Friends broaden our children’s horizons, share their joys and secrets, and accompany them on their journeys into ever wider worlds. But friends can also gossip and betray, tease and exclude. In this book, psychologist Michael Thompson, Ph.D., and children’s book author Catherine O’Neill Grace, illuminate the crucial and often hidden role that friendship plays in the lives of children from birth through adolescence. Best Friends, Worst Enemies brings to life the drama of childhood relationships, guiding parents to a deeper understanding of the motives and meanings of social behavior and much more...
In seventeenth-century France, young D'Artagnan initially quarrels
with, then befriends, three musketeers and joins them in trying to
outwit the enemies of the king and queen.
AUDIOBOOK: Cleanskin
Cleanskin is a taut psychological thriller, from Val McDermid. Jack
Farrell, a 'cleanskin' (a known career criminal with no convictions)
disappears after his daughter is killed in a targeted arson attack.
When his body washes up on a Suffolk beach, the CID assume a
grief-stricken suicide, but then Farrell's enemies start to be murdered
in the most horriffic ways... Told from the perspective of the
investigating cop, Andy Martin, this is hard boiled crime fiction of
the highest order.
Synopsis
When career criminal Jack Farlowe's body is found washed-up on a
Suffolk shore, it looks to the police like a clear-cut case.
Broken-hearted at his daughter's death, he has drowned himself - good
riddance and one less crime to solve, according to CID.
Then again, maybe not. For, one by one, Farlowe's enemies are being
killed. And the horrific manner of their deaths makes drowning look
like a day at the beach
Military affairs occupied a very significant place during Henry VIII's reign, with English armies seeing action against two main enemies: the French and the Scots, of which France was undoubtedly viewed as the principal foe. Henry nursed grandiose ambitions to be acclaimed as the arbiter of European politics, and whilst intervention in European affairs did not necessarily dictate a policy of hostility towards France; England was invariably to be found in league with her enemies in time of war. This absorbing text by Paul Cornish deals with the history, uniforms and equipment of King Henry VIII's army.
Lieutenant Daniel Leary of the Republic of Cinnabar Navy commands the corvette
Princess Cecile; his friend Signals Officer Adele Mundy has the latest in spy apparatus and the skill to prowl the most tightly guarded database. All they lack are enemies, and fate is about to supply that need in abundance!
A hostage uses the Princess Cecile to regain his freedom-and his throne!
An ally intrigues with enemies of Cinnabar-knowing the plot can only be safeguarded by destroying the
Princess Cecile!
A pirate chief joins in a cutthroat battle with a rival-and the
Princess Cecile is a pawn!
Daniel, Adele, and their crack crew must battle bureaucrats and traitors, the winds of a barren desert and the strains of a voyage never before attempted. If they succeed at every stage, their reward will be the chance to fight another enemy: one which can blow them and a hundred ships like theirs to vapor!
Henry VIII's Army (Men-at-Arms)
