Black Swan Before I Saw You Houghton Emily

Около трех тысяч лет назад, в незапамятные времена, греческие воины отправились на край света в величайший поход, который когда-либо видел мир. Бок о бок с ними сражалась одна женщина • Брошенная при рождении на склонах горы Пелион, Аталанта полна решимости доказать свою состоятельность отцу, который отверг ее. Научившись охотиться и сражаться и переодевшись мужчиной, она принимает участие в величайшем путешествии ее героической эпохи. Она отправляется вместе с Ясоном и аргонавтами на поиски легендарного Золотого Руна • Именно здесь, в компании людей, которым предстоит стать героями и войти в историю на века, Аталанта должна сражаться за себя и свою судьбу. Вопреки обстоятельствам и воле богов она навсегда изменит свою жизнь • "For the Winner" является 2-й частью цикла Golden Apple Trilogy

It only takes a moment to unravel a perfect life • When Grace's fiance vanishes without a trace the night after proposing, her life is turned upside down. But has Nick walked out on her, or is he in danger? • As Grace desperately searches for answers, it soon becomes clear that Nick wasn't the uncomplicated man she thought she knew. And when she uncovers a hidden tragedy from his childhood, she realises an awful truth: that you can run from your past - but your secrets will always catch up with you

Фикси Фарр ничего не может с собой поделать. Выпрямить покореженный предмет, удалить едва заметное пятно, помочь другу... Она просто обязана все исправить. В конце концов, именно так она и получила свое прозвище • Поэтому, когда красивый незнакомец в кафе просит ее немного присмотреть за его ноутбуком, Фиксики не только соглашается, но и спасает его от неминуемой катастрофы • Чтобы отблагодарить ее, владелец компьютера, Себастьян, выписывает ей долговую расписку, но Фикси, конечно, не собирается возвращать долг • Так продолжалось до тех пор, пока в ее жизнь не вернулся Райан, влюбленный в нее еще подростком, которому понадобилась ее помощь, и Фикси не обратилась к Себу. Но все идет не по плану, и теперь Фикси в большом долгу перед Себом • Вскоре пара оказывается втянутой в череду долговых расписок - от мелких одолжений до долгов, которые меняют ее жизнь, — и Фикси разрывается между прошлым, к которому она привыкла, и будущим, которого она заслуживает

You’ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it’s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful fall • If you look hard enough, you will find stories pretty much anywhere. They don’t even have to be your own. Or so would-be-novelist Maurice Swift decides early on in his career • A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated author Erich Ackerman gives Maurice an opportunity. For Erich is lonely, and he has a story to tell; whether or not he should is another matter • Once Maurice has made his name, he finds himself in need of a fresh idea. He doesn’t care where he finds it, as long as it helps him rise to the top. Stories will make him famous, but they will also make him beg, borrow and steal. They may even make him do worse • This is a novel about ambition

You never forget the one that got away • Daniel was the first boy to make Alison a mix tape • But that was years ago and Ali hasn't thought about him in a very long time. Even if she had, she might not have called him 'the one that got away'; after all, she'd been the one to run • Then Dan's name pops up on her phone, with a link to a song from their shared past • For two blissful minutes, Alison is no longer an adult in Adelaide with temperamental daughters; she is sixteen in Sheffield, dancing in her skin-tight jeans. She cannot help but respond in kind • And so begins a new mix tape • Ali and Dan exchange songs - some new, some old - across oceans and time zones, across a lifetime of different experiences, until one of them breaks the rules and sends a message that will change everything

Our world is full of patterns. If you pour milk into your tea and give it a stir, you'll see a swirl, a spiral of two fluids, before the two liquids mix completely. The same pattern is found elsewhere too. Look down on the Earth from space, and you'll find similar swirls in the clouds, made where warm air and cold air waltz • In Storm in a Teacup, Helen Czerski links the little things we see every day with the big world we live in. Each chapter begins with something small - popcorn, coffee stains and refrigerator magnets - and uses it to explain some of the most important science and technology of our time • This is physics as the toolbox of science - a toolbox we need in order to make sense of what is around us and arrive at decisions about the future, from medical advances to solving our future energy needs

One encounter and life is never the same again • The Logans were an enchanting and admirable couple. Archie had snatched Liza from her own engagement party to someone else, wooed her, swept her off to his father in Scotland, and finally married her • Now bedded firmly into country life - three children, Archie the village doctor, Liza a teacher, everything comfortable, funny, affectionate - they awaited the arrival of Archie's father, the brilliant Sir Andrew Logan, a widower for over thirty years • When his city-clean Rover stopped in the drive, Sir Andrew was not alone. Beside him was a golden lady in caramel suede, a warm, witty, desirable widow whom everyone - except Archie - adored at once • Archie saw his father's mistress as the worm in the bud of his perfect life - a life that was to be wrenched apart before he and Liza could re-create their world

'According to his mother, Jack Burns was an actor before he was an actor, but Jack's most vivid memories of childhood were those moments when he felt compelled to hold his mother's hand. He wasn't acting then.' • Jack Burns' mother, Alice, is a tattoo artist in search of the boy's father, a virtuoso organist named William who has fled America to Europe. To fund her journey, she plies her trade in the seaports of the Baltic coast. But her four-year-old son's errant father can't be found, and soon even Jack's memories of that perplexing time are called into question. It is only when he becomes a Hollywood actor in later life that what he has experienced in the past comes into telling play in his present

There are hundreds, possibly thousands, of sisters Grimm on Earth • You may well be one of them, though you might never know it • This is the story of four sisters Grimm – daughters born to different mothers on the same day, each born out of bright-white wishing and black-edged desire • They found each other at eight years-old, were separated at thirteen and now, at nearly eighteen, it is imperative that they find each other once again • In thirty-three days they will meet their father in Everwhere. Only then will they discover who they truly are, and what they can truly do. Then they must fight to save their lives and the lives of the ones they love. Three will live, one will die • You’ll have to read on to find out who and why

'If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.' • Summer, 1953. In the small town of Gravesend, New Hampshire, eleven-year-old John Wheelwright and his best friend Owen Meany are playing in a Little League baseball game. When Owen hits a foul ball which kills John's mother, their lives are changed in an instant • It is dismissed as a tragic accident but Owen disagrees. He believes that he is God's instrument, put on Earth for a higher purpose. And as the boys come into adulthood to the background of the Vietnam War, a series of remarkable events show that perhaps Owen's divine plan was not imagined after all • Discover the funny yet poignant classic by the bestselling author of The World According to Garp

Four strong women. All working in a family business. But what happens when they begin to want different things? And what about the men – and the children – in their lives? • Susie Moran has always been the breadwinner in her family. Her husband was the one who was there for their three girls. But now he wants something of his past back – the life he had before Susie’s career took off, before they had children. And those children don’t see their mother’s business the way she has always seen it, thereby threatening the balance she has worked so hard to achieve • And then, amidst the simmering tensions, someone significant from the past, someone almost forgotten, turns up. The problems of the past, the present, and the future all become challenges to the stability of both family and work

Are you ready to be your best self at work? • Packed with advice, tips and decades of business experience from Mary Portas, this is a book for every one of us: whatever level you are, wherever you work • It's about calling time on alpha culture and helping every one of us to be happier, more productive and collaborative • It's time to #WorkLikeAWoman