Download or read book Acting Daft written by Amanda Maclachlanpeglerpegler and published by Chipmunkapublishing ltd. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DescriptionHenry and Winston are twins. They develop a secret language between themselves which leads to them being misdiagnosed as having learning difficulties. They soon discover that this diagnosis helps them get away with more than their long suffering brother and sister. However as they get older they start to realise that acting daft is not as brilliant as they first thought. Is it too late to come out of the closet so to speak? About the Author Amanda has suffered from schizophrenia as long as she can remember. However she remained undiagnosed for years and got through school and nurse training to become a learning disabilities nurse as it is now called. When she was twenty six someone spiked her drink in a pub which led to her capture by the psychiatric dept. Now thanks to their treatment she is on long term sick leave and probably will stay there for the rest of her life. Having experienced both sides of the psychiatric fence most of her fictional writing is concerned with some type of mental health problem.

Download or read book A Penny Dip written by Meg Hutchinson and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of five sisters, Margaret Rose Astbury grew up in Wednesbury during the first half of the twentieth century. Despite the constant struggle to make ends meet, and the hardship and worry of wartime, life in the Black Country was not all doom and gloom. In the crowded terraced houses and teeming communal yards, there was love and laughter aplenty. Meg was no angel, and was often up to her armpits in mischief. But she knew she could rely on her sisters to stick up for her and her mom and dad were too soft-hearted to punish any of their beloved daughters. With all the humour and narrative skill that have made her novels bestsellers, Meg Hutchinson paints a loving portrait of family life in a more innocent age.

Download or read book Power from Powerlessness written by Laura E. Evans and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As American Indian tribes seek to overcome centuries of political and social marginalization, they face daunting obstacles. The successes of some tribal casinos have lured many outside observers into thinking that gambling revenue alone can somehow mend the devastation of culture, community, natural resources, and sacred spaces. The reality is quite different. Most tribal officials operate with meager resources and serve impoverished communities with stark political disadvantages. Yet we find examples of Indian tribes persuading states, localities, and the federal government to pursue policy change that addresses important tribal concerns. How is it that Indian tribes sometimes succeed against very dim prospects? In Power from Powerlessness, Laura Evans looks at the successful policy interventions by a range of American Indian tribal governments and explains how disadvantaged groups can exploit niches in the institutional framework of American federalism to obtain unlikely victories. Tribes have also been adept at building productive relationships with governmental authorities at all levels. Admittedly, many of the tribes' victories are small when viewed on their own: reaching cooperative agreements on trash collection with municipalities and successfully challenging other localities for more control over fisheries and waterway management. However, Evans shows that in combination, their victories are impressive-particularly when considering that the poverty rate among American Indians on reservations is 39 percent. Not simply a book about American Indian politics, Power from Powerlessness forces scholars of institutions and inequality to reconsider the commonly held view that the less powerful are in fact powerless.

Download or read book Laura Verona written by Nev White and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author releases a gripping, compelling, exciting story peppered with pockets of humora story relevant today as it will be tomorrow about the abuse of actors and film stars from people trespassing upon their fame to fund their political dogma and terrorists operations. The terrorists lust and greed for funding their ideology drives them to murder, and the international terrorism, with their corrupt and violent demands, promotes government intervention. Laura Verona is a spin off from the book Blame, with a family living with a sick and brutal father suffering with bipolar disorder. The family makes good and achieves stardom, only to witness that all is not what it seems to be in the world of entertainment. Laura Verona is written with incidences of sadness and disbelief in her quest for stardom. This is a beautifully observed novel with humor and accepted mannerisms that will appeal to all age groups.

Download or read book Rewire written by Marc Pye and published by Sceptre. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josh Strachan has it all. His own electrical business, a beautiful girlfriend and a monopoly on the electrical work in the sleepy Scottish village of Glen Leven. Until London electricians, Nathan and Karl, arrive to do a rewire on the psychiatric hospital. And one by one Josh starts to lose his business, his girlfriend, his friends ... and most importantly his mind. By wreaking revenge on the English outsiders, he ends up digging a hole for himself that even he can't get out of. Then bent copper PC Gordon who wants the outsiders out and has a vested interest in trying to protect Josh from the long arm of the law, knows this time Josh has gone too far.

