The true story of a teenager with OCD'Extremely compelling' – THE GUARDIAN'Remarkable' – WASHINGTON POST'A beautifully-rendered memoir' – PUBLISHERS WEEKLYBecause We Are Bad is a gripping, fast-paced non-fiction memoir that takes you inside the invisible war of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) — where a single intrusive thought can feel like a verdict, an...

Journalist Lily Bailey's memoir Because We Are Bad reveals her childhood battle with obsessive compulsive disorder, and her hard-won journey to recovery.A Washington Post Best Book of the YearBy the age of thirteen, Lily Bailey was convinced she was bad. She had killed someone with a thought, spread untold disease, and ogled the bodies of other children. Only by performing an exhausting series of secret routines could she ma...

A Love Song is an in-depth look at human behavior from a spiritual and psychological perspective. It explores the nature of thought and emotion and the division we tend to create between the two. It looks at the ego as a false construct whose sole purpose is to protect us from the emotional pain we do not wish to feelultimately concluding that it is our unwillingness to be honest with ourselves that leaves us separated from God.This book is a powerful guide to self-discovery. It re...

Written with the indelible power of Girl, Interrupted, Brain on Fire, and Reasons to Stay Alive, a lyrical, poignant memoir by a young woman about her childhood battle with debilitating obsessive compulsive disorder, and her hard-won journey to recovery.By the age of thirteen, Lily Bailey was convinced she was bad. She had killed someone with a thought, spread untold disease, and ogled the bodies of other children. Only by performing an exhausting series of secret...

The Science Works series use cartoon style illustrations and lively narrative text to make key topics in science both accessible and engaging.Two legs, four legs, 100 legs or none – every animal needs food to keep it alive, and all of our food comes from other living things.In this revised edition from Jacqui Bailey, we follow the story of a food chain on the grasslands of Africa. We find out how plants create their food from sunlight, the way inse...

A brand new edition of Charging About from the Science Works series, featuring lively storytelling and fun, engaging illustrations to aid children in their learning.Press a button, flick a switch, turn a knob and zap . . . something amazing happens. You have music, light, heat, hairdryers - all because of electricity.In this revised edition from Jacqui Bailey, we follow the story of how electrical energy is generated in a power station, ho...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two teen girls fall in love and fight for survival in an abandoned bookstore as they prepare for the end of the world in "the snarky sapphic dystopian of our dreams" (Jennifer Dugan, author of Some Girls Do).A YALSA BEST FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS BOOK OF THE YEAR*“A thoroughly original, intimate, and sometimes harrowing meditation on survival, forgiveness, and learning how to love again at ...

The Science Works series use cartoon style illustrations and lively narrative text to make key topics in science accessible and engaging.Without the Sun there would be no good days or bad days, or even birthdays. there would be no DAYS at all – just one dark endless NIGHT.In this revised edition from Jacqui Bailey, we follow the story of the path of the sun from dawn to dusk. We learn how light rays travel out from the sun, how shadows are formed, ...

The Science Works series use cartoon style illustrations and lively narrative text to make key topics in science both accessible and engaging.Have you ever thought about what keeps your feet on the ground? Or why things always fall downwards? The answer is a mysterious force called GRAVITY.In this revised edition from Jacqui Bailey, we follow the story of an astronaut on his first trip into space. There he experiences what life is like without the ...

This bright, funny book tells the story of a cliff as it is gradually eroded by the sea, wind, rain and ice. The Science Works series uses cartoon style illustrations and lively narrative text to make key topics in science accessible and engaging.Scorching days, cold nights, pouring rain, stormy winds and pounding waves – for thousands of years. It's enough to make even the hardest rocks crack up!In this revised edition from Jacqui Bailey, we follo...

The Point of It All is a collection of poems grounded in the writer's experiential and vicarious experiences. To the poet, poems are designed to raise, respond and react to points that reach deep into the soul, because therein lies a person's innermost thoughts, emotions and instincts about right and wrong. This poet's vision reflects how deeply she feels about ideas and issues that force humans to question themselves and their behavior. Some of the poems although not intended to be didact...

A brand new edition of A Drop in the Ocean from the Science Works series, featuring lively storytelling and fun, engaging illustrations to aid children in their learning.Our world is full of water. We swim in it. We Swallow it. We are even made of it (mostly).In this revised edition from Jacqui Bailey, we follow the passage of a water droplet, from the time when it evaporates from the ocean and becomes the water vapour that makes up clouds...