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The bestselling author of Bee Season brilliantly explores the cruelty of children, the unreliability of memory, and the unpredictable forces that shape our adult selves. • "Haunting.... A compelling exploration of the fallibility of memory, explored through richly drawn characters.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Twenty years after Celia’s best friend, Djuna, went missing, memories of that terrible...
Twenty years after Celia’s best friend, Djuna, went missing, memories of that terrible...
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Detective Cooper Devereaux thrillers volume 2
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"Detective Devereaux is hot on the heels of an arsonist--one who is targeting local schools. When long-buried bones are uncovered at the site of a fire, a deadly secret is exposed and a devastating past threatens to be revealed. Meanwhile, an enemy is determined to expose the darkest corners of Devereaux's past"--
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When an English chef uses a preservative it is not the same as when a German 'Chef' uses a 'Präservativ'. False friends like these are a foreign language's faux pas: words that sound similar to the ones we know, but have a very different meaning.
British author Diccon Bewes and Swiss illustrator Michael Meister created 51 cartoons in which they gleefully celebrate the pitfalls of false friends between English and German. This book is guaranteed...
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False Friends is the first full-length poetry collection from Stephen Cain in more than ten years. In it, he takes inspiration from the linguistic term "false friends"-two words from different languages that appear to be related, but have fundamentally different meanings. In this book are poems both humorous and unforgiving that Cain uses to explore errors, misapprehensions, and mistranslations and offer insights into the "secret operations" hiding...
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'Nama Beach High volume 2
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The girlfriends from 'Nama Beach High learn the liberating secret of discipline In this second book of the 'Nama Beach High series, Laura Duffy and her friends from the "conflicted" girls club discover a "secret" text hidden within John 16. Laura has a chance to experience the truth of this secret when she gets her driver's license, starts a new job at the local Gap store, then observes kids from her school in the act of shoplifting, and even suffers...
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Clifford the Big Red Dog volume 6
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In flashback we see how Cleo shook things up when she first moved to the island. Cleo gets a new doggie playground and suddenly Mac is her new best friend and she starts ignoring Clifford and T-Bone!
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After alleged serial killer Edgar Roy is apprehended and locked away in a psychiatric unit, private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's lawyer--an old friend of Sean King--to look into the case. But en route to their first meeting with the lawyer, King and Maxwell discover his dead body.
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Under the never sky trilogy volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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It's been months since Perry was named Blood Lord of the Tides, and Aria was charged with an impossible mission; now they are about to be reunited. But their reunion is far from perfect. The Tides don't take kindly to Aria, a former Dweller. And with the worsening Aether storms threatening the tribe's precarious existence, Aria begins to fear that leaving Perry behind might be the only way to save them both.
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"Timon of Athens" was first, published in the "First Folio" in 1623 and was likely, written by William Shakespeare in 1605 or 1606. Often regarded as one of the more difficult of Shakespeare's plays to categorize, "Timon of Athens" blends elements of comedy with components of tragedy in Timon's allegorical downfall and death. The play depicts an Athenian man, Timon, who is popular and wealthy and who selflessly gives away his possessions to a large...
10) Blueberry girl
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Rhyming text expresses a prayer for a girl to be protected from such dangers as nightmares at age three or false friends at fifteen, and to be granted clearness of sight and other favors.
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Break the cycle of bulimia and take charge of your life. Have you ever had a false friend? Someone who you thought was on your side, but let you down in the end? Bulimia is a false friend, too. As you depend on it more and more, your life only gets worse and worse. You may have found that you need to hide food, mislead others, and schedule your bingeing and purging cycle in order to keep bulimia in your life. If you're ready to ditch bulimia and make...
12) Rhapsodina City
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Young Jason Rupert, son of the self-made tycoon Wilson Rupert, one day demands his share of inheritance. He wants it immediately and fakes a wild, dramatic row with both his parents to get what he wants. He proceeds to Rhapsodina City to test his mettle and choosing to listen to the advice of false friend uses his money as he sees fi t. He is brought down to his knees when the fortune runs and so-called friends abandon him.
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Creatures, Monsters, and Madmen... who's a woman to trust?
Fearing for her freedom and life, Helena escaped her estate in San Francisco.
Branded a witch, her neighbors and peers turned on her with torches and pitchforks.
To hell with them all.
Now in the air, she is driven to find any clues that lead to her parents.
Her only hope the mysterious Mister Nobody and The Draco Society.
Unfortunately, unnamed forces purse across North America.
Russians...
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In diesem Buch werden Fehler behandelt, die Deutschsprachige häufig machen, wenn Sie Englisch sprechen.
Zu diesen Fehlern gehören zum Beispiel die sogenannten False Friends (die falschen Freunde) genauso, wie Präpositionen, das Gerund oder "kleine" Wörter wie what, which, many und much.
Zudem gibt es viele deutsche Vokabeln, denen mehrere englische Wörter gegenüberstehen. Ein solches Beispiel ist etwa der Klassiker "machen" (sagt man "do"...
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Self-depricating, bitingly satirical, and surprisingly thought-provoking, Dorothy Parker's first collection of poetry comments on love and the relations between men and women with quick wit and lyrical verse.
First published as a collection in 1926, the poetry featured in Enough Rope reflects the famous wit that Dorothy Parker is so widely loved for. A founding member of the Algonquin Round Table writers' group, Parker often presents a cynical analysis...
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It's a common thing. As we go through life, we discover that people and things are frequently not what they seem to be, and what we understand to be the truth of our own experience often turns out to be something quite different instead. Life is as full of illusions as it is of genuine experiences.
False friends abound. Trials hurt, but then deliver unexpected strength and blessings. People put up smokescreens to hide their true intentions or feelings,...
17) Rumors
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Luxe series (Anna Godbersen) volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 15
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Gossip Girl meets the Gilded Age in this delicious and compelling novel, the second in the New York Times bestselling series from author Anna Godbersen.
As old friends become rivals, Manhattan's most dazzling socialites find their futures threatened by whispers from the past. In this delicious sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Luxe, nothing is more dangerous than a scandal...or more precious than a secret.
True love. False friends. Scandalous...
18) Goddie
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"Yes, the morning breeze was a false friend. For one little girl named Goddie, the August breeze of 1945 would never feel the same again."
In Robert Picart's debut novel Goddie, we read the story of Goddie, a young girl born in the mid-1900s in the picturesque Blue Mountains of Jamaica. With the sudden loss of both parents, Goddie finds herself indentured to strangers in order to pay for school. Heartbroken, weary, and alone, she forms a plan to...
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Graham Kirk has just turned 14 and his life is at a crisis point.
A year before he had joined the Navy Cadets full of hope and ambition. But, a medical exam scuppered his dreams of ever achieving his long-cherished ambition of being a naval officer.
Compounding matters, everything in his life seems to be going wrong. He is in trouble at school with both the teachers and the bullies. To add to his woes, he is now feeling the full force of puberty...
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Whatever your mother tongue, you are likely to have encountered difficulties with most of the 50 vocabulary items in this book.
Each chapter contains:
• Examples of typical mistakes.
• Examples of correct usage.
• Rules / explanations.
• A short exercise where you can immediately practise what you have learned.
• Additional exercises (including false friends)
By completing the exercises in this book, you should be able to eliminate...