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Is she alive, or is she missing for good…? When the estranged daughter of Scotland's premier art dealer goes missing, Private Investigator Hanlon is hired to find out where Aurora is.But what she thinks will be a relatively straightforward job, soon turns dangerous. The missing girl has a troubled past but what made Aurora suddenly pack her bags and disappear?Hanlon has her work cut out for her. The stakes are rising and she needs to get to the bottom of the case before someone else is attacked.And is Aurora still alive, or is she missing for good? A gripping new case for feisty female Private Investigator, Hanlon. Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Robert Bryndza and Lisa Regan.
Tiger Wars
Discover the shocking story of Joe Exotic versus Carole Baskin, as seen on the Netflix phenomenon, Tiger King. The global smash-hit Netflix documentary mini-series, Tiger King , introduced viewers to the weird, crazy and chaotic life of private zoo owner and big cat breeder, Joe Exotic, and his war against Carole Baskin. Baskin, who runs the Big Cat Rescue in Florida, a sanctuary for abused and abandoned wild cats, waged a long legal battle to have Joe’s exotic animal park in Oklahoma shut down for the maltreatment of his animals. But Carole had her own dark past and Joe wasn’t going down without a fight; he responded by plotting to have her murdered. Tiger Wars delves deeper into this stranger-than-fiction tale and tells the shocking story of this big cat war, the cult-like characters involved and the spiral of obsession that landed Joe Exotic in jail and exposed the dark heart of America’s big cat obsession.
Starry Skies Over The Chocolate Pot Cafe
Cosy up with a mug of hot chocolate for some festive sparkle from bestseller Jessica Redland. Everyone is getting into the festive spirit on Castle Street – snow is falling, fairy lights are glistening and Christmas shopping is underway.But for Tara Porter, owner of thriving cafe, The Chocolate Pot, this is the most difficult time of the year. From the outside, Tara is a successful businesswoman and pillar of the community. Behind closed doors, she is lonely. With a lifetime of secrets weighing on her shoulders, she has retreated from all friends, family and romance, and shut her real self away from the world. Afterall, if you don't let them in, they can't hurt you. She's learnt that the hard way.But as the weight of her past becomes heavier and an unexpected new neighbour moves onto the street – threatening the future of her cafe – Tara begins to realise that maybe it's time to finally let people back in and confront her history. It could just change her life forever… Starry Skies Over The Chocolate Pot Café was originally released as Christmas at The Chocolate Pot Café . Now re-released with a new title and new cover, this version has been freshly edited and features several new chapters.
Wildlife on Paper
Beautifully rendered and fascinatingly textured art makes this unique book attention-getting and gifty for nature lovers of all ages. The author has a true reverence for animals and nature that comes through clearly in text and art. Author has illustrated books for Scholastic but this is the debut book for his crumpled paper art. Highly informative text covers the diversity of 16 carefully chosen animals, their characteristics, and their habitat Includes animals from these places: Serengeti National Park (Tanzania-African Bush Elephant); Ol Pejeta Conservancy (Kenya-Northern White Rhinoceros); Nunavut, Northwest Canada (Peary Caribou); Gunung Leuser National Park (Sumatra-Sumatran Orangutan); Lake Balaton, Hungary (Eastern Imperial Eagle); Coast of Newfoundland, North America (North Atlantic Right Whale); Virunga Mountains (Congo-Mountain Gorilla); Sundarban mangrove forest (India-Bengal Tiger); Nujiang River Valley, Eastern Tibet (Snow Leopard); Milman Island, Coral Sea, Australia(Hawksbill Sea Turtle); Coast of Gulf of California, Mexico (Vaquita); Svalbard, Norway (Polar Bear); Kaeng Krachan National Park, Thailand (Sunda Pangolin); Bering Sea, Russia (Pacific Walrus); Fernandina Island, Ecuador (Galapagos Penguin); Amazon Rainforest, Brazil (Lowland Tapir). Kunal created this sculpture technique when playing with art along with his young son. Kunal creates eco-friendly sculptures by sourcing from eco-friendly paper companies that plant a tree for every ream of paper sold. Includes map and detailed author note. Downloadable educator guide will be available. Lexile: NC1060L.
This Boy's Life
This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move, yet they develop an extraordinarily close, almost telepathic relationship. As Toby fights for identity and self-respect against the unrelenting hostility of a new stepfather, his experiences are at once poignant and comical, and Wolff does a masterful job of re-creating the frustrations and cruelties of adolescence. His various schemes – running away to Alaska, forging checks, and stealing cars – lead eventually to an act of outrageous self-invention that releases him into a new world of possibility.
Divided by the Wall
The construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border—whether to build it or not—has become a hot-button issue in contemporary America. A recent impasse over funding a wall caused the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, sharpening partisan divisions across the nation. In the Arizona borderlands, groups of predominantly white American citizens have been mobilizing for decades—some help undocumented immigrants bypass governmental detection, while others help law enforcement agents to apprehend immigrants. Activists on both the left and the right mobilize without an immediate personal connection to the issue at hand, many doubting that their actions can bring about the long-term change they desire. Why, then, do they engage in immigration and border politics so passionately?Divided by the Wall offers a one-of-a-kind comparative study of progressive pro-immigrant activists and their conservative immigration-restrictionist opponents. Using twenty months of ethnographic research with five grassroots organizations, Emine Fidan Elcioglu shows how immigration politics has become a substitute for struggles around class inequality among white Americans. She demonstrates how activists mobilized not only to change the rules of immigration but also to experience a change in themselves. Elcioglu finds that the variation in social class and intersectional identity across the two sides mapped onto disparate concerns about state power. As activists strategized ways to transform the scope of the state’s power, they also tried to carve out self-transformative roles for themselves. Provocative and even-handed, Divided by the Wall challenges our understanding of immigration politics in times of growing inequality and insecurity. 
Dialectics without Synthesis
Dialectics without Synthesis explores Japan’s active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation of film theory during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining a variety of Japanese theorists working in the fields of film, literature, avant-garde art, Marxism, and philosophy, Naoki Yamamoto offers a new approach to cinematic realism as culturally conditioned articulations of the shifting relationship of film to the experience of modernity. In this study, long-held oppositions between realism and modernism, universalism and particularism, and most notably, the West and the non-West are challenged through a radical reconfiguration of the geopolitics of knowledge production and consumption.
Anxious China
The breathless pace of China’s economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people’s inner landscape. Faced with increasing market-driven competition and profound social changes, more and more middle-class urbanites are turning to Western-style psychological counseling to grapple with their mental distress. This book offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how an unfolding “inner revolution” is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, sociality, and the mode of governing in post-socialist times. Li Zhang shows that anxiety—broadly construed in both medical and social terms—has become a powerful indicator for the general pulse of contemporary Chinese society. It is in this particular context that Zhang traces how a new psychotherapeutic culture takes root, thrives, and transforms itself across a wide range of personal, social, and political domains.