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A cautionary tale for a new era of megafires, Paradise is the gripping true story of a town wiped off the map and the determination of its people to rise again. The inspiration for the Apple Original Film The Lost Bus, starring Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera “A tour de force story of...

Eva has always wanted to be a journalist, so when she and her friends go whippet racing and find some underhand competitive cheating, she might just have found her next story. Can she get to the bottom of it, with a little help from a furry friend?

When a terrible storm damages the Happy Tails Rescue Centre, Eva and her friends know they need to help. They decide to put on a show to raise money for a new roof – and not just any show. A dog show, of course, with the help of Eva’s adorable whippet, Wafer! Everyone at school is keen to pitch in too, but with so many eager pairs of hands (and paws), soon there’s squabbling. Can the Dog Squad help everyone learn to work as a team, turn storm clouds to sunshine – and save the Rescue Centre in time?

Driven by poverty, Spin and her makeshift family move to the Songwynds in search of work. There they share a tiny, rat-infested tenement room with their adoptive Ma: a ferocious wishhobbler. A monster of a mother, and the mother of all monsters, the wishhobbler’s viciousness has caused fear and mayhem among the slum dwellers. Unable to hit back at the wishhobbler, her victims turn their attention to Spin.

Twenty-five-year-old Bea is a hopeless romantic with a hopeless love life – until now. New beau Dan ticks all the boxes: he’s good-looking, kind and thoughtful. The complete opposite of Bea’s ex, who once threw her out in the middle of the night when she was ill so she didn’t disrupt his sleep. So when her friends point out that she and Dan don’t have fireworks, Bea ignores them. Dan is the whole package. And yet Bea can’t stop comparing him to her best friend Henry... Because Dan doesn’t get Bea’s jokes. Or like books. Or make her laugh until she can’t breathe.

What would you do if you found out your compulsions were not your fault? That something else had been controlling you all along? What would you do if you discovered there was a dark part of you, a part of humanity, that was put there by an entity older than the stars?

Iris Caldwell and Nell Ryland were never meant to be friends. From two very different backgrounds, one the heir to the Caldwell estate, the other a humble vicar's daughter. Both have their secrets, both have their pasts, but they each find solace with one another and soon their futures become irrevocably intertwined. Until May Day 1912, a day that haunts Missensham. The day two girls disappeared. The day the girls were murdered. Now, many years later, old footage has emerged which shows that Iris Caldwell may not have died on that spring morning.

You see the world for what it is, and you know we are in trouble. Ills beyond the reach of bankers and cops, soldiers and presidents, and even kings threaten the fabric of our lives. What we need is a hero. Alex Cides straps on his tool belt one morning, only to find his wife is gone, his daughters fear him, he's lost his job, and a mysterious curse has thrown him out of balance with the universe. Ten impossible tasks in LA's mythical underbelly stand between setting things right or losing everything. Literally.

While science has become politicized in recent years and people are saying, "I don't know what's true anymore," Gloria Prema's 2009 book unifying science and spirituality is more relevant than ever. It's All Light simply explains the theory that unites the forces of science along with the mysteries and common experiences of spirituality in a brilliant and illuminating book.

Have you listened to You Can Be a Witch! Lesson One? Has it sparked your excitement in the concept of witchcraft and now you are eager to learn more? Perhaps you already knew you wanted to learn more about witchcraft, but now you know exactly which aspect you want to learn more about. Or maybe, you are still unsure on whether the study of witchcraft is for you and so, you are keen to learn a little bit more and decide either way.

You Can Be a Witch! is the perfect introduction into the wonderful and fascinating world of witchcraft! This is the ideal series of books for anyone who is seeking out further information on the fundamentals that make up witchcraft. The aim is for you to finish lesson one starting to understand what it is to be a witch and how to get started on the journey. After listening to this lesson, you will have a much better understanding of what you want to get out of witchcraft, and the following volumes of this series will help you get there.

This book is a tribute to all the strong women in my life. I wanted to also make the rest of the world aware of this mouth-watering cuisine that hails from the land of Piacenza in Northern Italy. This lineage of inspiration began with my great-grandmother, Maria. Her unending determination despite great odds enabled her to open a restaurant. The recipes that were born through that establishment were enhanced through the generations that followed, and continue to satisfy the many palates of various family members and friends.

In this tale a queen wishes her naughty daughter would just turn into a raven and fly away. But as we all know, in fairy-tale land you should always be careful what you wish for....

In this particular story we meet Stephen Elliott, a young orphan boy who is sent to stay with his much older cousin, Mr Abney, at a remote country mansion. His cousin is a reclusive alchemist, obsessed with making himself immortal. Stephen is repeatedly troubled by visions of a young gypsy girl and a travelling Italian boy, but what could they be trying to tell him?

In this particular story, a traveller in Sweden stumbles upon the history of a mysterious and ominous figure, Count Magnus. Apparently the count went on a ‘black pilgrimage’, the details of which are discovered by the traveller in an alchemical textbook. However, it might not be the best of ideas to go poking around in the history of such a mysterious man....

Learn how to escape financial bondage in five easy steps. This audiobook is a quick-start personal money-management guide for women, men, teens, and beginners.

By listening to Positive Affirmations to Heal from Alcoholism & Divorce: Restore Self-Love, Confidence, and Self-Esteem, you receive positive thoughts to nurture your spirit. These affirmations give you hope and help you focus on recovering from addiction and abusive relationships. Part of the recovery process encourages us to feel our feelings and listen to our body, mind, and spirit. These affirmations give you the power of words to help guide you to a healthier way of thinking. Everyone in recovery needs these affirmations!

Parenting is hard enough, but when you have a child with ADHD, traditional parenting is not enough. It takes a super-parent to raise a child with ADHD, and as much as you may not feel super right now, you can be that parent. In The Super Parents, you will learn everything you need to understand and support your child with ADHD.

A clock is a creation with a specific purpose and that is to allow us an ability to know the time of day. Some clocks may beep, some you must look and read, while others sound a beautiful chime. If a clock is made well, it will last longer than the clock maker. This clock survived a German bomb during World War Two while the house around it was destroyed. A young girl took her possession and made a new life working in the London War Office and her determination to make a home became a love story for the ages.

The book will focus on the benefits of entrepreneurship for women and how it can change their lives and the lives of their families. This book will also look at the unique qualities that make women entrepreneurs highly successful. In this book you will learn: why entrepreneurship is a better option than working for someone else, the special characteristics women have that make them super successful in business, and how having more female business owners can improve the world for everyone.