Tales of the Woodland is a beautiful hardback book where children to follow the adventures of four adorable animals in their natural woodland habitats. Four original animal stories written by Catherine Veitch tell the story of Blaze the emperor butterfly, Diamond the white-tailed deer, Jasper the jay and Silver the shrew. Children will be captivated by a deer who loves solving mysteries, a proud butterfly who starts to make friends, a mischievous shrew, and a jay who learns to share with others. Each story unfolds through a wonderful backdrop of artwork, packed with charming detail, and explores themes that children ... |
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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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Ever felt anxious or alone? Like you don't belong anywhere? Like you're almost... invisible? Find your kindred spirits at The Sad Ghost Club. (You are not alone. Shhh. Pass it on.) This is the story of one of those days - a day so bad you can barely get out of bed, when it's a struggle to leave the house, and when you do, you wish you hadn't. But even the worst of days can surprise you. When one sad ghost, alone at a crowded party, spies another sad ghost across the room, they decide to leave together. What happens next changes everything. Because that night they start the The Sad Ghost Club - a secret ... |
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Complete and unabridged. ... 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. Readers and critics were scandalized by The Awakening when it was first published, but it is now regarded as among the boldest and earliest examples of feminist fiction. It is published here with a selection of Chopin's strikingly perceptive short stories and introduced by Dr J. Michelle Coghlan, a specialist in American literature. In The Awakening, Edna Pontellier is on holiday ... |
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Hannibal meets Mistborn in Marina Lostetter's "The Helm of Midnight", the dark and stunning first novel in a new trilogy - "The Five Penalties", that combines the intricate worldbuilding and rigorous magic system of the best of epic fantasy with a dark and chilling thriller. In a daring and deadly heist, thieves have made away with an artifact of terrible power - the death mask of Louis Charbon. Made by a master craftsman, it is imbued with the spirit of a monster from history, a serial murderer who terrorized the city. Now Charbon is loose once more, killing from beyond the grave. But these ... |
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Cette grammaire est destinee a un large public desireux de s"initier aux structures du bulgare sans etre specialiste de linguistique. Elle est concue comme un ouvrage de reference simple et maniable, c"est-a-dire non exhaustif, mais donnant en meme temps une idee complete de la langue, car aucun phenomene important n"est passe sous silence. Fonde sur une division traditionnelle en phonologie, morphologie et syntaxe, ce livre propose dans sa partie syntaxique un grand nombre d"exemples gloses qui permettront au lecteur de comprendre immediatement la forme et le sens des constituants de la phrase. ... |
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They Wish They Were Us meets The Queen's Gambit in the world of competitive Scrabble when a teen girl is forced to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend a year after the fact when her Instagram comes back to life with cryptic posts and messages. Catalyst 13 points noun: a person or thing that precipitates an event or change When Najwa Bakri walks into her first Scrabble competition since her best friend's death, it's with the intention to heal and move on with her life. Perhaps it wasn't the best idea to choose the very same competition where said best friend, Trina Low, died. It might be ... |
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Nach dem Absturz in der Wüste Sahara beschäftigte sich Antoine de Saint Exupery unermüdlich mit einem neuen Projekt, einer fixen Idee. Ein Gesicht ging ihm durch den Kopf, das er - zeichnerisch ungeübt - unaufhörlich versuchte auf Papier zu bringen. Dazu dienten ihm sogar Servietten in Restaurants. Das konnte nicht verborgen bleiben, und er bekam von seinem amerikanischen Verleger den Auftrag, eine Geschichte für Kinder zu schreiben. Was Antoine de Saint-Exupéry schrieb und zeichnete, ist viel mehr als ein Kinderbuch. Entstanden ist ein Weltklassiker. "Willst du mein Geheimnis h&# ... |
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Разкази, по-добри от кино. Нулева гравитация е сборник с разкази на Уди Алън, който неподражаемият писател, сценарист, режисьор и актьор публикува през лятото на 2022 година! След десетилетие почивка с художествената литература американският комик Уди Алън решава отново да ни разсмее, както никой друг не умее. Седнал зад пишещата си машина у дома, той създава едни от най-забавните си разкази - по хумор и оригиналност сравними само с Ако импресионистите бяха зъболекари и други негови бисери. Част от текстовете в Нулева гравитация са излизали в списание Ню Йоркър, други са написани специално за този том, но всички се ... |
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Ever heard of surrealist fine dining? This must-have reprint of Les diners de Gala reveals the exotic flavors and elaborate imaginings behind the legendary dinner parties of Salvador and Gala Dali. With recipes from such leading Paris restaurants as La Tour d'Argent and Maxim's, a special section on aphrodisia, and bespoke illustrations from Dali himself, this book is at once an artwork, a practical cookbook, and a delicious morsel of multisensory pleasure."Les diners de Gala is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste... If you are a disciple of one of those calorie-counters who turn the joys of eating ... |
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Edited by Gaby Morgan. ... Poems of the Sea is an anthology of classic poetry that celebrates the sea; from the power of a stormy ocean to ships and sailors and beaches strewn with shells. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library ; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by author Adam Nicolson. For generations, poets have taken inspiration from ocean mists and rugged coastlines to conjure up adventures on the high seas and joyous days at the seaside. From Emily Dickinson 's ... |
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This fresh approach to the perennially popular "Questions & Answers" format takes a sideways look at all that is wild, wonderful and downright weird about dinosaurs. Brilliantly humorous illustrations and playful text reveal the amazing answers. Find out which dinosaurs grew feathers, why T rex had such small arms, and if dinosaurs are still alive today. ... |
