A New York Times bestseller. Grace Sachs, a happily married therapist with a young son, thinks she knows everything about women, men and marriage. She is about to publish a book based on her pet theory: women don't value their intuition about men, leading to serious trouble later on. But how well does Grace know her own husband? She is about to find out, and in the place of what she thought she knew, there will be a violent death, a missing husband, and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace ... |
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King Shahriyar cannot trust women. Every afternoon he marries a wife, but the next morning he always kills her. One day, the Vizier cannot find any more wives for the King. What can he do? "I can be Shahriyar's new wife!" says Sheherazade, his older daughter. "God willing I can stay alive, and help the women of our country." But how can Sheherezade stay alive for a thousand and one nights? And does Shahriyar learn to trust women again in the end? This famous story of stories has the answers. Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience ... |
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The egg cracks and from a little hole in the ground, there is a little animal head peaking, covered in a shell. This is the tortoise Sima. Together with her, dear children, you will walk through forests and fields in the Eminska mountain, you will reach even the sea. You will get to know the extraordinary world of turtles, their habits and way of life, you will even encounter with deadly dangers and enemies, the scariest of them all is the human. You will visit the "turtle hospital" - Center for breeding and rehabilitation of tortoise in the village of Banya, not far from the sea shore. Here many ill and hurt ... |
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A novel by the author of "Ellen Foster". "Kaye Gibbons shows us the secret core of a love that easily outlasts death. It's invisible mastery - but mastery all the same". Reynolds Prince ... When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was 20 and he was 40. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked a woman to do more than help him hitch a mule. They didn't fall in love so much as they simply found each other ... |
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Koprivshtitsa is a picturesque little town-museum and is also a re serve of architecture and history, tucked away amidst the pretty rounded ridges of Sredna Gora Range. It is located at a distance of 100 km east of Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria) and offers to everybody who vis its it an unforgettable stroll into the kaleidoscope of the past. The me andering, cobblestone-paved little streets that squeeze between the tall stone-wall fences, the heavy wooden gateways with little built-in doors, and the beautiful wooden houses - symbol of wealth and prosperity of their owners, the wonderful arched bridges over river ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... The Diary of a Nobody is a comic masterpiece that has been hugely influential since its first publication in 1892. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library ; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features Weedon Grossmith's original illustrations and an afterword by novelist Paul Bailey. Proud to be ensconced with his wife Carrie at The Laurels in the desirable London suburb of Holloway, bank clerk ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Reading the stories of Somerset Maugham is rather like curling up and up listening to the delicious, risqué tales of an old, dear and rather wicked friend. You turn the pages and enter a magical world of fabulous characters, are transported to the very place, the villa, the street, the bar, of which he writes. This Macmillan Collector's Library selection features ten of his finest and most vivid stories: "The Letter", "The Verger", "The Vessel of Wrath", "The Book-Bag", "The Facts of Life", " ... |
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New York Times bestselling author Gayle Forman . Inclusive bonus content inside. ... What would you do if you had to choose? The choice between what was and what could be. For Mia, the day started like any other, surrounded by loving family, an adoring boyfriend, and a bright future full of music and an infinite possibility of choices. But what she never anticipated was the choice before her now, leaving her caught between life and death, between a happy past and an uncertain future. Mia has to contemplate everything that she holds dear and make the only decision she has left - the most important decision she'll ... |
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Изданието е многоезично - на български език, английски език, немски език, френски език и италиански език. ... "Българските жени са дарени с благоразумие, което е трудно въобразимо, ако не си го преживял; и въпреки това те не са необщителни. Les femmes bulgares sont d'une sagesse qu'on croiroit à peine, si on ne les avoit éprouvées; & cependant elles ne sont point sauvages." Voyage Littéraire de la Grèce, 1776 "Мъжете и жените в розовите градини във и около Казанлък са с хубав ръст и изящни маниери и въпреки че жените рядко са красиви, те притежават онзи безименен чар, ... |
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New York, 1940. Young, glamorous and inseparable, Vivian and Celia are chasing trouble from one end of the city to the other. But there is risk in all this play - that's what makes it so fun, and so dangerous. Sometimes, the world may feel like it's ending, but for Vivian and Celia, life is just beginning. City of Girls is about daring to break conventions and follow your desires: a celebration of glamour, resilience, growing up, and the joys of female friendship - and about the freedom that comes from finding a place you truly belong."Addictive... Radical and refreshing" Dollu Alderton, Sunday Times & ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... 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. A heart-rending story of strength in adversity, A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute is a celebration of the overwhelming power of love. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by bestselling novelist, Jenny Colgan. Jean Paget, a young English woman, is captured by the Japanese army in Malaya during World War Two. She is ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... In this extraordinary essay, Virginia Woolf examines the limitations of womanhood in the early twentieth century. With the startling prose and poetic license of a novelist, she makes a bid for freedom, emphasizing that the lack of an independent income, and the titular 'room of one's own', prevents most women from reaching their full literary potential. As relevant in its insight and indignation today as it was when first delivered in those hallowed lecture theaters, A Room of One's Own remains both a beautiful work of literature and an ... |
