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On their birthday, an Armenian child listens to their mother tell stories stories of ancestors and homelands, of births and new beginnings, and of the land they now call home.

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From the author of the bestsellers Don't Worry, Be Happy: A Child's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety and You're a Star: A Child's Guide to Self-EsteemThis accessible and interactive guide for 11-15-year-olds will help young people to find their voice and feel more confident Do you wish you had more confidence?Your teens are full of new challenges - peer pressure, exams, wondering what the future may hold, and everything else in between. Life can be tough enough, but if you struggle with low self-confidence it can seem much harder.It's important to remember that it's normal to feel unsure of yourself sometimes, but when it starts to affect your health and happiness it's time to find some strategies for improving the way you feel.Stronger Than You Know contains insightful and actionable tips and activities to help you feel calm under pressure so your confidence can soar. You will learn:- Mindfulness techniques to use for instant calm during exams- How to quieten the unkind thoughts in your head- Ways to boost body confidence- How to create your own confidence action plan- Where to get help when you need it

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This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)

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Shiny Things combines an interest in visual art with a broad attention to popular culture – the wideness of its range is striking. It is more than just an expansion of subject matter, which many of today’s innovative books also have – it considers how a specific physical property manifests itself in both art and culture at large, and contributes to an analysis of and polemics about the world. It is accessibly written but with a careful application of contemporary theory. Interesting, informative, and entertaining, this will appeal to progressive thinkers looking for new ways of presenting ideas. This is scholarship that challenges stale thought and interacts with philosophical ideas in real time, with a versatility that can often be lacking in traditional academic scholarship. Using art, especially contemporary art, as its recurrent point of reference, the authors argue that shininess has moved from a time when rarity gave shiny things a direct meaning of power and transcendence. Shininess today is pervasive; its attraction is a foundation of consumer culture with its attendant effects on our architecture, our conceptions of the body, and our production of spectacle. Power and the sacred as readings of the shiny have given way to readings of superficiality, irony and anxiety, while somehow shininess has maintained its qualities of fascination, newness and cleanliness. Examines the meanings and functions of shininess in art and in culture more generally: its contradictions of both preciousness and superficiality, and its complexities of representation; the way shininess itself is physically and metaphorically present in the construction of major conceptual categories such as hygiene, utopias, the sublime and camp; and the way the affects of shininess, rooted in its inherent disorienting excess, produce irony, anxiety, pleasure, kitsch, and fetishism. All of these large ideas are embodied in the instantly noticeable, sometimes precious and sometimes cheap physical presence of shiny things, those things that catch our eye and divert our attention. Shininess, then, is a compelling subject that instantly attracts and fascinates people. The book engages primarily with visual art, although it makes frequent use of material culture, as well as advertising, film, literature, and other areas of popular and political culture. The art world, however, is a place where many of the affects of shininess come into clearest focus, where the polemical semiotics of shine are most evident and consciously explored. Artists as diverse as Anish Kapoor (whose popular Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago is a repeating example in the book), Olafur Eliasson, Jeff Koons, Carolee Schneemann, Audrey Flack, Fra Angelico and Gerard ter Borch centre the book in an art discourse that opens up to automobiles, Richard Nixon and Liberace. Will be relevant to academics, scholars and students with an interest in contemporary theory and material and popular cultures. Potential interest across the humanities: philosophy, gender studies, perhaps public relations, advertising and marketing. It will also appeal to more general readers with an interest in popular and material cultures, art and aesthetics. It is written in a genuinely accessible style, and its ideas and theory are embodied through examples and narratives. Will be of interest to readers of Oliver Sacks, James Gleick, George Lakoff, James Elkins or Rebecca Solnit.

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Discover the secrets of the human body with this beautiful new Shine-a-Light title. Children can see muscles flex as a football is kicked, watch food travel through the digestive system as an apple is eaten, and take a peek at the skeleton holding a small boy upright while his height is measured. Sleep, dreaming, growing, and illness are also included, along with many other secrets of the human body. The unique design of the book allows children to discover a “hidden“ image by holding the page up to a bright light, or shining a torch behind the page.

