An Urgent Message of Wowness
An Urgent Message of Wowness

Author: Karen McCombie

Publisher:

Published: 2008-05-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780545993289

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Thirteen-year-old Heather has a perfect family. She thinks she is the only one who is slightly odd, with some quirky habits. Until … Her dentist dad comes home from work one day and announces that he is leaving them. This leads her perfectly elegant mother to “hibernate” in her bedroom for three weeks (only to emerge as a salsa-dancing rocker chick); her good-looking, brilliant, sports-playing 17-year-old brother to reveal his secret life as an eyelinerwearing indie band manager and her perfectly cute six-year-old little sister to turn feral, coached by the “Goth” who has moved in to her brother's bedroom. And suddenly, it's Heather who is the normal one. This is an honest, but bright and funny look at a family destroyed in a single moment. Like Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging — only younger, lighter and funnier — Karen McCombie's debut in the Canadian market will place her alongside Brit lit queen as Louise Rennison.

An Urgent Message of Wowness
An Urgent Message of Wowness

Author: Karen McCombie

Publisher:

Published: 2008-01-07

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781407104645

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Heather thinks everyone in her family comes from Planet Perfect. Everyone except her, that is. Then Dad drops a bombshell, and the world turns upside down. Is this topsy-turvy new family somewhere Heather can fit in?

The Past, the Present and the Loud, Loud Girl
The Past, the Present and the Loud, Loud Girl

Author: Karen McCombie

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781407117614

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Meet the Love children: oh-so-perfect Linn, airy-fairy Rowan, animal-obsessed Tor - and Ally, trying to have a normal life somewhere in the middle of it all. Which isn't easy when you live in a house that's a cross between an animal hospital and something out of 'Changing Rooms'. And then there's school and the small matter of the forgotten history project and the obnoxious new girl that - oh joy! - Ally's been nominated to look after. It's going to be a fun couple of weeks... The first in the wildly successful, utterly loveable ALLY'S WORLD series.

You, Me and Thing 1: The Curse of the Jelly Babies
You, Me and Thing 1: The Curse of the Jelly Babies

Author: Karen McCombie

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2012-07-19

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 0571272584

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Neighbours Ruby and Jackson get the surprise of their lives when they discover a Thing living at the bottom of their gardens. And when Thing places a curse on the inhabitants of the new house that's been built over his old home, Ruby and Jackson find themselves up to their eyeballs in jellybabies, magic and BIG trouble. I never expected to be friends with a Thing. Well, you don't, do you? You usually think of friends being either boys or girls, or maybe even cute yappy dogs. Well, Thing certainly doesn't fit into any of those categories. Thing is just a... a... Actually, I'm not sure quite how to describe it. "A sort of troll crossed with a fairy crossed with a squirrel?" Jackson suggested, after we first discovered Thing. "I is not a squirrel," Thing purred grumpily, twitching its squirrelly ears. "And not a fairy or a trolly. Whatever they is." By the way, I never expected to be friends with Jackson Miller either. I guess I've got a bit of explaining to do, about Jackson and about Thing. (Oh, and about curses and jellybabies too, And the magic. I mustn't forget the magic!) Contains charming black and white line illustrations by Alex T. Smith

Never Eat Alone
Never Eat Alone

Author: Keith Ferrazzi

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2014-06-05

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 0241971004

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An updated and expanded edition of the runaway bestseller Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi Proven advice on networking for success: over 400,000 copies sold. As Keith Ferrazzi discovered early in life, what distinguishes highly successful people from everyone else is the way they use the power of relationships - so that everyone wins. His form of connecting to the world around him is based on generosity and he distinguishes genuine relationship-building from the crude, desperate glad-handling usually associated with 'networking'. In Never Eat Alone, Ferrazzi lays out the specific steps - and inner mindset - he uses to reach out to connect with the thousands of colleagues, friends, and associates on his Rolodex, people he has helped and who have helped him. He then distills his system of reaching out to people into practical, proven principles. Keith Ferrazzi is founder and CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, a marketing and sales consulting company. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Who's Got Your Back and has been a contributor to Inc., the Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review. Previously, he was CMO of Deloitte Consulting and at Starwood Hotels & Resorts, and CEO of YaYa media. He lives in Los Angeles and New York.

Life According To… Alice B. Lovely
Life According To… Alice B. Lovely

Author: Karen McCombie

Publisher: Scholastic UK

Published: 2014-09-04

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1407154656

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Edie Evans is sick of being treated like a kid. And she doesn't, repeat, doesn't need a babysitter! And then along comes the strange, the shy, the captivating Alice B. Lovely. But is Alice B. Lovely too good to be true? But then maybe all that matters is that life was complicated before her and pretty sparkly after.

Delivering Happiness
Delivering Happiness

Author: Tony Hsieh

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2010-06-07

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 044657631X

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Pay brand-new employees $2,000 to quit Make customer service the responsibility of the entire company-not just a department Focus on company culture as the #1 priority Apply research from the science of happiness to running a business Help employees grow-both personally and professionally Seek to change the world Oh, and make money too . . . Sound crazy? It's all standard operating procedure at Zappos, the online retailer that's doing over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually. After debuting as the highest-ranking newcomer in Fortune magazine's annual "Best Companies to Work For" list in 2009, Zappos was acquired by Amazon in a deal valued at over $1.2 billion on the day of closing. In Delivering Happiness, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh shares the different lessons he has learned in business and life, from starting a worm farm to running a pizza business, through LinkExchange, Zappos, and more. Fast-paced and down-to-earth, Delivering Happiness shows how a very different kind of corporate culture is a powerful model for achieving success-and how by concentrating on the happiness of those around you, you can dramatically increase your own. #1 New York Timesand Wall Street Journal bestseller

You, Me and Thing 4: The Mummy That Went Moo
You, Me and Thing 4: The Mummy That Went Moo

Author: Karen McCombie

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2013-04-02

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 0571272649

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Want to know a secret? There is something very, very strange living in the trees behind my house. If you tiptoe slowwwwly and quietly (ssh!) to the bottom of my garden, you might hear it rustling and rootling and 'peh!'ing in the dark undergrowth, on the other side of the low stone wall. And if you peek over the wall - holding your breath - there's a chance youcould spot two saucer-round eyes blinking out of a strangely squareopening in the tree roots . . . Ruby and Jackson get the surprise of their lives when they discover a Thing living at the bottom of their gardens. But Thing is cute, and funny, even if sometimes whenit upset it gets a bit ARRGHH! And that's when the trouble starts. Like the time Ruby and Jackson sneak Thing along with them on a school trip to the museum. In case you're wondering, it goes very, badly wrong . . . !

My Very First Mother Goose
My Very First Mother Goose

Author: Iona Archibald Opie

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9781564026200

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Charming watercolor illustrations enhance a delightful collection of sixty classic Mother Goose rhymes, including "Hey Diddle, Diddle," "Pat-a-Cake," "Little Jack Horner," and many others.

You Me and Thing: The Great Expanding Guinea Pig & Beware of the Snowblobs!
You Me and Thing: The Great Expanding Guinea Pig & Beware of the Snowblobs!

Author: Karen McCombie

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2013-12-31

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 0571310567

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Two great books in one featuring magic, mix-ups and muddles! Join Ruby, Jackson and Thing on not one but two great adventures in this brilliant bumper book. See what havoc Thing causes when Ruby and Jackson sneak it along on a trip to the petting zoo in The Great Expanding Guinea Pig. And in a seasonal spectacular, Thing helps Ruby and Jackson defeat some nasty bullies in Beware of the Snowblobs!