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Spirited and impulsive, Marianne Dashwood is the complete opposite to her controlled and sensible sister, Elinor. When it comes to matter of the heart, Marianne is passionate and romantic, and soon falls for the charming, but unreliable Mr Willoughby. Elinor, in contrast, copes stoically with the news that her love, Edward Ferrars is promised to another.It is though their shared experiences of love that both sisters come to learn that the key to a successful match comes from finding the perfect mixture of rationality and feeling.
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R. L. Chambers, K. D. Robinson |
Oliver
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Septimus: A First Latin Reader
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Zondervan
Serenity : Reflections and Scripture on the Serenity Prayer
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Deeply moving, this beautiful gift book will help all who read it discover a renewed sense of peace that comes only from our wise and loving God. With reflections and NIV Scripture, Serenity offers hope, inspiration, and confidence for each new day that only God can provide.
I've experienced a whole lot the last few years and I have a lot to share. So I hope that you'll take a moment to sit back, relax and enjoy the words I've put together for you in this book. I think you'll find I've left no stone unturned, no door unopened, no window unbroken, no rug unvacuumed, no ivories untickled. What I'm saying is, let us begin, shall we?
Author: Ellen DeGeneres
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 256
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication Date: 04 Jul 2013
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Michel Houellebecq
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William
Heinemann:
London
Serotonin
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Dissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labrouste begrudgingly works as an engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture, and is in a self-imposed dysfunctional relationship with a younger woman. When he discovers her ongoing infidelity, he decides to abandon his life in Paris and return to the Normandy countryside of his youth. There he contemplates lost loves and past happiness as he struggles to embed himself in a world that no longer holds any joy for him.His only relief comes in the form of a pill – white, oval, small. Captorix is a new brand of anti-depressant, recently released for public consumption, which works by altering the brain’s release of serotonin. With social unrest intensifying around him, and his own depression deepening, Florent-Claude turns to this new medication in the hope that he will find something to live for.Written by one of the most provocative and prophetic novelists of his generation, Serotonin is at once a devastating story of solitude, longing and individual suffering, and a powerful criticism of modern life.'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Janny Wurts, Raymond E. Feist |
Spectra
Servant of the Empire
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Servant of the Empire is a must-read for fans of epic fantasy that focuses on intricate societal structures and political machinations. Set in the world of Feist's Riftwar Saga but on the opposing side of the conflict, this book follows the journey of Mara, a young woman thrust into power after the sudden death of her father. With themes of societal duty, power plays, and love against all odds, this book offers a unique glimpse into a fully-realized world.
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Christopher Lovelock
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Pearson
Education
Australia
Services Marketing
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Services Marketing is a valuable resource for students and professionals alike who wish to learn the art of marketing services in the Asia-Pacific region. With updated case studies, the book offers a contemporary perspective on the competitive world of services marketing, and its authors - Christopher H Lovelock, Paul Patterson, and Jochen Wirtz - bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table. The book's strategic marketing framework is flexible and conducive to learning, making it a perfect choice for both undergraduate and graduate-level courses.
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Sesame Street, Wendy Wax |
Reader's
Digest
Sesame Street: Guess Who, Elmo!
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Four popular Sesame Street friends are waiting for kids to "guess who" in this fun engaging book. Kids will love helping Elmo figure out who is hiding behind the flaps using the rhyming clues for each character.Young children love guessing games and they love the characters on Sesame Street . Rhymes on each spread prompt kids to guess who is hiding behind the big flap on each spread. Includes favorite Sesame Street friends.My feathers are yellow. My beak's yellow, too. . . Can you guess who? A surprise pop-up at the end of the book adds to the charm of this delightful book.+ Upbeat text and bright illustrations for lots of guessing game fun!+ Includes 4 large flaps - 1 on each spread. Plus a large pop-up on the last spread.+ All of the favorite Sesame Street characters including Elmo, Zoe, Big bird, Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch!
Jeff Wolf
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Wiley
Seven Disciplines of a Leader How to Help Your People, Team, and Organization Achieve Maximum Effectiveness
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If you're aiming to enhance your leadership skills, "Seven Disciplines of a Leader" might just be the mentor you can carry in your pocket. Jeff Wolf distills his executive coaching experience into a book that's both an inspirational roadmap and a practical toolkit for leaders at all levels. It's been the secret sauce for many top companies, and it could help you, your team, and your organization reach new heights of success.