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A collection of six Step into Reading leveled readers featuring the characters from Nickelodeon's Shimmer and Shine!Join Leah, Shimmer, and Shine from Nickelodeon's Shimmer and Shine in this collection of Step into Reading leveled readers featuring six awesome tales about birthdays, mermaids, movies, magic, and more! Perfect for boys and girls ages 4 to 6.

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Pippin and her little mouse Tony are playing hide and sleep seek in Granny's garden, when Pippin peeps into the garden shed, and sees a very strange door that she's never noticed before. How did it get there, and where does it lead to?Well one thing it leads to is a crazy new adventure for Pippin, Granny, Mungo, Tony, Oddplop the frog. Soon they are on the trail of Evil doctor Blowfart and his thieving ghost monkeys Lumpkin and Bachacha, to recover a very important magical golden Mayoral Chain!

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Invite more happiness, wellbeing and success into your life, one morning at a time The way you start your morning matters - it sets the tone for the rest of your day, shaping your mood, focus and productivity. In the award-winning Rise and Shine, psychologist Kate and therapist Toby introduce and guide you through the S.H.I.N.E. method. An innovative, flexible and simple way to build positive, long-term habits, S.H.I.N.E. provides you with a toolkit of tried and tested techniques, based around the five elements we all need in our mornings: · Silence - create stillness, peace and reflection as you enter into your day · Happiness - discover techniques to help you begin the day feeling confident and uplifted · Intention - find practices that empower you to shape your day · Nourishment - feed your mind, body and soul with what they need to sustain you · Exercise - get your body moving, creating energy for the day ahead Based on the latest scientific research, ancient traditions and insights gathered from over five decades of personal and professional experience, Rise and Shine offers thirty different practices and supportively guides you through how to use each of these. So that you can learn to build a positive morning routine that really works for you. One that enables you to reclaim your mornings in a way that blends seamlessly with your lifestyle, starting from as little as 3 minutes per day.Because by changing your mornings, you too can change your life. __________________________________________Recent awards for Rise and Shine include:Winner of the Best Co-authored Book at the Page Turner Awards 2023Gold Award at the 2023 Janey Loves Platinum AwardsSilver Award at the Nautilus Book Awards 2023Finalist at the International Book Awards 2023Finalist at the 2023 American Book Fest Best Book Awards

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A Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader featuring Nickelodeon's Shimmer and Shine! Rainbow Falls, the colorful waterfall that gives genies their powers, has stopped flowing! Can Shimmer and Shine save the day? Boys and girls ages 4 to 6 who love Nickelodeon’s magical duo will love this Step 2 deluxe Step into Reading leveled reader.Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. For children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help.

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Alex loves cricket! When Chance to Shine coaches come into school, Alex hopes his friends will discover a love of cricket too. Things don't work out quite how Alex had planned; but with the help of his teacher, Alex is determined not to give up.

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Put your shades on, because this special edition of Millennial Loteria is shiny AF! And now up to 20 people can play!Every single card and board in this premium edition got a glow-up to guarantee your party is more lit than ever. Born from the viral Instagram account @MillennialLoteria, this game is a modern twist on the popular Mexican Bingo and features extra boards, cards, and bitcoins for up to 20 players. Millennial Loteria Shiny AF features:56 Iridescent Cards (a combo of our original favorites made shiny + new cards that are funny AF) 20 Game Boards 160 Bitcoins1 Enamel Pin...All in one Shiny BoxNo filter necessary, the Millennial Loteria La Shiny AF Edition already shines bright like a diamond!OMG IMPORTANT INFO: This Shiny AF version is a stand alone game, and is not an expansion pack to be combined with other game sets.

