heard at last'' Financial Times *Best Poetry Books of summer 2023*''A haunting, deeply compelling narrative'' Andrew McMillan, author of physical''Only Liz Berry could write such raw and staggeringly beautiful poems'' Fiona Benson, author of Vertigo & Ghost

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A classic tale from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child.‘Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet and David would reach for each other’s hand, and smile, and breathe happiness.’Four children, a beautiful old house, the love of relatives and friends – Harriet and David Lovatt’s life is a glorious hymn to domestic bliss and old-fashioned family values. But when their fifth child is born, a sickly and implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll. Large and ugly, violent and uncontrollable, the infant Ben, ‘full of cold dislike’, tears at Harriet’s breast. Struggling to care for her new-born child, faced with a darkness and a strange defiance she has never known before, Harriet is deeply afraid of what, exactly, she has brought into the world …

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Will she ever find a place to call home?The dramatic novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.Previously published as Forgotten Child in 2010ALONE…Jennifer Lavender was a lonely child. She always felt like second best and desperately craved her parents’ love. When Jenny learns she was adopted everything falls into place. But her dream of finding her real family can never be fulfilled – her mother died alone giving birth.ABANDONED… Now a grown woman and married to Marcos, she feels loved. But when the police show up, Jenny realises that her marriage is not what it seemed. Destitute, she is forced to start again.ASTOUNDED… But soon Jenny meets a young woman who will change her life forever. Together they search for the truth, but what they discover may be more than they can bear…A gripping and heartrending saga from the Sunday Times bestseller. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Dilly Court.Praise for The Forgotten Child:‘Another fantastic story with twists and turns. I cried and laughed so many times, I could read it all over again’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Enjoyed every moment of this book, it’s a page-turner all the way through!’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Loved it, COULD NOT put it down!’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘My favourite Kitty Neale book so far’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘I sometimes know how a book will end before I am even half way through it, but this had me guessing!’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘As you read it you feel like you are a living part of the story’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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A Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestseller.A page-turning debut of suspense about a young couple desperate to have a child of their own—and the unsettling consequences of getting what they always wanted.Christopher and Hannah are a happily married surgeon and nurse with picture-perfect lives. All that’s missing is a child. When Janie, an abandoned six-year-old, turns up at their hospital, Christopher forms an instant connection with her, and he convinces Hannah they should take her home as their own.But Janie is no ordinary child, and her damaged psyche proves to be more than her new parents were expecting. Janie is fiercely devoted to Christopher, but she acts out in increasingly disturbing ways, directing all her rage at Hannah. Unable to bond with Janie, Hannah is drowning under the pressure, and Christopher refuses to see Janie’s true nature.Hannah knows that Janie is manipulating Christopher and isolating him from her, despite Hannah’s attempts to bring them all together. But as Janie’s behavior threatens to tear Christopher and Hannah apart, the truth behind Janie’s past may be enough to push them all over the edge.

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A young girl.A hidden treasure.A dark family secret.‘Evocative and enchanting – a future classic'' Veronica Henry‘An extraordinary debut… beautiful, dark, haunting’ Edward Carey‘A captivating coming-of-age story’ Daily Mail‘A bewitching read'' Woman & HomeRomilly Kemp has an idyllic childhood, roaming the wilderness that surrounds her father’s ramshackle farmhouse. But when he makes her the star of his beautifully illustrated books, her carefree if somewhat lonely existence is threatened.The books are thought to hold clues to an elaborate treasure hunt, and strangers turn up at their door, anxious to get a glimpse of the ‘Kemp Treasure Girl’. But when her father falls ill, leaving Romilly more isolated and alone than ever, she begins to delve deeper into the books – and her past.As she makes sense of the clues he has hidden, she finds a truth that is far darker and more devastating than any treasure hunt has a right to be. For not everything that is hidden is gold.Praise for The Illustrated Child:''Evocative and enchanting – a future classic and a star in the making'' Veronica Henry‘An extraordinary debut… beautiful, dark, haunting and unforgettable. I loved it’ Edward Carey‘A captivating coming-of-age story with memorable characters beautifully brought to life in a setting dripping with atmosphere’ Daily Mail‘Part fantasy, part coming of age, the undercurrents of child neglect and mental ill health pull at you all the way through this poignant tale’ Heat‘A bewitching read'' Woman & Home‘Written in fine, delicate prose, this treasure of a debut takes up the palette of emotions and paints with all the colours. Beautiful’ Nydia Hetherington‘Exquisitely written, stunning, totally unique. Everyone needs to read this’ Jessica Ryn‘A magical tale, beautifully written, evocative and mysterious, and stitched through with a dark thread that I wasn’t expecting. What a wonderful book’ Anita Frank‘A beautifully written tale that evokes dreams and imagination’ Daily Record

