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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - DiDi finds cauliflower to be disgusting and certainly refuses to eat it. Her night promptly ends after being sent to her room. Or so she thought. But her older sister, Eleanor, along with the help of some friendly dinosaurs, brings a surprise picnic to DiDi. The baskets of food spark their imagination, taking them back in time to a prehistoric era or near the bright blue waters of Greece. Join Eleanor and DiDi's silly macaroni and cheese fights with triceratops and a flaming giant turkey leg that requires the assistance of the fire department! This amusing story is certain to bring smiles while teaching a gentle lesson about trying new foods.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Eleanor is afraid of bugs - all types of bugs. She screams, hollers, and jumps about if she sees them which makes her sister, DiDi, giggle. When trying to fall asleep Eleanor anxiously imagines bugs in her room until a friendly cricket stops by and convinces the sisters to play a game of croquet. With a swish of the mallet, the three are hilariously launched into the night sky like astronauts, exploring the city. An assortment of bugs must come to Eleanor's rescue on the trip home. Join the sisters in this silly story as they learn a gentle life lesson that bugs of all kinds are not scary, but can be helpful to us.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. [8], 328, pages. Signed by the author on a front end paper. Kennedy's Brain is a novel by Swedish writer Henning Mankell, that was originally published in the Swedish language in 2005. The English translation by Laurie Thompson was published in September, 2007. With some elements similar to those of John le Carré's The Constant Gardner, Mankell's novel addresses the African HIV/AIDS epidemic, the pharmaceutical industry, and greed centered on the African epidemic. The protagonist is Louise Cantor, a Swedish archaeologist who on returning home from an excavation in Greece makes a tragic discovery. Louise embarks on a search for answers to explain why the tragedy has occurred. Her journey takes her to Australia, to Spain and to Mozambique. Henning Georg Mankell (3 February 1948 - 5 October 2015) was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. He also wrote a number of plays and screenplays for television. He was a social critic and activist. In his books and plays he consistently highlighted social inequality issues and injustices in Sweden and abroad. Mankell shared his time between Sweden and countries in Africa, mostly Mozambique where he started a theatre. He made considerable donations to charity organizations, mostly connected to Africa. Internationally bestselling novelist Henning Mankell delivers a terrifying thriller inspired by the tragedy of the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Henning Mankell, the acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, has put his unmistakable stamp on this gripping new thriller. Archaeologist Louise Cantor returns home to Sweden and makes a devastating discovery: her only child, twenty-eight-year-old Henrik, dead in his bed. The police rule his death a suicide but she knows he was murdered; her quest to find out what really happened to Henrik takes her across the globe to Barcelona, where her son kept a secret apartment; Sydney, Australia, to find Aron, her estranged ex-husband and Henrik's father; and to Maputo, Mozambique, where she learns the awful truth behind an AIDS hospice. Her investigation reveals how much her son concealed from her as she uncovers the links between his death, the African AIDS epidemic, and Western pharmaceutical interests, while those who dare help her are killed off. In the tradition of John le Carré's The Constant Gardener, Kennedy's Brain was inspired by Mankell's anger at ongoing inequities that permit a few people to have unprecedented power over the many poor Africans who have none. Already a bestseller in Europe, Kennedy's Brain is both a thrilling page-turner and a damning indictment of inhuman greed in the face of the African AIDS crisis. Reviewing Kennedy's Brain in The Independent, Paul Binding found that Henrik Cantor, "an idealistic young Swede" whose death, and its subsequent investigation by his mother Louise provides the narrative drive of the book, "has acknowledged that there exist those who, deliberately and using all their intelligence and money, seek to profit from the distress of others. Theirs is a wickedness hard rationally to comprehend, yet so linked to power and the bastions of the establishment that it is also hard to fight, let alone defeat. In this double predicament lie the strengths. of the novel". Binding added, "It presents Louise's wide-ranging, perilous investigation with button-holing intensity, unmatched even by this master of suspense." Writing in The Daily Telegraph, John Preston was saying, "For 10 years he produced a series of densely plotted, richly imaginative thrillers featuring his Swedish detective, Kurt Wallender. These were followed by a novel featuring Wallender's daughter, Linda, who followed her father into the police force. Now here is perhaps his strangest book yet. It's a thriller, of sorts.t"As usual with Mankell there are some great lines - 'Sorrow is like mice, it always finds a way in,' he notes. Lena Ikse Bergman (Author photograph) (illustrator). Signed.…

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