Faber and Faber This Is How You Lose Her Диас Джуно

A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, Oscar’s sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. With dazzling energy and insight Diaz immerses us in the tumultuous lives of Oscar; his runaway sister Lola; their beautiful mother Belicia; and in the family’s uproarious journey from the Dominican Republic to the US and back

This is how a family keeps a secret… and how that secret ends up keeping them • This is how a family lives happily ever after… until happily ever after becomes complicated • This is how children change… and then change the world • This is Claude. He’s five years old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess • When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl • Rosie and Penn want Claude to be whoever Claude wants to be. They’re just not sure they’re ready to share that with the world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claude’s secret. Until one day it explodes • This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And it’s about the ways this is how it always is: Change is always hard and miraculous and hard again, parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts, children grow but not always according to plan

Learn all the super-important life skills you need to get ready in the morning with this new series of books all about preparing little ones for school. Getting ready in the morning can be a bit of a struggle. No matter what grown-ups tell you, being little is hard work; there's so much to learn - from remembering to brush your teeth, even when you don't feel like it, to tying your shoelaces and finding the right hole for each arm in a jumper, and a whole bunch of other things too. And if your days aren't extremely busy enough with all of this getting ready and some very important playing, before you know it you'll have to fit all of this in and go to school! Don't panic, "This is How we Get Ready" is here to guide you along the way by teaching you the skills you need to look after yourself and get ready for the day ahead

Learn all the super-important skills you need to learn about making friends with this new series of books all about preparing little ones for school. No matter what grown-ups tell you, being little is hard work; there's so much to learn - from sharing your toys and treats, to taking turns when playing a game, and remembering to say please and thank you. Don't panic, "This is How We Make Friends" is here to guide you along the way by teaching you the skills you need to be a good friend

Help your little one learn all the key life skills that they need with this new series of books all about preparing little ones for school • There's so much to learn when it comes to staying healthy - from how to wash your hands properly, to learning how to keep calm, remembering what foods are good for you - and a whole bunch of • other things too. But don't panic! This first experiences book for children is a great way to encourage independence and responsibility • Help guide little ones along the way by teaching them the skills needed to look after themselves and keep in tip-top condition. This book makes learning their new routine fun and easy • This delightful child development book is perfect for kids aged 3-5 years old. You'll find • - Important skills to become self-sufficient explained in a fun gentle way • - Lots of important facts and practises around staying healthy alongside vibrant illistrations • - Encourages children to practice their new skills and try out what they are learning in the real world • - Includes a handy "staying healthy" checklist at the back of the book! • - A fun and interactive way for parents to introduce the new routine for children starting nursery school • Children can start to learn what foods are good for them, why it's important to wash, and key table manners

Вот как мы остаемся в безопасности • Помогите своему малышу освоить все ключевые жизненные навыки, которые ему необходимы, с помощью этой новой серии книг о подготовке малышей к школе • Нужно так много помнить, когда речь заходит о том, чтобы оставаться в безопасности - от знания, с кем поговорить, если вы расстроены, до того, чтобы не забывать пристегиваться и как безопасно переходить дорогу, а также о целой куче других вещей. Но не паникуйте! Эта книга о первых впечатлениях для детей - отличный способ привить им независимость и ответственность • Эта восхитительная книга для раннего обучения идеально подходит для детей в возрасте 3-5 лет • Книга на английском языке • Help your little one learn all the key life skills that they need with this new series of books all about preparing little ones for school

The only thing to do is to put hammers in the porridge and when there are enough hammers we shall break down the windows and all of us shall dance in the snow • Some days, Marthe Gail believes she is God; others, Jesus Christ. Her baby, she thinks, is dead. The red light is shining. There are bars on the window. And the voices keep talking • Time blurs; snow falls. The doctors say it is a breakdown; that this is Gorestown State Hospital. Her fellow patients become friends and enemies, moving between the Day Room and Dining Hall, East Hall and West Side, avoiding the Strong Room. Her husband visits and shows her a lock of her baby’s hair, but she doesn’t remember, yet – until she can make it upstairs, ascending towards release … • Shocking and hilarious, tragic and visceral, this experimental portrait of motherhood and mental illness written in 1930 has never felt more visionary

How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it? • Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow. Nobody remembers her now, but this elderly woman was in her youth a pioneer of British documentary photography. Her beloved grandson, Luke, now a captain with the Royal Western Fusiliers, is on a tour of duty in Afghanistan, part of a convoy taking equipment to the electricity plant at Kajaki. Only when Luke returns home to Scotland does Anne’s secret story begin to emerge, along with his, and they set out for an old guest house in Blackpool where she once kept a room

Faber’s bestselling hamster series is given a smart new livery, repositioning our favourite as a perennial classic character, sitting alongside the likes of Winnie the Pooh and Wind in Willows • Dear Friends, • When Og the Frog came to live in Room 26, I felt a little jealous. Still, I tried to be welcoming but I soon discovered that it’s HARD-HARD-HARD to make friends with a lumpy, bumpy frog! • Then I found out that my fellow students were having problems with their friends, too. A.J. and Garth had to deal with a bully named Mean Martin Bean. Heidi and Gail had a terrible argument, and Miranda-Golden had a new stepsister who wasn’t nice at all. Then there was the Poetry Festival, the magic show and the snowstorm! How could one small hamster solve all those problems? • Luckily, I wrote the whole story in my notebook so you could share my adventures

‘This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme, the interior of a thought, the interior of a single, unique situation the understanding of which recedes from my sight into the distance. It is a book about laughter and about forgetting, about forgetting and about Prague, about Prague and about the angels.’ • The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the most secret of Kundera’s novels. This new translation is the first to be fully authorized by Milan Kundera