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This beautifully illustrated story is an adaptation of the Welsh legend of Cantre''r Gwaelod, the lost area of Wales which disappeared beneath the sea. This drowned land was once a pleasant and prosperous kingdom, its low-lying fields protected from the waves by a high sea wall. But only Mererid, the storm child, knows that the tide-gates are failing and the next storm will breach the wall. As clouds and ravens gather overhead, she must race to save her friends and the kingdom before it''s too late...TreeTops Greatest Stories offers children some of the world''s best-loved tales in a collection of timeless classics. Top children''s authors and talented illustrators work together to bring to life our literary heritage for a new generation, engaging and delighting children.The books are carefully levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book.Each book contains inside cover notes to help children explore the content, supporting their reading development. Teaching notes on Oxford Owl offer cross-curricular links and activities to support guided reading, writing, speaking and listening.

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Pre-order BOLEYN TRAITOR now – Philippa Gregory’s landmark return to the Tudor court, coming Autumn 2025 …The second novel in the bestselling Wideacre Trilogy, a compulsive drama set in the eighteenth century. By Philippa Gregory, the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin’s Lover.The Wideacre estate is bankrupt, the villagers are living in poverty and Wideacre Hall is a smoke-blackened ruin.But in the Dower House two children are being raised in protected innocence. Equal claimants to the inheritance of Wideacre, rivals for the love of the village, they are tied by a secret childhood betrothal but forbidden to marry. Only one can be the favoured child. Only one can inherit the magical understanding between the land and the Lacey family that can make the Sussex village grow green again. Only one can be Beatrice Lacey’s true heir.Sweeping, passionate, unique: ''The Favoured Child'' is the second novel in Philippa Gregory''s bestselling trilogy which began with ''Wideacre'' and concluded with ''Meridon''.

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It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. For days, she carried it tucked beneath her arm, shaping it with the warmth of her flesh, giving it life. She fashioned for it eyes and ears that cannot open, and yet – it watches and listens.It looks on as Christenze is haunted by rumour, it hears what the people whisper. It sees how, in the candlelight, she gazes with love at her friends, and hears the things they say in the shadows. It knows pine forest, misty fjord and the crackle of the burning pyre. It observes the violence in men’s eyes and the cruelty of their laws. In time, it begins to understand that once a suspicion of witchcraft has taken hold, it can prove impossible to shake…Based on an infamous seventeenth century Danish witch trial, The Wax Child is the extraordinary new novel from Olga Ravn, one of the most acclaimed and original writers at work today: a mesmerising, frightening vision of a time when witches and magic were as real to the human mind as soil and seawater.

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A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska, Eowyn Ivey''s THE SNOW CHILD was a top ten bestseller in hardback and paperback, and went on to be a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.''A story about finding love in unexpected places... full of fire and ice'' Financial Times''A magical, heartbreaking story'' Marie Claire''Stunning'' The TimesAlaska, the 1920s. Jack and Mabel have staked everything on a fresh start in a remote homestead, but the wilderness is a stark place, and Mabel is haunted by the baby she lost many years before. When a little girl appears mysteriously on their land, each is filled with wonder, but also foreboding: is she what she seems, and can they find room in their hearts for her?Written with the clarity and vividness of the Russian fairy tale from which it takes its inspiration, The Snow Child is an instant classic.

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Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2023.‘An incredibly important book . . . a beautifully crafted, compelling story . . . which will undoubtedly break your heart but also make it sing’ - Mike GayleTwo children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a secret.1907: Twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of his time locked in an attic room of a large house by the sea. Taken from his homeland and treated as an unpaid servant, he dreams of his family in Africa even if, as the years pass, he struggles to remember his mother’s face, and sometimes his real name . . .Decades later, Lowra, a young orphan girl born into wealth and privilege, will find herself banished to the same attic. Lying under the floorboards of the room is an old porcelain doll, an unusual beaded claw necklace and, most curiously, a sentence etched on the wall behind an old cupboard, written in an unidentifiable language. Artefacts that will offer her a strange kind of comfort, and lead her to believe that she was not the first child to be imprisoned there . . .Lola Jaye has created a hauntingly powerful, emotionally charged and unique dual-narrative novel about family secrets, love and loss, identity and belonging, seen through the lens of Black British History in The Attic Child.‘This is important storytelling about issues of race and privilege . . . that will stay with me for a long time’ - Tracy Chevalier‘Just brilliant’ - Dorothy Koomson‘Powerful and emotional’ - Lisa Jewell

