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This extraordinary graphic novel is a powerful denunciation of sexual violence against women. As seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl named Una, it takes place in northern England in 1977, as the Yorkshire Ripper, a serial killer of prostitutes, is on the loose and creating panic among the townspeople. As the police struggle in their clumsy attempts to find the killer, and the headlines in the local paper become more urgent, a once self-confident...
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It is the early 1980s and fifteen-year-old Libby is obsessed with trees. One night, while driving home, her mother, exhausted and overwhelmed with the fighting in the backseat, pulls over and orders Libby's little sister Ellen to walk home. What none of this family knows as they drive off leaving a twelve-year-old girl on the side of the road five miles from home with darkness closing in, is what will happen next.
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Always wanted to have your own Vegetable Garden?!Whether you want to learn which vegetables work well with others, how to grow healthy and big vegetables, or which techniques you need to master to help give you that fantastic looking vegetables patch, this book will help!!!Here are some of the things you can expect to find inside...How to plan and design your gardenCommon mistakes to avoidWhich vegetables beginners should start withTools and Equipment...
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Want to know how to Heal your Body and Inner Self?!Heal Your Body is a simple and easy to follow step-by-step guide which uses a fresh approach to help you bring yourself back up to par by using the techniques and methods that you will find inside!Within this book you will find the information you need to overcome being beaten down day by day and to be able to climb out of that hole you have been in for so long.The connection you have that links your...
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In 2015, Ireland will hold a referendum on the subject of extending marriage rights to same-sex people in the State. This referendum is the culmination of one of the most rapid and transformative changes in Irish society over the last century. In this book, Una Mullally charts the development of the debate from its origins to the present day. Based on interviews with all the key figures involved, from politics and activism to journalism and the media,...
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"If only the walls could speak." It is 1947 and recently demobilised young Royal Navy sailor Dusty Miller has returned to Australia to set up a house with his wartime sweetheart and wife, Wendy. The walls really do speak in this heartfelt narrative as five houses narrate the poignant struggles of Dusty and Wendy when they begin their married life in post-WWII Australia from their first home reluctantly shared by a disgruntled and obnoxious tenant....
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Radclyffe Hall was one of the most pre-eminent female writers in the first half of the 20th century. Hall was famous for her openly homosexual lifestyle and high profile relationships, her most well known novel was the classic 'The Well of Loneliness', the novel was criticised and finally banned in the United Kingdom after a newspaper campaign which led to a court case which judged it obscene for defending "unnatural practices between women". This...
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This book is a 3D perspective on the glory of Ancient Rome which is seldom seen underneath the stories of gladiators, wars, marching armies and the might and power of the Caesars. It is a story about the need to bring order in a complex social matrix. In essence, a great social experiment where different cultures collided on a land mass and which produced a blueprint for some of the social and environmental infrastructures we enjoy today. The author...
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Always wanted to have your own Garden full of life and energy?Whether you want to learn which plants work better with others, how to grow healthy blossoming flowers, or which techniques you need to master to help give you that fantastic looking garden all year round this book will help!!!Here are some of the things you can expect to find inside...How to plan and design your gardenCommon mistakes to avoidWhich plants and vegetables beginners should...
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Pull the Darn Trigger-7 Winning Strategies to Achieving your Goals is a practical guide to help individuals get from where they are to where they want to be. If you are an individual that has a goal or dream you want to achieve, but maybe you are unclear about exactly how to go about getting started, staying focused and inspired, this book is for you. If you sometimes feel stuck, you procrastinate or may be dealing with the fear of failure; this book...
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Welcome to Indoor Gardening!At long last! you can now instantly discover some awesome tips to take indoor growing to the next level! see your buddies' jaws drop to the floor in sheer amazement once they see what you have achieved… ! Have you always wanted to learn how to garden indoors? However couldn't on account of you didn't know much about it? This book streamlines the assignment of Indoor Gardening and upkeep. The tips that this book presents...
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"The life journey of a woman who-as a medical doctor, missionary nun, pioneer of gender equality, Anglican priest, and now a contemplative Catholic-influenced the lives of thousands.
Una Kroll is one of the most outspoken campaigners for the ordination of women. She achieved a certain notoriety in 1978 at the Church of England's General Synod when its members turned down a proposal to prepare legislation to ordain women to the priesthood. Quoting...
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Love and loyalty are powerful ties, but even the strongest fetters can be broken.Odin has established absolute dominion over the Nine Worlds, but he knows that one day a Jötun named Loki will destroy everything he has created. To avert a bloody war, he adopts the peculiar child and forges a bond of kinship with him. However, when a powerful seeress foretells the death of Baldr and the coming of Ragnarök, Odin and Frigg begin to redirect the course...
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Until the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965, the stance of the Roman Catholic Church toward the social, cultural, economic, and political developments of the twentieth century was largely antagonistic. Naturally opposed to secularization, skeptical of capitalist markets indifferent to questions of justice, confused and appalled by new forms of high and low culture, and resistant to the social and economic freedom of women-in all of these...