![]() When Iggy arrives in second grade, however, his teacher forbids such follies, based on her childhood fear of skyscrapers. ![]() Youthful irreverence and creativity find a champion in this tale of Iggy Peck, a child who once "built a great tower in only an hour / with nothing but diapers and glue." At the sight (and smell) of this wonder, Iggy's mother memorably responds, "Good Gracious, Ignacious!" She supports his precocity, despite his preferred media. Ada Twist, Scientist, the companion picture book featuring the next kid from Iggy Peck's class, is available in September 2016. He loves building too much to give it up! With Andrea Beaty’s irresistible rhyming text and David Roberts’s puckish illustrations, this book will charm creative kids everywhere, and amuse their sometimes bewildered parents.Īlso from the powerhouse author-illustrator team of Iggy Peck, Architect, is Rosie Revere, Engineer, a charming, witty picture book about believing in yourself and pursuing your passion. His parents are proud of his fabulous creations, though they’re sometimes surprised by his materials-who could forget the tower he built of dirty diapers? When his second-grade teacher declares her dislike of architecture, Iggy faces a challenge. Meet Iggy Peck-creative, independent, and not afraid to express himself! In the spirit of David Shannon’s No, David and Rosemary Wells’s Noisy Nora, Iggy Peck will delight readers looking for irreverent, inspired fun. ![]() A hilarious, irreverent book about doing your own thing ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In the never-before-published story “The Long and Painful Death,” a writer awarded a stay to work in Heinrich Böll’s old cottage has her peace interrupted by an unwelcome intruder, whose ulterior motives only emerge as the night progresses. ![]() Now she has delivered her next, much-anticipated book, Walk the Blue Fields, an unforgettable array of quietly wrenching stories about despair and desire in the timeless world of modern-day Ireland. Claire Keegan’s brilliant debut collection, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, and earned her resounding accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died in August 2008. ![]() In 1990, with the fall of Soviet Communism, his citizenship was restored and four years later he returned to settle in Russia. He settled in Vermont and worked on his great historical cycle The Red Wheel. In 1970 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and in 1974 his citizenship was revoked and he was expelled from the Soviet Union. The publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in Novy Mir in 1962 was followed by publication, in the West, of his novels Cancer Ward and The First Circle. ![]() In 1957 he formally rehabilitated, and settled down to teaching and writing, in Ryazan and Moscow. In 1945, however, after making derogatory remarks about Stalin in a letter, he was arrested and summarily sentenced to eight years in forced labour camps, followed by internal exile. In World War II he fought as an artillery officer, attaining the rank of captain. He graduated in Physics and Mathematics from Rostov University and studied Literature by correspondence course at Moscow University. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in 1918 and grew up in Rostov-on-Don. ![]() ![]() ![]() Zev and Jonah know they're destined for each other, but they must overcome traditions ingrained over generations and long-buried secrets to fulfill their destiny. ![]() When unexplained ailments begin to plague Jonah, he needs to save his own life and sanity in order to have a future with Zev. Maintaining a relationship with the man he has loved since childhood isn't easy for Jonah Marvel, but he won't let distance or Zev's odd family get in their way. Yet, everything inside Zev tells him Jonah is his true mate. A male shifter has to mate with a female shifter to keep his humanity, so shifters can't be gay. Regarded as the strongest wolf shifter in generations, Alpha Zev Hassick is surprised and confused by his attraction to his best friend. ![]() A powerful Alpha wolf shifter and a strong-willed human overcome traditions ingrained over generations and uncover long-buried secrets to fulfill their destiny as true mates. ![]() ![]() It was a lot more dramatic and added an extra dimension to the relationships between Remo and his family and Serafina and her family but I did feel that it meant that the relationship between Remo and Serafina wasn’t quite as convincing as it could have been. I liked that the story was a little different to any of the previous books by this author and that the reasons that pull the characters apart and bring them back together are something I wasn’t expecting. She goes through a lot and is put in one impossible position after another but keeps surviving. Serafina was not quite what I expected, I thought that she was going to have to be tough and fiery to match well with Remo, but she was not that at all, not to say she was a complete pushover but she had more of a quiet strength. I was interested to see what type of woman would fall for such a ruthless character, especially one who is not quite so easy to like the whole time, but he still had the magnetism that had me curious about him from the start of the series. ![]() I have been looking forward to this story since reading about Remo in the first book. ![]() ![]() ![]() A popular marketing model, the marketing mix is can also be referred to as the 7Ps framework for the digital marketing mix. The 7Ps helps companies to review and define key issues that affect the marketing of its products and services. Today, it's recommended that the full 7 elements of the marketing mix are considered