Sometimes you find something that changes everything. From the author of bestselling and Carnegie-nominated debut "Boy Underwater" comes a moving and hilarious novel for 10+ readers about friendships, family secrets, mystery - and life-changing hidden treasure... Jessica is playing with her family at the river when she finds a dirty, bedraggled teddy bear in the water. She has no idea that it will change everything, forever. Meanwhile, Cymbeline comes home from school to find that his mum’s house has been broken into - and the thieves seemed oddly focused on his toys. Thank goodness he had Not Mr Fluffy, his ... |
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Изработени от мукава сърцевидните табелки са един нов вид нестандартна картичка, с която да стоплите сърцето на любим човек на специалния му ден. С цветните си и чудесни дизайни, те ще донесат усмивки по всеки един повод. Към всяка картичка има цветен плик, а на гърба могат да бъдат надписвани, което ги прави чудесно допълнение към вашия подарък. Имат и стойка с кукичка, с които могат да бъдат закачани или поставяни, за да радват притежателя си дълго време. ... |
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Звездата от Приятели разказва за живота си в Приятели, любовници и голямото ужасно нещо. Чандлър Бинг е един от най-обичаните герои от ситкомите на всички времена. Неговият шантав чар забавляваше зрителите на Приятели цели 10 години. За Матю Пери обаче дългогодишните фенове на продукцията си спомнят, че лудориите на неговия герой на екрана прикриваха някои сериозни борби, тъй като актьорът се бореше със своите зависимости. В предстоящите си мемоари Пери ще изложи всичко това на показ. В автобиографията му Приятели, любовници и голямото ужасно нещо, ще разгледаме връзките, пристрастяването и преживяванията на Матю Пери ... |
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Книгата не е антикапиталистически манифест. Критичното отношение към идеологията на свободния пазар не означава отхвърляне на капитализма. Въпреки неговите проблеми и вътрешни ограничения вярвам, че това е най-добрата икономическа система, която човечеството е изобретило до този момент. Аз критикувам една конкретна разновидност на капитализма, която доминира през последните три десетилетия, а именно капитализма, основан на свободния пазар. Това не е единствената форма на капитализъм и със сигурност не е най-добрата както показват въпросните три последни десетилетия. Тук бих искал да демонстрирам, че има начини ... |
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Nobody visits Eerie-on-Sea in the winter. Especially not when darkness falls and the wind howls around Maw Rocks and the wreck of the battleship Leviathan, where even now some swear they have seen the unctuous malamander creep... Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, knows that returning lost things to their rightful owners is not easy - especially when the lost thing is not a thing at all, but a girl. No one knows what happened to Violet Parma’s parents twelve years ago, and when she engages Herbie to help her find them, the pair discover that their disappearance might have something to do with ... |
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Eight stories by the famous American journalist and writer, Ambrose Bierce: "Owl Creek Bridge" - A man is hanged on a bridge. But then the rope breaks... "Beyond the Wall" - A pretty girl lives on the other side of the wall. What is her secret message? "An Adventure at Brownville" - Two young women are staying in the town of Brownville. Then one of them dies mysteriously. "The Damned Thing" - A man dies. What is the strange animal or "thing" that kills him? "One of the Missing" - A young soldiers's tragic experience of the American Civil War. "The ... |
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Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this new compilation begins with Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1835 tale "Young Goodman Brown" and ranges across an entire century, concluding with Ernest Hemingway 's 1927 classic, "The Killers". Other selections include Poe 's "The Tell-Tale Heart", Melville's "Bartleby", Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp", "To Build a Fire", by Jack London, "The Real Thing" by Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs Her Hair& ... |
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Gigi Graham has exactly three goals: qualify for the women's national hockey team, win Olympic gold, and step out of her famous father's shadow. So far, so good, except for two little things. Fine - a little thing and a big, grumpy thing. She needs to improve her game behind the net, and she needs help from Luke Ryder. Ryder is six-foot five, built, opinionated, rude... and sexy as hell. But he's still the enemy. Briar's new hockey co-captain has his reasons, though. The men's team just merged with a rival program, leaving Ryder with an angry roster where everyone hates one another's guts. To make ... |
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Quinn and Graham's perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart. The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair. All Your Perfects is a profound novel about a damaged couple whose potential future hinges on promises made in the past. This is a heartbreaking page-turner that asks: Can a resounding love with a perfect beginning survive a lifetime between two imperfect people? The #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us - ... |
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Break the bonds that bind you."King Midas made me the woman I am today. Notorious. Unattainable. His. The thing about being confined is that you believe it's to keep the bad out... Until you realize it's about keeping you in. I'm now in a strange kingdom surrounded by liars, with no allies of my own, but I won't sit idly by and let myself wither. No, there's something that's bloomed from the pit of my repression. Something dark. Something angry. But the last thing I expected was for my anger to call out to him. King Ravinger. He's sinister and powerful and entirely too seductive. I've ... |
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Four siblings. A country in ruin. One quest to save them all. Vira is desperate to get out of her mother's shadow and establish her legacy as a revered queen of Ashoka. But with the country's only quarry running out of magic - a precious resource that has kept Ashoka safe from conflict - she can barely protect her citizens from the looming threat of war. And if her enemies discover this, they'll stop at nothing to seize the last of the magic. Vira's only hope is to find a mysterious object of legend: the Ivory Key, rumoured to unlock a new source of magic. But in order to infiltrate enemy territory and ... |
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Quick reads by great writers. To buy books would be a good thing, observed Arthur Schopenhauer, if we also could buy the time to read them. All devoted readers long for more time to spend with their books, and the next best thing to buying time is making the most of the available moments. Great Short Short Stories: Quick Reads by Great Writers offers that opportunity. An outstanding collection of 30 brilliant short stories, each just six or fewer pages in length, it provides the chance to absorb an entire story (or two or three) in just one sitting. Quick Reads are bite-sized books by bestselling writers and well-known ... |