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Sometime in August
Sometimes you need a lifetime to tell a story. Sometimes you only need four days.
Heather Thompson is a 20-year-old with an arguably great life: the makings of a dream career, supportive friends and family, and a relationship lifted right out of a romance novel.
But that doesn’t mean she isn’t struggling.
Sometime in August is an honest, no-holds-barred account of mental ill-health in a young adult, which follows four life-changing days in Heather’s life.
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Someone Like You
What do you do when you're 17 and you find out you're pregnant? How do you tell your friends, your family? How do you decide what to do? Meet Amy. Amy is your neighbour, your friend, your cousin, Amy is just like someone you know. When Amy is 17, she finds out she is pregnant. This turns her seemingly average life upside down. In her final year of school and trying to figure out where to go next with her life, Amy must make a decision that, no matter what, will stay with her forever.
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Sofia
The events of this novel take place in London and Manchester. Sofia tells her life story to Victoria, a young girl, as they stand on Westminster Bridge in the heart of the vibrant city of London. Sofia’s life story starts after Big Ben of sound announcing her events, as a child in primary school to her adolescent years, and then becoming a medical student at Queen Mary University while battling breast cancer. Her journey in the past explains the trials and the hell she faced after going through the surgery of eradication. Sofia had to continue her studies if she wanted to become a doctor, but first she’d have to learn to be emotionally stronger to be able to move forward. Sofia spent time researching the growth of human organs, therefore, she wrote a medicine research about that, for it she would to find someone to work with her and that what happened when met with professor Anna scientist and director of the Medical Research Center (MRC) at Manchester University to discuss her findings and to see if there was a possibility to research them in reality. Anna agreed sharing that with Sofia and could be beneficial to the world even though it was so complex topic. Victoria is taken in with Sofia’s story because her friend Jasmine has breast cancer but she refuses the surgery of eradication. Victoria hopes that Sofia’s inspiration can help to convince Jasmine to get surgery for survival. What if Jasmine still refuses eradication? Will she choose death? What will be the alternative if Sofia could convince her? Will Sofia and professor Anna’s medical research provide solutions to science? This is what the novel will tell us.
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Snowflake
In the heat of battle, special forces soldiers, armed to the hilt, make split-second decisions. Every move is a calculated risk, informed by rigorous training, advanced weaponry, and the strength of their unit. They act when the odds favour survival – though not necessarily for their adversaries. It’s a stark choice between life and death: veer left to safety or right into danger, stay on the path or plunge off the cliff, storm through the door or toss in a grenade.
Yet, the young individuals Charlie Ryles encounters often act impulsively, diving headfirst into peril without weighing the consequences. Their choices frequently lead to a tumultuous life, ricocheting from one crisis to the next.
Enter the world of Charlie Ryles, a dedicated youth intervention worker. He offers these youths an alternative to traditional education, guiding them towards meaningful employment. It’s a chance for a brighter future – for them and the community.
And that’s the mission. Dive in to discover if the plan unfolds as intended.
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Skimmer - Deep Sea
A contractor sub-surface mining skiff is delivering deep sea minerals collected by its drones to the moonpools of a giant Chinese-owned GlobeCorpMining Harvester ship stationed in the Pacific Ocean. The artificial intelligence or AI operating the skiff and its drones is monitored by a small young crew. Onboard, one of them with family connections to mining in ‘the Area’ is coerced into acquiring a revolutionary AI technology being developed by another crew member. It becomes apparent that Xed Ocean Academy crew monitoring and communications security has been compromised. Another mining skiff has also disappeared off ‘the Area’ grid. As the situation becomes ever more desperate no one seems to know who is behind all the deception and why. Somehow the Sea Hunters who patrol ‘the Area’ and GlobeCorpMining are also involved. Against the odds, and with the Sea Hunters in pursuit the young crew must learn to work together and overcome betrayal.
