The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend.
Taylor had always struggled to make friends – she felt ‘different’. Taylor never knew her father and her mother wasn’t around much. She just didn’t understand people, and was alone and scared most of the time.
That was until, aged just 11, an older married man called Tom befriended her. She loved having someone who would talk to her, listen to her, a protector. But when he moved away a few months later she was easy prey to the gang of drug dealers and petty criminals who groomed and abused her, using her as a form of currency to appease their debtors and amuse their friends.
Increasingly isolated and desperate, it began to look as though the pattern of Taylor's life had been set – until she started to fight back, determined to build a safe future for herself, however long it took.

I Know What You Are: The true story of a lonely little girl abused by those she trusted most

Biographies & Memoirs

Smith, Jane

Edison, Taylor

Community & Culture

HarperElement

Islam in America (Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series)

This richly textured, critically acclaimed portrait of American Muslims introduces the basic tenets of the Muslim faith, surveys the history of Islam in North America, and profiles the lifestyles, religious practices, and worldviews of Muslims in the United States. The volume focuses specifically on the difficulty of living faithfully and adhering to tradition while adapting to an American way of life and addresses the role of women in Muslim culture, the raising and education of children, appropriate dress and behavior, and incidences of prejudice and unfair treatment. The second edition of Islam in America features a new chapter on post-9/11 realities, which covers infringements on civil rights and profiling, participation in politics, transformations in Islamic law, pluralism and identity issues, foreign influences, anti-Islamic sentiment, intra-Islamic tensions, and the quest for a moderate Islam. Source notes, glossary, and additional resources also reflect recent developments and scholarship.

History

Americas

Columbia University Press

This book aims to emphasise the overriding importance for businesses of retaining customers, and to explain how a successful customer focus can be achieved and maintained. The value of focusing on retaining customers; identifying customers and finding out what they want; offering incentives tomaintain customer loyalty; mobilising employees to give customers what they want; retaining customers when things go wrong.

Customer Retention in a Week

Reference

Hodder&Stoughton

Planning and Decsion Making  helps students to understand the relationships between corporate, functional and individual plans and objectives. It provides a framework for business planning and decision making and for contingency planning when dealing with risk.

Planning and Decision Making (Open Learning Foundation)

Science & Math

Wiley/Blackwell

The Voyage The Quarantine The Aftermath When 276 poor British emigrants sail away from Plymouth on the ship Emigrant in April 1850, seeking a better life in Australia, they know nothing of the ordeal that lies ahead. For four terrible months at sea, they endure cramped and squalid conditions, insufferable heat, bitter cold … and a mounting death toll from the dreaded disease that rages through the ship: typhus. When the Emigrant arrives in Moreton Bay, the nightmare continues. For three long months in quarantine at Stradbroke Island, the immigrants’ hopes are raised and dashed, and raised and dashed again. Impeccably researched and poignantly told, Ship of Death unfurls the true saga of the ill-fated voyage, quarantine, and aftermath. For the first time, this stunning book reveals the human stories of some key players in the drama – their backgrounds, their suffering, and their fates – and in doing so, brings to life a remarkable journey common to many of Australia’s early settlers. Their stories are tales of hardship, resilience, courage, and despair.

Ship of Death: The Tragedy of the 'Emigrant'

Jane Smith

Three Times Buried

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

'First Steps' is a new series of short, affordable self-help on a range of key topics. In First Steps out of Eating Disorders, Kate Middleton and Jane Smith draw on their extensive experiences as psychologists working with eating disorders. They explain what constitutes an eating disorder, common issues those with eating disorders face, and what to do about getting better. The book is written primarily for sufferers but with carers in mind, so it should be useful for both alike. Other titles in the First Steps series include: Anxiety, Bereavement, Depression, Gambling and Problem Drinking.

First Steps out of Eating Disorders (First Steps series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Middleton, Kate

Addiction & Recovery

Lion Books

The first book on self-harm written for parents by parents. Are you concerned that your child may be self-harming? Are you wondering what to do for the best? Do you need more information and help? If so, this is the book for you. An ever-increasing number of young people are turning to self-harm in order to cope with the pressures of modern living, and this poses a huge problem for parents and others who care for them. This book provides the answers you need to questions such as: - How do I know for sure whether my child is self-harming? - How should I approach my child? - What help and treatment is available to us? - What can I do to help my child? - How have other parents coped? Full of the real-life experiences of other parents who have been there, this is a practical book that will both inform and equip you to help your child and yourself through this difficult time.

The Parent's Guide to Self-Harm: What parents need to know

Self-Help

How to Be a Better Series-- A concise, practical guide to managing time in the successful How To Be Better series from Kogan Page.

How to Be a Better-- Time Manager (How to Be Better)

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Kogan Page.

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