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When you're trying to manage a busy family, it's easy to lose sight of the things that really matter and feel like you're drowning in worries while the pennies are drowning away. So many of us feel we have to pretend to be wealthier than we are and try to hide it when we can't afford something. Why though, when we are all sharing what we had for our tea and how many press ups we did that morning on social media, can't we be more honest about our finances? Why is there still so much shame and secrecy about being a bit strapped for cash, or in debt?

Kara Wright is a former Royal Air Force intelligence analyst. Her best mate, Tien Tran, is a veteran of the British Army's Intelligence Corps. Both served in Afghanistan, and both were lucky to make it home. Now they are private investigators with an intriguing new taskmaster. When a local celebrity DJ goes missing, presumed dead, the enigmatic Franklyn tasks Kara and Tien to investigate. Within days the women are embarked on a pursuit that leads halfway around the globe and into the darkest recesses of the human condition.

La "senyora del dimarts" és l’única clienta fidel que li queda a Bonamente Fanzago, Zagor, després de posar fi a la seva carrera d’èxits en el món del cinema per a adults. És gigoló tant a la gran pantalla com a la vida real, però un ictus l’obliga a deixar els seus encontres sexuals i la seva vida anterior. Amb Nanà, de qui no se sap gaire res, es troben cada dimarts a la mateixa hora en una pensió de poc glamur. Qui és, però, aquesta dona que fa perdre el cap al protagonista? D’on ha sortit i què busca?

With a less than idyllic childhood shrouded behind her, Nora Horvath finds confidence and strength in the life she’s created for herself. Needs, not names, are what interests this self-possessed woman, and that’s exactly the way she likes it. Between her hobbies, her work, and her intimate circle of confidants, there is literally nothing Nora desires from the outside world - let alone a long forgotten one. As a firefighter, Nora knows better than most that heat rises.

Kara Wright is a former Royal Air Force Intelligence Analyst. Her best mate, Tien Tran, is a veteran of the British Army's Intelligence Corps. Both served in Afghanistan and both were lucky to make it home. Now, based in a run-down office in Kentish Town, they try to keep their heads above water as private investigators. When two grown-up children claim their elderly parents have been kidnapped, Kara and Tien are sceptical, but they need the money, and anyway, Kara could really do with keeping her mind off the man she murdered.

While Sherlock is still officially dead, John and Mary Watson and Nan Killian and Sarah Lyon-White are taking up some of his caseload - and some for Lord Alderscroft, the Wizard of London. Lord Alderscroft asks them to go to Dartmoor to track down a rumor of evil magic brewing there. Not more than four hours later, a poor cottager, also from Dartmoor, arrives seeking their help. His wife, in a fit of rage over the children spilling and spoiling their only food for dinner that night, sent them out on the moors to forage for something to eat. This time they did not come back.

Dammen er et mystisk sted. Den ligger inde midt i skoven tæt ved morfars gård, og der er sat pigtrådshegn hele vejen rundt, for engang er der sket noget forfærdeligt på dette fortryllende smukke sted, hvor dunhammerne vokser, åkanderne blomstrer, guldpirolen synger, og uglen skriger sit skæbnesvangre "uhuhuuuu". Dammen drager drengen BiWer, og selvom morfar er en gammel, gnaven eneboer, rykker BiWer ind på gården i sin sommerferie for at løse fortidens hemmeligheder og bekæmpe ondskaben.

Three years ago, Rosalind Courtenay stumbled from the 19th century to the 21st, where she has been trapped ever since, leaving her husband and infant son behind. Now she's found her way back. The problem, of course, is how to explain her absence to her husband. Does he think she abandoned him? Has he remarried? Is he happy in a new life? Rosalind decides to don a disguise in hopes of answering her questions before showing up on his doorstep. Instead, a twist of fate has her mistaken for her young son's new governess.

When six-year-old Alice Hilton disappears on New Year's Eve 1979 from Yew Tree Manor, suspicion immediately falls on local boy Bobby James. Bobby claims he knows nothing about it, but his family has a grievance against Alice's landowner father. Tragically the child is never found. Decades later, Willow James, an architect working on a development at Yew Tree Manor, discovers that the land surrounding the house is holding a secret.

