The graphic novel adaptation of the mega-bestseller that launched a global phenomenon!Minutes before she died Grace Cahill changed her will, leaving her decendants an impossible decision: "You have a choice - one million dollars or a clue."Grace is the last matriarch of the Cahills, the world's most powerful family. Everyone from Marie Curie to Harry Houdini is related to the Cahills, yet the source of the family power is lost. 39 Clues hidden around the world will reveal the family's secret, but no one has been able to assemble them. Now the clues race is on, and young Amy and Dan must decide what's important: hunting clues or uncovering what REALLY happened to their parents.
<b>Queen of French Noir, Johana Gustawsson returns with a spell-binding, dazzlingly dark gothic thriller that swings from Belle Époque France to 21st-century Quebec, with an extraordinary mystery at its heart ... FIRST in a bewitching new series</b>
"Trust me," the insect repeated. Franz did not. What if Franz Kafka did not succumb to tuberculosis at the age of 40? What if he awoke the day after his supposed death to find himself attended by the giant insect he once imagined in his own story The Metamorphosis?
<b>An irresistible story about finding the bright spark of braveness inside from the creators of </b><i>One Camel Called Doug</i><b>, and the author of award-winning </b><i>The Littlest Yak</i><b>.</b>
The Elf on the Shelf ist ein schöner Weihnachtsbrauch, der die Herzen der Kinder überall im Sturm erobert hat. Die Scout Elfen vom Weihnachtsmann tauchen jedes Jahr in der Weihnachtszeit auf und begleiten die tagtäglichen Abenteuer der Familien. Nachts fliegen sie zurück an den Nordpol- dort berichten sie dem Weihnachtsmann von ihrem Tag in der Familie, ehe sie am Morgen wieder zu ihrer Familie zurückkehren und sich an einen anderen Platz setzen. Hier warten sie gespannt darauf, dass sie von jemandem entdeckt werden. Wenn die Kinder aufwachen, sind sie schon ganz erwartungsvoll und laufen im Haus hin und her, bis sie ihren Scout Elfen gefunden haben. Die Elfen können mit Nachrichten und Botschaften versehen werden oder kleine Geschenke mitbringen. Der Box liegt ein bezaubernd illustriertes Kinderbuch bei, welches den Weihnachtsbrauch und die Geschichte der Scout Elfen erläutert. Eine schöne Tradition für die ganze Familie, die für viele kostbare Weihnachtserinnerungen sorgt!
This study examines the revival of Sufism in the Arabic and Turkish novel during the second half of the 20th century. A picture is drawn where Sufism forms a main source of literary inspiration and becomes a mode to establish continuity with the past. Sufism is in this context not solely a passively transmitted cultural artifact; it quite the contrary becomes a major instrument to construct identity and meaning to a post-industrial society. In this respect, the act of writing becomes prayer of a sort; storytelling enables the Self to rest from the dreary political realities of authoritarian modernist ideologies. Thus, writing, in contrast to reason-driven, materialist, modernity becomes meaningful and enables the Self to connect with something beyond immanent reality; in one word, writing becomes "re-enchantment".
This work takes an experimental approach to address the notoriously puzzling attachment of adverbial clauses to their host clauses. On the basis of experiments gathering well-formedness judgements, the author shows that a multifactorial account which reflects both syntactic and processing factors is required in order to capture this complex phenomenon. The author also demonstrates that a new structural factor - "clause-command" - more successfully accounts for the anaphorical relations between clauses than traditional c-command.
Discover the power of the book through fifty of the most influential texts ever written - from around the world and throughout time. Books that truly did have a significant impact on world history.
Discover the power of the book through fifty of the most influential texts ever written - from around the world and throughout time. Books that truly did have a significant impact on world history.
<p>This book is a unique publication that provides a global overview of international tax disputes in respect of double tax conventions and thereby fills a gap in the area of tax treaty case law. It covers the 37 most important tax treaty cases that were decided around the world in 2021.</p>
Enola Holmes returns in her first adventure since the hit Netflix movie brought her back on the national bestseller lists, introducing a new generation to this beloved character and series.
The book is an attempt to clarify the definition of the phenomenon of kindness. It is the result of the first research of its kind and carried out on such a scale in Poland. The main aim of the study was to determine how Polish youth understands the concept of kindness.
Conceptualization of the phenomenon of kindness