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The Fork the Witch and the Worm: Erag...
Brief Summary
It's been a year since Eragon departed Alagaësia in search of the perfect home to train a new generation of Dragon Riders.
Now he is struggling with an endless sea of tasks: constructing a vast dragonhold, wrangling with suppliers, guarding dragon eggs and dealing with belligerent Urgals and haughty elves. Then a vision from the Eldunarí, unexpected visitors and an exciting Urgal legend offer a much-needed distraction and a new perspective.
This volume features three original stories set in Alagaësia, interspersed with scenes from Eragon's own unfolding adventure. Included is an excerpt from the memoir of the unforgettable witch and fortune-teller Angela the herbalist, penned by Angela Paolini, the inspiration for the character, herself!
Relish the incomparable imagination of Christopher Paolini in this thrilling new collection of stories based in the world of the Inheritance Cycle.
Pocket Prayer Mat – Muslim Port...
Key Features
- Arch shaped design- this prayer mat has been specially designed with a non-slip underside for safe use on smooth flooring and an added cushioning layer for extra comfort.
- Comes with a small compass - comes with a compass and Instruction manual, you can always find the correct direction. Great as a gift for a friend, family, or anyone that appreciates prayer and an aesthetic rug.
- Perfect Size- Not too big and not too small, perfect size for any room in your house. Size: 1000×600mm / 3.28 x 1.96foot, Color: Black, Blue, light Green, Dark Green, Red, light weight, easy to fold and carry with zip. Four triangular iron sheet adds stabilization and avoids wind blows away the carpet.
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
Brief Summary
It all started at a dinner party. . .
A domestic suspense debut about a young couple and their apparently friendly neighbors--a twisty, rollercoaster ride of lies, betrayal, and the secrets between husbands and wives. . .
Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all--a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately focuses on the parents. But the truth is a much more complicated story.
Inside the curtained house, an unsettling account of what actually happened unfolds. Detective Rasbach knows that the panicked couple is hiding something. Both Anne and Marco soon discover that the other is keeping secrets, secrets they've kept for years.
What follows is the nerve-racking unraveling of a family--a chilling tale of deception, duplicity, and unfaithfulness that will keep you breathless until the final shocking twist.
My Body is all Mine by Jocelyn Akinyi
Brief Summary
Ruby is a child with a bright future like most children her age. Her parents are very loving but unfortunately, just like most parents, they have to go to work and fend for the family. Her mother has a younger brother who just graduated from the university. Since he has not yet found a job, he is the one left to take care of Ruby.
The family trusts him to bath the child among other responsibilities. He takes advantage of this trust and starts using the games they always play to abuse her sexually. Luckily, he did not get the opportunity to actually rape her, thanks to her teacher.
The teacher noticed that the usually bubbly Ruby is awfully quiet and aloof. She calls the mom who gets the truth out of Ruby. She takes her for medical check-up and takes legal action against her brother. Uncle Tommy is arrested ad Ruby's safety restored.
Ruby's school takes it upon itself to teach the pupils about child sexual abuse. A child sexuality educator is invited. The children are carefully taken through it.
What will they learn?
From this book, your child will be introduced to the concept of childd sexual abuse. They will understand what sexual abuse entails. They also get to know the difference between public and private body parts.
Also, they get to know the difference between safe and unsafe touches. The underwear rule is emphasized. Most importantly, they get to learn how to report sexual abuse. Your child is introduced to the concept of bodily autonomy, body autonomy, respect, and consent as early as possible.
This book was inspired by the recent increase in child sexual abuse cases globally. It is my prayer that all children get a copy of this wonderful book. They're the ones affected so it's time to empower and equip them.
The book is suitable for children from the age on 3 +
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84
In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances.
To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist’s home, and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors. A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art—as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby—Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.
Al-Farabi Founder of Islamic Neoplato...
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Al-Farabi, Founder of Islamic Neoplatonism: His Life, Works and Influence.
The only comprehensive introduction to al-Farabi - the first Islamic philosopher to translate the works of Plato and Aristotle. This new survey from a leading scholar documents the philosopher's life, writings and achievements.
City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong...
A long-term resident and expert observer of dissent in Hong Kong takes readers to the front lines of Hong Kong’s revolution.
Through the long, hot summer of 2019, Hong Kong burned. Anti-government protests, sparked by a government proposal to introduce a controversial extradition law, grew into a pro-democracy movement that engulfed the city for months. Protesters fought street battles with police, and the unrest brought the People’s Liberation Army to the very doorstep of Hong Kong. Driven primarily by students and youth protesters with their ‘Be Water!’ philosophy, borrowed from hometown hero Bruce Lee, this leaderless, technology-driven protest movement defied a global superpower and changed Hong Kong, perhaps forever. But it also changed China, and challenged China’s global standing.
