Your teen years are a time of change, growth, and-all too often-psychological struggle. To make matters worse, you are often your own worst critic. The Self-Compassion Workbook for Teens offers valuable tools based in mindfulness and self-compassion to help you overcome self-judgment and self-criticism, cultivate compassion toward yourself and others, and embrace who you really are. As a teen, you?re going through major changes-both physically and...

Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book. One of the most talked about fictional debuts ever, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike.

Lee Chong, the astute owner of the well-stocked grocery store, is also the proprietor of the Palace Flophouse that Mack and his troupe of good-natured 'boys' call home. Dora runs the brothel with clockwork efficiency and a generous heart, and Doc is the fount of all wisdom. Packed with invention and joie de vivre CANNERY ROW is Steinbeck's high-spirited tribute to his native California. Includes an introduction by Susan Shillinglaw, explanatory footnotes,...

Working all day at a lathe leaves Arthur Seaton with energy to spare in the evenings. A hard-drinking, hard-fighting hooligan, he knows what he wants, and he's sharp enough to get it. Before long, his carryings-on with a couple of married women become the stuff of local gossip. But then one evening he meets a young girl and life begins to look less simple? First published in 1958, ?Saturday Night and Sunday Morning? achieved instant critical acclaim...

THREE hilarious and moving novels from the number one bestselling, critically acclaimed author, David Walliams. Boy in the Dress - Dennis?s ordinary life is about to get a lot less ordinary. Why? There?s a clue in the title of this book? Mr Stink - When Chloe speaks to a local tramp, she discovers there?s more to Mr Stink than meets the nose. Billionaire Boy - Meet Joe Spud, the richest 12-year-old in the world. But there?s one thing he really needs:...

It became an immediate bestseller, and Life magazine called it "a profound lesson for the living." This companion volume consists of the questions that are most frequently asked of Dr. Kbler-Ross and her compassionate answers. She discusses accepting the end of life, suicide, terminal illness, euthanasia, how to tell a patient he or she is critically ill, and how to deal with all the special difficulties surrounding death. Questions and Answers...

FOUR hilarious and moving novels from the number one bestselling, critically acclaimed author, David Walliams. Boy in the Dress - Dennis?s ordinary life is about to get a lot less ordinary. Why? There?s a clue in the title of this book? Mr Stink - When Chloe speaks to a local tramp, she discovers there?s more to Mr Stink than meets the nose. Billionaire Boy - Meet Joe Spud, the richest 12-year-old in the world. But there?s one thing he really needs:...

In Practical Thinking de Bono?s theme is everyday thinking, how the mind actually works - not how philosophers think it should. Based on the results of his famous Black Cylinder Experiment (a critical thinking task that asks participants why they think a black cylinder falls over), de Bono explores the four practical ways of being right. From there he picks out and names the five levels of understanding - and the five major mistakes in thinking. From...

Part of a human torso washes up near Goteborg in Sweden. It is so mutilated that gender is only established by DNA testing. A similar crime, now several years old, remains unsolved in Denmark. Detective Inspector Irene Huss is dispatched to Copenhagen to liaise with the police. Then a third corpse is discovered.

One day, comfortable in her home, and her second marriage, she receives, entirely out of the blue, a parcel containing the manuscript of her ex-husband's first novel. He writes asking her to read the book; she was always his best critic, he says. As Susan reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of his character Tony Hastings, a maths professor driving his family to their summer house in Maine. And as we read with her, so are we. As the Hastings'...