Handsome Amir, somewhere in his twenties, somewhere in a Yorkshire town, is torn between duty and lust. While his tradition-bound family urges him to choose a wife from a parade of blank and bashful beauties, he remains a slave to boozy blonde goddess Jackie, his fellow-worker at the department store in town.Pushing forty, with bubblegum hair and a filthy laugh, Jackie is an unlikely muse. She is openly entertained by Amir's teetotalism and moral sincerity, but behind her whip-smar...

This book is about why I started an inspirational clothing brand. This book provides inspiration to anyone that may need it. We all feel at a loss sometimes and need some simple pick me ups to help us feel inspired and more focused. These positive quotes will open your mind and help you feel inspired! These quotes will empower and encourage you to live your life to the fullest no matter the challenges.

A reference book on diagnosis, consequences and management of neonatal and infantile seizuresThere is a very high incidence of seizures during the first two years of life. This may reflect multiple etiologies depending on the circumstances under which seizures occur. They may have a benign cause but for others they may lead to more devastating consequences.This book provides new insights on how it is best to approach seizures and epilepsy in the first two y...

Epilepsy in children may take on very different forms ranging from mild to severe disabling syndromes. For certain kinds of refractory epilepsy resistant to anti-epileptic drugs and certain kinds of etiology, surgery can reduce the number of seizures and even eliminate them altogether. However, these interventions are highly technical and require advanced technology; therefore, surgeons must have a perfect command of the techniques.Young patients w...

書店常常是愛書的旅人最鍾情的落腳處，一個城市若有了一座能吸引人的書店，往往城市就魅力倍增。在倫敦有一家書店 Marks & Co.，雖然已經不存在，但凡愛書人造訪倫敦一定必到查令十字路張望、拍照。這家書店的舊址之所以讓人徘徊留連，全是因為海蓮‧漢芙與法蘭克的動人故事：《查令十字路 84 號》這本小書是美國紐約作家海蓮和英國經營古董書的書店老闆法蘭克之間長達二十年書信往來。故事從海蓮看到古董書拍賣廣告，開始寫信給法蘭克詢問，憑藉著對書的熱情與專業興趣，兩個一輩子未曾謀面的愛書人搭建起長達二十年的情誼，留下的溫馨故事。這個真人真事最早見於讀者文摘，刊登披露後，引起驚人的迴響，最後當海蓮有了經費造訪倫敦，一切已經人去樓空……‧中國時報開卷一周好書榜(2002年3月)‧聯合報讀書人每周新書金榜(2002年4月)‧誠品選書 (2002年2月)‧台北市立圖書館 2002 年第 42 梯次「好書大家讀」好書推薦(非故事文學組書信類)‧紫石作坊2003年度推薦年度選書(TOP12)

"3 novembre 1949 Les livres me sont bien parvenus, le Stevenson est tellement beau qu’il fait honte à mes étagères bricolées avec des caisses à oranges. Moi qui ai toujours eu l’habitude du papier trop blanc et des couvertures raides et cartonnées des livres américains, je ne savais pas que toucher un livre pouvait donner autant de joie." Livre culte depuis sa première publication en 1970, ce petit joyau de correspondance est une véritable déclaration d’amour aux livres et aux librairies.

He did the right thing.Now he doesn’t know how to live with it.Six months ago, Henry Simpson killed a man to save his sister and her fiancé.His family sees a hero. He sees someone he doesn’t recognize.Tabitha Haynes isn’t looking for complications. Medical school has taught her discipline and focus. But when she arrives for her best friend’s wedding and encounters Henry, her restraint snaps.Their ch...

INCLUDES AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE READERS'Your ad in the Saturday Review of Literature says that you specialize in out-of-print books. The phrase 'antiquarian book-sellers' scares me somewhat, as I equate 'antique' with expensive. I am a poor writer with an antiquarian taste in books and all the things I want are impossible to get over here except in very expensive rare editions, or in Barnes & Noble's grimy, marked-up schoolboy copies.'So begins the delightfully reti...

El mejor homenaje de un lector a su librero.Un día, en octubre de 1949, Helene Hanff, una joven escritora desconocida, envía una carta desde Nueva York a Marks & Co., la librería situada en el 84 de Charing Cross Road, en Londres. Apasionada, maniática, extravagante y muchas veces sin un duro, la señorita Hanff le reclama al librero Frank Doel volúmenes poco menos que inencontrables que apaciguarán su insaciable sed de descubrimientos. Veinte años más tarde, contin...

Don’t let her age fool you. Maud may be nearly ninety, but if you cross her, this elderly lady is more sinister than sweet.Just when things have finally cooled down for 88-year-old Maud after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her apartment in Gothenburg, a couple of detectives return to her doorstep. Though Maud dodges their questions with the skill of an Olympic gymnast a fifth of her age, she wonders if suspicion has fallen on her, little old lady that s...

This major best-selling memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool is one of the most harrowing but uplifting books you will ever read.When Helen Forrester’s father went bankrupt in 1930 she and her six siblings were forced into utmost poverty and slum surroundings in Depression-ridden Liverpool. The running of the household and the care of the younger children all fell on twelve-year-old Helen. With very little food or help from her feckless parents, Helen led a life of u...

Cross-Border Interactions and Encounters between Germany and Korea offers a rich, interdisciplinary examination of the evolving relationships between Korea and Germany, illuminating a dynamic yet often overlooked field of study.Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines, the volume traces how migration, cultural exchange, and intellectual transfer have produced layered and shifting forms of connection between the two contexts.Across three th...