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This Exam Practice Workbook for Cambridge National Level 1/2 Creative iMedia will test students on all the skills and topics they might encounter in their exam. The first half covers Section A style questions, and the second half has three Section B style scenarios - these are specially designed to offer realistic practice for the scenario-based element of the paper. We even worked with a subject expert and top teachers to make sure every question matches the specification perfectly! Plus all the answers are included, and there are model answer tips and guides too. Not too shabby, right? Psst - this book is especially useful when used alongside the matching Revision Guide (9781837740833)!

Alex grew up in a quiet suburban neighborhood in Syracuse, New York. As a young boy, he experienced emotional, physical, and sexual abuse at the hand of his father. He graduated from high school, and was determined to make a name for himself as a singer-songwriter. After a successful gig as the opening act for a national recording artist, he and a friend decided to hit the road and head west. The ensuing adventures, provide a colorful background for this compelling tale. Once in California, Alex began to spiral out of control. The wounds from his past were catching up to him. As the story unfolds, there are miraculous events, second chances, healing and restoration. Alex's knack for telling the story, and his honest style of writing, will take you along on a journey from abuse and despair, to love and forgiveness.

Quinn Marcelo wouldn't necessarily win the award for Most Popular Person at her school, but unbeknownst to her peers, Quinn entertains them at every football, basketball, and baseball game-as Peaches the Parrot, her high school's God-like mascot.When someone sabotages the legendary Peaches costume at the Homecoming Game, Quinn's left unmasked and humiliated. After all, Peaches' identity was a closely guarded secret and a point of pride for nearly everyone at Olivia Newton-John High. As if that wasn't enough, Little Peaches, a new, real parrot that the PTA got to enhance the Peaches Experience, is kidnapped right after Quinn's unmasking.Determined to uncover the culprit, Quinn publicly unravels the lives of everyone in her path-including Tessa Banks, the most popular girl in school-in a no-holds-barred conspiracy-fueled investigation. But when a killer starts going after the people implicated in Quinn's mascot disaster, she must race to uncover the truth behind her feathery faux-pas-before the truth kills her, too.

ACHTUNG: --- Nur für kurze Zeit zum Sonderpreis! -------Für die fünf jungen Freunde steht der letzte gemeinsame Urlaub an. Anschließend würde das Leben für jeden von ihnen eine Zukunft bereit halten, die ihre Wege für längere Zeit oder vielleicht für immer trennen würde. So wollen sie es noch einmal richtig krachen lassen und gemeinsam die verbleibende Zeit miteinander genießen. ---- Für einen der Freunde jedoch geht es um mehr als nur die geplante gemeinsame Zeit. Er sieht in diesen zwei Wochen die letzte Chance, Sascha, seinem besten Freund, endlich die Wahrheit zu sagen. Die Wahrheit darüber, was er wirklich für ihn empfindet. Doch wie soll er diesen Schritt gehen, ohne das ohnehin zum Zerreißen angespannte Band der Freundschaft endgültig zu durchtrennen? ---- An einem Abend schließlich lässt er sich zu einem folgenschweren Entschluss hinreißen, nach dem es kein Zurück mehr gibt. Wird ihm am Ende mehr bleiben als nur die Erinnerung an die Zeit bis zu dem Moment, in dem er die Beherrschung verlor? ---- Eine Gay Romance mit expliziten Szenen.

It's just a few years in the future, and the world has only gotten better at measuring human worth in money as three college friends start careers. Eric's ambitious enough to want a prestige MBA and persuasive enough to get his best friend Klein to enroll at Wharton with him. Eric's girlfriend Emma is still painting at night, but has settled into a regular job. After a car accident leaves Emma with impaired vision and a financial crisis drives Klein's father to suicide, Eric seems to have the towering self-confidence to lead them through it all. But as he and Klein fight over what's best for Emma, she pulls away from both of them and sinks into depression. Love isn't enough to fix her, as all three must learn. The web woven between these three friends includes connections deeper than the apparent love triangle, funnier than their problems, and stronger than the losses that threaten to defeat each of them.

A dance to the death. A girl who's just as monstrous as H.H. Holmes. A hallway that's constantly changing-and hungry. All of these stories exist in the same place-within the frame of a particular house that isn't bound by the laws of time and space. Following in the footsteps of dark/horror-filled YA anthologies like His Hideous Heart and Slasher Girls and Monster Boys, and Netflix's ground-breaking adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House, this YA speculative fiction anthology explores how the permanence of a home can become a space of transition and change for both the inhabitants and the creatures who haunt them. Each story in the anthology will focus on a different room in the house and feature unique takes on monsters from a wide array of cultural traditions. Whether it's a demonic Trickster, a water-loving Rusalka, or a horrifying, baby-imitating Tiyanak, there's bound to be something sinister lurking in the shadows.

Eigentlich sehnt er sich danach, endlich die große Liebe zu finden und glücklich zu werden. Doch dann lässt er sich zu einer Wette hinreißen, bei der er ausgerechnet so sein muss, wie er es bei anderen Männern verabscheut: In sieben Tagen soll er sieben Männer aufreißen und ins Bett bekommen. Zunächst fällt es ihm leicht, sich zu überwinden und er schafft es tatsächlich, über die ersten Tage hinweg, sich in die Abenteuer zu stürzen, die er als Einlösung seiner Wette erleben muss. Doch je länger er diese Rolle spielen muss, desto mehr Zweifel keimen in ihm auf... Schließlich, als es am Ende der Wette darum geht, vor seinen Freunden das Ergebnis zu präsentieren, wird ihm etwas klar, das verhängnisvolle Folgen für seine ganze Zukunft haben wird.... Eine Gay Romance mit expliziten, homoerotischen Szenen.

