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Twelve-year-old Emmie is working to raise money for a tricked-out wheelchair to get serious about WCMX (wheelchair motocross), when a wipeout on a rickety ramp throws her plans into a tailspin. Instead of replacing the ramp, her school provides her with a kind but unwelcome aide - and, seeing a golden media opportunity, launches a public fundraiser for her. Emmie loves her close-knit rural town, but she can’t shake the feeling that her goals suddenly aren't hers anymore. With the help of her best friends, Emmie makes a plan to get her dreams off the ground - and show her community what she wants, what she has to give, and how ready she is to do it on her own terms.

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***As dramatised on BBC Radio Four***SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZETHE SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA RICHARD AND JUDY PICK'Written with a wisdom and skill that few authors attain in a lifetime' SUNDAY TIMESStill in her teenage years, Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed older man. Away from her Bangladeshi village, home is now a cramped flat in a high-rise block in London's East End. Nazneen knows not a word of English, and is forced to depend on her husband.Confined in her tiny flat, Nazneen sews furiously for a living, shut away with her buttons and linings - until the radical Karim steps unexpectedly into her life. On a background of racial conflict and tension, they embark on a love affair that forces Nazneen finally to take control of her fate.A GRANTA BEST OF BRITISH YOUNG NOVELISTSHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD'A brilliant evocation of sensuality' DAILY TELEGRAPH'A novel that will last' GUARDIAN'Highly evolved and accomplished' OBSERVERReader's love for BRICK LANE:'Memorable and gripping' *****'The kind of book that changes your perception of the world' *****'This has become a classic and i can see why'*****'Funny, sharp and very touching' *****

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Rich, multi-layered stories and texts with cross-curricular links specially developed for guided reading by top-quality authors and illustrators. Every title has its own Teaching Version which provides page-by-page support to develop word recognition and language comprehension skills. Expertly levelled to Book Bands ensuring the right book is used at the right time for every child. Even more exciting titles with 3-D illustrated Fantastic Forest which doubles as a perfect APP resource.

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICKAS HEARD ON RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME, READ BY MEERA SYAL A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, DAILY MAIL, RED MAGAZINE, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'Absolutely terrific' JENNY COLGAN'An utterly unputdownable exploration of modern love' STYLIST'Gloriously readable, acute, funny and sympathetic' DAILY MAIL------------------------------------------------------------TWO CULTURES. TWO FAMILIES. TWO PEOPLE. Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in medicine, and a charming, handsome fiancée, fellow doctor Joe Sangster. But as the wedding day draws closer and Yasmin's parents get to know Joe's firebrand feminist mother, both families must confront the unravelling of long-held secrets, lies and betrayals.As Yasmin dismantles her own assumptions about the people she holds most dear, she's also forced to ask herself what she really wants in a relationship and what a 'love marriage' actually means.'A glorious tapestry of modern British family life' METRO'A joy' NAOISE DOLAN'I defy you to put this book down' ADAM KAY'A surefire hit' OBSERVER'Wildly entertaining ... a bold and generous book' FINANCIAL TIMES'Big-hearted, wry and tender' HARPER'S BAZAAR'As engrossing and enjoyable as Brick Lane' SUNDAY TIMES'Rich, sensitive and gloriously entertaining' TASH AW, TLS

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Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal; her mind feels broken. And her life is completely shattered: Three years ago, she and her younger brother, Abek, were the only members of their family to be sent to the right, away from the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Everyone else--her parents, her grandmother, radiant Aunt Maja--they went left.Zofia's last words to her brother were a promise: Abek to Zofia, A to Z. When I find you again, we will fill our alphabet. Now her journey to fulfill that vow takes her through Poland and Germany, and into a displaced persons camp where everyone she meets is trying to piece together a future from a painful past: Miriam, desperately searching for the twin she was separated from after they survived medical experimentation. Breine, a former heiress, who now longs only for a simple wedding with her new fiance. And Josef, who guards his past behind a wall of secrets, and is beautiful and strange and magnetic all at once.But the deeper Zofia digs, the more impossible her search seems. How can she find one boy in a sea of the missing? In the rubble of a broken continent, Zofia must delve into a mystery whose answers could break her--or help her rebuild her world.

