A joyful and hilarious tale of some very spirited septuagenarians as they overcome innumerable obstacles to save their beloved mutt from a heartless exterminator in a land where bureaucracy reigns above all else. Picaresque at its very best.

Galina Petrovna's Three-Legged Dog Story

Literature & Fiction

Bennett, Andrea

Humor & Satire

Borough Press

A heartwarming novel about the surprise of second chances in the autumn of your life.Gor is keeping busy. He has a magic show to rehearse, his new assistant to get in line and a dacha in dire need of weeding. But he keeps being distracted by a tapping on his window – four floors up. Is old age finally catching up with him?Tolya has woken from a long illness to find his memory gone. Tidied away in a sanatorium, with only the view of a pine tree for entertainment, he is delighted when young doctor Vlad decides to make a project of him. With a keen listener by his side, and the aid of smuggled home-made sugary delights, Tolya’s boyhood memories return, revealing dark secrets…Two Cousins of Azov is a tender and wonderful story of two men who, in the autumn of their years, have the chance to learn that memories can heal, as well as haunt.

TWO COUSINS OF AZOV

HARPER/COLLINS

The ‘bonkers’ book that 'it is impossible not to be moved by' DAILY MAIL
A joyful and hilarious tale of some very spirited septuagenarians as they overcome innumerable obstacles to save their beloved mutt from a heartless exterminator in a land where bureaucracy reigns above all else.
Perhaps you’re not a member of the Azov House of Culture Elderly Club?
Perhaps you missed the talk on the Cabbage Root Fly last week?
Galina Petrovna hasn’t missed a meeting, even if that means leaving her three-legged dog Boroda behind. Boroda isn’t ‘hers’ exactly, they belong to each other, and that’s why she doesn’t wear a collar.
And that’s how Mitya the Exterminator got her.
So everyone had to go to Moscow.
Filled to the brim with pickle, misadventure and tears, Galina Petrovna’s Three-Legged Dog Story will leave you smiling at every page.

Galina Petrovna’s Three-Legged Dog Story

The Borough Press

This fourth revised and updated edition of a bestselling textbook gives a practical overview of contemporary finance from a New Zealand perspective and written by expert academics. It helps students understand how the financial system and the institutions within it operate; how and why financial decisions are made; the tools, techniques and concepts used in finance and how they are applied; how individuals and businesses plan their short- and long-term financial activities. Helpful features include examples, self-test questions (with solutions!), learning objectives, a glossary of terms and useful formulae.

Fundamentals of Finance: Financial institutions and markets, personal finance, financial management

Business & Money

Parry, Jenny

Wirth, Carolyn

Finance

Massey University Press

Specifically written to cover the AQA GCSE Product Design specification, our student book takes a focused look at the creative and manufacturing processes of product design, whilst providing comprehensive support for the Controlled Assessment. Clear learning objectives at the start of each chapter, helping students focus on what they need to know. Key terms reinforce learning, providing definitions of key words that students need to be familiar with. Includes a range of activities that develops design and making skills, encouraging students to apply concepts to real-life contexts.

AQA GCSE Design and Technology: Product Design

Science & Math

Russell, Brian

Draisey, Jeff

Ballance, Krysia

Deacon, Nicola

Technology

Oxford University Press

A revelatory book about gender, mental illness, parenting, mortality, bike mechanics, work, class, and the task of living in a body. Inquisitive and expansive, Like a Boy but Not a Boy explores author andrea bennett's experiences with gender expectations, being a non-binary parent, and the sometimes funny and sometimes difficult task of living in a body. The book's fourteen essays also delve incisively into the interconnected themes of mental illness, mortality, creative work, class, and bike mechanics (apparently you can learn a lot about yourself through trueing a wheel). In "Tomboy," andrea articulates what it means to live in a gender in-between space, and why one might be necessary; "37 Jobs 21 Houses" interrogates the notion that the key to a better life is working hard and moving house. And interspersed throughout the book is "Everyone Is Sober and No One Can Drive," sixteen stories about queer millennials who grew up and came of age in small Canadian communities. With the same poignant spirit as Ivan Coyote's Tomboy Survival Guide, Like a Boy addresses the struggle to find acceptance, and to accept oneself; and how one can find one's place while learning to make space for others. The book also wonders what it means to be an atheist and search for faith that everything will be okay; what it means to learn how to love life even as you obsess over its brevity; and how to give birth, to bring new life, at what feels like the end of the world. With thoughtfulness and acute observation, andrea bennett reveals intimate truths about the human experience, whether one is outside the gender binary or not.

Like a Boy but Not a Boy: Navigating Life, Mental Health, and Parenthood Outside the Gender Binary

Biographies & Memoirs

Arsenal Pulp Press

Design Studies: Theory and Research in Graphic Design

In an age of globalization and connectivity, the idea of "mainstream culture" has become quaint. Websites, magazines, books, and television have all honed in on ever-diversifying subcultures, hoping to carve out niche audiences that grow savvier and more narrowly sliced by the day. Consequently, the discipline of graphic design has undergone a sea change. Where visual communication was once informed by a designer's creative intuition, the proliferation of specialized audiences now calls for more research-based design processes.
Designers who ignore research run the risk of becoming mere tools for communication rather than bold voices. Design Studies, a collection of 27 essays from an international cast of top design researchers, sets out to mend this schism between research and practice. The texts presented here make a strong argument for performing rigorous experimentation and analysis. Each author outlines methods in which research has aided their designwhether by investigating how senior citizens react to design aesthetics, how hip hop culture can inﬂuence design, or how design for Third World nations is affected by cultural differences. Contributors also outline inspired ways in which design educators can teach research methods to their students. Finally, Design Studies is rounded out by ﬁve annotated bibliographies to further aid designers in their research. This comprehensive reader is the deﬁnitive reference for this new direction in graphic design, and an essential resource for both students and practitioners.

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Princeton Architectural Press

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Travel

Canada

Moon Travel

Discover the unmistakable joie de vivre and Québécois pride of this unique city. Inside Moon Québec City you'll find:<ul>
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