Author: Patricia Kay
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110120382X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.

Author: M. J. Arlidge
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1398716596
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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When 3-month-old Max is abducted, his parents are plunged into their worst nightmare. Devastated mum Sarah only took her eyes off him for a second, but that doesn't stop her guilt. Even husband Jake can't hide his anger that their little boy went missing on her watch. By contrast there are smiles and celebration at a caravan park in Lincolnshire, as baby Blaze is introduced to the Star family. Jenna and Gary are delighted with the new addition to their family. He is their fourth child and a real object of delight to their eldest - fifteen-year-old Willow - who once again will raise the child. But trouble is brewing for the Star family. Willow is concerned by the desperate online appeals from Sarah and Jake, baby Max has neonatal diabetes and without regular treatment will die. As baby "Blaze" becomes seriously ill, Willow makes a shocking discovery. What is the truth about her family? And how far will they go to hide their deadly secret?

Author: Barry Gornell
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1409171833
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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How far would you go to protect your child? When tragedy strikes in a small Scottish village, everyone in the community is affected. Most people believe one child is to blame for what happened. But could a young boy really be responsible? And what lengths will his parents go to protect him? THE WRONG CHILD is the most thought-provoking novel of 2018, perfect for fans of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN by Lionel Shriver and MY ABSOLUTE DARLING by Gabriel Tallent. **************** READERS ARE CALLING THE WRONG CHILD 'UNFORGETTABLE': 'Amazing' - Amazon 5* review 'A great page-turner!' Amazon 5* review 'Hopefully it will receive the wider audience it so richly deserves' - Amazon 5* review 'Challenges your notions and ideals of morality' - Amazon review 'Will stick with you long after you finish it!' Amazon review **************** What the critics are saying about THE WRONG CHILD: 'A thought-provoking read' - THE SUN 'Genuinely gripping' - THE HERALD 'A study of guilt and grief' - DAILY MAIL 'Brilliant, but dark as hell' - METRO 'Astonishing' - PSYCHOLOGIES 'So visceral it seeps into your pores' - DAILY RECORD 'Stunning. Macabre, unsettling and beautifully poetic' - BRIAN CONAGHAN, Costa Award winning author

Author: Barry Gornell
Publisher: Cargo Publishing
ISBN: 1910449814
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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"21 of 22 children in a rural village die in a disaster. By chance, the 'wrong' child, Dog Evans, lives. Crippled with survivor's guilt, his parents abandon Evans to a feral life at the margins. He is shunned by those left behind, for whom his presence is a daily insult, a reminder of unbearable loss. We learn what took place and its shocking consequences, both for Dog Evans and the wider community. Gornell's forensic gaze dissects the lives of the bereaved, fractured relationships and existences frozen the day their children died... Deborah Cutter, seperated from her husband John, numbs her pain with alcohol and sex. Local postman Nugget holds tight to the hope that the Evans house contains valuable secrets. Parish priest Father Wittin is an embarrassing irrelevance... As grief turns to rage, the villagers' insatiable desire for catharsis in the form of one final blood sacrifice becomes unstoppable. The master of 'rural noir', Barry Gornell has created a mesmerising, heart-breaking examination of rural life with a remarkable note of hope within the darkness. Praise for The Wrong Child: 'The Wrong Child is a startling and uncompromising story of grief and anger, of abandonment and decay. It’s intense - darker than dark - but also original and beautiful. Watch out for this Gornell fellow, folks, he is extremely good.' Helen Fitzgerald, author of Viral, Dead Lovely and The Cry"

Author: Jory John
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062881868
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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A New York Times bestseller! This is a book about a bad seed. A baaaaaaaaaad seed. How bad? Do you really want to know? He has a bad temper, bad manners, and a bad attitude. He’s been bad since he can remember! This seed cuts in line every time, stares at everybody and never listens. But what happens when one mischievous little seed changes his mind about himself, and decides that he wants to be—happy? With Jory John’s charming and endearing text and bold expressive illustrations by Pete Oswald, here is The Bad Seed: a funny yet touching tale that reminds us of the remarkably transformative power of will, acceptance, and just being you. Perfect for readers young and old, The Bad Seed proves that positive change is possible for each and every one of us. Check out Jory John and Pete Oswald’s funny, bestselling books for kids 4-8 and anyone who wants a laugh: The Bad Seed The Good Egg The Cool Bean The Couch Potato The Good Egg Presents: The Great Eggscape! The Bad Seed Presents: The Good, the Bad, the Spooky! The Cool Bean Presents: As Cool as It Gets That’s What Dinosaurs Do