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Figurka - soška, postavička, sběratelská, motiv Star Wars, výška 9 cm, materiál vinyl, nepohyblivá, vhodná od 3 let Funko POP! jsou čím dál populárnější malé vinylové figurky s ikonickým roztomilým vzhledem, který je charakterizován velkou hlavou a malým tělem postavičky. Poprvé byly představeny v roce 2010, kombinují tradiční výrobu sošek s moderními prvky a barvami a jsou uznávané i jako sběratelské předměty. Každý si v dnes už tisících figurek najde tu svoji, vyráběny jsou v mnoha různých tématech, jako jsou filmy, televizní seriály, hry, komiksy a další pop-kulturní ikony. I tato figurka, Funko POP! Star Wars The Mandalorian - Child using the Force (Deluxe), o výšce 9 cm se stane skvělým kouskem do vaší sbírky, či veselou hračkou pro vaše dítko. Klíčové vlastnosti figurky Funko POP! Star Wars The Mandalorian - Child using the Force (Deluxe) Figurka Funko nadchne každého sběratele Je určena pro děti od 3 let Figurka ze série Star Wars se bude vyjímat ve...

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The Story of the Lost Child is the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women- the brilliant, bookish Elena, and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults, with husbands, lovers, aging parents, and children. Their friendship has been the gravitational center of their lives. Both women fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up-a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books. In this final novel she has returned to Naples, drawn back as if responding to the city's obscure magnetism. Lila, on the other hand, could never free herself from the city of her birth. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect the neighborhood. Proximity to the world she has always rejected only brings her role as its unacknowledged leader into relief. For Lila is unstoppable, unmanageable, unforgettable.The four volumes in this series constitute a long remarkable story that readers will return to again and again, and each return will bring with it new revelations.

Objev podobné jako The Story of the Lost Child - Elena Ferrante

SHE CAN''T HAVE A FUTURE UNTIL SHE KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED TO HER FAMILY AFTER THE WAR.''Deeply moving and beautifully written'' ANN CLEEVES''Heart-breaking, beautiful and thrilling - a book that will stay with you for a very long time'' ELLY GRIFFITHS''A tale of devastating secrets, brilliantly told'' RORY CLEMENTS1944LEO STERN arrives at the Nazi camp at Borek with his wife Irena and his two daughters. The Sterns are spared from the gas chamber when they witness a murder. But in a place that humanity has deserted, Leo is forced to make unimaginable choices to try to keep his family alive. 1961 For seventeen years, Hanna has been unable to remember her identity and how she was separated from her family at the end of the war, until the discovery of a letter among her late uncle''s possessions reveals her real name - HANNA STERN - and leads her to Berlin in search of her lost past.Helped by former lover Peter, Hanna begins to piece together the shocking final days of Borek. But Hanna isn''t the only one with an interest in the camp, and lurking in the shadows is someone who would prefer Hanna''s history to remain silent. Based on in-depth research and beautifully written, this a novel of memory and identity, and the long shadow of war.''Outstanding. Heartstopping. Brilliant. A story that scorches the page, searing in its honesty and profoundly moving in its emotional impact. This is an important, powerful novel that everyone should read'' KATE FURNIVALL''Taking the reader from the atmospheric Fenlands of Cambridgeshire to the ghost-filled forests of wartime Poland and finally into Cold War-era Berlin, The Silent Child is a thought-provoking and compelling novel about the long-lasting aftershocks of war. This is great storytelling, full of mysteries and twists, epic in its sweep, but precise and respectful in its historical details. J. G. Kelly''s vividly evoked scenes will stay with me for a long time'' CAROLINE SCOTT''This book was such a beautifully written book that will stay with me for a long time. The storyline was emotive and heart wrenching and the characters were well developed and have a special place in my heart. I didn''t want this book to end. Nothing I could say would do this book justice, I cannot recommend this book enough'' Reader review''It''s beautifully written with a story that draws you in so quickly, it''s very well researched and heartbreakingly realistic. A book I wanted and needed to finish. The sort of book everyone should read. The most compelling book I''ve read this year'' Reader review''Utterly impossible for me to put down. A heartbreaking story... I found I had devoured the entire book in just one sitting... I have loved this book so much, I wish I could give it five hundred stars. All I can say is "WOW - read it. You won''t be disappointed'' Reader review ''I was engrossed in the story. The author has done tremendous research about the war and did a good job of drawing the reader into the story'' Reader review

