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DETEKTIF ERIKA
by Nurul Husna Abdul Halim, Anuar Ismadi Hassim, Rusli Abd Wahab, Maski Yu Latif Yu
Erika is an introverted kid who enjoys reading at home. Her favourites are the investigation series. Erika was invited to Sofea's birthday party one day. A piece of cake went missing during the party. How did the cake vanish? Who stole it? Erika began investigating the incident.
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December 2014Public Enemy
by Wang Fangchen
The novel depicts the fate of a Chinese village and individual villagers in the great historical transformation, and creates the vivid image of a morally self-examining and self-reflective persona in the character of Farmer Han Dianyi. Using “benevolence and justice” as the effective weapon, Han Dianyi successfully establishes HanTong Group and leads a corrupt and degenerate life afterwards. The suicide of his former lover in despair awakens him and he retires to a seclusive life in a graveyard. His successor Tong Heizi continues his way of practice and Hantong Group still dominates the village. His elder brother Tong Chengzhi resigns from his official post and returns to the village. This causes great uneasiness to Tong Heizi, who sets off on the road of no-return on a snowy night. Han Dianyi, full of remorse, tells people the secret why he has painfully guarded the graveyard for more than ten years. Tong Chengzhi takes over Hantong Group while Han Dianyi holds the ashes of his former lover and enters the tomb he has dug for himself. The whole novel, set in a heavy and gloomy atmosphere, features sharp and poignant language.
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March 2021Tian Hai Small Volume
by Yin Guang
Yelu is a "string singer" who wanders in three time and space. In the deep sea, she couldn't love it; in Jiuxiao, the hero had turned his head early; in the world, her best friend died in the sea of fire... The whole book is developed around the theme of "Oriental Classical Aesthetics + Juvenile Growth Fantasy", inspiring and moving. Time and Space 1. Love of the Sharks: Yelu loves freedom, is sensitive and passionate, enters the Sharks Deep Sea Yuefu, and worships the master Lingzhou who never accepts disciples. In the past, old friends came to visit one after another, and there were unusual life experiences hidden in a peaceful life. The Sea Emperor Festival is coming, Ye Lu is arranged to be on the altar, and when she finishes singing a long song in a foreign land, the mystery of her life experience is gradually revealed. Then the "red ghost" invaded the ocean and fought a war with the shark clan... Time and Space 2. The growth of the Yu clan: Ye Lu came to the "Nine Layers of Bi" of the Yu clan's life with the love of the sea under the sea. Here, she became friends with a group of Yu people. The talented and unconventional big brother "Leader" Solitre, the younger brother he brought out, the introverted and steady Knight, the combative deputy leader Kao... Yelu remembers this group infinitely, but Yuren Life is short, fighting time has become an impossible wish. Until the conflict broke out, Knight grew rapidly to replace the aging Solitre, Kao instigated it, and everyone’s pure feelings were met with suspicion... Time and Space 3. The magician’s fantasy: In the land of the magician world, the genius "swordsman" "Banxia was buried in the fire for the birthday of her best friend Ye Lu; ten years later, Banxia was resurrected for Ye Lu's wedding, and was once again given the mission of entering the fire. Banxia finally fulfilled Ye Lu’s wish, and Ye Lu, as the singer of Xian, was deceived by fate and remained alone in the world...