Download or read book Strolling With The One I Love written by Joan Jonker and published by Headline. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a friend's in need, the loyalty of two young mothers ensures she is not alone. A warm and comic tale from one of Liverpool's best-loved saga writers, Strolling With the One I Love sees Joan Jonker paint a heart-warming picture of life in a bygone era. Perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Cathy Sharp. 'Touching tale from Liverpool's backstreets' - Belfast Telegraph Kate Spencer and her best friend Monica Parry have enough on their plates with their boisterous families and the day-to-day running of their Liverpool homes. But the plight of a neighbour's teenage daughter is a cry for help they can't ignore... What readers are saying about Strolling With the One I Love: 'I love Joan Jonker books and I certainly was not disappointed with this one' 'I just love Joan's books ... they capture you from the first chapter, you almost feel you are there living with them, brilliant detail'

Download or read book You Stole My Heart Away written by Joan Jonker and published by Headline. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molly and Nellie unite for the last time, in this heart-warming saga complete with hilarity, friendship and a perfect wedding. In You Stole My Heart Away, Joan Jonker brings us the final instalment of her hugely popular Molly and Nellie series, as the two friends get up to more mischief in their beloved Liverpool. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Nadine Dorries. Molly Bennett and Nellie McDonough are very happy with their lot in life. Their expanding families and abundance of friends always keep them busy. And as they walk arm in arm to the shops every day they are greeted with warmth by their neighbours, for wherever they go they bring fun and laughter with them. Their rock-solid friendship has lasted over twenty years, through good times and bad, and never once have Molly and Nellie fallen out. The two best mates love a bit of excitement so when they learn there is a wedding in the offing which will bring the Bennett, McDonough and Corkhill families even closer it gives the intrepid pair a good reason to save up for a visit into Liverpool and to the shop selling wedding hats. As Nellie says to Corker: 'It had better be a posh wedding to match me posh new hat.' What readers are saying about You Stole My Heart Away: 'This book was fantastic. I laughed all the way through - walked round the house with a smile on my face. Well done Joan' 'Great book, just what I wanted, a real story to read over and over again'

Download or read book The Pride of Polly Perkins written by Joan Jonker and published by Headline. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When tragedy strikes a family, their lives are never the same again... The Pride of Polly Perkins is a captivating saga of a warm Liverpudlian family hit by illness, and a nostalgic look back at the communities of yesteryear, from much-loved author Joan Jonker. Perfect for fans of Cathy Sharp and Katie Flynn. At the age of fourteen, happy-go-lucky Polly Perkins faces untold sadness when her beloved father is diagnosed with tuberculosis. As Tommy's stay in hospital turns from weeks into months, Polly's mother, Ada, becomes increasingly anxious as to how she will make ends meet. In an attempt to help out, Polly takes a job as a flowerseller, and when she sells a buttonhole to Charles Denholme, a member of the Liverpool gentry, she sets in motion a chain of events that changes her life forever... What readers are saying about The Pride of Polly Perkins: 'Joan Jonker is the best writer of good, old-fashioned story telling' 'This has to be one of the best books I have ever read. It brings out a mixture of emotions all in one book: tears, joy and above all laughter. I could not put it down. I would recommend it to anyone'

Download or read book Three Little Words written by Joan Jonker and published by Headline. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the joy and laughter of Liverpool's best-loved neighbours, Molly and Nellie. In Three Little Words, Joan Jonker brings us another instalment of her hugely popular Molly and Nellie series, as the two friends get up to more mischief in their beloved Liverpool. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Sheila Newberry. The continuing adventures of two of the most entertaining families you'll ever meet... Best mates and neighbours for over twenty years, Nellie McDonough and Molly Bennett are up to their usual tricks in their Liverpool backstreet. When they're not playing detectives to find out who is pursuing their friend, Claire, they're on hand to help their children and grandchildren whenever they're needed. What readers are saying about Three Little Words: 'Love Joan Jonker's work. She has a great ability of making you feel like you are there experiencing the characters' lives and experiences with them! The characters always have a great depth and you can very easily grow attached to them and their storyline, cheering them on and hoping they get their happy endings or feeling empathy towards them when life throws them hardships. Joan was an exceptional author with a superb collection of works that deserve a place on any bookshelf!' 'I absolutely love the books written by Joan, especially the ones featuring the Bennett and McDonough and Corkill families. Once I pick up one of her books everything else stops'

