Nearly a year has passed since Jan Vale returned to Penraven, and life has finally settled back into something resembling normal. The library has found its familiar rhythm, another Christmas has come and gone, Jan has another birthday approaching, and Moss-older, greyer and supposedly wiser-is enjoying retirement, three walks a day and every treat he can persuade someone to give him.Then a young woman at the library makes an unexpected discovery.A chance encounter on social...

In Penraven, everybody knows everybody.Jan Vale knows what they borrow.At sixty-two, widowed librarian Jan Vale has settled into the familiar rhythms of life in Penraven, a picturesque Cornish town by the sea.She knows the regulars, the holidaymakers and the children who would rather be anywhere than staring at another screen. She knows which borrowers mistreat their books, which parents treat the children's library as free childcare, and which locals can turn a fiv...

Sixteen years after the world ended, survival is no longer something Alicen is learning. It is something she has become very good at.The infected still roam the ruins. Stranger things have emerged from the changed world. Food is scarce, clean water can mean the difference between life and death, and other survivors can be more dangerous than anything recorded in the Field Guide.Now older and alone, Alicen has made a life for herself at Land's End. She fishes, sets traps, sc...

When archivist María Álvarez builds an ofrenda for her late grandmother, she adds one photograph she cannot identify.By morning, the woman in the picture has crossed back into the world of the living.There is only one problem.Nobody remembers who she is.Not María. Not the historical records. Not even Santa Muerte.For María, every mystery should leave a trace: a name in a register, a photograph, a letter, something proving that a person once existed. ...

The politics of everyday life is to be found, time and again, in meandering movements, in making connections across and between things in the rough and tumble of the seemingly banal, fragmentary and quotidian experiences that make up our day-to-day existence. The key point of the book, ideally as well as practically, is to realize that there may be something potentially significant, and politically significant, in the very act of making such connections, of understanding the supposedly tri...

Shirakawa-gō, Japan, 1783.Fourteen-year-old Chiyo has spent her life beneath the steep thatched roofs of an isolated mountain village, where survival depends upon family, duty and the ancient bonds between neighbours. Winters are merciless, food is precious, and every household understands that no one survives alone.Then Chiyo begins to notice the ladybirds.The villagers call them tentōmushi - insects of Heaven's path. With their brilliant red shells and seven black...

Some people buy immortality. Some people have to die for it.Detective Mark Mathews has a problem: people are disappearing.There are no bodies. No ransom demands. No obvious connection between the missing. Just a growing stack of cases that refuse to make sense.Then the trail leads to Elysian Systems.Behind its immaculate public image, Elysian is developing something extraordinary: the Continuity Engine, a technology promising the wealthy and dying what human...

UK Ticket Office and Gateline: Operations, Systems and Passenger Service is a comprehensive practical guide to one of the most visible-and often most complex-areas of railway station operation.Written by Robert Porter as part of The Practical Safety Series, the book takes the reader beyond the simple act of selling or checking a ticket. It explores the interconnected commercial, operational, technical, safety and passenger-service responsibilities that sit behind the ticket-office ...

A Race Against Time: Racing to Save the World from Disaster" is an epic adventure story that will take you on a thrilling journey through space and time. Join a team of brilliant scientists and explorers as they race against the clock to prevent a massive asteroid from colliding with Earth and causing catastrophic destruction.As the team travels through the vast expanse of space, they must face countless challenges and obstacles, including the dangers of space travel, the complexit...

Eleven-year-old Tillie expects a family holiday in Cornwall to mean windswept ruins, rainy afternoons and listening to her archaeologist mother and historian father debate what the past can really prove.She does not expect to find Jowan.Hidden beneath a stone at Tintagel Castle is an injured, sharp-tongued Cornish piskie with no wings, a talent for trouble and very definite opinions about humans.Tillie does the only thing that seems reasonable.She hides him ...

Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt: Governing Programmes and Developing Practitioners takes Lean Six Sigma beyond individual improvement projects and into the leadership, governance and capability required to make improvement work across an organisation.Written for experienced practitioners, operational leaders and those progressing towards Master Black Belt-level responsibility, Robert Porter connects analytical discipline with the realities of leading complex, cross-functional chan...

This is Robert Porter's second book. This includes a wide range of short stories from children to adults. This book was written not only for children but for anyone who like to sit down on the couch at home or the bed and read a book that will take you in places you dream about. Or take children into the life of their favorite animal Friends.