I presently can't seem to meet somebody who has not been sorrowful something like once in their life. It happens to every one of us, as a rule, it'll happen at least a couple of times. We get devastated, we get frustrated, we get dismissed. It's essential for life. We live in a world with imperfect people who bomb us and commit errors. A considerable lot of our fantasies are enveloped with these people, and thus, brokenness is only a piece of living on this planet. It's a cost of admission to this life and something which we as a whole should pay. We can't necessarily in every case control what is going on or the result so far as that is concerned. In any case, we have some control over how we answer the staggering blow when disaster strikes. In this book, I will go over every one of the manners in which one can really mend from awfulness. Managing the aggravation that accompanies it, the battle, the uncertainties, disillusionment, and the dismissal. I will tell you the best way to battle despondency and how to get through the troublesome street to turning out to be entire once more. Shock and frustration, they transform you; change how you eat, how you rest, and how you communicate with others. It shakes you profoundly. The substance of what your identity is. Recuperating from such injury can be an incredibly extensive and testing process. Whenever done mistakenly, you're delaying your tragedy as well as gambling long haul close to home damage.Add to the way that the vast majority don't have the foggiest idea what certified mending truly is, and afterward you comprehend the reason why a great many people never really achieve it. In a world that leaves us broken many times over, we should succeed during the time spent recuperating. Recuperating is a workmanship. A workmanship that we should dominate if we have any desire to carry on with a genuinely satisfying life. On the off chance that we will make sound, enduring connections, we need to figure out how to recuperate completely, and in the immediately from the ones that leave us broken. Since grievousness isn't actual injury where our bodies consequently know how to answer. No, I'm apprehensive with mental injury, the mending system is definitely more confounded than that. What's more, it's completely dependent upon us regardless of whether we mend. Assuming your heart is weighty, in the event that your spirit is squashed, assuming you're choking in limitless pain and disillusionment, I believe you should accept this book and allow it to be your life saver for these problematic times. Allow me to be the compass that will lead you out of this tempest.

Are you looking for a book that will teach your child the first rudiments of writing, coloring and logic?Here you will find the right book and at the same time it will be very fun! You will find different activities for children of school and preschool age.Stimulate their manual skills and creativity with: Alphabet and numbers, teach you to write letters and numbers correctly and they memorize the alphabet and the numerical sequence.Dot to Dot, engaging and fun, they help children learn to count and improve the accuracy of the drawings.Coloring activity, Excellent for improving manual skills and stimulating the imagination.Mazes, fun and perfect for improving spatial perception and developing mental patterns. If you are looking for a perfect gift to stimulate learning by playing and having fun click on "buy now".

Queer Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Filipino folklore in this horror comedy about a high school stage manager who accidentally sells her soul to a demon. Seven years ago, Cordelia Scott's abusive father left without a word, and life has been normal ever since. The seventeen-year-old spends her days stage managing the school play (which is going great, if anyone asks), pining over her best friend, Veronica, and failing one too many pop quizzes.She's never been sad that her father left, but she knows something is...missing. When her school guidance counselor, Fred, reveals during a session that he's actually a demon, she learns that something is indeed missing: a piece of her actual soul. Why? She unwittingly made a deal with him to make her father disappear - then bargained to have the memory erased. To make matters worse, Fred is here to make another bargain: Help him with a "little" demonic problem, or she's doomed to spend eternity in Hell with her father.The deal? Help Fred neutralize a rival demon, who means to do more harm in her hometown than your average demon deal.

Praise for Alex Brown'An intriguing story you will love' Jill Mansell'The cleverly entwined stories kept me turning the pages' Trisha Ashley'I adored it' Lesley Pearse'Evocative and engaging ... a story to fall in love with.' Cathy Bramley'A warm, emotional tale of love, friendship and following your heart.' Milly JohnsonAnnie Lovell is keen to put the spark back into her life and when her elderly neighbour inherits an abandoned Parisian apartment she goes to Paris to discover more. Her curiosity takes an unexpected turn on discovering a bundle of secret diaries hidden within the walls, detailing the life of a young English woman, Beatrice Crawford, who volunteered in 1916 to nurse the soldiers in the fields of France. Captivated by the romantic City of Light, Annie realises first appearances are not always as they seem. Following Beatrice's journey from the Great War, through the Roaring Twenties and to a very different life in Nazi-occupied Paris, Annie must piece together the events from the past, if she is to fulfil the legacy that Beatrice left for her to find...

Praise for A Postcard From Italy'Be whisked away in this sunny, heartwarming read' Woman's Own'I adored it' Milly Johnson'Enchanting and wonderfully romantic' Cathy Bramley'I adored it. The perfect summer read!' Lesley Pearse

`Warm, emotional ... a gorgeous read.' Cathy Bramley `Heartwarming and charming. The perfect summer escape.' Sarah Morgan `A gorgeous read which will warm your heart and make it smile' Milly Johnson