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Celebrate the magic and legacy of Wicked, exploring the uplifting themes woven through this powerful story.Dive behind the emerald curtain with this captivating pocket guide to Wicked, the sensational book, musical and film phenomenon that has enchanted audiences worldwide. Since its Broadway debut in 2003, Wicked has become a global cultural icon, grossing over $5 billion and running for more than 20 spellbinding years, captivating over 60 million theatregoers across 16 countries. This timeless tale reaches far and wide, with its messages of acceptance, friendship and authenticity. Make space for all the positivity that Wicked has to offer, gleaning insight from the characters, cast and its symbolism. Packed with key facts, memorable quotes, and encapsulating all the feels of the hit film, this is the ultimate gift for any fan of the beloved musical or the enchanting world of Oz. Gemini Pockets From little guides to soothe your soul to all-access passes to the lives of pop icons, and from quizzes and puzzles for literature lovers to books on food, nature, fashion and more, Gemini Pockets are the perfect fit for your life and interests.

Discover the symbols and superstitions that will swing the odds in your favour.Every time you so much as toast a drink with friends or blow out a birthday candle, you are tapping into the world of good luck symbols and superstitions. From everyday actions we scarcely think about to crystals, talismans, totemic objects and amulets, every culture on earth has traditions of luck and good fortune.Whether it is an evil eye to ward off bad spirits or a Japanese 'waving' cat for prosperity, each of the 30 entries included in the book gives background on that symbol's origins and history, including myths, legends and cultural or religious significances, followed by ways to use it in rites and rituals. Interspersed throughout are fun facts about famous people and their chosen good-luck symbol, as well as 'beware' boxes on bad luck.Discover the charms that famous people counted on: Ernest Hemingway carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit's foot in his right pocket for luck. Theodore Roosevelt wore a gold ring containing a lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair. Designer Diane von Furstenberg places a gold coin from her father in her shoe for every fashion show.The entries are drawn from a huge variety of belief systems, cultures and nations, such as Buddhism, feng shui, ancient Egypt, paganism, Celtic lore, Native American legends.Gemini PocketsFrom little guides to soothe your soul to all-access passes to the lives of pop icons, and from quizzes and puzzles for literature lovers to books on food, nature, fashion and more, Gemini Pockets are the perfect fit for your life and interests.

A glimpse inside the sadcore world of Lana Del Rey.From the breakthrough success of 'Video Games' to her environmental activism and fashion looks, this unofficial and unauthorized pocket guide to Lana Del Rey is perfect gift for all Lanatics.A poet disguised as a pop star, Lana Del Rey is as misunderstood as she is mysterious. Since her arrival in the mainstream in 2011, she has consistently confounded her fan's' expectations and confused her critics by releasing a relentless string of genre-bending, melodically mesmerising songs that both defy - and define - modern pop music.Gemini PocketsFrom little guides to soothe your soul to all-access passes to the lives of pop icons, and from quizzes and puzzles for literature lovers to books on food, nature, fashion, and more, Gemini Pockets are the perfect fit for your life and interests.

Reboot your physical and mental health with slow-wave deep sleep.Wouldn't you love to wake up every morning feeling refreshed, energetic and ready for the day? Deep sleep - the slow-wave cycle that truly restores and repairs your body and mind, leaving you with that ready-for-anything feeling in the morning - has a starring role in your health, both physically and mentally. In Deep Sleep, you will find concise information to help you understand the most beneficial sleep cycle of them all, as well as tips for increasing your deep sleep and overcoming obstacles that interfere with your essential rest.One-third of people don't get enough sleep in general and deep sleep decreases with age. A deep sleep deficit causes you to feel unrefreshed and drowsy, reduces alertness and attention, makes learning and forming new memories more difficult and encourages high-calorie cravings.Deep sleep has the most benefits of all the sleep cycles: regenerating and healing skin and tissues, processing memory and learning, regulating and processing emotions, stabilizing glucose and metabolism, boosting the immune system and fighting infection.Includes natural techniques, such as mindful meditation and behavioural therapy, to enable longer, deeper sleep, and to get you back to sleep quickly.Gemini PocketsFrom little guides to soothe your soul to all-access passes to the lives of pop icons, and from quizzes and puzzles for literature lovers to books on food, nature, fashion and more, Gemini Pockets are the perfect fit for your life and interests.

Quizzes, puzzles, anagrams and wordsearches to test your knowledge of the inexhaustible and powerfully imagined worlds of The Inimitable Boz, as Charles Dickens liked to be called.The crossword puzzles in this book focus on the same topics that fascinated Charles Dickens: London, food and drink, childhood, Christmas, love and marriage, and servants.Ingenious anagrams draw on Dickens's amusingly apposite names given to his characters, while wordsearch puzzles contain a host of heroes and heroines.Pursue correctly identified characters through a maze in 'Hunt the Villain' puzzles and identify locations in the novels in 'Place the Place' puzzles. A more complex variation of this type of puzzle draws on Dickens's critical view of the legal profession.Over a dozen quizzes explore the clothes, work, pets, relations, nicknames, counties, inns, humble clerks and English towns of Dickens's richly detailed world. There is even a quiz on Charles Dickens the man: the self-styled 'Inimitable Boz'.The book is illustrated throughout with George Cruikshank engravings of London characters. Test your knowledge, refresh your memory and challenge your ingenuity. If the quizzes and puzzles in this book lead you to reread the inexhaustible novels, so much the better.Gemini PocketsFrom little guides to soothe your soul to all-access passes to the lives of pop icons, and from quizzes and puzzles for literature lovers to books on food, nature, fashion and more, Gemini Pockets are the perfect fit for your life and interests.

Delightful and intriguing - will appeal to anyone who has been captivated by the world of the Brontë sisters.Drawing on the vivid detail in the seven completed novels of the three Brontë sisters - Charlotte, Emily and Anne - the ingenious quizzes and puzzles in this fun collection will test your memory. Even the illustrations, by Edmund Dulac, require you to recognise the characters they depict.All the answers are to be found in the pages of Anne's Agnes Grey or The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Emily's Wuthering Heights; or Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette or The Professor.The quizzes will test your recall of clothes, colours, relations, occupations, cookery, Christmas, villages, seasons, dates, interiors and flowers, while the name games require names of characters to be given to reveal a final name.Each crossword puzzle relies on quotations from one of the novels, while the wordsearch puzzles are on the themes of pets, pupils, servants and houses.All the answers are given at the back of the book, but elusive answers may encourage you to reread the novels, which will reveal the wealth of quiet detail which builds to give solidity to the hauntingly imaginative worlds of these remarkable sisters.Gemini PocketsFrom little guides to soothe your soul to all-access passes to the lives of pop icons, and from quizzes and puzzles for literature lovers to books on food, nature, fashion and more, Gemini Pockets are the perfect fit for your life and interests.