Author: Paulo Coelho
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061253065
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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A community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each will face questions of life, death, and power, and each will choose a path. Will they choose good or evil? In the remote village of Viscos -- a village too small to be on any map, a place where time seems to stand still -- a stranger arrives, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answer to a question that torments him: Are human beings, in essence, good or evil? In welcoming the mysterious foreigner, the whole village becomes an accomplice to his sophisticated plot, which will forever mark their lives. Paulo Coelho's stunning novel explores the timeless struggle between good and evil, and brings to our everyday dilemmas fresh perspective: incentive to master the fear that prevents us from following our dreams, from being different, from truly living. The Devil and Miss Prym is a story charged with emotion, in which the integrity of being human meets a terrifying test.

Author: Fernando Morais
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061718882
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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Paulo Coelho: A Warrior's Life is the first-ever biography of the man whose books have sold an astounding 100 million copies worldwide, making him one of the bestselling authors of all time. Paulo Coelho's life begins with a complicated birth in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 1947. He was known as the "boy who was born dead" and who ultimately survived against all odds. Before he became internationally known as a worldwide bestselling author, Paulo lived many different lives. He flirted with suicide, was committed by his parents to insane asylums, suffered the brutality of electric shock therapy, dove into drugs, tried several varieties of sex, met the devil, spent time in prison, helped revolutionize Brazilian rock with musician Raul Seixas, and finally rediscovered his faith in 1986 as he walked the sacred Road to Santiago de Compostela, a medieval pilgrim's route between France and Spain. Coelho would later describe this life-changing spiritual experience in his first book, The Pilgrimage. The following year, The Alchemist established his worldwide reputation. The novel has already achieved the status of a universally admired modern classic. Now, for the first time, discover the life story of one of the most widely read and adored authors of our time.

Author: Ulrich Daepp
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387215603
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 391

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This book, based on Pólya's method of problem solving, aids students in their transition to higher-level mathematics. It begins by providing a great deal of guidance on how to approach definitions, examples, and theorems in mathematics and ends by providing projects for independent study. Students will follow Pólya's four step process: learn to understand the problem; devise a plan to solve the problem; carry out that plan; and look back and check what the results told them.

Author: Mike Bhangu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781774815243
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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I ask-What's worth knowing and practicing on this esoteric journey and what doesn't serve our higher self? What are the true spiritual teachings able to lift our consciousness to the next level of existence? What are the lessons that will take us closer to ONENESS? What are the secrets of Initiation? Like a Shakespearean tragedy, tragically, the required knowledge is allusive, and in this epoch, no popular institution is teaching this wisdom. A person must seek this knowledge without knowing where to begin the quest. To make the journey a little more hopeless, the knowledge is locked behind an unknown closed door, 50 feet thick, and guarded by 1000 armed men-metaphorically speaking. The task to learn tangible spiritual truths is Herculean. Yet, this is the duty of every living person. With this understanding, a person might emancipate the self and exist as a being who radiates true love and happiness. Without this awareness, does one truly live? My name is Mike Bhangu. I've spent over twenty years researching and ten years writing, and I present to you an understanding after scrutinizing the different philosophies, philosophers, religions, mystics, holy texts, and holy individuals. Through this manuscript I share with you the core spiritual truths able to move a person closer to ONENESS, and what some seekers call the secrets of Initiation. The knowledge presented herein is the same truth taught by the great philosophers, mystics, holy texts, holy persons, and the mystery schools of our past. However, for one reason or another, today, these teachings are understood differently than originally intended, and these misunderstandings are now the popular interpretations. Since the meaning of words and ideas changed and words and ideas are now incorrectly understood, there are many spiritual houses, many interpretations, and many religions instead of one. Yet, all true holy persons, philosophers, and mystics taught the same core truths, and all worked to guide a person toward the three points of the Celestial Triangle. In addition to explanations able to help you understand this chaotic world and the self, this manuscript will discuss these three points in detail, and according to the Enlightened, if the three are understood, a person will know all he or she requires to know. Moreover, a person acquires the potential to become one with ONE. This is the ultimate state of being. This is true serenity and happiness.

