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1) Diversify
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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Offering six stories, and six simple steps, Diversify explores the value we place on social packaging - how it shapes the way we see ourselves, determines who we become, and limits the opportunities available to us.Most importantly, offers practical tools, empowering us to challenge those limitations, and diversify. Combining sharp observations, fascinating case studies, and interviews with key political, cultural and business leaders, Diversify is...
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Studies on medical and population subjects volume no. 57
Publisher
HMSO
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
7) Wonder
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English
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'Wonder' is the funny, sweet and incredibly moving story of Auggie Pullman. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, this shy, bright ten-year-old has been home-schooled by his parents for his whole life, in an attempt to protect him from the stares and cruelty of the outside world.
8) Katy
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English
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Katy's life changes in dramatic and unexpected ways after a serious accident. Inspired by the classic novel, 'What Katy Did', Jacqueline Wilson creates an irresistible modern version for the twenty-first-century.
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Behler Publications
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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THE LONG BLINK is a narrative nonfiction book by Emmy Award-winning journalist, Brian Kuebler, who exposes the staggering cost of the American trucking industry?s rising crash rate through the intimate struggle of Ed Slattery, who is left to piece his family back together after a trucker fell asleep at the wheel and killed his wife and maimed his son. From the historic, public settlement with the trucking company and a bizarre confrontation with its...
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Puffin
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English
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The eagerly-anticipated sequel to Tom Fletcher's bestselling magical adventure, The Christmasaurus. 'She is the best-kept Christmas secret of all,' whispered Santa Claus. 'Which is surprising, because she is so powerful that Christmas itself would not exist without her. She is older than time itself, yet still as young as tomorrow. She is known only as the Winter Witch.' A year has passed since a boy named William Trundle had an incredible adventure...
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Simon & Schuster UK
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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In between those dates, her life changed forever when she lost both of her legs in the London tube bombings of 7/7. She was, in fact, the last person to be brought out alive from the atrocities. She lost 80 per centof her blood, was in a coma for ten days and underwent ten months of surgery. Unbreakable is her deeply moving and inspiring account of how she not only survived one of the worst terrorist attacks in British history but turned that...
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English
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It?s the latest Brilliant Blockbuster from Baddiel! A non-stop thrill-ride adventure that will have readers young and old racing to the finishing line.The Taylor Turbochaser is a road-trip rollercoaster? with a twist.At its heart is the unforgettable Amy Taylor. Amy loves cars, and dreams of being a driver. But there?s a major catch: her slow old wheelchair with its broken wheel. When Amy finally gets a new electric one, it?s exciting? at...
15) Me before you
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Me Before You volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's...
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Far South volume 2
Publisher
Ulverscroft, Aurora
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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At the bottom of New Zealand's South Island, near the tiny harbour town of Riverton, Finn Bell moves into the isolated Smuggler's Cottage. He's running away from his old life and broken marriage, and still hasn't decided whether or not he's come here to die. At first, Finn dares to believe that he's building a new life with the help of new friends, counselling, a place in the local Murderball team. But chance encounters and odd occurrences convince...
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Bluebird
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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'We had our hardships, and there were times that we didn?t have a lot of food and didn?t have a lot of money. But that didn?t stop me having the time of my life.' Making It is an inspirational memoir about beating the odds and turning things around even when it all seems hopeless. In this book, Jay shares the details of his life, from his childhood growing up sheltered and innocent on a council estate in Hackney, to his adolescence when he was introduced...
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