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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.

Matilda Boseley's adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a prescription but had no idea what ADHD meant for her identity, her relationships or her future. Twelve months of confusion later, journalist Matilda embarked on an epic voyage to figure out what's really happening in the stormy seas of the ADHD brain and write the guide she wished she'd had. The Year I Met My Brain is the ultimate travel companion for navigating and enjoying life as an ADHD adult

Ce livre est un guide essentiel pour toute personne souhaitant surmonter les traumatismes de l’enfance et trouver un équilibre émotionnel durable. Écrit par un expert en gestion du stress et en guérison des traumatismes, ce livre vous offre des outils pratiques et des techniques éprouvées pour transformer votre vie.

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. 

Four "delightfully twisted" scripted stories by Erin Mallon are now available as a bundle.

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.

O Pilates é um método de condicionamento físico e mental, criado pelo alemão Joseph Pilates. Os movimentos promovem o ganho de flexibilidade e fortalecimento do corpo de forma integrada e individualizada. Se você é do tipo que não gosta muito de academia, mas precisa manter o corpo em movimento, exercitar a mente e alongar, o pilates é um tipo de exercício físico que pode ser perfeito para você.

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...

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.

They’re known as the bebés robados, or “stolen babies”–children stolen at birth from their mothers and sold to wealthy families around Spain. For decades, European reporters and activists have tried to penetrate the secretive networks responsible for the crimes, typically with little success. Until now. In The Lost, veteran journalists Matteo Fagotto and Matilde Gattoni investigate the story of a woman named Ana Belén Pintado, a middle-aged woman from a small village in Central Spain.

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.

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.

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.

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...

Un oscuro arqueólogo alemán convence a la joven Luciana Bo para que se sume a una expedición en busca del legendario “Corazón de Adán”, una piedra preciosa de incalculable valor, siguiendo unas pistas que solamente ella podría descifrar. Antes de morir, el padre de Hammet, que trabajaba para el Tercer Reich, legó a su hijo un manuscrito misterioso de un historiador hebreo donde cuenta de la existencia de tres figuras, tres caballos - uno de cobre, otro de plata y otro de oro- en el que en uno de ellos se esconde el “Corazón de Adán”.

Two rooftops in suburban Ohio. A 75-year-old man and a nine-year-old girl sit on houses full of secrets. Literally. Bernard wants nothing more than to enjoy his beer (and perhaps kill a few sparrows), but Rory next door has different plans for him. With six decades between them and only four chance encounters to connect, these unlikely new friends unearth what's buried in each other and find new ground.

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.

Prince Nicolai is heir to the throne and to his people’s hearts. But agreeing to an arranged marriage for the good of his people, the prince finds that his new bride requires special tenderness if he is to win her heart. In the Land of Pendaran, Shelby Parker lives a humble but good life. Her special qualities are eventually noticed by the king and queen of the House of Markham,who seek a new wife for their widowed son, Prince Nikolai.