Harpercollins The Mirrored World Dean Debra

Masterful, Pulitzer-prize winning literary epic about the painful and complex realities of slave life on a Southern plantation. An utterly original exploration of race, trust and the cruel truths of human nature, this is a landmark in modern American literature • Henry Townsend, a black farmer, boot maker, and former slave, becomes proprietor of his own plantation – as well as his own slaves. When he dies, his widow, Caldonia, succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart: slaves take to escaping under the cover of night, and families who had once found love beneath the weight of slavery begin to betray one another. Beyond the Townsend household, the known world also unravels: low-paid white patrollers stand watch as slave ‘speculators’ sell free black people into slavery, and rumours of slave rebellions set white families against slaves who have served them for years

Чудесное подарочное издание 20-ти произведений Доктора Сьюза • Целое множество безумных ярких персонажей обитает на страницах сказочной коллекции культового американского детского писателя. Наполненные уморительными историями и весёлыми стихами, эти удобные компактные издания открывают дверь в невероятный мир творчества Доктора Сьюза • В издание входят • «Доктор Сьюз на свободе» • «Марвин Мани, до свидания!» • «Сплошной беспорядок от кучи догадок» • «Сничи» • «Если бы я управлял цирком» • «Проблемы по пути в Солла Солью » • «Мистер Браун умеет мычать. А ты?» • «Hop on Pop» • «Хортон слышит ктошек!» • «Хортон высиживает яйцо» • Dr. Seuss’ ABC • «Кот в шляпе» • «Кот в шляпе возвращается» • «Где тебе предстоит побывать» • «Рыбка первая, вторая, красная и голубая» • «Как Гринч украл Рождество» • «Кто живёт у меня в кармане?» • «Лис в носках» • «Зелёные яйца и ветчина» • «The Wonderful World of Dr

Мы все видели лису • Мелькание ее пушистого хвоста, исчезающего в проеме забора, оранжевое сияние в свете фар, когда она перебегает дорогу. Мы тоже слышали ее, ее странный лай эхом отдавался в ночном городе. Возможно, мы даже столкнулись с ней лицом к лицу, встретившись взглядами на несколько мгновений, прежде чем он снова исчез в темноте. Но куда она направляется и каков ее мир на самом деле? • В книге "Скрытый мир лис" эколог Адель Бранд проливает свет на одно из самых знакомых и в то же время загадочных животных Британии, показывая нам, как удивительные чувства, интеллект и поведение, которые позволяли лисам процветать в древнем диком лесу, теперь помогают им выживать на бетонных автостоянках и грохочущих железнодорожных линиях наших городов и города

The second book by the bestselling author of Extraordinary Insects • Trees clean air and water; hoverflies and bees pollinate our crops; the kingfisher inspired the construction of high-speed trains. In Tapestries of Life, bestselling author Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson explains how closely we are all connected with the natural world, highlighting our indelible link with nature’s finely knit system and our everyday lives • In the heart of natural world is a life-support system like no other, a collective term that describes all the goods and services we receive – food, fresh water, medicine, pollination, pollution control, carbon sequestration, erosion prevention, recreation, spiritual health and so much more. In this utterly captivating book, Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson sets out to explore these wonderful, supportive elements – taking the reader on a journey through the surprising characteristics of the natural world

The moving, funny, thrilling and adventured-filled new novel for readers of 10 and up from bestselling author Ross Welford • When twelve-year-olds Willa and Manny hear of a mysterious animal prowling their town, they are determined to prove it is real. Following the creature into a cave one full moon, they are swept into an alternate, ideal, world – one where pollution and conflict have been conquered decades ago and even their own families seem happier • But when they return, no one believes them. So, with a global war looming in their own world, their quest for proof of the Sideways World becomes ever-more urgent, in a nail-biting race against time • And Willa and Manny will have to make an impossible decision: because once you find a perfect world, can you ever leave it behind . . .?

