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A silver cup lies half-forgotten in a dank cave amongst a pile of stolen goods. Yet the tiny vessel and its inscription?Amor gignit amorem?haunts the lives of the feuding Poldark and Warleggan families, as Ross, Demelza, and the ambitious and powerful Sir George Warleggan watch their children...

A Radical Act of Free Magic is the epic conclusion to the genre-defying Shadow Histories series following A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians; a sweeping tale of revolution and wonder in a world not quite like our own. The Concord has been broken, and a war of magic engulfs the world. In...

'An inspiring and practical guide to living in the moment' - Susan Cain, author of Quiet For more than a decade, Gretchen Rubin studied happiness and human nature, but one day she realised she'd been overlooking a key her five senses. Spending so much time stuck in her head, these vital sens...

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of Modern Standard Arabic. "Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology ab...

My Favourite Bible Stories: For Children Around the World takes the child through the most exciting adventures found in the Bible. Each illustrated story reveals the character and nature of a loving and active Father God. My Favourite Bible Storiesis written in a child friendly and dynamic wa...

Dawn breaks across the archipelago of Popisho, a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are broken, and love awaits. Everyone in Popisho was born with a little something… The local name for it was cors. Magic, but more than magic. A gift, nah? Yes. From the gods: a thing that...

Lucy worries about everything and she worries a lot. She’s so skilled at worrying that she worries about new and interesting things no one else even thinks about! But when Mrs Hunt tells the class there is going to be a school musical, Lucy decides she wants to be a part of it. She’s too worr...

Rene-Maurice Gatefosse was a French chemist, who first coined the word aromatherapy in the 1920s. This is his first modern work on the subject.Книга не бере участь в програмі Зимова єПідтримка....

Polaroid Now celebrates new work created by contemporary artists working with Polaroid cameras and film today, and discusses the history, and evolution of the first instant imaging camera system that became a household name. This curated selection of images is diverse aesthetically and geogr...

A story about ordinary people navigating a strange land, in even stranger times. On the eve of the US elections, a Syrian family leave their world behind for a chance at the American dream. But as the first day of their new life dawns, they are greeted by the news of Donald Trump's victory. ...

A special new edition in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, with a stunning new cover illustration by Caldecott Medalist Brian Selznick. There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it's haunting Harry Potter's dreams. Why ...

The oldest keys known to exist date from around 4,000 BC in Ancient Egypt. These were simple wooden cylinders that were part of a mechanism to secure doors. By the time of the Roman Empire, metal keys were in common usage and had begun to adopt the recognizable pattern of keys today. This boo...

Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell ... FOYLES CHILDREN''S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 From the winner of the Costa Children''s Book Award ''An amazing adventure story, told with sparkling style and sleight of hand'' - Jacqueline Wilson ''Read everything she writes'' - Daily Mail Fresh off t...

T. C. Boyle is the New York Times-bestselling author of sixteen novels including The Tortilla Curtain, Drop City, San Miguel and The Terranauts, and eleven collections of stories. His work has been translated into twenty-six languages. He is the recipient most recently of the Jonathan Swift P...

A REESE WITHERSPOON YA BOOK CLUB PICK! INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Lauren Blackwood's can't-miss debut is a magical, Ethiopian-inspired remix of Jane Eyre' Harper's Bazaar What the heart desires, the house destroys... Andromeda is a debtera - an exorcist hired to cleanse households o...

At the Beijing Olympics, a pair of synchronized divers stand poised at the edge of success and sexual self-discovery. A Chinese-American girl in Paris finds her life changed when she begins wearing a dead person’s clothes. And on a winter evening, a father creates an algorithm to troubleshoot...

A British writer most famous for The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) worked at the Bank of England before retiring due to ill health. Grahame also wrote The Reluctant Dragon - which, like The Wind in the Willows, was adapted as a Disney film. Tor Freeman was born in London, ...

The Watsons (1804) is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen. Mr. Watson is a widowed clergyman with two sons and four daughters. The youngest daughter, Emma, the heroine of the story, has been brought up by a wealthy aunt and is consequently better educated than her sisters. However, after her a...

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. In his dreams, Randolph Carter sees a majestic city, but he is unable to approach it. After the city appears in his dreams, he prays to the gods of dream to reveal the city’s whereabouts. But then the city vanish...

The Shunned House is a collection of several mystical stories by the American writer H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937). For many years, Dr. Elihu Whipple has been investigating an old shunned house in Benefit Street. The people who once lived in this house have died of a mysterious illness. Whitish...