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Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs.
Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse, and Binti's stellar travel will bring her within their deadly reach.
If Binti hopes to survive the legacy of a war not of her making, she will need both the gifts of her people and the wisdom enshrined within the University, itself ― but first she has to make it there, alive.
The Binti Series
Book 1: Binti
Book 2: Binti: Home
Book 3: Binti: The Night Masquerade
Chatter Voice in our Head by Ethan Kross
As humans, we all have a special ability that is unique to our species: an inner voice. It helps us focus, achieve our goals and reflect on life's most joyful moments.
But it can also be our biggest enemy, chewing over painful emotions and replaying embarrassments, hijacking our thoughts to run amok with 'chatter'. How does this source of wisdom turn into our biggest critic? And how can we take back control?
These are the questions one of the world's leading experts on the conscious mind set out to answer twenty years ago, when he started on an audacious mission - to study the conversations we have with ourselves.
In this hugely anticipated book, that expert, the award-winning neuroscientist and psychologist Ethan Kross, reveals the sheer power of the inner voice, and shows us that we all possess a set of tools for harnessing it. Hidden in plain sight, they are in the words we use and the stories we tell ourselves, in the conversations we have with our loved ones and in the habits we undertake when tackling our goals. They are even sometimes in our bizarre rituals and lucky charms.
Fascinating, entertaining and full of original insights and tips, Chatter will change the conversations you have with yourself forever, and help you lead a happier, more productive life.
Hidden in Plain Sight by Jeffrey Archer
Newly promoted, Detective Sergeant William Warwick has been reassigned to the drugs squad. His first case: to investigate a notorious south London drug lord known as the Viper.
But as William and his team close the net around a criminal network unlike any they have ever encountered, he is also faced with an old enemy, Miles Faulkner. It will take all of William’s cunning to devise a means to bring both men to justice, a trap neither will expect, one that is hidden in plain sight . . .
Hidden in Plain Sight follows on from Nothing Ventured and continues with Turn a Blind Eye, but can be read as a standalone story.
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya ...
The beauty and spirit of Maya Angelou’s words live on in this complete collection of poetry, including her inaugural poem “On the Pulse of Morning”
Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words. Now the beauty and spirit of those words live on in this new and complete collection of poetry that reflects and honors the writer’s remarkable life.
Every poetic phrase, every poignant verse can be found within the pages of this sure-to-be-treasured volume—from her reflections on African American life and hardship in the compilation Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ’fore I Diiie (“Though there’s one thing that I cry for / I believe enough to die for / That is every man’s responsibility to man”) to her revolutionary celebrations of womanhood in the poem “Still I Rise” (“Out of the huts of history’s shame / I rise / Up from a past that’s rooted in pain / I rise”) to her “On the Pulse of Morning” tribute at President William Jefferson Clinton’s inauguration (“Lift up your eyes upon / The day breaking for you. / Give birth again / To the dream.”).
Maya Angelou: The Complete Poetry also features her final long-form poems, including “A Brave and Startling Truth,” “Amazing Peace,” “His Day Is Done,” and the honest and endearing Mother:
“I feared if I let you go
You would leave me eternally.
You smiled at my fears, saying
I could not stay in your lap forever”
This collection also includes the never-before-published poem “Amazement Awaits,” commissioned for the 2008 Olympic Games:
“We are here at the portal of the world we had wished for
At the lintel of the world we most need.
We are here roaring and singing.
We prove that we can not only make peace, we can bring it with us.”
Timeless and prescient, this definitive compendium will warm the hearts of Maya Angelou’s most ardent admirers as it introduces new readers to the legendary poet, activist, and teacher—a phenomenal woman for the ages.
John Thompsons Modern Course for the ...
JOHN THOMPSON'S MODERN COURSE FOR THE PIANO is the essential piano method for beginner students of all ages. Clearly written, fun and easy to understand, the MODERN COURSE is a proven favourite with piano teachers and students worldwide, with millions of copies sold. This new edition has updated diagrams, clearer musical notation and improved overall design.
This First Grade Book provides an excellent start to your studies and includes:
- 50 easy-to-play pieces
- Helpful technical exercises
- Fundamental lessons on scales and music theory
Redefining A Kenyan Referee by Lorenc...
Sports officiating is a complex discipline that involves a significant amount of counterintuitive knowledge and emotional intelligence.
Through a mixture of mind-blowing thoughts, Redefining a Kenyan Referee takes a deep and knowledgeable dive into how to reshape officiating practices in Kenya. It offers guidelines and recommendations to which sports officiating bodies should adhere.
Precisely composed and explored by Lorence Ishuga, a variety of views from literary studies and navel-gazing are fused to shed a light on the rarely valued and frequently criticized persons -who are pivotal to sports.
It should be read by all stakeholders in sports to achieve a new perception of match officials.
