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AMELIA BEDELIA: SETS SAIL
Amelia Bedelia and her mother share a summer vacation home at the shore with her aunt Mary (her mother’s sister) and her cousin Jason, who has a wicked sense of adventure and a nose for trouble. With a local girl named Pearl as guide, the cousins build sand castles, swim and body surf, and learn how to sail. As much fun as their nautical adventures are, the lives of this trio get way more exciting when they stumble upon pirates! The Amelia Bedelia chapter books star Amelia Bedelia as a young girl and feature funny family and friendship stories just right for fans of Judy Moody and Ivy + Bean. The Amelia Bedelia books have sold more than 35 million copies since we first met the iconic character in 1963!
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Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World
‘You won’t find a more honest, raw and helpful look into the trenches of founding a tech startup than this book’ Nir Eyal, author of Hooked
‘Rand Fishkin is the real deal’ Seth Godin, entrepreneur and author
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Everyone knows how a startup story is supposed to go: a young, brilliant entrepreneur has an cool idea, drops out of college, defies the doubters, overcomes all odds, makes billions and becomes the envy of the technology world.This is not that story.
Rand Fishkin, the founder and former CEO of Moz, is one of the world’s leading experts on SEO. Moz is now a $45 million a year business, but Fishkin’s business and reputation took 15 years to grow, and his startup began not in a Harvard dorm room but as a mother-and-son family business that fell deeply into debt.
Now Fis
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My First Ramadan
Look! There is the new moon in the sky. It’s time for Ramadan to begin. Follow along with one young boy as he abserves the Muslim holy month with his family. This year, the narrator is finally old enough to fast, and even the youngest readers will be interested as he shares his experiences of this special holiday.
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The Big Finish MP3 CD – Audiobook, MP3
By James W. Hall
A year ago Thorns son, Flynn Moss, disappeared into the eco-underground, his only contact with Thorn a series of postcards chronicling his exploits. But a postcard arrives unlike the others, a call for help, Thorn jumps into action, setting off for North Carolina. But before Thorn arrives, hes intercepted by a federal agent who informs him hes too lateFlynn had been acting as an informant for the FBI, and when his traitorous acts were discovered, he was summarily executed.
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Between Black and White MP3 CD – Audiobook
By Robert Bailey
In 1966 in Pulaski, Tennessee, Bocephus Haynes watched in horror as his father was brutally murdered by 10 local members of the Ku Klux Klan. As an African American lawyer practicing in the birthplace of the Klan years later, Bo has spent his life pursuing justice in his father’s name. But when Andy Walton, the man believed to have led the lynch mob 45 years earlier, ends up murdered in the same spot as Bo’s father, Bo becomes the prime suspect.
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Five Pillars: Just to Please Allah
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What are the five pillars of Islam?
Why do we do them?
What do we get if we them?
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Good Deeds: Just To Please Allah Hardcover
By Rabia Bashir
What goods cdeeds can do?
Why do we do them?
What do we get if we do them?
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The Headmaster’s Wife MP3 CD – Audiobook
By Thomas Christopher Greene
Arthur Winthrop is a middle-aged headmaster at an elite prep school in Vermont. When he is arrested for an act that is incredibly out of character, the strait-laced, married headmaster confesses to a much more serious crime.
Arthur reveals that he has had a passionate affair with a scholarship student called Betsy Pappas. But Betsy is a fickle and precocious teenager. When she switches her attentions to a classmate, Arthur’s passion for Betsy turns, by degrees, into something far darker. Now Arthur must tell the truth about what happened to Betsy. But can Arthur’s version of events be trusted – or is the reality much more complex and unnerving?
The Headmaster’s Wife is a dark, sinuous and compelling novel about marriage and obsessive love.
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The Future of Economics: An Islamic Perspective
By Umer Chapra
This profound book is a powerful yet balanced critique of mainstream economics that makes a forceful plea for taking economics out of its secular and occident-centred cocoon. It presents an innovative and formidable case to re-link economics with moral and egalitarian concerns so as to harness the discipline in the service of humanity.
M. Umer Chapra is ranked amongst the Top 50 Global Leaders in Islamic economics (ISLAMICA 500, 2015) and has been awarded with two prestigious awards for his contributions to the field: Islamic Development Bank Award for Islamic Economics (1989) and the King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies (1989).
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The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller
Winner of The GoodReads Choice Award for Poetry 2017From Rupi Kaur, the bestselling author of Milk and Honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. Illustrated by Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising and blooming. It is a celebration of love in all its forms.
this is the recipe of life
said my mother
as she held me in her arms as i wept
think of those flowers you plant
in the garden each year
they will teach you
that people too
must wilt
fall
root
rise
in order to bloomPraise for Rupi Kaur:
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The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
How do you build and sustain a great team?
The Culture Code reveals the secrets of some of the best teams in the world – from Pixar to Google to US Navy SEALs – explaining the three skills such groups have mastered in order to generate trust and a willingness to collaborate. Combining cutting-edge science, on-the-ground insight and practical ideas for action, it offers a roadmap for creating an environment where innovation flourishes, problems get solved, and expectations are exceeded.
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Wrath of the Lion by Jack Higgins-Audio Book
By Jack Higgins
Classic adventure from the million copy bestseller Jack Higgins
A rogue U–boat is patrolling the Atlantic coast, its fanatical crew ready to slaughter for a self–proclaimed dream of France. In the long dark years of the Cold War, not every battle merited centre stage. Many threats to Europe were imagined, but this one is very real.
L’Alouette has to be stopped, eliminated before all out war prevails once again. Only one man can stop the threat, and the prospect of peace in Europe rests in his hands. They call him ‘the Butcher of Perak…