Bøger af Nina Boyd

SCOREY the parrot's name stands for "Start a Conversation On Race Equality Yourself." SCOREY is an inspirational parrot that is a catalyst to start difficult conversations on race, culture and ethnicity. There are many parallels with humans in the situations that SCOREY finds himself in. This book is the first book in an upcoming series based on the tool/game S.C.O.R.E. developed by Audrey Clausen. For more information about the tool/game S.C.O.R.E. go to www.racismisbullying.com

When the daughter of a working-class family goes missing in Edwardian Huddersfield, her sister joins up with a young police constable and a cycling suffragette to discover what has happened to her. Against a backdrop of mills and millinery, séances and Shakespeare, and shady deals in a solicitor's office, the three investigators search for the truth about Maggie Braithwaite's disappearance. The unfolding tragedy devastates the lives of Maggie's family and friends, but their hopes of a better future are strengthened by the unexpected arrival of a baby, and brave plans to explore new horizons. But nothing can prepare them for the final extraordinary revelation of Maggie's fate.

The Third book in the Ethel and Amelia Mystery series. A man is found dead at a livery stable in Edwardian Huddersfield. Who would want to kill a cab driver? There are plenty of suspects, but the police fail to find the murderer. Ethel and Amelia help Ethel's sweetheart, Constable Fred Clough, to investigate the case, aided by Gertie, the new housemaid in Miss Carlton's house. Life-changing events in their own circumstances are the backdrop for this exciting mystery, while local suffragettes protest against the 1911 census, downtrodden daughters decide to break free, a new club for single women is proposed, and long-lost relatives are discovered.

This is the first biography of Lizzy Lind af Hageby, a unique study of an engaging and humanitarian woman who had an enormous influence on the cause of animal rights all over the world. Lizzy Lind af Hageby (1878-1963) was a wealthy Swedish philanthropist who took British citizenship and became an influential Edwardian animal rights activist. A prolific author and lecturer on topics ranging from music and vegetarianism to spiritualism and talking animals, she and a tight-knit group of lifelong friends transformed the way non-human animals are treated in laboratories, farming and transport. Among her many achievements, she co-authored with Leisa Schartau The Shambles of Science (1903), a sensational cause-célèbre which exposed the cruelty of vivisection as it was practised in hospital teaching laboratories was the first woman to plead her own case in an English court of law, having sued a leading journal for libel established the Bureau International Humanitaire Zoophile in Geneva, a campaigning animal protection organization, which influenced the proceedings of the League of Nations set up the Purple Cross Society to care for horses injured on the battlefield in two world wars became an expert on the Swedish dramatist, August Strindberg, publishing the first biography of him shortly after his death co-founded, with the Duchess of Hamilton, the Ferne Animal Sanctuary in Dorset, to which dogs and other animals were evacuated in World War II. This sanctuary has never closed opened a sanatorium in the South of France in 1916 to treat wounded soldiers. It remained open as a treatment centre for deprived and orphaned children met talking dogs; condemned vaccination and premature burial; was a leading spiritualist and Theosophist, and a believer in natural healing

Huddersfield, in the West Riding of Yorkshire,1909. Matthew, the son of wealthy parents, has been kidnapped. A note is delivered, instructing them not to call the police. Matthew's parents, Julia and Horace, decide to enlist the help of Julia's sister, Amelia, and her friend Ethel, who had previously investigated the disappearance of Ethel's sister. They are aided by Fred, a police constable, who is in love with Ethel. There are many possible motives for the kidnapping. And, in addition, a mysterious man has been observed watching the house. Will Matthew be found? Who took him, and why? This is the second book in the Ethel and Amelia Mystery Series.

A three-year-old girl is found alone on a cold winter's night in a railway station waiting room. Where did she come from? What will happen to her? Ethel, a milliner, and Amelia, a writer, investigate another mystery in Edwardian Huddersfield with the help of Ethel's husband, Police Sergeant Fred Clough. The child's story unfolds against a background of exciting events in Ramsden Street. Gertie Soames, who is in training to be the housekeeper at Number Fifteen, is looking for a brother she never knew she had, while a new neighbour comes under suspicion, and a portrait painter begins to show an interest in Amelia.

A talking parrot name "Scorey" goes through prejudicial times in a birds life in trying to understand and distinguish the difference between one bird with all bird species.