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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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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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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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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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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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FictionMay 2022Under the Moss
by Steven Mitchell
Under the Moss follows the relationship of troubled Ben and the enigmatic Sophie. After their whirlwind romance, Sophie begins a mysterious obsession with moss which takes over their lives. And in Ben’s attempts to calm an increasingly erratic Sophie, he discovers something which changes the entire meaning of their relationship. Why is Sophie hiding her past? Who is spying on the house? And what’s growing beneath the moss in the garden? Finalist – 2021 Page Turner Writing Award Longlisted – 2021 Laxfield Literary Launch Prize
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October 2022Running Free: My Battle with Anorexia
by Rebecca Quinlan
From Olympic hopeful to hours away from death, a harrowing yet inspirational true story of suffering and recovery from severe anorexia nervosa. Running Free is a ground-breaking memoir of suffering and ongoing recovery providing hope and inspiration to the many sufferers, carers, and families of this chronic disease showing that recovery is always possible. From being a top ranking athlete to repeated and lengthy hospital admissions, Rebecca has been at rock bottom and only a few hours between life and death. Now in recovery, Rebecca is using her experience to bring awareness to not just anorexia, but to the suffering of being controlled by it, what motivated her to keep going, and also to highlight the dangers of eating disorders in sport.
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Thriller / suspenseOctober 2021Pederasty
by JC Morgan
Meet Julian. He invites you into his world of secrets and lies; of confessions and sins, and forces you to analyse the meanings of right and wrong, good and bad. One day he meets Matt — a schoolboy, as beautiful as he is cunning. The moment their eyes lock, Julian is trapped in an endless spiral downwards, unable to step away from the darkness Matt brings with his company. What Julian fears the most, is that he doesn’t want to. What lengths will he go, how far will he stray from what he knows is right? You join Julian on a road to self discovery, but be prepared — the person he discovers may not be who you originally thought he was. Beginning on an innocent enough day out in London, Julian is at a café, having breakfast with a boy he knows he should not be. He tells himself it’s just an hour, just food. Just this and just that. That same day, an hour turns into ten, and by the time he’s dropped the boy off home, Julian realises that he’s incapable of saying no to his charming and convincing ways. The closer they get, the more Matt lets slip his veil of innocence; and the more Julian falls for him, the harder it is for him to resist his devious ways. Uncovering secret after lie after manipulation, Julian knows he needs to stop, to end this, to walk away in the opposite direction that he’s pulled towards while he has the chance. Thing is – Julian is nothing, if not indecisive; and Matt nothing, if not aggressive in his pursuit. By the time he can make up his mind, it’s been made for him, when something goes horribly wrong and it exposes Julian right where it will hurt him the most. They’ve been caught, and this time it’s serious. This time the person who catches them isn’t going to just storm out and then come around a couple days later. This time Julian has to make a decision that will bind him to the boy forever, or face suicide in every definition of the word apart from death. This sets into motion his undoing at the hands of Matt, as he finally faces the demons he’s kept buried while discovering even darker ones that are lurking within. He joins Matthew on the path to lust and destruction, and is forced to accept that perhaps they aren’t so different after all. Obsession begets depravity. Julian realises who he is, who they are – and it isn’t pretty. What’s more terrifying to him is that he likes what the sum of them together makes. That it’s the highest he’s ever climbed, the hardest he’s ever fallen, and that there’s nothing he wouldn’t do if Matthew asked it of him — be it good or bad, evil or innocent, love or hate, blood or tears, and life or death.
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FictionJanuary 2022The Shadows We Cast
by Sarah Tinsley
What if you couldn’t recognise the violence in others? Or in yourself? Nina refuses to accept the role of passive victim after being sexually assaulted. She becomes obsessed with an online vendetta that risks her job, her friendships, and her sanity. Eric thinks, if anything, he’s too nice. But when he takes advantage of a stranger he is forced to confront the kind of man he really is. The Shadows We Cast is a dark novel about consent and control that unsettles ideas about victims and villains.
