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The Chillin’ KingIn the peaceful kingdom of Willowmere, King Chester is known for one thing:Doing absolutely nothing!While his people struggle with leaky roofs and wobbly bridges, Chester naps in hammocks, braids his horse Buttercup’s mane, and sings songs about nothing at all. He’s the very definition of a lazy king.But when a ride through the woods leaves the “Chillin’ King” lost, injured, and alone, he begins to see his kingdom, and his people through new eyes. With the unexpected help of a wise old goat herder, Chester embarks on a quiet, heartfelt journey home and learns what ...

Windy and Wendy Get Bendy and Fly!

This book will help teach young children all about the transformation of caterpillars into butterflies.
The book includes Windy and Wendy's transformation story as well as a whole bunch of interesting facts and figures, along with some caterpillar and butterfly quotes and jokes.

FUN AND CAREFREE CATERPILLAR CRAZINESS

INTRODUCING WINDY & WENDY

Ideal reading book for young children to learn how the wickedly-wonderful-wriggly caterpillar turns into the bold-beautiful butterfly.
 

 

Watch the short cinematic trailer below. Experience the story before you read about it.BOOK TRAILER LINKEden’s Eco Quest – An Interactive Adventure for Eco Warriors invites children on an exciting mission to explore, protect, and reconnect with the natural world. This beautifully designed interactive book blends story, rhyme, puzzles, games, and real-world ecology to inspire young readers to become heroes for the planet.Across seven magical chapters, readers follow Eden throughForestsOceansRiversAnd secret wildlife hideaways.Each chapter includes a full-colour picture and a rhyming eco mes...

Watch the short cinematic trailer below. Experience the story before you read about it.BOOK TRAILER LINK"Marisol and the Guardians of Nature" is a vibrant picture book brimming with environmental wonder.Over ten immersive chapters, Marisol rallies her friends, young Guillermo, Manuel, Diego, Presi, and Yolanda, are the Guardians of Nature.Each chapter takes them on a mission to restore and explore diverse ecosystems in southern Spain. From the crystal-clear Río Majaceite to the cork-oak forests of Los Alcornocales, from dune-guarded marshes to a lush botanical garden.Along the way, children w...

Me, Him, Her, Them, and the Others.This is a totally strange and weird laugh-out-loud, offbeat tale of seven strangers who meet for a week-long camping holiday at a place known only as The Place. They’ve only ever met online. But now, with mismatched tents, mysterious silences, secretive habits, and an overwhelming number of sardines, things get weird fast.Told from the hilarious point of view of Me, this quirky novella is packed with British humour, awkward dynamics, mysterious identities, and the slow, unsettling realisation that you might be sharing marshmallows with spies.Perfect for fan...

Watch the short cinematic trailer below. Experience the story before you read about it.BOOK TRAILER LINK"What time is it?""And what time is it through the human interstellar portal?"Amy and Fin know all about weird dreams...They get them all the time...What they don't know is that everyday life is about to change for them inextricably, and in so many ways...Ways that they could never have imagined?For one thing, they don't have the faintest idea about the human interstellar portal or their special genealogy and secret hidden powers.And for another, the missing Lorentz force law quantum equatio...

Watch the short cinematic trailer below. Experience the story before you read about it.BOOK TRAILER LINK"Is it a bird… or a plane… or another labor pain?"Since falling hook, line, and sinker for globetrotting English ecologist, James, Eden, and her son Jamie's worlds have changed for the better.Then, life changed even more after they left the past behind, and moved from Kentucky to England.It was time to distance themselves from the wreckage and ghosts of their past, for once and for all.A new life, with a new love.And low and behold, it worked!At least it seemed so.Until the skeletons hol...

Pip and the World Beneath Our Feet.The Tiny Creatures That Run the Earth.What if the smallest creatures on Earth were actually the ones helping keep our planet alive?Meet Pip, a curious little ant with a big question: What difference can one tiny ant make?As Pip explores the bustling world beneath the forest floor, he discovers an amazing secret. Ants may be small, but they play a huge role in helping forests grow, spreading seeds, enriching soil, and keeping nature in balance.Along the way Pip meets new friends, learns about teamwork, and discovers that even the smallest actions can help chan...

Meet Hamish, the clumsiest hedgehog you’ll ever fall in love with!From a lonely garden along the River Clyde to the exciting adventures along his very own hedgehog highway, Hamish’s story is full of tumbles, wiggles, and unforgettable fun.This interactive book includes:Clumsy, playful illustrations bringing Hamish’s night adventures to life.Three musical songs by The Eco Band™ – sing along and join the hedgehog fun!Tumbling Through the GardenSniff and Cuddle (Hamish & Heather’s Song)Wiggle, Wobble, Tumble, TwirlFamily, friendship, and teamwork – from Hamish’s first meeting ...