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AS SEEN ON TV - THE NEW COOKBOOK FROM MONICA GALETTI OF MASTERCHEF: THE PROFESSIONALSThe new cookbook from the celebrated chef, presenter and restaurateur! Monica Galetti's career has taken her from her home in Samoa and New Zealand to the professional kitchens of London. Her new cookbook, At Home, showcases the easy, everyday dishes she enjoys at home, with family and friends, using simple ingredients that everyone will enjoy. From breakfast time and midweek suppers to celebrations, gatherings and the perfect Sunday lunch, At Home is a celebration of great home cooking.CONTENTSChapter one: Chilled-Out BreakfastsIncluding Banana waffles; Eggs Benedict with Sriracha Hollandaise and Masi Samoa - Samoan ShortbreadChapter two: WeeknightsIncluding Spring Onion Tempura with Soy & Garlic Dipping Sauce; Sweetcorn Fritters with Horseradish Cream and Apple & Blackberry BakeChapter three: The Perfect SundayIncluding Walnut, Blackberry & Feta Salad; Pork Shoulder with Pistachio Stuffing and Beer-Battered Fish & Rosemary Salt ChipsChapter four: Family Get-TogethersIncluding Steak, Chimichurri & Burnt Butter Mash; Aubergine & Anchovy Pizza and Lemon & White Chocolate Baked AlaskaChapter five: Holiday FavouritesIncluding Olive Tapenade with Wholemeal Flatbreads; Manuka & Ras el Hanout Roast Lamb and Chocolate Brandy Snaps with Orange Marmalade Chantilly

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Vuelve Mónica Rouanet, la autora best seller de Despiértame cuando acabe septiembre y No oigo a los niños jugar.

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La discusión en torno al patriarcado no ha dejado deestar presente en la historiografía y en el feminismo enlas últimas décadas. Sin embargo, no existe conseso en elpensamiento feminista a la hora de dotar de centralidadal patriarcado en la estructura y organización socialcapitalista.Hasta qué punto el patriarcado atraviesa el ordenactual? En torno a qué parámetros se produjo estainstitucionalización, que comenzó en la familia y seextendió al resto de la sociedad? Gerda Lerner realizaun acercamiento a la Antigua Mesopotamia a travésde fuentes primarias. Deja de lado la victimización delas mujeres, así como el mito del matriarcado, paraafrontar un análisis que nos lleva a otras preguntas.Consigue, así mismo, dar la centralidad que se suelenegar a los discursos históricos a la hora de pensarel momento actual. Por todo esto, La creación delpatriarcado es un libro referencial para construirparámetros históricos que nos per

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Imagínese la escena: es usted vendedor a domicilio y llama a la puerta de un piso patera donde viven 17 personas de diferentes familias, a quién venderle? Este libro trata todo aquello que no le cuentan en los manuales de comercialización al uso, desde cómo resolver situaciones peliagudas como la descrita hasta cómo vender humo pasando por las jornadas interminables de las operadoras de telemarketing. Escrito de forma amena y divertida este libro es la cara B de los libros de ventas.

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Puede una pequeña librería de Londres cambiar una vida?Una historia para todos aquellos que han sentido alguna vez que la literatura les salvaba.Agnes Martí es una joven arqueóloga que se muda a Londres en busca de una oportunidad. Poco tiempo después de llegar a la ciudad, sorprendida por una repentina lluvia mientras pasea por el barrio del Temple y se refugia en una librería muy especial: Moonlight Books. Edward Livingstone está buscando una ayudante y, en el tiempo que Agnes tarda en secarse y tomar una taza de té caliente, ambos comprenden que no es casualidad que sea precisamente ella quien ha llamado a su puerta.A medida que pasan los días, Agnes va descubriendo el carácter gruñón de su nuevo jefe, las excentricidades de su clientela habitual y el encanto de esta pequeña librería. Hasta que un día, uno de los libros más preciados de las estanterías de Moonlight Books desaparece y el inspector de policía John Lockwood entra en escena para hacerse cargo de l

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Una pareja que perdió a su hijo en un accidente inexplicable, dos viajeros que acaban viéndose implicados en un ritual caníbal, sectarios sanguinarios en motocicletas, buscadores de ovnis, hombres lobo beatniks, una joven con delirios mesiánicos obsesionada con la sangre, un perturbador asesino en serie? Todas estas historias se entrecruzan a un ritmo vertiginoso y convergen en una trama terrible, absurda y memorable a partes iguales.Mónica Bustos recurre a la tradición de la serie B para construir una narración intensa, repleta de intrigas descarnadas y escenas paródicas. El humor que se desprende de la narración es ácido y, el ambiente, bizarro a la par que cautivador. El lector tiene entre manos una novela coral cuanto menos atípica, una pequeña joya que rinde homenaje a la tradición pulp, escrita en fragmentos interconectados que cobran todo su sentido al ser unidos.