when reviewing competitive strategies - across product, customer service and more. Later 'Participants' was renamed as 'People' - the marketing mix covering marketers, customer service reps, recruitment, culture, training and remuneration. Over time, Booms and Pitner added three extended ‘service mix P’s': Participants, Physical evidence, and Processes. The 4 Ps represented an early focus on product marketing, when the role of customer service in helping brand development wasn't so well known. The 4Ps marketing mix was designed at a time when businesses were more likely to sell products, rather than services. ![]() We've created the graphic below so you can see the key elements of the 7Ps marketing mix. ![]() ![]() Jerome McCarthy and published in 1960 in his book Basic Marketing. The 7Ps marketing model was originally devised by E. Our free guide details 15 classic planning tools to help you use data and analysis to develop your marketing strategy.Īccess the Essential marketing models for business growth Who created the 7Ps marketing mix model? ![]() ![]() Only a woman in her position could possibly hope to escape from being revealed and punished, despite her cloak and anonymity. She must hide her identity for fear that the religious leaders in her country would call for her death to punish her honesty. ![]() For the sake of her daughters, she has decided to take the risk of speaking out about the life of women in her country, regardless of their rank. Hidden behind her black floor-length veil, she is a prisoner, jailed by her father, her husband, her sons, and her country.Sultana is a member of the Saudi royal family, closely related to the king. She has no freedom, no control over her own life, no value but as a bearer of sons. But in reality she lives in a gilded cage. ![]() She has four mansions on three continents, her own private jet, glittering jewels, designer dresses galore. ![]() Sultana is a Saudi Arabian princess, a woman born to fabulous, uncountable wealth. A few creased pages and minimal wear, otherwise clean and straight. ![]() ![]() ![]() (I’ve recently started reading books written in Spanish to avoid translation issues.) I’m not going to review this as a children’s book, but as a general-purpose novel, which was suggested by the author himself in the foreward. The author is a well-known Spanish writer, so this gave me an opportunity to see how different he writes from the Latin American translations of English books I’ve read before. ![]() It’s intended audience is probably junior high but it was challenging for me. This is a short book which would probably be more correctly called a novella. I’ve learned that each book has a unique vocabulary, with certain words used repeatedly by individual authors. I’m surveying a range of genres and authors to expand my vocabulary. The English translation of the title is, “The Prince of the Fog.” I read this book as part of my Spanish lessons. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the Bolivars decide on a return visit, Milly joins them. ![]() Television newscasts of elections in Latin America announce a triumphant Liberation Party, with the dictator fleeing the country. the longing hurt too much and I was afraid of falling into a big black hole of sadness!' to my birth family?' Unable to sleep that night, Milly ponders: ' I felt itchy inside, as if I was allergic to myself', while ' feeling helpless and adrift not knowing my story, who my birth parents had been, why they had given me up. Milly asks her Dad, ' Is that what might have happened. and people living sub-human lives under oppressive regimes'. Dad converses with the Bolivars about ' the state of the world. When the Kaufmans invite the Bolivars into their home, Mrs. Pablo's country is in revolt against a cruel dictatorship and he has relatives in the midst of the turmoil. Pablo recognizes Milly's eye color (brown with yellow flecks) as common to people in Los Luceros. She has never told any of her classmates about her adoption. When Pablo Bolivar enters ninth grade at Milly's school after immigrating from the same country with his family, she becomes uncomfortable. Milly now lives in Vermont with her parents and siblings. F inding Miracles is the story of teen Milly (for Milagros, meaning miracles) Kaufman, who was adopted as an infant by an American couple serving in the Peace Corps in Latin America. ![]() ![]() ![]() Above all, Snider's cartoons will inspire and encourage a more thoughtful way of experiencing the world. With a striking package, The Art of Living is an extension of the themes of Snider’s first two books-which explored the creative process and the love of reading-and is the perfect gift for those in a need of reflection, commiseration, hope, and a little extra self-care. I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf by Grant Snider(Goodreads Author) 3. ![]() With both humor and a touch of reality, The Art of Living centers on mindfulness, but also empathy, relaxation, gratitude, and awareness-evergreen subjects that are more important and relevant now than ever. In The Art of Living, cartoonist Grant Snider, author of The Shape of Ideas and I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf, has created an all-new collection of one- and two-page comics that map his inner thoughts, poetic observations, and frequent failures at living mindfully. ![]() “Find a quiet spot away from all distraction / Listen to your breath / Watch your thoughts float past you / Forget the obligations of today / Try not to consider your eventual decay / Let yourself drift away / Arise, connected with the Earth / Awakened to the Universe.” A humorous, uplifting look at mindfulness, from beloved illustrator Grant Snider ![]() |