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June 1964, Sara has never been out of the tiny town of Hope, Ontario, where she has been in an orphanage all her life. After a fire destroys the Benevolent Home for Necessitous Girls, clues about her parentagea medical certificate …
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Jack Spencer has more to worry about than being kicked off his high school's basketball team. Jack uncovers suspicious circumstances surrounding the car crash that severely injured his mother and learns of his father's arrest for fraud. Jack's dad is …
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Drawing on the myth of the Chinese zodiac, The Animals of Chinese New Year follows twelve animals as they speed across a river, competing to represent the imminent new year in a race held by the Jade Emperor, the most …
Orca Book Publishers
Spanning one full calendar year, this rhyming board book celebrates the deep love between caregiver and child. Rendered in couplets, the verses weave expressions of affection with vivid imagery from the natural world, making it ideal for teaching young ones …
Orca Book Publishers
Charlie inherits little more than the brass key that his father pressed into his hand before he passed away When Charlie Sykes wakes up in hospital in St. John's, he learns that he and his father have been in a …
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Helping Nature Thrive in Cities
Orca Book Publishers
What if the new key to making our lives safer (and even healthier) is to allow the wilderness back into our cities? Going wild. We don't see it as a good thing. And why would we? For most of our …
Orca Book Publishers
Do you know why dogs always chase after the matatus? Kioko had been watching the matatus come and go for as long as he could remember. But today, for his fifth birthday, he climbs aboard one with his grandfather. As …
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(Special Edward)
Orca Book Publishers
Edward est paresseux. Il se contente de la note de passage. Lorsqu'il decouvre que les eleves admis en education speciale ont plus de temps pour faire leurs examens, il croit avoir trouve la combine parfaite. Il ne s'attend pas a …
Orca Book Publishers
In this follow-up to A Carnival of Cats, babies, toddlers and dog-lovers alike will enjoy discovering and guessing what breed of puppy is hiding on the next page. With playful rhyming text from award-winning author Charles Ghigna, and beautiful illustrations …
Random House Publishing Group
On an epic voyage far beyond the Republic, the Jedi will confront their most extraordinary enemyand test the limits of honor and sacrifice against their most devastating challenge.The Clone Wars have yet to erupt when Jedi Master Jorus Cbaoth petitions …
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Death and Life in the Boxing Ring
Blink Publishing
'There's a kindness in beating a man badly, and that kindness is based on correctness,' Chris Eubank March 2016: boxer Chris Eubank Jr punches his opponent, Nick Blackwell, into a coma. Blackwell dies momentarily, before being brought back to life. …
Templar
Britain is in an economic crisis and the English government has closed the borders with their Celtic neighbours. Any Celt found in England is branded with a tattoo, found twice they are executed. Scottish Lizzie is the 'property' of psychopathic …
This is the true story of Jimmy Cryans. A story of growing up in Glasgow's east end during the fifties and sixties and how he became involved in a life of crime. Jimmy speaks about the various characters he met …
View book details for Die Kreditgeldwirtschaft
Hintergrunde und Irrtumer von Geld- und Finanzwirtschaft
Das Buch stellt auf leicht verstandliche und anschauliche Weise Irrtumer im Bereich der Geldtheorien dar und erlautert die fatalen Folgen geldtheoretischer Fehleinschatzungen und ordnungspolitischer Verstoe fur Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Orientiert an der Konjunkturtheorie Friedrich A. von Hayeks erhalt der Leser …
James Herbert reigned supreme as Britain's undisputed master of horror before his death in March 2013. But his legacy lives on in this fully authorised work, Craig Cabell examines the story behind horror writing's most darkly brilliant mind.For almost 40 …
View book details for Audiovisual Translation in a Global Context
Mapping an Ever-changing Landscape
This book offers an up-to-date survey of the present state of affairs in Audiovisual Translation, providing a thought-provoking account of some of the most representative areas currently being researched in this field across the globe. The book discusses theoretical issues …
View book details for Consecutive Interpreting
An Interdisciplinary Study
This book sheds light on the phenomenon of consecutive interpreting. It combines phenomenological and empirical analyses to build a communication theory of interpreting. The author begins by reviewing mainstream research on consecutive interpreting and then dissociates himself from it, conducting …
View book details for Overcoming Insecurity
A Guide to Building Confidence and Self-Worth
Insecurity is something we all face at various points in our lives. Whether it's self-doubt about our abilities, concerns about how others perceive us, or an underlying feeling that we're not good enough, these insecurities can impact nearly every aspect …
View book details for Navigating Iran
Power, Resistance, and the Global Response
Navigating Iran: Power, Resistance, and the Global Response by Ali R. Rahimi, M.D., FACP, AGSF, offers a compelling analysis of the geopolitical forces that have shaped Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan over the past century. Through a critical examination of Soviet …
View book details for Human Rights Encounter Legal Pluralism
Normative and Empirical Approaches
This collection of essays interrogates how human rights law and practice acquire meaning in relation to legal pluralism, ie, the co-existence of more than one regulatory order in a same social field. As a social phenomenon, legal pluralism exists in …
View book details for Catalysis
Volume 35
Looking at modern approaches to catalysis, this volume reviews the extensive literature published on this area. Chapter highlights include Fenton chemistry, advanced manufacturing in heterogeneous catalysis, membrane reactors for light alkane dehydrogenation, and new insights and enhancement of biocatalysts for …
In recent years, the use of renewable raw materials and natural biopolymers has increased significantly to overcome the issues associated with environmental pollution and dwindling fossil fuel resources. Lipids and proteins are inexpensive, renewable raw materials, which are considered ideal …
This annual review of the literature provides a comprehensive and critical survey of a vast field of study involving organophosphorus compounds, ranging from phosphines and their chalcogenide derivatives, phosphonium salts and P-ylides, to tervalent and quinquevalent phosphorus acid derivatives and …
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Anatomy of a Misfit (Spanish edition)
HarperCollins
El debut emocionalmente devastador de Andrea Portes en el genero juvenil pone al descubierto la inutilidad de fingir ser quienes no somos y el valor de celebrar finalmente lo que somos internamente. Anika Dragomir es la tercera chica mas popular …
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Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist
I find it so easy to forget / that Im just a girl who is expected / to live / without thoughts. Opposing slavery in Cuba in the nineteenth century was dangerous. The most daring abolitionists were poets who veiled …
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