It's the First Day of Preschool!Chloe Zoe is so excited about starting school! Her mommy and daddy tell her that she's going to sing songs, read stories, paint pictures, and make new friends. She's ready...until she gets to school. The classroom looks too big and too busy, and she doesn't recognize anyone she knows. Now she's not so sure about leaving her mommy and daddy behind. Will Chloe Zoe find the courage to try making new friends?Perfect for beginning...

It's the First Day of Kindergarten!Chloe Zoe can't wait to see her friends George the giraffe and Mary Margaret the crocodile at school. This year, they're going to learn their ABCs and 123s, play together, and make new friends, too. Kindergarten is going to be so much fun! But when Chloe Zoe gets to school, she finds out her best friends are in a different class. Chloe Zoe will have to do everything without Mary Margaret and George. Can Chloe Zoe still have fun in...

'You said I was the perfect boyfriend. If you can prove you really love me, perhaps I can be that way again.'This is the chilling true story of a woman trapped in a devastating relationship as she tries to prove her love – over and over again.Within days of spending their first evening together, Alice and Joe were talking about getting married and spending the rest of their lives with each other. Everything about Joe seemed perfect, and Alice was the happiest she’d ever bee...

The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend.Taylor had always struggled to make friends – she felt ‘different’. Taylor never knew her father and her mother wasn’t around much. She just didn’t understand people, and was alone and scared most of the time.That was until, aged just 11, an older married man called Tom befriended her. She loved having someone who would talk to her, listen to her, a p...

When Zoe was taken into care at the age of 13, she thought she was finally going to escape from the cruel abuse she had suffered throughout her childhood. Then social services placed her in a residential unit known to be 'a target for prostitution', and suddenly Zoe's life was worse than it had ever been before.Abused and ostracized by her mother, humiliated by her father’s sexual innuendos, physically assaulted and bullied by her eldest brother, even as a young child Zoe thought s...

Nature artist Jane Smith has been fascinated by wildlife communities and ecosystems her whole adult life.Starting from her own garden in Argyll, she travels to ten locations in the west of Scotland - from the towering cliffs of St Kilda and the peatlands of Lewis to the Solway estuary and the urban sprawl of Glasgow - to explore the interaction of people and wildlife in a variety of diverse settings. On her journey she discovers a number of communities who are taking on the job of ...

As flies the shadow, so does life.In Scotland, 1826, Meggy McKessar comes to live and work at John Lovie's Aberdeenshire farm. John's widowed mother is warned Meggy will bring trouble, but she refuses to listen; all she wants is to for the rumours about John's sordid past to be forgotten forever. But when a sudden death casts suspicion on the widow's favourite son, the life she has so desperately tried to preserve threatens to fall apart.Based on a sensational true...

At midnight, the key appears. By morning, someone is dead.When investigative journalist Mara Vale receives a mysterious brass key bearing the initials of the long-abandoned Briarwood estate, she assumes it is connected to a story from the past. She is wrong.The key opens a room that officially does not exist—and inside is evidence suggesting that a decades-old disappearance was never solved because someone powerful made sure it wasn't.As Mara digs deeper into Briarw...

Not Everything Changes When You MoveWhen Callie's family moves cross-country, she learns to adjust to her new home. There are new neighbors, new weather-and scary nighttime sounds! But she soon realizes that not everything is different: her house is still by an ocean, her pup is at her side, and most importantly, her family is still together. This heartwarming family story illustrates how some things change, but others, thankfully, remain the same.

When 276 poor British emigrants sail away from Plymouth on the ship Emigrant in April 1850, seeking a better life in Australia, they know nothing of the ordeal that lies ahead. For four terrible months at sea, they endure cramped and squalid conditions, insufferable heat, bitter cold … and a mounting death toll from the dreaded disease that rages through the ship: typhus.When the Emigrant arrives in Moreton Bay, the nightmare continues. For three long months in qu...

The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend.Taylor had always struggled to make friends – she felt ‘different’. Taylor never knew her father and her mother wasn’t around much. She just didn’t understand people, and was alone and scared much of the time.That was until, aged just 11, an older married man called Tom befriended her. She loved having someone who would talk to her, listen to her, a p...

'You said I was the perfect boyfriend. If you can prove you really love me, perhaps I can be that way again.'This is the chilling true story of a woman trapped in a devastating relationship as she tries to prove her love – over and over again.Within days of spending their first evening together, Alice and Joe were talking about getting married and spending the rest of their lives with each other. Everything about Joe seemed perfect, and Alice was the happiest she’d ever bee...