Objev podobné jako The Silent Child - J.G. Kelly

A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children With transgender rights front and center in American politics, media, and culture, the pervasive myth still exists that today’s transgender children are a brand new generation—pioneers in a field of new obstacles and hurdles. Histories of the Transgender Child shatters this myth, uncovering a previously unknown twentieth-century history when transgender children not only existed but preexisted the term transgender and its predecessors, playing a central role in the medicalization of trans people, and all sex and gender.Beginning with the early 1900s when children with “ambiguous” sex first sought medical attention, to the 1930s when transgender people began to seek out doctors involved in altering children’s sex, to the invention of the category gender, and finally the 1960s and ’70s when, as the field institutionalized, transgender children began to take hormones, change their names, and even access gender confirmation, Julian Gill-Peterson reconstructs the medicalization and racialization of children’s bodies. Throughout, they foreground the racial history of medicine that excludes black and trans of color children through the concept of gender’s plasticity, placing race at the center of their analysis and at the center of transgender studies.Until now, little has been known about early transgender history and life and its relevance to children. Using a wealth of archival research from hospitals and clinics, including incredible personal letters from children to doctors, as well as scientific and medical literature, this book reaches back to the first half of the twentieth century—a time when the category transgender was not available but surely existed, in the lives of children and parents.

Objev podobné jako Histories of the Transgender Child - Jules Gill-Peterson

From the author of House of Salt and Sorrows comes the breathtaking fairytale retelling readers have been waiting for When death calls, she must answer. Hazel Trepas has always known she was different from her siblings. A thirteenth child, she was promised to one of the gods at birth - Merrick, the god of death. When he finally arrives, Hazel learns the art - and magic - of healing. Word of her extraordinary gift to know the cure for every ailment spreads throughout the kingdom. But all gifts come with a price. When Death claims a soul for himself, it is Hazel who must end their suffering... permanently. Soon, destiny brings her to the royal court where she meets Leopold, an infuriatingly alluring prince with a disdain for everything and everyone. Here, Hazel faces her biggest dilemma yet: to carry out her duties or follow the urges of her own heart. Can she go against the will of Death himself to save someone who is marked to die?

Objev podobné jako The Thirteenth Child - Erin A. Craigová

The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later. Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne.Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The play will receive its world premiere in London's West End on 30th July 2016.It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school-age children.While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.I přes prohlášení, že sedmým dílem se příběhy Harryho Pottera uzavírají, byl vytvořen příběh osmý. Má podobu dvoudílné divadelní hry, kterou autorka vytvořila ve spolupráci s Jackem Thornem a Johnem Tiffanym. Její premiéra bude 30. července v londýnském West Endu. Příběh dostane také knižní podobu, která spatří světlo světa měsíc po premiéře divadelní hry.Odehrává se 19 let po skončení sedmidílné série. Harry je přepracovaným úředníkem ministerstva kouzel a otcem tříčlenné rodiny.Jeho minulost je mu stále v patách a také jeho nejmladší syn Albus bojuje s tíhou rodového prokletí. Minulost neblaze proniká do současnosti a Harry i jeho syn jsou konfrontováni se syrovou pravdou, že zlo může přijít z těch nejneočekávanějších míst.

