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This is a language course teaching the basics of the Romanian language quickly and efficiently. This includes a focus on words and phrases that are frequently used and can be put to daily use, such as questions, numbers, foods, introductions, and many other frequently used topics. Review modules are also included if you won't be putting your new language skills to use immediately. This is an ideal way to rapidly build an understanding of the Romanian language with a focus on the words and phrases that you really need.

The coffin-maker Yakov is shocked by his wife's illness, with whom he lived for 52 years. An understanding suddenly came to him that the woman had never seen love or affection from him for the entire time of family life. But only accusations and abuse. The husband, who fell into extreme stinginess, forbade her to drink tea, and the unfortunate woman was forced to drink empty boiling water. Her whole life was spent in work and utmost need in the tiny hut where Yakov stored, ready for sale, coffins.

Discover how Meghan Truman, Sandy Bay's latest resident and new bakery owner, navigates her way through three murder mysteries as she gets to know the quirky characters in her adopted hometown after failing to make a career as an actress in Hollywood. She's finally started a relationship with Jack Irvin, a detective, but will she find time to build a romance while she has to deal with betrayals, ungrateful staff, culture clashes, and murder? Three complete best-selling cozy mystery stories in one boxset!

Il magistrato Elena Macchi, con a fianco il fidato commissario Torrisi, si ritrova a dover indagare su una serie di misteriosi omicidi, avvenuti nell’altrimenti placida provincia di Varese. Il tutto ha inizio con l’assassinio di una modella, Eva Borghi, vista poche ore prima in casa del pittore Claudio Murro. Un altro delitto, stavolta a Milano, porterà Elena a collaborare con la questura meneghina assieme a una psicologa e una criminologa del capoluogo.

What Did Not Kill Me, Made Me is the second in a trilogy after the best-selling and award-winning book Girl, Taken: A True Story of Abductions, Captivity and Survival.

Meghan hates goodbyes, but she knows she has to say her farewell to some people and situations in her life. She's left anxious and confused when a know-it-all neighbor is found dead under questionable circumstances. Was their final farewell natural or calculated? Meghan has her hunches. She's determined to find out, even though she knows she'll be putting her life at risk, along with the most precious person in her life. In her quest for the truth, will she be successful or end up the victim of a ruthless killer who's determined to have the last laugh?

Eine abenteuerliche Reise vor der malerischen Kulisse der grünen Insel und die Suche nach der wahren Bestimmung – Band 2 der brandneuen Trilogie erstmals auf Deutsch! Breen Kellys Herz ist zerrissen, denn die junge Lehrerin steht vor einer schweren Entscheidung.

After a hot day in South Africa’s Mpumalanga bushveld, Noko, a young crested porcupine with a big heart, scurries out of his burrow to meet up with his many friends at night school. But just before he leaves, his parents summon him back with exciting news. He’s going to be a big brother! Unfortunately, Noko isn’t nearly as thrilled as his mother and father. Noko is the baby of the family, and he thinks it should stay that way. Feeling sad and dejected, Noko dashes off into the darkness before his parents can say another word.

"Life in Questions and Exclamations" is a short story by the Russian writer and playwright Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904). Written and first published in 1882 in the journal Alarm Clock under the pseudonym Antosha Chekhonte, the short story "Life in Questions and Exclamations" is written in an unusual form of a collection of key phrases—memoirs for each stage of a man's life—childhood, adolescence, youth, the period "between 20 and 30 years", "between 30-50 years", and old age.

Alice is a detective with a bizarre ability. She can take out criminals with her powerful static shocks. Sounds like an impressive weapon? It should be, but she’s been banned from using this power by her bullying chief inspector. Working with her partner, Max Greenstick, Alice investigates a spate of kidnappings and finds herself in a dramatic situation. With thugs closing in and an officer down, she uses her static to gain an advantage and is inevitably suspended from duty. Alice’s only option is to continue investigating undercover.

Il corpo in cui sono nata è una sorta di memoir in cui Guadalupe Nettel, fortunata autrice messicana de La figlia unica, ripercorre la propria infanzia e adolescenza tra Messico e Francia in seno a una famiglia progressista che, suo malgrado, si trova a fare i conti con gli anni ‘70 e la fine dell’utopia. La protagonista si confronta con la sua infanzia segnata da un neo bianco sulla cornea che l’ha costretta a portare per anni un grosso cerotto sull’occhio che la porta a sviluppare fin da piccolissima un profondo senso di estraneità nei confronti del mondo che la circonda.

"I metodi tradizionali con me non hanno funzionato. Sono uscita dal liceo dopo tredici anni di inglese con ancora tanto, troppo, da imparare. Il mio modo di comunicare era basico e meccanico, il che mi faceva sentire spesso a disagio. Sognavo di esprimermi liberamente, senza rinunciare a tutte le sfumature che una lingua possiede e stabilendo connessioni più profonde con le persone, ma non ci riuscivo. Mi ci è voluto del tempo per capire che dovevo lasciar perdere la traduzione letterale e iniziare a pensare in inglese.

"A Conversation of a Drunk with a Sober Imp" is a short story by the Russian writer and playwright Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904). Written and first published in 1886, the story is a miniature describing the meeting of a retired collegiate secretary Lakhmatov, who was pretty drunk, with the imp who suddenly appeared at night. The uninvited guest turned out to be a talkative creature who experienced the same infringements and inconveniences in his service as the retired collegiate secretary Lakhmatov.

Thirteen-year-old Varka, who lost her father, is hired as a servant and a babysitter in a shoemaker's house. All day long, she is forced to fulfill the owners’ orders, and later, she sits all night long by the cradle, trying desperately not to fall asleep. Varka knows that she would be severely beaten for that by her masters….

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At recess, Noko and his friends scurry out of class at Nature’s Night School hurriedly so that they can devour the yummy lunches that their parents packed for them. Upon opening their lunch bags and seeing Mmabudu’s lunch squirming about, it becomes clear to these bushveld buddies that not only do they enjoy very different treats, but they also look quite different and that their families do things in very different ways. This sparks intrigue and leads Noko to investigate what makes each of their tribes so unique and special.

Eine abenteuerliche Reise vor der malerischen Kulisse der grünen Insel und die Suche nach der wahren Bestimmung – Band 2 der brandneuen Trilogie erstmals auf Deutsch! Breen Kellys Herz ist zerrissen, denn die junge Lehrerin steht vor einer schweren Entscheidung.

Meghan takes a walk down memory lane and remembers the fright that was before Christmas when she was an aspiring actress in Hollywood. She thought she had gotten the role of a lifetime until she discovered the role she got was for something totally different. Things go from bad to worse when she's identified as a prime suspect for the murder of a key person on set. Meghan knows there are several women who had plausible reasons to want to do something diabolical to the boss from hell. She's one of those women, but she knows she didn't do it. So if it wasn't her, who was it?

When Meghan’s admitted to hospital as a precautionary measure, she’s glad to discover she won’t have to stay long. She feels bullied, threatened, and confused by some of the people she meets and things she sees while on the hospital ward. When the most obnoxious character on the ward is found dead, it seems everyone is happy to move on with their lives.Meghan is happy to let the police do their jobs and solve the latest murder mystery in Sandy Bay…until one of her employees is identified as a prime suspect.

River Ryland is the girl everyone wants to be around. But this brave 13-year-old has a secret that's getting harder and harder to hide: she lives mostly alone in a ramshackle, single-wide trailer with a mom who drops in and out of her life.