Dialogue Books The Selfless Act of Breathing Бола Джей Джей

Meet Charles Ignatius Sancho: his extraordinary story, hidden for three hundred years, is about to be told • I had little right to live, born on a slave ship where my parents both died. But I survived, and indeed, you might say I did more • It's 1746 and Georgian London is not a safe place for a young Black man, especially one who has escaped slavery. After the twinkling lights in the Fleet Street coffee shops are blown out and the great houses have closed their doors for the night, Sancho must dodge slave catchers and worse. The man he hoped would help - a kindly duke who taught him to write - is dying. Sancho is desperate and utterly alone • So how does Charles Ignatius Sancho meet the King, write and play highly acclaimed music, become the first Black person to vote in Britain and lead the fight to end slavery? • It's time for him to tell his story, one that begins on a tempestuous Atlantic Ocean, and ends at the very centre of London life

The Mothers is a dazzling debut about young love, a big secret in a small community and the moments that haunt us most • All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before its season • It's the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it's not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance - and the subsequent cover-up - will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth

A profoundly unsettling story of a plantation slave's desperate escape into a rainforest beyond human control, with his master and a ferocious dog on his heels • This flight to freedom takes them on a journey that will transform them all, as the overwhelming physical presence of the forest and its dense primeval wilderness reshapes reality and time itself • In the darkness, the old man grapples with the spirits of all those who have gone before him; the knowledge that the past is always with us, and the injustice that can cry out from beyond the grave • From a Prix Goncourt writer hailed by Milan Kundera as the "heir of Joyce and Kafka," The Old Slave and the Mastiff fearlessly portrays the demonic cruelties of the slave trade and its human costs - a wise, loving tribute to the Creole culture of Martinique, and a vividly told journey into the heart of Caribbean history and human endurance

One morning, Deming Guo's mother, Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her • With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left mystified and bereft. Eventually adopted by a pair of well-meaning white professors, Deming is moved from the Bronx to a small town upstate and renamed Daniel Wilkinson • But far from all he's ever known, Daniel struggles to reconcile his adoptive parents' desire that he assimilate with his memories of his mother and the community he left behind • Set in New York and China, The Leavers is a vivid examination of borders and belonging. It's a moving story of how a boy comes into his own when everything he loves is taken away, and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of the past

Аида — выдающаяся рок-звезда своего времени; за каждым ее шагом наблюдает группа преданных до одержимости поклонников. Когда девушка бесследно исчезает, растворяясь в бурных и сложных любовных отношениях, фанаты полны решимости найти своего идола • Аида и Эхсан воссоединяются после десятилетней разлуки в надежде вернуть невинную, утраченную любовь своей юности. Однако по мере того, как тени прошлого просачиваются в настоящее вместе с ревностью и тайнами, напряжение в отношениях пары только возрастает… • "The Giant Dark" — отмеченный наградами дебютный роман о любви и славе, при создании которого автор вдохновлялась мифом об Орфее и Эвридике. В книге описаны разрушительные последствия использования возлюбленной в качестве музы • Это издание книги в мягкой обложке подойдёт в качестве подарка для любителей истории, мифологии, тайн и захватывающих сюжетов

Аида — выдающаяся рок-звезда своего времени; за каждым ее шагом наблюдает группа преданных до одержимости поклонников. Когда девушка бесследно исчезает, растворяясь в бурных и сложных любовных отношениях, фанаты полны решимости найти своего идола • Аида и Эхсан воссоединяются после десятилетней разлуки в надежде вернуть невинную, утраченную любовь своей юности. Однако по мере того, как тени прошлого просачиваются в настоящее вместе с ревностью и тайнами, напряжение в отношениях пары только возрастает… • "The Giant Dark" — отмеченный наградами дебютный роман о любви и славе, при создании которого автор вдохновлялась мифом об Орфее и Эвридике. В книге описаны разрушительные последствия использования возлюбленной в качестве музы • Это издание книги в твердой обложке подойдёт в качестве подарка для любителей истории, мифологии, тайн и захватывающих сюжетов

The Life & Love of the Forest — захватывающий визуальный тур по самым удивительным лесным массивам с проводником-эссеистом Льюисом Блэквеллом. Богато иллюстрированное издание прославляет впечатляющую мощь лесов по всему миру • Английский язык

"In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven… two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their employer." • Under the pseudonyms of Francis Goodchild and Thomas Idle, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins set off on a walking tour of the north-west of England, reporting back on their adventures for Dickens's magazine Household Words • A unique insight into the friendship of two of the towering figures of Victorian literature, and featuring a pair of chilling ghost stories from the leading exponents of the genre, The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices is a charming evocation of the adventures they experienced on their trip and the gently mocking nature of their relationship

Discover the secrets of living longer and looking younger with this international bestseller • Legend has it that hidden in the remote reaches of the Himalayan mountains lies an ancient secret. There, generations of Tibetan monks have passed down a series of exercises with mystical, age-reversing properties. Known as the Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation, or the Five Rites, these once-secret exercises are now available to us all in Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth by Peter Kelder • Beginning with an account of his own introduction to the rites by way of Colonel Bradford, a mysterious retired British army officer who learned of the rites while journeying high up in the Himalayas, Kelder then reveals to us the five ancient Tibetan rites that can make you feel and look younger

On a cold morning, at daybreak, the 304th New York Regiment is waiting to engage with the Confederate army. Among the soldiers is young Henry Fleming, who has enlisted against his mother's wishes and is now shaken by a sense of fear and regret at the prospect of battle. But when the confrontation begins and, fearing for his life, he escapes from the field, other feelings - above all guilt and shame for deserting and for having retreated without a wound - pierce his heart and eventually force him back into the fray • Although its author never experienced the horrors of the Civil War at first hand, The Red Badge of Courage has often been praised for its realism and the authenticity of its settings and battle scenes, as well as for the nuanced psychology of its protagonist's internal struggles

Знали ли вы, что деревья могут влиять на вращение Земли? • Или что волки могут изменять русла рек? • Или что дождевые черви контролируют популяции диких кабанов? • Мир природы - это паутина сложных связей, многие из которых остаются незамеченными человеком. Но именно эти связи поддерживают тонко сбалансированное равновесие природы • Опираясь на последние научные открытия и многолетний опыт лесовода, в книге "Тайная сеть природы" Питер Воллебен показывает нам, как взаимодействуют различные животные, растения, реки, скалы и погодные системы, и что поставлено на карту, когда эти хрупкие системы выходят из равновесия • Книга на английском языке • An exploration of the invisible connections sustaining the entire natural world from the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees • Did you know that trees can influence the rotation of the earth? • Or that wolves can alter the course of a river? • Or that earthworms control wild boar populations? • The natural world is a web of intricate connections, many of which go unnoticed by humans

When young Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a cyclone, their Kansas farmhouse is carried off to the magical Land of Oz. Upon being told that the only way back is to follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, home to the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy embarks on an extraordinary but perilous quest, in which the Wicked Witch of the West is constantly lurking around the corner • With its unforgettable cast of now iconic characters such as the Tin Man, Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was an instant hit when it was published over a century ago, inspiring numerous adaptations and sequels • This edition contains extra material for young readers including a section on ‘Fantasy Worlds in Children’s Fiction’, a test yourself quiz and a glossary