From a scene-stealing parrot and a mango dessert showdown to big ice-cream dreams and a celestial visitor lost in Mumbai’s chaos, this sparkling anthology brings many more adventures, along with mischief, mayhem and plenty of laughs.Full of joy, friendship and unforgettable escapades, this much-loved collection now returns as Greatest Holiday Stories—the perfect companion for long, lazy holidays and joyful reading. Featuring stories by some of the finestvoices in ch...

From a creepy spirit lurking in a deserted bungalow and a goddess reborn demanding blood, to a haunted school, sinister wind chimes and a possessed doll, this spine-tingling collection is filled with eerie encounters and chilling mysteries.Packed with deliciously spooky tales, this much-loved collection now returns as Greatest Ghost Stories, perfect for readers who love a good fright. Featuring stories by some of the finest voices in children’s literature, including: • Adi...

A unique clinical resource, this book shows how to infuse the methods and spirit of motivational interviewing (MI) into group-based interventions. The authors demonstrate how the four processes of MI with individuals translate into group contexts. They explain both the challenges and the unique benefits of MI groups, guiding practitioners to build the skills they need to lead psychoeducational, psychotherapeutic, and support groups successfully. A wealth of clinical examples are featured. ...

A collection of stories from people who have found release from alcoholism through the programme and fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Welcome to a journey through speculative fictions, where the possibilities of tomorrow are explored like never before.In a new collaborative approach, renowned experts, armed with their deep knowledge of justice, energy, digital money, longevity and learning, join forces with talented authors to weave narratives that transcend the future that you may currently believe is inevitable.Situated in 'real-life' between accelerationism and scepticism, this volume of disruptions se...

Welcome to an alternate Canada, where steam technology and the wonders and horrors of the mechanical age have reshaped the past into something both wholly familiar yet compellingly different. These fifteen supercharged all-new tales reimagine Canadian historical events, explore other Canadas, and gather inspiration from the northern landscape to make us wonder: what if history had gone a different way? Experience steam-powered buffalo women roaming the plains; visit brutal gas-lit working ...

“Powerful . . . In I’ll Fly Away, the women have penned well-drawn evocative pieces about their experiences . . . . Healing is happening through writing.”—Lisa Ko, author of The LeaversThe #1 New York Times bestselling author offers an inspiring new collection of writings from the members of his acclaimed program in Connecticut’s York Correctional FacilityIn 2003 Wally Lamb, published Couldn’t Keep It to Myself, a collection of essays by the students in his writing workshop...

This material will provide student-teachers with an in-depth knowledge of the African Traditional religion that is practiced in Ghana. It will focus on the history, beliefs, practices and values, and how these have shaped the teaching and learning of RME. Tutors will apply teaching strategies such us discussion and tutorials, with the aim of discarding misconceptions, misrepresentations, marginalization and fanaticism among learners. By this, student-teachers will be equipped with solid kn...

This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential act of the rock era. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with several musical styles, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psy...

Cycling? It's one of my life's constants, it feeds my need for beauty, for delight and for aimless exploring . . . I hope to continue pedalling, nice and slowly, for the rest of my life, with the same curiosity that ignited my childhood. Twelve writers consider the joys and consolations of cycling, whether in a city late at night or along country lanes on a summer's day. Yara Rodrigues Fowler and Xani Byrne write movingly on coming to terms with loss through tandem biking; Jon McGregor tak...

Memory flows like a river, and it is through its constant flow that we come into being. Twelve of our most exciting contemporary writers consider the subject of rivers and how they shape us throughout our lives, demarcating cities as well as moulding our creative consciousness. Tessa Hadley revisits Rumer Godden's The River; Jo Hamya pays homage to Virginia Woolf; Michael Malay goes nightfishing for eels along the River Severn; Marchelle Farrell revisits the tropical waterfalls of her chil...

This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Outlander is a British-American television drama series based on the historical time travel Outlander series of novels by Diana Gabaldon. Developed by Ronald D. Moore and produced by Sony Pictures Television and Left Bank Pictures for Starz, the show premiered on August 9, 2014. It stars Caitriona Balfe as Claire Randall, a married World War II nurse who in 1945 finds herself transp...