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THE COUNTRY CHILD is a semi-autobiographical story about a girl growing up in the country before the First World War. Alison Uttley has drawn on her own youth to produce memories so vivid and nostalgic that you can almost smell the honeysuckle and hear the owls calling at dusk. She writes about the small intense joys and sorrows of life on a small farm: the fun of haymaking, the sadness of favourite animals being slaughtered, and the close sweetness of Christmas celebrations in the farmhouse kitchen.Also in A Puffin Book: A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley

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Discover this heartrending story of orphans, outcasts and the grip of the past from award-winning novelist Caryl Phillips – inspired by Wuthering Heights.It is the 1960s. Isolated from her parents after falling in love with a foreigner, Monica Johnson raises her sons in the shadow of the wild Yorkshire moors. But when her younger son Tommy, a loner who is bullied at school, disappears, the family bond is demolished – with devastating consequences.Deftly intertwined with this modern narrative is the story of the ragged childhood of Emily Brontë’s Heathcliff, one of literature’s most enigmatic lost boys. Recovering the mysteries of the past to illuminate the predicaments of the present, The Lost Child is an exquisite novel about exile, freedom and what it is to belong. ‘Heartbreaking…compelling’ Independent

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It''s the beginning of the 20th century; the age of scientific progress. But for Venice the future looks bleak. A conference of scientists assembles to address the problems, among whose delegates are the parents of twelve-year-old Teodora. Within days of her arrival, she is subsumed into the secret life of Venice: a world in which salty-tongued mermaids run subversive printing presses, ghosts good and bad patrol the streets and librarians turn fluidly into cats. A battle against forces determined to destroy the city once and for all quickly ensues. Only Teo, the undrowned child who survived a tragic accident as a baby, can go ''between the linings'' to subvert evil and restore order.

Objev podobné jako The Undrowned Child - Michelle Lovric

Moya is no ordinary child. She is beautiful, gentle - and luck follows her wherever she goes. But is she lucky enough to escape the Little People and an evil queen? Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 7-8 (Year 3) Book band: Brown A Phonics phase: N/A

Objev podobné jako Bug Club Independent Fiction Year 3 Brown A Moya, the Luck Child - Doyle Malachy

Lauded as the best story writer of our time, Joy Williams returns with a taut collection that responds to our modern dilemmas with her signature dry wit and deftness of touch. In sinister and shifting landscapes, we meet souls lost and found: from the twin heiresses of a dirty industrial fortune, who must commit a violent act in recompense for their family''s deeds, to a newly grown man who still revolves in a dreamscape of his childhood boarding-school innocence, to the "pelican child", who lives with the bony, ill-tempered Baba Yaga in a little hut on chicken legs. For readers of Lorrie Moore, Mary Gaitskill and George Saunders, these haunted stories examine the instincts separating us from the beastly and the divine.

Objev podobné jako The Pelican Child - Joy Williams

Innsmouth is a dark and shadowed town, full of secrets and danger.You play a private investigator, asked to find a child kidnapped by the townsfolk. But beware, the residents aren’t quite what you expect!It’s up to you to navigate the town whilst trying not to be seen; the higher your conspicuousness, the more likely you are to come face to face with the enemy.You must use your experience, stealth, power, speed, and perception to help you successfully navigate the many locations and people within. Not all are enemies, and it is up to you to choose who to trust and who to fight.

Objev podobné jako Innsmouth: The Stolen Child - Simon Birks

Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildW.B. Yeats’s enchanting poem, with radiant original art by Erin Brown

Objev podobné jako The Stolen Child - W.B. Yeats

God and the Snake Child is an imaginative and engaging retelling of Nicodemus's story for confident readers aged 8+ years.

Objev podobné jako God and the Snake-child - Steve Eggleton

'A vibrant page-turner with entrancing characters' Margaret Dickinson'Rosie writes such heartwarming sagas' Lyn Andrews'The new Catherine Cookson' Coventry Evening TelegraphWednesday's child is full of woe .

Objev podobné jako The Blessed Child - Rosie Goodwin

''WONDERFUL. ONE NEVER MESSES WITH THE FAERIES'' Melanie Reid, The Times''AN ABSOLUTE TRIUMPH'' Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus ''A BRILLIANT TOUR-DE-FORCE -RIVETING'' Alistair Moffatt, author of The Hidden Ways ''EXTRAORDINARILY VIVID'' Michelle Gallen, author of Big Girl Small TownA spellbinding novel combining Scottish folklore with hidden history, by the Sunday Times bestselling author Sally Magnusson.Loch Katrine waterworks, 1856. A Highland wilderness fast becoming an industrial wasteland. No place for a lady. Isabel Aird is aghast when her husband is appointed doctor to an extraordinary waterworks being built miles from the city. But Isabel, denied the motherhood role that is expected of her by a succession of miscarriages, finds unexpected consolations in a place where she can feel the presence of her unborn children and begin to work out what her life in Victorian society is for. The hills echo with the gunpowder blasts of hundreds of navvies tunnelling day and night to bring clean water to diseased Glasgow thirty miles away - digging so deep that there are those who worry they are disturbing the land of faery itself. Here, just inside the Highland line, the membrane between the modern world and the ancient unseen places is very thin. With new life quickening within her again, Isabel can only wait. But a darker presence has also emerged from the gunpowder smoke. And he is waiting too. Inspired by the mysterious death of the seventeenth-century minister Robert Kirke and set in a pivotal era two centuries later when engineering innovation flourished but women did not, The Ninth Childblends folklore with historical realism in a spellbinding narrative.*PRAISE FOR THE SEALWOMAN''S GIFT*''I enjoyed and admired it in equal measure'' SARAH PERRY''An extraordinarily immersive read'' Guardian''Richly imagined and energetically told'' Sunday Times''An epic journey'' Zoe Ball Book Club

