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Третья книга известного мотивационного оратора адресована тем, кто подвергается травле, преследованию. К сожалению, в нашем мире, полном агрессии, таких людей очень много, особенно среди детей и подростков. Ник Вуйчич на себе испытал, каково это, когда тебя преследуют и оскорбляют: не имея рук и ног, он не раз становился объектом насмешек и издевательств. Но ему всегда удавалось справиться со своими противниками, и теперь он делится с читателями своим опытом. Вы узнаете, как превратить преследование в прекрасную возможность (да, да, честно!); создать зону безопасности внутри себя; следить за своими эмоциями и контролировать собственные реакции на них; выработать стратегию защиты от травли; стать кошмаром для своего преследователя; помочь другим, кто страдает от преследования; быть хозяином своей жизни.

An ancient relic is unearthed during an archaeological dig. A Minnesota college professor is keeping a secret that could change the world’s history as we know it. For Virgil Flowers, the link between the two is inescapable—and his investigation, more dangerous and far-reaching than he can possibly imagine.

This collection of original essays by an international team of Hughes scholars demonstrates afresh how key contextual and theoretical approaches to the poet's work serve to illuminate the texts. Part I reads Hughes' poems through cultural contexts while Part II examines his work through the frames of a range of literary theories.

A remote military research station sends out a frantic distress call, ending with a chilling final command: Kill us all! Personnel from the neighboring base rush in to discover everyone already dead-and not just the scientists, but every living thing for fifty square miles is annihilated: every animal, plant, and insect, even bacteria.

"Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen." In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in their small town in North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths. Now, twenty-five years later, Amanda and Dawson are summoned back home for the funeral of Tuck Hostetler, the mentor who once gave shelter to their high school romance. Neither has lived the life they imagined . . . and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever changed their lives. As Amanda and Dawson carry out the instructions Tuck left behind for them, they realize that everything they thought they knew—about Tuck, about themselves, and about the dreams they held dear—was not as it seemed. Forced to confront painful memories, the former lovers will discover undeniable truths about the choices they have made. And in the course of a single, searing weekend, they will ask of the living, and the Can love truly rewrite the past?

Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku - the curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still waiting for his first kiss, is just its most recent victim.

Dennis Lehane returns to the streets of Mystic River with this love story wrapped in a crime story wrapped in a journey of faith—the basis for the major motion picture The Drop, from Fox Searchlight Pictures directed by Michaël Roskam, screenplay by Dennis Lehane, and starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini.

The Fall of Five is the fourth novel in the New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series by Pittacus Lore. The Garde are finally reunited, but do they have what it takes to win the war against the Mogadorians?

Humans have been displaced at the top of the food chain, and now understand – to their outright horror – what it is to be not the consumer, but the consumed.

Secret Service Agent Jeremy Pike calls on the Gunsmith to help investigate the South Fork Sporting Club outside Pittsburgh, where the likes of Dale Carnegie and Henry Frick go hunting—and don’t take kindly to strangers. When Clint’s reputation earns him an invitation to the exclusive club, he starts asking questions that the venerable members would rather not answer—especially about the dam on their property that’s about to burst, leaving the town below to suffer the consequences. But negligence is only one of the dirty secrets he discovers, and soon it’s time for Clint to go on a hunting trip of his own…