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Bingsha Shatabdi
Established in 1956, Bingsha Shatabdi follows two different trends in publication, It brings out direct translations from various European languages like French, Dutch, German into Bangla. It deals with both contemporary and classical literature. Its second goal is to publish collections of essays in Bangla and English, and its area of concentration is Social Science And Ancient Indian Civilization and Culture.
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July 2020Haarwaschzauber. Haare waschen ist ganz leicht
by Heger, Ann-Katrin
Mit Elterntipps zum Haarewaschen und 2 Verwandel-Schiebe-Bildern Haare waschen? Da machen Hanna und Erik nicht mit! Dann brennt das Shampoo in den Augen und das Wasser auf dem Kopf ist auch nicht schön. Aber Piratenkapitän Papa hat eine Haarwasch-Zauberkiste voller magischer Hilfsmittel. Damit wird das Haarewaschen zu einem großen Spaß! Außerdem im Arena Verlag erschienen: Töpfchenzauber. Aufs Töpfchen gehen ist so leicht. (2018) Zahnputzzauber. Zähneputzen ist ganz leicht. (2019) Einschlafzauber. Einschlafen ist doch kinderleicht. (2019) Schnullerzauber. Ohne Schnuller ist’s ganz leicht. (2020)
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Thriller / suspenseJune 2011CHASING SHADOWS
by CJ Lyons
New York Times Bestseller CJ Lyons has been praised as a "Master of the Genre" (Pittsburgh Magazine) for her romantic thrillers. Join CJ as she starts a sexy, fun-filled, adrenalin rush of a new series: Shadow Ops. Following a group of covert operatives, men and women who risk their lives to protect our country--but are they ready to risk their hearts? CHASING SHADOWS (Shadow Ops Book #1): Going undercover, playing the part of a disgraced former Marine, is easy for Chase Westin--until a Christmas Eve mission takes him back to his hometown and face to face with his estranged brother. When KC, an undercover FBI agent, flies into Chase's life with her Doc Martens, purple, punk-rock hair, and Hollywood-hype leather and chains, Chase realizes that falling in love is more dangerous than catching bullets.
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Picture books, activity books & early learning material2019Hedgehog at the Hairdresser's
by Silvia Borando
Who said that a hedgehog can’t change its looks from time to time? Shampooing, curlers and twenty-three funny hairstyles for a demanding hedgehog who is trying to get the perfect cut.
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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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RomanceJune 2014Drumbeats
Can you ever escape your past?
by Julia Ibbotson
It's 1965 and 18 year old Jess escapes her stifling English background for a gap year in Ghana, West Africa. But it's a time of political turbulence across the region. Fighting to keep her young love who waits back in England, she's thrown into the physical dangers of civil war, tragedy, and the emotional conflict of a disturnbing new relationship. And why do the drumbeats haunt her dreams? This is a rite of passage story which takes the reader hand in hand with Jess on her journey towards growing into the adult world. This is the first novel in the Drumbeats trilogy: Drumbeats Walking in the Rain Before I Die
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Crime & mysterySeptember 2021The Purified
by C. F. Peterson
Eamon’s newfound happiness is shattered by the kind of murder that the government doesn’t want to believe happens anymore. Detective Maclean thinks he has the killer, but something worse than a body has been found beneath the waters of The Minch, something that should never have been brought to the surface, and now it is not just TV crews that are watching the village. This novel is the second in a series set in and around the village of Duncul.
