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Shyness is often misunderstood. It's not a personality flaw, it's a complex trait with many positive aspects. However, shyness means many kids struggle to speak up in class, get involved in activities, make friends, put themselves forward and compete. As a result they can miss out on exciting opportunities, and are often overlooked, ignored and side-lined...but it doesn't have to be this way. Shy And Mighty offers a new way of looking at the subject that will comfort and reassure shy children and help them overcome the aspects of their shyness that are holding them back.

Poppy Pullman has her life all planned out. Her social media is carefully curated. Her list of extracurriculars is flawless. All so she can achieve her ultimate goal: Stanford. Her best friends say she’s missing out. But Poppy’s playing a long game. And the morning of her Stanford alumni interview, she’s positive everything is going to work out.

El protagonista de esta inquietante novela es un nonagenario llamado Bruno, que, en el ocaso de sus días, yace en la cama obsesionado por las sombras de su pasado y seducido todavía por su principal pasión: las arañas. Desde su lecho, golpeado por los años y la enfermedad, Bruno es como un arácnido que atrapa en la telaraña de su experiencia a todo aquel que de un modo u otro ha tenido relación con él: su distante hijo Miles, su yerno Danby y la amante de este, Adelaide, y los primos gemelos de esta, el vengativo Will y el siniestro Nigel.

Twelve years after the events of The Boys, Hughie finds himself back home in Scotland where he intends to finally marry Annie in the company of friends and family. But the sudden appearance of a peculiar document sends our hero into a tailspin and threatens to bring the events of his nightmarish past crashing down on him in the worst possible way. There was one story about The Boys that Hughie never knew. Now, whether he likes it or not, he's going to.

"Mit barn slog mig i panden med en sten. Mit barn kastede en taburet efter mig. En hammer. En pude. Mit barn slog mig i hovedet. Mit barn slog mig i hovedet. Mit barn slog mig. Sparkede. Slog sit hoved tilbage mod mit hoved. Mit barn ligger i mine arme og sparker mig. Mit barn." SOL er en poetisk fortælling om livet som mor til et barn med autisme. Digtet beskriver familiens liv og hverdag, den indre og ydre smerte, der nager, fordi barnet bliver ved med at slå, og den kærlighed og skønhed, der blomstrer op mellem mor og barn på trods af alle udfordringerne.

Emotions after abortion are unique as fingerprints. But where can women—and their partners and their families—turn if they struggle emotionally after abortion? Complicated feelings, political polarization, and the stigma of abortion often leave those struggle to suffer alone in silence—for years and even decades. If you have complex feelings or are struggling after an abortion experience—or know someone else who is struggling—Changed offers gentle guidance on finding your path to peace, so you can reflect on what’s happened and heal at your own pace.

Written by a group of friends, Seven Holy Women is a one-of-a-kind journey into the lives of seven women saints. Each section of the book includes a story from one saint’s life told vividly and imaginatively in the second person, additional information about the saint to give her context, a reflection on ways the writer, listener, and saint intersect on their journeys, personal surveys for the listener and a friend to complete, and a journal prompt that encourages the listener to explore and document her encounter with themes from the saint’s life.

Do we own it? Being a woman that is. Do we f--k! We live in fear of how we look, what we eat, how we age and what we do. Wow, it's 2022 and we're still churning out that same old shit. I've been told as you get older you care less. F--king great. I can't wait to be menopausal with skunk-like grey track lines in my hair, saggier tits and miserable as shit. I don't know about you, but I'd quite like to have that experience—the no-f--ks-experience that is—now, before that all happens. To have the confidence to believe in who I am.

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) is a science-fiction drama that was first presented in Czech in 1921. It introduced the term "robot", which is derived from a Czech word meaning "worker," to international vocabulary. The action opens in a factory that has successfully produced thousands of robots, who are essentially mindless drones. An idealistic humanitarian activist launches a plan to imbue some of the robots with human traits. The robots which have been humanized then assume leadership over the other robots and seek to organize them in a revolution to take over the world.

Tränen verschleierten ihren Blick, als sie ihm den goldenen Apfel aus der Hand nahm. Der Schein des Feuers spiegelte sich in seiner glänzenden Oberfläche. "Bis bald", flüsterte sie, bevor sie den Mund öffnete und in die Frucht biss. Das Stück blieb ihr im Hals stecken. Sie rang nach Atem, bevor sie die Augen schloss und ihr die Knie wegsackten. Rumpelstilzchen hatte gesagt, dass man Schneewittchen nur in ihren Träumen töten könne. Will betete, dass er recht behielt. Sie durfte nicht tot sein.

Award-winning memoirist Meg Stafford has an adventurous spirit, and this time she takes us along for the ride. When her daughters venture into terra incognita—one of them meditating in the Himalayas and the other negotiating with the Colombian military—Stafford decides to go too. In the process, she reflects on her own lifetime of wanderlust and what it means for a parent to love and to let go. Generous, insightful, and deeply funny, Stafford is the ideal tour guide for a journey as big as the world and as intimate as the human heart.

Communications specialist Alto’s shift aboard the starship M.G. Yellowjacket turns hellish after waking from a tryst to learn every crewmate has vanished. Worse, a sinister presence has crawled aboard the ship. It’s violent, destructive, and it can reach into your thoughts to make you see and feel what it wants. Anxiety-ridden Alto might be the least-qualified person to face a creature that can hack minds like computers. Only a perilous journey to the ship’s bridge can reunite comms specialist with crew and give them a chance to call for help.

Regel Nr. 1 für einen Urlaub mit Freunden: Verlieb dich nie in den Gastgeber! Ein Sommer in den Hamptons, das klingt nach Strand, Eiscreme und Badevergnügen. Die Realität, in der Anna im Urlaub mit der Familie ihrer Schwester und deren Freunden gelandet ist, sieht leider anders aus. Annas Urlaubsbegleiter zanken über alles: ob die Kinder beim Essen fernsehen dürfen, ob rohe Zucchini giftig und Pools gefährlich sind. Allein ihr Gastgeber, der attraktive Bestseller-Autor Kilian Brand, hält sich aus allem heraus.

El café para todos debe desaparecer de la escuela, porque nuestras clases son tan diversas como la sociedad en la que vivimos. Si como adultos nos dedicamos a las ocupaciones más variopintas, ¿por qué nos empeñamos en enseñar del mismo modo y los mismos contenidos a todos los alumnos?

On the Navajo reservation, a man is found dead at the bottom of a canyon. The tribal police have ruled it an accident. People close to the man don’t believe it, so medium Sam Firecloud and his partner, Lacey Fitzpatrick, are called in to investigate. When Sam’s psychic “walk” confirms the worst fears, the clues lead him and Lacey forward, but the twisted path to the truth turns deadly when it seems the Earth itself is trying to kill them.

In this second edition, with revised and expanded content, we look at some of the big questions around faith and how you can begin to understand them. This book is designed to help you understand your faith and some of your own questions. It is also designed to help you engage in conversations with others about faith around these difficult questions. This book is written for Christians, and is also helpful for someone looking to understand a Christian worldview.

This is the 12th book in a series called Limericks for Meditation. It is a collection of 100 poems numbered 1,101 to 1,200. These poems explore my relationship with myself, others, and God at emotional, psychological, and spiritual levels.

When Jennifer goes up to Cambridge University with her head full of the Romantic Poets, she never dreams that she will find her very own Byron. But then she meets gorgeous actor Laurie Lewis, and finds herself living a real-life love poem. Fifteen years and two children later, Jennifer and Laurie's relationship is starting to feel more like an epic tragedy. After a series of revelations turn her world upside down, Jennifer will do anything to keep her family together—even if it means moving hundreds of miles away to Laurie's childhood home in Westenbury, Yorkshire.

Las ventas de biografías de personajes notorios y famosos son el principal negocio de Ediciones Plutarco. Presidente, premios Nobel, actrices de Hollywood, presentadores de televisión llenan las bibliotecas de millones de lectores. Es por este motivo que Ediciones Plutarco ha decidido innovar en su industria. Ediciones Plutarco encarga las biografías de los que aún no son notorios, pero que en un momento del futuro lo van a ser. El Biógrafo que trabaja para Ediciones Plutarco sigue la vida de su biografiado al minuto. Al segundo.

Burma oozes greed, corruption, and hope. When an Air Force X-37B mini-space shuttle mysteriously crash lands along the China-Burma border, the Department of Homeland Security tags contractor Gar Randolph to get it back. India and China deploy special forces to do the same. Gar assembles a most unusual team to find the wreckage and carry its top secret components back to Siam. Included is the last person on earth the US government would want on the mission: a drug lord named Ar Phat. On a converging vector is a missionary nutritionist with six Rohingya orphans.