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Children's & YAJanuary 2022The Tooth Fairy’s Tales. Part 1. I’m Betty. Nice to meet you!
by Tetyana Nakonechna (Author), Maria Puzey (Illustrator)
Have you ever heard of a little tooth fairy named Betty? Oh, she is a real charmer and a great dreamer... And there is never a dull moment with her around! Do you want to find out how the fairy became a detective? Or make friends with a chatty stone? Or maybe you will dare to take part in a bat race?So don’t wait, open the book and dive into magical adventures! From 3 to 8 years, 3482 words Rightsholder: inna@rm-publisher.com.ua; in.vovch@gmail.com
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Trusted Partner
TIME TO HEAL : A NOVEL
by Norhafsah Hamid, Maman Rosnan & Husna Abd Rahman
Hassan, who had lost his twin brother, best friend and partner-in-crime — Hussin — during teenagers due to cancer. Hassan then further studies medicine and makes friends with Amy and Nieza; and become best friends. Hassan — loves to joke around, tease his friends and coworkers a lot, a gentleman to the point people called him Dr Charmer, and very protective towards his friends especially Amy and Nieza. If a man wants to approach Amy and Nieza, he has to go through Hassan first! Beneath those witty personalities, Hassan was actually struggling in handling his inner turmoil when it comes to grieving and sadness. When his friend and his teenage patient passed away, Hassan was again at a loss. He always thought that he needed to be strong for his parents after Hussin passed away — he stopped crying, he stopped expressing his grief, he just ignored the pain. But then he learn, being strong does not mean one should suppress and dismiss his feelings.
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The ArtsMarch 2006Art history
A critical introduction to its methods
by Michael Hatt, Charlotte Klonk
Art History: A critical introduction to its methods provides a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates within art history. Offering a lucid account of approaches from Hegel to post-colonialism, the book provides a sense of art history's own history as a discipline from its emergence in the late-eighteenth century to contemporary debates. By explaining the underlying philosophical and political assumptions behind each method, along with clear examples of how these are brought to bear on visual and historical analysis, the authors show that an adherence to a certain method is, in effect, a commitment to a set of beliefs and values. The book makes a strong case for the vitality of the discipline and its methodological centrality to new fields such as visual culture. This book will be of enormous value to undergraduate and graduate students, and also makes its own contributions to ongoing scholarly debates about theory and method. ;
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Children's & YAMarch 2020Easy-to-make Desserts from Around the World 1
by Candy Tang
Making dessert can be a piece of cake! Let’s make chocolate mint smoothies, fruit parfait, Turkish rice pudding, Burbur cha cha, pancakes, Halo-halo, and more! Try these easy-to-make recipes of popular dishes from around the world!
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October 2013The Lightning Charmer
by Kathryn Magendie
From the bestselling author of TENDER GRACES “The Lightning Charmer is full of whimsy, enchantment, ancient secrets, and dark earthy seduction . . . storytelling at its best! – Sharla Lovelace, bestselling and award-winning author of THE REASON IS YOU He brought down the sky for her. In the deep hollows and high ridges of the ancient Appalachian mountains, a legacy of stunning magic will change their lives forever. Laura is caught between the modern and the mystical, struggling to lead a normal life in New York despite a powerful psychic connection to her childhood home in North Carolina—and to the mysterious stranger who calls her name. She’s a synesthete—someone who mentally “sees” and “tastes” splashes of color connected to people, emotions, and things. She’s struggled against the distracting ability all her life; now the effects have grown stronger. She returns home to the mountains, desperate to resolve the obsessive pull of their mysteries. But life in her mountain community is far from peaceful. An arsonist has the town on edge, and she discovers Ayron, scarred and tormented, an irresistible recluse who rarely leaves the forest. As her childhood memories of him surface, the façade of her ordinary world begins to fade. The knots she’s tied around her heart and her beliefs start unraveling. Ayron has never forgotten her or the meaning of their astonishing bond. If his kind is to survive in modern times, he and Laura must face the consequences of falling in love. Kathryn Magendie lives in the Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina with her weird discombobulated dog (who is strangely like Kathryn), two much missed ghost dogs, her husband GMR, (“Good Man Roger,”) a mysterious shadowman, and many wild critters. Visit her at kathyrnmagendie.com.
