This picture book for young children is about the beauty of every heart and celebrating your own uniqueness.The Ocean’s Heartbeat is a joyous, read-aloud picture book about the uniqueness of every creature's heart for children aged 3-5.Packed with fascinating scientific knowledge, including extra pages about the unique hearts of more amazing creatures, this engaging book shows the incredible diversity of life on Earth and encourages everyone to lov...

Issue Number 17 of author and illustrator Dame Darcy's graphic novel series Meat Cake. Contains three stories and independent artwork.

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851–52 collects epistles written from Rich Bar and Indian Bar on the Feather River at the feverish height of the Gold Rush. In urbane yet unsparing prose, Shirley blends social reportage with painterly nature writing, capturing vigilante justice, speculative frenzies, floods and fires, extortionate prices, and the precarious economies of tent cities. First printed in The Pioneer (1854–55), these witty, ironic letters exemplify the epistolary mo...

Develop resilience and thrive as a care professional! Root Strength: A Health and Care Professionals' Guide to Minimizing Stress and Maximizing Thriving discusses principles of self-care that can help you prevent emotional fatigue and job burnout in highly stressful workplaces. An evidence-based approach examines how the care professional can develop self-compassion, mindfulness, relationships with co-workers, and perceived satisfaction with one's career. Written by noted educator and rese...

This book focuses on the background, migration, and settlement of new migrants in China. It also examines the status of their social networks, the role of urban society, social security, and future planning. Based on semi-structured interviews, the book analyzes these aspects of new urban migrants and argues that:- Intellectual migrants, with their strong educational background, are willing to engage in urbanization and have clear entry strategies.- Labor migrants find it i...

For fans of Homeland and The Night Manager, the latest thriller in Stella Rimington's bestselling espionage series sees Liz Carlyle investigating a sinister Russian plot.A Russian immigrant lies dying in a hospice in upstate Vermont. When a stranger visits, claiming to be a childhood friend, the FBI is alerted and news quickly travels to MI5 in London.Liz Carlyle and her colleague Peggy Kinsolving are already knee-deep in conspiracies, and...

When pirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast and one of them is found to be a British-born Pakistani, alarm bells start ringing at London's Thames House. MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is brought in to establish how and why a young British Muslim could go missing from his well-to-do family in Birmingham and end up on board a pirate skiff in the Indian Ocean, armed with a Kalashnikov.Meanwhile, the owner of the charitable NGO that leased the ship suspects that his f...

A tale of love, lust, and mistrust, Momma's Baby, Daddy's Maybe reveals the secrets that break homes as well as hearts.The Jacobs's siblings have done a good job of masking their secrets behind finely wrought facades, hidden agendas, and questionable paternity...until the day it all starts to unravel. Faced at last with the truth, Kennedy, Simone, and Derrick Jacobs find themselves vulnerable and exposed, determined to salvage the lives they have made for ...

Jamise L. Dames is a noted screenwriter, songwriter, and author. Her debut novel, Momma's Baby, Daddy's Maybe (F0171) was an instant best-seller. In Pushing Up Daisies, she showcases her flair for contemporary romance in a moving story of love lost-and found. For seven years, Daisy Parker has been Jasper's lover and mother to Jay, his nine-year-old son. But when Jasper doesn't come home one too many nights, Daisy decides she's had enough. But Jasper hasn't been partying-he's been murdered....

This vintage book contains Dame Rose Macaulay's 1921 novel, "Dangerous Ages". A young writer with a sizeable family returns to college as a way to spend her free time, but finds that she is perhaps not as sharp as she once was. Sick of her chaotic family, she decides to settle down, but realises that her boyfriend was no longer wiling to wait and has fallen for someone else... and her own niece, no less. Struggling with all the commitments that come with a large family, she endeavours to p...

The Irish Nuns At Ypres - An Episode Of The WarLanguage English