Frida
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A delightfully illustrated collection of puns for grownups to giggle and groan over....
Artist Frida Clements playfully combines colorfully detailed flora and fauna drawings with funny (and occasionally risqué) hand-lettered wordplay in this collection of beautifully illustrated puns. Honey, bee yourself! Gopher it. Don't be koi. Like puns? That's coo, says the pigeon. Hate puns? Birch, please. Bringing a giggle (and sometimes a groan) with each...
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¿Cómo se accede a un pasado lleno de violencias? ¿A quién se acude en el recuerdo cuando lo que hubo fue desprecio, negación, y un filo social que pretendía tajar lo que quien narra sentía aflorando sin demora? Aquí hay voz tierna y desolación, sensiblería aleccionadora y una mezcla implacable de memoria, documental, testimonio y literatura.
Frida Cartas hace un recuento de las escenas que le insinuaron que algo en ella no andaba bien....
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Ihr Körper braucht Cholesterin, um richtig zu funktionieren. Wenn Sie jedoch zu viel Cholesterin im Blut haben, kann es sich an den Wänden Ihrer Arterien festsetzen und diese verengen oder sogar blockieren. Dadurch sind Sie dem Risiko einer koronaren Herzkrankheit und anderer Herzerkrankungen ausgesetzt.
Cholesterin wird auf Proteinen, den so genannten Lipoproteinen, durch das Blut transportiert. Ein Typ, LDL, wird manchmal als "schlechtes" Cholesterin...
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Spiritual growth releases the scariest skeletons from your closet, it bends you until you think you may break, and saddens you to the point you wonder why you decided to become a better person in the first place. But when you stick with it, you reach a level of inner peace where life starts making more sense.
Then, you flow into giving yourself compassion and understanding, and your "flaws," become things you're no longer ashamed of.
Oh, and people...
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Why does it seem like our everyday life is shadowed by something menacing? This book identifies and illuminates paranoia as a significant feature of contemporary American society and culture. Centering on what it identifies as three key dimensions – power, truth, and identity – in three different contexts – society, literature, and critique – the book explores and explains the increasing influence of paranoid thinking in American society during...
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I write in my Harlem apartment in Wagner Projects. And I come over with great ideas when sitting in my black painted room. Where I started writing Love of Break Dancing and My Life with My B-boy Husband along with the next book. While writing I enjoy drinking a cup of coffee and listening to music. You may have seen me on the internet due to me being different, having a lot of piercings. I hope the readers really enjoy the books that I have written...
13) The Ape Star
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In this award-winning chapter book about prejudice and justice, an orphan girl is adopted by a gorilla who lives in a junkyard. Their growing friendship defies all odds. Now an animated movie.
Jonna lives in an orphanage whose manager is strict and obsessed with cleanliness. Like all the other children, Jonna has only one dream: to be adopted by a well-dressed mother who smells of perfume. But one day, a beat-up old car pulls up. The door opens...
14) Hattie and Olaf
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Hattie wants a horse more than anything. Her friend Ellen has three ponies. When Hattie's father finally comes home with a horse trailer, Hattie is ecstatic. But instead of a horse, out stomps Olaf-a donkey. Now Hattie not only has horse fever, she suddenly catches lying sickness as well.
Inclined to emotional storms and exaggeration-always with the best intentions-Hattie is an audacious and captivating character. This warm-hearted chapter book...
15) Hattie
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Hattie is a street-smart country girl in her first year of school. She lives just outside of nowhere, right next to no one at all. Luckily she's starting school and that brings new adventures.
Hattie gets her first swimming badge, falls madly in love with a hermit crab, and meets a best friend. Sometimes things go wrong-like when the hairdresser cuts her hair into stumps just in time for school photos.
Hattie is funny, lively and sympathetic chapter...
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Es sind Sommerferien, aber ohne ihren besten Freund Krähe langweilt sich Ebba fast zu Tode. Krähe ist vor einem Jahr nach Norwegen gezogen und Ebba fürchtet, ihr allerbester Freund könnte sie vergessen haben ... Als Krähe sich doch noch meldet, kann Ebba ihr Glück kaum fassen! Krähe steht mit seinem niegelnagelneuen Lastenfahrrad am Bahnhof und hat einen verrückten Plan: Fahrradurlaub mit Ebba an der finnischen Riviera, dort, wo es noch richtige...
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Ein schwedischer Sommer, eine Krähe und die absolute Freiheit
Krähe hat seine Eltern verloren. Nur ein Foto ist ihm geblieben, auf dem man Wegweiser nach Schweden und Norwegen erkennt. Könnten seine Eltern
vielleicht an der Grenze zu Norwegen sein? Krähe macht sich auf den Weg, begleitet von seiner menschlichen Freundin Ebba und mit Zuversicht und
Freiheit im Gepäck. Die beiden erleben den Sommer ihres Lebens, begegnen den kauzigsten Typen...
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A guide for living outdoors and communing with the natural world-under the open skies.
"I believe in sleeping outdoors, surrounded by tall fir trees, darkness and cold. Lying on my back and looking up at the stars, watching my breath form thin clouds."
Under the Open Skies is one man's perspective-shifting, immersive journey into the wilds of northern Sweden and into his own soul.
For four years, Markus Torgeby lived...