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A boxed set featuring the Me Before You Series: Me Before You, After You, and Still Me--the perfect holiday gift for Jojo Moyes fans #1 bestselling author Jojo Moyes is a phenomenon around the world, and enthusiasm has only increased exponentially with the release of Still Me, the third and final book in the Me Before You Series. This fabulous new package will appeal both to first-time readers and

This testpack contains four 50 minute practice papers covering a variety of verbal reasoning topics. It should be used as learning reinforcement and is essential for exam preparation. The practice papers simulate the format and content of the GL Assessment 11+ exam and may be completed as standard or multiple-choice

This novel tells the story of the misalliance between Lucie, a vivacious and beautiful dancing girl from Tivoli, and Theodor Gerner, a respectable lawyer from the strait-laced middle society of nineteenth-century Norway. Having first kept her as a mistress, Gerner is so captivated by Lucie\'s charms that he marries her, only to discover that his project to turn her into a proper and demure housewife

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Henry is a lot of fun when he\'s not storming through the house, so Emma decides to teach him how to be still. By showing him how to sit, bow, and breathe, Emma is able to calm the hurricane within Henry. A perfect introduction to meditation for young readers, presented in a captivating story. The illustrations bring the story to life with delightful whimsy. Includes a back-of-book presentation of

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Erving Goffman will influence the thinking and perceptions of generations to come. In Frame Analysis, the brilliant theorist writes about the ways in which people determine their answers to the questions \"What is going on here?\" and \"Under what circumstances do we think things are