Julia Hulsmann Quartet - Not Far From Here (1 CD)

Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. In the novel "Far From the Madding Crowd" an independent Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life

On a beautiful spring day, a small village in Western Germany wakes up to an omen: Selma has dreamed of an okapi. Someone is about to die. But who? • As the residents of the village begin acting strangely (despite protestations that they are not superstitious), Selma's granddaughter Luise looks on as the imminent threat brings long carried secrets to the surface. And when death comes, it comes in a way none of them could have predicted • A story about the absurdity of life and death, a bittersweet portrait of village life and the wider world that beckons beyond, What You Can See from Here is a story about the way loss and love shape not just a person, but a community

The Map from Here to There is an unforgettable story of identity and the companion novel to the stellar The Start of Me and You, which was a Zoella Book Club pick for WHSmith • It's senior year, and Paige Hancock is finally living her best life. She has a fun summer job, great friends, and a super charming boyfriend who totally gets her. But senior year also means big decisions. Feeling the weight of 'the rest of her life' Paige starts to panic. Everything is exactly how she always wanted it to be – how can she leave it all behind next year? In her head, she knows there is so much more to life after high school. But in her heart, is it so terrible to want everything to stay the same forever? • Emery Lord's signature storytelling shines with lovable characters and heartfelt exploration of life's most important questions

Regarded by many as Hardy’s prose masterpiece, Far From the Madding Crowd is the tragi-comic story of a woman and three men. Bathsheba Everdene is courted by the brilliant Troy, the obsessive Boldwood and the faithful Gabriel Oak. One is successful in his suit, but only after violence and murder have eliminated the other two. The story is set in the haunting Wessex landscape Hardy had begun to make his own by the time he published the novel in 1874

Never Far From Nowhere is the story of two sisters, Olive and Vivien, born in London to Jamaican parents and brought up on a council estate. They go to the same grammar school, but while Vivien s life becomes a chaotic mix of friendships, youth clubs, skinhead violence, A-levels, discos and college, Olive, three years older and a skin shade darker, has a very different tale to tell

"Вдали от обезумевшей толпы" - пожалуй, самый пасторальный из уэссекских романов Харди. В нем рассказывается история молодого фермера Габриэля Оука и его любви к неуловимой Вирсавии Эвердин, чей своенравный характер приводит ее как к трагедии, так и к настоящей любви • Фоном этой повести является сельская местность Уэссекса во всех ее проявлениях, что делает ее одним из самых английских из великих романов • Книга на английском языке • Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy’s Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love • It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was ‘…the past was yesterday; never, the day after’, and lastly, of the introverted and reclusive gentleman farmer, Mr Boldwood, whose love fills him with ‘…a fearful sense of exposure’, when he first sets eyes on Bathsheba

Будь собой, но по-другому… • Будь активной, но не слишком. Спокойной, но не скучной. Забавной, но не пытайся всем понравиться. Яркой, но не сумасшедшей. Дерзкой, но не агрессивной. Красивой, но в меру. Элегантной, но не ледяной. Уверенной в себе, но не высокомерной. Женственной, но не по-девчачьи… • У Фейт Валентайн есть все – слава, деньги и необыкновенная красота. Но больше всего на свете она мечтает о спокойной жизни вдали от камер. Вот только никто никогда не интересовался, чего она хочет, и ожидания ее семьи сильно давят на нее • Мир считает ее совершенной, но может ли за совершенством скрываться что-то большее, чем кажется на первый взгляд? • Far from Perfect – это роман Холли Смейл, вторая книга из цикла «Валентайны» • Книга на английском языке

It is 1940 and Staff Nurse Polly Brown has been granted a posting at Cliffehaven Memorial Hospital on the south coast to be near her badly injured husband, Adam. But her decision has meant that she has • had to part with their beloved five-year-old daughter, Alice, who is travelling to safety in Canada • Polly's heart is torn in two as she says goodbye to Alice and heads to the Beach View boarding house in Cliffehaven, where she throws herself into her work • But as she confronts the fact that Adam may not survive his injuries, a telegram arrives at Beach View. The boat Alice was on has been torpedoed by a German U-boat • A fabulous, heart-warming Second World War novel in Ellie Dean's bestselling Cliffehaven series (previously called the Beach View Boarding House series)

"A fascinating and engaging picture book exploring 80 exciting ways to travel, both past and present - from the obvious, to the crazy! .Travel around the world by yacht, tram, train, unicycle, jetpack, camel... any way you can imagine, in this non-fiction children's book. Every mode of transport is part of a charming scene. See how astronauts travel around space, watch surfers ride the waves at the beach, and race to an emergency with the firefighters. Illustrator Katy Halford's beautiful drawings brings the scenes to life and fun complementary facts will prompt discussion and laughter between readers. How would you choose to travel? Donkey, pedalo, moon buggy? From the small to the big, the familiar to obscure, take your pick from the amazing 80 shown in DK's Around the Way in 80 Ways!"

The start of something new • When Kate is faced with an 'empty nest' when her youngest daughter, Ella, leaves for university, she starts to wonder: what comes next? • Decades after abandoning her university hobby, Kate nervously joins a local ladies rowing team and is surprised to find how much she enjoys it! • More than anything, though, Kate finds that the team of strong women bring new adventures and unlikely friendships she hadn't even realised were missing from her life

В викторианском Лондоне Лиззи и Эмили остаются на попечении кухарки, но их история переносит их на фабрики северной Англии. Там, под пристальным взглядом владельцев фабрики, девушек заставляют работать в суровых условиях, и любой шанс сбежать крайне соблазнителен… • Роман Берли Доэрти "Вдали от дома" - невероятная новая история о беспризорном ребенке, основанная на реальных событиях девочек с викторианской фабрики • Книга на английском языке • A companion novel to bestselling story of orphan Jim Jarvis set in Victorian England • When Jim Jarvis is separated from his sisters, Lizzie and Emily, he thinks he will never see them again. Now for the first time, the bestselling author of street child reveals what happened to his orphaned sisters • In Victorian London, Lizzie and Emily are left in the care of a cook but their story takes them to the mills of northern England