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Boo! When My Sister Died

by Richa Jha and Gautam Benegal

When Noorie’s sister Zoya dies, everything in Noorie’s world becomes silent. She knows her sister has gone forever. But what’s with Mummy’s silly lies that Zoya will always be around, by their side? And what is she to do about Zoya’s best friend Dhara, who just won’t leave Noorie alone? Boo! When My Sister Died is a story about finding strength in love and loss. Gautam Benegal blends a playful watercolour and wash-style with a somber digital crosshatch to bring together warmth in the memories of the sisters’ togetherness and the intensity of Noorie’s grief. Richa Jha’s spare and simple text keeps the story poignant, believable, and full of hope.

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Children's & YA

October 2021

A tale about two brothers and a sister

by Dara Kornii

The World was beautiful and happy then. There was no hatred, malice, or envy. The earth gave birth generously, the sun shone gently, the sky poured with a bountiful rain, and children grew in harmony with nature. The Creator admired his beloved creation. Two brothers, Morok and Zhytnyk, and the youngest sister Veselka grew up in one glorious family. They were beautiful children, generously gifted with talents. Everything changed when one of the brothers wanted to feel like God and shed the first innocent blood. And the other brother did not stop him. Evil, envy, hatred, and temptation entered the World. The Creator knew in advance how everything would end for this World and decided to destroy people. But not everything is so simple, because this is a fairy tale. Who or what saved people from death? Why is it so important to value other people's lives, love the land you walk on, and reject temptations, even if they promise you omnipotence?

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Mind, Body, Spirit

MEDITATION

Intimate Experiences with the Divine through Contemplative Practices

by Sister Dr. Jenna

Activate Your Inner Power Through Meditation Contemplate the intimate journey of coming home to yourself as Sister Dr. Jenna and selected sacred storytellers share their true, personal stories about meditation as a gateway into the mystical. Learn how listening to your inner silence can help you overcome life obstacles, reclaim your spiritual power, and immerse in the presence of the Divine. Acclaimed spiritual mentor Sister Dr. Jenna expands the concept of meditation to the highest level—from simple relaxation to ecstatic union with Source. Her wisdom will enhance your understanding of the value of contemplative practices, what happens when you turn within, and how it develops your capacity for selfless service. Experience greater depth in your prayerful moments by removing blocks to the process and dropping into the essence of pure Love. This inner transformation will infuse your daily life with more joy, compassion, maturity, and peace. MEDITATION will inspire you to open your doorway to the Divine.

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Children's & YA

The Slope of Sisters

China Story Picture Books

by Lu Mei

China Story Picture Books is the first set of children's picture books launched by the Bingxin Award Committee. This set of books covers the works of seven Bingxin Award-winning writers of different ages including children's literature masters and promising young writers. The illustrations are full of traditional Chinese cultural elements such as dragon lantern dance, paper cutting, oil paper umbrella, and bamboo. Powerful painters at home and abroad are invited to do illustrations, which brings interesting fusion and collision of Chinese and foreign cultures to the books. In addition to the original illustrations, the stories are more touching. Every child can harvest the courage and wisdom for growing up from these stories. The series consists of 7 picture books: The Dragon Lantern, The Path of Golden Flowers, The Child in Three-Story Attic, The School Day Gifts, The Secret of Crossing, The Slope of Sisters. The Slope of Sisters tells a story of meeting childhood self. Xiaomei incarnated a waterblue dragonfly she met in her childhood. She flied over large fields with wheat waves and the childhood hillside full of broad bean flowers, and recalled the summer vacation she spent with her sister in her childhood when her sister firmly said: "You should learn to be strong and don't cry."

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May 2018

Dragon Child Bundle (Bände 1-3)

by Omphalius, Ruth

***Alle drei Bände der magischen Drachenfantasy im Bundle*** Entfache das Feuer in dir! Sophie hat mit Übergewicht zu kämpfen, wird in der Schule gemobbt und kann sich nicht einmal gegen ihren kleinen Bruder durchsetzen. Am liebsten zieht sie sich mit einem guten Buch von der Welt zurück und hofft, im besten Fall einfach übersehen zu werden. Doch all das ändert sich schlagartig, als sich ihre unterdrückte Wut eines Tages in einem markerschütternden Schrei entlädt, Feuer und Verwüstung um sich greifen und Sophie in bizarre Träume abgleitet: hoch in der Luft schwebend über dem Haus ihrer Eltern oder auf der Flucht vor schaurigen Vogelwesen. Selbst dem coolsten Mädchen der Klasse, Melissa, fallen die Veränderungen auf und sie beginnt Sophie auszuspionieren. Weder Melissa noch Sophie ahnen jedoch, wie groß und lebensbedrohlich das Geheimnis, dem sie auf der Spur sind, tatsächlich ist. Dieses Bundle enthält alle drei Teile der fantastisch-magischen Dragon Child Serie: - Dragon Child 1: Das Erwachen - Dragon Child 2: Die Rebellion - Dragon Child 3: Die Allianz

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Food & Drink

Baby, It's Mealtime!

by Xizi

This creative baby food recipe book features detailed illustrations and instructions for dozens of inventive baby meals. The author skillfully transforms common ingredients into adorable and nutritious dishes, such as cartoon rice balls, fancy noodles, and decorative fruit purees. These beautifully designed, playful meals will enhance your baby's appetite and make mealtime a delightful experience.

