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An extraordinary spiritual memoir about the will to survive ... one breath at a timeAlison Wright covered humanitarian issues with her camera until her own life was nearly cut short during a horrific bus accident with a logging truck on a remote jungle road in Laos. Suffering from excruciating life-threatening injuries, she drew upon her years of meditation practice, concentrating upon each breath, believing it to be her last. Wright's memoir,...

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A perceptive and powerful debut of identity and belonging―of a young woman determined to be seen.Willa Chen has never quite fit in. Growing up as a biracial Chinese American girl in New Jersey, Willa felt both hypervisible and unseen, too Asian to fit in at her mostly white school, and too white to speak to the few Asian kids around. After her parents' early divorce, they both remarried and started new families, and Willa grew up feeling outsi...

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The Catholic Church has been a very important presence in the history of modern Ireland. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are in a very real sense the time when it took on the form that made it such a weighty social force in the life of the nation. This publication studies a community moulded by several forces. The two most important were the penal legislation and the mission of tridentine Catholicism. Within it, there were wide divers...

Seitdem Juli Zehs "Corpus Delicti: Ein Prozess" 2009 in Deutschland erschienen ist, ist der Roman aktueller denn je. Dass er auch oft fester Bestandteil des deutschen Literaturunterrichts ist, darf angesichts seiner Themen- und Stoffdichte nicht verwundern. Leser, Lehrende und Studierende haben es hier mit hochwertiger, stark verdichteter Gegenwartsliteratur der Postmoderne zu tun, deren Reichtum an aktuellen Themen, Hinterfragungen und intert...

»Weiß du was? Du tust mir leid, auch wenn das ganz dumm und naiv von mir ist.« Das Leben der siebzehnjährigen Lilly ändert sich schlagartig, als sie nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter aus ihrer beschaulichen Heimatstadt nach Berlin zu ihrer exzentrischen Großmutter ziehen muss. Dort fühlt Lilly sich zunächst einsam und fremd, denn ihre Großmutter hat wenig Zeit für sie übrig. Da erscheint es Lilly wie eine Fügung des Schicksals, dass sie bei einer ihr...

»Weiß du was? Du tust mir leid, auch wenn das ganz dumm und naiv von mir ist.« Das Leben der siebzehnjährigen Lilly ändert sich schlagartig, als sie nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter aus ihrer beschaulichen Heimatstadt nach Berlin zu ihrer exzentrischen Großmutter ziehen muss. Dort fühlt Lilly sich zunächst einsam und fremd, denn ihre Großmutter hat wenig Zeit für sie übrig. Da erscheint es Lilly wie eine Fügung des Schicksals, dass sie bei einer ihr...

Hope and Alex. . . this changes everything. Half Moon Bay Resort owner Hope Collins makes an exciting yet dangerous discovery. Dive guide and former Navy SEAL Alex Monroe recognizes its potential and understands better than most the associated peril. As a couple, both must learn to confront the unknown and explore new territory. Hope has proven her success with the resort and must learn to trust her own strength. Alex struggles to reconcil...

Cody Carpenter never desired to dwell in a land where walking and talking are prohibited, sleeping and eating are neither required nor desired, and night comes but darkness doesn't. Cody is quite content to remain in Betugonna Missit, a quaint town few people have ever wanted to visit. Then, a most unfortunate event occurs and a disappearing draft notice appears. Suddenly Cody is required to report to a world that most people have never believ...

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Calabritto is a novel about a mountain village in central Italy taking place in the early seventies and the eccentric characters that weave their stories in and around each other. Written in Tony Nesca's classic free-flow, stream of consciousness, the prose itself mesmerizes and captivates, drawing the reader into a tragi-comedy that unfolds an intricate tapestry of human experience.

The CUCET, or the Central University Common Entrance Test, is an all India level examination conducted for admission in various central universities such as JNU, BHU, JMI, AMU etc. Practice tests are a sure-fire way to test your preparation level and identify areas of improvement. This book has a total of 35 practice sets for better practice of the exam, divided into 4 major sections. Each question is supported with detailed answers for unders...

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