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March 2019Charlotte, the little wicth
by Liliana Cinetto, Laura Aguerrebehere
Carlota is a young witch who descends from a long line of illustrious and powerful witches. Like everyone else in her family, she has studied at the best school in the supernatural world and its surroundings: the great Academy of magic, sorcery and the like of Madame Sortilège. However, she is not an outstanding student: it is difficult for her to fly on a broomstick, her magic wand does not respond to her and her spells leave much to be desired.But, since Carlota is very persevering and does not give up in the face of adversity, she is about to receive her diploma.She is very happy, but the whole wizarding world is a little worried ...
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FictionFebruary 2021Not Quite Out
by Louise Willingham
William Anson is done with relationships, thanks. He's starting the second year of his medicine degree single, focused, and ready to mingle with purely platonic intentions. Meeting Daniel, a barely recovered drug addict ready to start living life on his own terms, might just change that. There are two problems. One: William isn't out. What's the point in telling your friends you're bisexual when you aren't going to date anyone? Two: Daniel's abusive ex-boyfriend still roams the university campus, searching for cracks in Daniel's recovery. No matter how quickly William falls for Daniel, their friendship is too important to risk ruining over a crush. William is fine with being just friends for the rest of forever. Well, not quite.
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EducationSelf-Regulated Learning in Technology Enhanced Learning Environments
A European Perspective
by Carneiro, R.
Self-regulated learning (SRL) subsumes key aspects of the learning process, such as cognitive strategies, metacognition and motivation, in one coherent construct. Central to this construct are the autonomy and responsibility of students to take charge of their own learning. Skills for self-regulation can be encouraged both directly and indirectly through a range of learning activities. In this book we look specifically at the ways in which technology enhanced learning environments (TELEs) have been used to support self-regulation. The book provides an overview of recent studies on SRL in TELEs in Europe – a perspective which is new and has not been articulated hitherto. It addresses conceptual and methodological questions as well as practices in technology enhanced learning. While the focus is on European studies, we are aware that much of the groundwork in the field of SRL has emanated from the United States. The book is divided into three parts: (A) Foundations of SRL in TELEs, (B) Empirical studies on SRL in TELEs and (C) SRL in TELEs: perspectives on future developments. The book presents a rich resource of information for researchers and educators at all levels who are interested in supporting the acquisition of SRL through TELEs.
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FictionNovember 2024Great Romances of the 20th Century
by Robert Welbourn
What if you don’t live happily ever after? What if you just, like, live? Growing up on a diet of romcoms has convinced Oliver he won’t be okay until he is living happily ever after with The One. Stunningly beautiful Nicola from his office is The One; or so he believes. It’s one thing to find The One, however, and another entirely to make her fall in love with you. And when you’re depressed, impatient, and actually quite stupid, sometimes life doesn’t always follow the script. Sometimes people forget their lines, miss their cues, or just don’t show up for filming at all. And if Oliver believes everyone has The One, what if he isn’t Nicola’s? What if life isn’t actually like the movies?
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FictionMarch 2025The Lost Raven
by Nicky Shearsby
If Angela Healy had reported her rapist to the police when it happened, they could have filed the case, assessed her injuries, helped her fragile state of mind. Five men did not need to die. As it is, Newton Flanigan must unravel her past in order to save her last victim. Her rapist. Told from the protagonist and antagonist viewpoints, The Lost Raven tells the harrowing tale of a young woman whose hatred for men seals her fate. Can Newton uncover the truth?Will Angela ever find peace??
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FictionSeptember 2024The Disappeared
by Amy Lord
What if reading the wrong book could get you arrested? Expressing the wrong opinion in a decaying city controlled by the first General can have terrible consequences. Clara Winters knows this better than anyone. When she was a child, her father was taken by the Authorisation Bureau for the crime of teaching banned books to his students. She is still haunted by his disappearance. Now, Clara teaches at the same university, determined to rebel against the regime that cost her family so much – and her weapons are the banned books her father left behind. But she has started something dangerous, something that brings her to the attention of the Authorisation Bureau and its most feared interrogator, Major Jackson. The same man who arrested Clara’s father. With her rights stripped away, in a country where democracy has been replaced with something more sinister, will she be the next to disappear?
