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The Zoe Whittall Novels Ebook Bundle: Holding Still for As Long As Possible and The Best Kind of People (A Zoe Whittall Collection #1)
by Zoe WhittallNow available in an exclusive ebook bundle, Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Zoe Whittall’s acclaimed novels are vivid and elegant portraits of modern life.In Holding Still for As Long As Possible, a robust, elegantly plotted, and ultimately life-affirming novel, Zoe Whittall presents a dazzling portrait of the Millennial Generation through an unusual love triangle involving Billy, a former teen idol, now an anxiety-ridden agoraphobic; Josh, a shy transgender paramedic who travels the city patching up damaged bodies; and Amy, a fashionable filmmaker coping with her first broken heart.The Best Kind of People, a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a national bestseller, is a stunning tour de force about the unravelling of an all-American family after a beloved husband and father is arrested for sexual impropriety at a prestigious prep school.
The Zombie Awakening (A Haunted Mystery #3)
by Chris GrabensteinPreviously published as The Smoky Corridor. From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library and coauthor of I Funny and Treasure Hunters, comes a series of spine-tingling mysteries to keep you up long after the lights go out.Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.It just doesn’t usually come from the grave.The basement of Zack’s new school is hiding something, or rather someones. Two ghosts, to be exact—Joseph and Seth Donnelly, brothers who perished in a suspicious fire.But the ghosts are the least of Zack's problems. It’s what they warn Zack about that has him truly frightened: there’s an evil zombie lurking beneath the school.Fortunately, Zack has some new friends, Malik and Azalea, who can help in his paranormal adventures. Together they’ll attempt to dodge the zombie, a treasure-seeking hit man, a voodoo-savvy ghost just waiting fora new body, and more. But will they survive until recess or end up on the lunch menu?Read all of Chris Grabenstein's Haunted Mysteries!The CrossroadsThe Demons' DoorThe Zombie AwakeningThe Black Heart Crypt
Zombie Blondes
by Brian JamesFrom the moment Hannah Sanders arrived in town, she felt there was something wrong. A lot of houses were for sale, and the town seemed infected by an unearthly quiet. And then, on Hannah's first day of classes, she ran into a group of cheerleaders -- the most popular girls in school. The odd thing was that they were nearly identical in appearance: blond, beautiful, and deathly pale. But Hannah wants desperately to fit in -- regardless of what her friend Lukas is telling her: If she doesn't watch her back, she's going to be blond and popular and dead, just like all the other zombies in this town...
The Zombie Stone (Zombie Problems #2)
by K. G. CampbellWhat's worse than discovering you have a zombie problem? Imagine acquiring four more undead tag-alongs. . . . From the acclaimed illustrator of Flora & Ulysses comes the second book in the Zombie Problems trilogy, heralded as "reminiscent of Roald Dahl in uniting the macabre with realism."When a zombie followed August DuPont home one day, he didn't expect her to stick around. But Claudette is in no hurry to leave August's side. And when he decides to go to Croissant City in search of the elusive Zombie Stone, Claudette joins him. It's a good thing she does, because no sooner had August set out than a mysterious white alligator began to follow him. Reptiles aren't the only creatures to look out for, though. When August is reunited with his dour cousins the Malveaus, and their menacing mother, Orchid, finding the stone before they do takes on a new urgency. Throw in a swamp doctor, a costume parade, a pop star, a séance, a band of smugglers, and four new zombies, and you'd better believe that August's quest is only going to get more complicated.
Zombie Vampire: Book 20 (Horrid Henry #20)
by Francesca SimonNumber One for Fiendish Fun!This book contains a HORRIBLE story, yucky healthy meals, a mad professor and a ZOMBIE vampire!Four utterly hilarious and totally brilliant Horrid Henry stories by Francesca Simon, with illustrations by Tony Ross. An irresistible introduction to reading for pleasure.
Zoom
by Andrea FerrariUna novela vertiginosa donde la acción avanza, retrocede y se detiene, por momentos, en un zoom que revela lo inesperado. Porque a veces solo es cuestión de enfocar la mirada para ver con claridad lo que está frente a nosotros. La vida de Ana no es fácil: la realidad familiar se transformó por completo con la muerte repentina de su papá y solo encuentra refugio en el mundo virtual donde juega a ser una valiente guerrera. Y aunque a veces sus días pasan como una película fuera de foco, algo en ella cambia cuando en la víspera de Navidad consigue un trabajo temporario que torcerá su destino y el de las personas que la rodean.
Zoom!: Things That Go (Sassy)
by Grosset & DunlapMom, dad, and baby will love our line of books from Sassy, the award-winning and innovative toy company. This book teaches babies all about things that go zoom! Cars, trucks, boats, and airplanes are just some of the vehicles babies will learn about in this book.