This third volume in The Princess Rules series sees the feisty princess take her baby brother and best friend, Bennett, on another round of adventures together. Can they rescue their new-found friend, the sea serpent, from a travelling circus? And hold back the pirate, Five-fathom Freida. Or will Florizella’s worst fairy godmother prove that in a fairytale world, you really do have to be careful what you wish for?

La memoria es uno de los elementos más fundamentales para el ser humano, aunque muchas veces nos llegue a fallar un poco, bien sea por la edad o por estrés o cualquier otro factor que puede llevarnos a estar un poco confundidos con algo que necesitamos recordar. Ahora bien, sé que no todos manejamos la misma capacidad de retención y memoria, unos las tenemos más desarrollados que otros, y nos preguntamos entonces a qué se debe esto que la memoria sea buena o mala, así como decimos muchas veces, o qué debo hacer para que mi memoria sea mejor.

Jenny Many is an exuberant, lovable 10-year-old with a nose for intrigue and an eye for a mystery. She is bold, fearless, and enthusiastic, as well as bags of fun to be around! Together with her best friends Hannah, Ella, and Dylan, Jenny unearths crimes, rights wrongs, and makes a host of nail-biting new discoveries.

I was warned about the town’s bad boy when I was in high school, and I should have listened. Loving Saxon Dayton should have been easy, but it wasn’t. Especially when the entire town hated him. But he made it worth it. The love he gave me was consuming, earth shattering…perfect.

Courtney is a worrier - she's worried about everything, from her mum and dad's constant fights, to her Gran being ill, to the fact that her best friend, Lois, suddenly seems to be more interested in growing up and hanging out with mean girl Bex than with her. But then one day, during a particularly bad argument kicked off by her dad's discovery of a pig in their lounge (don't ask...), Courtney begins to feel a bit funny...a bit woozy...a bit like a dream is coming on - and then when she wakes up everything is better!

Fifty years ago, beloved teacher Sister Catherine Cesnik was the victim of a violent murder that still remains unsolved. "Who killed Sister Cathy?” is a question Sister Cathy’s students, colleagues, friends, family members, and community have been asking for years. One of those people is Gemma Hoskins, one of Sister Cathy’s former students who appeared on The Keepers, the 2017 Emmy-nominated Netflix docuseries that soon had the rest of the world asking that same question, too.

The world of Mürindür burns after the events of Durdan. The Princess was lost to the River Ebon, and Creed is left to survive, as he struggles to protect their young son from a cruel fate. Leterum seeks to reconstruct an ancient altar to free Acrom from his imprisonment. The balance of the realm has faltered. Creed must unite with his hobgoblin friend, Ojin, and their band of Luxatio, as they attempt to find an altar fragment of their own. They soon discover that it will be upon the shoulders of mortals that humanity's destiny best resides.

Worlds collide when Dal, a boy who can talk to animals, meets Whisper, a strange girl, at forbidden Forest Farm. But Dal's best friend, a brave white stag called Treon, is convinced the girl is not all she seems. Neemis, a hare with attitude, wants control of the forest. He enlists the help from other animals and is determined to stop the new friends from finding out the truth!

Margaret Willow has never met an 11-year-old as dangerous as Natalie Glasgow. Natalie spends her days comatose, but at night, she prowls her mother's home, unnaturally strong and insatiably carnivorous. With doctors baffled, Natalie's mother reaches out to Margaret, an expert in the supernatural. But even Margaret is mystified and terrified by Natalie's condition.

The Dean Wilson Theatre is believed to be haunted by a long-dead actress, singing her last song, waiting for her final cue, looking for her killer. Now Dust, the iconic musical, is returning after 20 years. But who will be brave enough to take on the role of ghostly goddess Esme Black, last played by Morgan Miller, who was murdered in her dressing room? Theatre usher Chloe Dee is caught up in the spectacle. As the new actors arrive, including an unexpected face from her past, everything changes. Are the eerie sounds and sightings backstage real or just her imagination?

When Frankie’s mother dies, he tells his teacher. But he can't seem to get anyone at his school in southern England to listen to him. So the six-year-old comes up with a plan: go to France, find a police station and ask the officers to ring his father. Thus a stowaway’s view of the sea opens Pauline Holdstock’s eighth novel, narrated in turns by Frankie - who likes cheese, numbers, the sea when it’s pink, and being alone when he feels bad - and a cast of characters that includes his worried Gran, his callous teacher and his not-so-reliable father.