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Robyn Schneider
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Simon
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Schuster
Uk
Severed Heads, Broken Hearts
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Robyn Schneider's book, originally titled Severed Heads, Broken Hearts is a witty and heart-wrenching teen novel that will appeal to fans of books by John Green and Ned Vizzini and novels such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower.Golden boy Ezra Faulkner believes everyone has a tragedy waiting for them—a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen. His particular tragedy waited until he was primed to lose it all: In one spectacular night, a reckless driver shatters Ezra's knee, his career as a jock, and his social life.No longer a front-runner for homecoming king, Ezra finds himself at the table of misfits, where he encounters new girl Cassidy Thorpe. Cassidy is unlike anyone Ezra's ever met— achingly effortless, fiercely intelligent, and determined to bring Ezra along on her endless adventures.Together, Ezra and Cassidy discover flash mobs, buried treasure, secret movie screenings, and a poodle that might just be the reincarnation of Jay Gatsby. But as Ezra dives into his new studies, new friendships, and new love, he learns that some people, like books, are easy to misread. And now he must consider: If one's singular tragedy has already hit and everything after it has mattered quite a bit, what happens when more misfortune strikes?With lyrical writing, nerdy humor, and realistic romance, Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything is a story about how difficult it is to play the part people expect, and how new beginnings can stem from abrupt and tragic endings.
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"Shadow Play" is the first in the series of “Kain Songket Mysteries” set in the northern state of Kelantan, Malaysia during the 1970s. Mak Cik Maryam, a smart and take-charge kain songket (silk) trader in Kota Bharu Central Market, discovers a murder in her own backyard, shattering the bucolic village world she thought surrounded her. While the new Chief of Police, a pleasant young man from Ipoh whose mother’s admonitions about the wiles of Kelantanese girls still ring in his ears, wrestles with the bewildering local dialect, Maryam steps up to solve the mystery herself. Her investigation brings her into the closed world of the wayang kulit Shadow Play theater and the lives of its performers—a world riven by rivalries and black magic. Trapped in a tangle of jealousy, Maryam struggles to make sense of the crime in spite of the spells sent to keep her from secrets long buried and lies woven to shield the guilty.
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Shagpile is a great read for those who enjoy a nostalgic, steamy romance set in the suburbs of the 1970s. Imogen Edwards-Jones masterfully captures the tension of a forbidden love affair and the challenges of societal expectations. Readers will be drawn in by the vivid descriptions of the era and the authentic characters that struggle to break free from the constraints of their social circles.
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Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here and hereOmar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shared everything. They shared the symptoms of pregnancy, they shared the son that they all claim to have borne on the same night. Raised at their six breasts, Omar's mothers teach him to live a life without shame. And it is training that proves very useful when he leaves his mothers’ fortress and makes the fateful mistake of falling in love. For he finds himself an unwitting player in an ongoing duel between the families of two men – one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure – living in a world caught between honour and humiliation, where a moment of shame could prove fatal.
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Soon to be a major HBO TV series starring Amy Adams and Chris Messina.
When two girls are abducted and killed in Missouri, journalist Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to report on the crimes.
Long-haunted by a childhood tragedy and estranged from her mother for years, Camille suddenly finds herself installed once again in her family's mansion, reacquainting herself with her distant mother and the half-sister she barely knows - a precocious 13-year-old who holds a disquieting grip on the town.
As Camille works to uncover the truth about these violent crimes, she finds herself identifying with the young victims - a bit too strongly. Clues keep leading to dead ends, forcing Camille to unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past to get at the story. Dogged by her own demons, Camille will have to confront what happened to her years before if she wants to survive this homecoming.
Author: Gillian Flynn
Format: English Books (Paperback)
Publisher: ORION PUBLISHING OME MM
Publication Date: 14 Jun 2018
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Yvette Cooper
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Atlantic
Books
She Speaks : Women's Speeches That Changed the World, from Pankhurst to Thunberg
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Looking at the greatest speeches of all time, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Elizabeth I and Boudica were about the only women to have dipped a toe into the pool of public oratory. But the truth is very different - countless brave and bold women have used their voices to inspire change, transform lives and radically alter history.In this timely and personal anthology, Yvette Cooper MP tells the story of 30 inspirational speeches given by women. From Boudica to Margaret Thatcher and from Malala to gun-control activist Emma Gonzalez, each speech will be reproduced in full and introduced by Yvette. This is not only a much-needed celebration of women's speeches throughout history, but also proof that powerful and persuasive oratory can be decidedly female.
