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- In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him - and his pension - alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life - and the means and meaning of their own lives - by creating a world that...
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- Late Soviet stagnation, Moscow. Alyosha - a writer who suffers from fits accompanied by memory loss - admits himself to a psychiatric institute for experimental treatment. Inspired by Ivan the Terrible’s “Memorial Book of the Disgraced” and his own spiritual crisis, Alyosha has been trying to record the memories of people in his life who "died before their time, leaving nothing behind except in my...
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- Julius is a small boy, who after experiencing unpleasant situation, discovers thoughts. The book shows children the concept of thoughts and how they influence their mood and their actions. The audiobook includes relaxing music and guided meditation.
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- Rebecca Eckler is a popular newspaper columnist who lives the fabulous life and gets paid to write about it. So when a tipsy romp with her fiancé on the night of their lavish engagement party leaves her unexpectedly expecting, she is utterly at a loss. How will a woman who loves nothing more than a night out on the town sipping cocktails with her fellow party girls survive the pregnant life? Knocked...
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- The second book in Kilpatrick's Power of the Blood World, NEAR DEATH is the story of the vampire David Lyle Hardwick - a poet who for over a century has lived in the unholy world of the undead, resisting his thirst for blood. Zero, a beautiful, wounded mortal, is sent to destroy him but falls for his seductive power and together they set out in search of his enemies. As their torrid love affair grows,...
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- In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada, from Victoria to Fogo Island, to write about small-town Chinese restaurants and the families who run them. It was only after the story was published that she discovered her own family could have been included - her parents had run their own Chinese restaurant, The Legion Cafe, before she was born. This discovery, and the realization that...
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- It's the late 1800s. A Lakota boy finds an orphaned mustang foal and brings her back to his family's camp. Naming her Paint for her black-and-white markings, boy and horse soon become inseparable. Together they learn to hunt buffalo, their fear of the massive beasts tempered by a growing trust in each other. When the U.S. Cavalry attacks the camp, the pair is forced onto separate paths. Paint's fate...
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- Nauka polega na podważaniu wszystkiego, co można podważyć, bo tylko dzięki temu można wykryć to, czego podważyć się nie da. prof. Tadeusz Kotarbiński, filozof, logik, etyk Po prostu nie można już dłużej wierzyć w wiele opublikowanych badań klinicznych ani polegać na osądzie zaufanych lekarzy lub autorytatywnych rekomendacjach medycznych. Marcia Angell, były redaktor naczelny naukowego, prestiżowego...
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- Największą siłą „Atypowej głowy” są empatia i szczere do bólu opowieści osób z ADHD, w spektrum autyzmu i AuDHD, zdiagnozowanych w dorosłym życiu. Bo neuroróżnorodność to ludzie, nie „objawy”. JACEK HOŁUB, reporter, autor m.in. „Wszystko mam bardziej. Życie w spektrum autyzmu” Słyszą, że są dziwakami, geniuszami, świrami, Einsteinami, debilami, wrażliwcami, pojebami,...
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- Are you ready for a real dose of motivation and inspiration? We have a set of thirty-three fairy tales for you, but these are motivational fairy tales that will brighten your day and make you look at the world from a completely different perspective! School teaches us many things, but have we ever had a lesson on how to live to be happy? No one has ever told us how to achieve goals or dreams, how...
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- O chorobie, która zmieniła moje życie i spojrzenie na świat Dawniej kojarzyła się z wstydliwym zaburzeniem, o którym lepiej nie mówić. Dziś choruje na nią 350 milionów ludzi, a WHO ocenia, że za kilka lat będzie najczęściej występującą chorobą na świecie. Depresja dotyka zarówno kobiet, jak i mężczyzn, osób starszych i w pełni sił, a coraz częściej również dzieci. Łatwo zbagatelizować jej pierwsze...
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- Co łączy Boską komedię, uśmiech Mona Lisy, posąg Dawida, kopułę katedry Santa Maria del Fiore, ciąg Fibonacciego, makiawelizm i Medyceuszy? Florencja. Poznaj wielkich myślicieli, artystów, matematyków i architektów, których idee dały początek renesansowi. Odwiedź miasto, które przez 400 lat wpływało na historię Europy. Pełna wyrazistych szczegółów i z werwą napisana „Florencja” jest świetnym...
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- Hawk, a First Nations teen from northern Alberta, is a cross-country runner who aims to win gold in an upcoming competition between all the schools in Fort McMurray. But when Hawk discovers he has leukemia, his identity as a star athlete is stripped away, along with his muscles and energy. When he finds an osprey, "a fish hawk," mired in a pond of toxic residue from the oil sands industry, he sees...
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- Canada's first Olympic gold medallist couldn't walk until he was ten, and became the greatest runner of his generation. Who was the first Canadian to Win an Olympic Gold Medal? When Mark Hebscher was asked this simple trivia question, he had no idea that it would lead him on a two year odyssey, researching a man he had never heard of. Paralyzed as a child and told he would never walk again, George...
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- A bold step toward a new cultural narrative around sex. Sex was supposed to be easy. It was supposed to be fun, liberating, and empowering for a girl who'd been brought up thinking the battle for sexual equality had been won. But for Nellwyn Lampert, losing her virginity would turn out to be anything but simple. Whether she was being confronted with porn-induced erectile dysfunction or other crises...
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- Emancipated Women (Emancypantki), by the acclaimed Polish author Boleslaw Prus, was first published as a serial in the Daily Courier (Kurier Codzienny) from 1890 to 1893, and as a book in 1894. Leading his readers, in a manner reminiscent of Dickens, from an elegant girls' school in Warsaw to a provincial town-from a magnate's palace to a boarding house for working women and a secret lying-in hospital...
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- Emancipated Women (Emancypantki), by the acclaimed Polish author Boleslaw Prus, was first published as a serial in the Daily Courier (Kurier Codzienny) from 1890 to 1893, and as a book in 1894. Leading his readers, in a manner reminiscent of Dickens, from an elegant girls' school in Warsaw to a provincial town-from a magnate's palace to a boarding house for working women and a secret lying-in hospital...
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- A guide for Canadians on how to use real estate as an investment and retirement solution. Leveraging equity in a principal residence and using it wisely to purchase rental property is the solution to a safe, secure retirement for millions of Canadians. Many Canadians who own their home have never considered buying a second property. And nearly one-third of retirees are worried about running out of...
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- Sadia wishes life in high school was as straightforward as a game of basketball. Fifteen-year-old Sadia Ahmadi is passionate about one thing: basketball. Her best friend Mariam, on the other hand, wants to get noticed by the popular crowd and has started de-jabbing, removing her hijab, at school every morning. Sadia's mom had warned her that navigating high school could be tricky. As much as she hates...
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- “On the Road with Suzy: From Cat to Companion” is a delightful memoir chronicling a woman and her beloved cat Suzy who becomes not just a pet, but a true companion. From the first day Suzy enters the lives of Aleksandra and her husband Norman she makes an impact with her tortoise-shell long-haired fur and huge amber eyes. Little do Aleksandra and Norman know that they would soon be trying...
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