She woke up in a flat she didn’t recognise. A man stood beside her, calling her by a name she didn’t remember. But something in his eyes chilled her.*"The Man Beside Her"* is a haunting psychological drama inspired by true events — a tale of trauma, identity, and the harrowing journey toward reclaiming one’s life.When Ada stirs in an unfamiliar London flat, everything she once knew is gone. Her memories are fragments. Her name? A whisper on someone else's lips. And the man ...

She hears voices no one else can. On her twenty-second birthday, they finally answer back.Lena Wren has built a quiet life as a freelance illustrator in rain-soaked Evershade, pretending the whispers inside walls and paintings are only stress. Then a silver crescent ignites beneath her skin, her artwork becomes a map to impossible doors, and faceless creatures begin hunting her.Caelan Frost, a ruthless wolf king, claims he has found her too late on...

In Lark Lane, unfinished promises do not disappear. They find new paper.Paper conservator Celia Wale returns to Larkhollow to inventory her late grandmother's shuttered bindery. Beneath an antique press she finds a missing children's book, freshly sewn with violet thread. When she opens it, ink rises through the endpaper with a demand: FINISH WHAT YOU PROMISED, WALE. Then words begin vanishing from other books across town.With meticulous records conservator Colin Quill besi...

Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the coming of its institutions – from penny-pinching Boards of Guardians to the dreaded workhouse – has generally been viewed as a catastrophe for ordinary working people.Until now it has been impossible to know how the poor themselves...

Oopsie Daisy, the curious, fun loving, sweet as can be child is back again! Her adventures and lessons in love, etiquette, and family fun, continue here in her second book for parents and their precious children.Created by husband & wife team, LaLita Olivia King (illustrator) & Steven A. King (writer) under the King Family Books imprint dedicated to providing family fun tales to be shared and enjoyed by everyone.Sweaty palms and shouts of “Arggghhh” should not be your react...

This volume is concerned with the public and private lunatics asylums of England in the long nineteenth century, focusing on transcriptions of unusual and difficult-to-access primary source materials. The Introduction to the volume deals broadly with the state of the literature in the field and details the complex primary materials. Our sources include letters written by or about the ‘mad poor’ as they were circulated between homes, workhouses, private and public asylums and domestic dwell...

This book provides a genuinely pan-European analysis of pauper narratives, focusing on the experiences of the sick poor in England, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Wales. The contributions highlight the value of pauper narratives for exploring the agency, rhetoric and experiences of the poor and sick poor, significantly enhancing our understanding of the ways in which national and regional welfare systems operated. By foregrounding the particu...

In his best-selling classic Boys and Girls Learn Differently, Michael Gurian explained the origin and nature of gender differences in the classroom. His important book explored the behavior teachers observed and the challenges they faced with both boys and girls in their classrooms. Taking the next step, Strategies for Teaching Boys and Girls?Secondary level: A Workbook for Educators offers teachers a hands-on resource that draws on the Gurian Institute's research and tra...

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Post-nuclear America has changed little since the primal leveling of the twenty-first century. Warrior survivalists Ryan Cawdor and his band live by a code that honors the kind of absolute freedom only a raw frontier can provide. Until rumors of a wider, more prosperous world than the Deathlands thriving deep in Mexico, untouched by the nukecaust, lure them into uncharted waters...Captured by the pirate foot soldiers of the mysterious Lords of Death, Ryan Cawdor and his companions ...

Donley Bannister shot and killed Cletus Slocum for stealing and crippling one of his best horses. He ran, leaving his wife Geneva behind. She sets off to find him, with Ranger Andy Pickard on her trail, hoping she'll lead him to Donley. Cletus' brothers are on the road, too, seeking revenge. Along the way, Andy discovers that the innocent and devoted Geneva may have made the mistake of marrying the wrong man, and that her husband may be a moral man in some ways, but he has no difficulty wi...

From the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poor Law and its dreaded workhouses. In Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s Steven King reveals colourful stories of poor people, their advocates, and the officials with whom they engaged during this period in British history, distilled from the largest collection of parochial correspondence ever assembled.Investigating the way...