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Literature & Literary Studies

February 2023

Imagining the Irish child

Discourses of childhood in Irish Anglican writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

by Jarlath Killeen

This book examines the ways in which ideas about children, childhood and Ireland changed together in Irish Protestant writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It focuses on different varieties of the child found in the work of a range of Irish Protestant writers, theologians, philosophers, educationalists, politicians and parents from the early seventeenth century up to the outbreak of the 1798 Rebellion. The book is structured around a detailed examination of six 'versions' of the child: the evil child, the vulnerable/innocent child, the political child, the believing child, the enlightened child, and the freakish child. It traces these versions across a wide range of genres (fiction, sermons, political pamphlets, letters, educational treatises, histories, catechisms and children's bibles), showing how concepts of childhood related to debates about Irish nationality, politics and history across these two centuries.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2017

Child, nation, race and empire

Child rescue discourse, England, Canada and Australia, 1850–1915

by Margot Hillel, Shurlee Swain, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

Child, nation, race and empire is an innovative, inter-disciplinary, cross cultural study that contributes to understandings of both contemporary child welfare practices and the complex dynamics of empire. It analyses the construction and transmission of nineteenth-century British child rescue ideology. Locating the origins of contemporary practice in the publications of the prominent English Child rescuers, Dr Barnardo, Thomas Bowman Stephenson, Benjamin Waugh, Edward de Montjoie Rudolf and their colonial disciples and literature written for children, it shows how the vulnerable body of the child at risk came to be reconstituted as central to the survival of nation, race and empire. Yet, as the shocking testimony before the many official enquiries into the past treatment of children in out-of-home 'care' held in Britain, Ireland, Australia and Canada make clear, there was no guarantee that the rescued child would be protected from further harm.

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March 1971

Wozu Literatur?

Reden und Essays

by Robert Minder, Robert Minder

In einer Kritik über Robert Minders Buch Dichter in der Gesellschaft hieß es: »Madame de Staël hat Deutschland für die Franzosen entdeckt; Robert Minder hingegen entdeckt Deutschland für uns Deutsche.« Die Essays dieses Bandes, drei Reden, ein Text über Döblin und eine weitgespannte Analyse von Lesebüchern, zeigen Verflechtungen und Verschiedenheiten von Literatur. In den Lesebüchern selbst dürftiger Zeiten bestätigt sich Robert Minder (geboren am 23. 8. 1902 im Elsaß, gestorben am 10. 9. 1980 in Cannes) die Durchhaltekraft literarischer Texte. Literatur hat Zukunft; in ihren besten Beispielen repräsentiert sie das Weltgewissen. Freilich, »Literatur wählt sich auch ihre Leute aus«.

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February 2000

Ruth Rendell's Crime Stories II

by Rendell, Ruth

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February 2000

Ruth Rendell's Crime Stories I

by Rendell, Ruth

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Children's & YA

2020

Listen to Your Diddalum

by Child, Emily / Lebedeva, Maria

From children's book author Emily Child and popular illustrator Maria Lebedeva comes a new picture book that explores feelings for children in the most incredible way, Listen to Your Diddalum! What is your Diddalum? Is it that funny feeling in your stomach when you're excited? Or is it exploding fireworks? Is it a slimy slug, or a fluttering butterfly? What is your Diddalum and how do you listen to it?

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Humanities & Social Sciences

November 2023

Understanding baby loss

by Kate Reed, Julie Ellis, Elspeth Whitby

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Children's & YA

2017

Lucy and Mum's Shoes

by Emily Child

Lucy and Mum's Shoes (written by Emily Child and illustrated by Warwick Kay) is the story a girl who hears the world a little differently. She is fascinated by the sounds around her, especially the sound of shoes. She dreams of a life where she is surrounded by high-heels. She dreams of being grown-up. Feeling brave one morning, Lucy sneaks into her mother’s cupboard and tries on her favourite pair of stilettos. An unusual and dreamlike day of high-heeled hope, happiness and hindrance follows, leaving Lucy a little less certain that she wants to feel grown-up after all… Lucy invites children (and adults) to be a part of her unique and quirky soundscape. Infused with a surreal eccentricity, this story uncovers what it means to “love the shoes you’re in”.

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November 2022

30 Frauen, die Mut machen

»Falle siebenmal hin und stehe achtmal auf« | Sensationelle Porträts von Frauen

by Ruth Hobday, Geoff Blackwell

Frauen aus Lebensumständen, wie sie nicht unterschiedlicher sein könnten, darunter berühmte und völlig unbekannte, wohlhabende und bitterarme, erzählen aufrichtig und zutiefst berührend, warum sie keine Opfer sein wollen und woher ihr grenzenloser Optimismus kommt. Einfühlsam und authentisch berichten sie von ihren Erlebnissen, von ihrem Lebenswillen, der inneren Kraft und ihrem Mut, immer wieder aufzustehen. Fotografiert von Kieran E. Scott, der zusammen mit dem Herausgeberteam Geoff Blackwell und Ruth Hobday um die Welt reiste, und dem sensationelle Porträts gelungen sind.

