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Grandmamma Dalila's grandchildren will be visiting her for week one this summer in Sweet Home Alabama. They will be flying in from Georgia, Texas, and Florida. The children are so excited about this visit with their grandmamma Dalila spending a week of their summer holiday knowing just how much fun it will be. They weren't prepared for all the new and exciting experiences they would share this week, and this would be one visit they would never forget. With grandma Dalila, there is always s...

Buried secrets don't stay buried forever.Leading Senior Constable Georgia West has barely found her footing at Gawler Street when a new threat emerges. Her unstable new boss, Senior Sergeant Brett Gresham, is pushing her team to breaking point. Managing him may be Georgia’s toughest challenge yet.Then the bodies start turning up. A retired mob hit man is murdered and under a demolished factory, the mummified bodies of a family are found, entombed for a decade. As connection...

Loner. Lawbreaker. Bad girl. These all describe Hannah Tree, but she never expected to add private detective to the list...Serving a minor prison sentence isn’t the usual training for becoming a private investigator. But Hannah’s new mentor Gloria Starr, a statuesque trans woman, convinces Hannah to turn her obsession with justice into a business.Hannah’s first case is simple. A routine check on a client’s spouse, a judge whose wife is worried about him. Gloria suspects he ...

Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction | One of Time Magazines's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 | Longlisted for the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards"An entertaining quest to trace the origins and implications of the names of the roads on which we reside." —Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book ReviewWhen most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, i...

'Thought-provoking, absorbing, superbly written ... Deirdre Purcell at her best' Patricia ScanlanA winter cruise sounds like a dream come true. But this gift from Grace's ex-husband is less a selfless act and more an effort to keep their highly destructive daughter Leonie away from his new family over the Christmas season.Despite her reservations, Grace accepts, hoping that a change of scene will be a good thing for herself and Leonie. Though what she really...

Disgraced. Angry. Demoralised. Former rising star, Georgia West now grinds along in her new job at the bottom of the police ladder.When the body of a young woman is found in Georgia's precinct, her boss, Senior Sergeant Graham Causton freaks out. He's never been in charge of investigating a murder. But his new Constable Georgia West has.The crime scene screams serial killer and Georgia is well aware that solving a case like this could be her ticket out of the backwater dump...

For fans of Raina Telgemeier and Kayla Miller comes the second graphic novel in the funny slice-of-life Cool Code series.Morgan, Zoey, and Daniel discover that the popularity AI they've coded is being used to wreak mischief and destroy friendships in their school. It's up to them to fix the glitch!When the coding club finds that their app has a malicious user, Morgan, Zoey, and Daniel code an update to contend with a mischievous AI llama th...

Fintan Buckley is a pleasant, rather conventional and unimaginative man, who works as a legal adviser in an import/export firm in Dublin. He lives in Howth and is married to Colette. They have two sons who are at university, and a small daughter.As he goes about his life, working and spending time with his family, Fintan begins to experience states of altered consciousness and auditory hallucinations, which seem to take him out of a linear experience of time. He becomes interested ...

In this fully updated second edition, this book provides an insight into the challenges and benefits specific to gifted children with attention difficulties. Recognising the different kinds and levels of giftedness, it explains why certain children are gifted and how giftedness is manifested, with each chapter addressing the relevance of a specific topic for children with AD/HD and Asperger Syndrome. Lovecky guides parents and professionals through methods of diagnosis and advises on how b...

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses examines how women-led healing was delegitimized to make way for patriarchy, capitalism, and the emerging medical industry.As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of healthcare in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work.First published by the Feminist Press in 1973, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses is an e...

What do you do when the shadows from your past reach in to darken the present?Since Harry Nichols and Anna Felby crushed her family's toxic business, their lives are where they want them. Her farm, his film, their affair. But why is Harry dodging assassins, first in Kashmir then back home?The only new thing in their lives is a suave English cousin of Anna's. But this cousin is not what he seems. As they discover his shady European connections involving her long dead grandfa...

Private detective Hannah Tree thought her troubles were behind her, until she finds herself tangled in a case far more dangerous than anything she’s faced before.A desperate mother searches for her lost daughter. Street kids are going missing. These kids bear identical tattoos and scars and speak of strange things—like “elders” and “soul police.” Hannah suspects a cult, and when their bodies start turning up, she knows time is running out.Teaming up with allies old and new ...