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Always There for You
This story delicately deals with the idea of separation anxiety in children. The story depicts how a mother handles the gentlest feelings of her little boy during separation anxiety. Their beautiful conversation about the butterfly is an engaging tale that helps the little boy understand that no matter where he goes his mother will always be there for him.
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Am I Different?
An enchanting and uplifting tale of a little boy named Jack who is struggling with dyslexia at school. Sometimes it is difficult to understand why we are different, even though each and every one of us is unique. This story teaches us that despite the struggle and realisation of being different, just like Jack, one is still capable of fulfilling their dreams.
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Amal and the Wish
Amal is a little girl who likes to play with her unicorn toy. One night, she makes a wish: that her toy would grow into a super giant. But Amal faced a big challenge after that wish. Is she going to be able to figure out the solution? Read the book to find out.
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Amanda – a Would-Be Killer
This tale is about the lives of three people who became friends at university and how their lives became a nightmare.
The beautiful Amanda was torn between Harry and Simon, but was she right to marry Harry when Simon took a job in Norway?
When Simon returned from Norway, he had a great idea and went into business with Harry, maintaining the services of a major hotel group.
One night, Harry was called out as the air conditioning in their client’s major hotel had failed and guests were complaining. On this visit, he saw Simon followed by Amanda coming out of a hotel suite. They were gone before he could get his wits together.
Harry finds out from the hotel’s night porter that this is a regular occurrence so he sets about investigating what is going on. He sets up surveillance cameras and is dismayed what he discovers about Amanda and Simon’s undercover relationship.
When Amanda is told how Simon has been using her, she sets out for revenge and her plan nearly works. At the same time Harry has found out how Simon came into money and set up a disreputable ‘Gentleman’s Club’ where they recruited women from abroad to satisfy their members.
What follows is quite dramatic.
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Amazonia
In a story that contrasts the highest ranks of the corporate stratosphere with the raw, elemental power of the Amazon jungle and the high-tech world of biotechnology, three people with a passion to save the world and humanity’s most precious cultural and biological treasure become inextricably ensnared in a race against time to uncover an ancient conspiracy two thousand years in the making.
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Ambra's Winter On The Farm
Join Ambra, a young blackbird filled with hope and excitement, as she embarks on an extraordinary adventure in Ambra’s Winter on the Farm, a heartwarming children’s book. After a long separation, Ambra experiences the joy of being reunited with her beloved family, whom she thought she would never see again. However, her best friend Doug the hedgehog is in deep slumber, peacefully hibernating.
Now residing on a bustling farm with her caring mum, dad, and three playful brothers, Ambra eagerly anticipates the wonders that the winter season will bring. Little does she know that this particular winter will be one of the harshest in half a century, setting the stage for a series of captivating events.
Follow Ambra’s journey as she faces the challenges and surprises of this severe winter, filled with snow-covered landscapes and frosty air. Discover the heartwarming tales of the farm’s other enchanting animals, as they navigate the wintry elements and come together in unexpected ways.
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Ambra's World
How can a seven-day-old blackbird survive after her nest was destroyed by workmen who were unaware of the nest?
Find out how she escapes the cat and how a most unusual animal befriends her and even teaches her to fly.
Learn about their many adventures together.
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Amy and Jamie
Jamie’s friend Amy is beautiful, tall, and athletic - everything that Jamie isn’t. Jamie has always felt insecure about her appearance... Until one day, when the two friends go on a bush-walk and find themselves in a scary and challenging situation that only Jamie can get them out of.
Amy and Jamie teaches children the valuable lesson of friendship, bravery, and the importance of understanding that beauty comes from within and that everyone is unique in their own way.
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Amy and the School Bully
Why does Jess no longer want to be Amy’s best friend? Amy is desperately upset as her best friend, Jess, is ignoring her. How could this happen when they had taken vows to be forever best friends? Then Amy discovers that there is a school bully!
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An Adoration of Beauty
Darius Bukhari, lecturer of Renaissance Art at The Courtauld Institute of Fine Art in London, is left with a mystery after the visit of Judith St John James, who brings him letters from long ago concerning the disappearance of a painting by famed Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli.
Back in the 15th century, Botticelli creates a wondrous new painting in his artist’s studio in Florence. The painting, the first copy of The Birth of Venus, is overpainted, stolen and vanishes.
In London of the mid-Victorian era, two young men – Dr Thomas Fielding, physician to the elite, and Viscount Dearly, famed poet and forebear of Judith – set out for Italy to follow in the footsteps of the Romantic poets. They end up in a dingy Roman junk shop where they make an extraordinary discovery.
Following their return to London, Tom Fielding, chased by a criminal gang, is forced to leave England immediately, taking the painting with him. He travels through Central Africa with Dr David Livingstone and then once more the painting disappears.
Finally, Darius and Judith embark on a journey through Africa attempting to discover the final resting place of the missing painting.
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An Age of War and Tea
2021 HFC Gold Medal Winner for Historical Fiction
An epic tale of intrigue, betrayal, and revenge, set in the turbulent era of sixteenth-century Japan. Sakichi is a provincial Samurai boy who reluctantly becomes ensnared in a conspiracy by a Shogun determined to reclaim his power. It is within this developing turmoil that events emerge to forever shape Sakichi’s life. With his life now shattered, Sakichi discovers that he is adopted, and his biological mother is a ruthless assassin, who is determined to prevent him from discovering the true identity of his father.
With such high stakes at play, Sakichi’s life is placed in grave danger. Rival factions compete with each other to assassinate him and his mother before he discovers the truth. Should the identity of Sakichi’s father become common knowledge it would not only threaten the rule of a powerful war lord but plunge the nation into greater turmoil and bloodshed.
Acclaim for An Age of War and Tea
“This book is one for the ages and ranks right up there with Shogun by James Clavell. For anyone who loves an immersive story, full of power struggles, life-changing secrets, and the full richness of the ancient exotic history of Japan, then this is must-read.”
-HFC Awards/Book Reviews
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An Agony of Flame and the Fury and the Mire
A two-part climax to The Last Vigil, An Agony of Flame and The Fury and the Mire, concludes the story of the fall of Constantinople. Here is an intense evocation, both of the gruelling eight-week siege itself and of the chaotic as well as terrifying aftermath.
In part three, Niccolo and Demetrius serve on the great Roman land walls, enduring bombardment and nocturnal hand-to-hand combat. Nestor-Iskander reappears, a deserter now from the Turkish camp. Niccolo is badly wounded, recovering in Theodora’s house in the suburb of Studion. Then comes the night of the final Ottoman assault when, after a valiant defence, treachery leads to massacre (including the death of Demetrius) and Niccolo finds himself among a scatter of survivors.
Part four centres on Niccolo’s frantic attempts to find a way through a city, now being systematically sacked. Moreover, he must think of others. Demetrius might be dead but Nestor-Iskander has survived and demands refuge. Then there is Theodora locked up with the faithful in Hagia Sophia. Can Niccolo reach her before the marauding enemy? So, he travels deeper and deeper into his adopted city’s heart of darkness. Nestor finds protectors, loses, then regains them. Theodora is found then lost forever. Mehmet appears once more; Cinnamon never reappears. Finally, after the city has been overwhelmed and pacified, Niccolo sets sail westward across the Mediterranean, not home to Venice but to an Atlantic shore where a new age of exploration is about to dawn.
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