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A nine-to-five dead-end job with no prospects wasn't the life I planned for myself, but I only had myself to blame. Art was my dream. I wanted to see my creations in the Tate Modern display alongside the great artists of our time. How did I end up leaning on a counter, twiddling my thumbs watching the newest customer make a mess of the display I just tidied up? A series of missed opportunities and wrong turns. Something needed to change and fast.

A charismatic Cuban, Alberto Mistro, offers five middle-aged couples an all-expenses paid holiday. Too good to be true? Of course! The Mistro family has a secret past, and the holiday makers find themselves in a race against time. They are required to solve a 600-year-old puzzle. If they succeed, they get to go home. If they fail...well, let’s just say, failure isn’t an option.

When Ben and Deborah leave the city to start a new life in the beautiful countryside, they can almost taste their perfect future—growing their own food, the kids running free, peace and silence. But as soon as they arrive in their new home, bad things start to happen. And it becomes clear that somebody out there wants them gone. But ex-crime reporter Deborah doesn't scare easily. This is the life she's dreamed of for her family, and she's not giving up on it without a fight. Deborah is determined to unmask whoever is trying to hurt them and starts to dig for the truth.

Nine gruesomely funny rhyming tales for gruesome boys. Hello my friend now are you ready, to hear the tale of Earwax Eddie? And Gemph Boy, what a smelly lad, who learned that farting’s not so bad! There’s Harry Slater, meek and mild, but underneath a willful child. Oh hold your nose, it’s Foot Cheese Fred! Don’t get too close - you’ll end up dead! Watch out - a new kid in the class, Big Bully Burt is bold as brass! Behold the splendid Pizza Pete - there’s not one topping he won’t eat (or is there?).

When you've grown up in a world of danger and adventure, and a daily game of survival with a giant white tiger as your best friend, getting used to the "rules" in this world can be very tricky! Now Sarah the Adventurer faces a new threat from an old enemy. The powerful witch "The Esmeralda" wants the bag that Sarah carries and its contents, and she will stop at nothing to get it. If everyone in this world has to suffer then so much the better; the witch will feed upon their pain and gain followers as she goes.

Cragfeld was a remote island in a magical world, once a happy place until its Kingdom was overpowered by a cruel Ice Queen who would do anything for the throne. Having imprisoned her own sister, the rightful Queen, in a tomb of ice, there was little hope for the people of Cragfeld who were under a dark curse.

It often takes only a tweak or a very small amendment which will make the greatest of changes to your business. This change can then make all the difference between your business just ticking along or have a large increase in your online sales activity. So, this is a collection of 50 top marketing and business tips and hacks from top marketing experts from around the world which are tried and tested with a view to improving your business sales.

Harry Heron: Into the Unknown continues the exciting story begun in Harry Heron: Midshipman's Journey, the flagship book in the series. A freak accident on board the HMS Spartan during a sea battle with the French navy in 1804 catapults Midshipman Harry Heron and his shipmates Ferghal O’Connor and Danny Gunn 400 years into the future, landing them on the NECS Vanguard, flagship of the World Treaty Organisation Fleet. Harry and his friends are faced with the challenge of learning new roles aboard a spaceship.

Andy Field brings together history, science, psychology, queer theory, and pop culture with his love of urban life and his own experiences—both as a city-dweller and as a performance artist—to forge creative connections: walking hand-in-hand with strangers, knocking on doors, staging encounters in parked cars. In considering twelve different kinds of encounters, from car rides to video calls to dog-walker chats in the park, Field argues "that in the spontaneity and joy of our meetings with each other, we might find the faint outline of a better future."