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    • Trusted Partner
      Fiction
      June 2017

      Worst Seller

      by Bighead Horse

      “Your biggest problem,” shouts a sadistic instructor at a confused group of writers, “is that you’re too mass-market!” The first story in Bighead Horse’s How to Write a Worstseller tells of an unusual workshop whose participants learn how to curb their sales appeal. This book generates from this story and fictionalises a writing contest with prize of 30 million RMB. The stories touch upon a rich range of topics and display a diverse spectrum of styles, while the author is concealed in the elaborated stories and hidden behind the different writer identities. This collection of stories demonstrates the author's command of writing novels in different styles and themes.

    • Trusted Partner
      Fiction
      November 2021

      Double Wahala, Double Trouble

      by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike

      A woman chops off her finger to demonstrate her fidelity to her lover. A mother loses her mind upon discovering that her husband has left her and their only child. An artist seeks to unravel why his neighbour's face enchants him. A passenger on a bus acts as an emissary of death. Meet some of the characters in Double Wahala Double Trouble, a collection of eleven stories by the award-winning poet, short story writer, children's novelist, and literary scholar. In this stunning collection, Umezurike lures the reader into a journey of the absurd and the grisly to show us men and women struggling to live, desire, love, and thrive against the eddy of troubles in their world.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences

      Social situations for autistic adolescents

      An invaluable handbook designed for autistic teens and anyone who wants to improve their social communication skills.

      by Alice Kassotaki - Speech Language Pathologist MSc, BSc

      Social Situations for Adolescents - NEW EDITION 2024 Age Group: 12 years and over This book is a groundbreaking resource designed to facilitate the social development of adolescents, especially those on the autism spectrum (ASD). However, Social Situations for Adolescents extends beyond its primary target audience, offering valuable insights and practical tools for any adolescent seeking to improve their social communication skills. Core Features of the Book: Engaging Social Stories: A series of carefully developed stories serve as the foundation for exploring real-life social situations. Thoughtful Analysis & Reflection: Each story includes possible solutions, engaging questions, and structured problem-solving strategies that encourage self-awareness and decision-making. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Approach: Focuses on emotion regulation, coping strategies, and social skill improvement to help adolescents navigate interactions with confidence. Family Involvement: Highlights the importance of consistent support and reinforcement at home and in various settings. Additional Topics Covered: Generalization Strategies: Ensuring that learned skills can be applied in different social contexts. Stress Reduction Techniques: Helping individuals with ASD manage sensory challenges. Expressive Language Exercises: Enhancing communication skills through illustrated activities and structured exercises. By following clear, actionable steps, this book supports quick comprehension and easy application of social skills, leading to long-term personal development and confidence. Social Situations for Autistic Adolescents is more than a textbook—it’s a practical companion for adolescents navigating the complexities of social interactions, helping them build a more inclusive and confident future.

    • Children's & YA
      August 2020

      Raj's Rule (For the Bathroom at School)

      by Lana Button, Hatem Aly

      Raj has one rule: he never uses the bathroom at school. It’s just not the same as the one at home. All day, he avoids bathroom trips. Easy enough, since he lives by these tips: Don’t linger at the sink. Stay away from anyone who makes you laugh. Watch out for distractions, especially schoolwork. And sit still: no running, jumping, cartwheels, or sneezing. Until one day—achoo!—Raj has to break his own rule. After he faces his fear and uses the bathroom at school, Raj feels different. He doesn’t have to rush! He can try new things, laugh, explore … even enjoy his work. He can stay awhile and play. Raj discovers things are better if you just go when you need to. Told in speech bubbles with bright, lively art showing a diverse group of kids, this is a riotous rhyming read-aloud with an empathetic take on facing a common fear.

    • Gifts and Sneezes

      by Andreas Greve and Ann Eckert

      Humorous rhymes and equally amusing illustrations in this lovely book will bring a smile to every patient’s face. An ideal gift book for everyone that is ill!