Author: Mark Pett
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402255446
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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"Beatrice offers a lesson we could all benefit from: learn from your mistakes, let go, laugh, and enjoy the ride." --JENNIFER FOSBERRY, New York Times bestselling author of My Name Is Not Isabella Being perfect is overrated. Beatrice Bottomwell has NEVER (not once ) made a mistake. She never forgets her math homework, she never wears mismatched socks, and she ALWAYS wins the yearly talent show at school. In fact, the entire town calls her The Girl Who Never Makes Mistakes One day, the inevitable happens: Beatrice makes a huge mistake in front of everyone But in the end, readers (and perfectionists) will realize that life is more fun when you enjoy everything--even the mistakes. Additional praise for The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes: "This funny and heartfelt book conveys a powerful message about how putting too much pressure on yourself to be perfect can suck the joy out of everything. Beatrice's discovery that you can laugh off even a very public mistake shows the importance of resiliency and helps perfectionist kids keep things in perspective. Most importantly, Beatrice reminds the reader that it's more important to enjoy the things that you do than worry about doing them perfectly." --A Mighty Girl "The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes is a must-read for any young (or old ) perfectionist. Beatrice Bottomwell is perfectly imperfect " --Stephanie Oppenheim, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio "It's fun and instructive without feeling overly didactic and the illustrations are darling." --Parenting "This book will help little perfectionists see that making mistakes is okay, and it can be a lot of fun too " --Kids Book Blog

Author: Claire Lerner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 153814901X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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Solve toddler challenges with eight key mindshifts that will help you parent with clarity, calmness, and self-control. In Why is My Child in Charge?, Claire Lerner shows how making critical mindshifts—seeing children’s behaviors through a new lens —empowers parents to solve their most vexing childrearing challenges. Using real life stories, Lerner unpacks the individualized process she guides parents through to settle common challenges, such as throwing tantrums in public, delaying bedtime for hours, refusing to participate in family mealtimes, and resisting potty training. Lerner then provides readers with a roadmap for how to recognize the root cause of their child’s behavior and how to create and implement an action plan tailored to the unique needs of each child and family. Why is My Child in Charge? is like having a child development specialist in your home. It shows how parents can develop proven, practical strategies that translate into adaptable, happy kids and calm, connected, in-control parents.

Author: Alex Orailoglu
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031150740
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 435

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22st International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation, SAMOS 2021, which took place in July 2022 in Samos, Greece. The 21 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers are organized in topics as follows: High level synthesis; memory systems; processor architecture; embedded software systems and beyond; deep learning optimization; extra-functional property estimation; innovative architectures and tools for security; european research projects on digital systems, services, and platforms.

Author: Norvin Richards
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199889767
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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In The Ethics of Parenthood Norvin Richards explores the moral relationship between parents and children from slightly before the cradle to slightly before the grave. Richards maintains that biological parents do ordinarily have a right to raise their children, not as a property right but as an instance of our general right to continue whatever we have begun. The contention is that creating a child is a first act of parenthood, hence it ordinarily carries a right to continue as parent to that child. Implications are drawn for a wide range of cases, including those of Baby Jessica and Baby Richard, prenatal abandonment, babies switched at birth and sent home with the wrong parents, and families separated by war or natural disaster. A second contention is that children have a claim of their own to have their autonomy respected, and that this claim is stronger the better the grounds for believing that what the child's actions express is a self of the child's own. A final set of chapters concern parents and their grown children. Views are offered about what duties parents have at this stage of life, about what is required in order to treat grown children as adults, and about what obligations grown children have to their parents. In the final chapter Richards discusses the contention that parents sometimes have an obligation to die rather than permit their children to make the sacrifices needed to keep them alive, arguing that a leading view about this undervalues both love and autonomy.

Author: Sara Ahmed
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822373378
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341

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In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become estranged from worlds they critique—often by naming and calling attention to problems—and how feminists learn about worlds from their efforts to transform them. Ahmed also provides her most sustained commentary on the figure of the feminist killjoy introduced in her earlier work while showing how feminists create inventive solutions—such as forming support systems—to survive the shattering experiences of facing the walls of racism and sexism. The killjoy survival kit and killjoy manifesto, with which the book concludes, supply practical tools for how to live a feminist life, thereby strengthening the ties between the inventive creation of feminist theory and living a life that sustains it.