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Arthur Conan Doyle, Loren D. Estleman |
Bantam
Dell
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume II
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Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero—a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime!Volume II begins with The Hound of the Baskervilles, a haunting novel of murder on eerie Grimpen Moor, which has rightly earned its reputation as the finest murder mystery ever written.The Valley of Fear matches Holmes against his archenemy, the master of imaginative crime, Professor Moriarty.In addition, the loyal Dr. Watson has faithfully recorded Holmes’s feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the thrilling The Adventure of the Red Circle and the twelve baffling adventures from The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes.Conan Doyle’s incomparable tales bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where for more than forty years Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.
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Felicia Low-Jimenez, Adan Jimenez, A.J. Low |
Epigram
Books
Sherlock Sam and the Cloaked Classmate in Macritchie: 6
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Sherlock Sam encounters his most important mystery yet! His classmate has gone missing at MacRitchie Reservoir, and no one can find him. Fearing the worst, Officer Siva refuses to let the Supper Club help, but there’s never been a mystery Sherlock, Watson and their friends could ignore! This is the first book in the Fiendish Mastermind Trilogy!
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A.J. Low, Adan Jimenez, Felicia Low-Jimenez |
Epigram
Books
Sherlock Sam and the Quantum Pair in Queenstown (book 11)
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The Supper Club encounter strange and impossible phenomena near Dad’s workplace, and Sherlock Sam suspects that the weirdness is caused by alternate realities bleeding into his own. Together with Watson and the rest of the Supper Club, Sherlock Sam works to stop universes from colliding, lest they face a crisis of infinite Watsons spouting sarcasm everywhere they turn!
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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Yearling
Shiloh
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"Shiloh" is a heartwarming tale perfect for animal lovers of all ages. The unique and distinctive feature of this book is the unwavering loyalty demonstrated by the main character Marty as he goes above and beyond to save a mistreated dog. This book is a great read for anyone looking for an uplifting story with a strong message of compassion and kindness towards animals.
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Yearling
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Yearling
Shiloh
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Shiloh could be a great read for anyone who loves heartwarming stories about loyalty and compassion. This is a story of a young boy who vows to save a dog he believes has been abused and shows immense courage and determination in carrying out that promise. Shiloh is a beautifully written tale of love, loyalty, and the resilience of the human spirit, making it a perfect read for animal lovers of all ages. Readers will be touched by the bond that develops between Marty and Shiloh and how they manage to overcome all challenges with the power of their love.
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Your job as a manager is getting harder all the time. But your most critical responsibility--especially in today's world of intensifying competition--is how to help your people shine their brightest. How do you inspire solid contributors to strive for more? What should you do if a star player falls off their game? In Shine, bestselling author, psychiatrist, and ADD expert Edward Hallowell draws on brain science, performance research, and his own experience helping people maximize their potential to present a proven process for getting the best from your people: -Select--put the right people in the right job, and give them responsibilities that "light up" their brain. -Connect--strengthen interpersonal bonds among team members. -Play--help people unleash their imaginations at work. -Grapple and Grow--when the pressure's on, enable employees to achieve mastery of their work. -Shine--use the right rewards to promote loyalty and stoke your people's desire to excel. Brimming with Hallowell's trademark candor and warmth, Shine is a vital new resource for all managers seeking to inspire excellence in their teams.
