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Three Girls Missing • Twenty years ago: One rainy night, Olivia Rutherford is driving three friends home when a figure in the road causes her to swerve and crash. Regaining consciousness, she finds herself alone in the car - her friends have vanished • They Are Never Seen Again • Now: Journalist Jenna Halliday visits the close-knit community of Stafferbury to persuade Olivia to talk and solve the mystery of the girls' disappearance. But Olivia won't speak • What happened? • Is Olivia hiding something? • Why are the people of Stafferbury so frightened? • How many secrets can one small town hide?

Философ, государственный деятель и основатель современного консерватизма Эдмунд Берк является одновременно величайшим и наиболее недооцененным политическим мыслителем за последние триста лет. Родившийся в Ирландии в 1729 году и сильно пострадавший от ее фанатизма и крайностей, его карьера представляла собой пожизненную борьбу со злоупотреблением властью • Среди золотого поколения XVIII века, в которое входили его сподвижники Адам Смит, Сэмюэл Джонсон и Эдвард Гиббон, противоречивая смесь консервативных и подрывных теорий Берка сделала его сначала маргинальной фигурой, а затем почитаемым теоретиком – героем романтиков. Он предупреждал о последствиях британского правления в Ирландии, потере американских колоний и, что наиболее известно, предвидел катастрофические последствия революции во Франции

The first book in the hilarious Bad Mermaids series for kids aged 7+, from the bestselling author of Witch Wars • Mermaids Beattie, Mimi and Zelda are enjoying a summer on land with legs when they receive a strange crabagram ordering them to return home at once. Some seriously Bad Mermaids are on the loose and the girls are the only ones who can stop them • If they're going to save the day, they'll need answers. And a clam car. Definitely piranha-print nail polish. Possibly not the talking seahorse • Can they do it? • Filled with magical mysteries, fabulous fashion, and a serious piranha problem, Bad Mermaids brings a whole new twist to the underwater world of mermaids. If you enjoyed The Little Mermaid, you'll love this too!

The second book in the hilarious Witch Wars series for kids aged 7+, perfect for fans of The Worst Witch • Tiga Whicabim is settling in to the witchy, glitzy world of Ritzy City. Peggy is Top Witch, and Tiga is enjoying life at the Brews' house with Fluffanora • But when Fran the Fabulous Fairy visits Linden House and finds Peggy has gone – leaving behind only a note to say she is 'AWAY WITH THE FAIRIES' and has left the evil Felicity Bat in charge – the girls realise something is very wrong. And then witches all across town start to disappear. Tiga and Fluffanora set out to investigate and discover an old, unsolved Sinkville mystery that might just be the key to it all

The magical follow-up to The Monster Who Wasn't. The second book in this brilliantly rich and strange fantasy series will make us all believe in monsters – be they good, bad or somewhere in between • Sam might be half-monster and half-fairy, but since finding a loving family with the Kavanaghs, his daily life has been all human. And now he's facing one of the greatest human challenges – starting secondary school • But Sam barely has time to worry about the strange stuff teachers say (why do they call it the Great War when it sounds like was anything but great?) before he is thrust back into the world of monsters. Sam's school friends Amira, Hazel and Wilfred reveal that they are shifters: noble twin-souled beings who live half their lives as humans and the other half as dogs

Inventor. Visionary. Genius. Dropout. Adopted. Steve Jobs was the founder of Apple and he was all of these things. Steve Jobs has been described as a showman, artist, tyrant, genius, jerk. Through his life he was loved, hated, admired and dismissed, yet he was a living legend; the genius who founded Apple in his parent's garage when he was just 20 years old, revolutionising the music world. He single-handedly introduced the first computer that could sit on your desk and founded and nurtured a company called Pixar bringing to life Oscar wining animations Toy Story and Finding Nemo. So how did the man, who was neither engineer nor computer geek change the world we live in, making us want every product he touched? On graduation day in 2005, a fifty-year-old Steve Jobs said: 'Today I want to tell you three stories from my life, That's it

'Once, and once only, there was a boy whose name was Fizzlebert.' Fizzlebert Stump lives in a circus and it's the great Circus of Circuses competition, but Fizzlebert Stump has no act. He's no longer the Boy Who Puts His Head In The Lion's Mouth (the lion retired) and putting his head in a crocodile's mouth instead didn't work out for some reason. Can Fizz find a new act in time? • A story of circus rivalry, learning who you really are, and the problem of oddly shaped vegetables. Brilliantly bonkers and perfect for fans of Mr Gum and Lemony Snicket

A hilarious and original picture book about believing in yourself and learning how to shine • Nut isn't like the other Vikings; he doesn't climb hills or swim icy lakes … but he does have one great passion - Nut loves to bake cakes! So, when Viking Sports Day comes round, it looks like certain disaster for Nut. Can his baking save the day? • Told in effortless verse, The Viking Who Liked Icing is a hilarious, heartwarming picture book about being yourself

In Built, structural engineer Roma Agrawal takes a unique look at how construction has evolved from the mud huts of our ancestors to skyscrapers of steel that reach hundreds of metres into the sky. She unearths how engineers have tunnelled through kilometres of solid mountains; how they've bridged across the widest and deepest of rivers, and tamed Nature's precious and elusive - water resources. She tells vivid tales of the visionaries who created the groundbreaking materials in the Pantheon's record-holding concrete dome and the frame of the record-breaking Eiffel Tower. Through the lens of an engineer, Roma examines tragedies like the collapse of the Quebec Bridge, highlighting the precarious task of ensuring people's safety they hold at every step

"Рождественские истории Penguin Book" - идеальный подарок в этот рождественский сезон, щедрая подборка величайших праздничных историй всех времен • Здесь представлены классические рассказы таких писателей, как Трумэн Капоте, Ширли Джексон, Дилан Томас, Саки и Чехов, а также малоизвестные сокровища, такие как "косой взгляд" Итало Кальвино на рождественское потребительство, "История праздничной изобретательности" Вольфдитриха Шнурре в Берлине, "Зачарованный лес" Сельмы Лагерлеф в Швеции и Ирен Немеровски.мрачный семейный портрет. С Санта-клаусами, привидениями, троллями, неожиданными гостями, ворчунами и чудесами - вот Рождество, каким его представляли некоторые из величайших авторов коротких рассказов всех времен • Книга на английском языке • The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all time - now in a beautiful clothbound edition • This is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas stories from around the world, taking us from frozen Nordic woods to glittering Paris, a New York speakeasy to an English country house, bustling Lagos to midnight mass in Rio, and even outer space

The third book in the hilarious Bad Mermaids series for kids aged 7+, from the bestselling author of Witch Wars • In the kingdom of Frostopia, mermaids Beattie, Mimi and Zelda have come to the aid of Maritza Mist, a famous water witch who supplies magic spells to the underwater kingdoms • Two notoriously bad mermaids have escaped from Viper View prison and stolen Maritza's map that shows the locations of twelve magical objects. When brought together, these objects will create the most powerful water witch the world has ever known. Beattie, Mimi and Zelda set off to travel the underwater kingdoms to stop them. But they haven't counted on meeting a bunch of over-zealous spies, the oldest shark in the world or their faithful companion Steve the seahorse going rogue