From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award. ... A welcome return to Ghastly-Gorm Hall and the irresisteble Ada Goth' Bookseller. Preparations are under way for the Full-Moon Fete and the Great Ghastly-Gorm Bake off. Celebrity cooks are arriving at the hall for the big event and, true to form, Maltravers, the indoor gamekeeper, is acting suspiciously. Elsewhere at Ghastly-Gorm Ada's wardrobe-dwelling lady's maid Marylebone has received a marriage proposal. Ada vows to aid the course of true love and find out what Maltravers is up to but, amidst all this activity, everyone, including her father, ... |
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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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Simon Snow just wants to relax and savour his last year at the Watford School of Magicks, but no one will let him. His girlfriend broke up with him, his best friend is a pest and his mentor keeps trying to hide him away in the mountains where maybe he'll be safe. Simon can't even enjoy the fact that his room-mate and longtime nemesis is missing, because he can't stop worrying about the evil git. Plus there are ghosts. And vampires. And actual evil things trying to shut Simon down. When you're the most powerful magician the world has ever known, you never get to relax and savour anything."Come for the ... |
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The sequel to Carry On. The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after... So why can't Simon Snow get off the couch? What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. He just needs to see himself in a new light... That's how Simon and Penny and Baz end up in a vintage convertible, tearing across the American West. They find trouble, of course. (Dragons, vampires, skunk-headed things with shotguns.) And they get lost. They get so lost, ... |
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From the bestselling author of "Eleanor and Park". If you got a second chance at love, would you make the same call? ... What advice would you give the younger you... and would you listen? As far as time machines go, a magic telephone is pretty useless. TV writer Georgie McCool can't actually visit the past; all she can do is this a chance to make things right with her husband, Neal? Maybe she can fix the things in their past that seem unfixable in the present. Maybe this stupid phone is giving her a chance to start over... if that's what she wants... A heart - wrenching - and hilarious - take on fate, ... |
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Програма за изцеление по естествен път. Два дни преди Коледа енергичният по природа Крис е диагностициран с рак на дебелото черво в напреднал стадий. Преди да се усети, се озовава в операционната, където отстраняват тумор с размерите на топка за голф и една трета от дебелото му черво. За да се предотврати рецидив, лекарите му назначават задължителен курс химиотерапия от 9 до 12 месеца. След първата порция подходяща храна в болницата получава ясен знак, че най-вероятно начинът на хранене и отговорното отношение към собственото тяло са пътят към излекуването. Това прозрение се разминава със съветите на официалната ... |
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Return to the wonderful characters of beloved, bestselling, award-winning The Goldfish Boy, one of the most talked-about debut children's books of recent years. Melody Bird has discovered an old abandoned house in the corner of the graveyard, and a mysterious boy hiding out there... Hal tells her that he's a spy-in-training, using the house as a base for his undercover surveillance of a known local criminal. Her friends Matthew and Jake don't believe that a teenager would be entrusted with this mission and turn the tables to spy on him, uncovering secrets and untravelling a mystery as they go. ... |
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How to work less and achieve more? Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey is a practical guide to managing your attention - the most powerful resource you have to become more creative, get stuff done, and live a more meaningful life. In Hyperfocus, you will learn: how working fewer hours can increase our productivity; how we get more done by making our work harder, not easier; how we do our best creative work when we're the most tired. Our attention has never been as overwhelmed as it is today and we've never been so busy while accomplishing so little. In Hyperfocus, Chris Bailey provides profound insights into how ... |
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Building the Next Era of the Internet. A potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the internet - and how that affects us all - from technology entrepreneur and startup investor Chris Dixon. The internet of today is a far cry from its early promise of a decentralized, democratic network of innovation, connection and freedom. In the past decade, it has fallen almost entirely under the control of a very small group of companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook. In Read Write Own, tech visionary Chris Dixon argues that the dream of a creative, entrepreneurial internet doesn't have to die ... |
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Blockchain, Crypto and the Future of the Internet. The promise of the internet has been stolen. Over the last decade, a handful of giant companies like Facebook and Google have seized control of the web - sapping its dynamism and taking its profits for themselves. But there is a way to take it back. Here, a leading Silicon Valley investor argues that blockchains - the radically free and democratic new type of software design that underpins web3 - could return financial and decision-making power to the internet's users. For the first time, we won't just read and write on the internet - we will own it, too." ... |
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Finding productivity in anxious times. A toolkit of accessible, science-backed strategies, How to Calm Your Mind reveals the path to a less anxious life, and even greater productivity, through calm. Productivity advice works - and we need it now more than ever - but it's just as important that we also develop our capacity for calm. By finding calm and overcoming anxiety, we don’t just feel more comfortable in our own skin, we invest in the missing piece that leads our efforts to become sustainable over time. We build a deeper, more expansive reservoir of energy to draw from throughout the day, and have greater mental ... |
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Книгата за учителя осигурява на преподавателите подробни насоки за всеки урок, както и допълнителни материали. Всичко това намалява много от времето на учителя за подготовка на часа. С книгата преподавателите получават: подробни насоки към всеки урок; отговорите на всички упражнения от учебника; допълнителни материали, сред които тестове за проверка на напредъка, комуникативни упражнения и работни листове за четене, които учителят може да ксерокопира; приложен безплатен DVD диск, който включва необходимите видеоматериали за задачите от разделите "Real World" в учебника и цялото съдържание на книга за ... |