Author: Edward M. Hallowell
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 224
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Publication Date: 13 Jan 2011
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Phil Knight
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Simon
&
Schuster/paula
Wiseman
Books
Shoe Dog : A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
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“An eye-opening look into the story of Knight before his multibillion dollar company.” — School Library Journal“A great story about how an ambition turned into a business…serves as a guide for accomplishing great things.” — VOYAIn this young reader’s edition of the New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight “offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh” ( Booklist , starred review), opening up about how he went from being a track star at an Oregon high school to the founder of a brand and company that changed everything.You must forget your limits.It was only when Nike founder Phil Knight got cut from the baseball team as a high school freshman that his mother suggested he try out for track instead. Knight made the track team and found that not only could he run fast but also, more importantly, he liked it.Ten years later, young and searching, Knight borrowed fifty dollars from his father and launched a company with one simple import high quality running shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his car to start, he and his gang of friends and runners built one of the most successful brands ever.Phil Knight encountered risks and setbacks along the way, but always followed his own advice. Just keep going. Don’t stop. Whatever comes up, don’t stop. Filled with wisdom, humanity, humor, and heart, the young readers edition of the bestselling Shoe Dog is a story of determination that inspires all who read it.The Young Readers Edition is an abridged version of the internationally bestselling adult book and it features original front matter and back matter, including a new introduction and “A Letter to the Young Reader” containing advice from Phil Knight for budding entrepreneurs.
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Harry E. Wedeck
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Philosophical
Library
Short Dictionary of Classical Word Origins
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James Hawes
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Old
Street
Publishing
Shortest History of Germany
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Read in an afternoon. Remember for a lifetime.In his acclaimed new bestseller, now in paperback, James Hawes tells the story of Europe's most admired and feared country, from Julius Caesar to Angela Merkel. With more than 100 maps and images, this is a fresh, concise and entertaining attempt to answer the question: are the Germans really us, or them?
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Hilda Rosner, Hermann Hesse |
New
Directions
Siddhartha / The Dhammapada
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Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, Siddhartha is the story of a soul’s long quest for the answer to the enigma of man’s role on earth. As a youth, the young Indian Siddhartha meets the Buddha but isn’t content with the disciple’s role. He must work out his own destiny—a torturous road on which he experiences a love affair with the beautiful courtesan Kamala, the temptation of success and riches, the heartache of struggling with his own son, and finally, renunciation and self-knowledge.The name “Siddhartha” is often given to the Buddha himself—perhaps a clue to Hesse’s aims contrasting the traditional legendary figure with his own conception.This new edition of the classic Siddhartha includes The Dhammapada (“Path of Virtue”), the 423 verses attributed to the Buddha himself, which forms the essence of the ethics of Buddhist philosophy.
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Silver Linings could be a good read for those interested in Northern Ireland beyond the conflict. Martin Fletcher offers a unique perspective of the province through his encounters with the hospitable locals. The book highlights the beauty and resourcefulness of Northern Ireland, which is often overlooked due to the political turmoil.
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Matt Groening
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Harper
Paperbacks
Simpsons Comics Spectacular
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Right this way, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to another tasty all-you-can-eat collection of Simpsonoid comical funnies, written, penciled, inked, and simmered just for you by your favorite demented cartoon chefs at Bongo Comics. We've got a special meaty comic book stew du jour a-bubblin' away on the stove for you this time, full of rich Barty goodness, thick Homerish chunks, and sinewy Lisa-esque fibers. And, by popular request, we've added a scoop or two of spicy Maggie-renos, along with our usual heaping dollops of authentic Snowball II furballs, and, to stretch the meal even further, a jumbo box full of Santa's Little Helper helper. A Milhouse salad, of course, comes with every meal at no extra charge. Krustyburgers and Sideshow Mel fries also are available, but the extra-bitter Sideshow Bob soup is off the menu—at least temporarily. And be sure to save room for dessert! You haven't lived 'til you've tasted a big old gooey bowl of Flanders-style flan, or munched on Ms. Krabappel's famous crabapples, or chewed on a platter full of hot itchy cakes drenched in creamy Scratchy sauce. And if you clean your plate you get a special surprise! (The surprise being the surprised look on our faces that you actually cleaned your plate!)
