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Au quotidien, nos deux jumeaux doivent faire des choix. Adoptant toujours la bonne attitude, ils apprendront vite aux plus jeunes l'importance de cultiver le bonheur et dire: Bonjour la vie!
Phil est triste parce qu'il désire toutes sortes de choses qu'il ne peut pas se procurer. Sophie le console en lui proposant d'apprécier tout ce qu'il possède, car la gratitude est bel et bien le secret du bonheur.
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In a thrilling adventure, a young sleuth and his professor friend are challenged to solve a riddle and win a fortune.
Professor Roderick Childermass may be the strangest person Johnny Dixon has ever met, but compared to his brother Peregrine, the professor is practically normal. Peregrine is a born trickster, and when he knows his death is near, he sends a letter promising the professor his entire $10,000,000 estate-assuming he can solve one final...
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Exploring the diverse landscape of American life, the stories in Blues and Trouble: Twelve Stories capture the lives of people caught between circumstance and their own natures or on the run from fate; from a Jewish couple encountering a dealer in Nazi memorabilia to the troubled family of a Gulf Coast fisherman awaiting a hurricane.
Tom Piazza's debut short story collection, originally published in 1996, heralded the arrival of a startlingly original...
64) Mothers and Dogs
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Drawing from everyday life in Mexico and abroad, these subtle, unsettling stories probe the boundaries between sanity and madness, life and death, safety and danger.
The first story collection from prize-winning author Fabio Morábito available in English, Mothers and Dogs features fifteen tales that show the emotional extremes in seemingly trivial details and quotidian situations: two brothers worry more about a dog locked in an apartment who hasn't...
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Ruth First was born in South Africa, where her Jewish family fled from danger in Europe in the early 1900s. South Africa was a safe place for Jews, but not for Black people. Inspired by her parents' example, a teenage Ruth started a secret book club with her friends to talk about inequality, but she knew she also had to speak out in public. In college, she protested with other students, including Nelson Mandela, and wrote stories for the newspaper...
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An evil queen can't stand that she's only the second most beautiful person in her kingdom. Her magic mirror tells her that her step-daughter, Snow White, is even more beautiful, so the queen orders a huntsman to take Snow White away and kill her. Unable to go through with it, he lets her escape, but what will she do now? Thankfully, she makes friends with seven dwarfs who might be able to help.
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Twelve exquisitely written stories depicting the search for human connection and the attempt to fit in far from home.
All the Shining People explores migration, diaspora, and belonging within Toronto's Jewish South African community, as individuals come to terms with the oppressive hierarchies that separate, and the connections that bind. Seeking a place to belong, the book's characters - including a life-drawing model searching the streets for...
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A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews' peoplehood
Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what "the Jews" are: either a religion or a nation/ethnicity. The widespread conception is that the Jews were formerly either a religious community in exile or a nation based on Jewish ethnicity. The latter position is commonly known as "Zionism," and all articulations of a political theory of Zionism are taken...
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Prized for their hard scales, pangolins are one of the most poached animals on the planet. They are also highly endangered. Yet scientists know very little about them. Pangolin rescuers and researchers such as Thai Nguyen have the difficult task of saving pangolins, changing local laws to prevent poaching, educating local communities, and learning more about these mysterious creatures. Join author and photographer Suzi Eszterhas in this exploration...
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From bestselling author Max Lucado comes a unique Christmas story called The Crippled Lamb, an inspirational children's book about being different, fitting in, and being happy with yourself. With more than 100,000 copies sold, this timeless bestseller has become a holiday read the entire family enjoys.
The Crippled Lamb follows the story of Joshua, a lamb with a crippled leg who feels left out because he can't run and play like the other lambs....
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"Beautifully drawn, great facial expressions, great humor and mystery and fun, all the things you want an adventure fantasy comic to be!" -Kate Beaton
The life of Henrietta Achilles is about to change. After years of living as an orphan, she receives a summons to the strange town of Malrenard. To her surprise, she's the only living relative of Ornun Zol-a notorious wizard, now deceased, who leaves Henrietta with his house and everything in it.
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Au quotidien, nos deux jumeaux doivent faire des choix. Adoptant toujours la bonne attitude, ils apprendront vite aux plus jeunes l'importance de cultiver le bonheur et dire: Bonjour la vie!
Sophie doit faire des choix... Choisir de penser à elle ou d'agir avec cœur en aidant les autres? Fais comme Sophie et dis: "Je suis serviable".
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Henrietta Achilles, the heir of a legendary wizard, has a serious plumbing problem.
When flooding from the wizard's house threatens to destroy everything around it, Henrietta must rally a group of unlikely allies to stop the deluge. Alongside Captain Booner's soldiers and Nate Flemming's motley bandits, Henrietta travels into the house's depths, a journey that brings danger...and discovery.
Soon Henrietta encounters one of her uncle's lost...
75) Her Last Choice
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Patients at an end-of-life foundation are turning up dead-but not because of their illnesses. In a case that hits far too close to home, Rachel must race to discover who would rob the victims of their last days on earth-and why.
FBI Special Agent Rachel Gift is among the FBI's most brilliant agents at hunting down serial killers. She plans on doing this forever-until she discovers she has months left to live. Determined to go down fighting, and...
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• The author is a popular radio guest and featured expert in O, The Oprah Magazine and on CBS news, with a social media audience of more than 100,000 followers
• Miller's previous book, Thriving with ADHD Workbook for Kids, has sold more than 140,000 copies
• Tackles the 15 most common relationship issues with advice and techniques geared to an "on-demand" world
• Especially relevant to younger couples accustomed to quick fixes and lifestyle...
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Au quotidien, nos deux jumeaux doivent faire des choix. Adoptant toujours la bonne attitude, ils apprendront vite aux plus jeunes l'importance de cultiver le bonheur et dire: Bonjour la vie!
Phil doit faire des choix... Choisir de cacher ou de dire la vérité ? Fais comme Phil et dis : « Je suis franc ».
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Nine is just the right number
Ketem the cat is looking for a new home. Professor Buber's house looks like a good place to live, but the local cats tell Ketem the famous writer doesn't want any pets. He once let his cat distract him when a man came to him for advice, say the cats. Since then, no more cats, they say. But Ketem has a plan to make Professor Buber's house his own, and enlists a group of neighborhood cats to help. Based on a true story...
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On the heels of Dr. Mark McDonald's bestselling book United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis, the acclaimed author and psychiatrist follows up with a practical, personal, twelve-step recovery program to defeat fear addiction worldwide.
The pandemic of fear continues to grip our world long past the clinical effects of COVID-19. Many people cannot let go of the fear fueling the Mass Delusional Psychosis which has...
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The BRAND NEW gritty gangland thriller from Gillian Godden!
Is the Diamond reign over?
Head of the Diamond family, Patsy is determined to make a success of husband Nick's gangland empire – whatever the cost. Nick was ruthless and cold-blooded, but he built a legacy that Patsy wants to protect.
So when a mysterious woman from Nick's past turns up claiming to be Patsy's new business partner, she senses trouble. Karen Duret demands Patsy's help,...