Wanda's Jigsaw


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Teenager Wanda is gifted with good looks, but she is oppressed by her secure-yet-restricted life in the Slovakia of the 1980s. The whirlpool of historical changes initiated by the Velvet Revolution in 1989 helps the heroine to abandon her roots and disappointments.




Schopenhauer's Porcupines


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"Like Schopenhauer's porcupines, we rush together because we are chilly and rush apart because we are prickly." It is twenty years since Wanda's husband threw himself off the top floor landing of their house in Primrose Hill. Hers is a story of abandonment. In 1939, she lost her mother at the railway station as the family fought its way onto the last train out of Warsaw. She has spent her life determined never to let go of anything again. Her husband's presence has been resurrected in a shrine out on the landing, with his shoes left in the same spot where he took them off that night. The family reunions that mark the anniversary of his death have turned into a battlefield, on which those still imprisoned in her claustrophobic grip try vainly to escape. But this, the twentieth reunion, is destined to be different. Wanda is about to find out why her husband left her so dramatically, the shocking secret that her sister, Mitzi, has held onto all these years, and the unwitting role played in the tragedy by Wanda's elder son, the brilliant, wayward Schopenhauer scholar, Gregor Silver. Author and painter Lynn Bushell lives in France on the west coast of the Normandy Peninsula, which provides the subject for most of her paintings. Schopenhauer's Porcupines is her third novel.




Working With Adults At Risk From Harm


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Enables students, policy makers and practitioners to build upon the editors and authors specialist knowledge of policy and practice across a range of disciplines.




Improving Your Leadership Intelligence


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Based on Leadership Intelligence: Navigating to Your True North, this book Leadership Intelligence, A Fieldbook for School Leaders, is a practical tool to aid both the novice and experienced administrator grow their leadership skillset. The fieldguide is replete with scenarios of actual K12 school incidents (including solutions and rationales) to guide the leader through analysis and reflection. Additionally, current and supporting readings along with various activities are included to aid the leader attain an improved leadership imprint for life.




Camp Funhouse


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When fourteen seniors from Heaven’s Ridge Retirement Home sign up for a weeklong getaway at Mystic Senior Camp, they have no idea what they’re in for! They may be wise in years, but these seniors still have a thing or two to learn about life. At first, they make the counselor’s lives miserable with their hijinks and big personalities. When they overhear a conversation between three counselors about a nearby funhouse, a group of the seniors decides to sneak off on their own and experience the adventure for themselves. They have no idea what awaits them at the Funhouse! Challenges will be faced, romances will begin and end, and secrets will come out. But what exactly is the Funhouse, and what will they find if they can make it to the final adventure? At Mystic Senior Camp, the fun isn’t just for kids—it’s for the young of heart, too!




Vision & The Scarlet Witch


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Collects Giant-Size Avengers (1974) #4, Vision and the Scarlet Witch (1982) #1-4, Vision and the Scarlet Witch (1985) #1-12, West Coast Avengers (1985) #2. The unlikely romance between the Vision and the Scarlet Witch is one of the most famous Avengers storylines of all! Now, witness what happens when the two heroes finally get married and settle down in the suburbs! If you think they’re going to live the quiet life, think again! Wanda embraces her sorcerous heritage — but can a revelation about her family tree be believed? The Vision’s past threatens their future, as Ultron and the Grim Reaper strike! And things get even stranger when Wanda’s magic spells lead to the couple becoming…a family! That’s right, despite all odds the Scarlet Witch is pregnant — and now Wanda and Vision must prepare for the biggest responsibility of their lives!




The Man Next Door


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Go with a man who travels through an adventure who simply wants to take an nap on his front porch swing. in a dream, or was it two, or a dream within a dream. He speaks about a mental problem he has but from experience. He believes he would not be accepted in the church, even with the knowledge he has about the Bible isn't enough to go to a heaven that may or may not exist. He travels through torture and time all the way back to the cross and back and wakes up with a friend and decides it doesn't matter who he is. He really wanted a visit because he so lonely. Now he belongs somewhere and his feelings are completely changed forever.




The World's Biggest Book of Brainteasers & Logic Puzzles


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What a bargain! At more than 700 puzzle-packed pages, this huge, value-priced collection should keep any solver happy...and busy for a very long time. It contains brain-busting challenges of almost every type: math logic problems for the numerically inclined; absolutely amazing lateral thinking conundrums; really great critical thinking bafflers; and mind-boggling word puzzles. Here's just a small sample of what's inside: The 22nd and 24th presidents of the United States had the same mother and the same father, but were not brothers. How could this be so? Stumped? That's because it's one man--Grover Cleveland--who was reelected after skipping a term. And that's just an easy warm-up!




Spanish Horror Film


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An original new study of Spanish horror film.




Against All Odds


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Against All Odds is about Wandas struggles to break the abuse and poverty cycle in her life. Also, how she dealt with each issue and how she learned to depend on God early in life for hope, comfort, and results. First, Wandas mother was physically abused by her father. Second, Wanda was abused by her older siblings and her parents until she was 13 years old. Third, she was 16 years old and a junior in high school when she became pregnant and married to an abusive spouse. Later, she divorced him after six years of abuse. Finally, she remarried and have been married for 36 years. Next, Wanda grew up in a very poor environment and she continued to be poor as an adult. Even though she was a young parent and married in teen she decided to return to school to complete her education. After a long struggle, she overcame poverty through her faith in God, by completing her education and later pursuing a career, finally she was successful. Wanda persevered and was determined to complete the task.




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