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Chua Mui Hoong
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Straits
Times
Press
Singapore, Disrupted
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Singapore is in a state of disruption. Change is here – disorienting, disturbing, sometimes distressing change. Disruptive technologies are displacing jobs and dislodging workers. Society is showing signs of splintering. The gap between the “best” and the rest is growing. In establishment circles, members are breaking ranks. People are searching, probing, asking: what’s happening? Change is also unequal. While shaking up many quarters at an alarming rate, it is not happening fast enough in the areas that truly matter, observes Chua Mui Hoong, political columnist and Opinion editor of The Straits Times, in this volume of fresh essays and published articles. As a journalist who writes from both the head and the heart – and often from a heartlander’s perspective – she takes on issues such as joblessness and safety nets, meritocracy and elitism, marketplace upheavals and leadership transitions, and persuades us that in this new age of disruption, what Singapore needs is a new order. But how can Singapore reorder itself? What can it do better? How must it move, and how can all the motion be translated into real change and advancement? Singapore is at a crossroads. How it responds to this state of disruption will determine its place in the disrupted world. “Chua Mui Hoong writes with a brilliant mind, a warm heart and integrity. She is not afraid to praise or to criticise any one, any institution, including the Government. No reasonable person can question her objectivity and fairness. She loves Singapore and Singaporeans, especially our working class and heartlanders. In spite of her success, she has never forgotten her roots. Her gentle voice is a voice of conscience from our heartland.” – Foreword by Tommy Koh Ambassador-At-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Professor of Law, National University of Singapore
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Christopher Isherwood
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Univ
Of
Minnesota
Press
Single Man
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"When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, determined to persist in the routines of his daily life. An Englishman and a professor living in suburban Southern California, he is an outsider in every way, and his internal reflections and interactions with others reveal a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices and loneliness. Wry, suddenly manic, constantly funny, surprisingly sad, this novel catches the true textures of life itself."--BOOK JACKET.
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Sophie McKenzie
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Simon
&
Schuster
Childrens
Books
Sister, Missing
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[ SISTER, MISSING BY MCKENZIE, SOPHIE](AUTHOR)PAPERBACK
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Mark Musa, Luigi Pirandello |
Penguin
Classics
Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays
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Pirandello (1867-1936) is the founding architect of twentieth-century drama, brilliantly innovatory in his forms and themes, and in the combined energy, imagination and visual colours of his theatre.This volume of plays, translated from the Italian by Mark Musa, opens with Six Characters in Search of an Author, Pirandello's most popular and controversial work in which six characters invade the stage and demand to be included in the play. The tragedy Henry IV dramatizes the lucid madness of a man who may be King. In So It Is (If You Think So) the townspeople exercise a morbid curiosity attempting to discover 'the truth' about the Ponza family. Each of these plays can lay claim to being Pirandello's masterpiece, and in exploring the nature of human personality each one stretches the resources of drama to their limits.
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Michael B. Oren
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Presidio
Press
Six Days of War : June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
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Though it lasted for only six tense days in June, the 1967 Arab-Israeli war never really ended. Every crisis that has ripped through this region in the ensuing decades, from the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to the ongoing intifada, is a direct consequence of those six days of fighting. Michael B. Oren’s magnificent Six Days of War, an internationally acclaimed bestseller, is the first comprehensive account of this epoch-making event. Writing with a novelist’s command of narrative and a historian’s grasp of fact and motive, Oren reconstructs both the lightning-fast action on the battlefields and the political shocks that electrified the world. Extraordinary personalities—Moshe Dayan and Gamal Abdul Nasser, Lyndon Johnson and Alexei Kosygin—rose and toppled from power as a result of this war; borders were redrawn; daring strategies brilliantly succeeded or disastrously failed in a matter of hours. And the balance of power changed—in the Middle East and in the world. A towering work of history and an enthralling human narrative, Six Days of War is the most important book on the Middle East conflict to appear in a generation.
