Join bestselling author Susan Meissner and other "Mimis" in this Christmas-season poem inspired by the traditional holiday traveling song "Over the River and Through the Woods." Modern families find their way to grandmother's house using a variety of vehicles to celebrate with Mimis, Omas, Gigis, and Nanas.This sweet Christmas storyis for boys and girls 4 to 8 years old and grandmothers of all names and types;explores the different modern mo...

**Book Band: Purple (**Ideal for ages 6+)A funny family story, ideal for children practising their reading at home or in school, by Ben Bailey Smith, author of World Book Day book The Last Word.It's Monday morning and there's chaos at Maxine's house. Dad's got ketchup on his sleeve and has lost his yellow sock. Mum can't get the car to start. But there's time for a puppet show and maybe even a third piece of marmalade toast, right?...

With the intensity of The Handmaid's Tale, the drama of Divergent and the political intrigue of The Darkest Minds series, this is a captivating, fast-paced thriller set in a dystopian world not so different from our own.Sixteen-year-old Ally is one of 400 homeless young people who have been promised new and better lives in exchange for their votes.The once homeless children and teenagers are now warm and fed. But they are forced to work for the new adminis...

With the intensity of The Handmaid's Tale, the drama of Divergent and the political intrigue of The Darkest Minds series, this is a captivating, fast-paced thriller set in a dystopian world not so different from our own.Ally is on the run.The city is in ruins.Her friends are in mortal danger.Nothing about being back in the city is easy, but Ally knows that she must find the missing research before ONE does. The Administrati...

The book is divided into easy to grasp sections of theory and practical exercises. In the first part of the book, two of Denmark's most experienced practitioners in couples' therapy, psychologist Kirsten Seidenfaden and psychiatrist Piet Drailby, explain why we tend to get confused about love. In the exercise section of the book, they provide some simple, yet very efficient, tools to help us find out where we lost our way and how we can remain in a loving vibrant relationship for the rest ...

In recent years, a growing emphasis has been placed on tourism experiences and attractions related to food. In many cases eating out while on holiday includes the 'consumption' of a local heritage, comparable to what is experienced when visiting historical sites and museums.Despite this increasing attention, however, systematic research on the subject has been nearly absent. Tourism and Gastronomy addresses this by drawing together a group of international experts in order ...

Near Human takes us into the borders of human and animal life.In the animal facility, fragile piglets substitute for humans who cannot be experimented on. In the neonatal intensive care unit, extremely premature infants prompt questions about whether they are too fragile to save or, if they survive, whether they will face a life of severe disability. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out on farms, in animal-based experimental science labs, and in hospitals, Mette N. Svends...

This book features research contributions from The Abel Symposium on Statistical Analysis for High Dimensional Data, held in Nyvågar, Lofoten, Norway, in May 2014.The focus of the symposium was on statistical and machine learning methodologies specifically developed for inference in “big data” situations, with particular reference to genomic applications. The contributors, who are among the most prominent researchers on the theory of statistics for high dimensional inference, prese...

Linda Wallheim is the mother of five grown boys and the wife of a Mormon bishop in the heart of Utah. Linda's unofficial job as bishop's wife is to support her husband and act as the de facto mother to the ward. But when people of her ward are in danger, she cannot suppress her misgivings about the church's patriarchal structure and secrecy any longer. Once again pulling from the headlines, His Right Hand tackles an extremely contested topic within the Mormon community--transgenderism. Mor...

A retelling of Oscar Wilde's hilarious romantic comedy in a contemporary high school where "Luck" is the most important quantity anyone can possess. Trudy grows up without it, but tests high for it, and ends up with Rob Chiltern, the student body president, as her boyfriend. But Rob has made some mistakes in the past that are going to come back to haunt him through his old girlfriend Laura, who is blackmailing him to do her bidding unless he wants the whole truth about his luck ...

For fans of Jo Nesbø and Katrine Engberg, international bestselling author Anne Mette Hancock’s third thrilling novel in the series Harlan Coben calls “the best series I’ve read this year,” is a pulse-pounding Scandinavian noir about secrets, buried truths, and what happens when we go digging into the past.When Jan Frischof, a dying elderly man, gives a deathbed confession too unbelievable to be true, journalist Heloise Kaldan immediately knows there’s a deeper sto...

Discover the Basics of the Danish Language Quickly and EasilyAre you interested in the Danish language but do not have the time or money that it takes to learn in a traditional classroom setting?Learning a new language is an incredibly enriching experience and something that everyone should do, but expensive and time-consuming classroom courses are not for everyone.Download "Shortcut to Danish" if you are looking to quickly learn the bas...