The third volume in the acclaimed Emperor series, in which Conn Iggulden brilliantly interweaves history and adventure to recreate the astonishing life of Julius Caesar - an epic tale of ambition and rivalry, bravery and betrayal • The Gates of Rome, The Death of Kings and now The Field of Swords tell the powerful, dramatic story of the friendship and enmity between the two men who ruled the Roman world • Following the defeat of the Spartacus rebellion, Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus, who have been sent to run the Roman colonies in Spain, return to challenge powerful senators to become one of the Consuls of Rome. Political opposition, family quarrels, armed rebellions and corruption make this a highly contemporary scene, fuelled by the intrigue of the major characters, who are now developing as full adults

The astonishing, beautiful new story for all readers of 10 and over from the bestselling and Costa-shortlisted author of TIME TRAVELLING WITH A HAMSTER. There are stories about people who want to live forever. This is not one of those stories. This is a story about someone who wants to stop... Alfie Monk is like any other nearly teenage boy - except he's 1,000 years old and can remember the last Viking invasion of England. Obviously no one believes him. So when everything Alfie knows and loves is destroyed in a fire, and the modern world comes crashing in, Alfie embarks on a mission to find friendship, acceptance, and a different way to live... which means finding a way to make sure he will eventually die

Кто готов отправиться в мир монстров? • Серия «World’s Worst» очаровала миллионы читателей по всему миру. В ней появлялись худшие дети на свете, худшие родители на свете, худшие учителя на свете и даже худшие питомцы на свете, но теперь пришло время для настоящих чемпионов среди худших – для монстров • Книга рекомендуется только тем читателям, которые любят призраков, великанов, зомби, вампиров, пришельцев, оборотней и мумий • Самый популярный детский автор Великобритании Дэвид Уолльямс представляет сборник из десяти рассказов для детей об изумительных монстрах с красочными иллюстрациями Адама Стоуэра • Книга на английском языке • Dare you enter the world of MONSTERS? • The beloved World's Worst series has captivated millions of readers. You've met the world's worst children, the world's worst parents, the world's worst teachers and the world's worst pets - but are you ready for the world's worst monsters? • If you don't like ghosts, ogres, zombies, vampires, aliens, werewolves or mummies, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK

A full-colour illustrated compendium chronicling the magical twenty-year journey of acclaimed art and design studio, MinaLima, the creative genius behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film series • "It all started with a letter..." • Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima began their extraordinary partnership in 2001 when Warner Bros. invited them to realize the imaginative visual universe of the Harry Potter film series. The two artists would never have guessed that the graphic props they designed for the films - including the Hogwarts acceptance letter, Marauder's Map, Daily Prophet newspaper, The Quibbler and Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes - would become cultural icons loved by Wizarding World fans around the world • Eight years later, the pair formed their own design studio, MinaLima, and expanded their work to include the graphics for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade at Universal Orlando Resort and the Fantastic Beasts film series

A virologist's insight into how viruses evolve and why global epidemics are inevitable In 1993 a previously healthy young man was drowning in the middle of a desert, in fluids produced by his own lungs. This was the beginning of the terrifying Sin Nombre hantavirus epidemic and the start of a scientific journey that would forever change our understanding of what it means to be human • After witnessing the Sin Nombre outbreak, Dr Frank Ryan began researching viral evolution and was astonished to discover that it's inextricable from the evolution of all life on Earth. From AIDS and Ebola to the common cold, Ryan explores the role of the virus within every ecosystem on the planet. His gripping conclusions shed new light on the natural world, proving that what doesn't kill you really does make you (and your species) stronger

A compelling vision of a disorietating and barbaric future from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature • Many years in the future, city life has broken down, communications have failed and food supplies are dwindling. From her window a middle-aged woman – our narrator – watches things fall apart and records what she witnesses: hordes of people migrating to the countryside, gangs of children roaming the streets. One day, a young girl, Emily, is brought to her house by a stranger and left in her care. A strange, precocious adolescent, drawn to the tribal streetlife and its barbaric rituals, she is unafraid of the harsh world outside, while our narrator retreats into her hidden world where reality fades and the past is revisited …

‘We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people simply would not believe the extent of the Nazis’ evil. I wanted to share our life, the events and our struggle to survive.’ • Thomas Geve was just 15 years old when he was liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp on 11 April 1945. It was the third concentration camp he had survived. Upon arrival at Auschwitz- Birkenau, Thomas was separated from his mother and left to fend for himself in the men’s camp of Auschwitz I, at the age of 13. During the 22 months he was imprisoned, he was subjected to, and forced to observe first-hand, the inhumane world of Nazi concentration camps • On his eventual release Thomas felt compelled to capture daily life in the death camps in more than eighty profoundly moving drawings