Harpercollins The Secret Life of an Uncool Mum Terry Serena

Любовный роман "Тайный дар Лючии Лемон" - от Селии Андерсон • После пятидесяти восьми лет осторожной жизни Лючия Лемон хочет от жизни чего-то большего. Если бы только она знала, что… • Пока она не получит по почте посылку от старого друга, которая навсегда изменит ее жизнь. Внутри она находит пачку наличных, коллекцию старых карт и прекрасный компас, который больше не указывает на север • Держа компас в руке, Лючия внезапно преисполняется надежды - впервые в жизни жизнь кажется полной возможностей, а открытая дорога зовет. Если только у нее хватит смелости ответить на него… • Книга на английском языке • Years of mystery lie inside, just waiting to be unravelled… • After fifty-eight years of playing it safe, Lucia Lemon wants something more from life

The secret life of Sherlock Holmes's nemesis, Moriarty • We think of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, but far more seductive is the pairing of Holmes and Professor James Moriarty, 'the Napoleon of crime' - a rivalry unparalleled in the world of crime fiction. Fiercely intelligent and a relentless schemer, Moriarty is the super-villain as megastar • This wonderfully diverse collection by writers such as Martin Edwards, Jurgen Ehlers, Barbara Nadel, L. C. Tyler, Michael Gregorio, Alison Joseph and Peter Guttridge reveals not just the evil side of Moriarty's personality, but his humanity, his motivations and his human failings. Some of the stories are humorous, some scary, but all are hugely entertaining

Walter Mitty is an ordinary man living an ordinary life. But he has dreams - vivid, extraordinary day dreams - in which the life he leads is one of excitement and even adventure, in which he - a weary, put upon middle-aged man - is the hero of his own story • A man can dream, can't he? • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is just one of the brilliant humorous and witty stories written by James Thurber and collected here

Where do our thoughts come from? • How can we manipulate our dreams? • What is the role of the unconscious? • How do we make decisions and trust the judgement of both others and ourselves? • In this mind-bending international bestseller by Mariano Sigman, one of the world’s leading neuroscientists reveals his life’s work exploring the intricacies of the human brain. Building on his awe-inspiring TED talk and drawing on examples in science and the arts, The Secret Life of the Mind offers an accessible guide to how the human brain works and its impact on our everyday life. This informative, lucid book is essential reading for anyone curious about how we perceive, reason and communicate

Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last twenty years. Once abundant, the corn bunting and the lapwing are on the Red List. The corncrake is all but extinct in England. And the hare is running for its life • Written in exquisite prose, The Running Hare tells the story of the wild animals and plants that live in and under our ploughland, from the labouring microbes to the patrolling kestrel above the corn, from the linnet pecking at seeds to the seven-spot ladybird that eats the aphids that eat the crop. It recalls an era before open-roofed factories and silent, empty fields, recording the ongoing destruction of the unique, fragile, glorious ploughland that exists just down the village lane

What really goes on in the long grass? • Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an English meadow’s life from January to December, together with its biography. In exquisite prose, John Lewis-Stempel records the passage of the seasons from cowslips in spring to the hay-cutting of summer and grazing in autumn, and includes the biographies of the animals that inhabit the grass and the soil beneath: the badger clan, the fox family, the rabbit warren,the skylark brood and the curlew pair, among others. Their births, lives, and deaths are stories that thread through the book from first page to last

'Dusk is filling the valley. It is the time of the gloaming, the owl-light • Out in the wood, the resident tawny has started calling, Hoo-hoo-hoo-h-o-o-o.' • There is something about owls. They feature in every major culture from the Stone Age onwards. They are creatures of the night, and thus of magic. They are the birds of ill-tidings, the avian messengers from the Other Side • But owls - with the sapient flatness of their faces, their big, round eyes, their paternal expressions - are also reassuringly familiar. We see them as wise, like Athena's owl, and loyal, like Harry Potter's Hedwig. Human-like, in other words • No other species has so captivated us

Evie Hamilton's biggest worry in life is whether or not she can fit in a manicure on her way to fetch her daughter from clarinet lessons • Little does she know that her charmed and happy life is about to be turned upside-down • For one sunny morning a letter lands on Evie's immaculate doormat. It's a bombshell, knocking her carefully arranged and managed world completely askew as it threatens to sabotage all she holds dear • What will be left and what will change forever? • Is Evie strong enough to fight for what she loves? • And can her entire world really be as fragile as her best china?

"Тайная жизнь пчел" - роман Сью Кидд • Лили выросла, веря, что случайно убила свою мать, когда ей было четыре года. У нее есть не только собственные воспоминания о том, как она держала в руках пистолет, но и рассказ ее отца об этом событии. Сейчас ей четырнадцать, и она молит о своей матери и о прощении. Живя со своим отцом на персиковой ферме в Южной Каролине, она имеет только одного друга: Розалин, чернокожую служанку, за суровой внешностью которой скрывается нежное сердце. Южная Каролина в шестидесятые годы - это место, где сегрегация все еще считается делом, за которое стоит бороться. Когда однажды летним днем вспыхивает расовая напряженность, а Розалин арестовывают и избивают, Лили вынуждена действовать. Скрываясь от правосудия и от сурового и непреклонного отца Лили, они идут по следу, оставленному женщиной, которая умерла десять лет назад