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Jo's world is about to change forever, and it’s about time. Her marriage is on auto-pilot, her daughter hates her, her job sucks, and it’s not even Tuesday. As Jo's life implodes, a freak event hurls her back to ‘90s Los Angeles where, in a parallel universe, she’s about to hit big time as a rock star. Jo has to choose between her dreams and her family in an adventure that propels her from London to Hollywood and then to Glastonbury, the world’s greatest music festival.

Maddy dreams of opening her own detective agency with her best friend. Fresh off her A-levels and looking to save up funds, she and her BFF take a gap-year job serving coffee to rich tourists at an Austrian ski resort. But when someone tampers with one of Maddy’s sweet creations to snuff out a snooty pastry chef, the offending doughnut becomes a recipe for disaster. With her dreams of becoming a PI in serious danger, Maddy has next to no time to preserve the cafe's reputation and clear her name.

Two black and white kittens want to serve and protect the Kingdom of Cats. But, both of them have embarrassing secrets and feel that they alone have problems they are unable to control. When they meet each other, they discover that they are not alone and find a friend who truly understands and accepts them.

Laura Costa, a charity worker settled in London, tries to escape from her dark past by travelling to Cusco, Peru, where she hopes to find the redemption she seeks. When she discovers Kevin, an abandoned two-year-old boy injured and on the verge of starvation, Laura thinks she has finally found a purpose and decides to devote herself to saving the child.

There were 12 little fairies in Fairyland, who wanted something to do, So they ran to the fairy queen, and asked her if she knew...A story told in verse, first published in October 1915, The Wishing Fairies is Madge A. Bigham's classic fairy tale for children young and old...and now I am going to tell to you. The wishes these fairies made, when one by one they came to the earth and each his visit paid.

A selection of games, traditional and modern, that can be adapted for all children to play regardless of severity of additional need they may have.

A review of the Mary Quant exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum London. The audiobook looks at the beginnings of the designer's practice, launched with the Kings Road boutique Bazaar in the 1950s; progressing to Quant's mini skirts and trouser suits in the 1960s, and development of a cosmetic range in the 1970s. Includes quotations from associates and biographical data.

Natalie wakes bound to a chair. Fear envelopes her. Her captors must know she’s pregnant. Pregnant with Drayden’s baby. Pregnant with offspring that might have some of Drayden’s awesome nanotech powers. She has to escape. Drayden has to find her. They have to save their baby or the enemy will have all that they need to control everything and everyone.

A recorded visit to van Gogh and Britain considers the work of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) placed in the context of British art and literature of the 19th century and his effect on succeeding generations of artists.

Can we justify putting our jobs before our family? What happens when we try to rectify it? Is the right solution always the first choice or do we just get the job done? Sometimes what happens to our children says more about us than our kids. When Adrian's father gets a promotion it means moving to a new city and new school, fitting in for Adrian isn't as simple as he thought.

When Tom Mahoney was mugged on his way home from work, they thought that was the worst thing that could happen. They were wrong. When Tina and Harry found out they couldn’t have more children, they thought that was the worst thing that could happen. They were wrong. When the new teacher, Isabel Rawlins, arrives, she brings with her a secret that's about to blow their respectable worlds apart. Five lives - all intertwined and heading on a collision course. Will their relationships survive, or is one or more couple about to find out there’s a husband thief in their midst?

Gavin Ennock once sailed the skies on airships and delighted audiences with his fiddle music. Now a victim of the Clockwork Plague, he is consumed by both madness and brilliance. To save her fiancé's life, Alice Michaels breaks into the Doomsday Vault to recover a cure, only to incur the wrath of the British Empire and make them both enemies of the Crown.

As Gavin Ennock pilots his airship, the Lady of Liberty, to China, his fiancée, Lady Alice Michaels prays they make it in time. The Clockwork Plague consumes Gavin's body and mind, driving him increasingly mad—and driving a wedge between him and Alice. Their only hope lies in China with the Dragon Men.

London based lawyer Kyra Gibson returns to Martha's Vineyard and the beach house she inherited for an extended summer holiday. Still reeling from her father's brutal murder and the role she and the handsome detective, Tarek Collins, played in uncovering it, Kyra is hopeful for some peace and quiet. But when a summer squall reveals the wreckage of the pirate ship, Keres, rich with rumored treasure, all hopes of peace are dashed.

Attorney Kyra Gibson has a lot on her mind this Thanksgiving. She’s been working long hours on a multi-billion dollar corporate merger, her family is visiting from London, and her relationship with former police detective Tarek Collins is heating up. When she and her companions are invited by her aristocrat client to attend a formal gala at a historic mansion on Chappaquiddick, Kyra reluctantly agrees. But Chappy is more than just a playground for the wealthy. It’s a wild, remote place cut off from civilization. When the first body is found, the occupants are worried.

The Cratchit family has come a long way since Ebenezer Scrooge's transformation many Christmases past, none more so than Lucy Anne 'Raven' Cratchit. Inspired by Tiny Tim's illness and recovery, Raven is working to become London's first female physician. Brit Crane grew up fighting for his life in the slums of London, protecting his gang of orphan thieves until Olivia 'Twist' Brownlow and Jack 'The Artful Dodger' MacCarron rescued them and Brit became a teacher.

Everyone at the party had a secret. Someone killed to keep theirs. London, 1922. Draper’s daughter Marjorie Swallow is 24, independent, and determined to live life to the full. A secretarial post with enigmatic American detective Mrs Jameson looks just the ticket. And soon she’s in the thick of it. When the bohemian party they attend ends in murder, there is no shortage of suspects. Half of Bloomsbury wanted Mrs Norris dead – but who wielded the knife? Was it the handsome but troubled artist? The vivacious young actress? Or even the aristocratic lady novelist?

To truly overcome your anxiety and stop your life from feeling like it is spiraling out of control, you need to address the root cause. By adopting simple habits and creating uplifting new routines, you will start to feel much more in control.

Laura Green is an agony aunt for a London magazine, but recently she could use some help herself. Her teenage daughter will barely speak to her and is hiding birth control pills in her room. Her elderly mother is in a home suffering from Alzheimer’s. And her ex is about to become a father again—while paying minimal attention to the three kids he already has with Laura.

This book gives you some fundamental, practical steps that you can ease into, creating new habits to lower your risks of burnout causing serious health issues in the future so you can stay productive while bringing back your sparkle, your joie de vivre and feel like you again!