Author: Scott Spencer
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453205241
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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The impassioned love of two teenagers leaves a path of destruction in its perilous wake Seventeen-year-old David Axelrod is consumed with his love for Jade Butterfield. So when Jade’s father exiles him from their home, David does the only thing he thinks is rational: He burns down their house. Sentenced to a psychiatric institution, David’s obsession metastasizes, and upon his release, he sets out to win the Butterfields back by any means necessary. Brilliantly written and intensely sexual, Endless Love is the deeply moving story of a first love so powerful that it becomes dangerous—not only for the young lovers, but for their families as well. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Scott Spencer, including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Author: Anna-Marie McLemore
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 1250162734
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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With Anna-Marie McLemore's signature lush prose, Dark and Deepest Red pairs the forbidding magic of a fairy tale with a modern story of passion and betrayal. Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves. Five centuries later, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Oliva’s feet, making her dance uncontrollably. They draw her toward a boy who knows the dancing fever’s history better than anyone: Emil, whose family was blamed for the fever five hundred years ago. But there’s more to what happened in 1518 than even Emil knows, and discovering the truth may decide whether Rosella survives the red shoes.

Author: Alison Littlewood
Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books
ISBN: 1623650232
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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A dark and unsettling tale from a bold voice in horror writing "A scary read that will chill you to the bone," --Library Journal. After the battlefront death of her husband, a soldier, in the sands of the Middle East, a distraught Cass decides to move to the bucolic village of Darnshaw--a place she once knew and loved--with her teenage son, with the hope that a change in scenery will be just the thing to help her family heal. But the locals aren't as friendly as she had hoped and the iInternet connection isn't as reliable as her work requires. Ben begins to display an uncharacteristic hostility. A blizzard strikes Darnshaw, marooning it in a sea of snow, and Cass begins to despair. She finds a sympathetic ear in the person of her son's substitute teacher. But his attentions can't put to rest her growing anxiety about her son and her business. And soon, she finds herself pitted against dark forces she can barely comprehend. The cold season has begun...

Author: Gurjinder Basran
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1773059289
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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A powerfully emotional story of four people touched by a teen’s death, award-winning author Gurjinder Basran’s Help! I’m Alive is a clear-eyed exploration of meaningful connection in the modern era After video footage of Jay’s death is shared on social media, a suburban Vancouver community is left to try to make sense of what happened to Jay and whether his death was an accident or a suicide. Help! I’m Alive explores the aftermath through the eyes of four people all suddenly confronted with who they have been and how they should be in the wake of such loss. Jay’s former best friend, Ash, wonders what happened to their friendship and questions the relationships he has now; Winona, Jay’s troubled girlfriend struggles with guilt and abandonment; Anik, Ash’s older brother, is on a search for the meaning of life but hasn’t left his basement apartment in months; and Pavan, Ash and Anik’s mother, finds Jay’s death lays bare all her personal and maternal anxieties. Unflinching but life-affirming, Help! I’m Alive is a Gen Z and Gen X coming-to-terms story about loneliness and connection, love and suffering, and the moments that bring us together and drive us apart.

Author: John S. Guest
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000817504
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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First Published in 1987 The Yezidis: A Study in Survival traces the origin of Yezidi community’s religion, describes the discovery of the people by Western travellers in the early nineteenth century and details the Yezidi community’s traumatic history and their status in the 80s. The Yezidi religious group is spread out over Iraq, Turkey, Syria, and erstwhile USSR and have retained their identity for over 500 years. The Yezidi’s believe that Lucifer, the fallen angel, has been forgiven by God and reinstated as chief angel: their history is, like their faith, characterized by dignity and survival in the face of great odds. Chapters also cover Sultan Abdul Hamid’s cruel but vain efforts to force the Yezidis to embrace Islam, leading to the emergence of Mayan Khatun, a strong-willed Yezidi princess who ruled the community from 1913-1958. They include vivid account of her rivalry with her brother Ismail and the ill-fated marriage between her son and his daughter. The final chapter describes the community in Soviet Armenia and Georgia. This book is a must read for students of Middle East studies and Middle East history.

Author: Joanna Cannon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982185570
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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"A NICE, NORMAL HOUSE ... Linda has lived in a quiet neighborhood ever since fleeing the dark events of her childhood in Wales. Now she sits in her kitchen, wondering if this is all there is--pushing the vacuum around and cooking fish sticks for supper is a far cry from the glamorous lifestyle she sees in the glossy catalogues coming through the mail slot addressed to the previous occupant, Rebecca. A NICE, NORMAL HUSBAND? Terry isn't perfect--he picks his teeth, tracks dirt through the house, and spends most of his time in front of the TV. But that seems fairly standard--until he starts keeping odd hours at work, at around the same time young women in the town start to go missing ... A NICE, NORMAL LIFE... If Linda could track down and befriend Rebecca, maybe some of that enviable lifestyle would rub off on her. But the grass isn't always greener: you can't change who you really are, and criminals can hide behind closed doors"--