Objev podobné jako The Ninth Child - Sally Magnusson

What the sea takes for its own can never return…Portugal, 1754. Cecilia Lamb knew being a sea captain’s wife would mean a life of waiting and watching the horizon for her husband’s ship. But John has been gone longer than any voyage should last. Everyone else has given up hope of his return. But she knows in her bones that he is not lost. Gone, but not lost.Barely able to tear her eyes from the shimmering sea, she feels drawn to the sun-baked shoreline, and amid the bustle of the docks she feels certain that her husband will come back to her. Though along with that feeling is another sense – that something darker is coming. As she sickens, she doesn’t know what the next tide will bring – but she begins to fear as well as crave her husband’s homecoming.Soon, even on dry land, Cecilia can feel the pull of the ocean at her feet, the movement of the tides within her. Warning, seduction or promise, she cannot tell, but one thing is certain – the sea holds many secrets, and some of them are too powerful to ever be drowned.

Objev podobné jako The Water Child - West Mathew

England, 1940s. Minnie has spent most of her life feeling like a plain Jane, watching things happen around her, waiting for something - just something - to once happen to her. When her old best friend, the beautiful and callous Junie, unexpectedly returns to Sixteen Streets, Minnie''s not quite sure how to feel. Once inseparable, the two now find themselves at odds. And when Junie strikes up a romance with Minnie''s brother Derek, Minnie can''t help but feel lonelier than ever...Junie''s looking to start anew - she''s running from her mucky, strained life in South Manchester, and the cruel man she shared it with. But when she returns to Sixteen Streets, all her old wounds - from her mother to her friends - resurface. And she has no choice but to face them, and this place she once called home.In the midst of it all, can the two women find their way back to each other - and themselves - once again? Or will Sixteen Streets really break them apart?Readers love Elsie Mason:''Could not put it down'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''A brilliant story from a brilliant author'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''I enjoyed every bit of this book'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''The end had me in tears'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"Stays with you long after you''ve turned the last page" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Objev podobné jako The Loveless Child - Elsie Mason

*The Irish Times No. 1 bestseller**A Sunday Times best crime fiction of the year selection*''One of the greatest twists I''ve ever read'' CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD''An addictive, immersive, incredibly poignant page-turner '' ANDREA MARAIt''s every parent''s worst nightmare. But there''s no waking up from this . . .On board a cruise ship in the Mediterranean, Kimberly wakes to discover that her two-year-old son Robert has vanished from the cabin overnight. She and her husband Jason vow to do whatever it takes to bring Robert home.But he is never found.Forty years later, their therapist daughter Lily welcomes a new client into her home. Zach has a shocking theory about what happened to her brother Robert years before.If Zach is to be believed, someone out there knows what happened on that ship. And they would do anything to stop the truth getting out.But secrets always find a way to reveal themselves . . .PRAISE FOR CARMEL HARRINGTON''S NOVELS''Warm, uplifting & important...a very VERY special book'' MARIAN KEYES''Beautifully moving and uplifting'' CECELIA AHERN''Storytelling at its best'' SHEILA O''FLANAGAN''We defy you not to say, just one more chapter!'' BELFAST TELEGRAPH''Beautifully written, emotionally intelligent & moving in the extreme'' DAILY MAIL

