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Young children will enjoy talking about the wide range of familiar objects and scenes in the book.....

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This lovely, big board book with an attached sound panel full of animal noises is perfect for sharing with small children. Little children will have great fun pressing the buttons to make the noises of the animals they see in each vibrant scene, including cockatoos, parakeets, hamsters, kittens, rabbits, a snake and puppies. It is illustrated by Lee Wildish...

This completely new and revolutionary interpretation of Nostradamus's prophecies offers a terrifying glimpse into a future potentially filled with conflict on an epic scale. Luciano Sampietro explains that he has cracked Nostradamus’s complicated code, which was written in the language of the alchemists and is full of concealed meanings, anagrams, symbolic codes, puzzling syntax, and added and subtracted letters. These new translations unravel the hidden chronology of the prophecies and reveal that Nostradamus's apocalyptic predictions deal with the immediate future. Sampietro’s interpretations reveal that Nostradamus predicted the September 11 attacks and the current turmoil in the Middle East. A future stock market collapse, the rise of an antichrist figure who will lead the world into global conflict, and a period of devastation that will lead to world war in 2005 are also predicted. With these revelations, Sampietro has clarified meanings that have remained obscure for centuries an..

Many people think of Oahu and remember the small parts they know best. A particular beach. A favorite restaurant. A hotel pool or a mountain pool. The feeling of standing at the USS Arizona Memorial. The view over the Pali Lookout. In this volume, the many parts of the island, the remarkable range of views, are brought together in one place. Readers can compare the windward beaches with those on the leeward side, can inspect the mountainsides and the broad valleys, and in many cases can see things none but the most experienced islander ever sees. It is hard to imagine a more thorough and accomplished pair of guides than master photographer Douglas Peebles and veteran island journalist Jan TenBruggencate. Peelbes takes to the air and ventures under the sea to capture the essence of the islands in ways few have ever seen them. TenBruggencate has chased down stories on foot, by air and by boat on each of the inhabited islands and several of the uninhabited ones. Their collaboration reveal..

Nobel Prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez blends the natural with supernatural in Of Love and Other Demons - a novel which explores community, superstition and collective hysteria. 'An ash-grey dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst on to the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday of December' When a witch doctor appears on the Marquis de Casalduero's doorstep prophesising a plague of rabies in the Colombian seaport, he dismisses her claims - until he hears that his young daughter, Sierva Maria, was one of four people bitten by a rabid dog, and the only one to survive. Sierva Maria appears completely unscathed - but as rumours of the plague spread, the Marquis and his wife wonder at her continuing good health. In a town consumed by superstition, it's not long before they, and everyone else, put her survival down to a demonic possession and begin to see her supernatural powers as the cause of the..

Ontario is Canada's most populous and most prosperous province, huge in land mass and natural resources, diverse in thriving enterprise, and rich in cultural tradition.Here is a tribute that includes 176 color photographs and 28 essays and poems from leading photographers and writers. From the thunder of Niagara Falls to the enchantement of the Thousand Islands, and from the rugged Canadian Shield with its myriad lakes to the wildlife sanctuary of discovery through the heritage, land, lakes and communities of the province, following its people at work and at play...

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An intimate portrait of a complex individual through whom God was at work, turning the world upside down. With vivid imagination and scholarly depth, award-winning author Walter Wangerin Jr. weaves together the history of the early church with the life story of its greatest apostle--Paul. Wangerin begins to unfold Paul’s incredible life by imagining the childhood and early family life of a boy then called "Saul." A fierce prosecutor of Christians before his conversion, Paul never lost his fiery dedication, boldness, and strong personality. After his shocking encounter with God on the road to Damascus, he applied his formidable strengths to spreading the gospel. Wangerin deftly reveals Paul’s character through each stage of his life, and enables us to see Paul the person, living and complex, viewed through the eyes of his contemporaries: Barnabas, James, Prisca, Seneca, and Luke. Paul’s rich interaction and brilliant dialogue with friends and foes, leaders and slaves, Jews and Greeks, c..

Donkey Skin, 1970 ‧ Fantasy/MusicalIn a magical, faraway land, a widower king (Jean Marais) decrees that he will wed his daughter, the princess (Catherine Deneuve), because she's the only woman able to match his former queen's beauty. To dodge the incestuous union, the princess -- with the help of a magical fairy (Delphine Seyrig) -- disguises herself as a donkey and escapes to a neighboring kingdom. There, the donkey-skinned maiden encounters a handsome prince (Jacques Perrin) who falls in love with her...

Sinéad Moriarty's sixth novel, Pieces of My Heart, is a serious look at a dreadful disease, but it's never a downer because it's filled with Sinéad's trademark warmth, humour and compassion. With her thoughtful and insightful analysis of what anorexia can do to a family, Sinéad brings to Pieces of My Heart many of the qualities of a Jodi Picoult novel, while still managing to balance the darkness with a lightness of touch that compares with the writing of Marian Keyes.Ava is juggling a life that seems to have too many pieces. First, there are her chalk-and-cheese daughters, Alison the angel and Sarah the tearaway.Then there's husband Paul. Unfortunately, he seems more interested in work than home - which might explain why her sex life is practically on life support. That certainly can't be said about her Viagra-popping Dad, a loveable rogue who is determined to grow old disgracefully.She would envy her best friend Sally, sassy single singleton-about-town, if she didn't know that behind..

'Ambiguities indeed! One long brain-muddling, soul-bewildering ambiguity (to borrow Mr. Melville's style), like Melchisedeck, without beginning or end-a labyrinth without a clue - an Irish bog without so much as a Jack o'the'lantern to guide the wanderer's footsteps - the dream of a distempered stomach, disordered by a hasty supper on half-cooked pork chops." So judged the New York Herald when Pierre was first published in 1852, with most contemporary reviewers joining in the general condemnation: 'a dead failure,' 'this crazy rigmarole,' and "a literary mare's nest." Latter-day critics have recognized in the story of Melville's idealistic young hero a corrosive satire of the sentimental-Gothic novel, and a revolutionary foray into modernist literary techniques.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout hi..