'Exquisite' Veronica Henry Before A Christmas Carol there was... Miss Marley A seasonal tale of kindness and goodwill Orphans Clara and Jacob Marley live by their wits, scavenging for scraps in the poorest alleyways of London, in the shadow of the workhouse. Every night, Jake promises his little sister 'tomorrow will be better' and when the chance to escape poverty comes their way, he seizes it despite the terrible price. And so Jacob Marley is set on a path that leads to his infamous partnership with Ebenezer Scrooge. As Jacob builds a fortress of wealth to keep the world out, only Clara can warn him of the hideous fate that awaits him if he refuses to let love and kindness into his heart... In Miss Marley, Vanessa Lafaye weaves a spellbinding Dickensian tale of ghosts, goodwill and hope - a perfect prequel to A Christmas Carol. Praise for Miss Marley: 'A spellbinding Dickensian tale of ghosts, goodwill and hope' Mail on Sunday 'Redemptive... a fitting legacy for a writer who is so sadly missed' Red 'evocative' Heat 'delightful' Sunday Mirror 'a reminder of the power of kindness and love' Stylist A 'gem of a tale' Sunday Express 'A beautifully written Dickensian tale' Candis 'Captivating ... A beautiful and tender fable' Daily Express 'Fantastic' Good Housekeeping 'ghosts, goodwill and hope on every page' My Weekly 'Lafaye masterfully brings the setting of 19th-Century London to life' Woman 'Love, disappointment, kindness and greed all play their parts in this delightful companion piece to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol' Woman & Home 'A seasonal tale of kindness and goodwill that captures the atmosphere of Dickens' Yours 'Exquisite' Veronica Henry 'A beautiful, warm, rich hug of a story and bittersweet reminder to embrace life and enrich others as you go' Liz Fenwick

Born into a family with artistry in their fingers, Lyza laments that her only talent is carving letters into wood. That is until her life is turned upside down when her mother succumbs to the influenza pandemic of 1918, which is devastating their small coastal town in Maine. With her mother gone, Lyza must protect her eccentric father, who runs the risk of being committed, especially now that he claims he's waiting for the return of his dead wife. Can Lyza save her father and find her own path in the process?

Lyrical, inspiring, and affecting text paired with bright, appealing illustrations make Ready to Fly perfect for aspiring ballerinas everywhere who are ready to leap and to spread their wings! Ready to Fly is the true story of Sylvia Townsend, an African American girl who falls in love with ballet after seeing Swan Lake on TV. This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share at home or in the classroom. Although there aren't many ballet schools that will accept a girl like Sylvia in the 1950s, her local bookmobile provides another possibility. A librarian helps Sylvia find a book about ballet and the determined seven-year-old, with the help of her new books, starts teaching herself the basics of classical ballet. Soon Sylvia learns how to fly-how to dance-and how to dare to dream. Includes a foreword from Sylvia Townsend, a brief history of the bookmobile, an author's note, and a further reading list.

Tensions simmer as a small town, already divided by race, is torn apart by the deadliest of hurricanes . . . THE HELP meets TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD in this powerfully emotional and gripping debut novel. In the small town of Heron Key, where the relationships are as tangled as the mangrove roots in the swamp, everyone is preparing for the 4th of July barbecue, unaware that their world is about to change for ever. Missy, maid to the Kincaid family, feels she has wasted her life pining for Henry, who went to fight on the battlefields of France. Now he has returned with a group of other desperate, destitute veterans, unsure of his future, ashamed of his past. When a white woman is found beaten nearly to death, suspicion falls on Henry. As the tensions rise, the barometer starts to plummet. But nothing can prepare them for what is coming. For far out over the Atlantic, the greatest storm ever to strike North America is heading their way...

Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) a annonce sa dissolution le 3 mai 2018 apres un conflit avec l'Etat espagnol qui a dure 60 ans. Ce conflit s'est etendu de chaque cote de la frontiere quoiqu'avec des consequences distinctes. Medias et journalistes se sont empares du sujet. Ils ont ete invites, depuis aout 1994 par le ministere de l'Interieur espagnol, a devenir parties prenantes de la lutte antiterroriste. Du cote scientifique, existent en langue anglaise ou hispanique des travaux statistiques reposant sur l'exploitation de base de donnees d'attentats commis par ETA ainsi que quelques analyses de recits de vie recueillis dans les annees 1990. L'ouvrage Conflit au pays basque: regards de militants illegaux comble une lacune de l'analyse scientifique a partir d'une enquete empirique menee entre 2017 et 2019 aupres de plus de 60 ex-militants d'ETA et d'Iparretarrak (IK) en convoquant une methodologie de sociologie comprehensive. Le livre cherche a comprendre pourquoi la lutte armee persiste apres la chute du franquisme en Hegoalde et nait dans les annees 1970 en Iparralde. Il analyse les motivations et les raisons qui ont porte ces acteurs - inculpes pour des faits de terrorisme - vers l'engagement illegal voire l'action armee, tout en proposant une analyse generationnelle des trajectoires de ces militant.e.s. Il etudie enfin la facon dont chaque groupe clandestin elabore son " ethique de la violence politique " et precise comment l'ethique de la responsabilite fait partie integrante de l'ethos du militant clandestin abertzale (patriote).

Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) a annonce sa dissolution le 3 mai 2018 apres un conflit avec l'Etat espagnol qui a dure 60 ans. Ce conflit s'est etendu de chaque cote de la frontiere quoiqu'avec des consequences distinctes. Medias et journalistes se sont empares du sujet. Ils ont ete invites, depuis aout 1994 par le ministere de l'Interieur espagnol, a devenir parties prenantes de la lutte antiterroriste. Du cote scientifique, existent en langue anglaise ou hispanique des travaux statistiques reposant sur l'exploitation de base de donnees d'attentats commis par ETA ainsi que quelques analyses de recits de vie recueillis dans les annees 1990. L'ouvrage Conflit au pays basque: regards de militants illegaux comble une lacune de l'analyse scientifique a partir d'une enquete empirique menee entre 2017 et 2019 aupres de plus de 60 ex-militants d'ETA et d'Iparretarrak (IK) en convoquant une methodologie de sociologie comprehensive. Le livre cherche a comprendre pourquoi la lutte armee persiste apres la chute du franquisme en Hegoalde et nait dans les annees 1970 en Iparralde. Il analyse les motivations et les raisons qui ont porte ces acteurs - inculpes pour des faits de terrorisme - vers l'engagement illegal voire l'action armee, tout en proposant une analyse generationnelle des trajectoires de ces militant.e.s. Il etudie enfin la facon dont chaque groupe clandestin elabore son ethique de la violence politique et precise comment l'ethique de la responsabilite fait partie integrante de l'ethos du militant clandestin abertzale (patriote).

The contents of The R Software are presented so as to be both comprehensive and easy for the reader to use. Besides its application as a self-learning text, this book can support lectures on R at any level from beginner to advanced. This book can serve as a textbook on R for beginners as well as more advanced users, working on Windows, MacOs or Linux OSes. The first part of the book deals with the heart of the R language and its fundamental concepts, including data organization, import and export, various manipulations, documentation, plots, programming and maintenance. The last chapter in this part deals with oriented object programming as well as interfacing R with C/C++ or Fortran, and contains a section on debugging techniques. This is followed by the second part of the book, which provides detailed explanations on how to perform many standard statistical analyses, mainly in the Biostatistics field. Topics from mathematical and statistical settings that are included are matrix operations, integration, optimization, descriptive statistics, simulations, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing, simple and multiple linear regression, and analysis of variance. Each statistical chapter in the second part relies on one or more real biomedical data sets, kindly made available by the Bordeaux School of Public Health (Institut de Sante Publique, d'Epidemiologie et de Developpement - ISPED) and described at the beginning of the book. Each chapter ends with an assessment section: memorandum of most important terms, followed by a section of theoretical exercises (to be done on paper), which can be used as questions for a test. Moreover, worksheets enable the reader to check his new abilities in R. Solutions to all exercises and worksheets are included in this book.

Meet Alicia Cortez: survivor, healer...murderer? 1993, Key West, Florida. When a Ku Klux Klan official is shot in broad daylight, all eyes turn to the person holding the gun: a 96-year-old Cuban woman who will say nothing except to admit her guilt. 1919. Mixed-race Alicia Cortez arrives in Key West exiled in disgrace from her family in Havana. At the same time, damaged war hero John Morales returns home on the last US troop ship from Europe. As love draws them closer in this time of racial segregation, people are watching, including Dwayne Campbell, poised on the brink of manhood and struggling to do what's right. And then the Ku Klux Klan comes to town... Inspired by real events, At First Light weaves together a decades-old grievance and the consequences of a promise made as the sun rose on a dark day in American history.

"In this study of complex beliefs in which Aztec religion and Spanish Catholicism blend, Lafaye demonstrates the importance of religious beliefs in the formation of the Mexican nation. Far from being of only parochial interest, this volume is of great value to any historian of religions concerned with problems of nativism and syncretism."--Franke J. Neumann, "Religious Studies Review"