Antony Dapiran provides the first detailed account of the protests, reveals the activists’ unique tactics, and explains how the movement fits into the city’s long history of dissent. City on Fire explores what the protests will mean for the future of Hong Kong, China, and China’s place in the world.
Think Again: The Power of Knowing Wha...
We need to spend as much time rethinking as we do thinking.
Why do we refresh our wardrobes every year, renovate our kitchens every decade, but never update our beliefs and our views? Why do we laugh at people using computers that are ten years old, but yet still cling to opinions we formed ten years ago?
For too many of us, our ways of thinking become habits that we don't bother to question, and mental laziness leads us to prefer the ease of old routines to the difficulty of new ones. We fail to update the beliefs we formed in the past for the challenges we face in the present. But in a rapidly changing world, we need to spend as much time rethinking as we do thinking. Think Again is a book about the benefit of doubt, and about how we can get better at embracing the unknown and the joy of being wrong. Evidence has shown that creative geniuses are not attached to one identity, but constantly willing to rethink their stances and that leaders who admit they don't know something and seek critical feedback lead more productive and innovative teams.
New evidence shows us that as a mindset and a skill set, rethinking can be taught and Grant explains how to develop the necessary qualities to do it. Section 1 explores why we struggle to think again and how we can learn to do it as individuals, arguing that 'grit' alone can actually be counterproductive. Section 2 discusses how we can help others think again through learning about 'argument literacy'. And the final section 3 looks at how schools, businesses and governments fall short in building cultures that encourage rethinking.
In the end, learning to rethink may be the secret skill to give you the edge in a world changing faster than ever.
Creative Confidence by Tom Kelley and...
Brief Summary
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All.
IDEO founder and Stanford d.school creator David Kelley and his brother Tom Kelley, IDEO partner and the author of the bestselling The Art of Innovation, have written a powerful and compelling book on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us.
Too often, companies and individuals assume that creativity and innovation are the domain of the "creative types." But two of the leading experts in innovation, design, and creativity on the planet show us that each and every one of us is creative. In an incredibly entertaining and inspiring narrative that draws on countless stories from their work at IDEO, the Stanford school, and with many of the world's top companies, David and Tom Kelley identify the principles and strategies that will allow us to tap into our creative potential in our work lives, and in our personal lives, and allow us to innovate in terms of how we approach and solve problems. It is a book that will help each of us be more productive and successful in our lives and in our careers.
Greenlights: Raucous stories and outl...
From the Academy Award winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.
I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.
Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life's challenges - how to get relative with the inevitable - you can enjoy a state of success I call 'catching greenlights.'
So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.
Hopefully, it's medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot's license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.
It's a love letter. To life.
It's also a guide to catching more greenlights-and to realising that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.
Good luck.
The perfect nine: the epic of Gikuyu ...
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A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse, from the author Delia Owens says “tackles the absurdities, injustices, and corruption of a continent”
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s novels and memoirs have received glowing praise from the likes of President Barack Obama, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, and NPR; he has been a finalist for the Man International Booker Prize and is annually tipped to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; and his books have sold tens of thousands of copies around the world.
In his first attempt at the epic form, Ngũgĩ tells the story of the founding of the Gĩkũyũ people of Kenya, from a strongly feminist perspective. A verse narrative, blending folklore, mythology, adventure, and allegory, The Perfect Nine chronicles the efforts the Gĩkũyũ founders make to find partners for their ten beautiful daughters—called “The Perfect Nine” —and the challenges they set for the 99 suitors who seek their hands in marriage. The epic has all the elements of adventure, with suspense, danger, humor, and sacrifice.
Ngũgĩ’s epic is a quest for the beautiful as an ideal of living, as the motive force behind migrations of African peoples. He notes, “The epic came to me one night as a revelation of ideals of quest, courage, perseverance, unity, family; and the sense of the divine, in human struggles with nature and nurture.”
Beauty for Ashes by Joyce Meyer
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Learn how God's grace can help you heal from emotional wounds and abuse in this spiritually uplifting guide to living a beautiful, healing, and fulfilling life.
Many people seem to have it all together outwardly, but inside they are a wreck. Their past has broken, crushed, and wounded them inwardly. They can be healed. God has a plan, and Isaiah 61 reveals that the Lord came to heal the brokenhearted. He wants to heal victims of abuse and emotional wounding.
Joyce Meyer is a victim of the physical, mental, emotional, and sexual abuse she suffered as a child. Yet today she has a nationwide ministry of emotional healing to others like herself. In Beauty for Ashes she outlines major truths that brought healing in her life and describes how other victims of abuse can also experience God's healing in their lives. You will learn:
- How to Deal with the Emotional Pain of Abuse
- How to Understand Your Responsibility to God for Overcoming Abuse
- Why Victims of Abuse Often Suffer from Other Addictive Behaviors
- How to Grab Hold of God's Unconditional Love
- The Importance of God's Timing in Working Through Painful Memories.
