Magic has enchanted humankind for millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Once persecuted as heretics and sorcerers, magicians have always been conduits to a parallel universe of limitless possibility-whether invoking spirits, reading minds, or inverting the laws of nature by sleight of hand. Long before science fiction, virtual realities, video games, and the Internet, the craft of magic was the most powerful fantasy world man had ever known. As the pioneers of special effects throughout history, magicians have never ceased to mystify us by making the impossible possible. This book celebrates more ... |
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Fifteen-year-old Sam is not a famous vlogger, he's never gone viral, and he doesn't want to be the Next Big Thing. In fact he's ordinary and proud of it. None of which was a problem until Dad got rich and Mum made the whole family move to London. Now Sam's off to the North London Academy for the Gifted and Talented, where everyone's busy planning Hollywood domination or starting alt-metal psychedelica crossover bands. Sam knows he'll never belong, even if he wanted to. And that's before he ends up on stage wearing nothing but a fur onesie. A brilliantly funny look at fitting in, falling out ... |
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Award-winning readers series of original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. In Cambridge, Fanella bravely faces the challenge of adopting a child alone after her partner leaves her. Fanella and five-year-old Ellie get off to a rocky start, but Fanella patiently steers their relationship on to more solid ground. Meanwhile, her relationship with Rod, Ellie's teacher and a married man, is a little more complicated. ... |
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600+ jokes, riddles and questions for enjoyable conversations with kids. Unlock the heart and mind of today's kids aged 5 to 13. A guidebook full with more than 600 interesting jokes, riddles and questions. Small paths that lead imperceptibly to a good time. Time, whem children and parents spend time together, chat calmly, laugh, make up unbelievable stories, talk about serious incidents, create happy memories. Time, fulfilled with smiles, curious eyes and children's laughter. Time, which charges the adults and switches them off the stress, tiredness and problems. Time, which makes children confident, interesting, ... |
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The Japanese Bestseller. ... What would you change if you could go back in time? In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In "Before the Coffee Gets Cold", we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the cafe's time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, ... |
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"Language Learner Literature Award - Winner", awarded in 2004 year. ... "I was nearly dark in the small room near the Stoddard University campus. The two people in the room that Sunday evening were both second-year students at the college. They were looking at each in silence. The handsome young man was angry. His plans had been working man was angry. His plans had been working so well. And now this news had come! But he wasn't going to show his anger. He turned, and he smiled at the young woman sitting on the bed." From the Book This book is in American English. Here you can find: extra ... |
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A simple, positive, practical toolkit for better mental health, from clinical psychologist and TikTok star Dr Julie Smith. Drawing on her years of experience as a clinical psychologist, Dr Julie Smith's first book is a must-have handbook for instantly better mental health. Filled with secrets from the therapy room, "Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?" offers simple advice, effective strategies and powerful coping techniques to help readers stay positive and resilient no matter what life throws their way. Written in short, bite-sized entries, in Dr Julie's warm and informal style, a reader can turn ... |
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In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time... From the author of "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" comes "Tales from the Cafe", a story of four new customers each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Cafe Funiculi Funicula's time-travelling offer. Among some faces that will be familiar to readers of Toshikazu Kawaguchi 's previous novel, we will be introduced to the man who goes back to see his best friend who ... |
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Всеки от нас има своите начини да изчезне за малко, но дали всички се връщаме... Франки Елкин, бивша алкохоличка на средна възраст, е жена без особени качества, ако не се брои необичайното ѝ занимание. Когато всички други са се отказали от случая, тя продължава да търси обявените за изчезнали хора. Нов случай я отвежда в Матапан, бостънски квартал с лоша репутация, където хаитянката Анджелик Бадо е изчезнала от гимназията си преди няколко месеца. Липсата на сътрудничество от местната полиция, както и от настръхналото семейство на изчезналата, подсказват на Франки, че е напълно сама в разследването. Скоро тя ... |
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След като 20 години е била примерна съпруга и майка, Кейт Браун е свободна да прекара едно лято пълно с приключения - децата ѝ отлитат от семейното гнездо, съпругът ѝ заминава да работи за няколко месеца в американска болница. Кейт започва работа в международна организация, впуска се в авантюра с по-млад мъж, пътува с него в чужбина, при завръщането си в Англия среща една изключителна жена, чийто чар и свобода на духа я насърчават да търси собственото си Аз. Пътуването към себе си в превала на лятото е тревожно, опустошително, катарзисно... Тя трябва да преоцени своя живот на съпруга, майка, домакиня, да ... |
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Прости техники за справяне със сложните проблеми. Защо никой не ми го е казал досега? е истински наръчник по душевно здраве, в който са разкрити много от методите, използвани от скъпоплатените психолози, за да помагат на своите пациенти. Доктор Джули Смит обяснява на прост език експертните съвети, комбинирани с полезни техники за всичко, което животът може да изпречи на пътя ви. Психоложката обяснява нагледно как работи човешкият ум и дава насоки как да се поддържа здравето му всеки ден. Част от разгледаните теми в книгата са: справяне с безпокойството и стреса; надмогване на критиката и неодобрението; борба с ... |
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"В коледната нощ заспаха майки, татковци, деца, даже мишките се свряха в топлите си легълца. А чорапи, закачени до камината на пост, взират се в нощта студена - чакат приказния гост." Из книгата Класическите стихове на Нощта преди Коледа разказват нова приказна история в тази изящно илюстрирана книга, в която главен герой е зайчето Пейсли, а Дядо Коледа е в образа на усмихнат бял мечок. Защото в нощта преди Коледа всичко е възможно. Време е за чудеса. Една класическа коледна история оживява с вълшебните илюстрации на Крис Дън. Нощта преди Коледа в адаптация от Стив Ричардсън и с великолепния превод на Любомир ... |
