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The Song of the Stork is one young Jewish girl's wartime story of love, hope, survival, and finding a voice as the voices around her are extinguished.

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When his estranged father dies in perplexing circumstances, the discovery of a long-forgotten diary soon plunges a pharmaceutical worker back into the events which lead to his family's collapse.

Kate Grahame's new job at the National Museum of Scotland sparks a series of dreams featuring a man she believes she has never met. Regression therapy exposes his identity and reveals a strong past life connection to the Edinburgh museum. As Kate struggles to come to terms with this startling discovery, her marriage collapses. Kate is forced to forge a new life for herself, while still learning about her mysterious past. She soon finds herself...

When New Writers UK created the 'Silver Scribes Tell Tales' competition for people of more mature years, we didn't realise what a difficult task selection would be. Having received a huge number of charming, humorous or intriguing stories, choosing twenty was no easy undertaking. What you are about to read are the final selection and we believe each one of these has deserved its place in this book and trust you too will enjoy 'Silver Scribes T...

Mark Hayhurst was brought up in and lives in Yorkshire, realising it's only widespread representation so far was four old men in a tin bath and a farm that a plane crashed into he knew that a flip side was needed. He doesn't see the point in writing anything that doesn't provoke a response so don't be surprised to feel repulsed, shocked, offended and a little ashamed at yourself for what you end up finding funny.

A dead Japanese diplomat, police arrests and charges of grave robbing. These are just some of the challenges these culinary explorers must overcome in tackling gastronomy's ultimate taboo: cannibalism.

Some might tell you a mid-table finish in football represents 'mediocrity'. Those people probably don't know much about Carlisle United. This account of a season in the life of Cumbria's only football league club tells of their first mid-table finish in over two decades. It also recounts stunning victories over automatically promoted clubs, dire outings at relegation threatened outposts, the nail-biting agonies that saw a Wembley trip achieved...

Nineteen year old William Martin is on death row in the Ohio State Penitentiary for a double homicide. Musically talented, but socially inept, he remains supported by two strong women, his mother, Susan, and his childhood nanny, Sally Miller, who are convinced there has been a miscarriage of justice. Their trust in William leads to complications which threaten not only his chance of an appeal but also their own freedom. This is a story of the...

Jasper Lobster can't play in tonights Concert without his missing Saxophone! Can the seaside residents of Sandy Bay find it in time? "Jasper Lobster's Missing Saxophone" is the brilliant new book in the Sandy Bay series written by Kirsten Seedhouse and Illustrated by David Seedhouse.

Shindig didn't know it but her reputation with the boys of Soho had been made that day. It was one of those occasions when time had gone into free fall, everyone watched as he arced gracefully through the air and fell to the floor. He was quickly dispatched out into the courtyard. Sharks would discover him soon. The Rendezvous Club is a squalid little gaff off a slippery courtyard. Here, you'll always find a gathering of the 'boys' of Soho. Th...

The airless cottage stifles me, and I cannot breathe. The glass reveals another world, but it entombs me. I am captive, but I have seen the outside. It is November 1826 and I am thirty-one years old... There is a storm brewing.' New Year 1851 Rector James Coyte arrives at his bleak Suffolk destination. Full of apprehension, he expects his first post to be provincial and unchallenging. But Polstead is a village with a secret. A young woman murd...

David Price always wished life would blow up in his face. Now David spends his time worrying about Sarah's eating habits, visiting her terminally ill sister and working as Pete's carer.When Pete's odd behaviour starts to leave David fearing for his own safety, he is shocked to discover that Sarah knows the reason why but will not disclose it.

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Following an arduous and tragic sea journey to Australia, Hamil travels into the outback to find work and is taken in by a fellow Turkish immigrant. With the level of attack escalating and faced with being forced out of their home, the two men see only one option, leading to the peace of the community being irrevocably shattered.

The first in the "Smart Skills" series, "Meetings" offers all you need to know to get the most out of meetings - from setting meetings up, leading them, to how to make the most out of them once the meeting is over.

For those building business in China, the protection and preservation of intellectual property (IP) is essential. Until some five years ago there was little or no effective remedy in Chinese Law against patent and trademark infringement or brand piracy.

Would you like to:- Achieve all the goals you set yourself, in whatever area of your life youchoose?- Learn how to be `on the same wavelength' rapidly with anyone you meet in your business world?- Improve your leadership and team-building competences?- Learn to think and write with impeccable logic?- Gain promotion within your organisation?

Part of the Smart Skills series, Mastering the Numbers offers a practical and accessible guide to the numerical skills needed to excel in business.Mastering the Numbers is not just for those working professionally with figures, such as accountants, but provides the general skills required for any person working with numbers in the workplace.

Part of the Smart Skills series, Persuasion offers all you need to know to get the most out of your business operations. With the current global economic crisis excellent persuasion skills have become invaluable as businesses now more than ever must maximise every opportunity they face.