Silent tears trickle down her cheeks as she curls inside the tiny cave-like space. She lies on her side, darkness all around her, rubbing her fingers over the little wooden doll he’d carved. He told her to be quiet, not to cry or scream. Not to be a baby. Her throat was raw, her eyes swollen shut. She wanted her mommy and daddy. She wanted to go home.When Penny Matthews, a seven-year-old girl with blonde curls and a gap-toothed smile, goes missing in the Appalach...

Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany addresses how racism expresses itself and what it means to be antiracist by tracing the history of racism and antiracist activism in East, West, and unified Germany. As far-right extremism surges in Germany today, Germans from across the political spectrum are increasingly grappling with the presence of racism in a country that is still coming to terms with its Nazi past. However, these public discussions a...

Be careful life has traps explores the dangers and consequences of drug abuse and illicit sexual behaviour. Examining how these choices can affect our physical, mental,emotional,spiritual and social welbeing.. The book challenges readers to consider the cost of their choices and encourages those struggling with destructive habits to choose heathier, more disciplined and purposeful life. It is also a valuable resource for parents,educators,counselors and anyone seeking to help others avoid ...

Born in war-torn Lebanon, Rita El-Mounayer grew up in the shadow of bombings, checkpoints, and a silenced childhood.From the sounds of foreign militias howling in the valley beneath her home to the grief of losing her mother during the Lebanese Civil War, Rita's childhood was shaped by fear, a longing for a better life, and faith. Yet God never gave up on Rita. Through grief, disappointment, and calling, I Choose Hope tells the extraordinary true story of ...

Rita Perwich offers organic gardening principles, showing that sprays of pesticides and fungicides, even organic ones, are not necessary in a home garden.Roses are the most popular flower in the world, yet many people are afraid to grow them, given their reputation as high-maintenance ornamentals that need constant spraying with pesticides and fungicides and frequent fertilization. According to author Rita Perwich, traditional how-to books offer misguided informati...

Two men who couldn’t be more different. One woman caught between them.When Jennifer loses David, the love of her life, her world falls apart. Fleeing to New York for a fresh start and a new chance at life, she meets Jack, rugged and handsome, everything she could hope for. But things are never as they seem and her world is plunged into chaos and violence. An abusive husband, a loveless marriage - and no way out.When David comes barrelling back into her life, Jennifer is tor...

Set across the Second World War, Snowflakes in the Wind is a heartwarming story of triumph over adversity by Rita Bradshaw, author of the number one bestselling Dancing in the Moonlight.It's Christmas Eve 1920 when nine-year-old Abby Kirby's family is ripped apart by a terrible tragedy. Leaving everything she's ever known, Abby takes her younger brother and runs away to the tough existence of the Border farming community.Years pass. Abby b...

What if someone you love is a serial killer?DCI Eric Shaw, leading a forensic team at Scotland Yard, together with DI Miriam Leroux from a Murder Investigation Team, is investigating the death of a known offender. Killed by two gunshots: one to his neck, execution style, but preceded by another to his groin, implying a more personal motive.Shaw’s attention at work is often distracted by a young forensic investigator, Adele Pennington, who is a beautiful wom...

A delightful book to encourage young gardeners to plant, compost, and gardenHelena, a young girl who lives in a city, wants a garden. She visits her aunt in the country, where she learns about flowers. Her grandmother teaches her about native wildflowers and plants and her teacher introduces her to the insect life in dirt. With the help of her elderly gardening neighbor, the innovative Helena turns a pothole on her street into a vegetable garden. Soon the neighborh...

Headshot is the story of the eight best teenage girl boxers in the United States, told over the two days of a championship tournament and structured as a series of face-offs. As the girls' pasts and futures collide, the specific joy and violence of the sport comes to life with electric energy, and a portrait emerges of the desire, envy, perfectionism, madness and sheer physical pleasure that motivates each of these young women to fight. This is a novel about the radicalness and strangeness...

Set in the tumultous times of World War II, The Colours of Love by Rita Bradshaw is a story of a capable and resourceful woman who proves that nothing is stronger than a mother's love.Can love survive when all is lost?England is at war, but nothing can dim land girl Esther Wynford's happiness at marrying the love of her life – fighter pilot Monty Grant. Their short honeymoon results in a baby, but on the birth of her daughter, Joy,...

Go on an emotional journey with Beyond the Veil of Tears by Rita Bradshaw, a heart-rending saga of a young woman's defiant stand against cruelty. This historical romance, from the author of Dancing in the Moonlight, is the story of an innocent soul trapped in a world of deceit and hardship.Ensnared in a dreadful marriage with the menacing Oswald Golding, Angeline Stewart, an innocent fifteen-year-old, sees her world shattering.On learning ...