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May 2023Brunch with Brother Marcus
Recipes from the Eastern Med
by Tasos Gaitanos, Alex Large
Brunch at Brother Marcus is a weekend institution in London, and here in their first book you can find out why. Tas and Alex take the flavours of the Eastern Med to make dishes worth getting out of bed for, from simple favourites like Menemen - a spicy scrambled eggs made with peppers and tomatoes - to the sublime: think Pulled Lamb Flatbreads or Rosti with Fried Chicken and Eggs. Brunch with Brother Marcus also features recipes to make your own yoghurt, pickles, salt beef and breads as well as a drinks chapter that delivers both smoothies and fortifying cocktails such as the Brother Mary, or the alcohol-free Pomegranate Ginger Beer (sure to put a skip in your step). And there are sweets too, including traditional Baklavadika and a truly divine Portokalopita, an extraordinary orange filo pastry cake. You won’t want to brunch with anyone else.
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Food & DrinkSeptember 2018Brick Lane Cookbook
by Dina Begum
Brick Lane is famous for many things: for being home to the biggest Bangladeshi community in the UK, for its curry houses and Bengali sweet shops, for its graffiti, its long-running market and its beigel shops. Now, its also increasingly well known for its thriving art and fashion scene and the incredible street food available there. Dina Begum has been a regular visitor since she was a little girl eating lamb kofta rolls with her dad at the Sweet & Spicy cafe. In her first book, she celebrates Brick Lane's diverse food cultures: from the homestyle Bangladeshi curries she grew up eating to her own luscious and indulgent cakes, from Chinese-style burgers to classic Buffalo wings, from smoothie bowls to raw coffee brownies. With contributions from street food traders and restaurants including Gram Bangla, Beigel Bake, Blanchette, Chez Elles, St Sugar of London, Cafe 1001 and Moo Cantina, the Brick Lane Cookbook is a culinary map of the East End's tastiest street and a snapshot of London at its authentic, multi-cultural best.
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2018The Date Puree Revolution
So Long, Refined Sugar! Hello, Date Puree!
by Madame Labriski
The healthy phenomenon from Québec : 60,000 copies sold! In this book, the author showcases the many culinary possibilities of date puree, while encouraging us to give free rein to our creativity in the kitchen. On the menu: cookies, bars, muffins, cakes, pies, smoothies, sauces, popsicles, coulis, frostings, breakfast puddings, granola, parfaits, protein snacks for athletes, and tips for hungry marathoners. The recipes are egg-free, gluten-free, and dairy-free.To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/2Y6OCcM
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Thriller / suspenseMay 2014FAREWELL TO DREAMS
A Novel of Fatal Insomnia
by CJ Lyons
Join New York Times bestseller and real life ER physician CJ Lyons as she returns to her medical thriller roots with a heart wrenching tale of good and evil, despair and hope, and the unexpected gift of grace that comes with embracing our mortality. Fatal. Insomnia. “FAREWELL TO DREAMS has it all: a heroine you'll never forget and a story that whips by at bullet speed." ~Tess Gerritsen, NYT bestselling author of DIE AGAIN “CJ Lyons scores a major triumph with FAREWELL TO DREAMS. Totally absorbing and impossible to put down.” ~Douglas Preston, #1 NYT bestselling author In the chaos of the ER, functioning without sleep is a prized skill. But even Dr. Angela Rossi will admit that five months is far too long, especially when accompanied by other worrisome symptoms: night sweats, tremors, muscle spasms, fevers. Then a dead nun speaks to her while Angela is holding the nun’s heart in her hand. “Find the girl,” the nun commands—although no one else in the trauma room can hear, the words drilling directly into Angela’s brain. “Save the girl.” Falling into catatonic states where she freezes in the middle of a resuscitation and hears dead nuns talking to her? Not good. Maybe she should check herself into her own hospital…except a lost girl’s life depends on Angela. Because the girl IS real. The threat to her is deadly. Aided by a police detective fallen from grace, Angela searches the midnight catacombs beneath the city, facing down a ruthless gangleader and stumbling onto a serial killer’s lair. Her desperate quest to save the girl leads her to the one thing she least expected to find: a last chance for love. As her symptoms escalate in bizarre and disturbing ways, Angie realizes exactly how serious her illness is. She might be dying, but she’s finally choosing how to live… FAREWELL TO DREAMS reveals critically acclaimed, award winning New York Times bestselling author CJ Lyons at her best. Join the millions of readers who have already fallen in love with CJ’s “Thrillers with Heart” and grab your copy of FAREWELL TO DREAMS today!
