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Six-year-old Lily hates the constant bullying she suffers daily at school. When her parents finally agree to pull her out and give home school a try, Lily's over the moon. But Daddy has another surprise in store for her: a trip to the local animal shelter. When Rosie meets Lily, the pair become inseparable. But Lily soon learns that's there's more to Rosie than meets the eye. Her special brand of magic not only marks the beginning of a lifelong friendship, but ultimately saves the day in more ways than one.

If the trees or mountains could talk, this is what they would say.

"The meaning of life is the most urgent of questions", said the existentialist thinker Albert Camus. And no less a philosopher than Woody Allen has wondered: "How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?" The essays in Movies and the Meaning of Life look at popular and cult movies, examining their assumptions and insights on meaning-of-life questions....

Paul Shapiro gives you a “captivating” (John Mackey, former CEO of Whole Foods Market) front-row seat for the race to create and commercialize cleaner, safer, sustainable meat—real meat—without the animals. Since the dawn of Homo sapiens some quarter million years ago, animals have...

On January 12, 2010, a major earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Hundreds of thousands of people died, and the greater part of the capital was demolished. Dr. Paul Farmer, U.N. deputy special envoy to Haiti, who had worked in the country for nearly thirty years treating infectious diseases like tuberculosis and AIDS, and former President Bill Clinton, the U.N. special envoy to Haiti, had just begun to work on an extensive development plan to improve living conditions in Haiti.

Il est de bon ton, à notre époque, d'affirmer qu'il ne faut vivre que de ses passions...

Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of J.S. Mill in just one hour. John Stuart Mill is remembered today as the leading exponent of Utilitarianism, arguing that our aim in life must be the attainment of pleasure and the minimizing of pain for the majority of...

Winnie the Witch lives in a black house. She has black chairs and black stairs, black floors and black doors. Winnie's cat, Wilbur, is black, too. And that is how the trouble begins! This is the ultimate collection by the creators of Winnie and Wilbur, Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul, featuring a wealth of stories.

"Peu importait le fond pour Guylain. Seul l'acte de lire revêtait de l'importance à ses yeux. Il débitait les textes avec une même application acharnée. Et à chaque fois, la magie opérait. Les mots en quittant ses lèvres emportaient avec eux un peu de cet écœurement qui l'étouffait à l'approche de l'usine." Employé discret, Guylain Vignolles travaille au pilon, au service d'une redoutable broyeuse de livres invendus, la Zerstor 500.

Ich wünsche mir... ein spannendes Sams, ein witziges Sams, ein funkelnagelneues Sams! Hätte Martin Taschenbier das Sams und die Sams-Rückholtropfen bloß nicht mit auf seine Klassenreise genommen! Denn sein Lehrer stiehlt die Tropfen und eignet sich das Sams an. Aber das geht nicht so einfach, denn das Sams gehört nun mal zur Familie Taschenbier. Wünscht sich jemand anders etwas von ihm, haben seine Wünsche unerwartete Nebenwirkungen.

In The Jealousy Cure, renowned psychologist Robert L. Leahy takes a nuanced approach to tackling feelings of jealousy. In this compelling book, you’ll uncover the evolutionary origins of jealousy, and how and why it’s served to help us as a species. You’ll also learn practices based in emotional schema theory, cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and mindfulness to help you overcome the shame jealousy can bring, improve communication with your partner, and ultimately make room for jealousy while also making your relationship more meaningful.

An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall off in great chunks, showering him with a lifetime of debris: newspaper clippings, old photographs, wool jackets, rusty tools, and the mangled brass works of antique clocks. Soon, the clouds from the sky above plummet down on top of him, followed by the stars, till the black night covers him like a shroud. He is hallucinating.

Una de las novelas clave para entender a Paul Auster cuando se cumplen 20 años de su publicación. Una mirada tan dura como hermosa de la naturaleza humana a través de los ojos de un perro callejero. Cuando Mister Bones, un perro callejero de gran inteligencia, se encuentra con Willy G...

La tercera entrega de la magistral La trilogía de Nueva York. Con la misteriosa desaparición de Fanshawe, amigo de la infancia del narrador de la historia, éste recibe la extraña petición de decidir cuál de los manuscritos que Fanshawe escribió a lo largo de los años es merecedor de ser...

Nel novembre 1838 da una cella della certosa abbandonata di Valldemossa, fra le montagne che circondano Palma di Maiorca, si diffondono le note di un "pianino". Non sono note qualsiasi: sono quelle che completeranno i ventiquattro "Preludi" di Frédéric Chopin, opera cardine del Romanticismo. Non è stato possibile trovare uno strumento migliore sull'isola, ma quel piccolo pianoforte, costruito da un artigiano locale, fatto di legno dolce, ferro, rame, feltro e avorio, avrà una grande vita.

From legendary wrestling announcer Jim Ross, this candid, colorful memoir about the inner workings of the WWE and the personal crises he weathered at the height of his career is “a must-read for wrestling fans” (Charleston Post Courier). If you’ve caught a televised wrestling match anytime...

This program is read by the author. "Man in the Dark is an undoubted pleasure to read. Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter." —Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books From Paul Auster, a "literary original" (Wall Street Journal) comes a novel that forces us to confront the...

In Being Right Is Not Enough, political analyst Paul Waldman offers Democrats and progressives a clear-eyed, multifaceted strategy for victory in elections, policy debates, and the fundamental battle between progressivism and conservatism. The time has come, he says, for progressives to borrow several pages from the right-wing playbook and beat them at their own game. The book outlines an exhaustive list of things progressives must do, and do soon.

The inspiration for the 2006 Warner Bros. film, Poseidon, Paul Gallico's The Poseidon Adventure is an intense and dramatic story about a gigantic ocean liner and its unimaginable final journey. When a rogue wave capsizes the luxury cruise ship, a small group of survivors find themselves unlikely...

Die Ereignisse in Smokestack spitzen sich zu. Während Solomon Crompton einen Staatsputsch auf das britische Empire verübt, zeigt sich endlich, ob der Plan des Meisterdiebs Wayne McLair Früchte tragen wird. Seine Mitstreiter tun alles, um das große Ziel zu erreichen: den Schatz der Iron Rose. Doch was sie auf ihrem Weg dahin entdecken, mag noch hundertfach bedeutsamer sein. Es ist eine alte Erfindung von Abraham Whittaker, das schwarze Licht, oder auch Nigrum lux.