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You'll love this collection of stories featuring quirky, yet lovable family members. In "Translating Aunt Edna", three boys decide to play a trick on their aunt, who insists on teaching them new vocabulary words. The English language can be complicated - there are so many words that describe the same thing! You’ll discover many of them in this silly story about a group of siblings who decide they are sick of learning new words!

New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the seventy-five-year...

Anne's own true love, Gilbert Blythe, is finally a doctor, and in the sunshine of the old orchard, among their dearest friends, they are about to speak their vows. Soon the happy couple will be bound for a new life together and their own dream house, on the misty purple shores of Four Winds Harbor. A new life means fresh problems to solve, fresh surprises. Anne and Gilbert will make new friends and meet their neighbors.

While society as a whole is becoming increasingly conscious of mental health, and the social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has made the issue ever more salient, the idea of asking for professional help has largely remained taboo. In this empathetic and practical guide, drawing on some of the latest studies in the field, psychotherapist Donna Maria Bottomley examines these anxieties and argues that therapy should be just as acceptable as going to the doctor for a check-up or booking your car into the garage, and needn’t be our last resort.

Rosáceas são rosas desabrochadas dentro de vitrais circulares coloridos, usadas para adornar catedrais góticas. Quarto livro de Orides Fontela, publicado em 1986, Rosácea traz, mesmo com horizonte espiritual, essa maior concretude em suas representações imagéticas do real. Edição com textos de Augusto Massi, Patrícia Lavelle e Verônica Stigger.

Grace longs only to hide away. Fleeing both a traumatic marriage and a scandal-laden divorce, she needs to disappear somewhere safe with her six-year-old son Jacob. Finding the job running a small nature reserve on the remote, beautiful island of Lighthouse Cove off the rugged Maine coast feels...

Learn more about haiku, which are short poems, written in a style created in Japan more than 400 years ago.

A must-have guide for helping your child conquer worry, fear, and overwhelm AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER Kids today are more susceptible than ever to anxiety and stress. As a parent, you want to shield your child from these overwhelming feelings, but it can be daunting in an...

A young girl meets a Tyrannosaurus rex at a museum and asks him—or her—some questions.

Yo-Yo Ma was in his late forties when he decided he was truly happy being a musician. It was then he realized that he could use the cello to explore the world, to ask what it means to be human and how we can navigate the future together. Now, he has invited six friends to join him in answering these questions, to explore how they came to understand who they are, how they learned to love what they do in life, and how they would like to live in the world.

In Cooking As Therapy, licensed clinical social worker and sous therapist Debra Borden provides you with all the tools and techniques to have therapy sessions in the comfort of your own kitchen. Cooking therapy is an experiential therapy that allows you to conduct a therapy session while you cook a meal. Using cooking processes like chopping, kneading, stirring, and more, you’ll develop the skills to recognize limiting patterns and behaviors, improve self-esteem, and form healthy daily habits.

Paramhansa Yogananda delighted audiences, students, and friends with stories drawn from his own life experiences and the people he met in his native India, as well as during his global travels and cross-country teaching campaigns in the United States.

The phenomenal New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell brilliantly displays her incomparable talents in a story of treachery, greed, conspiracy, and murder that will hold the reader spellbound until the final word.It is the opportunity of a lifetime for Kate Chandler, the chance to...

""Remarkable, riveting, disorienting and dark."" —Madeleine Roux, New York Times bestselling author of the Asylum series A Nightmare on Elm Street meets Inception in this gripping psychological thriller from international bestselling author Amy Plum. Seven teenagers who suffer from...

There are too many dragons in Skoki's world for her liking. Luckily, she meets a new friend who introduces her to a different creature.

Habrá quien afirme que "pensar el amor es matar al amor". O que hablar de una misma es olvidarse de lo común. Sin embargo, esta antología de ensayos, conformada por algunas de las voces más representativas de nuestra generación, demuestra lo contrario: cada una de las contribuciones respira, atravesadas por el cuerpo y la experiencia, y pasando siempre por la reflexión. Los ensayos de Cuando hablamos de amor están llenos de claroscuros, de propuestas, de apuestas.

Die "Mall of Dreams" soll Amerikas neues Einkaufszentrum der Superlative werden. Doch bis zur Eröffnung muss in dem Gebäude noch einiges getan werden, weshalb das Centermanagement Aushilfen für die Vorbereitungsarbeiten sucht. Der jungen Lea Chandler gelingt es, einen der begehrten Jobs zu ergattern. Sie versteht sich gut mit dem neu zusammengestellten Team und beginnt begeistert mit ihrer Arbeit.

Endlich Frühling im Berliner Zoo, endlich raus ins Freigehege. Mit dem ersten Sonnenstrahl haben die Erdmännchen Ray und Rufus eine neue Auftraggeberin: Angel Eyes, eine nicht mehr ganz junge Rassestute, bittet Ray, den Tod ihres Geliebten Stardust zu untersuchen, der beim Eröffnungsrennen in Berlin-Hoppegarten gestürzt ist. Angel Eyes ist sich sicher: Der Sturz hatte keine natürliche Ursache.

Un complemento práctico del best seller Generación Dopamina, que te permitirá aplicar hábitos capaces de reconfigurar tus vías de recompensa y transformar tu vida. En Generación Dopamina, la Dra. Anna Lembke dio a conocer su revolucionaria investigación que demuestra cómo la abundancia...

Apreciado por muchos entusiastas del tarot, el libro Los setenta y ocho grados de sabiduría del tarot de Rachel Pollack transformó para siempre el estudio de esta disciplina. Esta esperada continuación de la guía clásica de Pollack inspirará a los aficionados a esta práctica y orientará...