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Все в мире делятся на дающих и берущих. Наверное, каждый согласится, что вампиры относятся к последним. К дающим они относятся разве что как к обеду… • Добро пожаловать в Ланкр, куда только что переселилось семейство утончённых современных вампиров, которые щеголяют в стильных нарядных жилетах. Они выбрались из гроба, и несутся навстречу будущему, хлопая перепончатыми крыльями • Все знают, что не стоит приглашать в свой дом вампиров, потому что они не знают, когда пора уходить. Тем не менее, король Ланкра пригласил их отпраздновать день рождения своей дочери, и теперь вампиры, похоже, вообще не собираются возвращаться восвояси • Что ж, пора им познакомиться с новыми соседями • Между вампирами и их следующим обедом стоят ведьмы Ланкра: матушка Ветровоск, нянюшка Ягг, Маграт и юная Агнесса

Плоский Мир – это диск, покоящийся на спинах четырёх слонов, которые стоят на спине Великого А`туина, черепахи, плывущей в бесконечной пустоте космоса. А ещё это самое смешное место во всей вселенной • Последнее, что успел сделать волшебник Драм Биллет, прежде чем костлявая рука Смерти легла на его плечо, это передать свой волшебный посох восьмому сыну восьмого сына. К сожалению для его коллег из неравноправного мира магии, он не подумал проверить пол новорождённого • Острый и язвительный авторский взгляд одного из самых ярких писателей жанра фэнтези, Терри Пратчетта, на проблему равенства полов • Роман «Творцы заклинаний» из цикла «Плоский мир» станет великолепным подарком для преданных поклонников творчества автора • Роман открывает серию книг о ведьмах

Только при диктаторах поезда приходят в срок. В свободном мире ошибки сигнальщиков, листья на рельсах, неправильный уровень снега и угол падения солнечных лучей превращают время прибытия и отбытия в миленькие фантазии недалёкого утописта. В таких условиях вовремя привести поезд в пункт назначения становится делом жизни и смерти, особенно если учесть, что туда ещё не проведены рельсы. Единственная вещь, которая раздражает людей больше, чем опаздывающие поезда, это строительство железной дороги. Под их окнами. И некоторые из этих людей готовы пойти на немыслимые усилия, чтобы остановить развитие железнодорожной сети • «Поддай пару!», роман из цикла «Плоский мир» одного из самых ярких писателей жанра фэнтези, Терри Пратчетта, станет великолепным подарком для поклонников творчества автора

From a clinical psychologist specialising in family therapy, this is an essential 10-step plan for a stress-free family life • An essential 10-step plan for a stress-free family life • We all know that raising happy, confident and resilient children can be a tough job in this fast-paced world – and there’s never any shortage of well-meaning advice on how to be a better parent. So, if you’re anxious and struggling to cope with the pressures of school and family life – or if you worry that you’re not doing enough to support your child through their problems – give yourself a break: this book really can help you • Clinical psychologist Dr Genevieve von Lob draws on her extensive experience working with hundreds of families to provide a simple 10-step plan for a stress-free family life

To the outside world, Sarah and Oliver Watson had the perfect marriage. Happy and successful, with three beautiful children, they seemed to have it all. But under the surface, Sarah felt lost, empty and inadequate. And one Christmas, after eighteen years of marriage, she walked out • Left alone, Oliver struggles to cope with raising his three children. Seventeen-year-old Benjamin rebels with disastrous consequences, while fifteen-year-old Melissa angrily turns against her father, and nine-year-old Sam, the 'baby', is too shaken to deal with his mother's abandonment • And then tragedy strikes once more when Oliver's mother dies in an untimely accident and three generations of the Watson family find that they must pull together to cope, and maybe one day move on and love again

One life-changing war. A love story that would echo across the decades… • On the cusp of the Second World War in Europe, Nicolas and Alex are two widowed men raising their children alone. They lead contented, peaceful lives, until a long-buried secret about Nicolas’s ancestry threatens his family’s safety… • To survive, they must flee to America. The only treasures Nicolas and his sons can take are eight purebred horses, two of them dazzling Lipizzaners – gifts from Alex. These magnificent creatures are their ticket to a new life, securing Nicolas a job with the famous Ringling Brothers Circus. There, he and the white stallion, Pegasus, become the centrepiece of the show, and a graceful young high-wire walker soon steals his heart • But as the years of war take their toll, Nicolas struggles to adapt to their new life while Alex and his daughter face escalating danger in Europe

A country is about to tear itself apart • England 1642: A nation divided • England is at war with itself. King Charles and Parliament each gather soldiers to their banners. Across the land men prepare to fight for their religious and political ideals. Civil war has begun • A family ripped asunder • The Rivers are landed gentry, and tradition dictates that their allegiance is to the King. Just as Edmund, the eldest of Sir Francis' sons, will do his duty, so his brother Tom will turn his back on all he once believed in • A war that will change everything • From the raising of the King's Standard at Nottingham to the butchery and blood of Edgehill, Edmund and Tom Rivers will each learn of honour, sacrifice, hatred and betrayal as they follow their chosen paths through this most savage of wars

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