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Взрывающиеся стрелы и захватывающие элементы - присоединяйтесь к Итчу, Джеку и Хлое в книге Саймона Майо "Итчкрафт" • Итчингему Лофту, подростку-охотнику за стихиями и маловероятному герою, впечатлений хватило бы на всю жизнь. Наткнуться на неизвестный радиоактивный элемент и попытаться уберечь его от попадания в руки тех, кто хочет использовать его в своих целях, было достаточно сложно. Но когда школьная поездка в Испанию заканчивается взрывом валюты и бунтами местных жителей, он понимает, что должен продолжать искать ответы • Зуд знает, что жизни самых близких ему людей находятся в опасности. Он должен выследить смертельного врага, который не остановится ни перед чем, чтобы отомстить • Книга на английском языке • Exploding euros and exciting elements - join Itch, Jack and Chloe on their latest adventure

Winter, 1916. In St Petersburg, snow is falling in a country on the brink of revolution. Beautiful and headstrong, Sashenka Zeitlin is just sixteen. As her mother parties with Rasputin and her dissolute friends, Sashenka slips into the frozen night to play her role in a dangerous game of conspiracy and seduction. Twenty years on, Sashenka has a powerful husband and two children. Around her people are disappearing but her own family is safe. But she's about to embark on a forbidden love affair which will have devastating consequences. Sashenka's story lies hidden for half a century, until a young historian goes deep into Stalin's private archives and uncovers a heart-breaking story of passion and betrayal, savage cruelty and unexpected heroism - and one woman forced to make an unbearable choice

Welcome to the world of alternative medicine • Prince Charles is a staunch defender and millions of people swear by it; most UK doctors consider it to be little more than superstition and a waste of money. But how do you know which treatments really heal and which are potentially harmful? • Now at last you can find out, thanks to the formidable partnership of Professor Edzard Ernst and Simon Singh. Edzard Ernst is the world's first professor of complementary medicine, based at Exeter University, where he has spent over a decade analysing meticulously the evidence for and against alternative therapies.He is supported in his findings by Simon Singh, the well-known and highly respected science writer of several international bestsellers • Together they have written the definitive book on the subject

Икона в мире телевизионных новостей, Блейз Маккарти, кажется, обладает всем этим: красотой, умом и смелостью. Но в частном порядке есть история, которую она скрывала в течение многих лет...Дочь Блейза Салима, ослепшая из-за юношеского диабета, живет в круглогодичной школе-интернате. Но когда школа внезапно закрывается, она возвращается домой, в нью-йоркскую квартиру Блейз, со своим новым опекуном Саймоном. По мере того как новые вызовы меняют их отношение друг к другу, связь между матерью и дочерью укрепляется как никогда прежде. Затем личный и профессиональный миры Блейз сталкиваются, и хорошо охраняемые секреты ее семейной жизни раскрываются. Внезапно ее жизнь перестает быть идеальной, она становится реальной. Могут ли мать и дочь вместе научиться смотреть в лицо миру, который они не могут контролировать? "Идеальная жизнь" - незабываемый роман о матери и дочери от несравненной рассказчицы Даниэль Стил

В день, когда миру пришёл конец… • Мау плывёт с острова Мальчиков к дому своего Народа, чтобы стать мужчиной. Но неожиданно налетевшее цунами приносит на своём горбу мрак ночи и забрасывает в тропический лес небольшую шхуну. Деревни больше нет, и Народа тоже. Теперь остался лишь Мау, не носящий почти никакой одежды, девчонка из брючников, носящая слишком много одежды, и огромное количество жутких недоразумений • «Народ, или Когда-то мы были дельфинами», роман одного из самых ярких писателей жанра фэнтези, Терри Пратчетта, станет великолепным подарком для поклонников творчества автора • Книга на английском языке • On the day the world ends • Mau is on his way home from the Boys' Island. Soon he will be a man. And then the wave comes - a huge wave, dragging black night behind it and bringing a schooner which sails over and through the island rainforest

My name is Eleanor Kerchner • You can call me the Queen • I died in 1895 • Now it’s time to play • A chilling ghost story by the bestselling author of The Spiderwick Chronicles, Holly Black • Recipient of a Newbery Honor Award. An ALA Notable Book. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book. A School Library Journal Best Book. A Booklist Editor’s Choice Books for Youth. A Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book. A 2013 Goodreads Choice award nominee. A People Magazine 'Best New Kids Book'