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This birthday-themed Step 1 Step into Reading leveled reader features the characters from Nickelodeon's Shimmer and Shine! Nickelodeon's Shimmer and Shine are frosting the cake and lighting the candles to help you celebrate your very special birthday! Boys and girls ages 4 to 6 will love this Step 1 Step into Reading leveled reader. Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words. Rhymes and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story. For children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading.

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Little girls can let their lights shine each day!Girls need to know that they can be bright, shining lights for God—and this new devotional by Sheila Walsh will teach them to do so by thanking God, learning His Word, telling others about Him, and showing His love to everyone they meet.More than 50 devotions help girls see that God wants us to learn about Him and to put His Word in action. Memory verses, prayers, “Shine Your Light” activities that focus on serving God each day, and devotional thoughts explore how little girls can be more like Jesus. With lots of sparkles and even more great biblical applications and encouragement, the Shine Your Light Devotional is sure to be a favorite part of a little girl's day. Meets national education standards.

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After her mom introduces her to a modeling gig, Nanami Minami's life will never be the same! With Tomozaki as an advisor, Minami's day-to-day life changes in a major way. Plus, Minami and Tomozaki's relationship develops in an unexpected way...

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Comprehensive reading program suitable for ages 9+.

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Help little ones learn to live by faith and love others well with this picture book from beloved television stars Jinger and Jeremy Vuolo.This sweet and inspiring book encourages children to let their light shine as they move about the world. As they read along, little readers will be introduced to the fruits of the Spirit from Galatians 5:22–23. Written in lighthearted verse, the story follows a group of children as they model love, joy, patience, peace, and more in everyday, relatable scenarios. This book, straight from the heart of the Vuolos, is perfect for families looking for a faith-based story to share together.

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Marisa de los Santos returns to the world of her beloved, bestselling novels Love Walked In and Belong to Me in an enthralling tale of sisterhood, sacrifice, and the enduring power of love.“Bring me the Northern Lights.”Cornelia Brown is reeling from a terrifying act of violence when she gets word that her mother has been badly injured in an accident. Cornelia returns to Virginia, to the house she grew up in, and in the weeks that follow, she watches her mother Ellie struggle to recover, fluctuating between her usual crisp, can-do clarity and periods of delirium during which she seems haunted by a devastating loss from her past. In grief-stricken tones, Ellie begs Cornelia to bring her the Northern Lights, and despite her confusion at this mysterious plea, Cornelia vows to do so: “She was my mother and she wanted the Northern Lights; I was her daughter and would have given her anything, anything.”With the help of her prickly sister, Ollie, Cornelia embarks on a mission to piece together the lost years of their mother’s life: people, places, and events spanning Ellie’s late teens through her mid-twenties. Cornelia and Ollie’s quest takes them to unexpected places and into the worlds of strangers whose lives Ellie touched and irrevocably changed. As the sisters uncover truths about their mother’s life—some beautiful, some ugly, some tragic—Cornelia herself begins to heal, to forgive herself, and to find her way back home.Alternating between two timelines—Cornelia’s story in the present, and that of the young Eleanor Campbell in the 1960s—Watch Us Shine explores the complicated bonds between sisters, the impossible demands of motherhood, and the power of human love to save us again and again.

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Gilded edges and a sparkling burst of gold and silver foils on the cover make this productivity journal stand out. This is the ultimate tool for bullet-journaling and staying both organized and glamorous, featuring: • Dotted 120-GSM paper • Page numbers • Ribbon marker • Fill-in table of contents • 160 stickers

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This delightful 2025 slim calendar is a must for fans of Emma Bridgewater's Rise & Shine design. Each month has a beautiful chicken illustration, as well as a spacious date list for your notes. This calendar is free of plastic packaging.