THE GRUMPY TRUMPERSA bottom-blasting, side-splitting family fart-fest!Meet the Trumpers.They're loud.They're proud.They're honestly quite flatulent.And thanks to a mysterious condition called AUBS (Almost Uncontrollable Bowel Syndrome), they let rip at the worst possible moments.Life was already gassy on their run-down council estate...But when the Trumpers inherit a giant posh mansion from their estranged Uncle Elijah, the inventor of an IBS cure.Things go from bad to absolutely hilarious.Dad (Terence Senior) blows more than just hot air.Mum (Marjorie) tries to keep order with air fresheners ...

Greenock: A Brief History of Greenock — A Chronicle of Industry, People, and PlaceStep into the rich and storied past of Greenock.A proud port town on the banks of the mighty River Clyde.Once famed around the world for its shipbuilding might, sugar trade, and industrial heritage.In this brief, engaging and accessible account, discover how Greenock grew from a modest fishing village into a vital cog in the engine of Scottish and British industry. Learn about the town’s shipyards that built renowned vessels such as theRMS Empress of Britain,TS Queen Mary, andSS Viceroy of India—all testame...

Watch the short cinematic trailer below. Experience the story before you read about it.BOOK TRAILER LINKBobbi and the Beachcombers in Benalmádena™When Bobbi travels to Spain for a family holiday, she stumbles upon a new way of caring for beaches. In Benalmádena, she wakes up early to watch the tractors sweeping the sand at sunrise, and soon meets a group of local children who share her passion for protecting their coastline. Together, they forge an unexpected bond and begin learning that caring for the planet can look different depending on where you are.Through the eyes of her new friend ...

Created especially for younger readers, Getting to Know Rainforest Animals features amazing full-color images of some of the most iconic rainforest animals and lots of interesting facts in a simple, easy-to-understand style. Fourteen animals are presented including the sloth, poison frog, toucan, jaguar, caiman, orangutan, macaw, leafcutter ant, and the giant river otter. Discover where they live, what they eat, and some of their unique behaviors. Even the youngest readers will love discovering details about these amazing creatures and learning some surprising facts about them. Recommended for...

Created especially for younger readers, Getting to Know Sea Turtles features amazing full-color images of each of the 7 species of sea turtles and lots of interesting facts in a simple, easy-to-understand style. Discover where they live, what they eat, and the dangers and challenges in their lives. Even the youngest readers will love discovering details about these mysterious creatures and reading the comments of professional sea turtle scientists who are experts in the field. Recommended for ages 6 and up.

Watch the short cinematic trailer below. Experience the story before you read about it.BOOK TRAILER LINKWELCOME TO SEVEN DAYS IN THE LIFE OF A 1980's TEENAGER. Contains Swearing.I hope you enjoy the FUC$%&G RIDE!!!• A life of fun and fear.• And love and beer.• Joy and pain• And sunshine and rain.BUT LEARNING LIFE'S JUST LIKE THAT!The Market Lads and Me is fond recollections and happy memories of a week in my life in the early 1980s working at Wigan wholesale fruit and vegetable market.The story is based on real people's lives and real events.WITH A LITTLE TOMFOOLERY THROWN IN ...

Watch the short cinematic trailer below. Experience the story before you read about it.BOOK TRAILER LINK⚠ WARNING⚠Story could contain echoes of yourself."Listen carefully, I shall say this only once...Ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight...?""Oops, sorry... that was Batman!""Have you ever done communal living or shared a house or flat then...?""Good. Then you'll know exactly where we're coming from!"Q: What do you get if you have eight people and a dog living over a derelict pub and a landlord who doesn't care...?A: Mayhem! Everyday life is at its worst and best.After college a...

Can love save the people and the planet?When renowned English ecologist James Ustinov arrives in Harlan County, Kentucky, in the shadow of the Appalachian Mountains, he learns that a proposed road threatens a rare swamp home to endangered species—and the nearby houses of the local residents. Determined to protect both the swamp’s fragile ecosystem and the homes of the people he’s come to care for, James knows he must act quickly to have the area declared untouchable, before it's lost forever.Eden Buckley, a passionate advocate for her community and its natural beauty, is reluctant to tru...

We first meet Jack Stewart on his way back to his apartment in New York City, where he is pursuing a career as a jazz musician.As the novel unfolds, we learn of the difficulties he encounters, of the friendship he develops with George, his roommate—also a jazz musician—and the women he meets in the city. But more importantly, we learn of the very close relationship he has with his mother, who writes to him regularly from Southern Virginia. Through these letters and series of flashbacks, we come to understand Jack's background, the stifling environment he left behind, and his father's resen...

