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Your Inner Hedgehog

Alexander McCall Smith
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Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781039000216

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In the latest entertaining and hilarious Professor Dr. Dr. Moritz-Maria Von Igelfeld novel, our hopelessly out-of-touch hero is forced to confront uppity librarians, the rector of the university, and a possible hostile takeover, all while trying to remain studiously above it all. Professor Dr. Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld and his colleagues at the University of Regensburg's Institute of Romance Philology pride themselves on their unwavering commitment to intellectual excellence. They know it is their job to protect a certain civilized approach to the scholarly arts. So when a new deputy librarian, Dr. Hilda Schreiber-Ziegler, threatens to drag them all down a path of progressive inclusivity, they are determined to stop her in the name of scholarship--even if that requires von Igelfeld to make the noble sacrifice of running for Director of the Institute. Alas, politics is never easy, and in order to put his best foot forward, von Igelfeld will be required to take up a visiting fellowship at Oxford and cultivate the attentions of a rather effusive young American scholar. Still, von Igelfeld has always heeded the clarion call of duty--especially when it comes with a larger office.

Portuguese Irregular Verbs

Alexander McCall Smith
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Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307370372

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A deliciously entertaining new series by the bestselling author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency The many fans of Precious Ramotswe will find further cause for celebration in the protagonist of Alexander McCall Smith’s irresistibly funny trilogy, the eminent (if shamefully under-read) philologist Professor Dr. Mortiz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute at Regensburg. Unnaturally tall, hypersensitive to slights, and oblivious to his own frequent gaucheries, von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he knows is due him. Portuguese Irregular Verbs follows the Professor from a busman’s holiday researching old Irish obscenities to a flirtation with a desirable lady dentist. In The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, von Igelfeld practices veterinary medicine without a license, transports relics for a schismatically challenged Coptic prelate and is mobbed by marriage-minded widows on board a Mediterranean cruise ship. In At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, the final novel in the trilogy, we find our hero suffering the slings of academic intrigue as a visiting fellow at Cambridge, and the slings of outrageous fortune in an eventful Columbian adventure.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery
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Author : Muriel Barbery
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609450137

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The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that “explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building” (Publishers Weekly). In an elegant hôtel particulier in Paris, Renée, the concierge, is all but invisible—short, plump, middle-aged, with bunions on her feet and an addiction to television soaps. Her only genuine attachment is to her cat, Leo. In short, she’s everything society expects from a concierge at a bourgeois building in an upscale neighborhood. But Renée has a secret: She furtively, ferociously devours art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. With biting humor, she scrutinizes the lives of the tenants—her inferiors in every way except that of material wealth. Paloma is a twelve-year-old who lives on the fifth floor. Talented and precocious, she’s come to terms with life’s seeming futility and decided to end her own on her thirteenth birthday. Until then, she will continue hiding her extraordinary intelligence behind a mask of mediocrity, acting the part of an average pre-teen high on pop culture, a good but not outstanding student, an obedient if obstinate daughter. Paloma and Renée hide their true talents and finest qualities from a world they believe cannot or will not appreciate them. But after a wealthy Japanese man named Ozu arrives in the building, they will begin to recognize each other as kindred souls, in a novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us, and “teaches philosophical lessons by shrewdly exposing rich secret lives hidden beneath conventional exteriors” (Kirkus Reviews). “The narrators’ kinetic minds and engaging voices (in Alison Anderson’s fluent translation) propel us ahead.” —The New York Times Book Review “Barbery’s sly wit . . . bestows lightness on the most ponderous cogitations.” —The New Yorker

At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances

Alexander McCall Smith
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Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307424884

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Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment - Book 3 The Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment series slyly skewers academia, chronicling the comic misadventures of the endearingly awkward Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, and his long-suffering colleagues at the Institute of Romantic Philology in Germany. Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, now have new cause for celebration in the protagonist of these three light-footed comic novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he feels certain he is due–a quest which has the tendency to go hilariously astray. In At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, Professor Dr. von Igelfeld gets caught up in a nasty case of academic intrigue while on sabbatical at Cambridge. When he returns to Regensburg he is confronted with the thrilling news that someone from a foreign embassy has actually checked his masterwork, Portuguese Irregular Verbs, out of the Institute’s Library. As a result, he gets caught up in intrigue of a different sort on a visit to Bogota, Colombia.

