Oui Love Shapes


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Learn the shapes in French! This collection includes the English and French words for various forms, including the square, pentagon, and octagon. On one side of the page is a large drawing of the shape in its most basic form. Above and below are the French and English names for the image. On the other side of the page are real-life examples of the shape, complete with English and French translations of said object. For example, a hexagon is represented by a honeycomb, an octagon by a stop sign. Apprenez les formes en anglais ! Cette collection comprend les mots anglais et français pour diverses formes, notamment le carré, le pentagone et l'octogone. Sur un côté de la page se trouve une grande illustration de la forme la plus simple. En haut de l’image, vous trouverez le nom français du sujet et en bas, son nom en anglais. De l'autre côté de la page, vous trouverez des exemples de la forme, accompagnés des traductions anglaises et françaises de l'objet. Par exemple, un hexagone est représenté par un nid d'abeilles, un octogone par un panneau d'arrêt.




Les Quatre Saisons de Monet


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Learn the seasons of the year in French and English with the great impressionist painter, Claude Monet. This bilingual volume features 16 paintings, each spread out across two pages. On every even page is a French sentence-- on the odd side, an English sentence. Each season has 4 paintings. One of these paintings introduces the season ("Au printemps¿" / "In spring¿"), while the other three cover specific weather events ("Il pleut" / "It rains"). Some of the paintings in "Les Quatre Saisons" include: "Spring by the Seine", "The Beach at Honfleur", "Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son", and selections from the "Haystacks" series.




The Shapes of Wrath


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A demonic surgeon. A haunted hospital. And the doctor caught between them. Dr. Hope Sze launches into her general surgery rotation with Dr. Vrac, the scourge of operating room #3, also known as the death O.R. Dr. Vrac screams at the resident doctors suffering under him, the nurses who don't move fast enough, the anesthesiologist, his auto mechanic, and even a garbage can. Patients begin to die under Dr. Vrac’s scalpel. This morning, Hope discovers a dead man in the back of the O.R. Next, a ghost lingers outside of Montreal's St. Joseph's Hospital. a) WTF and b) can Hope outwit the enraged killer before someone slices her throat? One of the best book of the year, as chosen by author Jamieson Wolf, who calls it "a perfect book" and "Terrifying and thrilling with incredible characters, romance, and the supernatural." “Sizzling! I read the whole thing in one day, heart pounding, totally gripped by the action. Super fantastic book. I actually had to shush my kids when they tried to talk to me in the middle of it.” Dr. Eileen Sacks, General Surgeon "My body did not want to get out of bed this morning, and it's all Melissa Yi's fault. Couldn’t put this book down! It's SO GOOD." —Dr. Nicole Shadbolt, MD, FCFP "Yi invites you into a space most people never get to enter, as you walk the halls of the Operating Suite. This gripping novel pits doctor against doctor in a fight to the death over long dead apparitions and more recent victims. You won't be able to put it down! I love Hope Sze. Dr. Sze is the heroine we all wish we could be, a whip-smart young physician who survives with fearless confidence and savvy friends. Who better to take us on a journey through life and death?"—Kim Alexander, Gynecologist “I love Dr. Vrac. He’s so bad he’s good.”—Susan Fani, author of The Girl in the Killer Dress Praise for the Hope Sze thrillers Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award Finalist for Best Thriller #1 Mystery Selection—CBC Books. Recommended authors also include Louise Penny and Maureen Jennings One of the best Canadian suspense books recommended by The Globe and Mail "An insanely-twisted thriller that’s more connected than the vascular system ... a murder mystery/thriller, with a dash of history, and a supernatural twist ... priceless ... a comic tour-de-force ... exploitation, murder, mayhem, and revenge, spiked with comic relief. Don’t miss it."—Ottawa Review of Books "Smart and sassy."—Jim Napier, Reviewing the Evidence One of the best crime novels of the season.—CBC Radio's The Next Chapter Mystery Panel "The three intertwining mysteries and Hope herself provide a narrative by turns entertaining and insightful."—Publishers Weekly "Narrating in a sprightly style while sharing some of the nitty-gritty of a resident's job, Hope Sze is an utterly likeable character."—Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine "Melissa Yi is a talented writer."—Murder in Common




Gospel-Shaped Marriage


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A Gracious, Biblical Model for Marriage Married Christians, and those preparing for marriage, know that they're sinners—and that their sin threatens God's great purposes for their union, including mutual support, companionship, and intimacy. But how often do believers recognize that they are also saints, equipped through God's power to create a healthy, loving marriage? In Gospel-Shaped Marriage, Chad and Emily Van Dixhoorn encourage couples with how Christ calls and enables them to love their spouse. They give a brief assessment of the biblical design for marriage while offering practical, proven advice for husbands and wives. Drawing from Scripture and the writings of Puritan minister William Gouge, their advice also prepares churches, friends, and others to support married couples in their lives. Comprehensive and Theological: Includes a summary of marriage in redemptive history, recommended Bible verses with each chapter, and prayer prompts Accessible: Offers guidance for singles preparing for marriage, young and mature couples, struggling couples, and those who want to strengthen their relationship Practical Advice: Written by a pastor and his wife, this concise, easy-to-understand guide includes discussion questions for each chapter




