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  Power of Now The: Insights on...

  Vines Graener

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  Drawing from Eastern philosophies such as Buddhism, Wallace explores why people feel dissatisfied and discontent. His key argument is that we must let go of our desire for control and instead accept the inherent uncertainty and unpredictability of life. 
  A significant portion of human unhappiness arises from being consumed by thoughts about the future—seeking assurance of a happy life on earth and, in some cases, in an afterlife. Many people turn to religion for this reassurance, believing it provides the answers to life’s uncertainties and promises salvation after death. Others chase material comforts, such as wealth and possessions, hoping these will provide lasting happiness and security. 
  However, neither approach guarantees the fulfillment we seek, as the future is unknowable—a mere abstraction filled with expectations and guesses. Moreover, the pursuit of a pain-free future is inherently flawed. Pleasure and pain are inseparable aspects of the human experience. One cannot exist without the other.

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  Flat Stanley's Adventures in...

  Jeff Brown, Kate Egan

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  Beloved character Flat Stanley is back with a whole new set of friends in this brand-new STEM-focused chapter book series. In this second book, Stanley and his friends learn all about the scientific method, gravity, and friction through a heated contest on the playground!   
  Ever since Stanley Lambchop was flattened by a bulletin board, each day brings new adventures! 
  According to Stanley’s second grade teacher, Ms. Root, everyone in classroom 2E is a scientist. That’s good news for Stanley because he has a problem in need of solving! Both his classmate, Josie, and his little brother, Arthur, think he’s been using his flatness to cheat during playground games. But Stanley can’t help being flat! 
  It’s time to test how flatness affects Stanley on the playground. Will science be on his side? 
  Featuring an accessible approach to STEM topics and a fun experiment in the backmatter for readers to try themselves. Don’t miss any of Flat Stanley’s classroom adventures!

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  Fake

  Ele Fountain

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  Failing antibiotics have shifted society online. As big tech companies begin to dominate life, the boundaries between real and virtual have blurred. At 14, Jess is attending school for the first time. Meeting other children and making real friends is something she's dreamed of for years. But Jess misses her family, especially her sister Chloe, who is in poor health. 
   
  With Chloe's sickness worsening and her medication getting more expensive, Jess turns to the digital world to fix things. She is a brilliant coder and programmer. Desperate to help her sister, Jess dives into classified territory and discovers explosive truths. Truths which reveal just how manipulated reality has become. 
   
  With her family's lives in the balance, Jess must defy everything she's been told to help them - before it's too late. 
   
  Praise for Ele Fountain -- : 
   
  [Melt is] a marvellously compulsive story. The unbelievable made believable. Now there's the test of a great story -- Michael Morpurgo 
   
  Fans of Ele Fountain, author of Boy 87 and Lost, will find plenty of white-knuckle drama in Melt ? Telegraph 
   
  Fountain writes with verisimilitude and verve ? Observer 
   
  Exceptional... vivid, convincing and empathetic... [Boy 87] grips us with the need to know how the heart-stopping events will turn out ? The Times

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  The Game Changer

  Lane Walker

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  2024 Winner Gold Moonbeam Award: Best Chapter Book Series  Football star "Tank" Armstrong has one goal: win another championship. But when the new kid, Marco Santiago, claims to be a football player, Tank and his  teammates find it hard to believe. Linebacker Biff Taylor invites Marco to practice on the football field to embarrass him and eventually Tank joins in.  When a video of their bullying goes viral, the three players have a price to pay that will jeopardize their championship season. Tank sets out to make amends with Marco-only to find that his original assumptions couldn't be more wrong...  Tank soon realizes that great athletes come in all shapes and sizes—and Marco might be the best of them all. As the final game of the season approaches, the football team is still in the race for the league champion- ship and, surprisingly, so is the soccer team.  Can the other boys accept the new athlete in town? Will Marco help the football team keep their streak of championships alive?

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  The Marvellous Land of Snergs

  E. A. Wyke-Smith

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  This children's fantasy novel is set on a fictional, hard-to-reach island somewhere on planet Earth. The island is host to a colony of children, a wicked witch, the crew of the Flying Dutchman, and the titular snergs—as well as unicorns, tigers, bears, ghouls, and dragons that live in the woods. The story follows Sylvia and Joe on an adventure gone wrong once they're taken captive by an ogre, Golithos, and the aforementioned wicked witch: Mother Meldrum. Gorbo the Snerg and Baldry, a court jester, must come to their aid. Published in Britain in 1927, the novel was originally written for the author's young children and follows in the footsteps of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. It is widely believed the snergs served as inspiration for J. R. R. Tolkien's hobbits.

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  Mr Gum and the Goblins: it’s the...

  Andy Stanton

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  Shabba me whiskers! MR GUM is 20 years old (and some). And he’s NOT happy about it.  
  But everyone else is – and this very special anniversary recording of the bestselling children’s audiobook is bursting out the nostrils with fun and original extras from the Mr Gum world. Including an introduction from fellow bestselling author, Phil Earle! 
  It’s only one of those Mr Gum books by Andy Stanton! They’re only the craziest, funnest most amazing books for children in the world. This is the third book! 
  Well, that old roo-de-lally Mr Gum and the hideous Billy William the Third are once more mucking things up for everyone. 
  They’re a-schemin’ and a-hatchin’ an’ making their bad plans up on Goblin Mountain. And why? Because they’re raising up an army of goblins to stink up the town of Lamonic Bibber once and for all! 
  Can the brave travellers (the wise old man Friday O’Leary and the small girl Polly) make it past the Three Impossible Challenges of Goblin Mountain and save the town from a fate worse than something very bad indeed? In an epic tale of courage, valour and plain idiocy only one thing is sure: The truth is a lemon meringue! 
  Have you collected all the well brilliant Mr Gum series? 
  You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum 
  Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire 
  Mr Gum and the Goblins 
  Mr Gum and the Power Crystals 
  Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear 
  What's for Dinner, Mr Gum? 
  Mr Gum and the Cherry Tree 
  Mr Gum and the Secret Hideout 
  For fans of Jamie Smart (Bunny vs Monkey), Liz Pichon (Top of the Class), Jeff Kinney (The Deep End), Alex T. Smith (Claude at the Palace), and David Tazzyman (You Can't Let an Elephant Pull Santa's Sleigh).

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