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Based on true events, JUST ONLY ADINA is about a little girl named Adina, who is the third of four children and is not happy about it. She would much rather be an only child, but since that's not possible, she tries hard to make it seem like it is. She takes advantage of living in a tent and a dumpster in the yard until a summer storm and her dad prove these ideas to be unwise. Then there's the time she makes a house in the hall closet. But wh...

It is a beautiful sunny day on the Gulf Coast of Florida-perfect for a Jet Ski excursion to Dog Bone Island with a pack of buddies who live in the seaside suburb of Barkington Bluffs. Tebow, a boxer, is outgoing, while his best friend Caspar, a golden retriever, is bashful. They know other pups in the neighborhood as well: Hershey, a spunky Yorkie, Shadow, a motherly Australian shepherd, Sage, a standard poodle, Bailey, a yellow lab, and Hunte...

Are you an employee trying to improve your job? or find you are searching for that special job? Are you running a business? Do you find your business orbiting, stagnant and/or struggling to develop? Do you need a little professional help? By reading, studying and adopting the principles written in the pages of this book, you will learn and be confident to take your business, and yourself, to the next level and double your turnover and salary i...

When eleven-year old Patty Pringle answers a help wanted add, she has no idea that she will soon be embarking on an adventure that will change her life forever. Patty and her younger brother Sean go to the mall to meet Santa, which is when Sean steals some of the letters that children have sent Santa. Determined to return the letters to Santa, Patty teams up with an elf named Agent 12-25, who takes her to the North Pole. At the North Pole, the...

This is the Story of the Bible, in pictures both new and old. These images started out as sketches by Gustave Doré, who died in 1883. During his short life, he produced striking paintings, from small projects to the enormous Le Christ quittant le prétoire (nearly 30 feet long and just over 19 feet high). Painting didn't pay well, so he also produced woodcuts by the hundreds, illustrations for picture books, newspapers, and classics - literally...

Belief in oneself is paramount to living the life that will allow you to come out from behind the shadow of other peoples' accomplishments, your self-doubt, and what others never expected you could do.

El libro trata sobre la historia de una mujer llamada Natalie quien desde su niñez hasta la adultez estuvo confrontando diversos problemas con una persona a quien ella describía como su rival La misma (la rival), se encarga de hacerle la vida imposible a la protagonista quien causa de esta rival y los sufrimientos que la misma le ha causado, decide enfrentarla y conocerla. El libro nos motiva a ayudar a Natalie a conocer a su rival y a identif...

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This volume is a collection of a number of country folk tales. The tales reveal a good deal of fairy lore, some tree lore, including ghostly trees like crooker, the uncanny black dog makes his appearance in more than one tale and also include several long fireside tales.

This volume is a large collection of folk literature. It is an in-depth exploration of rural Denmark, and provides an excellent vantage point from which to understand legends in their cultural contexts and within the lives of their tellers.

This book shows that the brothers Grimm deserve the respect and affection also for reasons other than the discovery of the Marchen. It focuses on the folktale as a subject for serious enquiry.

This volume provides an insight into the rise of folkloristics in Russia undergoing almost unprecedented changes in social and political conditions. It is a valuable resource to all non-Russian readers.

Although Brazilian scholars have collected and studied folklore since the second half of the nineteenth century, their work has gone largely unnoticed by folklorists working in other parts of the world. With the exception of anthropologists who occasionally study the folk literature of indigenous peoples in Brazil, few foreigners are familiar with, or even aware of, the kinds of folklore studies that have been undertaken in that country. This ...

The trickster character is prominent in the cultural, particularly narrative, traditions of many different peoples throughout the world. Comic and serious, stupid and clever, benevolent and evil, winner and loser, the trickster is a study in contradictions. The trickster cannot be pigeonholed, for he does not fit into any neat categories or definitions. This study aims to give the reader the opportunity to experience in some small measure the ...

When originally published in 1981 this was the first book to bring together in one volume some of the most thoughtful work by British academics and specialists studying the political violence and terrorism which had recently challenged Britain and other Western democracies. Four chapters consider the strategy and tactics of the IRA and the problems of the Northern Ireland conflict. Other articles discuss the phenomena of international terrorism.

This book traces the formation of ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna) and the tensions created by its combination and aims: socialism and Basque nationalism. The Basque Nationalist movement emerged in the late nineteenth century as a response to the rapid transformation of Basque society by industrialisation. The influx of Spanish-speaking workers to Basque territories seemed to threaten the stability of basque society. Over the next half century Basq...