Bestselling author of "Time travelling with a Hamster". ... He smells. He'll eat literally anything. And he's humanity's only hope. When 12-year-old Georgie makes friends with an eccentric retired scientist, she becomes the test-subject for a thrilling new experiment: a virtual reality, 3D version of the future. Then a deadly virus threatens to wipe out every dog in the country, and Georgie's beloved dog Mr Mash gets sick. Which is bad - but worse is still to come. As the world is thrown into chaos, Georgie embarks on a desperate quest: to save every dog on earth and all of humanity... ... ... |
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This book is part one of the second volume from the Studia Militaria Balcanica series. It includes comprehensive texts on the theme Swords of Byzantium from 6 th century AD to 11 th century. The book contains several topics: history of research on the swords in Byzantium written by the editor and the most complete study of the written sources on Byzantine swords by Prof. Taxiarchis G. Kolias (University of Athens, Greece). There are presented some new types of swords discovered lately in the Byzantine Empire and its neighboring territories. They are defined and discussed by Assoc. Prof. Valeri Yotov (Varna Museum ... |
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Life is good for Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood. That is, until the night that two old acquaintances break into Magnus's apartment and steal the powerful Book of the White. Now Magnus and Alec will have to drop everything to follow the thieves to Shanghai. And Magnus has been stabbed with a strange magical weapon that is changing the very nature of his powers. Fortunately, they have backup in the form of Clary, Jace, Isabelle and Simon. In Shanghai, they learn that a much darker threat awaits them. Magnus's magic is growing unstable, and if they can't stop the demons flooding into the city, they might have ... |
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The intoxicating and bloodthirsty finale to the New York Times bestselling "The Cruel Prince", nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019, and New York Times bestseller "The Wicked King". After being pronounced Queen of Faerie and then abruptly exiled by the Wicked King Cardan, Jude finds herself unmoored, the queen of nothing. She spends her time with Vivi and Oak, watching reality television, and doing odd jobs, including squaring up to a cannibalistic faerie. When her twin sister Taryn shows up asking a favour, Jude jumps at the chance to return to the Faerie world, even if it means facing Cardan, ... |
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A crime buried for years. And one that's just began... On New Year's Eve at the end of one of the hardest years in history, hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air in time-honoured LA tradition. But as the rain of lead comes down, a man is shot dead in the middle of a crowded street party. Detective Renee Ballard soon connects the bullet to an unsolved cold case last worked by legendary ex-LAPD detective Harry Bosch. As they investigate where the old and new cases connect, a new crime shatters the night shift. The Midnight Men are a pair of violent predators who stalk the city during the dark hours, ... |
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Картонената табелка от "Simetro" е прекрасен начин да се мотивирате всеки ден - подходяща е за дома, офиса или любимото заведение; за вас, за подарък или просто така. На гърба на табелката има специално място за надписване, което я превръща в оригинална поздравителна картичка. Към нея е прикрепена и връвчица, с която може да се закача на най-различни места. Табелката е с размери 22 x 12 cm. ... |
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Модерната история показва, че успехът на нациите зависи до голяма степен от това как управляват парите си. За военната победа финансите са също толкова решаващи, както и огневата мощ. Но къде парите и политиката се срещат? Нийл Фъргюсън прави впечатляващ анализ на еволюцията на икономиката и политиката от 1700 г. до наши дни. По блестящ начин показва, че историята е управлявана далеч не само от мотива за печалба, а и от мощни и често противоречиви човешки импулси като секс, насилие и желание за власт. "Фъргюсън е един от най-успешните историци, пишещи днес... "Пари и власт..." предлага съществен коректив ... |
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The Frog and the Crocodile is a Level 1 reader. Its fun and informative subject matter will capture a child's interest in reading and learning English while reinforcing the basic structures and vocabulary found in most primary courses. The Macmillan Children's Readers series offers simplified English reading. The series is divided into six levels. The series brings children real and imaginary stories to arouse their interest. The book contains a picture dictionary or a list of words. Изданието е на британски английски (British English). ... |
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The New York Times bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar "Japanese Breakfast", an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her own identity in the wake of her loss, which brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of ... |
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In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered twenty years earlier in a case that remains unsolved and that has grown stone cold. But Jeri has a suspect whom she has become obsessed with and has stalked for two decades. Along ... |
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Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project - a literal dream come true after years scraping by on the crumbs of academia - Marie would accept without hesitation. Duh. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward. Sure, Levi is attractive in a tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. And sure, he caught her in his powerfully corded arms like a romance novel hero when she accidentally damseled in distress on her first day in the ... |
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Where is the Eastern border of European culture? ... The pobiti kamani complex near Varna was the first region in Bulgaria to be granted protected status in 1937. It has since acquired global renown. this book, however, looks at the complex from a completely new point of view, not as a natural phenomenon, but as a deliberate creation similar to the megalithic complex of Stonehenge in England, with which a number of comparisons are made. The first piece of evidence is that the Pobiti kamani complexes were built in such a way as to follow the path of the Sun in the cardinal moments of its transition - the spring and autumn ... |