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The Introvert’s Edge to Networking
Work the Room. Leverage Social Media. Develop Powerful Connections
by Matthew Pollard
Say goodbye to awkward and unproductive networking. The Introvert’s Edge toNetworking equips you with an actionable blueprint for working the room, leveragingsocial media, and developing powerful connections. Introverts across the world have been sold a lie: One of the biggest myths that plagues the business world today is that our ability to network depends on having the “gift-of-gab.” This is nonsense. You don’t have to be outgoing to be successful at networking. You don’t have to become a relentless self-promoter. In fact, you don’t have to act like an extrovert at all. The truth is, introverts make the best networkers . . . when armed with a plan that lets them be their authentic selves.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentAugust 2018QUIET IS A SUPERPOWER
The Secret Strengths of Introverts in the Workplace
by Jill Chang
It is all too common for us to describe people as either introverts or extroverts, and then to make assumptions about their character based on those broad categories. Moreover, many of the traits we associate with introverts – a solitary nature, poor communication skills, et cetera – are considered disadvantages in socialized environments like the workplace. Jill Chang begs to differ. Writing from personal experience, high-flying non-profit executive and former sports agent Jill Chang describes the incredible potentialities of the introverted personality in work and in life, and offers practical methods for better understanding and realizing those potentialities to their fullest extent. Instead of expecting quiet individuals to learn to become social butterflies, we should understand how their personality traits make them valuable. Focus, listening skills, and the ability to inspire trust are only a few such qualities that an introverted person might easily cultivate. After graduate school, Jill Chang entered the world of sports management, which was then entirely dominated by men. She proved that introversion doesn’t in any way equate to a lack of ambition; this book is her way of reminding both introverts and non-introverts of that crucial fact. For introverted readers, it offers tools to develop their own unique skills and cement their self-worth; for non-introverts, it breaks down stereotypes and provides helpful guidelines for building productive relationships with introverted colleagues and friends.
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Literary FictionApril 2019This Earth Is Forever
by Javier Vela
With a historical landscape close to the present one and in a not-so-different Europe, the damages caused by climate changed have devastated the weakest populations in the old continent. In the South, the temperature raise contributed to a diaspora of thousands of people that now try to find refuge in the Nordic regions. At the same time, Emma and Argus, a couple suffering the fatigue of their daily coexistence in the Swedish island of Frösön, become aware of the decline, previously unnoticed, that has started to take over the Scandinavian map. The arrival of Hugo, a boy from a country devastated by fires and floods, will be decisive in their lives, although he will still need to overcome the sequels of the exile that marks his character. This Earth Is Forever, with climate change and the far-right rise as a background, is mainly a psychological and introspective novel that we could classify as climate fiction.
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureJuly 2021Courtyard Houses of India
by Yatin Pandya
Indian architecture is not an object in space; it integrates space within the object, where the built and the unbuilt become counterpoints to vitalize each other. The alchemy of the two sustains the space and the life within. The void within the built—the courtyard—lies at the genesis of the urban dwelling form in India across geography and time. In ancient Indian sciences, the courtyard assumes the central position as Brahmasthana, the nucleus of the living environment. It provided for an open-to-sky outdoor space while being away from the public eye and thus suited an introverted lifestyle. In this book, the author traces the metaphysical, mythical, socio-cultural, environmental and spatial roles of the courtyard in the domestic architecture of India—from early civilization and Vedic times to Islamic and colonial influences. This volume documents traditional and vernacular courtyard dwelling types across India within diverse climatic, cultural as well as geographic zones such as western (Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra), southern (Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa), eastern (Bihar, West Bengal), central (Madhya Pradesh) and northern (Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, and the Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.). It then discerns the spatial elements constituting the court, and the arts, the crafts as well as the elements integral to the court. Illustrated with splendid photographs and representative drawings, the book attempts to understand the presence and resolution, continued use and adaptation as well as the diverse interpretations and abstractions of the courtyard. Yatin Pandya is an author, activist, academician, researcher as well as a practising architect with his firm FOOTPRINTS E.A.R.T.H. (Environment Architecture Research Technology Housing). He is a graduate of CEPT University, Ahmedabad, and holds a Master of Architecture degree from McGill University, Montreal. Pandya has been involved with city planning, urban design, mass housing, architecture, interior design and product design as well as conservation projects. He has authored numerous papers, which have appeared in national and international journals, and has produced several documentary films on architecture. During his tenure at the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation, Pandya worked on the publications Concepts of Space in Traditional Indian Architecture and Elements of Spacemaking, published by Mapin and now in their fourth reprint, which have won the Indian Institute of Architects’ (IIA) Award for Architectural Excellence in Research in the years 2012 and 2014, respectively. The research leading to this book was also carried out during his time at Vastu-Shilpa Foundation. He is a visiting faculty at the National Institute of Design and CEPT University, and a guest lecturer at various universities in India and abroad. The recipient of numerous national and international awards for research, design and dissemination, Pandya counts environmental sustainability, socio-cultural appropriateness, timeless aesthetics and economic affordability to be key principles of his work.
