Marilyn Monroe has been brutally murdered. Tough, streetwise (and let’s be truthful here – tightwad) ex-cop PI Grace Smith is hired to track down the murderer... But this isn't LA. It’s a seedy run down English resort and Marilyn Monroe is a decidedly dead donkey.Grace is inexorably drawn into a web of greed, betrayal and murder, whilst she gamely sticks to her mantra of ‘What’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine if I can blag it’. As the tentacles of the case stretch out to to...

Where did she come from? And how far will she go?Five years ago, Kate’s partner, Max, abandoned her for his pregnant lover. The affair has long since crumbled, but Kate has become fixated with Vee, her ‘replacement’. In a bid to find out what compelled Max to leave, she moves to Bridgewell, which stands in the shadow of St Catherine's Chapel, where Vee is now raising her four-year-old daughter, Iona.Warm and trusting, Vee is juggling work, single parenthood and a controlling...

This volume of essays provides a critical foray into the methods used to construct narratives which foreground antiheroines, a trope which has become increasingly popular within literary media, film, and television. Antiheroine characters engage constructions of motherhood, womanhood, femininity, and selfhood as mediated by the structures that socially prescribe boundaries of gender, sex, and sexuality. Within this collection, scholars of literary, cultural, media, and gender studies addre...

This book is a comprehensive overview of the ever-captivating field of glaciation from the perspective of glacial landsystems. This approach models the many processes, forms and interactions that can be found in glaciated landscapes throughout the world. Landsystems models allow the glacial geologist and geomorphologist to evaluate these landscapes in relation to the dynamics of glaciation and to climate and geology.Glacial Landsystems brings together the expertise of an internatio...

Wild Seas, Wilder Cities is a ‘wild-seeded’ collection of short stories, poems, memoirs and environmental articles from 49 unique contributors, all concerned with showing the positive side of our relationship with the earth.Thanks to funding from Portsmouth Creates, this audiobook features 50 different voices from across the Portsmouth community and beyond. Our readers range from teenagers to those in their nineties, including experienced actors, writers and volunteers from the pub...

Prepare your children to feel happy before going to school. A visual guide where your children will get excited and start dreaming about their first day at school.

The specific—and varied—ways in which assessment and evaluation can impact learning and teaching have become an important language education research concern, particularly as educators are increasingly called on to implement these processes for improvement, accountability, or curricular development purposes. Useful Assessment and Evaluation in Language Education showcases contemporary research that explores innovative uses of assessment and evaluation in a variety of educational contexts.

Liz takes up sculpture and hires a model. As we look in on 321 Bundy Drive, Sheridan Falls, it's late afternoon. Liz is just arriving home from her club meeting, and is met at the door by George. Liz has had a very educational day at the club today. They had a lecture on older people and how they can be kept happy and useful, but as Liz has no hobbies, the lecturer pointed out that she's on a slippery slope to being lonely and unhappy when she gets older. So she's going to get a hobby!

Liz and George Cugat are the famous couple who live together and like it.

Liz and George Cugat are the famous couple who live together and like it!

The comfortable front bedroom of the comfortable suburban home of the Cugat’s doesn’t look very comfortable this morning. Articles of clothing are strewn across the floor and across the bed. George hurriedly ploughs through the debris getting dressed while Liz tries to cram all of their things in to three suitcases.

**Embark on a gripping journey into the life of Liz Cheney—a woman whose unwavering dedication to truth and integrity has reshaped the landscape of American politics.In "Liz Cheney Biography: The Untold Story of Liz Cheney, Her Fight for Truth, and Integrity in Politics," you'll discover the remarkable story of a fearless leader who defied the odds, challenged the status quo, and stood tall in the face of adversity.Here's what you'll learn in this revolutionary book:**...