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Nine-year-old Flora didn’t ask to be born into a life of hardship and suffering. When her mother sells her to the owner of the Great Hotel as a scullery maid, Flora learns the value of her life: eight shillings. Life in the Great Hotel is unspeakable. For years, Flora works constantly, half starved and constantly driven by the cruel cook and malicious hotel owner. She would lose hope entirely, were it not for the sweet, gentle boy who visits the Great Hotel from time to time.

Accelerate Your Success will show you how to achieve the phenomenal conscious quality of life you desire. An intuitive guidebook that shows you step by step how you can harness your energy and mindset to do less and achieve more.

Sick of watching your ideal job go to someone with less experience? Then it’s time to level the playing field! The interview stage is a competition of who will perform better on the day. It is no reflection of who is the best clinician; you met their basic standard for clinical skills with your application so you got an invite to interview, as did the others.

Vanessa and Curtis have just moved to an idyllic house in the seaside town of Whitstable. Their life there is wonderful, until Vanessa’s ex-boyfriend Hayden shows up out of the blue. Hayden is not only brash and unpredictable with a warped sense of humour, he also seems intent on making life very difficult for Vanessa, who hasn't seen him since she was sixteen. As Hayden causes more and more disruption in their lives, Curtis begins to realise that he has some kind of bizarre hold on Vanessa.

When her older brother, Felix, dies in a motorcycle accident, Nora Lambert is left to clear out his London flat, home to his prestigious artwork and life’s work. But among his possessions, she stumbles upon something far more disturbing. A hidden USB stick. A file marked “Nobody’s Eyes.” Something she was never meant to see. What she watches is beyond comprehension. A collection of disturbing clips that appear to be real snuff footage. And the most terrifying part? She thinks Felix might be in the film.

Master of horror Lee Mountford invites you to gather round and prepare yourselves. This collection is guaranteed to have you hiding under your covers at night.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Dorset. Greater Than a Tourist: Dorset by Leah Salisbury offers the inside scoop on Dorset’s coastal hotspots.

A young girl, unloved by her parents, finds love in her animals until she met her loving future husband. They'd had very different upbringings on the farms they grew up on. Why did she leave, she had everything? A flash flood unearths a strange mystery in a wood, for the police to solve. They were hampered by a lack of evidence until years later when DNA forensic science was established. Will the police detectives find the missing pieces to this complex "jigsaw puzzle" of a crime. The lost years reveal an unusual tale of betrayal, restrictions, fear, and lies.

Katie Wooster’s life has been turned upside down; she’s single, homeless, and unemployed. With Christmas around the corner, Katie finds herself in the Vintage Bookshop of Memories. As the village’s magical charm begins to weave its way into Katie’s heart, can her best friend, Prue Clemonte, persuade her to leave the past behind her and open her heart to romance again? Local farmer Austin Harrington is ready to sweep her off of her feet, but Katie isn't sure she’s ready for a new relationship.

A woman, groomed to be a wife and mother, discovers through her clandestine interaction with a free-spirited foreigner that she has a right to determine her own destiny. Every step Elena takes toward personal liberation is considered treason by her society, driving her deeper and deeper underground and threatening her escape from Russia. Elena Vaytsel is one of the two women featured in BBC's Outlook Weekend: The Voyage of Meg and Elena, and NPR's Snap Judgment: Kismet, for their escape from Russia and yearlong planet-crossing run for their lives and freedom.

This book is targeted not only at Europeans and other Africans who may be visiting Nigeria for the first time but also to expatriate Nigerians, who may or may not have touched our soil in decades, and who definitely need a refresher course, judging by my own experiences having returned to Lagos to live in 2010. Even though Nigeria is an English-speaking country, previously a British colony, the unofficial accepted language is Pidgin English and as such, the use and translation of simple English words in Pidgin English differ widely and have meanings that would baffle you!

This book will reveal practical strategies designed to help listeners who would like to start an online business but don't know where to start. Tolga Cakir wrote this book as the first volume, which is in a plain language aiming to help non-technical listeners worldwide.

My book is about personal development. I have worked with world leaders in the field and trained many people in the past and for this reason, I have decided to share my knowledge with this book. Prosperity. What comes to mind when you think of that word? Wealth, well-being, affluence, influence, success, plenty, a good life - every one of us yearns to prosper - and rightly so. We were never meant merely to exist. We are not meant to remain stationary; our lives are meant to advance.