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January 2020Scenes of a Reclusive Writer & Reader of Mumbai
Essays
by Fiza Pathan
"I am a recluse and I love books more than I love people." - So begins Fiza Pathan, the self-proclaimed Reclusive Writer and Reader of Mumbai. In this charming collection of personal essays, Fiza recalls important phases of her life, along with the books she was reading at the time and where she read them. Revealed along the way are Fiza's personal struggles, from the father who didn't want a girl child to the years she believed she wanted to be a nun to the college friends who shamed her for gaining weight.Her greatest victories are found here as well, among them the publication of her first story, the request to autograph her most popular book by an author she admired, the start of her own publishing company, and the acquisition of her very own office-cum-writing hut. Within her stories, you'll meet Fiza's beloved Mama, editorial partner (and uncle) Blaise, many other uncles and aunts, the librarians of her youth, and plenty of book salesman. All the people who have helped Fiza along her path to books, books, and more books. You'll also take a taxi with Narayan, Fiza's "Man Friday," to visit her favorite haunts, from libraries to kiosks to boutiques to vendors who pile their offerings on the sides of the road, and you'll learn the plots of her favorite comics, religious writings, medical thrillers, horror stories, activist writings, and so much more.Fiza believes that every one of the books she has read has helped her become the person - and the writer - she was meant to become. Scenes of a Reclusive Writer & Reader of Mumbai is her life in books!
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Children's & YAWANTED: Best Friends Forever!
by Sang-Cheol Park, Jeong-Hwa Lee
Best Friends Forever is intended to help children who are experiencing difficulties in socializing and making relationships with peer group and teachers at school.
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Business, Economics & LawTHE INTROVERT’S EDGE
How The Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone
by Matthew Pollard
Matthew Pollard, “The Rapid Growth Guy,” is an introvert who started out as an awkward, disabled and disfigured teen who later became the founder of 5 multi-million dollar companies. He found an authentic and sincere recipe for success. The Introvert’s Edge will teach you how he learned to leverage his own strengths and find natural confidence. You will learn the introvert’s roadmap to success. The introverted salesperson is no longer an oxymoron—it’s a recipe for success!
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August 2020Blue Sky Kingdom
An Epic Family Journey to the Heart of the Himalaya
by Bruce Kirkby
One morning at breakfast, while gawking at his phone and feeling increasingly disconnected from family and everything else of importance in his world, it strikes writer Bruce Kirkby: This isn’t how he wants to live. Within days, plans begin to take shape. Bruce, his wife Christine, and their two children – seven-year-old Bodi and three-year-old Taj – will cross the Pacific by container ship, then travel onward through South Korea, China, India, and Nepal aboard bus, riverboat, and train, eventually traversing the Himalaya by foot. Their destination: a thousand-year-old Buddhist monastery in the remote Zanskar valley, one of the last places where Tibetan Buddhism is still practiced freely in its original setting. In this refuge, where ancient traditions intersect with the modern world, Kirkby discovers ways to slow down, to observe and listen, and ultimately, to better understand his son on the autism spectrum – to surrender all expectations and connect with Bodi exactly as he is. Recounted with wit and humility, Blue Sky Kingdom is an engaging travel memoir as well as a thoughtful exploration of modern distraction, the loss of ancient wisdom, and the challenges and rewards of intercultural friendships.
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FictionFisherman's Dream
by Jenny Gill
Baby Boomer Fiction – No 4 in The Southhill Sagas, set in leafy Surrey to the south of London. Each book in the series stands alone. Martin loves fishing. His dream in life is to run his own business, passing on his love of fishing. His wife Cilla is behind him all the way and they open a full service fishing tackle shop which they call Fisherman’s Dream. Then an out of control lorry on the motorway puts an end to Martin’s life and his dream. But Cilla has to go on, Cilla and the business Martin so loved. But something about the accident is troubling her. Was there perhaps a side of Martin she didn’t know? Does she need to find answers, when she doesn’t even know the questions? A family saga of love, grief, despair and one woman’s struggle to make sense of it all.
