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  Jealousy - The Adventures of Fenek

  Magdalena Gruca

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  A lot of changes have taken place in Fenek’s life recently. One of them, however, is of key importance: Fenek has become an older brother! Are you interested to know how he will cope with this new role?Thanks to this book, your child will:learn the meaning of jealousy;learn about the kind of situations in which it can appear;realise that jealousy is a natural emotion felt by lots of people;learn about the different ways of handling jealousy.The Adventures of Fenek - Books for younger children 
  Thematic series that respond to the needs of pre-school and kindergarten teachers, parents, and psychologists. 20-page brochures are published in series of four books each, and they are all thematically related.

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  How You Too Can Be as Miserable...

  Chris Palmore

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  Ever wondered how kings and queens, with all their wealth, power, and luxury, still managed to be miserable? Turns out, we’re just as good at it today—only with WiFi and faster food delivery. 
  How You Too Can Be as Miserable as Any King or Queen in Recent Times is a sharp, witty, and thought-provoking guide that uncovers the timeless patterns of misery perfected by royalty and continued by modern society. From the crushing burden of expectations to the endless pursuit of more, this book reveals why chasing happiness is a losing game—and how breaking free from the cycle requires a completely different approach. 
  Inside, you’ll discover: 
  ✔ The Royal Burden – Why rulers and modern overachievers alike are never satisfied 
  ✔ The Art of Indulgence Without Enjoyment – How having everything makes you appreciate nothing 
  ✔ The Public Scrutiny Trap – Why people-pleasing and social media validation are today’s court politics 
  ✔ The True Secret to Joy – What kings and queens overlooked but you don’t have to 
  BONUS: The conclusion features “So You Want to Be a Peasant?”—a practical guide to stepping away from the throne of stress and choosing a different path. 
  Filled with historical insights, modern parallels, and laugh-out-loud sarcasm, this book challenges you to ask: Will you continue the legacy of royal misery, or finally reclaim your own happiness? 
  Perfect for fans of:Satirical self-help booksStoic philosophy with a humorous twistAnyone tired of chasing success and ready to rethink what really matters 
   

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  Frankenstein

  Mary Shelley

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  Mary Shelley’s classic novel, presented in its original 1818 text, Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. 
  The original 1818 text of Frankenstein preserves the hard-hitting and politically-charged aspects of Shelley’s original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. The classic novel is famously subtitled The Modern Prometheus and based on the Ancient Greek myth of Prometheus, as both Victor Frankenstein and Prometheus developed science that gives humans immortality. 
    
  Few creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein's terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. Considering the gothic novel's enduring success, it is remarkable that it began merely as a whim of Lord Byron's 
  The illustrious poets failed to complete their ghost stories, but Mary Shelley rose supremely to the challenge With Frankenstein, she succeeded admirably in the task she set for herself: to create a story that, in her own words, "would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror — one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart. 
  The book has inspired numerous movie, theatrical, and television adaptations. 
  A top 100 Great American Read, it's one of the best-loved and most influential works ever published.

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  Dina and her invisible friends

  Grandma Higgs

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  Dina the Dinosaur meets the invisible sea creatures inhabiting the coral bed. They use various forms of camouflage. She learns to take more notice of others around her.

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  CS Lewis For Beginners

  Louis Markos

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  C.S. Lewis For Beginners is a thorough examination of C. S. Lewis, the greatest Christian apologist of the twentieth century, throughout his career as an author and as a professor at Oxford University. A Christian apologist defends Christianity as a consistent and coherent worldview that squares with human reason, history, and desire. It offers answers to every facet of our lives on earth as well as answers to our questions about what happens after we die. What makes C.S. Lewis unique as an apologist is the way he balanced so perfectly reason and imagination, logic and intuition, and head and heart. In addition to writing such non-fiction apologetics books as Mere Christianity, The Problem of Pain, and Miracles, he wrote eleven novels: the seven Chronicles of Narnia, a trilogy of science-fiction adventures, and a haunting retelling of an old myth set in the ancient world. All eleven tell wonderful, captivating stories that stand on their own as fiction but that also support and bring to life the kinds of apologetical arguments he makes in his non-fiction. He also wrote two utterly unique works of fiction, The Screwtape Letters and The Great Divorce, that offer a fresh, highly original take on sin and temptation, angels and devils, and heaven and hell. And that’s not all. Lewis the apologist and novelist had a day job. He was a celebrated English professor at Oxford, and then Cambridge, University who wrote works of literary criticism that are still famous today. C.S. Lewis For Beginners takes the reader through the wardrobe of his complete catalog of writing.

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  The Mill on the Floss

  George Eliot

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  The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot's second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver growing up on the river Floss near the town of St. Oggs (a fictionalised version of Gainsborough, in Lincolnshire, England) in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, with both as young adults eventually meeting a tragic end by the Mill which the family holds so dear. In large measure, their lives are dominated by their father, a successful miller brought down by his inability to resist settling arguments in a court of law. Character differences between Tom and Maggie - he dour and rigid of thought, she lively and impulsive - seem to matter little in childhood, but eventually strain their relationship beyond breaking point. It is Maggie, however, who is the dominant character of the book, arguably one of the great characters of 19th century literature. Each of her relationships is vital to the narrative: with her parents, with Tom above all, but on a romantic level with Philip Wakem, the sensitive hunchbacked son of her father's (and Tom's) bitterest enemy, and with charming and urbane Stephen Guest, fiance of Maggie's cousin Lucy Deane. Maggie's life is changed utterly by an impulsive elopement which she turns back from, but too late to stop the inevitable abuse and contempt. This is a semi-autobiographical reflection of the vilification which George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) herself had to endure while openly living with a married man, a time when her brother was willing to communicate with her only through lawyers. Eliot writes of character and relationships with an insight and sharp detail that few authors have ever equaled. It's a long book, but you will appreciate it for its depth

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