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'Percy's Special Friends and Adventures.' Percy, a loveable and cheeky parrot, forms a special bond with two sisters, and this is when the adventures begin. Hatching a plan to catch robbers, getting kidnapped himself, giving a bully a nasty surprise and saving his friends at the zoo from a major catastrophe, are just some of the escapades Percy gets up to! In a series of thought-provoking stories that relate to Autism, loneliness, colour prejudice and bullying, Percy shows young readers how to overcome and solve problems in these fun-filled adventures.
Who could have believed how much trouble an old chair could cause? From the moment his late grandfather's chair is delivered to Miles' home there seems to be magic at work. His long, friendless, school holidays are usually spent daydreaming and watching television. This year is different. Chairs, people and books have one thing in common - you should not judge them by their covers! Hidden under the leather covering of the chair he discovers clues to a world beyond his ordinary life in a North Yorkshire town in 1980. Miles is inexorably drawn into a dangerous world of witches, winged pigs and a mysterious tropical island. Fearing for his life, whilst being hunted by a ferocious enemy, Miles decides that he should leave a record of his exploits. Thank goodness he did!
Circum, a village prodigy from Chesone, desires a decent education and to progress through all three schools in Ancient Rome - namely the Trivial, Grammar, and Rhetoric schools. However, admission to the latter two schools is restricted to only the children of wealthy and influential parents. Circum must pass through some cruel trials but also breathtaking adventures. He meets with the brother of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, Ptolemy, and other real and fictional characters, while making numerous discoveries along the way and creating several key inventions of our time. From encounters with Spartacus to navigating the catacombs of Saint Callistus, Caesar's opulent chambers, and the political intrigues of Consul Marcus Antonius, readers are drawn into a captivating journey of history and fantasy never to be forgotten!
American nurse, Carol Duncan, is visiting Venice with her siblings, unaware that she is beingobserved by a man about town and café owner, Sergio Bari. Carol is a dead ringer for his long-lost first love, Leonora Santella, and confides in his best friend Paolo, a local actor and tour guide. Paolo's rendition of the Italian lover Giacomo Casanova seems to have cast a spell over the Duncan family during an evening walking tour, as one by one, special people emerge to whisk Carol's siblings away for romances of their own. Left alone, Carol keeps to her plans to enjoy the city's sights and sounds but she is not alone for long. With Paolo's sage advice to "strike while the iron is hot," Sergio succeeds in meeting Carol, only to later learn that Leonora, his past love, has returned to Venice after a decade's absence. In the spirit of Casanova, Carol and Sergio summon their hearts to guide them as they meld the past with the present in a quest for a love strong enough to span an ocean. An Italian-style love story that guarantees to pull at the heartstrings!
Adam is a middle-aged, religious, widow who lives with non-binary young adults and finds himself in a society he simply does not understand. When differences between East and West transcend into a vicious world war, in which only Adam's generation is willing to fight, Adam encounters the brutality of nuclear annihilation only to be transported a thousand years into the future. In a world of breathtaking natural beauty and untold dangers, Adam discovers the future is a terrifying world of discipline and work, where fun does not exist. Armed with only a modicum of pop culture knowledge, a helpful professor, an odd band of Elvis impersonators and love for his family, he sets about restoring the past and saving the future.
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