The Hedgehog

Hilda Doolittle
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Author : Hilda Doolittle
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811210693

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Living with her mother in Switzerland during the time of World War II, Madge moves from the concerns of childhood to the edge of the more adult woes of love and loss, separation and community.

The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs

Alexander McCall Smith
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Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307370389

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The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs by Alexander McCall Smith Pdf

A deliciously entertaining new series by the bestselling author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency The many fans of Precious Ramotswe will find further cause for celebration in the protagonist of Alexander McCall Smith’s irresistibly funny trilogy, the eminent (if shamefully under-read) philologist Professor Dr. Mortiz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute at Regensburg. Unnaturally tall, hypersensitive to slights, and oblivious to his own frequent gaucheries, von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he knows is due him. Portuguese Irregular Verbs follows the Professor from a busman’s holiday researching old Irish obscenities to a flirtation with a desirable lady dentist. In The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, von Igelfeld practices veterinary medicine without a license, transports relics for a schismatically challenged Coptic prelate and is mobbed by marriage-minded widows on board a Mediterranean cruise ship. In At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, the final novel in the trilogy, we find our hero suffering the slings of academic intrigue as a visiting fellow at Cambridge, and the slings of outrageous fortune in an eventful Columbian adventure.

Herbert the Hedgehog

Lynn E. Mueller,Amity Pierce Buxton
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Author : Lynn E. Mueller,Amity Pierce Buxton
Publisher : CCB Publishing
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781771431439

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Herbert the Hedgehog by Lynn E. Mueller,Amity Pierce Buxton Pdf

How would you feel if you were different from everyone else around you? Herbert the Hedgehog knows. He knows exactly what it’s like not to belong, to be different from everybody else. Though he’s just like his family in many ways, inside he feels different. However, try as he might, he can’t find a way to talk about it. He thinks he can figure it out by himself. Can he? It's only with the support of his family, and the help of a very special friend, Max the Mallard Duck, that Herbert learns it’s very important to be yourself and to accept who you are. He realizes that being different isn’t what matters. What matters most is love. Who knew a simple walk could change his life forever? Join Herbert as he sets out on a journey alone to find himself and, along the way, finds so much more!

Your Inner Fish

Neil Shubin
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Author : Neil Shubin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307377166

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The paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells a “compelling scientific adventure story that will change forever how you understand what it means to be human” (Oliver Sacks). By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and function like those of worms and bacteria. Your Inner Fish makes us look at ourselves and our world in an illuminating new light. This is science writing at its finest—enlightening, accessible and told with irresistible enthusiasm.

Hans My Hedgehog

Brothers Grimm
Hans My Hedgehog Book PDF

Author : Brothers Grimm
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416915331

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Riding a rooster and playing magical music on his fiddle, a young man, who ishalf hedgehog, half human, wins the hand of a beautiful princess.

Sonic the Hedgehog #243

Ian Flynn,Steven Butler,Terry Austin, Tracy Yardley!
Sonic the Hedgehog 243 Book PDF

Author : Ian Flynn,Steven Butler,Terry Austin, Tracy Yardley!
Publisher : Archie Comic Publications, Inc.
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781619884403

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Sonic the Hedgehog #243 by Ian Flynn,Steven Butler,Terry Austin, Tracy Yardley! Pdf

"Endangered Species," Part One. Sonic and Team Fighters have arrived at Albion, ancestral homeland of the echidnas. And it's under siege! It's up to our heroes to stop Lien-Da's forces from conquering the war-torn city. But that will be hard when Metal Knuckles arrives!