    • Fiction
      September 2012

      The Incredible Shrinking Bogey Bear

      by Clive Gilson

      When Mrs McGonagall collapses with the biggest nose bleed in the world, inventor Dad & his daughter, Morgan, have to come up with a plan. Dad miniaturizes Morgan's cyber teddy bear, Bogey, pops him in a techno-suit, & programs him so he can wield a laser glue gun. Inserted in Mrs M's nose Bogey has just 5 minutes to fix the nose bleed before he reverts to normal size & explodes Mrs M's Head.. This is the first in a brand new series of Bogey Bear tales from author Clive Gilson...so keep watching out for new Bogey Bear adventures.

    • Children's & YA

      Sam the Washing Bear

      by INGMAR LARSEN

      Sam is very excited: today is his birthday! Grandpa gives him a very special present: a soap dispenser. According to Grandpa, there’s dirt everywhere that can make you sick. But if you wash your hands carefully with water and soap, you’ll stay healthy! Sam now feels very important and can’t wait to tell his friends. Together they learn when to wash your hands: after playing outside, taking the bus, or sneezing, for example. A colourful and topical picture book to teach children about the importance of hygiene. Now extra relevant during the Covid-19 crisis! Helps children and their parents to stop spreading the virus.

    • Agriculture & farming

      The Right Colour

      by Andy Frazier

      This touching tale tells of a calf born in a pedigree Aberdeen Angus herd, an unusual calf that although is black in colour, is the wrong kind of black. Her times of hardship and degradation evolve her into a somewhat exceptional character. Now an old lady nearing the end of her life she tells her own extraordinary and comical tale of her exciting journey towards fulfilling her destiny.

    • Children's & YA

      No. 39 Animal Surgery

      by Chinlun Lee

      No. 39 Animal Surgery is set in Chinlun's husband's veterinary surgery, with many details taken from real life events. Chunlun has disguised herself in the narrative as the surgery's pet cat who can understand the conversations between the animals and record them on paper. Filled with the most adorable characters, such as the dog seeking refuge and another who lost its owner in the market, the sneezing and coughing cat, the stubborn rabbit who hates to chew but needs its teeth cut and the dizzy butterfly, this is a charming story of one vet's loving care for all the animals that come through the doors of his No. 39 Animal Surgery.

    • History
      June 2013

      Across Great Divides

      by Monique Roy

      Across Great Divides is a timeless story of the upheavals of war, the power of family, and the resiliency of human spirit. When Hitler came to power in 1933, one Jewish family refused to be destroyed and defied the Nazis only to come up against another struggle—confronting apartheid in South Africa. The novel chronicles the story of Eva and Inge, two identical twin sisters growing up in Nazi Germany. As Jews, life becomes increasingly difficult for them and their family under the Nazi regime. After witnessing the horrors of Kristallnacht, they realize they must leave their beloved homeland if they hope to survive. They travel to Antwerp, Belgium, and then on to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, chasing the diamond trade in hopes of finding work for their father, a diamond merchant. Finally, they find a home in beautiful South Africa and begin to settle down. But just as things begin to feel safe, their new home becomes caught up in it’s own battles of bigotry and hate under the National Party’s demand for an apartheid South Africa. Eva and Inge wonder if they will ever be allowed to live in peace, though they cling to the hope for a better day when there will be “an understanding of the past, compassion for all humanity, and …hope and courage to move forward across great divides.” Worldwide rights are available for this novel. I would like to sell Across Great Divides in Europe, Africa and Asia. The readership for Across Great Divides are history buffs, both female and male, and all ages, from late teens through adult.

    • Fiction
      October 2012

      My Dead Women

      by Guillermo Fadanelli

      Domingo has decided to fulfill the mission entrusted to him by his older brothers: placing a tombstone on his mother's grave. Time passes and the tombstone remains in the trunk of his car without having this man organizing himself to set out for the cemetery. Drunkenness is a difficult obstacle to overcome. Every morning he promises his absent mother that he will fulfill the mission, but once again breaks his oath. The death of his wife ends up undermining his lucidity and placing him in a state of constant delirium. Time transforms him into a melancholic, sullen and harmless man who quotes passages from Russian novels by heart and talks to his dead women. While this is happening the eyes of a teenage girl do not stop observing his behavior, it is her neighbor, the youngest of all the women with whom Domingo has managed to establish a true friendship. "Is it possible to communicate with people of that age?" He wonders as his confusion grows. My Dead Women is a novel about melancholy and human loneliness faced by a man whose drunkenness made him an expert on the states of the soul. guillermofadanelli.com

    • Children's & young adult fiction & true stories

      The Garden Dwellers

      by Liliana Stafford

      The Garden Dwellers is an illustrated story book based around a group of little people in a magical garden. The story is suitable for children age six to ren or any child who loves fairies and magic. This book is the first in a series.

