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On day seven of the children's summer holiday, Stan discovered a strange mystery in their favourite sandy cove. Julian had doubts over Stan's suspicion, but he changed his mind after hearing surprising news from Aunt Alice. Indeed, after this moment, the children felt inspired and determined to solve the mystery.

Great Britain's forced transportation of convicts to colonial Australia is well known. Less widely known is Britain's earlier program of sending convicts - including women - to North America. Many of these women were assigned as servants in Maryland. Contemporary readers and scholars will be fascinated by Ziegler's explanation of how gender-influenced punishments were meted out to women and often ensnared them in Britain's system of convict labor.

The emergence of the Polgar sisters in the 1970s and 80s rocked the chess world. In a heavily male dominated game, the three Hungarian girls broke record after record. The Chess Girls is the story of their parents, Laszlo and Klara Polgar, and how they defied the Communist authorities to conduct a remarkable educational experiment. Laszlo Polgar, convinced that any healthy child can be trained to become a genius, set out to prove his theory with his own children.

Tony Award® nominee Joe Morton and stage veteran Sally Murphy star in this award-winning play based on a tragic true story. Using excerpts from real newspaper transcripts, Brutal Imagination reexamines the case of Susan Smith, a white mother who falsely accused a Black man of carjacking her and kidnapping her two young children.

Greater Than a Tourist - San Antonio Texas USA, by Brandi N. Aguillon, offers the inside scoop on San Antonio. This audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

God's Little Miracle Book contains 27 true stories of God's intervention in the lives of everyday people. This expanded edition contains relevant scriptures and study questions suitable for individual or group studies. Learn how God delivered our daughter from certain death of a spinal cord tumor, lifted a tornado, saved a young Romanian woman from suicide, multiplied food for unexpected guests, and healed a man from a head-on auto crash.

Available together for the first time ever - the complete Urges series, parts one, two, and three. Part One: Fennel Riegel was looking for a good time. After losing her job and winding up having to move back home, all she wanted was a night to forget herself in the arms of a random hookup. Someone had other plans for her though. When the night goes awry, Fennel finds herself more stressed out than she was before.

Are you seeking to enhance your memory and improve your concentration? Do you long for a restful sleep that can unlock the full potential of your mind? Introducing Memory Enhancement and Concentration Sleep Hypnosis, an incredible audiobook that will guide you on a transformative journey towards optimizing your mental capabilities.

This is one of a series of six retellings of Jane Austen's great novels, published by Real Reads. It is true to the original in plot and character, as well as is style and syntax. Real Reads are great introductions to the world's great literature, and enjoyable listens in their own right.... The time has come for an unlikely heroine to have a real adventure.

When unassuming Green Rock kindergarten teacher Simmie Ward lets loose in Vancouver with her friends over spring break, trouble ensues. Trouble by the name of Blaine Peters. Blaine’s got that look that all the girls love - a head of gorgeous curls and blue eyes that melt the iciest of hearts. But none of them ever mattered to him, until he met Simmie. After a relaxing vacation in the big city, Simmie returns to Green Rock to discover the bad boy she thought she left in the city is staying next door.

After fate cruelly takes her parents in a chilling train accident, 14-year-old Jobeth is whisked away to a sinister foster home overshadowed by a nefarious couple with darkness of their own. Thrust into a world where secrets whisper through the walls, an ominous flower marks Jobeth, birthed from violence. Forever tethered together, it refuses to let go, lurking in the darkness, gaining strength with each step she takes. Fleeing, the tendrils of abuse and shattering revelations seek to entangle her. Trying to hold her down. Yet this time, she is not alone.

Mae West will always be remembered as one of Hollywood's biggest icons, and the American Film Institute named her the 15th greatest actress of the 20th century in its Top 100 list, but she also transcended the entertainment industry and became a critical part of Americana itself. Over the course of 7 decades, Mae redefined the boundaries of sexuality in ways that made more conservative Americans of the early 20th century uncomfortable, and for good measure she did so boldly and in people's faces.

The Tindims all have diaries, but nothing exciting to write in them. Until the day that Pinch digs a very deep hole and finds something interesting. Adventure is in the air! The Tindims come face to face with a fearsome Garbage Gobbler, they bump into Stumbling Stone Island and find Skywhistle, Googletop, Eggnot, Peggnot and Cloud. And Broom meets Brush in a story with the happiest of happy endings.

Life is sweeter when a hot pot of tea and a lovely talk of faith are shared between a mother and her daughter! From author and podcast host Sally Clarkson comes this keepsake guide filled with simple moments that create lasting heart-connections centered on friendship and discipleship. When you prioritize this sacred work of fellowshipping with your family, you'll also grow in love and wonder for the God who has woven your shared stories into the tapestry of His big-picture plan.

Left alone in the world following the barbaric murder of her family, Billie Jo Hazelwood is forced to move in with her uncaring grandmother. She tries to return to a normal routine but struggles to adjust to life without her parents and kid sister. With a burning hatred for the people that killed her family, Billie Jo’s life spirals out of control as she becomes obsessed with ensuring they face justice for their heinous crimes.

Greater Than a Tourist - Tarapoto San Martin Peru, by Rhianna Upton, offers the inside scoop on Tarapoto. This audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Do you spend your life worrying? Do you battle with overthinking and dread before and after any interactions? Do you wish you could eliminate your anxiety and start breaking those negative thinking patterns? At times you wish you could just disappear rather than face family, friends, and your work colleagues, right? You have been heard. These books will help you finally start to understand why you think the way you do and how you can actually gain some control back in your life. The power is you.

When her father dies, college dropout Lillian Mullins steels herself for a future of nothing special in Pittsburgh. An invitation to Magnolian holds promise, but nightmares, ghosts, and murder threaten to derail her attempt to get a life. Lillian heads to the South, leaving Donovan Ross, an angst-ridden potential lover, behind. After she finds her mother's old journal at Magnolian and learns a shocking secret, Lillian resolves to find out what happened nearly 40 years ago to her mother's African American lover, Samson Jones.

Anne’s life is rushing to an unexpected and untimely end. But her diagnosis of terminal cancer isn’t just a shock for her - and for her daughter, Sigrid, and granddaughter Mia - it shines a spotlight onto their fractured and uncomfortable relationships. On a spur-of-the moment trip to France, the three generations of women reveal harboured secrets, long-held frustrations and suppressed desires, and learn humbling and heart-warming lessons about how life should be lived when death is so close.

Amethyst Keane lives a lonely existence. Growing up, her mother moved them around so many times she gave up on having a normal life and friends. She threw herself into her school work and started publishing a magazine at the age of 17. Almost three years later, she's completely independent and as lonesome as ever. On an assignment for her magazine, she visits a small coastal town. While there, she meets a boy, and for the first time, she feels as if she might not have to live a solitary life.