Unusual Uses for Olive Oil

Alexander McCall Smith
Unusual Uses for Olive Oil Book PDF

Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307374004

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Professor Dr. Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, author of the highly regarded Portuguese Irregular Verbs (200 LTD copies sold!) and a pillar of the Institute of Romance Philology in the proud Bavarian city of Regensburg, finds that life is very difficult these days. His academic rival (and owner of a one-legged dachsund) Detlev-Amadeus Unterholzer has been winning undeserved recognition. With help from the matchmaking Ophelia Prinzel, he stumbles towards a romance with Frau Benz, a charming widow who owns her very own Schloss and a fleet of handsome cars. While on the annual student study retreat in the Alps, von Igelfeld fearlessly plunges 3,000 feet into mountaineering history, only to suffer the ignominy of giving inspirational lectures about the experience. And at a dinner party, he is the only kind soul who can aid the aforementioned unfortunate dachshund, whose sticky wheels are in need of lubrication.

The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon

Alexander McCall Smith
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Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307366863

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The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon by Alexander McCall Smith Pdf

In the latest book in the beloved, bestselling series of mysteries set in Botswana, Mma Ramotswe is asked to help the proprietor of the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, who is having trouble with her business. The salon has suffered some unfortunate events, including mistakenly using face creams that burn the skin. Could someone be trying to put them out of business? Meanwhile on the home front, successful career woman Mma Makutsi is going to have a baby. But in Botswana--a land where family has always been held above all else but which is on the crossroads between old and new--this may be cause for as much controversy as celebration.

A Single Rose

Muriel Barbery
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Author : Muriel Barbery
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609456788

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“A magnificent romance redolent of ancient wisdom and rich with melancholy, loss, and love” from the bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Le Monde). Rose has just turned forty when she gets a call from a lawyer asking her to come to Kyoto for the reading of her estranged father’s will. And so for the first time in her life she finds herself in Japan, where Paul, her father’s assistant, is waiting to greet her. As Paul guides Rose along a mysterious itinerary designed by her deceased father, her bitterness and anger are soothed by the stones and the trees in the Zen gardens they move through. During their walks, Rose encounters acquaintances of her father—including a potter and poet, an old lady friend, his housekeeper and chauffeur—whose interactions help her to slowly begin to accept a part of herself that she has never before acknowledged. As the reading of the will gets closer, Rose’s father finally, posthumously, opens his heart to his daughter, offering her a poignant understanding of his love and a way to accept all she has lost. “Interspersed with aphoristic Japanese tales from various periods, as melancholy is gradually transmuted into joy.” —The New Yorker “[A] luminous meditation on grief.” —Booklist “With elegant and careful prose, [Barbery] offers descriptions of Kyoto and Japanese culture that transcend the genre of a travelogue. This novel will appeal to readers who long for happy endings and escape.” —Library Journal “The novel balances lush, cultivated gardens and weighted symbolism with mischievous foxes, matcha, sliced eel, and sushi, all forming ‘one happy chaos’ and a fascinating maze of emotional release.” —Foreword Reviews

Summary of Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish

Everest Media,
Summary of Neil Shubin s Your Inner Fish Book PDF

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-10T22:59:00Z
Category : Science
ISBN : 9798822530690

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Summary of Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 We can learn about our past by looking at the remains of animals that have been dead and buried for millions of years. But since there were no eyewitnesses, and very few fossils, any attempt to see our past seems doomed from the start. #2 Paleontology is the study of fossils, and it is done field-style. Paleontologists still need to look at rock and the fossils within must be removed by hand, so many decisions need to be made when prospecting for and removing fossil bone. #3 The fossil record is extremely limited, and to find sites with rocks of the right age, type, and position, serendipity must play a role. The fossils inside these rock layers also follow a progression, with lower layers containing species entirely different from those in the layers above. #4 The order of fossils in the world’s rocks is powerful evidence of our connections to the rest of life. If, digging in 600-million-year-old rocks, we found the earliest jellyfish lying next to the skeleton of a woodchuck, then we would have to rewrite our texts.

The Highest Goal

Michael Ray
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Author : Michael Ray
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781626564619

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The Highest Goal by Michael Ray Pdf

Traditional Chinese edition of The Highest Goal: The Secret That Sustains You in Every Moment. Stanford professor Michael Ray shares the secrets he discovered of those who strive for "highest goal." In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.