„Was bist du eigentlich für ein Kotzbrocken, du dämliche Bulimie? Wenn ich könnte, dann würde ich dich jetzt auf der Stelle ...“ " ... auskotzen? Tu's doch!" Also kotzte ich ein fünftes Mal. Diana ist vierzehn, als ihr Martyrium beginnt: Nach einem festlichen Abendessen steckt sie sich zum ersten Mal den Finger in den Hals und erlebt die verrückte Lust daran, sich zu übergeben. Mit harten Szenen, aber auch mit absurder Komik schildert Diana Fey die Macht einer Krankheit, die einen an den Abgrund führt - und die man dennoch besiegen kann.
Seit dem ersten Schultag fürchtet sich Diana vor Killer-Keimen im Klassenzimmer. Ihr Kopf erkennt: »Wer wäscht, gewinnt«. Aus dem Waschen wird ein Zwang, dem weitere folgen. Diana berührt weder Türgriffe noch Pflasterfugen, brummt wie ein Bär und betet bis zum Morgengrauen. Dreißig Jahre später schafft sie es schließlich, den Teufelskreis der Ticks und obsessiven Gedanken zu durchbrechen. Humorvoll und selbstironisch führt uns dieses Buch vor Augen, dass es Normalität nicht gibt und dass in jedem von uns etwas Verrücktheit schlummert.
The epic first novel in a sweeping series following the romantic lives and intrigues of the fictionalized descendants of a Chinese empress--now in paperback! Behind every great family lies a great secret. There's one rule in Gemma Huang's family: Never, under any circumstances, set foot in Beijing. But when Gemma, and aspiring actress, lands her first break--a lead role in an update of M. Butterfly, which just so happens to be filming in the Chinese capital--Gemma heads to LAX without looking back. It's an amazing opportunity for her burgeoning career, and she'll get to work with her idol. Of course, there's also the chance of discovering just exactly why she's been forbidden from entering the city in the first place. When Gemma arrives in Beijing, she's instantly mobbed by paparazzi at the airport. She quickly realizes she may as well be the twin of Alyssa Chua, one of the most notorious young socialites in Beijing. Thus kicks off a season of revelations and romance in which Gemma uncovers a legacy her parents have spent their lives protecting her from--one her mother would conceal at any cost.
A smart, funny, and heartfelt middle grade novel about Lily Hong’s attempts to save her parents’ Chinese school and the town’s community center using all the resources she has—devoted friends, ingenuity, a passion for filmmaking, mediocre dance moves (at best), and perhaps even her archnemesis.If there’s one thing Lily Hong can’t stand, it’s being second best. That’s why she and Max Zhang have been bitter rivals ever since he swooped into town as the new kid with the cool clothes and his fancy downtown Chinese school and showed her up in the fifth-grade reading challenge.She had wanted to be the one to win the pizza party for their class. Okay, so that was two years ago . . . her best friends Kelli and Lauren didn’t totally get it, but they were on her side. And that’s why they agreed to help Lily with her submission for the Clarktown’s Got Talent video competition. Filmmaking is Lily’s passion—which means winning is more important to her than ever.Unfortunately, finding time to work on her video submission is proving harder than ever. In addition to doing regular homework and attending the Chinese school her parents own and run out of the Clarktown Community Center, Lily’s been getting weird vibes from her parents lately and she can tell something is up. Then her mom announces that the Clarktown Community Center is having its first showcase, and the students of Hong Chinese Academy will be performing as a group—traditional Chinese dance!Lily is more confused than anything else—the community center is practically falling apart and they think this is a good time to put on a show? Could it be that the community center is in trouble and the only way to save it is to make the showcase a huge success? Lily has no choice. She’ll have to juggle the video competition and the art of Chinese dance simultaneously. But when Max Zhang unexpectedly shows up in her class at Chinese school with his perfect Mandarin and his surprisingly good dance skills, Lily might just have to embrace her longtime rival as a key part of her plan to save the community center.
Our life contains several lives as well as several deaths; we attempt to understand these little rebirths through poetry. decompose explores pruning our past to make room for future growth; the expanse we are offered through the crush of heartbreak, discovering family beyond our original home, finding new meaning in our own name - Sofia Fey picks these timeless themes like roses from a flourishing garden to compose a thorny and succulent bouquet of living, loss, and rebirth throughout the rejuvenating pages of their debut poetry collection.
Dodnes sme všetci klamaní a zavádzaní o pravom zmysle nášho bytia. Väčšina
ľudí žije v duchovnej nevedomosti, hoci túžba po duchovnom poznaní, po Pravde,
je ako zákon zakotvená v každom z nás a núti nás hľadať vyšší zmysel života.
Odklonením sa od najvyššieho zdroja Pravdy-Stvoriteľa a Jeho večných zákonov,
si ľudstvo dobrovoľne zapríčinilo svoj pád a utrpenie. Spolu so sebou strhlo
aj planétu Zem. Avšak Stvoriteľ svojou magnetickou silou Zem, ako poslednú
svetlú planétu vo stvorení, vytiahne znovu hore do oblasti Svetla, kam patrí,
čím sa vráti na svoju pôvodnú obežnú dráhu. Tomuto deju však predchádza už
niekoľko rokov prebiehajúca veľká očista Zeme, počas ktorej ju musia opustiť
všetci tí, ktorí na ňu nepatria. Táto kniha je dielom spolupráce, vedenej
Stvoriteľom, ktorá presahuje čisto pozemskú schopnosť chápania. Obsahuje Jeho
Poslednú výzvu pre pozemské ľudstvo, ktoré všetky doterajšie Božie pomoci
prehliadalo, či odmietalo. Odhaľuje omyly a klamstvá, ktoré stoja v rozpore s
večnými Božími zákonmi, a ktoré sú nám v dôsledku našej nevedomosti,
tisícročia podsúvané cirkvami, či inými duchovnými, ezoterickými a podobnými
učeniami.