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Italo Calvino
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Penguin
Popular
Classics
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
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'Words connect the visible track to the invisible thing ... like a fragile makeshift bridge cast across the void'With imagination and wit, Italo Calvino sought to define the virtues of the great literature of the past in order to shape the values of the future. His effervescent last works, left unfinished at his death, were the Charles Eliot Norton lectures, which he was due to deliver at Harvard in 1985-86. These surviving drafts explore the literary concepts closest to his heart: Lightness, Quickness, Multiplicity, Exactitude and Visibility (Constancy was to be the sixth), in serious yet playful essays that reveal his debt to the comic strip and the folktale. This collection, now in a fluent and supple new translation, is a brilliant précis of a great writer whose legacy will endure through the millennium he addressed.Translated by Geoffrey Brock'The book I give most to people is Six Memos for the Next Millennium' Ali Smith'Wonderful . . . full of wit and erudition' Daily Telegraph
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Edward de Bono
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Penguin
Group
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Six Thinking Hats
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YOUR SUCCESS IN BUSINESS DEPENDS ON HOW WELL YOU THINK Six Thinking Hats can help you think better-with its practical and uniquely positive approach to making decisions and exploring new ideas. It is an approach that thousands of business managers, educators, and government leaders around the world have already adopted with great success. "The main difficulty of thinking is confusion," writes Edward de Bono, long recognized as the foremost international authority on conceptual thinking and on the teaching of thinking as a skill. "We try to do too much at once. Emotions, information, logic, hope, and creativity all crowd in on us. It is like juggling with too many balls." The solution? De Bono unscrambles the thinking process with his "six thinking hats": * WHITE HAT: neutral and objective, concerned with facts and figures * RED HAT: the emotional view * BLACK HAT: careful and cautious, the "devil's advocate" hat * YELLOW HAT: sunny and positive * GREEN HAT: associated with fertile growth, creativity, and new ideas * BLUE HAT: cool, the color of the sky, above everything else-the organizing hat Through case studies and real-life examples, Dr. de Bono reveals the often surprising ways in which deliberate role playing can make you a better thinker. He offers a powerfully simple tool that you-and your business, whether it's a start-up or a major corporation-can use to create a climate of clearer thinking, improved communication, and greater creativity. His book is an instructive and inspiring text for anyone who makes decisions, in business or in life.
Meg Cabot
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Pan
Macmillan
Size Doesn't Matter
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If you're in for a blend of mystery and rom-com with a relatable protagonist, "Size Doesn't Matter" might just hit the right notes for you. Heather Wells is not your average detective; she's a former pop star with a knack for finding herself in the middle of murder investigations. Her story is imbued with a light-hearted charm despite the dark turns, and Meg Cabot's witty writing could make it hard for you to put this one down.
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Provides answers to questions about the seasons, rivers, deserts, volcanoes, oceans, icebergs, moon, stars, planets, and space. An activities section is included.
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Slash: The Autobiography
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It seems excessive...but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. Saul "Slash" Hudson was born in Hampstead to a Jewish father, an album cover artist, and a black American mother of Nigerian descent, who created David Bowie's look in The Man Who Fell to Earth. He was raised in Stoke until he was 11, when he and his mother moved to LA. Frequent visitors to the house were David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Ron Wood and Iggy Pop, . At this time Slash got into BMX bikes, and would eventually turn professional, winning won major awards and money, but at 15 his grandmother gave him his first guitar. Even though it had just one string he began teaching himself to play, and soon school was forgotten as he devoted up to 12 hours a day to honing his skills. Sessions with numerous local LA rock bands followed until a fateful meeting with singer W Axl Rose! and the rest was rock history. Guns and Roses spent two years building their reputation before Appetite for Destruction, their debut album, was unleashed on an unsuspecting Eighties audience.Chart success and global domination followed but with it came the inevitable fall: heavily addicted to heroin, booze and cigarettes, the strain of this and 18 months touring the Use your Illusion albums finally caused the world's greatest rock band to implode, and Slash had a major falling out with Axl Rose, a rift that to this day is as deep as ever.
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Sylvain Neuvel
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Rey
Sleeping Giants: Themis Files Book 1
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A page-turning debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery and a fight to control a gargantuan power.A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand. Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved, its origins, architects, and purpose unknown. Its carbon dating defies belief; military reports are redacted; theories are floated, then rejected. But some can never stop searching for answers. Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top secret team to crack the hand's code. And along with her colleagues, she is being interviewed by a nameless interrogator whose power and purview are as enigmatic as the provenance of the relic. What's clear is that Rose and her compatriots are on the edge of unraveling history's most perplexing discovery and figuring out what it portends for humanity. But once the pieces of the puzzle are in place, will the result prove to be an instrument of lasting peace or a weapon of mass destruction?
Lou Wakefield
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Sleeping Partners
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"Sleeping Partners" is a heartwarming and humorous tale of two women who embark on a journey of self-discovery by swapping their homes for a vacation. The book is an excellent choice for readers who enjoy light-hearted fiction, with relatable characters and a unique plot. The most remarkable feature of this book is the author's ability to draw you into the story, making it feel like you're part of the journey. Readers are sure to appreciate the feel-good factor that this book provides, making it the perfect read for a lazy afternoon.