THE SUCCESSOR AND OTHER ODD STORIES, the latest offering from award-winning author Carlos Rubio, proves once again that he possesses a wide range of narrative scope. In this volume he has gone beyond historical fiction (Forgotten Objects), romantic fiction (Italian Tilt), satirical fiction (The Neophyte), to take a new direction. Each of the ten stories in this collection, all told in the first person, contains an element of the unexplainable, and every one captures the interest of the reader from the opening sentence. Echoes of Teotihuacán, one of the stories, was nominated for the Pushcart ...

Italian Tilt is a novel that goes beyond  exploring how Donald, the main character, finds romance and discovers a new culture while on a trip to Italy. It also deals with the nature of  personal  growth, the nature of friendship, as well as family conflict and reconciliation.

Watch the short cinematic trailers below. Experience the story before you read about it.CINEMATIC BOOK TRAILER LINKSONG PREVIEWS LINKBOOK TRAILER LINKBobbi and the Beachcombers is a joyful, moving, and beautifully illustrated interactive and musical picture book that brings children, adults, and classrooms together around one powerful idea: our beaches need our help, and everyone can make a difference.When Bobbi visits her favourite beach, she notices something isn’t right. Plastic is washing ashore, sea life is struggling, and the beach itself seems to be crying out for help. Instead of tur...

BEING ECLIPSED describes women’s lives under the care of the Church and State in Ireland at the beginning of the mid-19th century throughout the 20th century. It gives an overview of women who had to turn to prostitution out of necessity in order to survive, and also on nuns who were put in charge of them under catholic church rule creating a double-standard. Women were treated as the “Social Evil” when they were not considered pure and innocent by State and Church. This ignorant behaviour let basically to failing women instead of protecting them within society.

The Coin of Forever When billionaire Jensen Statler accepts a coin from a beggar outside the Monte Carlo casino, he thinks he’s buying time. He’s wrong. He’s signing a contract older than the universe.The coin doesn’t grant miracles—it collects debts. And the moment it enters Jensen’s life, the world begins to tilt: mirrors lag, clocks lose seconds, and the city forgets him in patches. As the coin burrows deeper, Jensen is pulled into a cosmic audit where every regret becomes a creature, every lie becomes a weight, and every stolen heartbeat demands to be repaid.Far from him, ...

 A quiet descent into cosmic horror. When reality fractures around him, Elias is drawn toward a presence that doesn’t chase — it waits. Nyxalath is a story of identity unraveling, ancient inevitability, and the breach that finds you.Some fractures don’t appear in the world around you. They appear in you.Elias has spent years trying to outrun the quiet distortions in his life — the moments that don’t line up, the memories that feel borrowed, the sense that something is watching from just beyond the edges of perception. He tells himself it’s stress. Exhaustion. A mind stretched ...

A murder. A lie. A temptation neither of them can afford.When a powerful executive is gunned down inside his best friend’s luxury hotel, Detective Derrick Holmes is assigned the case.The only witness? A high-end escort who was never supposed to be in that room.Sonnet Jackson walked into the wrong suite and straight into a nightmare. She saw the killer. Worse…she knows him. Terrified for her life, Sonnet lies.Derrick knows it. He sees the fear behind her defiance. The secrets she’s trying to hide. And he’s determined to break through her walls, even if it means getting dangerously close...

Some secrets are better left buried. Others refuse to stay dead.Lily Sommers returns to Raven Ridge to bury her uncle and leave. Instead, she learns he was murdered.What should have been a quick goodbye pulls her into a web of small-town secrets and back into the shadow of her brother’s unsolved death.In Raven Ridge, silence protects the guilty and the past never stays buried.Luc Pearson was her first love. The one she never truly let go.Working the case together forces them face-to-face with everything they lost, and everything that still burns between them. What begins as shared history qu...

Three hearts. One impossible choice. Love written in blood.Ebony Jordan writes passion for a living, but she’s never truly felt it… until Drake Devereaux.Drake doesn’t do love. He doesn’t do forever. But Ebony slips past every wall he’s built, awakening something he can’t control and can’t walk away from.Then there’s Solomon Blackwell.Obsessed. Ruthless. Unhinged by a past he refuses to let die.When he sees Ebony, he doesn’t just want her, he claims her. Body. Soul. Eternity.Caught between the man who could save her and the one who would destroy the world to possess her, Ebon...

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This book, in a comprehensive manner, provides an overview of the challenges of increasing crop or agricultural productivity to meet the demands of a growing population, linking descriptions of physiological, ecological, biochemical and molecular activity in plants with their tolerance and adaptation to natural environments.In the case of plants, a stress is an adverse condition or substance that affects or blocks a plant’s metabolism, growth, or development. The threat to productivity in crops and agriculture due to these stresses cannot be overstated, nor overlooked, especially in light of...