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This beautifully illustrated poetry anthology has been designed for sharing and discussing with your class. Dive into poems about the sea, surprises and the stars. Meet a spiky porcupine, a young superhero and a mermaid who's a bus driver. Visit a solar system made of sweets, explore beneath the ocean and play tag with an alien. This book is a Readerful Book for Sharing. It is for an adult to read aloud to children aged 6 to 7. Readerful is a reading library specially designed to motivate children to read more. The series offers contemporary, inclusive books for children from 4 to 11 years, including: Books for Sharing: picture books to be read aloud by an adult for inspiring reading sessions Independent Library: fiction, graphic texts, character mini-series and non-fiction for children to read independently Rise: fully decodable books for older struggling readers to read independently. How Readerful works: - Read aloud the Books for Sharing for magical reading sessions that motivate children to read more. - Then encourage children to choose a book to read by themselves, from Readerful's Independent Library or from Rise. You'll find links between the books' topics, vocabulary, characters and authors - all designed to keep children reading, boost their vocabulary and develop their knowledge of the world around them.

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Team JNPR stars in this short story collection based on Rooster Teeth's hit animation series!The world of Remnant is filled with horrific monsters bent on the destruction of humanity. Fortunately, the kingdoms of the world have risen to combat these forces by training powerful Huntsmen and Huntresses at academies around the planet. Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long are four such Huntresses in training.New short stories featuring Team JNPR! Team RWBY is not the only group of Hunters and Huntresses in the world of Remnant! Get to know Jaune Arc, Nora Valkyrie, Pyrrha Nikos and Lie Ren, one of the strongest—and most fun—teams of Grimm Hunters in the hit series RWBY! From a team of exciting new manga artists comes the fifth volume in a series of short story collections, this time showcasing Team JNPR!

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When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison. But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with. Decades earlier, he and Emily would listen to jazz when they were alone, and now, as Sarah Vaughan sings through the speakers, he struggles to control everything the sound brings with it. In Kazuo Ishiguro's hands, a snapshot of domestic realism becomes a miniature masterpiece of memory and forgetting.

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Start living the life you’ve always wanted It could be that you’ve figured everything out on your own and have ended up acing your career, meeting and marrying your perfect partner, producing three wonderful kids, owning a holiday home in Mustique and having a drop-dead gorgeous life. In which case, we applaud you. If, on the other hand, you need the cheat codes, then this book will give you a nudge. Redefining the genre of ‘self-help comedy,’ Shine is a book about the brevity of life. It contains adult themes of mortality, change, exhaustion and unrelenting pressure. Thankfully, the bleakness is done with humour and the solutions are entertaining, do-able and uplifting. Shine is the literary equivalent of ‘ctrl/alt/delete.’ All you have to do is read the book, keep an open mind, and apply the learning. You will experience a personal re-boot with new mental software installed, upgrading you to ‘best possible self.’ It’s a very simple process that also happens to be ‘not very easy.’ Because, of course, if being your best self was easy, everybody would be doing it. The average lifespan is 4000 weeks. Look around and you’ll see too many people having a ‘near life experience.’ They’re alive, but not living. Truth time: life’s a short and precious gift that’s hurtling by in a blur. If you want to make a dent in the universe, it’s time to wake up. We figure that if you’re going to rise, you may as well shine. Laugh and learn while you: Rediscover your ability to ping out of bed every single day with fire in your belly and a smile on your face. Identify what really matters in your life and how to stop stressing about the stuff that doesn't. Remember how to focus on all that makes you happy and cut the nonsense that worries you for no reason. Give up your low-level grumbling and experience the joy that comes when you focus on achieving all that you've ever wanted. Find out just how easy it is boost your energy and increase your motivation. Discover how to break free from 'ordinary' and embrace a life of 'extraordinary.’ Figure out how to channel your inner Mary Poppins.

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Moon Shine explores musical heritage in America’s Appalachian region. Old-time music, faith, and story-telling all inform this portrait of place. These photographs were made along the serpentine mountain roads between Signal Mountain and Cumberland Gap, tracing Tennessee’s Cumberland Trail corridor. Listening to the sounds of revelation springing from deep in the hollow, Boillot considered how this might translate to visual imagery. Boillot is still somewhere out there on one of those roads and she is still listening.

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