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Human Traces
As young boys both Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind. As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the S...
Time Out for Tots, Teens and Everyone in Between
Time out is a vital parenting tool and in this book Diane Levy explains how best to use it in all situations for children of all ages. She believes children must be taught to experience and handle their emotions and they must learn self- discipline. Her two main parenting tenets - emotional support and ...
Looking For Alaska
Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018 The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 international bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars Millions of copies sold Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist A New York Times Bestse...
Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life
Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life by Nina Stibbe is the laugh-out-loud story of the trials and tribulations of a very particular family. In 1982 Nina Stibbe, a 20-year-old from Leicester, moved to London to work as a nanny for a very particular family. It was a perfect match: Nina had no idea how ...
Eyrie
Tom Keely's reputation is in ruins. And that's the upside.Divorced and unemployed, he's lost faith in everything precious to him. Holed up in a grim highrise, cultivating his newfound isolation, Keely looks down at a society from which he's retired hurt and angry. He's done fighting the good fight, and ...
Art of Asking - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
NOW FEATURING POSTSCRIPT FROM MARIA POPOVA 'When we really see each other, we want to help each other' - Amanda Palmer Imagine standing on a box in the middle of a busy city, dressed as a white-faced bride, and silently using your eyes to ask people for money. Or touring Europe in a punk cabaret band, a...
Yours Sincerely, Giraffe
Giraffe is bored, as usual. He'd love a friend to share things with. So he writes a letter and sends it as far as possible across the other side of the horizon. There he finds a pen pal--Penguin. Giraffe knows nothing about penguins and his letters are full of questions. Where is a penguin's neck? Can a...
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
In her instant, multi-month New York Times bestseller, Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent, but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls "grit." "Inspiration for non-geniuses everywhere" (People). The daughter of a scient...
Funny Kid Stand Up (Funny Kid, #2): The hilarious, laugh-out-loud children's series for 2024 from million-copy mega-bestselling author Matt Stanton
In July 2017, the first Funny Kid novel debuted as the #1 Australian kids' book in the market; now Max's adventures continue in the much-anticipated sequel! Every kid wants to laugh, and Max is the boy who can make it happen. Or he used to be. But something terrible has happened and Max seems to have l...
Anything is Possible
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. Winner of The Story Prize - A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book - One of USA Today's top 10...
The Katharina Code: You loved Wallander, now meet Wisting.
"Amazing! I finished this book in 2 days" - Daphne (Staff) Twenty-six years ago Katharina Haugen went missing. All she left behind was her husband Martin and a mysterious string of numbers written on a piece of paper.Every year on October 10th Chief Inspector William Wisting takes out the files to the ...
When It All Went to Custard
Odds of saving marriage - slim. Farming expertise - patchy. Chances that it'll all be okay in the end - actually pretty good ... I wasn't enjoying the afternoon of 23 February even before I learnt that my husband was having an affair ... The news of her husband's infidelity comes as a nasty shock to Jen...
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