Unstuffed Decluttering Workbook by Ju...
Brief Summary
Letting go of all the stuff we accumulate is never easy, even when those things no longer serve their purpose or bring you joy. Unstuffed is a guided workbook that seeks to ease the anxiety and overwhelm that comes with decluttering and will ensure that when you do, there are long lasting effects.
It will become your go-to resource for learning how to declutter your physical living space, your mental and emotional space the right way.
With a few practical steps you will learn how to declutter properly, avoid re-cluttering and more importantly how to create organizing systems in your space that will work for you.
How Democracy Ends by David Runciman
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Since the end of World War II, democracy's sweep across the globe seemed inexorable. Yet today, it seems radically imperiled, even in some of the world's most stable democracies. How bad could things get?
In How Democracy Ends, David Runciman argues that we are trapped in outdated twentieth-century ideas of democratic failure. By fixating on coups and violence, we are focusing on the wrong threats. Our societies are too affluent, too elderly, and too networked to fall apart as they did in the past. We need new ways of thinking the unthinkable -- a twenty-first-century vision of the end of democracy, and whether its collapse might allow us to move forward to something better.
A provocative book by a major political philosopher, How Democracy Ends asks the most trenchant questions that underlie the disturbing patterns of our contemporary political life.
Visitations: Conversations with the G...
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"This book is a fictionalized narration of real experience. The Chairman in this compelling story is Dr. John Garang de Mabior, the late leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement and Army, and the Narrator is Dr. Francis Mading Deng.
The two developed a friendship grounded in their shared passion about the challenges facing their people in then Sudan, now in the independent Republic of South Sudan.
The fictional narrator was recovering from surgery, when a strong pain-killing drug triggered hallucination that ushered in the recollections narrated in this factionalized documentation of real experiences"--
Solving Problems KCSE Mathematics Pap...
Brief Summary
KCSE Mathematics Paper 2 contains a total of 672 questions in 28 KCSE model examination papers. It is divided into three parts:
Part one contains 10 solved KCSE model examination papers with a full marking scheme. In the marking scheme, alongside each solved question, the type of mark and the reason for awarding that mark is given at the stage where the mark matures. This is intended to instil the importance of 'method' in working out Mathematics questions.
The Author has selected the simplest method of solving each question. Alternative methods of solving the same questions may exist. Finding these methods has been left out deliberately as a challenge to the reader.
Part two contains 18 unsolved KCSE model examination papers which are set in line with the solved KCSE model examination papers of part one. This is intended to provide the reader with ample practice exercises.
Part three contains answers to the unsolved KCSE model examination papers.
Solving Problems KCSE Mathematics Pap...
Brief Summary
Solving problem. — KCSE Mathematics Paper I contains a total of 672 questions in 28 KCSE model examination papers. It is divided into three parts
Part cam contains 10 solved KCSE model examination papers with a full marking scheme. In the marking scheme, alongside each solved question, the type of mark and the reason for awarding that mark is given at the stage where the mark matures. This is intended to instill the importance of 'method' in working out Mathematics questions. The Author has selected the simplest method of solving each question. Alternative methods of solving the same questions may exist. Finding these methods has been left out deliberately as a challenge to the reader.
Part two contains 18 unsolved KCSE model examination papers which are set in line with the solved KCSE model examination papers of part one. This is intended to provide the reader with ample practice exercises.
Part three contains answers to the unsolved KCSE model examination papers.
Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined V...
Brief Summary
Beneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude—the world’s largest reserves—an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist government controls this vast resource and has used its wealth to foster voter support, ultimately wreaking economic havoc.
Crude Nation reveals the ways in which this mismanagement has led to Venezuela’s economic ruin and turned the country into a cautionary tale for the world. Raúl Gallegos, a former Caracas-based oil correspondent, paints a picture both vivid and analytical of the country’s economic decline, the government’s foolhardy economic policies, and the wrecked lives of Venezuelans.
Without transparency, the Venezuelan government uses oil money to subsidize life for its citizens in myriad unsustainable ways, while regulating nearly every aspect of day-to-day existence in Venezuela. This has created a paradox in which citizens can fill up the tanks of their SUVs for less than one American dollar while simultaneously enduring nationwide shortages of staples such as milk, sugar, and toilet paper. Gallegos’s insightful analysis shows how mismanagement has ruined Venezuela again and again over the past century and lays out how Venezuelans can begin to fix their country, a nation that can play an important role in the global energy industry.