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Children's & YAMarch 2025Out In Greenwood
by James A. Lyons
Out in Greenwood is a Taylor Swift song trapped in the body of a gay teenager. Fifteen-year-old Tim Johnson believed that coming out as gay would immediately lead to a whole new multi-coloured life, yet so far not much has changed. Yes, he may now have a boyfriend (sort of, but not quite), and be open about his sexuality (well, to four people), but he still faces the everyday teenage tribulations of an embarrassing family, insecurity, homophobic classmates, and low-paid jobs. As the Greenwood Secondary summer holidays started, Tim befriended fellow paper boy Johann, who had arrived from Sweden, and they grew to realise that they were more than just friends. As the relationship develops, a family emergency hits Johann, and he is sent to Newcastle leaving Tim with best friends Lydia and Leo, and irritating Instagram influencer, Callum. The annual marquee event, the Greenwood Secondary School Fete, is just six days away, and Tim must navigate his way carefully through social activities so he is not the centre of attention for once. When things seem to be on track, a mysterious graffiti artist starts to target him.
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FictionFebruary 2025The McQueen Legacy
by Stewart McDowall
Can intrusive thoughts really lead to murder? The pressure is building on McQueen. With a client who may be guilty of stealing millions from the mob and another who believes her partner is being sucked into a dangerous cult, the forensic psychologist turned private detective can’t afford any slip-ups this time. But has the seasoned investigator finally lost his grip and allowed himself to be side-tracked by Zach Lindley and his internet conspiracy theories? And has he left his assistant, Sekalyia, in the firing line? In the historic streets of York, McQueen faces the frustrations of a faltering investigation and the anger of a distressed client while he wrestles with his own guilt over tragic mistakes he may have made in the past, and the devastation they left behind.
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FictionJune 2024A Novel Solution
by Sue Clark
‘It’s a bit tricky to find … Just down the lane from the old ochre pit.’ With these words, Trish, badly bruised by life, is catapulted into the world of celebrity author, Amanda Turner. Her marriage on the rocks, no job, and at odds with her teenage daughters, Trish vows to reinvent herself. ‘Like Madonna,’ she tells her teens. ‘Only as a writer.’ Naively, she pins her hopes on arrogant Amanda to nurture her, and weekly classes begin at Amanda’s gloomy house in the woods. Trish takes an instant dislike to Amanda’s strapping young handyman, Pavel. Her suspicions grow, as an air of foreboding – as well as a nasty smell – hang over the house. When Amanda vanishes, it’s left to Trish to mount a rescue. Is she woman enough for the job? Will she ever write that bestseller? Funny and touching, A Novel Solution is an engaging and uplifting story of a woman’s struggle to sort her life out.
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MedicineMay 2018Dermatomes - Système Nerveux Périphérique - 2 CHARTS
Innervation cutanée - Interfaces mécaniques
by ArtThema srl - Jan De Laere
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MedicineFebruary 2021Syndromes Myofasciaux Douloureux - Tome 2
Examen et traitements manuels
by Jan de Laere, Véronique De Laere-Debelle
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June 2023The Elephant Heist
by Rucha Dixit
As a child, Rucha Dixit loved exploring nature and wildlife whether in her garden in India or during her summer holidays at her grandmother's home in a small town in central India. She realised her love for writing as a teen. After arriving in the UK in her early twenties, thirteen years in the software industry and having both her children, she finally dived straight in to write fiction and poetry for children. Since then, she has been published in American anthologies for children.The Elephant Heist is her debut middle-grade historical fiction novel that converges her passion for writing and her experiences in India. Rucha received an honorary mention at the SCBWI BAME Scholarship Awards in 2019.
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February 2023Chalk Hearts
by Emma Whittaker
Amy escapes her violent boyfriend with a job at Woodbrook Primary School, the place of traumatic memories that still plague her twenty years on. Secretly ashamed of her loser reputation, Amy hides her ex-pupil status from the staff, even pretending that she has never met Joel, the once-cherished teacher who unexpectedly becomes her colleague. Under the guise of a confident woman, Amy is determined to eclipse her troubled past. But when she hooks Joel into a deep and passionate relationship, the fear of bursting his bubble with her true identity pushes her ever closer to being exposed.
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FictionJuly 2023Verona in Autumn
by Tom Lloyd
A pair of star-crossed lovers, fated to die but saved by a quirk of fate. A pair of great houses, never compelled by grief to end their grudge. A city, doomed to suffer under a bloody twenty-year feud. A family, charged with returning to the city of their birth and restoring its glory. Verona in Autumn – a sequel (of sorts) to one of the most famous stories ever told.