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Delicious dinners don’t have to mean endless dishes! Introducing Skillet & Sheet Pan Suppers, a collection of one-pan meals that will revolutionize the way you prepare dinner. Feed your family in half the time with a fraction of the effort—and no one will know the difference! With mouthwatering meals like: Roasted Salmon with Lemony Asparagus and Tomato Cheesy Pea & Carrot Frittata Lemony Chicken Wings and Sweet Corn These heartwarming, stick-to-your-ribs spreads will provide delicious and nutritious meals for your table. Spend less time prepping and cleaning, and more time with the ones you love.

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An accessible, practical guide to incorporating the 10 essential EdTech skills and strategies in every learning setting.In a world awash in technology, what EdTech skills and strategies should educators focus on to ensure they are making the best use of online spaces for classroom learning? How can they navigate through the overwhelming number of options in digital tools and spaces? How can they guide students in learning best practices?EdTech consultant Monica Burns answers these and other questions in this powerful and reader-friendly guide to incorporating EdTech across all grade levels and subject areas, and in both distance-learning and face-to-face environments. Readers will gain practical advice on Navigating online spaces, Curating resources, Introducing opportunities for exploring the world, Developing collaboration structures, Providing time and space to create learning products, Assessing students, Creating opportunities for sharing, Connecting student work to relevant audiences, Developing transferable skills, and Planning for tech-rich learning experiences. Each chapter explains why the skill or strategy is essential, including supporting research, classroom examples, guiding questions for planning and reflection, and suggested websites and digital tools for classroom use. The book also includes access to downloadable forms to help you set goals, assess your progress, and build your EdTech tool belt.Timely, accessible, and informed by the author's experience and expertise, EdTech Essentials is a must-read for educators who want proven ways to prepare their students to be productive, responsible users of technology both within and outside the classroom.

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A Kids' Indie Next List pick! Laugh-out-loud humor and a tender friendship blossom in author-illustrator Monica Arnaldo’s charming picture book about a lonely raccoon and a glowing seed, and the world’s most important question: Can this seed grow cheeseburgers? Grub is a lonely racoon. Rumbling in the trash. Looking for food.Seed is, well, a seed! Patiently waiting in the trash. Hoping someone will plant it. When the two finally meet, they realize they might be able to help each other! Grub has just one big question first: What will Seed grow? Could Seed grow Grub’s favorite food, mouthwatering cheeseburgers? Seed isn’t sure what a cheeseburger is exactly, but . . . maybe!And so begins a hilarious friendship following two unlikely strangers learning more about the other and discovering the pressure that comes with fulfilling expectations. Author-illustrator Monica Arnaldo will leave readers giggling and clamoring for more in this charming story that celebrates the unexpected—and how the most special friendships bloom only when we are unapologetically ourselves.

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Monica Minott’s host of witnesses are women who are collectively grounded in ritual and spiritual understanding, practical, sensible – though, like all of us, flawed in their humanity.

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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER‘The Power of Wonder explains how cultivating healthy curiosity increases our wellbeing.’The Sunday TimesFrom the first tickle of curiosity to an unexpected shift in how we perceive the world, there isn't a person who hasn't experienced wonder, and yet the why and how of this profoundly beneficial emotion is only just beginning to be scientifically examined. The Power of Wonder takes readers on a multidisciplinary journey through psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, literature and business to share some of the surprising secrets behind the mechanics of wonder. This inspiring book explores the power of wonder to change the way we learn, develop new ideas, build resiliency and ultimately become better humans. If we embrace this essential emotion, we can find deeper meaning and lead a more fulfilling life. From art and architecture to love and sex, to sleep and psychedelics, you will learn about how wonder can transform our bodies and brains. Where it's taking a daily 'wonder walk', embracing the benefits of daydreaming or discovering a new absorbing intellectual pursuit, this book shows us how to become more wonderprone and reconnect with a reverence for the world and all the magic in it.