Zoom Rooms: Poems
by Mary Jo SalterThe timeless and timely intersect in poems about our unique historical moment, from the prizewinning poet.In Zoom Rooms, Mary Jo Salter considers the strangeness of our recent existence, together with the enduring constants in our lives. The title poem, a series of sonnet-sized Zoom meetings—a classroom, a memorial service, an encounter with a new baby in the family—finds humor and pathos in our age of social distancing and technology-induced proximity. Salter shows too how imagination collapses time and space: in &“Island Diaries,&” the pragmatist Robinson Crusoe meets on the beach a shipwrecked dreamer from an earlier century, Shakespeare&’s Prospero. Poems that meditate on objects—a silk blouse, a hot water bottle—address the human need to heal and console. Our paradoxically solitary but communal experiences find expression, too, in poems about art, from a Walker Evans photograph to a gilded Giotto altarpiece. In these beautiful new poems, Salter directs us to moments we may otherwise miss, reminding us that alertness is itself a form of gratitude.
Zoya's Gift: Building a Bridge to a Global Family | A Memoir
by Gail McCormickStill recovering from the heartbreak of infertility, memoirist Gail McCormick and her husband volunteer to host two Children of Chernobyl for a summer reprieve from radiation exposure. Fate pairs the Seattle couple with eight-year-old Ukrainian twin sisters from Belarus—and rekindles Gail&’s childhood dream to build a bridge of peace between the US and the former Soviet Union.Over four summers of mayhem and magic with the twins, a deep relationship takes root. When the girls age out of the program that brought them to Seattle, Gail confronts her Cold War fears and travels with her husband to reunite with them in Ukraine and Belarus. On this soul-making trip to a land of unspeakable loss, she celebrates life in the homes of an accordion-playing Chernobyl hero and a barefooted babushka who distills her own vodka, and—behind the remnants of the Iron Curtain—finds her place as an honorary mother and babushka in a four-generation family of former Soviets. Poignant and culturally rich, her narrative transports readers to storied cities, villages, and dachas from Kyiv to Minsk.Written with reverence, insight, humor, and hope, Zoya&’s Gift illuminates the complexities, joys, and importance of reaching across political, class, and cultural divides.
Zuleikha: A Novel
by Guzel YakhinaWINNER OF THE BIG BOOK AWARD, THE LEO TOLSTOY YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD AND THE BEST PROSE WORK OF THE YEAR AWARD A sweeping, multi-award winning novel set in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, as gangs of marauding soldiers terrorise and plunder the countryside. Zuleikha, the 'pitiful hen', is living in the home of her brutal husband and despotic mother-in-law in a small Tatar village. When her husband is executed by communist soldiers for hiding grain, she is arrested and sent into exile in Siberia. In the first gruelling winter, hundreds die of hunger, cold and exhaustion. Yet forced to survive in that harsh, desolate wilderness, she begins to build a new life for herself and discovers an inner strength she never knew she had. Exile is the making of Zuleikha.
Zuni and the Memory Jar
by Aisha SaeedA joyful picture book about celebrating everyday moments of fun, beauty, and wonder, from New York Times bestselling author Aisha SaeedMeet Zuni. She's sweet, silly, ever-so-charming, and full of bright ideas. Her family has a memory jar. Anytime someone in the family does something important, they mark those moments through notes and photos stored in the jar and share those memories together at the end of the year.Her parents tell Zuni that when she grows up, she&’ll have important memories to share, too, like graduations, and milestones, and trophies. But Zuni is already making memories! And at the end of the year, her family gets to see the moments that made an impact on little Zuni.A deceptively simple story for young and old alike, Zuni and the Memory Jar is a reminder to celebrate everyday joys in life along with the grand achievements.
Zusammenhalt der Unternehmerfamilie: Verträge, Vermögensmanagement, Kommunikation
by Hermut KormannBietet wertvolle Unterstützung rund um alle Fragen des familiären Zusammenhalts in Familienunternehmen.<P><P> Legt verständlich und profund dar, wie Gesellschafter die Aufgabe meistern können, eine Familie und ihr Unternehmen mit gegenseitigem Respekt erfolgreich fortzuführen.<P> Zeigt Wege auf, wie alle Beteiligten in einen fairen Prozess eingebunden werden können, tragfähige Bindungen der Gesellschafter im Familienunternehmen entstehen und über die Generationen gepflegt werden.<P> „Firma vor Familie“ – dieser klassische Grundsatz wird auch heute noch gerne zitiert, um jungen Familiengesellschaftern die anspruchsvolle Aufgabe ihrer Inhaberverantwortung deutlich zu machen. Allerdings ist die Beziehung zwischen Familie und Firma nicht in erster Linie durch eine Konkurrenz gekennzeichnet, sondern durch eine nachhaltige gegenseitige Bereicherung: Der Rückgriff auf familiäre Ressourcen ermöglicht dem Familienunternehmen einen besonderen Erfolg. Umgekehrt bietet dieses seinen Gesellschaftern einen vielfältigen Nutzen. Damit eine enge und konfliktresistente Bindung entstehen kann, müssen die Bindungsfaktoren – speziell in reifen Mehrgenerationen-Gesellschaften – bewusst gestaltet werden: durch die Pflege einer verantwortungsvollen und Identität stiftenden Familienkultur, durch faire vertragliche Regelungen und durch eine auf Offenheit und Respekt angelegte Kommunikationsarchitektur. In dieser gezielten Stärkung des familiären Zusammenhalts sieht der hier vorgestellte Ansatz in der 2. aktualisierten Auflage zugleich den Schlüssel zur Bewältigung möglicher Konflikte.