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Six Months In 1977
Leaving a rural Northamptonshire comprehensive to study philosophy at University College London was always going to be a jarring experience for Fergus Malone. Growing up in a big Irish immigrant family had already made him a bit of an outsider, after all.
Though insistent that he can forge his own destiny, Fergus abruptly learns that forces he had barely even acknowledged implacably compete to shape him: claims of blood, brain, heart and flesh all clamour to be heard.
Beneath it all, as he faces inner crisis, Fergus finds himself re-enacting the ancient and unending quarrel between poetry and philosophy.
What’s love got to do with it? Maybe everything.
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Simone’s Choice
Imagine you are in a bar celebrating your birthday and your freedom as a newly divorced man when your eyes meet those of a stunning blue eyed blonde. The connection is instant and electric. Finally, after such a long and desperately hard road, could true love be within your reach?
This is deeply personal and moving true story written by author David John Baird about Michael, a 51-year-old professional, and the torrid and steamy romance that nearly destroyed him and his belief in finding the “one”.
In this semi-biographical romance thriller, Michael meets Simone, a bubbly Italian on the eve of her return to Singapore. They exchange numbers and embark on a cyber romance of Skype dates and instant messaging. He is over the moon when she announces she has a job in Sydney and is moving to be by his side. Their romance is passionate and raw, honest, and deeply authentic. The story, in Michael’s words, is an insightful account of his thoughts during their flourishing romance.
However, the constant interruption by Simone’s ex-boyfriend Marco arouses his suspicions and what happens next, no one could anticipate.
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Siblings
A journey of a brother and sister who were abandoned by their parents and put in a care system. This seems to go well at first, until they are put forward for a foster placement, which goes downhill very quickly afterwards.
Siblings is an engrossing family saga that you won't be able to put down.
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Shafiq and Tasneem - A Muslim Love Story
Shafiq had spent his life living a comfortable and prosperous life in London. He loved family life, was popular and busy. He felt fulfilled and content, although unknown to his family life had not always been easy.
Two things would totally change his life, meeting Tasneem and an incident in his hospital office. Would he ever recover from this?
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Shaded Memories
A heart-warming story about friendships, love, intrigue, and the search for a missing woman. Set in Manchester, Spain and Devon, we meet Mary Reynolds, a lady who has dementia. But, behind the illness is a person, and the story follows her interesting and eventful life, starting in the 1940s.
A novice care worker, Patsy Bennett, has the natural insight to see beyond Mary’s dementia, and sets out on a path of learning more about dementia, so she can help Mary to find happiness once again.
For anyone wanting a positive read about dementia, plus an interesting story, this book dispels some of the myths about the illness. Drawing on the author’s many years of studying and working with people with dementia, the book tells the story of an intelligent, resourceful woman. A woman who is still the same person she always was but who, in later life, has lost her identity.£10.99 -
Sentinels
Isabella Krakowska set out on her quest to becoming the person she was born to be.
But, do dreams ever come true?
Do ambitions ever satisfy the soul?
Does love really exist?
And who, or what, are the sentinels? What part do they play in Isabella’s life as she struggles through the mire of her misfortunes and climbs the rough peaks of her life, in an attempt to conquer her own Everest?
Will Isabella be finally released from the chains of her past or will she forever remain a prisoner?
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Send the Healer
Ben had always harboured hopes of becoming more than he was, but nothing could have prepared him for this sudden leap forward. Up until recently, it was him watching others helping the sick where he worked, but now he had the power to do far more than all of them. He could actually take away people’s cancer or diabetes in an instant. The only problem was, he had never healed anyone before, and the person who had given him this power was a complete mystery.
There was only one thing he could do: he was going to have to take a leap of faith. This would mean putting his trust in a person he didn’t fully know. It would mean running the risk of losing all his friends. On top of all that, it would mean facing enemies who were determined to stop him at all costs.
No-one ever told him that believing would be easy, but he would never have imagined it would lead to this much adventure or such a stunning conclusion.
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