Recommended Reads
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Alick's Animal Limericks
This collection of original verses in limerick style, themed around animals and the alphabet, is intended to amuse and entertain, and perhaps even encourage your child to experiment with “word-play”. An early introduction to the joy and power of poetry.
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Algebra Treats: Learning to Love Algebra with Bite-Sized Ideas
This well-written, lively, and sometimes humorous book contains short and sweet mathematical facts combining high school algebra and very elementary number theory. There are many examples.
The book also contains many questions of varying levels of difficulty for the reader, and it features suggestions for high school research projects. Moreover, the book offers a gentle introduction to methods of proof in mathematics. Several conjectures that seem to defy proof are presented.
The book is a useful tool for high school and college mathematics teachers and students. Finally, rest assured that the book will be enjoyed by students, their teachers, and anyone who likes mathematics.
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The Elf Who Found Himself
The North Pole is a busy place; so many things to do.
The elves there hardly ever stop; they work the whole year through,
Their standards are so very high; their pace is fast and steady,
Each one an expert of their craft, except for one called Eddy.
In the bustling magic of the North Pole, Eddy the Elf just can’t seem to find where he belongs. While the other elves happily craft toys, wrap presents, and prepare for Christmas, Eddy struggles to succeed at any task he’s given. Under the watchful guidance of Chief Elf and Santa himself, he tries job after job—only to end up in disappointment each time.
But Eddy’s journey is far from a failure. With every misstep, he learns a little more about himself, discovering that sometimes the right path isn’t the most obvious one. When an unexpected opportunity arises, Eddy steps into a role no one—including himself—ever imagined.
The Elf Who Found Himself is a heartwarming tale about perseverance, self-discovery, and the magic of finding your true place in the world—even if it takes a few wrong turns to get there.
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Magnolia Stitch the Garden Witch
Magnolia Stitch the Garden Witch loves to grow her own veg,
But a slimy sort of situation really sets her on edge.
After trying everything she could, her anger it did swell,
So Maggie decided the only thing to do is cast a magic spell.
Join this little witch as she journeys into a path of frustration and mayhem while tending to her garden. Things are never as simple as they seem, and Maggie learns that magic cannot fix everything.
Excitement and laughter are what await you behind these pages. Dynamic storytelling coupled with delightful illustrations creates a compelling and engaging experience for your little witches and wizards at home.
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Who Is Like God?
What happens when two men walk to the very edge of death… and meet God there?
Who Is Like God? is a raw and unfiltered testimony of collapse, consequence, and miraculous rescue. Leonard does not spare the reader from the truth. He opens the door to addiction’s suffocating grip, to pride that destroyed love, to the silence of isolation, and to the cold steel of a gun pressed against his head over a debt he could never repay.
What began as cigarettes and rebellion spiralled into narcotics, violence, and a life unravelling thread by thread. Trauma, grief, and unresolved pain became fuel for self-destruction. And when everything finally collapsed—when escape ran out and death felt inevitable—grace intervened.
Interwoven with Leonard’s descent is the steadfast love and faith of his father, George, who not only faced the battles of cancer with quiet courage and unshakeable trust in God but also the fierce challenges presented by his son. Their journeys converge in a powerful reminder that redemption is not earned—it is given.
The prodigal son returns...
And from the ashes of despair rises a miracle: Mikelle, a child doctors said would never be born, a living testimony that no diagnosis, no addiction, and no darkness has the final word.
This is more than a memoir. It is a declaration that mercy still moves, that prayer prevails, and that no soul is beyond rescue.
Because when destruction says, “Finished,”
God says, “Not yet.”
And the question remains:
Who is like God?
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A Sinner’s Guide to Forgiveness
“The thing about sinning, at least for me, is that I felt good and dirty at the same time. Then the shame crept in, the hiding, the lies; man, it almost ate me alive. Yet, there I was, wallowing in it. What a sneaky turd. How could I look at myself in the mirror? It amazes me how we will do anything not to face the truth. Am I preaching to the choir, or is anything sinking in here? The devil is associated with deception and sin. God is linked to wisdom and righteousness.”
“What was lacking in my personality, the person I was, was that pleasure and pain were more inviting than the truth of God. More inviting than protecting my wife and family. The devil is insidious. He works on you slowly, but once he has a foothold, he uses every cunning tool to take complete hold of you.”
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S.O.S. – Save Our Santa
A Christmas tale for both young and old. Remember, you are never too old to smile.
