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Thinking Allowed

A Teenager's View on Human Rights

by Sun Young Hwang ...

"And although she and her friends place a small timer on their desks to measure the time they study each day and make joint promises to study harder and use time wisely, at a certain point, the most desperate right that high school seniors in Korea identify with becomes not the right to education but rather the right to the pursuit of happiness. In todays world it feels like studying and education ... Read more

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"And although she and her friends place a small timer on their desks to measure the time they study each day and make joint promises to study harder and use time wisely, at a certain point, the most desperate right that high school seniors in Korea identify with becomes not the right to education but rather the right to the pursuit of happiness. In todays world it feels like studying and education
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The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly

A Novel

by Sun-mi Hwang ...

Translated by Chi-Young Kim ...

**The Korean Charlotte's WebMore than 2 million copies sold**This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command, only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild—and to hatch an egg of her own.An anthem for freedom, ... Read more

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**The Korean Charlotte's WebMore than 2 million copies sold**This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command, only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild—and to hatch an egg of her own.An anthem for freedom,
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The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly

A Novel

by Sun-mi Hwang ...

Narrated by Jill Larson ...

Unabridged

2 hours 58 min

**A Korean Charlotte's WebMore than 2 million copies sold**This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command, only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild—and to hatch an egg of her own.An anthem for freedom, individuality ... Read more

$22.99 CAD

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**A Korean Charlotte's WebMore than 2 million copies sold**This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command, only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild—and to hatch an egg of her own.An anthem for freedom, individuality
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The Making of a Smart City in Korea

The Quest for E-Seoul

by KwangJong Ahn, Monica Bernardi, Jesse W. Campbell, Lorenzo Chelleri, June-Suh Cho, Sungtaek Choi, Sangho Choo, Seok-Jin Eom, Sunyoung Hlee, Hanchan Hwang, Yu-Min Joo0, Jun Houng Kim1, Kijung Kim2, Sujae Kim3, Hyangsook Lee4, Hyunae Lee5, Jong Youl Lee6, Keumsook Lee7, Sang Do Park8, Sohyun Park9, Thorsten Schuetze0, Junmin Song1, Xiaobo Wang2, Changhyo Yi3, Yejin Yoo4, Joong-Hwan Oh5, Dr. Jaehyeon Jeong7, Dr. Hojeong Lee9 ...

Series series Korean Communities across the World
This book illustrates how Seoul's transition into a digitally networked city has reshaped governance structures, economic systems, and cultural life.Central to this transformation is the proactive role of the Seoul Metropolitan Government, which has guided the city through multiple stages of smart urbanization with strategic planning and policy innovation.Organized into three parts, the ... Read more

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This book illustrates how Seoul's transition into a digitally networked city has reshaped governance structures, economic systems, and cultural life.Central to this transformation is the proactive role of the Seoul Metropolitan Government, which has guided the city through multiple stages of smart urbanization with strategic planning and policy innovation.Organized into three parts, the
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The Echoes

A Novel

by Evie Wyld ...

Narrated by Sebastian Humphreys, Vivien Carter ...

Unabridged

7 hours 34 min

From the award-winning novelist, a ravishing new novel set between London and rural Australia, both a love story and a ghost storyMax didn’t believe in an afterlife. Until he died. Now, as a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he is still here, he watches his girlfriend, Hannah, lost in grief in the apartment they shared and begins to realize how much of her life was invisible to him.In the ... Read more

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From the award-winning novelist, a ravishing new novel set between London and rural Australia, both a love story and a ghost storyMax didn’t believe in an afterlife. Until he died. Now, as a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he is still here, he watches his girlfriend, Hannah, lost in grief in the apartment they shared and begins to realize how much of her life was invisible to him.In the
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The Invention of Wings

A Novel (Original Publisher's Edition-No Annotations)

by Sue Monk Kidd ...

From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees comes a novel about two unforgettable American women.Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she ... Read more

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From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees comes a novel about two unforgettable American women.Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she
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The Girl on the Train

by Paula Hawkins ...

Three women, three men, connected through marriage or infidelity. Each is to blame for something. But only one is a killer in this #1 New York Times bestselling psychological thriller about human frailty and obsession.Just what goes on in the houses you pass by every day?Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and evening, rattling over the same junctions, flashing past the same ... Read more

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Three women, three men, connected through marriage or infidelity. Each is to blame for something. But only one is a killer in this #1 New York Times bestselling psychological thriller about human frailty and obsession.Just what goes on in the houses you pass by every day?Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and evening, rattling over the same junctions, flashing past the same
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The Rosie Project

A Novel

by Graeme Simsion ...

A first-date dud, socially awkward and overly fond of quick-dry clothes, genetics professor Don Tillman has given up on love, until a chance encounter gives him an idea.He will design a questionnaire—a sixteen-page, scientifically researched questionnaire—to uncover the perfect partner. She will most definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker or a late-arriver. Rosie is all these things. She ... Read more

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A first-date dud, socially awkward and overly fond of quick-dry clothes, genetics professor Don Tillman has given up on love, until a chance encounter gives him an idea.He will design a questionnaire—a sixteen-page, scientifically researched questionnaire—to uncover the perfect partner. She will most definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker or a late-arriver. Rosie is all these things. She
... Read more
Where the Crawdads Sing: Reese's Book Club

by Delia Owens ...

**NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE—The #1 New York Times bestselling worldwide sensation with more than 18 million copies sold, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “a painfully beautiful first novel that is at once a murder mystery, a coming-of-age narrative and a celebration of nature.”New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century**For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have ... Read more

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**NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE—The #1 New York Times bestselling worldwide sensation with more than 18 million copies sold, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “a painfully beautiful first novel that is at once a murder mystery, a coming-of-age narrative and a celebration of nature.”New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century**For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have
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The Nightingale

A Novel

by Kristin Hannah ...

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKA #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation.With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history ... Read more

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A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKA #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation.With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history
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All the Light We Cannot See

A Novel

by Anthony Doerr ...

*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to ... Read more

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*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to
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The Women

A Novel

by Kristin Hannah ...

**A #1 bestseller on The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times!From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's T**he Women—at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided.**Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, ... Read more

$21.99 CAD

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**A #1 bestseller on The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times!From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's T**he Women—at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided.**Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words,
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