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Losing Time is captivating exploration of love, loss, and healing inspired by autobiographical elements where the echoes of a past love still resonate. Like a modern-day Scheherazade, the woman, cloaked by the foreboding night in the stillness of time, beckons her lost lover to hear her voice once more. In poetic prose and evocative poetry, she weaves their story through the tapestry of pain and emotional turmoil, seeking solace in shared experiences and a path toward closure.

Our Global Lingua Franca is an essential companion for both native and non-native English instructors navigating the challenges of sub-par language learning. It will validate your frustrations about learning and teaching under the conventional approach to EFL. Intelligent without being overly academic, it offers invaluable outside-the-box advice on reading, writing, listening, speaking, grammar, vocabulary, and pragmatics to help you impart conversational English fluency and beyond.

Jared has always been unlucky with the ladies. It took a while to realize he just didn’t know how to please them. But his longtime friend Lilly has the solution. Her company has developed the Bedroom Helper, a shrinking potion that lets men get little and get right to the spots the ladies love the most! Lilly allows a demonstration of her formula—and her body. Will Jared figure out how to please a lady at such a small size?

From the author of Voices of the Void and Muramasa: Blood Drinker comes a tale of childhood isolation, terror, madness, and the faith to overcome it.

Ever since Shawn came up with the Dreamweaver, he’s been rather bored. He can augment reality any way he wants but he needs a new challenge. Enter, the jar. He has the grand idea to shrink cities and put them inside. Then, well, he wants to drown them. But not with water....

James wasn't sure if he was the last Nook or not. Ever since becoming an outcast from his own tiny people, he has lived a solitary life. Then, one day Brooke moved into the house where he'd been living. She discovers him, thinks he's special, even comes to love him. But to Brooke, James will never be anything besides a pet—a toy. And once this toy is no longer fun, she'll discard it.

The distant mining colony of New Gibraltar has gone quiet. Andrew, a mercenary known for his unique ability to survive one deadly encounter after another, is sent to investigate. The colony is empty, but nothing remains of the people that once lived there. Whispers, though, are coming from the darkness below. The horror that waits for him at the bottom of the mine, and the end of his mission, is what every mind within his head fears, save for one. It is a thing unspeakable, indescribable, unknowable, and it has changed the colonists in a way no man can witness while retaining his sanity.

John was dubious when he read about the escape room that offered a one-million dollar prize for solving it! But when he signs up, he realizes something is wrong. They put him in a gown and make him drink an awful-tasting formula. Now, he's shrinking smaller and smaller. He soon becomes a sideshow attraction for carnival-goers. Along with a shrunken woman named Brandy, he learns he's at the torment of his giant captors. When will it end?

Jason and Mary are upset the government is taking control of their experimental growth emitter. As one last hoorah, they decide to test it out on the local sorority house.

In these dozen mystery short stories, you’ll find a newcomer’s ignorance used as a murder weapon, a modern, murderous twist on an O’Henry story, an old Irish myth that haunts a teen in an Idaho ski resort, the myriad ways to die in the desert, and much more.

The uplifting messages in The Unopened Present reveal a father’s love and the unopened present left behind by a life cut short. The audiobook format aids parents in teaching younger children and enables older children to discover the wisdom in these lessons.

Research shows that physical training in older adults enhances their mental and cognitive function while improving their psychological, emotional, and social well-being.

குடும்பத்தாரின் கடும் எதிர்ப்புக்கிடையில் ஆட்டோ ஓட்டுனராகிறாள் புவனா. சவாரியின் போது, தனக்கு தோழியாகக் கிடைத்த அசிஸ்டெண்ட் கமிஷனர் உமாதேவியின் உதவியோடு, ஒரு ஆட்டோ ஓட்டுனராக இருந்து தான் காணும் சமூக அவலங்களை வெளிக் கொணர்ந்து நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கச் செய்கிறாள்.

Sixteen-year-old Amina Conteh has always believed in using her tongue as her weapon—even when it gets her into trouble. After cursing at a classmate, her father forces her to volunteer at their church with Pastor Johnson. But Pastor Johnson isn’t the holy man everyone thinks he is. The same voice Amina uses to fight falls quiet the night she is sexually assaulted by Pastor Johnson. After that, her life starts to unravel: her father is frustrated that her grades are slipping, and her best friend and boyfriend don’t understand why the once loud and proud girl is now quiet and distant.

சர் ஆர்தர் கோனான் டாயில் திறமையானதொரு கதைசொல்லி. 1881ஆம் ஆண்டு மருத்துவப் பட்டம் பெற்ற இவர், தனது படிப்பு முடிந்த அடுத்த ஆண்டிலேயே “A Study in Scarlet" என்ற முதல் துப்பறியும் நாவலை எழுதினார். இதில்தான், “ஷெர்லாக் ஹோம்ஸ்” என்ற பாத்திரத்தையும், அவருடைய உதவியாராக “வாட்சன்” என்ற பாத்திரத்தையும் இவர் அறிமுகம் செய்தார்.

ஒரு சமையற்காரனாக இருந்தும் ஒருவேளை சோற்றுக்கே திண்டாடுகிறான். அவனுடைய நிலைமையை அந்த ஊரின் திவானிடமும், மஹாராஜனிடமும் முறையிட செல்கிறான். அவர்கள் இருவருமே இவனுக்கு தகுந்த நியாயத்தை வழங்கவில்லை. அதனால், ஏற்பட்ட துன்பத்தினால், சமையற்காரன் ஒரு திட்டம் தீட்டுகிறான். அந்த திட்டத்தினால் அவனுக்கு வெற்றி கிடைத்ததா என பார்ப்போம்....

கதை படிப்பது என்றால் குழந்தைகளுக்கு மிகவும் பிடித்த ஒன்று. பறவைகள், விலங்குகளை வைத்து கதைகள் உருவாக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. ஒவ்வொரு கதையின் முடிவிலும் அந்த கதை கற்பிக்கும் நீதியை கேட்டு மகிழுங்கள்.

அன்பு வணக்கம். உங்களுக்காக நான் எழுதியுள்ள மற்றுமொரு சிறார் நாவல் “அப்புவின் சைக்கிள்”. அப்பு என்ற எட்டாம் வகுப்பு படிக்கும் சிறுவன் ஒரு சைக்கிள் வாங்க ஆசைப்பட அதனால் அவன் வாழ்க்கையில் தொடர்ச்சியாக நடக்கும் சம்பவங்களே இந்த நாவலின் உள்ளடக்கம். அப்பு தான் ஆசைப்பட்ட சைக்கிளை வாங்கினானா இல்லையா என்பதை இந்த நாவலைப் படித்து நீங்கள் அறிந்து கொள்ளலாம்.

Are you wondering if there is a more natural method to optimal wellness, one that doesn’t need clinical intervention or modern medicine? Have you tried alternative ways to improve your health only to end up disappointed because they weren’t as holistic as you thought? In ancient times, civilizations believed the universe was made up of cosmic energy—that there is a life force flowing through all walks of life and through every being on the planet. People of the past used this knowledge of energies and incorporated them into traditions that helped them gain a deeper understanding of themselves.

The offer of position as a social work intern has brought Kate Larsen to the opposite end of the universe—Watts, California. Though the job quickly proves to be far less that she hoped for, the curious notebook she finds in her desk compels her to seek answers.