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The Very Last Leaf

Author : Stef Wade

Publisher : Capstone

Page : 33 pages

File Size : 46,51 MB

Release : 2023-08

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1684468159

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Lance Cottonwood is the best and brightest of the leaves, but even the top students on the tree have worries. Can Lance conquer his fear of falling and just let go when the time comes for his final exam, or will he let his worries take over? In this funny and encouraging picture book, best-selling author Stef Wade (A Place for Pluto) tells an engaging story and deftly addresses social and emotional struggles many kids encounter each day...feeling anxious, wanting to be perfect, facing fears, etc. These themes combined with illustrator Jennifer Davison's delightful characters and rich autumnal colors make The Very Last Leaf a perfect book for the start of a new school year, the arrival of autumn, or any period of transition in life.



Stef Soto, Taco Queen

Author : Jennifer Torres

Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Page : 141 pages

File Size : 18,79 MB

Release : 2017-01-17

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0316306878

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A deliciously charming and heartwarming novel, all wrapped up in a warm tortilla. Tacos. Burritos. Guacamole. Estefania "Stef" Soto is itching to shake off the onion-and-cilantro embrace of Tia Perla, her family's taco truck. She wants nothing more than for Papi to get a normal job and for the taco truck to be a distant memory. Then maybe everyone at school will stop calling her the Taco Queen. But when her family's livelihood is threatened, and it looks like her wish will finally come true, Stef surprises everyone (including herself) by becoming the truck's unlikely champion. In this fun and heartfelt novel, Stef will discover what matters most and ultimately embrace her identity, even if it includes old Tia Perla.



A Place for Pluto

Author : Stef Wade

Publisher : Capstone Editions

Page : 16 pages

File Size : 33,59 MB

Release : 2019-07

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 168446093X

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Shocked to be stripped of his planet status, Pluto goes on a quest to find his place in the universe. Includes educational materials.



Yearnings in the Meantime

Author : Stef Jansen

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 262 pages

File Size : 44,50 MB

Release : 2015-06-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1782386513

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Shortly after the book’s protagonists moved into their apartment complex in Sarajevo, they, like many others, were overcome by the 1992-1995 war and the disintegration of socialist Yugoslavia More than a decade later, in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, they felt they were collectively stuck in a time warp where nothing seemed to be as it should be. Starting from everyday concerns, this book paints a compassionate yet critical portrait of people’s sense that they were in limbo, trapped in a seemingly endless “Meantime.” Ethnographically investigating yearnings for “normal lives” in the European semi-periphery, it proposes fresh analytical tools to explore how the time and place in which we are caught shape our hopes and fears.



The Tenderness of Wolves

Author : Stef Penney

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 400 pages

File Size : 15,85 MB

Release : 2008-03-04

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1416571302

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When her teenage son disappears in the aftermath of a brutal murder, a determined mother sets out from her snow-covered nineteenth-century settlement to find him, an effort that is hampered by vigilante groups and the harrowing forces of nature. A first novel.



The Worry Tiger

Author : Alexandra Page

Publisher : Pan Macmillan

Page : 31 pages

File Size : 34,67 MB

Release : 2022-07-21

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1529084024

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A gorgeous picture book that weaves mindfulness actions into a magical story, helping young children to feel calm and relaxed. Comes with a set of easy calming exercises anyone can enjoy. From the creators of The Fire Fox, Alexandra Page and Stef Murphy, shortlisted for Oscar's Book Prize 2022. It's show-and-tell tomorrow and Rory is anxious – he doesn't have anything special to share with the class. But everything changes when Rory meets his very own worry tiger, who helps him feel calm. "Try this," said the tiger. "See how quiet you can be. Tiptoe like a tiger and tell me what you see." Breathe deep to smell the jungle scents. Stretch to join the monkeys high up in the trees. Listen carefully to the creatures all around. This enchanting story is full of mindfulness actions that anyone can use to feel calm and beat anxiety. The Worry Tiger is a colourfully illustrated book with a gentle rhyme that's a joy to read aloud and will help children relax and share their thoughts and worries. Includes a set of fun and easy activities at the back of the book to encourage calm, happiness and creativity for young children.



In My Dreams

Author : Stef Gemmill

Publisher : New Frontier Publications

Page : 32 pages

File Size : 49,5 MB

Release : 2021-03-02

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 9781913639136

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A child's imagination takes him on a wild journey as he sleeps soundly at night. He meets lions in the jungle, swims alongside sea creatures, and soars through the sky on the back of a silvery dragon. This magical tale will delight all ages.



The Habit of Labor

Author : Stef Wertheimer

Publisher : ABRAMS

Page : 236 pages

File Size : 50,46 MB

Release : 2015-10-20

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1468313223

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“There’s no better way to explain the miracle of Israel than to examine the life of Stef Wertheimer . . . A story to be read by everyone” (Warren Buffett). Forced to flee Nazi Germany with his family at age ten, Stef Wertheimer came to British Palestine in the late 1930s. He promptly dropped out of school, learned a trade through apprenticeship, and played a meaningful role in Israel’s War of Independence. He also started a company—ISCAR—that began in a shed and ultimately made him one of the world’s great self-made industrialists. In The Habit of Labor, Wertheimer shares the lessons he learned from a life of hardship and struggle in one of the world’s newest industrial powers. Both a pragmatist and a visionary, Wertheimer has devoted much of his life to promoting Jewish and Arab economic development through innovative educational and vocational programs, along with the establishment of a series of thriving industrial parks in Israel and in Turkey. The future of Israel, he believes, is not in military might or diplomatic alliances but in its growing economic clout.



The Invisible Ones

Author : Stef Penney

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 384 pages

File Size : 20,54 MB

Release : 2012-01-05

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1101554169

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In a hospital bed, small-time private detective Ray Lovell veers between paralysis and delirium. But before the accident that landed him there, he’d been hired to find Rose Janko, the estranged daughter of a traveling Gypsy family, who went missing seven years earlier. Half Romany himself, Ray is well aware that he’s been chosen more for his blood than for his investigative skills. Still, he’s surprised by the intense hostility he encounters from the Jankos, who haven’t had an easy past. Touched by tragedy, they’re either cursed or hiding a terrible secret—the discovery of which Ray can’t help suspecting is connected to Rose’s disappearance… Seamlessly toggling between Ray’s past and present, and the perspective of the missing woman’s young nephew JJ, Stef Penney builds a gripping page-turner that doesn’t let go until its shocking end.



Under a Pole Star

Author : Stef Penney

Publisher : Quercus

Page : 675 pages

File Size : 19,72 MB

Release : 2017-09-05

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1681441152

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Sometimes you have to travel to the farthest edge of the world in order to find your true place in it... A panoramic historical epic and an unforgettable love story from the author of The Tenderness of Wolves, for fans of Kristin Hannah, Sarah Perry, and Barbara Kingsolver A whaler's daughter, Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve. Years later, in 1892, determination and chance lead her back to northern Greenland as a scientist at the head of a British expedition, defying the expectations of those who believe a woman has no place in that harsh world. Geologist Jakob de Beyn was raised in Manhattan. Yearning for wider horizons, he joins a rival expedition. Jakob and Flora's paths cross. It is a fateful meeting, where passion and ambition collide and an irresistible attraction is born. The violent extremes of the north obsess them both: perpetual night and endless day; frozen seas and coastal meadows, and the strange, maddening pull it exerts on the people trying to make their mark on its vast expanses - a pursuit of glory whose outcome will reverberate for years to come.