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The Official Guide for GMAT Review
Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) - 2005
This book provides information and advice on the GMAT Analytical Writing Assessment, and includes samples of the two types of writing tasks, examples of essays, authentic scoring guides, and strategies for preparing your responses.
Scary Storybook Collection
Alfred Giuliani - 2003
From the creation of a giant Pooh-monster in FrankenPooh to a retelling of Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas-these tales are all guaranteed to give you the goosebumps! Also included are seven brand-new stories. Follow Mike and Sulley-the lovable scarers from Monsters Inc.-as they try to find a slumber party located in a very spooky house. Join Buzz and Jessie, from Toy Story 2, on their mission to rescue Woody from a dark and scary backyard. This collection is perfect to read aloud-whether you're around the campfire or at bedtime.
The Tartar Steppe
Dino Buzzati - 1940
It tells of young Giovanni Drogo, who is posted to a distant fort overlooking the vast Tartar steppe. Although not intending to stay, Giovanni suddenly finds that years have passed, as, almost without his noticing, he has come to share the others' wait for a foreign invasion that never happens. Over time the fort is downgraded and Giovanni's ambitions fade until the day the enemy begins massing on the desolate steppe...
Victory
Joseph Conrad - 1915
Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from Zangiacomo's Ladies' Orchestra and the evil innkeeper Schomberg, taking her to his island retreat. The affair between Heyst and Lena begins with her release, but the relationship shifts as Lena struggles to save Heyst from the detachment and isolation that have inhibited and influenced his life.Marked by a violent and tragic conclusion, Victory is both a tale of rescue and adventure and a perceptive study of a complex relationship and of the power of love.
Justice League Classic: Meet the Justice League
Lucy Rosen - 2013
Can the Justice League stop the evil starfish before it's too late?Full of super hero excitement, Justice League Classic: Meet the Justice League, is a Level Two I Can Read book, geared for kids who read on their own but still need a little help.
Beginning to Heal
Ellen Bass - 1994
Offering hope, support, and guidance through practical explanations and compelling first-person stories, the authors take readers through the stages of the healing process.
Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih - 1966
It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of childhood—the enigmatic Mustafa Sa’eed. Mustafa takes the young man into his confidence, telling him the story of his own years in London, of his brilliant career as an economist, and of the series of fraught and deadly relationships with European women that led to a terrible public reckoning and his return to his native land.But what is the meaning of Mustafa’s shocking confession? Mustafa disappears without explanation, leaving the young man—whom he has asked to look after his wife—in an unsettled and violent no-man’s-land between Europe and Africa, tradition and innovation, holiness and defilement, and man and woman, from which no one will escape unaltered or unharmed.Season of Migration to the North is a rich and sensual work of deep honesty and incandescent lyricism. In 2001 it was selected by a panel of Arab writers and critics as the most important Arab novel of the twentieth century.
Nada
Carmen Laforet - 1944
Loosely based on the author’s own life, it is the story of an orphaned young woman who leaves her small town to attend university in war-ravaged Barcelona.Residing amid genteel poverty in a mysterious house on Calle de Aribau, young Andrea falls in with a wealthy band of schoolmates who provide a rich counterpoint to the squalor of her home life. As experience overtakes innocence, Andrea gradually learns the disquieting truth about the people she shares her life with: her overbearing and superstitious aunt Angustias; her nihilistic yet artistically gifted uncle Román and his violent brother Juan; and Juan’s disturbingly beautiful wife, Gloria, who secretly supports the clan with her gambling. From existential crisis to a growing maturity and resolve, Andrea’s passionate inner journey leaves her wiser, stronger, and filled with hope for the future.The incomparable Edith Grossman’s vital new translation captures the feverish energy of Laforet’s magnificent story, showcasing its dark, powerful imagery, and its subtle humor. And Mario Vargas Llosa’s Introduction illuminates Laforet’s brilliant depiction of life during the early days of the Franco regime. With crystalline insight into the human condition, Carmen Laforet’s classic novel stands poised to reclaim its place as one of the great novels of twentieth-century Europe.
Emotion & Relationships
Sadhguru - 2018
An absolute clarity of perception places him in a unique space in not only matters spiritual but in business, environmental and international affairs and opens a new door on all that he touches.
The Third Life Of Grange Copeland
Alice Walker - 1970
Grange Copeland is a black tenant farmer who is forced to leave his land and family in search of a better future. He heads North but discovers that the racism and poverty he experienced in the South are, in fact, everywhere. When he returns to Georgia years later he finds that his son Brownfield has been imprisoned for the murder of his wife. But hope comes in the form of the third generation as the guardian of the couple's youngest daughter, Grange Copeland, who glimpses a chance of both spiritual and social freedom.
Lady in the Water: A Bedtime Story
M. Night Shyamalan - 2006
Full color.
Bad Princess: True Tales from Behind the Tiara
Kris Waldherr - 2018
Welcome to Bad Princess by Kris Waldherr (author of Doomed Queens), where you'll discover what really happens after "Happily Ever After." From the war-torn Dark Ages of Medieval Europe to America's Gilded Age, and all the way up to Kate Middleton, Bad Princess explores more than 30 true princess stories, going beyond the glitz and glamour to find out what life was really like for young royals throughout history. A mix of royal biography, pop culture, art, style, and pure fun, Bad Princess is a whip-smart, tongue-in-cheek spin on the traditional princess narrative, proving that it takes more than a pretty crown to be a great leader.
All Our Yesterdays
Natalia Ginzburg - 1952
Set against the backdrop of Italy between 1939 to 1944 - the months of anxiety before the country entered the war, through to the tension following the Allied victory - "All Our Yesterdays" follows the lives of two families during the period of great turbulence.
Year of Goodbyes
Phoenix - 2021
It has been 6 years since she left, but nothing much has changed, except her. Memories of the past came flooding in like an avalanche in her brain. . . Arabella is going home for the first time in 6 years to take care of her mother. Her mother knows she is bringing her 5 year old daughter with her, they have never met, but her BFF and the BFF's brother and parents have no idea she has a child. There is a good reason, at least Belle thinks it is good, as to why she up and left the summer after she graduated from high school not telling anyone. She has been in contact with her mother the past 6 years, has gotten a teaching degree and has been raising her daughter as a single mother.Characters: Arabella "Belle" - heroineSophie - Belle's daughterAgnes - Belle's motherCollette - Belle's BFFLiam - Collette's brotherMr & Mrs Jones - Collette and Liam's parentsTim - Collette's fianceThe book is availabkle from DREAME.COM The fiorst 8 chapters are free then there is a cost to unlock the remaining chapters.The Epilogue to the book was written in 2021. Not sure when the rest was written.
100 Quotes to Make You Think!
Wolfgang Riebe - 2010
100 Quotes compiled by Wolfgang Riebe authors to make you think about the meaning of life.