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Left penniless by the death of his father, nineteen-year-old Nicholas Nickleby seeks help, along with his mother and sister, from Uncle Ralph Nickleby. The hard-hearted money lender takes an instant dislike to his nephew and gets rid of the boy by securing him a teaching position at Dotheboys Hall, where the evil Wackford Squeers presides. Horrified by the barbarity he sees there, Nicholas defies Squeers and is forced to flee.

Despite the many films and television programmes over the decades since the end of the Second World War that portrays our allied heroes as grown-up men and women, the Battle of Britain was in the main actually fought and won by teenagers. The average age of an RAF fighter pilot was just 20 years old. Many of the men and women who designed and built their planes were even younger.

How can we begin to talk about what is happening to the world? We are facing a global emergency. Temperatures are rising. Mass species extinction has begun. The time for denial is over. It is time to act. Letters to the Earth is the beginning of a new story. It is an invitation to act and an opportunity to extend the invitation. These letters are the result of a callout from Culture Declares Emergency to the public to write a response to climate and ecological emergency.

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Nothing could have prepared Caidence when her love - the man who saved her in more ways than one - left her. The absurdity and terrible timing of the breakup left her confused and heartbroken, but with her already arduous internship, she was left with little time to cope. As far as she was concerned, distracting herself from her aching heart - instead of facing it - was working well. But when Noah came into the emergency room with a deadly poison in his system, begging for Caidence’s help, how could she turn him down?

In the blink of an eye, life can change for the better or the worst. Future ER surgeon and grief-stricken Caidence Tucker learned that the hard way. Caidence has her life on track, but after a night out with her best friend, she is forced on the run with the protective boxer Noah Park. Dragging someone else into her battle is the last thing she wants to do, but with no knowledge of who is after her or why, Caidence is forced to rely on Noah’s unique skills and killer instincts.

Adjusting to a new life is difficult, but Meagan is becoming an expert. Her life quickly becomes a routine with Jack Lawrence as she plays the role of his wife. When he isn’t working, they are together, continuously developing a spark that has progressively come alive. When Jack is busy, Meagan found herself in the company of a much older and wiser man - Jack’s father. Dying of illness, Kurtis C. Lawrence is the father that Meagan had never had.

When Kurtis’ last will was read before his coffin, billionaire Jack Lawrence lost everything he thought he would one day gain, and Meagan gained something much more substantial than she would have ever expected. And neither individual is happy about it. Meagan takes a much-needed vacation to cope. When it’s finally time to come back and accept the responsibility bequeathed to her, she knows that everything is different between her and her “husband” Jack. She must face the man who has every right to hate her for what she was given. There is something much deadlier at her back.

Meagan O’Riley came to the United States for a job that no sane person would decline, but when she arrived, the job was anything but what she expected. She was not going to be an advertising agent for Lawrence Advertising Corporation, a billion-dollar empire, as she was promised. Instead, she was coerced into an entirely new position: being the wife of the billionaire Jack Lawrence for one year. With this agreement, Meagan is swept into a world of new people and foreign concepts where money means nothing and appearances mean everything.