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FictionNovember 2023Beyond the Veil (Flanigan Files, #1)
by Nicky Shearsby
When a young man walks into a local police station, confessing to a murder, nobody could possibly assume the body in question will be well over two hundred years old. The man in custody is only twenty-six years old, yet claims to be the one who murdered and buried the body in a fit of rage, two centuries earlier. In a dark and twisted plot, Newton Flanigan, clinical psychologist and forensic expert, becomes entwined in the secret world of wrongly diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, David Mallory, taking him and the police along a disturbing path that unravels a series of tragic murders, all spanning the course of a two hundred year period. Mallory hears voices, spends most of his time suspicious of others around him, often having severe difficulty connecting to the outside world, unable to determine what is real from what is not. Newton unpeels darker reasons behind Mallory’s mental health problems.. During a detailed evaluation of David Mallory, Newton realises that Mallory is suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder, once known as a split personality. Mallory has been able to hide behind the façade of four sinister personalities for years, all gay men, all living with dark secrets of murder and betrayal, both past and present, beginning a sinister journey that will place Newton in direct danger from the very man he was called in to evaluate. Mallory’s personalities are, in fact, real men who once lived real lives, forcing Newton to follow a trail of cold cases that have been left unsolved for too long. How does Mallory know such intimate details of actual murder cases long forgotten? And, when the police uncover a seemingly unrelated body in the ruins of an old factory, how can Newton possibly know he is about to become Mallory’s next victim? Told from both Flanigan’s and Mallory’s point of view, Beyond the Veil reveals details of four separate personalities living inside David Mallory, uncovering the mind of a dark, deranged serial killer that has seemingly existed throughout history.
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THE SMELL OF THE SEA
SMALL WALKS ALONG MEDITERRANEAN SHORES
by FABIO FIORI
Those who love the sea want to hear its voice and see its colours. But they also want to touch it, smell it and, sometimes, taste a little salt water. Walking along the shoreline, perhaps barefoot, offers all the pleasures of the sea, especially in autumn, winter or spring, even in the wind and rain, or in summer at dawn or dusk in the noise and silence of the waves. Moments when the relationship with the Mediterranean is passionate and sensual, when the attraction for water becomes irresistible. The journey is interrupted for a dip or a swim, and then resumed with the smell of salt. Strolling along the shores is a simple and free way of 'sailing', but also of claiming the gratuitousness of the sea, in Marseilles as in Palermo, on the island of Ithaca as on the Gargano promontory. That is why the walk along the beaches and cliffs is today also a form of civil disobedience, a libertarian practice, to reclaim the joys of our daily sea.
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THE WAY OF THE GODS ON FOOT
FROM BOLOGNA TO FLORENCE IN 5 STAGES
by FRANCESCA BIAGI, ENRICO RAOUL NERI
The Via degli Dei (Route of the Gods) is a hiking itinerary of about 130 km divided into 5 stages that links the city of Bologna to Florence across the Apennines. It owes its name to the toponyms of some of the places it passes through: Monte Adone; Monzuno (Mons Iovis, Mount of Jupiter); Monte Venere and Monte Luario (Lua, a Roman mythological goddess to whom the weapons of defeated enemies were consecrated). First the Etruscans and then the Romans used this route to develop their trade to and from the Po Valley. The hiker finds himself walking in a varied natural environment: from the hills of Bologna to the Reserve of the Pliocene Foothills, touching the peaks of the Apennines and then descending through the Tuscan landscapes to Fiesole and Florence. An unspoilt territory, rich in history and traditions. The guide also proposes the variant to the Bilancino artificial lake and offers a constantly updated list of contacts and facilities thanks to a qrcode link to the web pages on the official site.
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FictionJanuary 2024Ideal Angels
by Robert Welbourn
Is it possible to keep secrets in a world dominated by social media? When someone lives their whole life online, what could they possibly have to hide? Ideal Angels explores exactly that. The story of one man and one woman across one week. They meet, fall in love, and never look back. Eloise’s phone is never far away, obsessively cataloguing their ups and downs, with shadows lurking just out of reach. The moments after the flash of the camera, unseen and uncaptured. The threat of inescapable doom. How much can one person be your downfall?
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November 2020ON THE LIVES OF LEMURS
A short treatise on natural history
by ANDREA ANTINORI
Have you ever heard a lemur sing? And did you know that in the morning they sunbathe in a position reminiscent of yoga? With a strictly invented story and many completely true facts, Andrea Antinori takes us on a journey to discover the habits and quirks of one of the funniest animals on the planet. A story that begins 50 million years ago, when they left Africa on board a sperm whale and landed in Madagascar…
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Children's & YAJuly 2020BANSKY
by FAUSTO GILBERTI
Spray paint cans to coat walls, works that self-destruct and others that don't cost much money, unusual theme parks: that is all it takes to recognise Banksy, but no one really knows who he is. Fausto Gilberti’s new book, dedicated to the street artist with a hidden identity, is full of question marks: Banksy is hiding somewhere, and we have a lot of fun chasing his grafti all over the world. And we can't forget the day he put sharks in a lake in a London park, or when there were no walls around and he painted on the cows in a field. And what about the time he walked into the Louvre and hung a painting without asking permission