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FictionApril 2017Hear Me
by Julia North
After yet another shameful one-night stand Lissa has to accept that her sisters are right – she is an alcoholic and it’s time for rehab. She hates the idea of therapy, doesn’t want to examine her past, but just as she begins to see reasons for her drinking, life takes a brutal turn. Who are her fellow patients? Why is one of them so damned perfect? Hear Me is a powerful story about life and death, addiction and sobriety, racism and the fight for justice – but above all it is a story about love.
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Children's & YAApril 2016Saven Disclosure
The Saven Series #2
by Siobhan Davis (Author) Kelly Hartigan (Editor)
THE TRUTH WON'T HIDE FOREVER To protect Logan, I have no choice but to deceive him. But I’m not the only one hiding the truth. Will our love survive all the secrets and lies? Enemy alien ships crowd the skies over Earth while the world waits with bated breath. The Saven have been exposed, and where once they were abhorred, they are now championed as our greatest ally and our only possible savior. Logan and Sadie have been separated, and the longer he is gone, the more their love is tested by duty, doubts, and deception. Sadie and Jarod have infiltrated the highest levels of government, but they are playing a dangerous game. Surrounded by people with conflicting agendas—hell-bent on using her for their own aim—Sadie is confused when the lines between good and evil are blurred. It’s impossible to tell friend from foe, and no one can be trusted. When the full extent of the experiments taking place in Sector Twenty is disclosed, Sadie can no longer sit back and watch as the lower classes face a horrific fate. Racing to save her loved ones and mankind, she risks her own safety and the love she’s waited a lifetime for to do the right thing. But no one thought to save her from herself.
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Children's & young adult fiction & true storiesTaya Bayliss - Snake Charmer
by E. J. Gore
Spending the long weekend at the Comino farm turns out to be far more scary than Taya has expected. While planning a joint birthday party, she and Chris come across several interesting items in the attic, including a carpet python. Snakes are definitely not Taya’s favourite creatures. Taya thinks one of the items she has found could prove the innocence of Chris’s Uncle George who is in jail for theft. Her persistence annoys Chris, but the hint of a mystery is irresistible to Taya If George didn’t steal the ruby cross, who did? Who is Bryan? Where is the cross now? Taya has to face up to her greatest fear as she tries to put the clues together. Could you charm a snake?
