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Bevis lives on a farm near a small lake where he often escapes into the garden and fields where he comes in contact with the country's birds and animals. These creatures and even the stream and wind can speak to him. Part a description of a child's interaction with the natural world, part animal fable as the creatures revolt against the local tyrant magpie, Wood Magic's descriptions of nature, wildlife, and domestic animals are beautifully a...

10-year-old Mary Lennox is spoiled, demanding, and unwanted. Growing up with servants in British India Mary gets what she likes until an epidemic kills her parents and she is sent to live with family in England. When she hears of a secret garden, locked since a tragedy ten years prior, Mary becomes preoccupied with finding it, and her manner softens as a result. But is the cause of the cries she hears in the night? And can that which has bee...

The Bastable children are at it again! If you've enjoyed their adventures trying to make a fortune in The Treasure Seekers, and wanting to be seen as 'good' in The Wouldbegoods then you won't want to miss this collection of stories that take place before, and after the earlier books. Once again the best intentions of the Bastable children don't go according to plan as they get up to all sorts of adventures, like trying to recover their dog, ...

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Fighting Poverty and Violence analyzes what is needed to abolish the worst forms of human deprivation. Based on many international studies about the UN Sustainable Development Goals, it concludes that only two percent of world income is needed to provide all human beings with safe drinking water, sanitation, food, basic education, and simple health care. The poorest people also incur the largest numbers of victims due to wars, disasters, and p...

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The first story in the award-winning inclusive children's book series, The Capables®. SYNOPSIS Rae is like many five year olds with one BIG exception: she has a super-secret superpower. Unlike her limb difference, which is visible for all to see, her superpower is something she has never shown anyone before. But it's her first day of school and her classmates are in need. Will she keep her power to herself...or use it to help her new friends...

Cuánto pesa una cabeza humana, que lleva como subtítulo Diario de un virus coronado por el miedo, no es un diario de la pandemia al uso. Nos encontramos ante un extenso y singular poema que las fechas entrecortan y en el que Alfonso Armada va devanando un diálogo con nombres queridos y familiares: Celan, Glück, Weil, Mandelstam, Carson, Ajmátova, Cioran, Forché... fragmentos de poemas que lo acompañan para pensar y preguntarse qué sentimos en ...

The Author captures the darkest moments of her life in poems. Take a journey through the life of a young mother who faced many challenges, but whose positive attitude always restores the balance of her life. These poems are personal, dark and inspirational.

The Soursop family live on the western coast of newly Christian Iceland. Rolf, the son, is everything his father Hiarandi could hope for. Very good with the bow and arrow he is also thoughtful, loyal and strong. One night during a storm Rolf's mother convinces her husband to go against common practice and light a fire to help a ship struggling off the coast. In a time when the community lived off the plunder of wrecked ships this is not appr...

An agonizing story which can carry your heart to the centre pool of affliction, vengeance and apprehension. A young angel whose viewpoint over mankind as bona fide and noble was changed by that one incident, and later it turned to be her incentive to bring justice for women, and to prove to the cruel world that her body is hers, and she deserves to be respected. Divyani, a determined girl who seek righteousness for herself and the millions of ...

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In this play written in five acts comprising mostly of verse, a well-loved fairy tale is brought back to life. Though magic is hinted at, it is not made obvious, and though miners come to the aid of a damsel in distress, they are not dwarves. Join Heloise as she becomes obsessed with her own beauty, her step-daughter Marian as she flees from a man who seeks her heart, a band of miners who are 'rough as hard crystal, but diamonds at the core'...

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Bela is a lower-middle-class girl staying in a suburb in Mumbai. She feels her life is getting wasted as she spends half her day traveling by local trains and the other half slogging at work to feed her thankless mother and younger brother. Her boyfriend is an aimless guy who doesn't stick to a single workplace. Her mom wants to marry her off to someone who is willing to pay them money and keep supporting them financially. Doesn't matter how ...

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When a thirteen-year-old middle-class white boy is abandoned by his divorcing parents, it takes a retired black NFL football player to redeem him from self-destruction. Neither realizes that their lives will be enriched by their relationship, then quickly imperiled by the shocking death of the town slumlord. "Catching Baby Moses", tells an interracial story of friendship, honor, and forgiveness.

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The FrightVision series continues with the ninth book-The Peephole. Matty and Tom are best friends, destined to be future astronauts exploring the universe together ... until the unthinkable happens. A tragedy tears the two apart, leaving Matty desperate to find his best friend. Matty is led to the one place where Tom might be-an old, abandoned cabin in the woods where the two spent a lot of time. That is where Matty finds the peephole. Appear...

More than 400 ancient bridges criss-cross the canals of the iconic city of Venice in Italy, one of the world's most popular travel destinations. Venice, Bridge by Bridge brings to life these iconic features of the Venetian cityscape through a collection of colourful, entertaining bridge stories that cover several hundred years of history. Author Charl Durand challenged himself to visit and photograph more than 100 of the bridges in one day, co...