A colouring book edition of this million-copy-selling classic! If you could do anything, what would you choose? And now choose the colours too! • A colouring-book edition of the bestselling classic which children can colour in and make their own • Imagine you could go anywhere, with anyone and do anything. Where would you live? Where would you sleep? Who would be your friends? What games would you play? Go on . . . You choose! With the help of Nick Sharratt's wonderful illustrations, Pippa Goodhart looks at a whole range of scenarios where choosing is made fun! • There are 24 jam-packed pages to colour in and sixty fantastic full-colour stickers to stick wherever you choose • The perfect combination of fun and learning, this is a wonderful way to expand skills in literacy

It began with Eragon . . . It ends with Inheritance, book four in the Inheritance Series • Not so very long ago, Eragon - Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider - was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now, the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders • Long months of training and battle have brought victories and hope, but they have also brought heartbreaking loss. And still the real battle lies ahead: they must confront King Galbatorix • When they do, they will have to be strong enough to defeat him. And if they can’t, no one can. There will be no second chances • The Rider and his dragon have come farther than anyone dared to hope. But can they topple the evil king and restore justice to Alagaesia? And if so, at what cost? • Featuring spectacular artwork by cult artist John Jude Palencar, this stunning book brings the bestselling Inheritance cycle to a breathtaking conclusion

The weird and wonderful true story of a national treasure in the making • Ben Fogle's life has been action-packed to say the least. He has rowed across the Atlantic, walked to the South Pole, run the Sahara and ice-skated across Sweden. He has encountered isolated tribes in deepest Papua New Guinea, caused a Boeing 747 to dump ?100k of fuel before making an emergency landing in Sao Paolo, and frequently been mistaken for Prince William along the way • So how did a cripplingly shy, geeky, perennially homesick boy end up doing all this? Ben's still not entirely sure himself, but this wonderful book tells his story and will strike a chord with anyone puzzling about life, and how to live it differently • This is a book about defying expectations, conquering fears, battling laziness and, just occasionally, winning

Bill is a dedicated young lawyer working in New York. He leaves everything he trained for to follow his dream to become a minister in rural Wyoming. Jenny, his fashion stylist wife, leaves the milieu and life she loves to join him. The certainty they share is that their destinies are linked forever • Fast forward thirty-eight years. Robert is a hard-working independent book publisher in Manhattan, looking for one big hit novel to publish. Lillibet is a young Amish woman, living as though in the seventeenth century, caring for her widowed father and three young brothers on their family farm. In secret at night, by candlelight, she has written the novel that burns within her. When it falls into Robert’s hands, he falls in love first with the book, and then with the woman he has never met

Drawing on Derren's own experiences, this is a profound and practical guide to finding value in sadness and strength from difficult times - it is from the friction in life that we find meaning and can grow • In this thoughtful and brilliant bestselling new book, Derren Brown, internationally bestselling author of HAPPY, considers the value of difficulty in our lives. Perhaps it is in those times when we are forced to cope with adversity that we find the most meaningful rewards. As he navigates middle age, love and small talk, he dispenses with self-help platitudes and wonders if perhaps we need to more comfortably embrace uncertainty. Is anxiety in fact a pointer for growth? In chapters that take us back to the scene of childhood humiliation, to lonely evenings on tour, to the high stress of a house move, Derren explores that when we feel most alone we are often most connected to others and the flow of life

Fleeing from the ruins of New Undertown, young librarian knight Rook Barkwater and his colleagues – Felix Lodd and his banderbear friends – must lead the escaping population to a new life in the Free Glades • But perils aplenty are ahead for the crowd, and Rook knows the journey will be full of danger. Meanwhile, in the Goblin Nations, the tribes are amassing for war. Will Rook be able to keep his friends, himself and their new lives safe? • Freeglader is the third book of the Rook Saga – third trilogy in The Edge Chronicles, the internationally best-selling fantasy series, which has featured on the UK and the New York Times best-seller lists and sold more than 3 million copies. There are now 13 titles and four trilogies in the series, but each book is a stand-alone adventure, so you can read The Edge Chronicles in any order you choose