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With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide. The nine stories in this stunning debut collection unerringly chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.

Flunkerfisch ist klein, doch seine Fantasie ist groß. Jeden Tag erzählt er eine andere unglaubliche Geschichte, warum er zu spät zur Schule kommt. Doch das Leben im Meer ist voller Gefahren. Da ist es nur gut, wenn man ein fantasievoller kleiner Fisch ist.

A Frosty Fairy Fiasco Sisters Holly and Ivy Bell are known for their festive spirit, not their green thumbs. But when a series of perplexing pranks threaten the annual Christmas Fairy Garden Contest, they find themselves digging into a different kind of mystery. Someone's sabotaging the...

Ever since he fell off the stage live on Question Time, Labour MP Duncan Stonebridge has been stuck in political limbo. Struggling with a tiny majority and a career that's going nowhere, he's caught between the impossible demands of his constituents and the dictates of Westminster—and constantly afflicted by the bane of all politicians: events. Whether he's getting wound up about a wind farm, saving his party agent from a rabid Russian oligarch, fending off accusations or losing a laptop full of reports, life never runs smoothly for the beleaguered backbencher. 

Stella arbeitet an der Erfindung einer Zeit-Maschine und ist fast damit fertig, als ihr das entscheidende Bauteil, der Zeit-Booster, ins Meer fällt. Es verhakt sich ausgerechnet an einem Rotlachs, der gerade zur „Wanderung" zu seinem Heimatfluss aufbricht. Die Lachswanderungen sind gefährliche Reisen, bei denen mannigfaltige Gefahren und Hindernisse überwunden werden müssen. Die Wanderung der Lachse geht weiter und die Gefahren durch Bären, Seeadler, Staudämme und Wasserfälle werden nicht weniger.

Die Elfe, die nicht fliegen konnte: Die kleine Elfe Mari kann nicht fliegen bis ihre Eltern auf eine sonderliche aber weise Hummel stoßen. Sie versucht Mari an die Macht ihrer Gedanken zu erinnern. "Wenn du es träumen kannst, kannst du es auch tun." - Walt Disney.

Long before she made her first trip to Afghanistan as an embedded reporter for The Globe and Mail, Christie Blatchford was already one of Canada’s most respected and eagerly read journalists. Her vivid prose, her unmistakable voice, her ability to connect emotionally with her subjects and...

Der Kindergarten feiert ein Sommerfest. Es soll Essen aus aller Welt geben und wer will, kann beim Kartoffellaufen sein Glück versuchen. Die Igelgruppe will das Märchen "Schneewittchen" aufführen. Aber wer wird die Hauptrolle spielen? Conni, Jolanda oder Julia? Die Vorbereitungen sind genauso aufregend wie das Fest selbst. Kostüme werden ausgesucht und Kulissen gebaut. Und Proben können ganz schön anstrengend sein!

Conni geht zur Zahnärztin Conni muss zur Zahnärztin! Zuerst ist sie ein bisschen aufgeregt, aber Mama und Papa beruhigen sie. In der Praxis gibt es eine schöne Spielecke und die Zahnärztin ist wirklich nett. Sie nimmt sich Zeit, Conni alles ganz genau zu erklären. Und so wird der Zahnarztbesuch eine richtig spannende Sache.

Freedom. Safety. Love. Miranda vows to reclaim them--for herself, and for her children. A widow and mother of six, Miranda Hanford leads a quiet, private life. When the pastor of her close-knit church announces his plans to move the entire congregation to another state, Miranda jumps at the...

For as long as she can remember, Sabine has lived two lives. Every twenty-four hours she 'Shifts', living each day twice. She has one life in Wellesley, Massachusetts...and another, completely different life in Roxbury, Boston. In one life she's surrounded by glamorous friends and dresses in designer clothes, in the other her family struggles to make ends meet. In one life she’s a straight-A student with the perfect boyfriend, in the other she’s considered a reckless delinquent.

In the third Pandora English mystery, Pandora is still negotiating her double life as a lowly assistant at a New York fashion magazine with the reality that she has great supernatural powers and responsibilities. With the full moon set to rise once again, Pandora has a very special date looming. Her beautiful spirit guide, Civil War soldier Lieutenant Luke, will be a flesh-and-blood man, if only for the night, and she hasn't been able to stop thinking about it.

At just under five feet tall, Virginia Prodan was no match for the towering six-foot-ten-inch, gun-wielding assassin the Romanian government sent to her office to take her life. It was not the first time her life had been threatened - nor would it be the last. As a young attorney under Nicolae Ceausescu's brutal communist regime, Virginia had spent her entire life searching for the truth.

After tirelessly climbing the ranks of her Chicago-based interior design firm, Lane Kelley is about to land her dream promotion when devastating news about her brother draws her back home - a quaint tourist town full of memories she'd just as soon forget. With her cell phone and laptop always within reach, Lane aims to check on her brother while staying focused on work - something her eclectic family doesn't understand.

För det unga vård biträdet Moa öppnar sig en ny värld då hon ror hem ett förlagskontrakt på sin självbiografiska och omskakande inifrånskildring av äldreomsorgen. Romanen får stor uppmärksamhet och över en natt blir Moa både äldreomsorgsexpert och en ny lovande arbetarförfattare. Men framgången har sina baksidor. Det är inte bara den nya rollen som författare Moa ska axla. Hon ska också hantera sveket mot sin chef och sina kollegor som känner sig både uthängda och förrådda.

Master toymaker Gustav Von Gobstopper announces plans to build a special Toy Arcade to commemorate the extraordinary bravery of Drabville's children, who have twice escaped the clutches of the wicked Lord Aldor. The children couldn't be more excited. But when Milli and Ernest encounter a suspicious collection of characters at the Arcade, it quickly becomes apparent they have stumbled upon a malicious master plan designed to extinguish the very existence of childhood!

Evidence-Based Parenting draws directly on more than one thousand studies, and indirectly on thousands more, to create a single evidence base and reference manual for parents. This vast knowledge base has been condensed, for the first time, into straightforward ideas to support children's relationships, physical health, learning and play, behaviour, and happiness and well-being.

Alana Valentine’s mother, Janice, was remarried in 1969 at the Wayside Chapel, run by the charismatic and controversial minister Ted Noffs and his wife Margaret. Many years after her mother died, Alana found the wedding photo, and the longing to speak to her mother about that day drove her to seek out others who had begun new chapters of their lives at Wayside.

Persephone spends six months of the year under the ground with her husband, king of the dead, and six months on earth with her mother, goddess of the harvest. It has been this way for 9000 years, since the deal was struck. But when she resurfaces this spring, something is different. Rains lash the land, crops grow out of season or not at all, there are people trying to build a road through the woods, and her mother does not seem able to stop them. The natural world is changing rapidly and even the gods have lost control.

Growing up disabled can be an isolating experience. As much as you might be surrounded by loving and well-meaning friends and family, chances are no one close to you is going through this alongside you . . . until now! From navigating sports at school, to facing the confusion of getting given free stuff all the time, to juggling hospital trips alongside your social life, this anthology of firsthand experiences of childhood disability will be a welcome companion for disabled children.