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Beware of GIANT CATS!!! Did you ever have one of those days when everything seemed to go wrong? Well, if you have you can relate to Bessy Beebody. Her name might sound silly, but she takes her new job very seriously. After having a tough time getting to work and meeting a boss who reminds her of Santa, Bessy struggles to get her school library that has been left in a mess cleaned up and in order before she has the public join her to see the or...

While investigating the murder of a Chinese liquor store owner, Harry Bosch gets word his daughter, who lives in Hong Kong with her mother, has been kidnapped. Bosch drops everything and journeys across the Pacific to a new city where nothing is as it seems.

Offering hope and comfort to those facing pressure and anxiety, with both original and traditional prayers that speak of God's presence and faithfulness in adversity.

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It is 1967 and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him since she has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues. His domestic woes accumulate: his unemployable brother Larry is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny is playing hooky from Hebrew school, and his daughter is sneaking money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job. Al...

In a delightful, curious game of what comes next, Moomintroll travels through the woods to get home with milk for Moominmamma. A simple trip turns into a colorful adventure as Moomintroll meets Mymble, who has lost her sister, Little My. Along the way, they endure the hijinks of all the charming characters of the Moomin world, including the Fillijonks and Hattifatteners. Will Moomintroll ever make it home safe and sound? A beautiful and boiste...

Provides a focused but multidisciplinary approach to the "long eighteenth century", the two hundred years during which writers and artists explored, developed, and represented a complex program of modernization or "Enlightenment". Covering a period that begins with the revolutionary thought of Thomas Hobbes and ends with the careers of William Wordsworth and Lord Byron, it includes essays treating the aesthetic and philosophical side of this p...

This book provides an important study of the theology of Thomas F. Torrance, who is generally considered to have been one of the most significant theologians writing in English during the twentieth century, with a view toward showing how his theological method and all his major doctrinal views were shaped by his understanding of the doctrine of the Trinity. Torrance pursued a theology that was realist because he attempted to think in accordanc...

Imagine a secret world veiled in fairy glamour and brimming with unearthly delights. A city swarming with half-mad fairies, where thieving spriggans rob you blind, beautiful banshees mesmerize you with their song, and big green trolls bust heads at nightclubs. And once you're in, there's no escape...Enslaved by a demon lord, Jade is forced to spend her nights seducing vampire gangsters and shapeshifting thugs. After two hundred years as a succ...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Sozialpädagogik / Sozialarbeit, Note: 1, 1, Evangelische Hochschule Darmstadt, ehem. Evangelische Fachhochschule Darmstadt, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Rahmen der Aktion für mehr Selbstbewusstsein "Initiative für wahre Schönheit", wurden im Auftrag des Kosmetikunternehmens Dove 3300 Frauen im Alter zwischen 15 und 64 Jahren befragt. Anlässlich dieser Erhebung, haben 92 Prozent aller Mädchen zwis...

What makes funny FUNNY? An esteemed anthologist interviews thirteen favorite children's authors - and asks them to share their trade secrets.Do you ever make yourself laugh while you are writing?"A joke isn't a joke if you need to explain it, " notes Leonard S. Marcus. "Even so, the hidden clockwork of comedy . . . has long been considered one of the great riddles of life." There are many kinds of humor, but capturing their essence on paper is...

Since its first publication, "The Things They Carried" has become an unparalleled Vietnam testament, a classic work of American literature, and a profound study of war that illuminates the capacity, and the limits, of the human heart and soul.

Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks—the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger—the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 passengers and crew.On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed a remarkable emergency landing when Captain "Sully" Sullenberger skillfully ...

From the author of the bestselling "Moosewood Cookbook" comes "Get Cooking, " the first in a series of cookbooks geared towards beginners.

Calleman shows how the central axis of the universe correlates with the ancient Tree of Life. He presents an alternative to Darwin's theory of biological evolution and suggests that life arises as part of a hierarchy of interrelated systems evolving in a synchronized way.

From an award-winning novelist and poet comes the gripping story of a lonely outsider whose arrival at a high-stakes archaeological dig through ancient Spartan ruins unearths long-buried secrets.