The Shape Stealer


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Jewelry designer Garet James is the Watchtower—the last in a long line of powerful women sworn to protect the world from evil. Although she had once defeated evil in New York City, her pursuit of her true love, the 400-year-old vampire Will Hughes, has now unleashed an age-old evil onto the modern world, and the entire planet is at risk. Marduk, the ageless descendant of a demonic Babylonian deity, is now loose in Paris. He has joined forces with the villainous John Dee in a plan to destroy the world's economy and plunge the entire world into chaos. To fight this threat, Garet enlists the help of a modern-day band of knights who are dedicated to preserving the sanctity of the timeline. As she and her allies face this threat, new challenges arise in the form of a rival faction of knights who will stop at nothing to bring about the destruction of everything Garet holds dear. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.




Fluent Forever


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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • For anyone who wants to learn a foreign language, this is the method that will finally make the words stick. “A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new languages.”—Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Guitar Zero At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn’t learn them in school—who does? Rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources—and here he wants to show others what he’s discovered. Starting with pronunciation, you’ll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds. You’ll retrain your tongue to produce those sounds accurately, using tricks from opera singers and actors. Next, you’ll begin to tackle words, and connect sounds and spellings to imagery rather than translations, which will enable you to think in a foreign language. And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you’ll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day. This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.




Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition)


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A beautifully packaged edition of one of García Márquez's most beloved novels, with never-before-seen color illustrations by the Chilean artist Luisa Rivera and an interior design created by the author's son, Gonzalo García Barcha. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.




Romance


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Madoodle


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Dr. Elijah Nicholas has created an LGBTQI-friendly children's book featuring Madoodle (aka Madison), a ten-year-old girl whose Uncle Pete was once her Auntie Mary. Based on Dr. Elijah's observations as he navigated his gender transition from female to male, Dr. Elijah has brilliantly created a story of love, family, compasion, and authentic gender expression acceptance. Through the eyes of Madison and her friends, with appearances by parents, teachers, and other bright and inquisitive children, Dr. Elijah entertains, educates, enlightens, and most of all contributes to the discussion of unconditional love and gender expression. "Madoodle" is a great family discussion tool for navigating gender identity and family dynamics. It is also an excellent resource for classroom teachers when introducing gender, gender expression, navigating transgender students, and proper pronoun usage in the student setting. Author: Assigned the female gender at birth, Dr. Elijah Nicholas spent over half of his life in the US Military retiring as a senior officer in 2012. Transitioning from female-to-male in 2018 came as a result of Dr. Elijah no longer being able to live his core values: Authenticity, Integrity, and Transparency. Afterretiring from the military Dr. Elijah began to write and document his life experiences. He is now a 7-time published author. In 2018, just before he began his gender reassignment, Dr. Elijah discovered his passion for creating family and children's books. He subsequently created the "Madoodle" series with plans of animation and production of short films based on the life of the main character, Madison. You can find Dr. Elijah and Madison on IG: @DrElijahNicholas and @_Madoodle; respectively. Illustrator: Marcellos Ponder is the creator of BM Comix, home of Stoopid High and Streetnerd. Marcellos Is a self-taught artist, who has been creating his own comics since grade school, making money throughout school using his talents. Marcellos has written and illustrated six different comic books. He also creates different forms of Art on various forms of mediums and also uses his talents for numerous projects for the newly formed City of South Fulton. Marcellus looks forward to working on the next big cartoon that can stand alongside some of the greats from the greats! Marcellos lives in Atlanta, GA. You can find Marcellos on IG: @Stoopidhighllc.




Dear Paris


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Eat, Pray, Love meets Claude Monet in this epistolary ode to the French capital from the New York Times–bestselling author of Paris Letters. What started as a whim in a Latin Quarter café blossomed into Janice MacLeod’s years-long endeavor to document and celebrate life in Paris, sending monthly snippets of her paintings and writings to the mailboxes of ardent followers around the world. Now, Dear Paris collects the entirety of the Paris Letters project: 140 illustrated messages discussing everything from macarons to Montmartre. For readers familiar with the city, Dear Paris is a rendezvous with their own memories, like the first time they walked along the Champs-Élysées or the best pain au chocolat they’ve ever tasted. But it’s about more than just a Paris frozen in nostalgia; the book paints the city as it is today, through elections, protests, and the World Cup—and through the people who call it home. Wistful, charming, surprising, and unfailingly optimistic, Dear Paris is a vicarious visit to one of the most iconic and beloved places in the world. Praise for Paris Letters “Janice MacLeod’s charming Paris Letters takes us on her starry-eyed discovery of Paris, the joys of learning the French language, a unique career in art and, best of all, the romance of a lifetime! C’est bon!” —Lynne Martin, author of Home Sweet Anywhere “Written as though to a best friend telling her story over lattes—or café crème. Relatable and inspiring . . . cleverly crafted with wit and unexpected wisdom.” —New York Journal of Books