It is the day before Christmas Eve, and things are not going well in the Magic Kingdom at the North Pole. The elves are threatening to go on strike for more perks and concessions. Santa has to do something, or Christmas could be ruined for millions around the world. He has to leave the Magic Kingdom to negotiate with his manager, who is situated in the South Pole at the National Offices of the Ultimate Services on Earth. The meeting does not go well, and when he leaves to return home, a plot is hatched to ensure that he never arrives home, ever.After having to crash-land in Florida, Santa has to wait for nightfall to see if a rescue attempt will be mounted. He has to spend the day avoiding capture from the forces of law and order.
Meanwhile, the elves and fairies at the North Pole have to plan and execute a daring rescue from the Magic Kingdom in Disney World, Florida. Will they achieve it, or will they fail when they come up against the evil forces from the South Pole? Nothing is guaranteed.
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The English Lawyer
Stephen became a lawyer quite by chance. He rescued a French damsel in distress, who forever after wanted to marry him, and through her got a job as a messenger with a firm of lawyers in Paris. He liked the law and, in due course, qualified as a French avocat. He was put in charge of a subsidiary law firm in Reims; this prospered, but Stephen became involved with a family of Corsicans, of doubtful reputation. He married the daughter of one of them, and life was kind to him until he was accused of the murder of the girl with which the whole story started.
He practised French law, but he remained very English and even implicated his father in some of his less than legal operations.
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Weeping Meadows
When I was 8 years old, the school librarian said to me, “Frank, you’ve got a way with words; you should become a poet!” Initially, I laughed and replied, “Isn’t that something for old people to do?”
Later on when I studied English literature, I was gobsmacked. Waiting outside of the class, scratching my head inwardly, asking myself, will I ever do anything like that? It really appealed to me so that I continued to write.
Now I look at poetry as a great artistic form of evoking many emotions and experiences that can bridge different cultures and unite people all over the planet. So we can make our world a better place. And live together in “A better way”—pleasant reading, Frank Karan.
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Federico Fellini: The Trail of a Genius
I was 8 years old when I first met Federico Fellini on the set of 8½, where my mother, Caterina Boratto, had the role of the mysterious lady. In 1975, when I gave him my thesis on 8½ for my BA degree, he said after reading it, “Paolino, you’ve x-rayed my soul.” From then on, I spent a lot of time with him, and slowly I became keenly aware that I was in the company of a genius: someone who could “see things” before anyone else. With the passage of time, I was troubled that I could lose the emotion behind such encounters, for even the echo of a mother’s voice can fade away over time and become inaudible; I did not want to risk that.
Federico Fellini: The Trail of a Genius is not a psychological treatise, nor a cinematic discourse, nor a display of memories. It is a multi-coloured mix of these about an artist who lived to create and who conquered the world with the magic of his films.
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War of the Millennium: Book II
Beginning with a foreboding presidential banquet in a highest-level secret location before skipping to a B-52 bomber formation, a returning “peace delegation,” and Kremlin leadership Christmas dinner, this war saga then recounts a sudden two-pronged surprise nuclear attack on opposite sides of the globe.
Intertwined with this is the declaration of all-out war by a sinister alliance dedicated to world conquest.
As the storyline progresses, an unprepared world finds itself plunging headlong into an abyss of cataclysm.
As mushroom clouds erupt, the lives of all characters, from leaders to generals to ordinary citizens, are forever altered in this ultimate catastrophe.
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Not Going Gentle
Chek Ling was born in a thatched wooden hut in Sarawak, a subject of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, the last Rajah. His mother was young and illiterate. His father, a Confucian scholar turned math teacher, was twice her age and twice widowed. Chek Ling grew up in a blended household filled with anxiety, tension, and desolation.
When he arrived in Australia in 1962 on an unexpected Colombo Plan scholarship, he thought he had finally reached the “God’s own country” he had dreamed of as a child.
This deeply personal memoir traces his journey from colonial subject to fiercely engaged citizen. Along the way, he confronted Australia’s racist history and its obsession with the “other”—a pattern he saw repeated at home and abroad. He watched young Australians sent to unconscionable ends in foreign wars. He saw cruel policies enacted upon those who sought refuge on these shores.
Most of all, Chek Ling laments Australia’s corrupted two-party system, which has bred a winning-is-everything mentality—the root of most of the country’s political ills.
But he has not given up. He vows a revolution through the ballot to make his adopted country a fair, compassionate, and enlightened homeland for his grandchildren.
£11.99
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