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Reasons to Stay Alive / Notes on a Nervous Planet
Matt Haig
He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again.A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons to Stay Alive is more than a memoir. It is a book about making the most of your time on earth. Notes on a Nervous Planet: Looking at sleep, news, social media, addiction, work and play, Matt Haig invites us to feel calmer, happier and to question the habits of the digital age. This book might even change the way you spend your precious time on earth.
Peanuts: Volume One #1
Charles M. Schulz - 2012
Now Snoopy and the gang are back in monthly comic books with an all new #1 issue! The series kicks off with new original stories seen here for the first time along with some of your favorite classic Peanuts Sundays strips. Featuring a cover by Charles Schulz himself! Don't miss Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of Charles Schulz's timeless characters every month at KABOOM!
Master English FAST: An Uncommon Guide to Speaking Extraordinary English
Julian Northbrook - 2017
If you’re struggling to learn English and speak it well in your work, business, teaching or daily life this is the book for you."Master English FAST – An Uncommon Guide to Speaking Extraordinary English", by Dr Julian Northbrook, will get you started on the right track by showing you step-by-step what to do as an intermediate or advanced English learner to speak English as a second language at a very high level.This is Julian's most complete and comprehensive guide on the topic and is the recommended starting point for all of his English improvement books.
Berlin Express Level 4 Intermediate
Michael Austen - 2010
At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Hiro, a 20-year-old Japanese student, sits next to an old man on a train to Berlin. By mistake they exchange phones and read each other's text messages. Hiro believes that the man's messages show that he is going to Berlin to kill someone. Hiro's first day in the city is a race against time as he tries to warn people of an assassination plot. But is the plot real or does it exist only in Hiro's imagination? Paperback-only version. Also available as a pack with 2 Audio CDs with complete text recordings from the book.
The Park
Gail Schimmel - 2017
Rebecca doesn’t expect to make new friends at this stage of her life. But when she becomes mother to little Amy, she finds herself spending her afternoons in the park. There she meets other mothers: first flamboyant, fun Rose, and then single-mom Lilith, whose inner strength is tangible, and whose eyes never leave her toddler.Very soon the women have formed a trio – the type of friends who feel at home in each other’s kitchens – and their daughters begin to behave like sisters. But Rebecca is about to learn that friendship is not always what it seems, and that sometimes you trust the wrong people. At exactly the moment when she needs to lean on them, one of her new friends harbours a shocking secret, and the other will turn on her in a way she could never have anticipated. Her two park friends will change Rebecca’s life – and her family – forever.
Listen to My Heartbeat
Prajnaa
He did not speak. He just kept looking into my eyes without as much as a blink."And then...?" he said, in his arrogant voice. "You want to be my girlfriend next?"Merge yourself in the world of... Aryan, Trisha, Rohan, Danny and Aysha.An inescapable story of love and tears that gets your heartbeat racing.
Crash in Love
M.V. Kasi - 2020
But being stranded on a deserted island with a pampered heiress who hates his guts due to their past is far different from leading men or fighting wars.Sameera hates the arrogant man who broke her heart in the past. But when the business trip she was ordered to go ends up in a terrifying crash, she has no choice but to stay close to the jerk until rescue.Sparks fly during their forced nearness as Veer's barking orders are met with Sameera's defiant arguments. Angry fights soon turn into angry kisses and then more... Will they go their separate ways after rescue? Or will they realize there is much more to their relationship than just angry passion?CRASH IN LOVE is a standalone enemies-to-lovers romance.
A Notchmas Carol: An unofficial Minecraft holiday story inspired by Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
Dr. Block - 2015
But greedy, selfish villager Ebenezer Scrooge could care less. That is, until he is visited by strange and terrifying creatures who teach him the true meaning of Notchmas. Inspired by the beloved classic, A Christmas Carol, this book tells Minecraft fans the story of a bitter old miser villager named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the spirit of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Hostile Mobs of Notchmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. A great Christmas or birthday gift for your favorite Minecraft fan!
I'm All Yours: She will definitely make him believe in love
Madhumitha Lakshamanan - 2017
She was a Chennaiite and was working as a Chartered Accountant. Her life was like a bed of roses until the day when her marriage was arranged with a complete stranger. But who is the man? Does he even deserve Shakthi? Leading their lives separately for years together, what will happen when they are put to live under one roof? Will they try and make their marriage work? What is it that doesn't allow them? In the process of making her husband believe in love, will she lose her faith in love? To know more, read I'm All Yours
Pregnant With the Sheik's Heir (The Abbot Sisters Book 2)
Elizabeth Lennox - 2020
Irritated, she tried to ignore the magnetic pull of the tall, powerfully built man, assuming he was a con artist. But the attraction was there and she couldn’t stay away. So despite the freakish Abbot fertility that had caused her family so many problems over the years, Rayne succumbed to one night of passion, sure that there would be no consequences. She was wrong! Kular bin Faris, Sheik of Glidar, was delighted with the blue eyed red-head, entranced by her saucy replies and amused when she mistook him for a common thief. He wanted more than just one night of passion with the saucy minx, but by the time he woke the following morning, the lovely Rayne was gone. He knew that she was the woman for him. But he had to find her in order to convince her of that!
The Bhairav Putras
Suhail Mathur - 2014
With events that unease, shock, and violate the sentiments and emotions of the townsfolk, one man - Keshav, the young & dynamic son of the local Zamindar, cautiously gathers a group of men from different walks of life and with different motives, and carefully and strategically plans the unthinkable, a revolution-a revolution to overthrow the Britishers not just by force or might, but also through wit & intellect!What happens when a group of men take on the might of the powerful British empire and embark on a journey full of action, adventure, planning, plotting, bloodshed, conspiracy & patriotism, to encounter four mysterious strangers, while in search of a long forgotten book written in the times of Emperor Ashoka, which holds the answer to several secrets, who turn & alter the course of the future events, even as the English are besieged with numerous problems ranging from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, to Gandhi's ways & means of achieving Independence. Read on THE BHAIRAVA PUTRAS to know more about the classic and legendary tale of a band of men who defied the norms to fight guns, bullets, injustice, deception, and intrigue at every corner of their adventurous and thrilling escapades, to uproot the centre hold of dominance & authority, through mountainous terrains, dense & thick jungles, secret hide outs, and rivers in spate; which unfortunately got lost, somewhere in the annals of History !
Family Feeling
Judith Saxton - 1987
Hywel Fletcher was born the day his father was killed in the pit, and is bitterly resented by his mother. And Huw Pettigrew is the much-loved and hard-working eldest child in a respected working family. Dot and Hywel dream of a contented future caring for their land, while Huw's dreams are more like nightmare . . . Yet when tragedy strikes it is Huw's vision which brings the three together and gives each of them, in the end, their heart's desire.
Making Connections Level 3 Teacher's Manual: Skills and Strategies for Academic Reading
Kenneth J. Pakenham - 2013
Making Connections Third edition Level 3 Teacher's Manual contains teaching suggestions for each activity type as well as a complete answer key. Photocopiable unit tests contain additional thematic readings and assess how well students have learned the unit's reading skills and the unit's target vocabulary.