Objev podobné jako The Stolen Child - Carmel Harrington

*The Irish Times No. 1 bestseller**A Sunday Times best crime fiction of the year selection*''One of the greatest twists I''ve ever read'' CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD''An addictive, immersive, incredibly poignant page-turner '' ANDREA MARAIt''s every parent''s worst nightmare. But there''s no waking up from this . . .On board a cruise ship in the Mediterranean, Kimberly wakes to discover that her two-year-old son Robert has vanished from the cabin overnight. She and her husband Jason vow to do whatever it takes to bring Robert home.But he is never found.Forty years later, their therapist daughter Lily welcomes a new client into her home. Zach has a shocking theory about what happened to her brother Robert years before.If Zach is to be believed, someone out there knows what happened on that ship. And they would do anything to stop the truth getting out.But secrets always find a way to reveal themselves . . .PRAISE FOR CARMEL HARRINGTON''S NOVELS''Warm, uplifting & important...a very VERY special book'' MARIAN KEYES''Beautifully moving and uplifting'' CECELIA AHERN''Storytelling at its best'' SHEILA O''FLANAGAN''We defy you not to say, just one more chapter!'' BELFAST TELEGRAPH''Beautifully written, emotionally intelligent & moving in the extreme'' DAILY MAIL

Objev podobné jako The Stolen Child - Carmel Harrington

A gripping saga of love, betrayal and secrets that can''t stay hidden . . . perfect for fans of Dilly Court, Libby Ashworth and Rosie Goodwin.Kent, 1814 Respectably married Molly Dawson lives with her husband, head gardener Charlie, on the Woodchurch Manor estate, where they have brought up three delightful daughters. Her life appears idyllic . . . but she has suffered the torment of a secret since she was eighteen years old.When a young stranger, fresh out of the Navy, appears at the estate''s annual garden party, Molly''s life is set to change again, and her close-held secret threatens to break free. Could he be a suitable match for one of her daughters? Or is this charming young man a threat to her hard-won happiness? Can Molly ever overcome the consequences of a decision she made long ago to find true joy and fulfilment at last?Praise for Lynne Francis:''An impressively researched Cinderella tale of a sweetly ambitious country girl, deserving of a better life than being her aunt''s drudge. I loved this five star book'' Kay Brellend''An engaging, thoroughly researched tale of youthful naivety and courage in the face of adversity, full of rich detail and imagination. Highly recommended!'' RoNA award-winning, bestselling novelist Tania Crosse''A compelling and captivating historical saga rich in atmosphere, emotion and heart . . . a poignant tale of broken promises, devastating betrayals and triumph over adversity from a master storyteller'' Goodreads Reviewer

Objev podobné jako The Secret Child - Lynne Francis

''One of the greatest twists I''ve ever read'' CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD''An addictive, immersive, incredibly poignant page-turner - I flew through it'' ANDREA MARAIt''s every parent''s worst nightmare. But there''s no waking up from this . . .On board a cruise ship in the Mediterranean, Kimberly wakes to discover that her two-year-old son Robert has vanished from the cabin overnight. She and her husband Jason vow to do whatever it takes to bring Robert home.But he is never found.Forty years later, their therapist daughter Lily welcomes a new client into her home. Zach has a shocking theory about what happened to her brother Robert years before.If Zach is to be believed, someone out there knows what happened on that ship. And they would do anything to stop the truth getting out.But secrets always find a way to reveal themselves . . .PRAISE FOR CARMEL HARRINGTON''S NOVELS''Warm, uplifting & important...a very VERY special book'' MARIAN KEYES''Beautifully moving and uplifting'' CECELIA AHERN''Storytelling at its best'' SHEILA O''FLANAGAN''We defy you not to say, just one more chapter!'' BELFAST TELEGRAPH''Beautifully written, emotionally intelligent & moving in the extreme'' DAILY MAIL

Objev podobné jako The Stolen Child - Carmel Harrington

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.With warmth, tenderness and quiet wit, Oscar Wilde's fables and fairy tales have moved and delighted for generations. In far-off kingdoms and ocean realms, in the company of giants and nightingales, Wilde speaks of heartbreak and redemption, of cruelty and compassion, of love lost, of love gained, of love lasting. Included in this selection are stories from The Happy Prince and A House of Pomegranates.'His tales will dazzle children and intrigue adults' Guardian

Objev podobné jako The Star-Child - Oscar Wilde

No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg’s chilling psychological thriller featuring Detective Patrick Hedstrom and Erica Falck – irresistible for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo.Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover an old Nazi medal among her late mother''s belongings. Inspired to dig deep into her past, she visits a retired history teacher for answers. Two days later, he’s dead.Detective Patrik Hedström is on paternity leave. But his wife’s enquiries appear to have set off a chain of murders and he’s finding it hard to keep out of the investigation.A terrible secret from the darkest days of World War II is coming to light – and their families’ histories are right at the heart of it.