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FictionMay 2023Black Widow
by Nicky Shearsby
Sequel to Green Monsters... Stacey Adams finds herself in a living nightmare, a personal hell of her own making. Her beloved Jason Cole is lying dead in the hallway of his own home, blood-soaked, naked, exactly where she left him. When the police arrive at her sister’s grave, Stacey is waiting. She knows this would happen, the brutal attack on her once prized man had left him dead and bloodied, no way to cover the crime, his body unrecognisable beneath the wrath of a woman scorned. This was no accident. Her sister’s death was easy to cover. A tragedy. Jason’s death, however, would never be so easy to disguise. After being interviewed by the police, an unforced confession sees Stacey up on a murder charge. She cannot hide, the evidence all too compelling. Such a brutal attack might be hidden beneath a veil of self-defence, but Stacey knows the truth. Jason had scorned her, lied to her, behaved too badly for him to be left alive, forcing her to kill… again. Now pregnant, she is imprisoned, her life firmly over. No one can understand her reasons, the logic behind such a grim discovery. After receiving counselling, Stacey breaks down, offers a second confession to her sister’s murder, divulging the pattern of events that led to a double murder, a dead cat, a life unravelled. Stacey must now wage personal battle of her own trauma alongside that of the prison system. After an attempt to commit suicide fails, she is transferred to a secure mental unit where Stacey meets Mia, a twenty-three year old woman suffering with bulimia. Mia is black, gay, often bullied beyond rational logic, her own mental state too low for her to defend herself against the brutish attacks of the other women in the unit. Mia reminds Stacey of her sister in many ways, including a hidden condition she was once forced to suffer alone. Stacey feels that she failed her sister. Failed her parents, failed her own child. The two women strike up a remarkable friendship that threatens to challenge even the most diverse of experiences. Stacey is a killer after all, an unfortunate truth neither of them will be able to escape from. When Stacey meets Alistair Stuard, everything changes, propelling her towards a brand new future that even she did not see coming. One thing is for certain; the life of Stacey Adams will never be the same again.
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Adult & contemporary romanceJune 2023Cassidy is Queen
by Cameron James
The sequel to Kennedy is King. Cassidy is the Queen. Everyone knows Cassidy, right? Theatre star, VIP at every party, and boys wrapped around his little finger, Cassidy rules Ravenwood School for Boys, and it's everything he's ever wanted, isn't it? After a mix-up in a coffee shop with Casper, a trumpet player from a rival school who isn't under Cassidy's spell, Cassidy starts to see his life for what it is: does he want friends or is he happy with followers? Can he trust the people closest to him? Should he continue a secret relationship with his theatre teacher? Is the word boy the right word to describe him? With the help of Casper, Cassidy begins to explore who he truly is and whether he even wants to be The Queen after all. For the first time, he lets himself fall for someone who shows him there's more to life than fancy parties, expensive clothes, and a disposable income. Content Warnings: References to bullying, student/teacher relationships, sex, suicide, HIV
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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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FictionOctober 2023Hedone
by J.C. Morgan
In the sequel to Pederasty, Julian should be happy. His husband is just as corrupt as he is, and nobody knows about the trail of bodies their relationship left in its wake. But there are a few small problems, Matt is no longer the capricious teenage boy he once was. Now he's an adult and with that comes maturity. He's more intelligent, more cunning, far more difficult to control. And now there's another teenage boy demanding Julian's attention. Tyler is fourteen and the spitting image of Julian's first delve into depravity. As much as Julian wants to be good, he can't help but be bad. He wants the best of both worlds. To keep clever Matthew around to use as he needs, and give the new kid on the block the attention he demands. But Julian has mistaken Matt's obedience for naivety and is about to learn what happens when he chooses pleasure over the very person keeping his life from falling apart.
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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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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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Biography & True StoriesJune 2022Rocking the Boat
by Paul Wilson
Rocking the Boat chronicles the career of a black police officer’s extraordinary and unprecedented determination in challenging a police occupational culture steeped in racism. In the year 2020, considerable attention was being paid to the issue of institutional racism in US law enforcement. However, this is not the first time, or the only country, in which this same issue has become relevant and pressing. As a black police officer in the UK between 1983 and 2010, Paul Wilson was in the centre of a similar wave of interest and was personally involved in many of the institutional changes that were suggested, debated, opposed, and fought in the UK during this time. The author’s authority on the subject of institutional racism in British policing has been acknowledged over and over, as can be seen by his involvement as a consultant in numerous news and current affairs programmes; the many interviews with him that have appeared in the British media; his invitations to speak at events in France, Canada, South Africa, the UK and the US; and his status as the first British black person ever to be awarded a Fulbright Police Fellowship Award. Though it addresses painful topics, this book is entertaining in addition to being educational. The author’s experiences as a constable on the streets of Croydon, his meeting of US President George W. Bush and his being rescued by a renowned jazz musician when he’s accidentally locked inside an apartment in Harlem, New York, are some of the events that provide humorous counterpoints to the heavy main story. More than a simple history lesson, these anecdotes turn the book into a pleasurable read.
