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I am a CURIOUS brown boy.
I explore the world around me ...
I am an ACCEPTING brown boy.
I respect people who are different from me.
Remarkable me is an empowering book of positive affirmations for brown
boys. This book teaches boys to embrace and celebrate their unique
talents and interests, while encouraging them to dream big and to be
creative.
Build confidence and resilience from a young age with easy-to-follow
rhyming text and bright inclusive illustrations that reflect proudly
South African children.
Also available in Sesotho, isiXhosa, isiZulu and Afrikaans
'n Seun word groot in die platteland waar die lewe hemel is, totdat
sy pa sterf. Hy word weggeskeur van Zoar en verhuis na Mitchells
Plein waar hy kennis maak met sy passie (DJ) maar ook verstrengel
raak in dwelms. Hy vind bevryding en word 'n suksesvolle DJ.
Hierdie boek vertel aan tieners dat daar hoop is, al is die lewe
hel. Hierdie boek bied regte hoop aan duisende dwelm verslaafde
Suid-Afrikaners.
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Macbeth
(Hardcover)
William Shakespeare
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R662
Discovery Miles 6 620
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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For generations audiences have been gripped by the powerful drama
of Macbeth: the ruinous journey of a man driven by his ambition for
power, yet ultimately ending in fear violence, and madness.
Macbeth, a Scottish general in King Duncan's army, is given a
prophecy by three witches that he himself will become king. Fueled
by this knowledge and goaded on by his ruthless wife he murders the
king to gain the crown. Yet having gained his goal, the "peace to
all their days and nights to come" prophesized by the witches fails
to appear. Rather, he finds that having killed, he must do so again
and again. Suspicion, fear and the ghosts of the dead haunt him and
his wife, destroying everything that they fought for, including
their relationship, their world and finally both of them. Holding
new meaning for each generation this play is a masterpiece not to
be missed.
It is 2003 – ten years since Spud Milton’s class of 93 matriculated and
the boys went their separate ways. Despite their seemingly unbreakable
bond, the Crazy 8 – Rambo, Mad Dog, Vern, Fatty, Garth Garlic, Boggo,
Simon and Spud – have not kept in touch. Or at least, not as far as
Spud knows. When he receives an invitation from the school to attend
the 10 Year Reunion weekend, Spud is determined to avoid the event at
all costs, but he hasn’t reckoned with the bombardment of intrusive
messages and threatening phone calls from his former dorm mates. No one
is going to bend his arm, not this time; he is immune to peer pressure
and wise to Rambo’s devious manipulation techniques. Spud has moved on.
And, anyway, he has enough to worry about on the home front.
At 28 Spud is stuck in a one-third life crisis. Reflecting on a decade
of spectacular non-achievement, at a point where he’s coming to realise
that his glittering stage career might have stalled before it’s even
begun, casts him into deep gloom. For the former scholarship kid, the
prospect of once again having to measure up to his blue-blooded school
friends – and be found wanting – has him riddled with anxiety. Not only
that. Spud still doesn’t have a serious girlfriend, which has seen him
resort to a questionable international bathsexting
relationship with an old flame. Not to mention that circumstances have
forced him to move back in with his parents and his senile grandmother,
Wombat, whose walks never end where they began.
After a wildly unsuccessful fishing trip with his father, as well as a
return to his old way of figuring things out – writing in his diary –
to his own surprise, Spud finds his reunion resistance crumbling.
Curiosity and courage win the day. It’s just a weekend, after all …
what could possibly go wrong?
Open a door and enter a magical world.
A beautiful paperback edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with cover and interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes.
Four adventurous siblings – Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie – step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change . . . and a great sacrifice.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is the second book in C. S. Lewis's classic fantasy series, which has been drawing readers of all ages into a magical land with unforgettable characters for over sixty years. This is a stand-alone read, but if you would like to explore more of the Narnian realm, pick up The Horse and His Boy, the third book in The Chronicles of Narnia.
A royal family is thrown into utter ruin by its own poisonous web
of distrust, deceit and struggle for power. Shakespeare's tragedy
is one unsurpassed power and depth. It follows the descent of the
ageing King Lear into madness, perpetuated by his malevolent
daughters Goneril and Regan who struggle to gain power over the
kingdom. Having banished his favorite daughter Cordelia, a loving,
compassionate and honest woman, when she refuses to partake in a
competition of flattery, he sets in motion a catastrophic sequence
of events that will ultimately destroy his sanity, family and
kingdom. The lines between good and evil are faultlessly drawn in
this exploration of filial ingratitude, injustice, avarice and
love. In a time when swollen words, false pretexts and the struggle
for power are again the order of the day the message of King Lear
carries renewed significance.
Wim Vermaak se lewe is onderstebo. Hy is op die punt om Graad 9 te dop, omdat sy aandag in die LO-klas afgetrek word deur 'n meisie. Sy tweelingsussie wil opsluit deel word van Mars One sending na Mars. Hul verstrooide ouma val vir 'n internetslenter en dan is daar Harold, sy ma wat kuns doseer se menslike geraamte, wat die studente in opstand bring en konflik tussen sy ouers saai. Dalk is Wim se LO-taak die antwoord om dinge weer op koers te kry.
Expanding your child s reading horizons is easy with fiction books
from Teacher Created Materials! In The Dog Who Changed History by
Susan Johnston Taylor, Alexander Graham Bell and his dog Trouve
create a life-changing invention: the telephone! Find out more in
this inspiring historical fiction book your child will love.
Includes Book Club literacy and comprehension questions.
SPECIAL 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION with exclusive extra behind-the-scenes material from the author
It is 1939. In Nazi Germany, the country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier - and will become busier still.
By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed forever when she picks up a single object, abandoned in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, and this is her first act of book thievery. So begins Liesel's love affair with books and words, and soon she is stealing from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library . . . wherever there are books to be found.
But these are dangerous times, and when Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, nothing will ever be the same again.
In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.
Now a major film from Twentieth-Century Fox starring Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson.
Billy is one of four teens chosen as the finalists in the Wild2Save Eco competition. They get to spend a long weekend in the Kruger National Park, competing to win a bursary to study conservation. But even on their first night in the bushveld, they run into a group of rhino poachers and land in grave danger. With the help of a mysterious "boy" and the Whistleblower, the four friends are able to thwart the poachers' plan and expose the villains.
Meka is used to death. After all, it's the family business.
As a mortician's assistant at her parents' funeral home, Meka's days
are not for the squeamish. Luckily, her boyfriend Noah doesn't mind,
and Meka finally feels ready to say those three little words that will
change everything.
Then tragedy strikes and Meka's world is torn apart. Nothing makes
sense, especially when strange things start to happen: Strangers follow
her. Mysterious items are left at her door. And worst of all .
The dead don't seem to be staying dead.
Meka thought she understood death better than anyone, but it turns out
the family business is more complicated than it seemed. And Meka isn't
the only one desperate to unearth their secrets . because the truth may
be worth dying for.
Seven liars in the circle. Only one can survive...
Seven teens arrive for a school retreat - only to find an abandoned
motel and a sinister text message waiting for them: I know what you did
a year ago.
Each of the seven buried a guilty secret about their tragic school
fire. And now someone is out for revenge.
Every hour they must choose the guiltiest one among them to cross over
the white line that circles the motel and be killed. Otherwise, they
all die.
But who deserves to live, and who to die? Because only one of them can
survive...
DO YOU DARE ENTER THE CIRCLE OF LIARS?
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