Objev podobné jako The Hidden Child - Camilla Läckberg

“A beautifully observed and thrillingly honest novel about the dark corners of family life and the long, complicated search for understanding and grace.” —Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation and Weather“The Fourth Child is keen and beautiful and heartbreaking—an exploration of private guilt and unexpected obligation, of the intimate losses of power embedded in female adolescence, and of the fraught moments of glancing divinity that come with shouldering the burden of love.” —Jia Tolentino, New York Times bestselling author of Trick Mirror“A remarkable family saga . . . The Fourth Child is a balm—a reminder that it is possible for art to provide a nuanced exploration of life itself.” —Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind and Rich and PrettyThe author of Break in Case of Emergency follows up her “extraordinary debut” (The Guardian) with a moving novel about motherhood and marriage, adolescence and bodily autonomy, family and love, religion and sexuality, and the delicate balance between the purity of faith and the messy reality of life.Book-smart, devoutly Catholic, and painfully unsure of herself, Jane becomes pregnant in high school; by her early twenties, she is raising three children in the suburbs of western New York State. In the fall of 1991, as her children are growing older and more independent, Jane is overcome by a spiritual and intellectual restlessness that leads her to become involved with a local pro-life group. Following the tenets of her beliefs, she also adopts a little girl from Eastern Europe. But Mirela is a difficult child. Deprived of a loving caregiver in infancy, she remains unattached to her new parents, no matter how much love Jane shows her. As Jane becomes consumed with chasing therapies that might help Mirela, her relationships with her family, especially her older daughter, Lauren, begin to fray. Feeling estranged from her mother and unsettled in her new high school, Lauren begins to discover the power of her own burgeoning creativity and sexuality—a journey that both echoes and departs from her mother’s own adolescent experiences. But when Lauren is confronted with the limits of her youth and independence, Jane is thrown into an emotional crisis, forced to reconcile her principles and faith with her determination to keep her daughters safe. The Fourth Child is a piercing love story and a haunting portrayal of how love can shatter—or strengthen—our beliefs.

Objev podobné jako Fourth Child - Jessica Winter

'Before you reject me, before you hate me, remember: I never asked to be Hel's queen.' But being a normal teenager wasn't an option either. Now she's stuck ruling the underworld. For eternity. She doesn't want your pity. But she does demand that you listen. It's only fair you hear her side of the story ...It didn't have to be like this.

Objev podobné jako The Monstrous Child - Francesca Simon

Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she''s been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him - his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into acting as courier to God knows what, a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls.Bog Child is an astonishing novel exploring the sacrifices made in the name of peace, and the unflinching strength of the human spirit.

Objev podobné jako Bog Child - Siobhan Dowd

A quest to make peace with your past, release the burdens you carry for your ancestry and embrace the gifts of the present.How we treat our inner child reflects on every aspect of our lives. It is the foundation of our habits and of our self-worth. When we deny, reject, or criticize our own innocence and vulnerability, we hinder our capacity for authenticity and connection. We are desperate for a semblance of control because we felt powerless as a child, and we attempt to protect ourselves by directing arrows of judgment, criticism, and negativity towards ourselves and others.Political hatred, discrimination, and crime can all be traced to childhood wounding. These harmful behaviors, along with depression, anxiety, and self-doubt, are the inner child''s desperate call for help. Our younger selves are still trying to get their needs met, and it is now our responsibility to meet these needs. Nobody else can. Until we meet our own needs, we blame our parents, our partners, and the world. We are stuck in a triangle of disempowerment in which only three roles are available: victim, villain and rescuer. We cycle through all three of these roles depending on the circumstance. In each one of these roles, we are looking for self-worth outside ourselves and feel resentful and powerless.This book teaches us how to step out of this triangle and the layers of story we have been telling ourselves, becoming our own guide on an epic inner quest. It is an invitation to write a new story, to finally meet our needs and take full responsibility for our lives. To do this, we step outside of linear time and journey back to significant moments of our childhood, bringing our adult self along, with all of our acquired life-experience, to offer the support that was needed at the time.

Objev podobné jako Reclaiming Your Inner Child - Nina Mongendre