Waiting For Claudia

Grace and Charlie, a married couple, want to have a baby, but the pregnancy test always shows Grace is not pregnant. So, the couple conceive a baby through in vitro fertilization. Provides a step-by-step description of this method of conception.

The book is a result of the character Claudia found in the website, who hid the book in a castle in a dark forest many years ago. How or why she was able to do this is a part of the narrative found in the website. The mysteries presented are rooted in German literature and in the imaginations of the Grotrians, who come from a tradition of literature and art.

Matilda Mroz argues that cinema provides an ideal opportunity to engage with ideas of temporal flow and change. Temporality, however, remains an underexplored area of film analysis, which frequently discusses images as though they were still rather than moving. This book traces the operation of duration in cinema, and argues that temporality should be a central concern of film scholarship. In close readings of Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura, Andrei Tarkovsky's Mirror, and the ten short films that make up Krzysztof Kie?lowski's Decalogue series, Mroz highlights how film analysis must consider both particular moments in cinema which are critically significant, and the way in which such moments interrelate in temporal flux. She explores the concepts of duration and rhythm, resonance and uncertainty, affect, sense and texture, to bring a fresh perspective to film analysis and criticism.Essential reading for students and scholars in Film Studies, this engaging study will also be a valuable resource for critical theorists.

The summer that Princess Claudia turned eight years old she discovered that everyone who lived in the castle had a best friend but her. Her parents, her wizard uncle and even her sister, Princess Elizabeth, had best friends. How was this possible? Claudia was old enough to know that when you need to do something about something there is only one place to go and one person to see: the castle wizard, Uncle Ouf. With Oufas magic to assist and a bit of help from Peach Fuzz, the cat, Claudia sets out on a mission to find a best friend. Claudia finds out that friendships are not always perfect and sometimes you have to be patient to get what you want. She also learns that if you listen, follow directions and open up your heart, things have a wonderful, perhaps even magical, way of working out.

"Over the course of her high school years, awkward Claudia McCarthy finds herself unwittingly drawn into the dark side of her school's student government, with dire consequences"--

Eugenia Ledoux wakes one morning to a note on the kitchen table: "Gone to save the world. Sorry. Yours, Sheb Woolly Ledoux. Asshole." Eugenia is nine years old, a synaesthesiac and a tightrope walker. She adores her father and his lunatic charms; she loves that he takes her fishing in the middle of the night and calls her Stunt. Sheb has always promised he'll one day take her to the moonscape of northern Ontario, where astronauts train; instead he writes a note, blows up a shoulder-pad factory, and leaves. His heartbroken daughter is left behind with her mother, the sharp-edged former ingenue Mink, and her sister, the death-obsessed and hauntingly beautiful Immaculata. After a fake funeral for Sheb, Mink vanishes too. Eugenia and Immaculata, left alone, double in age overnight. Immaculata becomes a swan-like giantess, and soon finds her calling caring for Leopold, a diseased and irresistible malcontent down the street. Eugenia, however, stays the same: dark and diminutive, and bereft. She finds herself a bicycle and sets off to track down her father, encountering an astronaut and a waitress named Cupid along the way. Stunt is the first novel by one of Canada's most acclaimed playwrights. Like synaesthetic Eugenia, your senses will be addled as Dey's words take on colours, tastes, and smells, somehow coming to mean more than you thought they did; they depict, with compassionate hilarity and luminous heartbreak, the love between a girl and her father.

When the president is kidnapped during his ski holiday in Colorado, disavowed Secret Service Agent Scott Harvath is his only hope of rescue. Tracking the kidnapper to Switzerland, and with the ambitious Claudia Muehler of the Swiss Federal Attorney's Office to assist him, the pair are forced to go it alone as they realise the kidnapping plot reaches some of the highest levels of the Swiss Intelligence community. In a race against time, they must scale the treacherous heights of Mt. Pilatus, uncover a hidden military fortress secreted beneath its peak, and defeat the formidable force that stands between them and the safe return of the president - the deadly men known as the Lions of Lucerne. Look out for the adrenaline-fuelled new Brad Thor novel, Code of Conduct, published in July 2015!

An emotionally raw, truthful, and compelling story that invites you along for the ride, as an ordinary man faced with extraordinary circumstances, shares his most intimate thoughts and feelings, as he attempts to guide his wife and their two young children through the turbulent waters of their mothers cancer diagnosis. By demonstrating unimaginable courage, strength, grace, humility, and acceptance when faced with the unfathomable, one woman will forever inspire and profoundly alter the lives of countless people who were privileged to know and love her. She, like only a mother could, gives a most precious gift to her children-instilling in them that even in deatha mothers love endures. While helping his wife deepen her spirituality and come to terms with her own death, one man discovers the face of God, and one woman experiences the healing power of Gods promised, eternal, and unconditional love. From the perspective of a life-long educator, lessons learned and helpful tips are sprinkled throughout the book, in hopes of inspiring, encouraging, and equipping you and your family, with essential tools to illuminate your path as you encounter your own trials along lifes journey.