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This is Moss Side, Manchester, during the 1960s and '70s as seen through the eyes of an Irish Traveller child. It depicts a community rich with diversity, humour and warmth. It's a story of lives behind pristine net curtains, in which a black eye marked a woman not as a victim but as a man's property. Amidst this stark tale of a bygone era is an affectionate account of love.

Far from being a misery memoir, Was This in the Plan? is a frank, open and no-holds-barred account of how a family was determined not just to survive but to thrive when the odds were against them. It will make you question your own attitude to life and how you choose to respond when unexpected events throw you off course.

"Gulliver's Travels" (1726, amended 1735), officially "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World", is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is widely considered Swift's magnum opus and is his most celebrated work, as well as one of the indisputable classics of English literature.

Even though Angel isn't out of the woods, she and Ryker hold on to their hope while making plans for the future. Complications arise for those closest to them, however. As Vanessa's wedding approaches, Angel's sister Felicia is nowhere to be found, Sterling makes a decision about his own relationship, and Veronica's husband is on the run. Some relationships are healed while others are broken, and when a happy occasion turns into a funeral, nothing will ever be the same.

Angel and Ryker take the next step in their relationship, while her life continues to hang in the balance. Ryker discovers something new about Sterling, while his ex-wife Veronica is putting her new job on the line with a secret of her own. Will Angel's life be saved while someone else loses theirs?

Jamison Collins is a lost and broken man. His wife has died, leaving him to bring up his children, Roger and Elizabeth, alone. Ivanka Romano lives in the Old House on the Collinwood estate. Abandoned by her gypsy tribe, she is also alone. But on this dark and stormy night, ghosts from the past are returning. Ghosts from the past are threatening to end the lives of these lost and broken people. It's Christmas Eve, but the only present that the children of Collinwood will receive is death....

Exiled to Earth by her mysterious superiors, Iris has been amusing herself and Panda by working for MIAOW, the Ministry for Incursions and Other Wonders. When a certain Professor Ramsbottom and his lovely assistant Audrey unearth a weird vehicle under a London railway station, Ms Wildthyme and her art critic chum are on the scene pretty sharpish. Among anachronistic skulls and crockery they discover the still-living forms of utterly perplexing, alien creatures.

'My curse...to be the greatest painter who ever lived! And yet to never be able to see them for myself!' The year is 1893, and struggling artist Charles Delaware Tate works alone in a garret in New York City. Frustrated by his lack of artistic genius, he seems doomed to a life of misery and failure. And then he meets Eloise Verinder...and his whole world changes.

Angel shares her secrets with Ryker, expecting them to push him away, only for him to make it clear nothing she says would make him do such a thing. Ryker is stunned when Angel tells him what he wants to know, but nothing prepares either of them for the deception of someone they both trusted. Or him for the return of someone who won't take no for an answer. And when Angel makes a decision which impacts both of their futures, Ryker must deal with the aftermath of the choices they've both made in the past.

Danita Barlow isn't happy when her decision to die leads her to the house of the one person whose always cared for her, especially when 15 years have passed since she left home, and she has big secrets to share before it's too late.

After trying on a long, bright, and colorful dress, Petra finds herself in Jordan where she meets Fatima. Together they explore the ancient city of Petra.

Petra is a curious 7-year-old girl who goes on exciting adventures to fascinating places around the world. In this adventure, Petra travels to Sri Lanka, through the magical costume warehouse at the theatre where her mother works. There she encounters a young novice monk and encounters a baby elephant!

Petra is a curious 7-year-old girl who goes on exciting adventures in fascinating places around the world. Through the magical costume warehouse at her mother's workplace Petra travels to Senegal where she meets a girl named Awa Diouf and her family. On her adventure she meets interesting people, as well as their cultures and ways of life.

Petra, a young adventurer, finds herself in the Northern Fells of Sami Land, an unknown land to her. She soon makes a new friend named Niklas. Petra and Niklas find themselves exploring the Sami Land together in search of Niklas' lost sister, Maaret. Along the way, Petra learns about the magic of the Northern Lights and how they came to be.

Abandoned by her mother at an early age, 10-year-old Spin has been adopted by Sir Fistache mal Arthreign. The knight's habit of collecting waifs and strays has thrown together a family of rowdy headbangers. Expelled from countless towns and villages, they hope to make a fresh start in the Songwynd slums - but the decision to bring along their pet wishhobbler wrecks any chance of this.

Clatterbox is a glowbot. A very special kind of robot. He has feelings, just like you and I have. You can tell how Clatterbox is feeling by the colour that he glows.

As we enter the dawn of a new "post-prohibition" era, the stigma surrounding cannabis use is fading, and the conversation about what it means to get high is changing. When it comes to being a respectful, thoughtful, and responsible consumer of pot, there is a lot you need to know. In Higher Etiquette, Lizzie Post - great-great granddaughter of Emily Post and co-president of America's most respected etiquette brand - explores and celebrates the wide world of legalized weed.

This is more than one story, more than one now. But I’ll tell it as best I can. Me? I’m Jude – like the Patron Saint of lost causes. Him? He’s Novo. Like nothing on earth. Literally. In the beginning, before Novo showed up, my mum and me moved to the seaside. Then the first of July, 11.34am. Novo arrived. I was like an atom in his orbit. Alone with him, feeling the pull. Suddenly in the moment, in the now.

Driven by poverty, Spin and her makeshift family move to the Songwynds in search of work. There they share a tiny, rat-infested tenement room with their adoptive Ma: a ferocious wishhobbler. A monster of a mother, and the mother of all monsters, the wishhobbler’s viciousness has caused fear and mayhem among the slum dwellers. Unable to hit back at the wishhobbler, her victims turn their attention to Spin.

Twenty-five-year-old Bea is a hopeless romantic with a hopeless love life – until now. New beau Dan ticks all the boxes: he’s good-looking, kind and thoughtful. The complete opposite of Bea’s ex, who once threw her out in the middle of the night when she was ill so she didn’t disrupt his sleep. So when her friends point out that she and Dan don’t have fireworks, Bea ignores them. Dan is the whole package. And yet Bea can’t stop comparing him to her best friend Henry... Because Dan doesn’t get Bea’s jokes. Or like books. Or make her laugh until she can’t breathe.