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Write Your Own Horoscope is DIY astrology. Become an expert astrologer and master of your own life with this no-nonsense, destiny-defining guide.

The ingenious storyteller Edward Carey returns to reimagine a time-honored fable: the story of an impatient father, a rebellious son, and a watery path to forgiveness for the young man known as Pinocchio In the small Tuscan town of Collodi, a lonely woodcarver longs for the companionship of a son. One day, "as if the wood commanded me, " Giuseppe-better known as Geppetto-carves for himself a pinewood boy, a marionette he hopes to take on tour ...

In 1939, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia-a story that remained unknown until an unforgettable TV appearance in the 1980s reunited him with the children he saved. Czech-American artist, MacArthur Fellow, and Andersen Award winner Peter Sís tells Winton's story in this distinctive and deeply personal picture book. He intertwines Nicky's efforts with the story of ...

Fujishiro and the other virgins have finally escaped the prison and its voluptuous jailers. But that was all by the Warden's design, for now it's time to move on to Stage Two of her deadly game. Blue water, white sands, and beautiful girls in swimsuits-now the captives are stranded on a tropical island with no way out, and the girls are more determined to steal their virginity than ever!

When Nephele has a terrible freshman year, she does the only logical thing for a math prodigy like herself: she invents a time travel app so she can go back and do it again (and again, and again) in this funny love story, Groundhog Day for the iPhone generation.Fourteen-year-old Nephele used to have friends. Well, she had a friend. That friend made the adjustment to high school easily, leaving Nephele behind in the process. And as Nephele look...

An analysis of stream mitigation banking and the challenges of implementing market-based approaches to environmental conservation.Market-based approaches to environmental conservation have been increasingly prevalent since the early 1990s. The goal of these markets is to reduce environmental harm not by preventing it, but by pricing it. A housing development on land threaded with streams, for example, can divert them into underground pipes if ...

Employment Law (in Plain English)®provides both employers and employees the information they need in order to understand the law as it relates to their working relationship. This helpful guide will enable readers to identify and prevent many of the issues which can and do occur in the employment context, thus saving everyone valuable time and money and establishing a stronger workforce. While this book is not intended to replace the reader's e...

The goal to improving one's life begins internally. By addressing the quality of your mental state-whether fear, doubt, anxiety, depression-you can achieve a positive self-worth and improve your quality of life. It all begins with you! All of us, at one point in our lives, have wondered if we are able to make the decisions or choices that will turn our lives around. Can I begin that work project I have been putting off? What about the diet t...

Enjoy the classic tale of Cinderella like you've never seen it before!Enjoy the classic tale of Cinderella like you've never seen it before! Beautiful illustrations by bring this story to life, making the characters leap off the pages. The story of Cinderella has been a perennial classic for generations and is beloved by readers of all ages and is the perfect gift for children and families alike. This classic tale is now in the perfect format ...

Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, ambition and the terrible lure of addiction, from one of Denmark's most celebrated twentieth-century writers.'Sharp, tough and tender ... wrenchin...

In this evocative debut novel, two boys in the bustling city of Dakar, Senegal, band together against the forces of darkness while trying to find their way home.Six-year-old Ibrahimah loves devouring pastries from his mother's kitchen, harvesting green beans with his father, and racing down to the beach after mosque in search of sea glass with his sisters. But when he is approached in his rural village one day by Marabout Ahmed, a seemingly ki...

A tense, layered story of misguided allegiances and sheer desperation,  One Simple Thing is the kind of "grit lit" that belongs with such writers as Per Petterson, Richard Ford (Canada) and Charles Portis.

A page-turner about a woman's struggle in an unapologetic patriarchy, Bride of the Buddha offers the reader a penetrating perspective on the milieu of the Buddha, with a fanciful twist.

One of the most basic questions for any legal system is that of methodology: how one interprets, analyzes, weighs, and applies a mass of often competing legal rules, precedents, practices, customs, and traditions to reach final determinations and practical guidance about the correct legal-prescribed course of action in any given situation. Questions of legal methodology raise not only practical concerns, but theoretical and philosophical ones ...

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The ultimate reference for navigating the complex decisions and relationships that are critical to creating and sustaining a healthy family business--and business family--with practical advice and insights from the expert family business consultant authors.Fills a much needed and long-vacant resource hole in the market for those who work in/for/with family businesses.This book will be the comprehensive guide to family business that can be cont...

Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is becoming increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and taunting voices. Convinced that her housekeeper and husband are plotting against her, she descends into a terrifying world of sickness, pills and institutionalization. But is sanity in fact a kind of sickness? And might mental illness itself lead to enlightenment?Brief, intense and haunting, Ditlevsen's novel ...

She isn't the first to vanish from the ranch. And she won't be the last . . . A dark, compulsively readable thriller set in an isolated town in Northern California, perfect for fans of Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel and TV's The Sinner.

Now that there's software in everything, how can you make anything secure? Understand how to engineer dependable systems with this newly updated classic In Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems, Third Edition Cambridge University professor Ross Anderson updates his classic textbook and teaches readers how to design, implement, and test systems to withstand both error and attack. This book became a best-sell...

In these reader-favorite stories, the MacGregor men will take the biggest chances of their lives all in the name of love!For Now, ForeverSelf-made millionaire Daniel MacGregor is used to getting what he wants. Whether business or pleasure, Daniel MacGregor can charm his way through it all. So when he meets the fiercely independent Anna Whitfield, he's surprised when she coolly dismisses him. Studying to be a surgeon, Anna has no patience for D...