Nicholas Flamel\''s heart almost broke as he watched his beloved Paris crumble before him. The city was destroyed by Dee and Machiavelli, but Flamel played his own role in the destruction. Sophie and Josh Newman show every sign of being the twins of prophecy, and Flamel had to protect them and the pages ...
There are animals on the farm. Our food comes from farms, too. You can go to some farms and see their animals and machines. Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign or second ...
It has never occurred to Precious Ramotswe that there might be disadvantages to being the best-known lady detective in Botswana. But when she receives a threatening anonymous letter, she is compelled to reconsider her unconquerable belief in a kind world and good neighbours. While she ponders the identity ...
Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She''''s quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn''''t get out much - not because she''''s not pretty - she''''s a very cute bubbly blonde - or not interested in a social life. She really is.but Sookie''''s got a bit of a disability. ...
In "The Idle Parent" Tom Hodgkinson provides a revolutionary and wholly sensible approach to childcare, based on the idea of D.H. Lawrence and many others that the best thing we can do for children is to leave them alone. Of course, this doesn''t mean that we should completely neglect them, but rather ...
Since childhood, Rosie and Alex have stuck by each other through thick and thin. But they''re suddenly separated when Alex and his family move from Dublin to America. Rosie is lost without him. Then, just as she is about to join Alex in Boston, she gets life-changing news - news that will keep her at ...
Reissue of a modern classic -- the book that catapulted Norman Mailer to fame on its first publication in 1948. Based on Mailer´s own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, ´The Naked and the Dead´ is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men ...
When the entire Soviet Union wheat crop is destroyed by a devastating string of failures, the population faces starvation. The USA is quick to offer assistance. They devise a plan to trade vital food resources with the Russians in exchange for sensitive political information. But the Politburo has other ...
It''''s the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day that really troubles super-sleuth Sid Halley. Former champion jockey Halley knows the perils of racing all too well - but in his day, jockeys didn''''t usually reach the finishing line with three.38 rounds in the chest. But this is precisely how he finds ...
A New York Times bestseller, Mr Penumbra\''s 24-hour Bookstore is an entirely charming and lovable first novel of mysterious books and dusty bookshops; it is a witty and delightful love-letter to both the old book world and the new. Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco ...
The rise of Robert Harris as one of the UK''''s premier novelists has been something of a phenomenon. His breakthrough book was, of course, Fatherland, and even though the premise (Germany had won the Second World War and occupied Britain) was not original, the treatment was astonishingly assured. From ...
In Red Rabbit Tom Clancy gives Jack Ryan fans an insight into his greatest hero''''s first years fighting terrorism. Jack Ryan. The early CIA days.When young Jack Ryan joins the CIA as an analyst he is thrust into a world of political intrigue and conspiracy. Stationed in England, he quickly finds himself ...
In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that''''s before the players even take the field. Nick Hornby has been a football fan since the moment he was conceived. Call it predestiny. Or call it preschool. Fever Pitch is his tribute ...
Margaret and Patrick, married just a few months, set off on a great adventure - a year living in Kenya. While Patrick practices medicine, Margaret works as a photojournalist, capturing a dizzying and sometimes dangerous city on film.When a British couple invites the newlyweds on a climbing expedition ...
A dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages, the third part of a quintet appearing at two yearly intervals, richly illustrated by the author. The Abarat a magical otherworld composed on an archipelago of twenty-five islands — one for each hour of the day, plus an island out of time. Candy Quackenbush, ...
História puzzle siaha do osemnásteho storočia a za jeho zrodom stojí anglický rytec a kartograf John Spilsbury. Prvé puzzle okolo roku.1760 vytvoril tak, že na mapu pripevnil tenké tvrdé drevo a jemnou ostrou pílkou na vytváranie intarzie z neho vyrezal hranice krajín. Takto vytvorený produkt deťom v ...
'You have an enemy, Dr. Brennan. It is in your interest to learn who placed that call.' A routine case turns sinister when Dr. Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling the autopsy of a missing heiress. Someone has made an incriminating accusation that she missed or concealed crucial evidence. ...