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The Arts

November 2007

So exotic, so homemade

Surrealism, Englishness and documentary photography

by Ian Walker, John Taylor

In his previous book City Gorged with Dreams (2002), Ian Walker challenged established ideas about Surrealist photography by emphasising the key role played by documentary photographs in Parisian Surrealism. Now Walker turns his attention to the arrival of Surrealism in England in 1936. Examining for the first time the surprising relationship between Surrealism and English documentary photography and film, the book shows that some of the most interesting work of the period was made in the ambiguous spaces between them. One of the key themes in this book is the relationship between the 'homely' and the 'exotic', in the innovative mix of poetry and ethnography in Mass-Observation for example, or the shadowed England constructed in the work of Bill Brandt. Based on extensive archival research, interviews and visits to sites where the photographs were made, this book is rich in detailed analysis yet written in an accessible and often witty style. ;

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November 1998

Ein arabisches Dorf

Erzählung

by S. Yishar, Ruth Achlama

Ruth Achlama, geboren 1945 in Quedlinburg, studierte Rechtswissenschaft in Heidelberg und Bibliothekswissenschaft in Jerusalem. Heute ist sie hauptberuflich als freie Übersetzerin tätig und lebt in Tel Aviv.

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July 1964

Der gute Mensch von Sezuan

Parabelstück

by Bertolt Brecht, Ruth Berlau

Das Stück, eine Parabel, zeigt am Einzelfall des Mädchens Shen Te das allgemeine Gesetz dieser Welt auf, daß es unmöglich ist, »gut zu sein und doch zu leben«. Drei Götter durchwandern die Welt auf der Suche nach einem guten Menschen. Sie wollen das Gerücht Lügen strafen, wonach die wirtschaftlichen Bedingungen auf Erden zu unerträglich seien, als daß die Menschen die Gebote der Götter zu befolgen vermöchten.

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March 2008

Die Vielfalt der Bedeutung

Zeichen, Ziele und ihre Verwandtschaft

by Ruth G. Millikan, Hajo Greif

Menschliche Gedanken und Handlungen, Organe und Organismen, Werkzeuge und sprachliche Bedeutungen scheinen kaum etwas miteinander gemeinsam zu haben – außer daß man ihnen allen Ziele und Zwecke zuspricht. Ruth G. Millikan vertritt die Auffassung, daß es eine echte, robuste, in der Evolutionsgeschichte begründete Verbindung zwischen all diesen verschiedenen Formen von Zielen und Zwecken gibt. Nur in ihrer Verbindung miteinander, so die These, sind sie überhaupt angemessen zu verstehen. Zur Begründung führt Millikan neue Erkenntnisse der Biologie, Psychologie und Linguistik an, entwickelt eine innovative Sicht auf Sprache und Denken und bietet zugleich eine umfassende Einführung in die naturalistische Philosophie des Geistes.

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Veterinary medicine

March 2013

Animal Machines

by Ruth Harrison, Marian Stamp-Dawkins

Ruth Harrison's Animal Machines now a unique historical classic, had a profound impact on public opinion and the quality of life of farmed animals when it was published in 1964. * Reprinted in its entirety, gives an accurate, and sometimes shocking, account of intensive farming in the 1960's, still current in large parts of the world today. * Harrison's work greatly increased public awareness of animal welfare and led to legal reforms, shaping our closer understanding of farm conditions today. * Provides a fascinating insight into the system we continue to live with as the global population increases. * Includes foreword by Rachel Carson and new chapters by international experts in animal welfare including Marion Stamp Dawkins, discussing the book's significant legacy and impact today.

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Intimate Experiences with the Divine through Contemplative Practices

by Sister Dr. Jenna

China Story Picture Books

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by Omphalius, Ruth

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Discourses of childhood in Irish Anglican writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

by Jarlath Killeen

Child rescue discourse, England, Canada and Australia, 1850–1915

by Margot Hillel, Shurlee Swain, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

Reden und Essays

by Robert Minder, Robert Minder

by Rendell, Ruth

by Rendell, Ruth

by Child, Emily / Lebedeva, Maria

by Kate Reed, Julie Ellis, Elspeth Whitby

by Emily Child

»Falle siebenmal hin und stehe achtmal auf« | Sensationelle Porträts von Frauen

by Ruth Hobday, Geoff Blackwell

Surrealism, Englishness and documentary photography

by Ian Walker, John Taylor

Erzählung

by S. Yishar, Ruth Achlama

Parabelstück

by Bertolt Brecht, Ruth Berlau

Zeichen, Ziele und ihre Verwandtschaft

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by Ruth Harrison, Marian Stamp-Dawkins

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