‘Laat me niet alleen’ is een aangrijpende en intrigerende roman, waarmee Sarah Armstrong haar lezers dwingt na te denken over ongemakkelijke kwesties.Anna geniet van haar rustige leven in Sydney. Ze houdt van haar werk, heeft net de voorzichtige eerste stappen gezet in een nieuwe relatie, en woont in een klein maar fijn huisje in een buitenwijk. Tot ze nieuwe buren krijgt en die rust opeens ver te zoeken is.Als ze voor het eerst blauwe plekken op het lichaam van haar kleine...

For fans of Tristan Bancks and Katherine Rundell comes this electrifying middle-grade novel about a twelve-year-old called Cas, who runs away to avoid a reunion with his estranged father. Cas soon finds himself lost in the wilderness, completely alone and without help. Or is he?Cas thought running away from home would solve all his problems. But he didn’t count on getting hopelessly lost in the tangled Australian bush. Alone and afraid, Cas has giv...

Eleven-year-old Tulsi comes from a long line of women magicians, but her mother has always forbidden her to learn Big Magic. It’s dangerous, thrilling, and powerful – and Tulsi wants it more than anything. But one hot summer’s night, a magic trick goes horribly wrong, and her mother disappears. Only one person can bring her back, and that’s Tulsi.But first, she’ll have to learn a lifetime’s worth of Big Magic – in just one month. It’s an impossible task, especially when her teacher...

In this enchanting debut, a young girl faces the secrets buried in the mud-rich, rain-soaked landscape of her mothers childhood. When fourteen-year-old Allies mother, Mae, mysteriously disappears in the dark waters of the harbor, Allie is taken by Julia — an aunt she barely knows — to stay at the dilapidated dairy farm where her mother grew up. As the days pass and the heat of the wet season swells, Allie confidently waits for her mothers call, certain that Mae will reappear as she always has...

The Mom's Guide to a Good Divorce is meant to help those women who have decided to get a divorce to understand all of the details they need to think through... especially when children are involved. This practical guide outlines the entire divorce process and the decisions which need to be considered during each phase... always keeping in focus what is best for the children. The guidance is written in a conversational tone from one mom to another and is served up in bite-sized pieces. The ...

There is so much to think through when working parents are managing the day-to-day juggling act of raising children and managing a career.This book is written in a conversational tone and is served up in bite-sized pieces.There are 140+ topics which are all listed out in the Table of Contents for ease of reference.This can be a guide for working parents to refer to along the way when managing the juggling act and trying to live life to the fullest.

Annas ruhiges Leben ändert sich schlagartig, als eine neue Familie in ihr Nachbarhaus zieht. Nur zwei Tage dauert es, bis sie merkt, dass nebenan etwas schiefläuft. Sie hört die fünfjährige Charlie weinen, dann entdeckt sie Verletzungen an dem kleinen Mädchen, die sie nicht ignorieren kann. Anna informiert die Polizei, doch nichts passiert. Eines Tages steht Charlie vor ihrer Tür und bittet sie um Hilfe. Anna findet auf die Schnelle nur eine Lösung: das Mädchen zu packen und so weit wie mö...

Eleven-year-old Tulsi comes from a long line of women magicians, and loves doing Big Magic. Every night in her family's circus show, she turns twigs into trees, flies like a bird and even disappears into thin air. But one night, in the middle of a show, she loses her powers – with frightening results. Tulsi's powers soon come back, but she can't risk losing them again – and her search for what went wrong soon takes her all the way into a parallel universe, where she discovers that magic ev...

Just for the record...I am not an advocate for divorce. In an ideal world, couples who get married…happily stay together for a lifetime. Unfortunately, this is not always the case and these days divorce is more common than ever.Through the years since going through this major change in my life, I have been asked by many friends to give them advice on how to go through the process and come out happy on the other end. Somehow, the girl who never, ever thought she would get a divorce ...

Eleven-year-old Tulsi comes from a long line of women magicians, but her mother has always forbidden her to learn Big Magic. It's dangerous, thrilling and powerful – and Tulsi wants it more than anything. But one hot summer's night, a magic trick goes horribly wrong, and her mother disappears. Only one person can bring her back, and that's Tulsi. But first, she'll have to learn a lifetime's worth of Big Magic – in just one month. It's an impossible task, especially when her teacher – her s...

Out of her depth, Martha no longer knows who can be trusted.Escaping failure as an undergraduate and a daughter, not to mention bleak 1970s England, Martha marries Kit - who is gay. Having a wife could keep him safe in Moscow in his diplomatic post. As Martha tries to understand her new life and makes the wrong friends, she walks straight into an underground world of counter-espionage."Sarah Armstrong has delivered a mesmerising, evocative novel in which characterisation an...

Ted wants to be a proper journalist rather than a film critic, but at least the travel is good. He arrives in Bucharest to interview a renowned film director, but suspects the man he sees is an imposter. His guide, Vasile, has involved him in a more interesting story about a missing girl, a puzzle Ted aims to solve while he s in Moscow at the 1975 International Film Festival. In Moscow, though, the mystery deepens, and Ted finds himself asked to do more than a few dubious favours.