    • April 2018

      Mind-Swapping Madness

      Bonkers Short Stories

      by Tom E. Moffatt, Paul Beavis

      This bonkers collection of short stories explores all the mix-ups and madness that might occur if mind-swapping was possible. One boy is zapped by an electric fly swat and finds himself buzzing around in the body of fly. Another is trapped in a toad's body and can only escape if he convinces someone to kiss him. The stories also include hopeful immortals, horses that know Morse code, aliens who try to hijack children's bodies and unfortunately timed sneezes

    • Science fiction (Children's/YA)
      June 2008

      The Many Worlds of Mickie Dalton

      The First Book in the Mickie Dalton Series

      by Michael Davies

      The first book of a trilogy. Twelve-year old Mickie, a miserable, abused child, discovers that he is not human, but his origins are a mystery. he is able to join a ,assive spaceship that travels the Universe, trading with numerous other intelligent species as he seeks his origins. Bu the ancient enemy that destroyed his people a million years ago learns of Mickie's appearance and also wants to find the vanished species to complete the destruction. Mickie has to call on the help of allies, some beautiful, some powerful, some terrifying, as a million-year old war starts up again.

    • March 2021

      Be Kind, Be Calm, Be Safe

      by Bonnie Henry and Lynn Henry

      Dr. Bonnie Henry, “one of the most effective public health figures in the world” (The New York Times), earned accolades in 2020 for her consistent, calm, empathetic, and science-based public health strategy in the face of COVID 19, embodied in the phrase “Be kind, be calm, be safe.” This is the story of the four key weeks in spring during which British Columbia flattened the curve while other places struggled, and of the challenging weeks in summer when the infection returned with a vengeance. This is not only a medical story; it's a personal story punctuated by moments of gravity and grace. Public health officials are required to make personally agonizing decisions in the face of incomplete information and competing health priorities; we glimpse the private deliberations behind policies that affect millions. This is a universal story about how we make decisions (and who makes them) in times of great upheaval; the nuances of communication, leadership, and public trust; the balance between politics and policy; and what and whom we value, as individuals and a society. It's also about Henry’s deceptively simply slogan, and what it requires from all of us to “be kind, be calm, be safe.”

    • Adventure

      The Magical Pendant of Perdania

      by Francis Jaycee

      Samantha is a twelve-year-old girl who is befriended by a black cat; she discovers the cat is Gwyneth, a mage, banished to earth, from a land where magic is considered to be normal. Gwyneth can now change from a cat to a person at will. The evil magician who banished Gwyneth from her own world is trying to take the whole of her land and corrupt it to his own malevolent image. Samantha discovers with the help of her new friend, that she has a great magical ability herself, and Gwyneth presents her with a beautiful Pendant, which helps focus her magical abilities. When she goes to this new land by travelling through a “fairy ring” in her garden, she finds herself at the centre of a struggle to gain control of this other world. She has Timmy her childhood friend, who has been promoted to a Knight, and Gwyneth to help her. A wise old man has found an old prophecy that says that the three of them must fight the evil magician with three items that together will give them the power to win. But all is not as it seems in this Magical Land and they will have a terrible struggle to bring peace.

    • Animal husbandry
      January 2012

      Infectious Diseases of Animals Their Identification and Treatment

      by Sukhdeb Nandi & Vishal Chander:

      The book contains detailed information about the infectious diseases of animals with their identification and treatments finding adequate space in the book. The book covers the following: Viral diseases: o Foot and mouth disease o Classical swine fever o Rabies o Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) o Goat pox o Sheep pox o Blue Tongue o Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis o Bovine ephemeral fever o Canine Parvovirus Infections. Bacterial diseases: o Black Quarter o Tuberculosis o Brucellosis o Glanders o Haemorrhagic Depticaemia o Leptospirosis o Strangles o Anthrax o Paratuberculosis

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