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FictionAccidental Hitman
by A.W. Wilson
“Hitmen don’t worry about what their underwear’s like, but then proper hitmen don’t poo in their pants.” When Tom White’s dead-end life is blighted by his neighbour’s parties Tom’s aversion to face to face confrontation leads him to an unusual action: he kills the noise pollutant. Unknown to Tom, the neighbour was a target for Stan Costanza, head of a powerful criminal enterprise. Costanza’s heavies are more adept than the police at tracking Tom down and in a farcically comic meeting become convinced that Tom is a skilled lone assassin “one of them ones with the eastern mystical influences”. They offer him another hit and Tom, too scared and perhaps too flattered to decline, takes the job, and the next. Colin, Tom’s best friend, shares Tom’s macabre moral compass and rides shotgun on his assignments, leading to a series of comedy set-pieces but inevitably into darker waters as the reality of their actions takes hold, causing the pair to fall out. Tom catches the interest of Laura, the barmaid in his local pub, and becomes torn between his desire for the long-term object of his affections and the need to keep his nefarious activities from her. When the impossibly beautiful Stephanie arrives, Tom assumes she is a high-ranking member of Costanza’s operation and takes the contracts she assigns. Stephanie doesn’t tell him that her father was murdered by Stan Costanza in a criminal coup d’etat. Stephanie is orchestrating a turf-war between two rival gangs using Tom, along with some of Costanza’s own people, as a key piece in her game to avenge her father’s death and regain her birthright. By the time he realises that he is an unwitting double agent, Tom is being pursued by two police forces and both gangs. As the net closes around him he has no option but to ‘fess up to Laura, make peace with Colin and leave his fate in the hands of Stephanie. Costanza meets his arch-rival, Joe Barrett, for a sit-down to discusstheir mutual problem - namely Tom White - but this is actually Stephanie’s final push. She shows her cards to the hapless crime-lords, including the fact that she has turned most of their own men against them. In a final showdown, Stephanie kills both men and takes what is rightfully hers. But what of Tom? Wanted for murder he badly needs a fresh start. Stephanie uses her valuable connections to set up a new life for him, Laura and Colin under the cloak of the witness protection program in the USA. They have a new home, new names and Tom has a new job, one that makes good use of his talents and protects his anonymity: an executioner for the state of Texas. Accidental Hitman is a thriller but features large doses of comedy in the rapport between the characters, the first-person narrator’s musings on modern life and the farcical situations Tom and Colin bumble into as they carry out their murders-to-order. All rights are available.
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September 2013Essential Oils and Their Applications
by Kuntal Das
The essential oils are present in the specific cells called as glandular cells present in the plant part that may be anywhere on plant body. Upon rupture of these glands aroma come out which are volatile in nature and combination of all chemical constituents are fragrance what we get sense. Essential oils are used in perfumery, aromatherapy, cosmetics, incense, medicine, household insect repellent cleaning products, and for flavoring food and drink. They are also valuable commodities in the agricultural industries as anti-feedants, repellents, botanical insecticides, natural herbicides and growth boosters are still open to fascinating realms of research. All informations are confined in scattered manner and hence an effort has been made to collect all informations and compiled together and represented in this book in a simple manner to serve the basic concept to the readers. This book complied with five s viz. 1. Introduction 2. General extraction method for essential oils 3. Market statistics for importance of essential oils 4. Individual medicinal and aromatic plants 5. New aromatic plants and their future research.
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Agriculture & farmingJune 2007Aromatic Plants
by Baby P. Skaria: et.al.
This book contains seven chapters. Introductory on History, importance and scope of aromatic plants deals with the importance of aromatic crops and their close association with human health and beauty care from time immemorial. History of development of cultivation and aroma based industries in different regions of the world is described to emphasize their significance, scope and role in increasing the quality of human life. Classification of aromatic plants based on their climatic requirement, growth habit and floral morphology elaborated in succeeding will be of great interest to students, researchers and farmers. on Extraction of aroma principles describes traditional as well as modern techniques employed for efficient extraction of volatile oils and oleo-resins from different plants materials and equipments employed for the purpose. Quality of oil is found to vary significantly with ecotypes, season, time of collection, crop maturity and weather conditions prevailing during the growth period, extraction method and duration of extraction process. Conditions and duration of storage also have a bearing on quality of essential oil. This necessitates development and imposition of appropriate quality standards in trade. These aspects are covered in fourth on Quality assurance of essential oils. Aromatic oils & their derivatives and combinations occupy a covetable position in holistic medicines such as aromatherapy. on Aromatherapy details the use of essential oils in human health care, techniques employed, aromatherapy message, aromatic bath, facial care, hair care etc. Information on aromatic oils vide spread application to relieve stress and rejuvenate body are also included. Sixth and seventh s deal with major and other sources of aromatic oils. Under major sources, 17 aromatic crops and under other sources, 25 crops and discussed in detail. These s include the common name, botanical name and synonyms if any and family, vernacular names, importance and uses, habitat and distribution, agro technology, soil, climate, season, land preparation, planting, seed rate and spacing manurial and fertilizer recommendation, irrigation, weed control, pest control, harvest, propagation techniques, herbal yield, extraction and utilization, oil recovery, oil composition, properties of oil, storage requirements etc.