Plants experience stress due to environmental changes, either in biotic or abiotic form, during their life cycle. Non-heritable modifications in morphological, physiological or biochemical characteristics tend to reduce or decrease growth and productivity, and sometimes lead to death.This book presents an exhaustive overview of the specific effects and modifications that could occur in this regard, and will serve to consolidate the ideas to promote standardization of plant adaptation to these changes in the environment. This book returns to the facts of both biotic and abiotic stress, detailin...

Plants are sessile organisms that are unable to move but face the challenge of ever-changing or adverse environments. The study of the development of environmental changes in tolerant plants is fundamental for the maintenance and streamlining of high crop yields and plant adaptation in natural environments. The identification of genes that lead to changes or stress tolerance is urgently needed for the growth and development of plants in their natural environment.The Secret of Plants in the ENVIRONMENT addresses environmental concerns such as the different types of stress situations and plant a...

ExCommunication is a novel about divorce, separation and starting again.Martin Prior thought he had it all. A thriving business he is about to sell, a family, and a stable if unsatisfying married life. But when he uncovers a shocking truth about his wife, everything crumbles.After a painful divorce, he escapes to Thailand, seeking solace among an enigmatic group of expats. Here, temptation lurks around every corner. As he navigates new friendships and desires, the secrets of his past haunt him.As he uses his telescope from the terrace of his new home to gaze at the stars, fulfilling a long-ter...

Patrick Smith is at rock bottom. A much-needed haircut leads him into a world of chaos when a shooting erupts in the Turkish barber shop. In a moment of panic, he grabs two bags filled with cash, drugs, and weapons before fleeing the scene. Now, he's on the run.The police are on a man’s trail, tracing the aftermath of a deadly crime scene, but who is the man that fled? The police have their own issues. A secret large-scale international investigation may be compromised. Corruption may be a risk.Meanwhile, a ruthless gang wants their stash back. JoJo Okere is dispatched by the gang to find ou...

A novellaAn almost true memory of a young man who has grown up on a small farm.The summer swelters, but the harvest is ready. A young man helps his farming father grapple with the weight of the tasks. The fields are dry and dusty, and the day-to-day struggles loom large. Yet amidst the dust and dirt, he sees Emily. She is radiant and apparently carefree while sunbathing nearby. Seeing her ignites a longing for something more than this life of hard labour. Can he break free from the chains of his reality? Will he find the courage to chase a future filled with hope?Harvest Girl invites you to ex...

A short story covering four people’s points of view.Mark King is a songwriter who secretly wrote a huge hit for the artist Louise Kline. She is a successful singer who claims to write her own material. Her half-brother Joel Kline helps to run a record company. He allowed the falsehood to continue. Joel chases wannabe pop stars and takes out escorts.One escort, Tamsin, meets Mark and there is a mutual attraction.Inspiration for songs for Mark comes from the events around him and the people he meets. He likes Tamsin. He longs for Louise.Following an attack by her current boyfriend, Louise is t...

 "MARGA," - The Alien Code, is an entertaining book that combines genres and takes readers on an exciting journey of discovery. Join us as we expose the hidden layers of love, history, and technology.*****She could not believe the love she felt for Stephen at the first sight of him.  Since then, as everyone said she was a cold woman without such feelings.Those who knew her would say she was only interested in science and research.  Neither men nor love affairs suited her.*****“Darling, I love you.  Will you be my wife?" I cannot live without youFor months she wanted to sa...

A Novella

Alex has everything. He's one of the most eligible bachelors in the world. He's chased by the paparazzi and once went out with a communist. Now he hides from publicity whilst trying to find a soulmate.

Victoria is a struggling waitress in a London restaurant. She shares a flat with Sophie, an aspiring actress whilst trying not to give up a dream of making a success. 

They meet and try to make it work in this contemporary romance.

A novella

She is a PA who dreams of running her own art gallery. He is an IT technician gambling away everything he wants. They meet and fall in love.

Their relationship is threatened by endless bets, even whilst they share their love of paintings.

Years later, some dreams are fulfilled, others are dashed. Will the former lovers meet again?

Ben Walker, The Count, faces the unthinkable. Helen an FBI Agent, vanishes while trailing three Russians who may be carrying out back-channel negotiations.She appears to be gone without a trace, except a bank card used in Recife in Brazil. Ben’s ordinary life shatters. Driven by desperation, he plunges into a world of danger, confronting ruthless Mexican drug cartels and shadowy Russian spies as he tries to find Helen.With alerted former intelligence allies at his side, Ben uncovers a web of corruption that runs deep. As he navigates treachery and betrayal, he won't stop until he finds Helen...

Ben Walker, the count, is off the grid, hiding because of what he took. A life in the shadows with covert military operations was terminated. He sought revenge. He tracked down the chain of command. LC is the man who tried to have him killed, but he made an offer to be a different type of hunter.

Now, Walker has taken information and money and gone into hiding. LC wants Walker and what he took. He will take extreme measures to get it.

LC has also disappeared. He is wanted too.

The hunters are now hunted.