Download or read book Fools Fall in Love written by Freda Lightfoot and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home is where you hang your hat... When Patsy talks her way into a job on the Champion Street Market millinery stall, the Higginson sisters get more than they bargained for. Riddled with insecurities, Patsy’s impudence wins her new enemies as well as friends and her determination to solve the riddle of her own past starts to unravel secrets Annie and Clara would much rather keep hidden. Meanwhile, Molly Poulson hasn’t a care in the world until her two daughters both fall in love with the wrong man. But the more Molly interferes, the more danger looms. An enthralling saga of secrecy and sisterhood set around an elegant hat stall in 1950s Manchester, perfect for fans of Ellie Dean and Pam Howes. Praise for Fools Fall in Love 'You can’t put a price on Freda Lightfoot’s stories from Manchester’s 1950s Champion Street Market. They bubble with enough life and colour to brighten up the dreariest day and they have characters you can easily take to your heart’ Northern Echo ‘As expected, another excellent book from Freda Lightfoot’ 5* Reader review ‘Devoured every word of it’ 5* Reader review ‘Did not want to put this book down’ 5* Reader review

Download or read book Jason and the Cornershop Mystery written by Violetta Antcliff and published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-05 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The abrasive love-hate between siblings eventually leads to trouble when Jason and his friend Wayne, go to the rescue of the owner of the corner shop. Unable to convince relatives and friends that Mr. Kashmir Singh is in danger, they decide to take things into their own hands. The result is a hair-raising chase round a deserted airfield in a stolen co-op hearse before the kidnap plot is foiled.

Download or read book Structure and Synthesis written by Mark Fell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of pioneer sound artist Mark Fell's work charting his defiantly unorthodox thinking on time, structure, technology, and the relation between academic and popular electronic music. In this extensive anthology, Mark Fell, a pioneering artist known for his sound installations and his musical work solo and as part of SND and Sensate Focus, assembles a collection of diverse materials charting his defiantly unorthodox thinking on time, structure, technology, and the relation between academic and popular electronic music. An amalgam of workbook and manifesto, featuring a collection of interleaved statements, diagrammatic scores, and instructional texts, Structure and Synthesis is a direct engagement with Fell's original thinking and his continual provocations in regard to "experimental" music. Alongside reflections on theory and practice, the volume includes exercises for dismantling musical expertise, habits, and intuitions, documenting Fell's explorations of the peripheries of rhythm, shape, and time in perception and performance. Long-term collaborator designer Joe Gilmore provides a striking graphic context for Fell's evolving thinking and the methods and structures he has developed through his solo and collaborative work.

Download or read book Where Did It All Go Right written by Andrew Collins and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Collins was born 37 years ago in Northampton. His parents never split up, in fact they rarely exchanged a cross word. No-one abused him. Nobody died. He got on well with his brother and sister and none of his friends drowned in a canal. He has never stayed overnight in a hospital and has no emotional scars from his upbringing, except a slight lingering resentment that Anita Barker once mocked the stabilisers on his bike. Where Did It All Go Right? is a jealous memoir written by someone who occasionally wishes life had dealt him a few more juicy marketable blows. The author delves back into his first 18 years in search of something - anything - that might have left him deeply and irreparably damaged. With tales of bikes, telly, sweets, good health, domestic harmony and happy holidays, Andrew aims to bring a little hope to all those out there living with the emotional after-effects of a really nice childhood. Andrew Collins kept a diary from the age of five, so he really can remember what he had for tea everyday and what he did at school, excerpts from his diary run throughout the book and it is this detail which makes his story so compelling.

Download or read book Lost Saxons Collection 1 3 written by Jessica Ames and published by Jessica Ames. This book was released on with total page 1189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this motorcycle club romance collection from USA Today Bestselling romance author Jessica Ames... #1 SNARED RIDER Ten days. That was all I had to get through. Then I could go home and forget Logan Harlow ever existed… A decade ago Beth fled Kingsley for one reason and one reason only: Logan Harlow. Sure, the man is a sex on legs biker who she wants to jump every time she's within an inch of him, but he's also a thief; he stole her heart and broke it. Now, she's back in town and has no choice but to face him. As Sergeant at Arms of the Lost Saxons Motorcycle Club, Logan is no stranger to risk. He's made a career of throwing himself head-first into danger, but when danger comes knocking for Beth he's determined to keep her safe—even if she doesn't want his help. She may hate him, and she may have good reason to, but this time he's not letting her walk away. #2 SAFE RIDER Rule #1 of getting life back on track: don't fall for a biker... A new life; a new start—that was what Liv needed after escaping her violent marriage. Moving to Kingsley was a chance to rebuild what was broken and show the world she wasn’t defeated by her past. No part of that plan involved falling in love with a biker. Dean never expected to want the sweet woman living across the street. She’s not his type, yet he can’t stay away from her. When trouble follows Liv, he’s one step behind, ready to defend her because his time in the Lost Saxons Motorcycle Club has taught him two things: how to ride and how to protect what is his. And Liv is his—even if she doesn’t know it yet. #3 SECRET RIDER For the love of my Club, I’ll give my life. For my love of her, I’ll die… A one-night stand: that was all she was supposed to be. She wasn’t supposed to walk into his bar a week later and demand a job. Wade is used to dealing with formidable women but Paige may just be his match. She’s fiery, feisty and he wants her, but before they can be together, he needs to learn what she’s hiding. Paige’s life is on a downward spiral. Her money is gone, her ex is in the wind and she’s looking down the barrel of a loaded gun. The only bright spot is Wade. The problem is she’s neck-deep in trouble and she’s not dragging anyone into her mess—least of all a man as good as him. But Wade has his own secrets. His Club is testing his loyalties and he’s not sure who he trusts anymore. Digging into his brothers’ lives could put his own at risk, but he needs answers and he’s not going to stop until he gets them—even if it destroys his ties to the Lost Saxons in the process. All books in the Lost Saxons MC universe should be read in order. This is a romantic story with a guaranteed happily ever after. It does have some strong language and violence.