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Children's & YAJune 2017Ms. Penny Teaches … Science is Fun!
by Chen Nai Chi
Does science give you a headache? Do you find it impossible to get to grips with scientific principles and how to apply them? This book presents 25 essential scientific principles from everyday life, and 75 simple but super-cool scientific experiments and offers children a stress-free way of learning about science. STEAM education is very popular at the moment, but do you tense up at the thought of physics and chemistry? Do you stress when you think about science? Then let Ms. Penny show you how to do amazing experiments and learn basic scientific principles. She’ll show you the most fun ways to enter the world of science. Designed as a 12-month course, this book presents 25 essential scientific principles from everyday life through 75 simple and fun experiments. There are clear diagrams explaining the scientific principles, lists of the materials needed and step-by-step instructions, making it super-easy for readers to carry out the experiments. As all the materials needed can be found at home, there’s no need to spend more money on preparing specially. Interesting scientific facts and phenomena from the world around us are brought in too, making science easy to follow and relevant. Ms. Penny has many years of experience in science education. She has specially designed this collection of experiments to suit the interests of students aged 11 to 15, so they will stop being afraid of science, and want to do experiments every day!
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FictionMISSING ANGEL
by CHRISTOPHER NEW
Enduring another of his amateur actress wife June’s parties, John Bishop sneaks away upstairs to say good night to his thirteen-year-old daughter Angel, then goes reluctantly down to act as host. A would-be astronomer who dropped out of university to marry June when she became pregnant after a one night stand, he is now an air traffic controller at London Airport, whose chief delight is Angel and the stars. Tomorrow they plan to watch a new comet together through his telescope. But the next day Angel fails to return from school. Day follows day, sleepless night follows sleepless night. John and June find themselves under suspicion for a time, being questioned by the sly Inspector Mabbott, who sometimes seems more interested in toying with them than in finding their daughter. The ‘Missing Angel,’ temporarily a media celebrity, is soon displaced by a new sensation and Angel becomes just another unsolved case in the Missing Persons file. When a psychic astrologer friend of June’s claims to have seen her ‘passing over,’ June gives up all hope, and tries to resume her life. Not so John. He searches London’s seediest streets night after night, comes home exhausted and searches again the following night. To keep her memory fresh in his mind, he starts writing private messages to Angel on his computer. He is searching for her, he tells her, as astronomers once searched the skies for a missing asteroid. Gradually June and he, never very close, drift further apart. June accuses him of being morbidly obsessed and continues a clandestine affair; he accuses her of heartlessness. Eventually June moves out to live with her lover. Soon John begins a tentative friendship with Amy, a divorced colleague at work. John’s relationship with Amy deepens as the months pass, and it seems he too is at last putting his loss behind him, when a chance find of some pornographic photos revives his conviction that Angel is alive, although the police experts assure him the girl in the smudged pictures is not her. Persisting against all disbelief and indifference, he is eventually led to the sinister sensualist Anton, who remains just within the law and claims he can help – or is he merely stringing John along for the money he extracts from him? In a state of utter fatigue, John’s concentration fails dangerously at the control tower as a plane comes in to land and he is suspended from work. But Anton says he has finally located the girl in the photos, and, despite Amy’s entreaties and warnings, John sets off alone with the large cash fee that Anton demands for finding her. John finds the address, where supposedly Angel, now an underage prostitute, can be found. A girl like Angel appears, but when she sees him, runs away. John chases after her, sees her boarding a bus, but is himself knocked down by a following bus as he lunges after her. When he recovers consciousness, he sees Angel bending over him while the paramedics assess his injuries.
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Children's & YAApril 2019Soapy’s World
by Aidi Vallik, Lumimari
White Raven 2021Soapy’s name isn’t really Soapy – that’s just what people call her because more than anything else in the world, she loves blowing soap bubbles. Soapy got her very first bubble-blower when Mom came home from her job abroad for a few days. Dad had already left home by then – Soapy and her little brother are cared for by their grandmother. Whenever she blows bubbles, Soapy forgets that Mom and Dad no longer live together, that Mom is always sad and far away, and that no one has the time to notice her problems anymore. Blowing bubbles is great, because the soap bubbles you blow only take from the real world what you like and what gives you joy.
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Any season is dog season
Adventure guide for the seasons of the year
by Heins, Stefanie
Why does air after rainfall smell pleasantly but wet dogs are stinking? Why do dogs pick fresh blades of gras? How do migratory birds navigate and does such an inner compass also exist in our dogs? This entertaining guide provides fascinating answers to questions many dog owners may ask themselves while walking the dog.It also includes many tips to enjoy each season of the year: moments of joy in nature, delicious food picked by yourself, recipes, playful training, practical Do-It-Yourself- instructions and useful health care. Sorted by month with seasonal specialities and space for your personal notes. This guide is perfect for all people who love being outside with their dogs and enjoy nature!
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Children's & YAPEEKABOO'S PICTURE DICTIONARY
by NATAŠA BUCIK
PEEKABOO’S PICTURE DICTIONARYSLOVENE-ENGLISH-FRENCHWritten by Nataša Bucik, Kaja BucikIllustrated by Ana Zavadlav With single and double page illustrations this picture dictionary introduces over 1200 words. The dictionary is suitable for children aged 3 years and up, when they start paying greater attention to naming things in their environment. It will also be a welcome picture dictionary for learning foreign words for children (up to the age of 10). Peekaboo’s Picture Dictionary is published in various language editions (3-5 languages). Illustrator Ana Zavadlav was given the Smrekar Award for popular science illustration for her dictionary illustrations. Format: 23 x 30.5 cm | 96 pages | Age: 3+
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Complementary therapies, healing & healthVerbal Questioning Skills For Kinesiologists
by Jane Thurnell-Read
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Children's & YAJune 2023THE MANY MASKS OF ANDY ZHOU
by Jack Cheng
Creative and brave sixth grader Andy Zhou faces big changes at school and at home in this new middle-grade novel by the award-winning author of See You in the Cosmos. Andy Zhou is used to being what people need him to be: the good kid for his parents and now grandparents visiting from Shanghai, or the helpful sidekick to his best friend Cindy’s rebellious plans and schemes. So when Cindy decides they should try out for Movement after school on the first day of sixth grade, how can Andy say no? But between feeling out of place with the dancers, being hassled by his new science partner Jameel, and sensing tension between his dad and grand-father, Andy feels all kinds of weird. Then, over anime, Hi-Chews, and Andy’s iguana-inspired artwork, things shift between him and Jameel, opening up new doors—and also new complications. No matter how much Andy cares about his friends and family, it’s hard not to feel pulled between all the ways he's meant to be, all the different faces he wears, and harder still to figure out if any of these masks is the real him. A sublime and often funny story of family and friendship, identity and creativity, and both the love and culture gap between immigrant grandparents, parents, and their kids, Jack Cheng’s new novel resonates with humor, honest truths, and enormous heart.
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FictionFebruary 2020The Funeral Concerto
by Rimui
* 2020 Japan International Manga Award (Gold) In search of herself, Lin Chu-sheng quits university and ends up living and working for a funeral director. From her shock at seeing her first corpse, to becoming a practiced yet still compassionate employee, her experiences help her realize who she really is, and what she really wants. In search of her dreams, Lin Chu-sheng quits university, leaves home and starts working for a funeral director. Her first job: a decomposing corpse. And before the shock of seeing her first dead body has passed, she is set to work, cleaning floors and washing bodies. It might sound like simple work, but she has plenty to learn… And while she may work with the dead, most of her time is spent dealing with the emotions of those still living: a father unable to accept his son’s suicide; a bigamist’s families meeting only after his death; a mother unwilling to let a child go; and parents unsure if their son’s body will ever be found. Lin witnesses the full range of human experience and reflects on her own family and life. This is a story of the real emotions lurking beneath the fussy details of a funeral, told from the perspective of a new employee. Rimui visited funeral homes as part of the research for this book and draws on traditional Chinese funeral practices. Moving and meticulously researched, this is a compelling tale of a unique profession.
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January 2018Gebrek is een groot woord
by Nina Polak
Nynke ‘Skip’ Nauta has already been at sea for seven years when, in the Cannes Marina, her past catches up with her. There she sees the Zeno family with their brilliant adolescent son, Juda. The enthusiastic Zenos have previously taken good care of Skip and they invite her to spend a summer in their garden pavilion in Amsterdam. Reluctantly, Skip accepts the invitation and travels back to the Netherlands. In Amsterdam she finds a city and a family slowly being eroded by the zeitgeist. Moreover, in the overcrowded, well-trodden streets of Amsterdam, there is no escape from the traces of two lost loves: a man and a mother, both of whom have tried unsuccessfully to drag Skip with them into tragedy. Skip, the heroine, has always successfully opposed the roles forced upon her, but this time she will have to reconsider her outsider status. The question: Can an exile ever be at home? Great Love Comes To Mind is a novel about the disorientation between freedom and belonging. A book about attachment to each other, but also to our own reality.
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)As Long As We Could
by Pablo Herrán
Eve Friedman is an eighty-three years old playwright who lives alone in a messy apartment in Manhattan. Her childhood memories that come into her mind in the swimming pool, the night conversations with the building manager and the chicken thighs on sale at the supermarket are enough to make her happy. However, when she meets Jorge, a young foreigner who recently moved to New York to work as a screenwriter, her life started to reel. Through this relationship, Eve will discover another kind of loneliness, one caused by a disease that is disarming her most powerful weapon: words.
