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      • Personal & social issues: disability & special needs (Children's/YA)
        August 2014

        I Want To Be Like Poppin' Joe

        a true story of inclusion and self-determination

        by Jo Meserve Mach, Vera Lynne Stroup-Rentier, Mary Birdsell

        Dylan has an awesome friend. His friend, Poppin’ Joe pops and sells popcorn. Poppin’ Joe has a very fun job. It’s noisy fun! Dylan learns from Poppin’ Joe how to do a job you love. (Dylan has Down Syndrome. Joe has Down Syndrome and Autism.)

      • Personal & social issues: disability & special needs (Children's/YA)
        October 2015

        Yo quiero ser como Joe Palomitas

        Una historia real que promueva la inclusión y la autodeterminación

        by Jo Meserve Mach, Vera Lynne Stroup-Rentier, Mary Birdsell, Karen Diaz Anchante

        Dylan tiene un amigo estupendo. Su amigo Joe Palomitas hace y vende palomitas de maíz. Joe Palomitas tiene un trabajo muy divertido. ¡Es una diversión ruidosa! Dylan aprende de Joe Palomitas cómo hacer un trabajo que le encante. Dylan has Down Syndrome. His friend, Poppin' Joe has Down Syndrome and Autism.

      • Children's & YA
        July 2013

        Dear Daughter

        what i wish I'd known at your age

        by Roy Sheppard

        Includes a total of over 1,500 years of female wisdom from a collection of amazing women of all ages. This book is packed with practical, 'real-world' advice on what it is to be a woman in the 21st-century. What I wish I'd known about: being a woman looking after yourself improving the relationship you have with yourself; being genuinely happy in life with self-confidence, self-esteem and a healthy attitude relationships with others (friends and frenemies) sex-from 'the first time' onwards how to understand men spotting (and avoiding) the dangerous ones what no one tells you about marriage and divorce the secret 'rules' in the workplace what the rich know about money, the poor don't.

      • Health & Personal Development
        July 2013

        Dear Son

        what I wish I'd known at your age

        by Roy Sheppard

        With contributions from dozens of fathers, this book is packed with practical, 'real-world' advice and wisdom on what it is to be a man in the 21st-century. It includes: the unexpected differences between 'real' and 'pretend' men the secret 'rules' in the workplace impress women without looking as though you're trying to what the rich know about money, the poor don't what you need to know about love, marriage and divorce build a solid personal and professional reputation improve the relationship you have with yourself; being genuinely happy in life with self confidence, self-esteem and a healthy attitude relationship building with others confident conversations spot (and avoid) truly dangerous women what it takes to be a success and how to design your preferred future.

      • Technology, Engineering & Agriculture
        May 2013

        Advantage

        A Roadmap for Entrepreneurs and Leaders in The Digital Age

        by Declan Kavanagh

        Advantage is what creates value for your customers and your organisation. By having a focus on advantage and the sources of advantage through the life cycle of a business, whether it is commercial or not for profit ensures entrepreneurs and leaders minimise risk and maximise value. This book presents a framework called “The Business Advantage Model (BAM™)” that supports leaders in the identification, creation, proving, securing, leveraging and changing of advantage. It is about “Doing the right things, the right way at the right time” across every aspect of starting, scaling and readjusting a business. Its goal is to help create more high performing organisations.

      • Work & industry / world of work (Children's/YA)
        September 2020

        My Job in Maths

        by Joanna Brundle

        Are you a maths whizz with terrific timetable skills? Or are you a science star who knows everything there is to know about the animal kingdom? Or maybe you're an engineering hero who loves to take things apart and put them back together again? Whether you dream of diving with whales as a marine biologist or flying rockets into space with NASA, going from classroom to career is easy if you know what jobs are out there!

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