Download or read book San Antonio written by Sara Orwig and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-11-02 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lawman is tempted by the daughter of his moral enemy in this passionate saga by the USA Today-bestselling author of Albuquerque and Denver. Luke Dabney grew up in Texas, the land of peril and promise. It is there that the hardened lawman vows to exact revenge on Domingo Pietra, the man who destroyed Luke’s family. Catalina is the beautiful daughter of the powerful and ruthless Domingo Pietra, but not even her father can control the desire that blazes inside her for Luke Dabney. But the strength of her love may not be enough to pierce Luke’s determined heart, a heart set on vengeance…

Download or read book The Life of Ian Curtis Torn Apart written by Lindsay Reade and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joy Division's vocalist Ian Curtis tragically took his own life in 1980, leaving behind just two haunting albums and a depleted band that would famously evolve into New Order. Over twenty-five years later, the cult surrounding Curtis shows no signs of fading. Fans make regular pilgrimages to his hometown of Macclesfield and to Manchester, where the legacy of Joy Division and Factory Records has passed into legend. The authors of this biography are uniquely qualified to reveal the extraordinary events surrounding Ian Curtis. Mick Middles was the first journalist to interview Joy Division for the music press and formed a close association with the band. Lindsay Reade was a co-founder of Factory Records along with her then-husband Tony Wilson. Together, Middles and Reade have revisited the legend of Ian Curtis and produced the first full-length account of this troubled man's life, work and relationships in the midst of the unique explosion of pop energy that hit Manchester in the late Seventies. Includes many previously unpublished photographs from private collections.

Download or read book Home is Where the Heart Is written by Joan Jonker and published by Headline. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When tragedy strikes, a young mother's friends and family ensure she is never alone... Joan Jonker's saga, Home is Where the Heart Is, brings to life a close-knit Liverpudlian community, in the final instalment of the Eileen Gillmoss series. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Dilly Court. 'Warm, witty... loved by her legions of fans' - Liverpool Echo When fun-loving, eighteen-stone Eileen Gillmoss announces that she's expecting a baby, her husband Bill thinks it's another one of her jokes. After all, it's twelve years since Edna, their youngest, was born. But when it sinks in that a baby really is on the way, Bill is over the moon and decides that the family should move out of their two-up, two-down house in Liverpool to one with more spacious accommodation. Eileen digs her heels in at first, reluctant to leave the house she loves and friends and neighbours so dear. But a scare early in Eileen's pregnancy strengthens Bill's resolve to provide a more comfortable home for his wife. Before Eileen knows what's hit her, she's installed in a smart home with posh new neighbours. Then tragedy strikes and Eileen must come to terms with a loss far greater than leaving behind her beloved neighbourhood. She tries to put on a brave face, but she can't fool the people who love her, who miss the smile on that round, chubby face and the laughter ringing through her house. They vow to make amends and fate steps in to lend a helping hand... What readers are saying about Home is Where the Heart Is: 'From the first page you are drawn into this wonderful woman's life and family as if you belong there. Joan Jonker creates a web of family crises and tragedies mixed with the never flagging spirit of Eileen Gilmoss to keep you hungry for more' 'As always with Joan it's a mix of hard, nitty, gritty life and fun thrown into the mix, never a dull moment with her books, tears of woe one minute and laughter the next'