Every sports official and practitioner needs to study this book. Such an act will improve their performance and participants’ experience.
The Institute by Stephen King
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window.
And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.”
In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.
Arabic for All
This book is a new hope for anyone who wants to learn Arabic Language. It not only lays down a strong foundation for anyone who has never studied Arabic but also serves as a primary book to Arabic
students in universities and colleges. The interactive nature of the book makes it suitable for new learners
taking basic Arabic.
Kiswahili Hatua Kwa Hatua
Kiswahili Hatua Kwa Hatua has been designed to suit the general demands of a learner in Swahili as a foreign language in a duration of at least one and a half months.
This book introduces grammar in the simplest manner possible that is encouraging and fun to the learner. Each chapter (sura) has well designed dialogues and speech exercises with key words intended for the learner to improve his / her vocabulary. New words in each chapter or exercise are shown. At the end of each chapter, simple questions are given to be attempted either in class or at the learner’s own free time. This will act as a reminder of what has been covered in the chapter or previous chapters.
Additionally, the book exhibits the use of -ka- narrative tense and -ki- conditional and simultaneous tense." Get yourself a copy of Kiswahili Kwa Hatua if you want to speak Swahili in the shortest
time possible."
In a nutshell, the book shows the key tenses (present continuous – na-, simple past –li-, simple future –ta-, present perfect –me-, habitual Hu- and present simple -a-), counting, noun classes and
three forms of verbs (the commanding –e form; the Prepositional i-
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form
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the
passive
-w-
form).
Kikamba Dictionary: Kikamba-English, ...
Kikamba Dictionary -osa Vinya Mukamba. The Kamba /ˈkæmbə/ language, or Kikamba, is a Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people of Kenya. It is spoken by 5,000 people in Tanzania (Thaisu).
The Kamba language has lexical similarities to other Bantu languages such as Kikuyu, Meru, and Embu.
In Kenya, Kamba is generally spoken in 4 out of the forty-seven Counties of Kenya. These counties are Machakos, Kitui and Makueni. The Machakos variety is considered the standard variety of the three dialects and has been used in the translation of the Bible
The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I...
Nice Leng`ete was raised in a Maasai village in Kenya. In 1998, when Nice was six, her parents fell sick and died, and Nice and her sister Soila were taken in by their father’s brother, who had little interest in the girls beyond what their dowries might fetch. Fearing “the cut” (female genital mutilation, a painful and sometimes deadly ritualistic surgery), which was the fate of all Maasai women, Nice and Soila climbed a tree to hide.
Nice hoped to find a way to avoid the cut forever, but Soila understood it would be impossible. But maybe if one of the sisters submitted, the other would be spared. After Soila chose to undergo the surgery, sacrificing herself to save Nice, their lives diverged. Soila married, dropped out of school, and had children–all in her teenage years–while Nice postponed receiving the cut, continued her education, and became the first in her family to attend college.
Supported by Amref, Nice used visits home to set an example for what an uncut Maasai woman can achieve. Other women listened, and the elders finally saw the value of intact, educated girls as the way of the future. The village has since ended FGM entirely, and Nice continues the fight to end FGM throughout Africa, and the world.
Nice’s journey from “heartbroken child and community outcast, to leader of the Maasai” is an inspiration and a reminder that one person can change the world–and every girl is worth saving.
Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can ...
In the more than twenty-five years since she co-founded Omega Institute - now the world's largest center for spiritual retreat and personal growth -Elizabeth Lesser has been an intimate witness to the ways in which people weather change and transition. In a beautifully crafted blend of moving stories, humorous insights, practical guidance, and personal memoir, she offers tools to help us make the choice we all face in times of challenge: Will we be broken down and defeated, or broken open and transformed?
Lesser shares tales of ordinary people who have risen from the ashes of illness, divorce, loss of a job or a loved one - stronger, wiser, and more in touch with their purpose and passion.
And she draws on the world's great spiritual and psychological traditions to support us as we too learn to break open and blossom into who we were meant to be.
Sunrise at Midnight by Florence Mbaya
Abigail looked at him lovingly, then turning to her mother said, "Mama, know I have failed you, but when you get to know
what happened, I know you will be more forgiving..."
"Failed me?" her mother asked, looking quizzically at her. "You completely let me down, Abigail. I did not expect you to have a baby before you completed school and was able to fend for yourself, and your baby! I can only hope that you have learnt your lesson.
Though a baby is a blessing from God, it comes with responsibilities which will become even bigger and more complicated as Benji grows," she said. Abigail accepted her mother's reprimand without bitterness. She was right.
Indeed the responsibilities currently were already exhausting. Anything more will destroy me though,' she thought.
'Everyday brings new challenges! I wonder if I will ever manage to do anything else.' Loudly she said, "Mama, I want to
defer school until Benji is older."