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My Autistic Fight Song is a memoir that follows Rosie Weldon’s journey from a college drop out as she tries to achieve her dream of being a qualified accountant. With the odds stacked against her and the stakes high, she refuses to give up on her dream. Of two things Rosie was sure. First, she wanted to be an accountant. Second, she was destined to be alone. But when life threw at her an autism diagnosis and a mystery girl, she was left asking: Who would employ her and was she capable of falling in love?

High in the Samnium Mountains of southern Italy, Chloé, daughter of a Roman patrician and his Greek wife, lives as a slave. The mysterious and tragic story of Chloé's birth is told and retold to her by her fellow-slave Melissa, who served her mother and now cares for the young Chloé. But hatred for the father who abandoned her festers in Chloé's heart as she and Melissa weave for long hours each day in the tiny mountain hut above her father's neglected villa - which he has not visited since before Chloé's birth.

Lady Alexandra Baldwyn is stifled by her claustrophobic life of privilege at Somerton Hall. She is desperate to escape the confines of her family's stately home and do her bit for the war effort like her brother, Charles, and his best friend, Freddie Chevalier. She pleads with her parents to let her become a nurse in France, but her father refuses to sign the necessary papers, and she must be content with driving ambulances in London.

Here are yet more of those human and lovable people whose mysterious passion for God led them into preposterous escapades. Ethel Pochocki presents a follow-up collection of wildly distinctive saints-from Hyacinth to Zita to Longinus to Kentigern. Listeners will again be charmed by the vivid immediacy of their settings. We find out what very real people they were, these saints who lived and breathed in a world as changeful as our own. Ethel Pochocki leads us through their adventures, joys and sorrows to the truly happy ending each one gained.

In this last book in the trilogy about Gabrielle Allan, the listener finds Gay and her great-aunt, Belle, about to start a new life in a setting far different from their much-loved Drovers Road. The sheep station of Cape Lost is now Gay’s responsibility, and regardless of her three years’ study at the Massey Agricultural College, both the isolation and tasks ahead seem alarming. Despite its remote and nearly inaccessible location, a surprising cast of new and old characters converge on the station’s windswept, sea-edged expanse.

As the story of Cape Lost opens, an important new thread is about to be woven into the life of teenage Gabrielle Allan. Home from boarding school for the summer holidays, she and Merry are once more happily on horseback in the New Zealand hills. They are helping their Uncle Dunsany bring a herd of sheep to Cape Lost, the station owned by their great-uncle Garnet. Considered eccentric, Garnet Allan has lived all alone on the remote station bordering the sea ever since the mysterious disappearance of his young and beautiful wife many years before.

In this first book, young Gabrielle Allan (called Gay) is living contentedly on Drovers Road, her uncle Dunsany’s sheep station in the hill country a hundred miles from Gisborne. Besides her young, bachelor uncle there are her three orphaned cousins - Eve, Hugh and Merry - and their great-aunt Belle. Taken in by Dunsany years before, after her parents’ divorce, Gay now scarcely remembers any other life.

In December of 1936, King Edward VIII of Great Britain shocked the world by giving up his kingdom in order to marry a twice-divorced American commoner named Wallis Simpson. The King and Mrs. Simpson recounts in a novella-sized work the extraordinary love story between the popular king and the enigmatic woman that began at a party in England and culminated with the downfall of his reign nearly six years later.

The enigmatic family saga the Tryptych I continues as Elsa discovers new secrets in the family’s past with a lot of hope for the future. Special emphasis on children with Williams Syndrome. Please donate generously to their cause: williams-syndrome.org.

This is a wonderful, simple audiobook about Popsicles and the recipes for making simple and easy-to-make icy treats. It has been written by eight-year-old Nodi Khan; this is her first ever published work. The audiobook is great for kids of all ages during summer, or any season, really. It is full of funny writing by a very young, lovely, and upcoming writer.

Young Martin is your average nine-year-old boy, just one who happens to frequent graveyards, and reads books about spells and monsters. He happens upon one such spell book and finds a spell that allows him to bring back the dead, and the one he brings back is one Young Miss Victoria Blackwell. Miss Blackwell had no real friends to speak of when she was alive, so she had to make ones out of her own imagination. The problem was no one else could see them. With Martin's Book of the Occult though, that was a problem of the past.

Cv/VAR 50 publishes an interview with the artist Helen Chadwick (1953-96), recorded at her Beck Road studio in 1989. It explores the body-action-photographic works distilled in installations such as Ego Geometria Sum and Of Mutability, and the cromalin prints of 1989: Viral Landscapes, prepared for exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art Oxford in 1990.

This book gives you a fascinating insight into the psychology of creativity, and how you can use it on your journey to becoming an author. Writing a book is a complex process including several different states of mind. After many years of trying to find new ways to write, edit and publish my own work, I stumbled on a foolproof method for overcoming writer's block at every stage of the process. You can do this too, by following the practical solutions presented here.

You’ve heard of Zeus, Poseidon, Aphrodite, etc. But what do you know about the Greek underworld, minor gods, and mythical beasts? Do you know how these stories were passed on from generation to generation or what significance they held for the people who believed in them? This fascinating audiobook introduces readers to the canon of Greek mythology and its influence on the world today in language, storytelling, and even science.

King Platty of Cypress has recognized the Archer Otters’ accomplishments and has deemed them eligible for knighthood.

Spell enrolls at the Whisper Shook University to tighten her magic. While at school, she falls in love, and also in trouble. With the help of her new friends, there is no mystery or monster this clan cannot handle.

All of Splitz the Tuffa’s hard work is finally paying off! Splitz has been gaining a lot of attention and momentum throughout the music scene in the woods. It is time to get a record deal! Is Splitz ready? Is the world ready for the toughest skunk in the animal kingdom?! Bah-bam! You better be, because he is, and he just got signed!

There was a time when author Ash Adams didn’t know God. It was a long time, more than half of her life. In Lambent Light, she shares her story, showing how blind she was to God. She was indifferent to his existence.

Woodrow and the Ants is a story about an overly gracious bear with impaired hearing who, after taking on the responsibility to shield a selected group of bees, offers to help a colony of ants whom, in return, reward him for his efforts with a special key. A key to what? Connect with Big Row today on this new mystery throughout the wilderness.

Story about a crafty pig that uses its wildlife in the backyard as a personal garbage disposal until accidentally tossing something way more valuable than trash.