An essential companion to the Harry Potter books, "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" is a collection of fairytales from the wizarding world, via the enchanted pen of J.K. Rowling . Rich with allusions and symbols from the Harry Potter stories, and enhanced with fascinating commentary from beloved sage Professor Albus Dumbledore, this is a Hogwarts Library book to treasure and enjoy for years to come. All of the gorgeous, grim and gothic detail of the Bard's five bewitching tales has been brought to life by Chris Riddell, thrice winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal. Much loved by generations of witches and ... |
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Based on the story of Jane Austen . Text adaptation by Barbara Mackay. ... Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, clever and rich. She lives alone with her father, and spends a lot of her time thinking about future husbands - for her friends. When she meets Harriet Smith, a poor girl with no family, Emma decides that she must find a husband for her. Harriet is pleased to be Emma's friend - but will Emma's matchmaking make Harriet happy? Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated activities and on-page ... |
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Retold by Joyce Hannam . ... Are men cleverer than women? Is a poor man cleverer than a rich man? And what about teachers? Are they always cleverer than their students? The people in these six well-known folk tales from around the world all want to be clever. But are some of them just stupid? Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated activities and on-page glossaries the new edition of the series makes reading motivating for learners. Each reader is carefully graded to ensure each student reads from the ... |
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How Geographers, Pharmacists, Novelists, Plant Hunters, War Correspondents, Engineers, Medical Men & Tourists Discovered & Experienced Nineteenth-Century Bulgaria. What Western and Central Europeans did, saw and experienced in nineteenth-century Bulgaria is the subject of this book. Most of them came from France, Great Britain, the German states and the Austrian Empire, others from Belgium, Denmark or Switzerland. For reasons still to be given, special emphasis is placed on German-speaking visitors to Bulgaria and their writings. Their story has never been told in any comprehensive way in a Western language, and it is ... |
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The purpose I pursue with this book is to compare the information that has come down to us from old writers and to draw some conclusions about the people who spread the Bulgarian state to the Balkans, without resorting to the numerous contemporary books that I have read and that fill my library. I do this not out of disrespect for the tremendous work of contemporary Bulgarian writers and historians, but out of a desire to make an independent assessment of events and to draw my own conclusions about the relationship and sequence of events and their consequences by reading only older authors. I hope the book will find a ... |
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A masterful suspense novel from the author of the unforgettable bestseller "We were liars". ... The story of a young woman whose diabolical smarts are her ticket into a charmed life. But how many times can someone reinvent themselves? You be the judge. Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat. Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete. An intense friendship. A disappearance. A murder, or maybe two. A bad romance, or maybe three. Blunt objects, disguises, blood, and chocolate. The American dream, superheroes, spies, and villains. A girl who refuses to give people what they want ... |
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Българин е герой на холандската писателка Маренте де Моор . След успеха на романа "Нидерландската дева", радушно приет от българските читатели, дойде среща с "Уютни разкази" на Маренте де Моор (изд. Изида , превод Анета Данчева-Манолова). Холандската писателка е спечелила най-големите литературни награди в родината си, както и Наградата за литература на Европейския съюз. Самата авторка е красива, интелигентна и фина, но не само като външност, но и в книгите си. Това обаче не ѝ пречи да обрисува и несретници в живота или груби, първични хора. Такъв например, но само в първия момент, при това ... |
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There are films of this story. ... 1847 - New York City. Catherine Sloper lives with her father and her aunt in Washington Square. She is plain and uninteresting. But one day she will be rich. Catherine falls in love with a handsome young man. But does Morris Townsend want Catherine? Or does he want her money? This book is in British English. ... |
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Compiler: Neli Miteva . ... This book follows the process in the search for personal identity in Bulgarian fashion design through the three conceptual exhibition projects "XXSOFIA", "1.5 km of...", and "STATIONS". The garment is seen as a specific connection of the individual with its environment ("XXSOFIA"), as a visual commentary on the concept of "distance", its duration, length or transience ("1.5 km of..."), or as an interpretation of the global trend multilocalism through the study of our identity created through the experience collected by living in ... |
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Музикалната въртележка Born to be Wild от Mamas & Papas ще помогне на бебето ви да се отпусне и да се отдаде на спокоен сън. Тя разполага с текстилни висящи играчки, които ще забавляват детето преди лягане и нежна мелодия с навиващ се механизъм, която бързо ще го приспи. Въртележката е с размер 22 / 40 / 22 cm (без подвижното рамо) и е подходяща за бебета от 0+ до около 5-месечна възраст. Въртележката е произведена в съответствие с Европейския стандарт за безопасност EN71. ... |
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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. One icy winter's evening in Budapest, John Taylor is on his way home from the office when a man runs into him and knocks him over. The man turns to say sorry and John is amazed at what he sees: the man is John's double. The double rushes away but leaves no footprints in the snow. Over the next year it becomes clear to John that the meeting was no accident and that his double has a very important message to ... |
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Специалистите на "IDC" създават нежен балсам, който да поддържа устните меки и хидратирани. Той е в опаковка с формата на еднорог, която ще внесе приятно и "магическо" настроение в ежедневието ви. Балсамът има неустоим аромат на кокос. ... |