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FictionDecember 2015The Heart of an Artichoke
a Tale of Betrayal
by Katie Butterworth
The meaning of the novel’s title refers to a man who philanders, who peels off the petals / leaves of the artichoke, nibbles the meaty base and throws them away when finished. Each petal is a woman that he conquers, enjoys briefly, and throws in the garbage. As he goes through life he leaves a trail of broken hearts who are disposed of in his waste can. Eventually without its petals, he is left only with just the heart, his heart, just memories of his victims. In short a duplicitous scoundrel, a womanizer. But as the metaphor continues relentlessly to its end, his comeuppance in operatic fashion, he ends up himself without petals in the trash bin. The tale begins with a rebellious, Francophile, American woman married with children vacationing in Southern France who decides not to go home with her husband to help his failing business a casualty of the Wall Street Crash. Living off a trust fund, she plans to stay in France, perhaps forever. Becoming infatuated with a totally charming Frenchman, a man who is already having an affair with a beautiful widow far below him in socioecomomic status. She is pregnant, but he is becoming engaged to a third woman with wealth and status. He, a strong, handsome and witty man, easily conquers this naïve American woman proud of her beauty and shapely body even after having two children. She is an easy mark because of her unabashed love affair with France and its culture and her reckless attitude toward her tiresome husband and boring marriage. As the affair deepens, she decides to ‘run off’ with this charmer, totally, head-over-heels in love. But when she is about to make her move, the charmer disappears throwing her into a deep depression. Agonizing over the untimely death of his newborn son, he avoids his ‘deflowered’ American, one of his artichoke petals. Alarmed, the woman’s maid wires a ‘come-here-quick’ note to the cuckolded husband in the US. When he arrives, he seems the skeleton of his ‘liberated’ wife, a discarded artichoke petal, draw, vacant, sullen who he magnanimously tries to nurse back to health aided by a quick trip to Italy. On their way back to America, nearly recovered from her depression, a sudden, tragic series of events explode as the novel comes to a tumultuous end. Written in 1933 the author skillfully traces the mental changes of the female protagonist, gives intimate details of the affair, masterfully describes the charming social and physical milieu of day-to-day life of Southern France just prior to World War II. A page turner, one of several novels by an as yet unknown author with consummate writing ability.
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Food & DrinkAugust 2013SMOOTHIES, JUICES & BLENDED DRINKS
Over 75 fabulous, energizing drinks, with over 200 images
by Joanna Farrow
There is something very enticing about freshly made blended drinks and juices. They can be healthy and cleansing, fresh and zesty, smooth and creamy or rich and decadent
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Travel tips & advice: generalFebruary 2011Tips on Tipping
A global guide to gratuity etiquette
by Carole French & Reg Butler
What do you tip the bellboy in Botswana? Should you give a gratuity on top of the service charge in a Parisian restaurant? Is it good practice to pay a Casablanca snake charmer if you wish to take his photo?_x000D_ _x000D_ Everyone who travels, whether for business or pleasure, has suffered the embarrassment caused by not knowing when or how much to tip. Now Bradt's Tipping offers the answers in a convenient, pocket-sized guide covering more than 130 countries. With black and white illustrations and photographs throughout, the book additionally features light-hearted personal anecdotes and tips drawn from the authors' careers in travel._x000D_
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February 2010Rules Were Made to Be Broken
Out of Print
by Lenore Black, DWS Photography
Successful businessman. Future pillar of the community. Stick in the mud. That's Aaron Fitchley, and since his father retired, leaving him in charge of the business, it’s been all work, work, work. Dale Lambert is a free-spirited, responsibility-shirking charmer who has been spicing up Aaron’s upstanding life since they met as kids. So when Aaron gets Dale’s phone call for help at three a.m., he’s sure he can handle it.But nothing could have prepared him for the sight of Dale in his underwear, wearing lip gloss, and handcuffed to his bed. After the initial shock, Aaron lets Dale loose and plans a hasty escape. But the cuffs quickly go back on… only this time Aaron is the one chained to the bed! Now that the tables have been turned, Dale has a few things to teach Aaron about breaking the rules. ;
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Pop-up & lift-the-flap booksOctober 2021La meravellosa i horripilant casa de la iaia | The Amazing Creepy Granny House
by Meritxell Martí & Xavier Salomó
A lift-the-flap book for grandmas and grandsons to have a ghoulishly fun time! Meritxell Martí and Xavier Salomó have created a not-too-spooky lift-the-flap book that promises hours of entertainment for the little ones. This title shares the memorable story of a grandson visiting her granny to spend a very special evening together. To his surprise, when the kid arrives in the old Victorian style house, there is note for him: a mouth-watering snack awaits in the kitchen. After having a delicious eye-popping chocolate smoothy, the young boy chases the kitten room by room until dusk. By the time the full-moon is coming, the big date approaches and so does the a punchy dénouement that gives a unique twist on the hounted house cliché. Readers will love exploring the rooms, guessing what is beneath each flap and finding details and surprises hidden on every page. Boo! A novelty book for grandmas and grandsons to read together. That’s always a treat!