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Monkey & Mole Series
by Gitte Spee
Monkey is adventurous and curious, Mole would rather stay inside and read a book. Despite their differences, Monkey and Mole are the best of friends and love to explore the world together. In these stories they go look for the sea, they build a hut and share their cookies with a bear. Introvert or extrovert? Every child will be able to recognise itself in one of these two main characters! This series consists of 7 titles in total.
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)The First Cut
by Peter Sykes
Paul Lambert, a quiet introspective young man, is thrown, bewildered and unprepared, into the daunting world of a busy surgical unit. Through his eyes numerous ʻpatient episodesʼ are described - many amusing, some serious, others poignant but all very ʻhumanʼ. After early misadventures, both surgical and romantic, he gains confidence and experience and becomes a key member of the team. Had James Herriot been a young surgeon, not a vet, these are the tales he might have told.
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FictionSilly Gilly Daily: Stay at Home
by Naela Ali
Our popular author and illustrator, Naela Ali, is back with her one of the most bestselling series, "Silly Gilly Daily". She explores the daily life of Gilly, a twenty-something introvert girl, who takes time before meeting people but in rush when she sees a bookstore. Gilly enjoys being at home, and this time, she shares all the things she does at home during the pandemic in full-color illustrations. At some point, we could see ourselves in Gilly and that is what makes this book interesting from the first page.
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Without justification
Notes from an editor
by Tomás Granados
These pages are somewhat arbitrary notes, casual but with their reasonable dose of information, which express a way of putting the editor's trade into practice. There are about four dozen pieces here about people, readings, debates and practices, such as unwanted but necessary obituaries, reviews of works read and sometimes also published, comments on reading statistics, a chronicle of the long march of the single price in Mexico and an introspective examination of how useless schooling is for those who want to publish other people's books. Without justification, then, it gathers some notes in the margin of someone who reads his profession and its current events as if they were an original that is being prepared for printing.
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May 2021We Were Dreamers
by Simu Liu
This is Simu Liu’s superhero origin story. Weaving together the narratives of two generations in a Chinese family who are inextricably tied to one another even as they are torn apart by deep cultural misunderstanding, We Were Dreamers traces Liu’s unlikely journey from Harbin, China to Hollywood within the context of his family’s immigration story. Liu’s parents left him to be raised by his grandparents in China while they sought a future in North America. Liu was devastated when the father he hardly even remembered returned to take him away from the only home he ever knew; culture gaps, racism, and wildly conflicting definitions of success made it difficult to become a family. Ultimately, it's Liu’s singular determination to make his dreams come true agai nst all odds that not only leads him to succeed as an actor but also opens the door to reconciliation with his parents. For by the time he is 30 – the same age his parents were when they immigrated – he recognizes that he and his parents have much in common, most notably their courage to dream, and to dream big.
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August 2021De son oeil
by Maryse Pagé
Anju, a lonely and introverted teenager, speaks inwardly to Noah, the most popular student in his school, whom he considers his ideal: Noah is handsome, brilliant, a leader, athletic, ambitious, and empathetic. He is person Anju admires, to whom he tries to get closer, someone he would like to resemble. To the point of becoming one with him. Anju offers Noah remedial maths in exchange for basketball lessons. He monitors his social media posts and hooks up with Megan, who resists to this more-than-perfect being. A student trip to New York offers him the perfect opportunity to spy his idol and his devoted fans even more. His plan seems to work: Noah gradually takes him under his wing and introduces him to rap. However, a disturbing event puts a stop to his almost obsessive voyeurism and opens his eyes to the lure of appearances...
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)March 2018Muerte en Mitra
by Miquel Bota
Wake up, Ramón! What are you looking for? Why? After the partial loss of his memory, Ramón Mitra embarks on an introspective journey that takes him to a destination not imagined. In a delirious transition between reality and possibility, revisiting specific moments of his past, the protagonist of the novel will persist in his efforts to recover the pieces of himself that are missing. With the help of a young nurse, a philosophy student, a pharmacist reading Freud and a provincial secretary, Ramón struggles to achieve enlightenment through his personal odyssey, in which the fight against desire will be the mark of his itinerary. Set in mid-20th century Spain, nothing will be accidental in the history of Ramón Mitra: not his name, not the tests to which he will be subjected, neither the absences nor the presences of his journey.