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Small Group Idea Book : Resources to Enrich Community, Worship, Prayer, Nurture, Outreach
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"Here are hundreds of field-tested activities contributed by small group experts from across the country. These creative ideas will help you in the four components of healthy small group life, as well as in evaluating your small group. Community activities are provided for the four stages of group's life. You'll find get-acquainted games, exercises to help with greater self-revelation, ways to process conflict and memory-making plans for celebration and closure. Whether charismatic, liturgical or somewhere in between, you'll find ideas for worship and prayer that will help you stretch the boundaries of group members and learn from one another. As you draw closer to God together, the group will be strengthened as well. The ideas for nurture will show you a variety of ways to do Bible study and give you some creative methods for making application concrete. A healthy group is one taht sees beyond its borders and serves others. In the outreach section you'll find ideas for inviting others into your group and for working together in evangelism, social action and world mission. Whether you are a small group leader, a group coordinator or a pastor, you will return to this invaluable resource again and again."
About the Author:
As a senior editor with InterVarsity Press, Cindy Bunch acquires and develops Bible studies, small group books and a wide variety of general-interest books. She has been leading small groups for the past twenty years and has written numerous Bible study guides, including several in IVP's LifeGuide Bible Studies series.
Author: Cindy Bunch
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 119
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication Date: 16 Mar 2000
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Ernst F. Schumacher
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Vintage
Small Is Beautiful : A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
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Small Is A Study of Economics As If People Mattered is a collection of essays by British economist E. F. Schumacher. The phrase "Small Is Beautiful" came from a phrase by his teacher Leopold Kohr.
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Smart Vs Pretty
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This book is a light-hearted and entertaining read that explores the age-old question of whether brains or beauty are more important. Readers who enjoy chick-lit styled novels will love this witty tale. The humor in the book, along with its charming characters, are the most significant takeaway points of the novel. It is the perfect read for those looking for a fun and easy to digest read.
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Smith Wigglesworth on Spiritual Gifts
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As Smith Wigglesworth explains the role and function of spiritual gifts, he provides important safeguards for the proper exercise of these manifestations of the Holy Spirit.Through his simple yet inspiring words, you will find out how to… Learn from Smith Wigglesworth’s personal experiences in ministering to thousands through the power of the Holy Spirit! By discovering how to receive and operate in the gifts of the Spirit, you can be the instrument God uses to transmit His love and miracles to others.
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SELECTED AS WATERSTONES' THRILLER OF THE MONTH, JULY 2019
CHOSEN BY THE SUNDAY TIMES AS ONE OF 100 BEST CRIME NOVELS SINCE 1945
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 CWA SAPERE HISTORICAL DAGGER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 HWA GOLD CROWN
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 CWA GOLD DAGGER
'Smoke and Ashes is Abir Mukherjee's best book yet; a brilliantly conceived murder mystery set amidst political and social turmoil - beautifully crafted' C.J. Sansom
India, 1921. Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force.
But Wyndham finds himself in a tight spot when he stumbles across a corpse in an opium den. When he then comes across a second body bearing the same injuries, Wyndham is convinced that there's a deranged killer on the loose.
However, revealing his presence in the opium den could cost him his career.
As Wyndham and Sergeant 'Surrender-not' Banerjee set out to solve the two murders, Wyndham must tread carefully, keeping his personal demons secret, before someone else turns up dead...
'It is the flamboyant evocation of Calcutta that makes this such a mesmerising read' Guardian
Praise for the Sam Wyndham series:
'A thought-provoking rollercoaster' Ian Rankin
'Confirms Abir Mukherjee as a rising star of historical crime fiction'
The Times
'Cracking... A journey into the dark underbelly of the British Raj' Daily Express
If you enjoyed Smoke and Ashes, look out for the fourth Sam Wyndham mystery, Death in the East in November 2019
Author: Abir Mukherjee
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 352
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Date: 01 Jul 2019
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Smokey Joe's Cafe is a gripping tale about a group of Vietnam War veterans who have returned to Australia and are now facing physical and mental challenges. The story is unique, offering a view into the experiences of veterans after the war, and showcases the strong bond of the brotherhood forged in war times. The book also highlights the power of a determined woman, Wendy, who successfully shifts the group's focus towards fighting for justice. If you're interested in reading about the experiences of war veterans and the challenges they face, then Smokey Joe's Cafe is a must-read.