Sooner or later, every girl needs to do a little spying.Why is your sister acting strangely? What is that sneaky boy hiding in his backpack?To find out, you need skills. Spy skills. And Devon Danby, Spygirl extraordinaire, is just the girl to teach you.Spy Skills for Girls is packed with the kind of spy skills a modern-day girl needs, such as:how to shadow a suspect in the mallhow to create a d...

Caitlyn and her best friend Jamie are hot on the trail of an exotic and clever cat. Unfortunately, with Caitlyn’s dog Buster in tow, things don't go smoothly. With signs pointing to danger and destruction, Caitlyn must act quickly to save the strange scarlet cat and reunite a family.The Tri-City Mysteries SeriesWhenever fifth grader Caitlyn notices something suspicious, she's determined to investigate. Join Caitlyn, her best friend Jamie, and her dog Buster...

When Caitlyn and her dog Buster keep getting woken up in the middle of the night by strange noises, Caitlyn calls on her best friend Jamie to help. The bandit she spots seems to be stealing tin cans from the apartment recycling bins, but why? Caitlyn won’t rest until she’s solved the mystery, even if it means sneaking into the local high school.The Tri-City Mysteries SeriesWhenever fifth grader Caitlyn notices something suspicious, she's determined to inves...

Caitlyn and her dog Buster get spooked during the annual salmon spawning in October. Halloween is approaching and a huge creature is lurking near the local creek. Is it a bear? Or could Jamie be right that it's a zombie planning a Halloween night attack? Caitlyn, Jamie and Buster follow the smelly, misty trail.The Tri-City Mysteries SeriesWhenever fifth grader Caitlyn notices something suspicious, she's determined to investigate. Join Caitlyn, her best frie...

A great effort has been made in contemporary Western culture to move beyond jealousy in our private lives - we have renegotiated old prohibitions, reorganising our sex lives, relationships, and family structures in new and inventive ways. But have we really been so successful at bearing the knowledge that, at a certain point, others’ desires belong only to them? This collection takes the temperature of jealousy today – how does it show up in the clinic? Does this differ from how it used to...

In this playful homage to Charles Dickens, Skilley, an alley cat with an embarrassing secret, longs to escape his street-cat life.Hoping to trade London's damp alleyways for the warmth of ye olde Cheshire Cheese Inn, Skilley strikes a bargain with Pip, an erudite mouse. Skilley will protect the mice who live at the inn, and in turn, the mice will provide Skilley with the thing he desires most.But when Skilley and Pip are drawn into a crisis of monumental pr...

STORM is an anthology of short stories around a common theme - a storm. Volume I is a mix of fantasy, science fiction and dystopian stories where people's lives are influenced by the occurrence of a storm, physical, moral or magical. Set in worlds apart from our own, five authors of the Pretoria Writers' Group give life to characters doing battle for the survival of their people, or fall over themselves in the process of trying.What can change the nature of a man? In John's case, i...

Tired of dodging fishwives’ brooms and carriage wheels, alley cat Skilley yearns for the comfort of Ye olde Cheshire Cheese, a popular London inn. When he hears that the innkeeper is in need of a mouser, he hatches a scheme so audacious it will surely set him up for the rest of his nine lives. Once installed at the Cheese, Skilley looks forward to a life of ease. But a resident mouse named Pip uncovers Skilley’s scandalous secret, and the desperate cat is forced to make a pact with him. Th...

STORM is an anthology of four short stories around a common theme - a storm. Volume II is a mix of contemporary stories where people's lives are influenced by the occurrence of a storm, physical, moral or imaginary. Set in a modern day setting, four authors of the Pretoria Writers' Group brings real life in sometimes difficult circumstances to this anthology.Dandelions for Mother is story about a young girl whose heart is broken when her mother dies from cancer. She is left behind ...

At sixteen, Anne is grown up...almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan, she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But when Anne begins her job as the new schoolteacher, the real test of her character begins. Along with teaching the three Rs, she is learning how complicated life can be when she meddles in someo...

Human brains are flexible and ever growing. Studies show that the more one uses their brain, the stronger that brain gets. Research with nuns finds that nuns who have Alzheimer's do far better than expected because their daily activities keep their brains sharp and engaged. It can come down to the "use it or lose it" maxim - if you want your brain to stay alert, you want to put it through gentle exercises every day.That's where this Memory Brain Training book comes in.Withi...

A young man writes letters in a last gasp at finding meaning in the world.