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The first full-length study of a once revolutionary visual and linguistic medium Literature has “died” many times—this book tells the story of its death by postcard. Picturing the Postcard looks to this unlikely source to shed light on our collective, modern-day obsession with new media. The postcard, almost unimaginably now, produced at the end of the nineteenth century the same anxieties and hopes that many people think are unique to twenty-first-century social media such as Facebook or Twitter. It promised a newly connected social world accessible to all and threatened the breakdown of authentic social relations and even of language. Arguing that “new media” is as much a discursive object as a material one, and that it is always in dialogue with the media that came before it, Monica Cure reconstructs the postcard’s history through journals, legal documents, and sources from popular culture, analyzing the postcard’s representation in fiction by well-known writers such as E. M. Forster and Edith Wharton and by more obscure writers like Anne Sedgwick and Herbert Flowerdew. Writers deployed uproar over the new medium of the postcard by Anglo-American cultural critics to mirror anxieties about the changing nature of the literary marketplace, which included the new role of women in public life, the appeal of celebrity and the loss of privacy, an increasing dependence on new technologies, and the rise of mass media. Literature kept open the postcard’s possibilities and in the process reimagined what literature could be.

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Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist The poems of Might Kindred wonder aloud: can we belong to one another, and “can a people belong to a dreaming machine?” Conjuring mountains and bodies of water, queer and immigrant poetics, beloveds both human and animal, Mónica Gomery explores the intimately personal and the possibility of a collective voice. Here anthems are sung and fall apart midsong. The speaker exchanges letters with her ancestors, is visited by a shadow sister, and interrogates what it means to make a home as a first-generation American. Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, the poems in Might Kindred are rooted in the body and its cousins, seeking the possibility of kinship, “in case we might kindness, might ardor together.” Belonging and unbelonging are claimed as part of the same complicated whole, and Gomery’s intersections reach for something divine at the center.

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Reimagines photography through the long history of ideas of expression The end of the nineteenth century saw massive developments and innovations in photography at a time when the forces of Western modernity—industrialization, racialization, and capitalism—were quickly reshaping the world. The Unintended slows down the moment in which the technology of photography seemed to speed itself—and so the history of racial capitalism—up. It follows the substantial shifts in the markets, mediums, and forms of photography during a legally murky period at the end of the nineteenth century. Monica Huerta traces the subtle and paradoxical ways legal thinking through photographic lenses reinscribed a particular aesthetics of whiteness in the very conceptions of property ownership. The book pulls together an archive that encompasses the histories of performance and portraiture alongside the legal, pursuing the logics by which property rights involving photographs are affirmed (or denied) in precedent-setting court cases and legal texts. Emphasizing the making of “expression” into property to focus our attention on the failures of control that cameras do not invent, but rather put new emphasis on, this book argues that designations of control’s absence are central to the practice and idea of property-making. The Unintended proposes that tracking and analyzing the sensed horizons of intention, control, autonomy, will, and volition offers another way into understanding how white supremacy functions. Ultimately, its unique historical reading practice offers a historically-specific vantage on the everyday workings of racial capitalism and the inheritances of white supremacy that structure so much of our lives.

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The history of collecting is a topic of central importance to many academic disciplines, and shows no sign of abating in popularity. As such, scholars will welcome this collection of essays by internationally recognised experts that gathers together for the first time varied and stimulating perspectives on the nineteenth-century collector and art market for French eighteenth-century art, and ultimately the formation of collections that form part of such august institutions as the Louvre and the National Gallery in London. The book is the culmination of a successful conference organised jointly between the Wallace Collection and the Louvre, on the occasion of the acclaimed exhibition Masterpieces from the Louvre: The Collection of Louis La Caze. Exploring themes relating to collectors, critics, markets and museums from France, England and Germany, the volume will appeal to academics and students alike, and become essential reading on any course that deals with the history of collecting, the history of taste and the nineteenth-century craze for the perceived douceur de vivre of eighteenth-century France. It also provides valuable insight into the history of the art markets and the formation of museums.

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