Deborah Smith Book order

The teaching of reading should be very systematic and in a specific order. This is a practical book of all the important "pit stops" you have to make, when teaching reading. Teachers as well as parents will benefit from this.

Set against the backdrop of contrasting family dynamics, the narrative explores an unexpected romance that bridges the gap between two distinct households. As love blossoms, the characters navigate their differences, confront societal expectations, and face challenges that test their commitment. The story delves into themes of acceptance, resilience, and the transformative power of love, highlighting how relationships can flourish despite external pressures and familial discord.

Focusing on the airline cabin crew interview process, this guidebook provides a thorough roadmap for both newcomers and experienced candidates. It offers essential insights and strategies to navigate interviews successfully, ensuring readers are well-prepared to secure their desired positions in the aviation industry.

A toolbox of positive principles, tips and techniques for the ultimate self-care.Science tells us that happiness is 50% genetic, 10% circumstantial and 40% how we think and act. Which means that it is possible to increase our happiness by up to 40%.For anyone wanting to increase their wellbeing, Grow Your Own Happiness shows how positive psychology - the science of happiness- can be used every day. With key principles explained to provide the foundation for change, tests for measuring wellbeing and simple techniques that can easily be applied to a busy lifestyle, as well as case studies, anecdotes and tips, this book provides everything you need to shine.

Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more 'plant-like' existence, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares. In South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision is a shocking act of subversion. Her passive rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, leading her bland husband to self-justified acts of sexual sadism. His cruelties drive her towards attempted suicide and hospitalisation. She unknowingly captivates her sister's husband, a video artist. She becomes the focus of his increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, while spiralling further and further into her fantasies of abandoning her fleshly prison and becoming - impossibly, ecstatically - a tree.Fraught, disturbing and beautiful, The Vegetarian is a novel about modern day South Korea, but also a novel about shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others, from one imprisoned body to another.

A hidden truth holds the potential to rescue a life, intertwining the fates of two characters. As they navigate a web of secrets and revelations, the stakes rise, leading to a gripping exploration of trust, sacrifice, and the power of love. The narrative delves into the complexities of their relationship, highlighting how vulnerability can lead to unexpected strength in the face of danger.

Compulsively readable, universally relevant and deeply resonant... It lacerates, it haunts, it dreams, it mourns... 'Human Acts' is, in equal parts, beautiful and urgent.-New York Times Book Review Human Acts is unique in the intensity and scale of this brutality... [T]he novel details a bloody history that was deliberately forgotten and is only now being recovered.-The Nation [Han Kang's] new novel, Human Acts, showcases the same talent for writing about corporeal horrors, this time in the context of the 1980 Gwangju uprising.-TIME Magazine Han Kang's Human Acts speak the unspeakable. -Vanity Fair The long wake of the killings plays out across the testimonies of survivors as well as the dead, in scenarios both gorily real and beautifully surreal.-Vulture Human Acts is stunning. Book reviews evaluate how well a book does what it sets out to do, and so we sometimes write nice things about books that perfectly fulfill trivial aims. Otherwise, we'd always be complaining that romance novels or political thrillers fail to justify the ways of God to men. But Han Kang has an ambition as large as Milton's struggle with God: She wants to reconcile the ways of humanity to itself.-NPR.org Engrossing... The result is torturously compelling, a relentless portrait of death and agony that never lets you look away. Han's prose-as translated by Deborah Smith-is both spare and dreamy, full of haunting images and echoing language. She mesmerizes, drawing you into the horrors of Gwangju; questioning humanity, implicating everyone... Unnerving and painfully immediate.-Los Angeles Times Revelatory ... nothing short of breathtaking... In the end, what Han has re- created is not just an extraordinary record of human suffering during one particularly contentious period in Korean history, but also a written testament to our willingness to risk discomfort, capture, even death in order to fight for a cause or help others in times of need.-San Francisco Chronicle But where Kang excels is in her unflinching, unsentimental descriptions of death. I am hard pressed to think of another novel that deals so vividly and convincingly with the stages of physical decay. Kang's prose does not make for easy reading, but there is something admirable about this clear-eyed rendering of the end of life.-Boston Globe Absorbing... Han uses her talents as a storyteller of subtlety and power to bring this struggle out of the middle distance of 'history' and into the intimate space of the irreplaceable human individual.-Minneapolis Star-Tribune Kang explores the sprawling trauma of political brutality with impressive nuance and the piercing emotional truth that comes with masterful fiction... a fiercely written, deeply upsetting, and beautifully human novel.-Kirkus Reviews Kang is an incredible storyteller who raises questions about the purpose of humanity and the constant tension between good and evil through the heartbreaking experiences of her characters. Her poetic language shifts fluidly from different points of view, while her fearless use of raw, austere diction emulates the harsh conflicts and emotions raging throughout the plot. This jarring portrayal of the Gwangju demonstrations will keep readers gripped until the end.-Booklist (starred) With Han Kang's The Vegetarian awarded the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, her follow-up will garner extra scrutiny. Bottom line? This new work, again seamlessly translated by Deborah Smith, who also provides an indispensable contextual introduction, is even more stupendous.-Library Journal (starred) Pristine, expertly paced, and gut-wrenching... Human Acts grapples with the fallout of a massacre and questions what humans are willing to die for and in turn what they must live through. Kang approaches these difficult and inexorable queries with originality and fearlessness, making Human Acts a must-read for 2017.-Chicago Review of Books Though her subject matt

Parce qu'elle a sauve de la noyade la petite-fille du gouverneur de l'Etat de Georgie, Alice Riley, 34 ans, se retrouve projetee sous les feux des medias. C'est ainsi qu'elle fait la connaissance de Lilith, Mara et Perle Bonavendier, trois soeurs etranges vivant presque coupees du monde sur l'ile de Sainte's Point. Timide, Alice est d'abord reticente a suivre la-bas celles qui pretendent etre de sa famille. Mais le desir de rompre sa solitude et l'idee d'en apprendre plus sur ses origines la poussent a accepter l'invitation. Alice trouvera alors l'explication a ses extraordinaires dons de nageuse et de telepathe. De meme qu'elle decouvrira enfin qui est le chercheur de tresors sous-marins ayant echappe a une mort certaine grace a une vision elle aussi prenommee... Alice. Premiere parution: Archipel (2012)

The MacBrides return home for good, bringing with them a mixture of nostalgia and unresolved issues. As they settle back into their familiar surroundings, family dynamics are tested, and old rivalries resurface. The narrative explores themes of belonging, reconciliation, and the challenges of adapting to change, all while highlighting the warmth and complexities of family life. Throughout their journey, the characters confront their pasts and strive to forge a new future together.