Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. An unforgettably powerful tragedy, Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" is one of the great classics of the late nineteenth century. This edition features illustrations by Sir Hubert von Herkomer and Joseph Syddall, and an afterword by Philip Mallett, editor of the Thomas Hardy Journal. Tess Durbeyfield's father ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius - his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Випассана медитация по С. Н. Гоенка. ... Випассана е древната техника за вътрешен мир. Випассанā-бхāванā, развиване на прозрение, въплътява същината на учението на Буда. Така както се преподава от С. Н. Гоенка, този път към себеосъзнаване е изключителен в своята простота, липса на догматичност и най-вече - даването на резултати. Базирана на беседите и писанията на С. Н. Гоенка - и изготвена под негово пряко ръководство, - Изкуството да се живее показва как всеки може да използва техниката Випассана, за да развие пълноценно своя потенциал и да живее спокоен, продуктивен живот. Тя включва истории от С. Н. ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Save the world or end it... A strange darkness is growing in the Ward. Even Corayne an - Amarat can feel it, tucked away in her small town at the edge of the sea. Fate knocks on her door, in the form of a mythical immortal and a lethal assassin, who tell Corayne that she is the last of an ancient lineage - with the power to save the world from destruction. Because a man who would burn kingdoms to the ground is raising an army unlike any seen before, bent on uprooting the foundations of the world. With poison in his heart and a stolen sword in his hand, he'll break the realm itself to claim it. And only Corayne can ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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The best walks within easy reach of the capital. ... "The Rough Guide to Walks in London and Southeast England" is the ultimate guide to walking in this richly varied region. The book is for walkers of every ability, with varied itineraries from picturesque woodland strolls in the heart of the city, to get-away-from-it-all weekend hikes through the South Downs. The routes are detailed and easy-to-follow with descriptions of sights along the way, as well as lively background features on everything from smugglers' tales to stone circles. There are great recommendations for places to eat and have a pint along ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Based on the story of Gerald Durrell . Text adaptation by Bill Bowler . ... The weather in England that summer had been so awful that Gerald's mother sold the family house and took her children to live on the Mediterranean island of Corfu. Between lessons, the ten-year-old Gerald was free to walk round the sunny island and discover the wonderful people and animals living there. This is the story of Gerald's adventures with the fascinating animals of Corfu, and, of course, with his surprising family and their friends. Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Laugh your head off with this fully-illustrated new series from award-winning Nadia Shireen. Perfect for readers age 7 to 107, fans of Dog Man, Roald Dahl , Mr Gum and David Walliams , and anyone who loves to laugh. Fox cub siblings Ted and Nancy are on the run from Princess Buttons, the scariest street cat in the Big City. They flee for Grimwood, expecting to find refuge in the peaceful countryside. Instead, they are met with thieving eagles, dramatic ducks, riotous rabbits and a whole host of unusual characters. Grimwood is... weird. But when Princess Buttons tracks them down, Nancy and Ted and the animals of ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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In the first story Tom wants fish and chips for lunch, but he can't have them. In the second story Tom and Holly finds a thin cat who needs fish for lunch. "The Explorers Phonics" bring first language teaching methods to reading lessons in international classrooms. They focus on how reading works, so children are able to read new texts and pronounce new words more easily. "The Explorers Phonics" complement the "Macmillan English Explorers" and can also be used alongside any other reading program. "Macmillan Explorers" is an eight-level reading scheme written specifically for ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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From the award-winning author of "Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda". ... I don't entirely understand how anyone gets a boyfriend. Or a girlfriend. It just seems like the most impossible odds. A perfect alignment of feeling and circumstances. Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love. No matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly is always careful. Better to be careful than be hurt. But when Cassie gets a new girlfriend who comes with a cute hipster-boy sidekick, everything changes. Will is funny, flirtatious and basically the perfect first boyfriend. There's ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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The Award - Winning Sunday Times №1 Bestseller. ... 97 - hour weeks. Life and death decisions. A constant tsunami of bodily fluids. And the hospital parking meter earns more that you. Welcome to the life of a junior doctor. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless night and missed weekends, Adam Kay's diaries provide a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this is everything you wanted to know - and more than a few thing you didn't - about life on and off the hospital. "So funny and important it should be given out on prescription." ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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At Zalindov, the only person you can trust is yourself. Seventeen-year-old Kiva Meridan is a survivor. For ten years, she has worked as the healer in the notorious death prison, Zalindov, making herself indispensable. Kept afloat by messages of hope from her family, Kiva has one goal and one goal only: stay alive. Then one day the infamous Rebel Queen arrives at the prison on death's door and Kiva receives a new message: Don't let her die. We are coming. The queen is sentenced to the Trial by Ordeal: a series of elemental challenges against the torments of air, fire, water, and earth, assigned to only the most ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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This book is an adaptation of seven of Edgar Allan Poes's famous short stories. It has about 3 000 headwords and is appropriate for upper intermediate to advanced learners. The text has been adapted and simplified, but it keeps the ideas and flavor found in the original stories. Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, literary critic and a major figure in world literature."It would also be just to say that Edgar Allan Poe sacrificed his life to work, his human destiny to immortality." Jeorge Luis Borges "It's because I liked Edgar Allan Poe's strories so much ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |