Piatkus The Goddess of Buttercups and Daisies Millar Martin

From the award-winning author of The Apothecary's Daughter comes The Fading of the Light, the next book in the Spindrift Trilogy - a beautifully evocative, family drama, perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore, Lucinda Riley and Elizabeth Jane Howard's Cazalet Chronicles • 1902. Spindrift House, Cornwall • Edith Fairchild, deserted by her feckless husband Benedict eight years before, has established the thriving Spindrift artists' community by the sea and found deep and lasting love with Pascal. They have accepted that they cannot marry, but when Benedict returns unexpectedly to Spindrift House, all Edith and Pascal's secret hopes and dreams of a joyous life together are overturned • Benedict's arrival shatters the peaceful and creative atmosphere of the close-knit community

Hugh Prentice has never had patience for dramatic females, and if Lady Sarah Pleinsworth has ever been acquainted with the words shy or retiring, she’s long since tossed them out the window. Besides, a reckless duel has left this brilliant mathematician with a ruined leg, and now he could never court a woman like Sarah, much less dream of marrying her • Sarah has never forgiven Hugh for the duel he fought that nearly destroyed her family. But even if she could find a way to forgive him, it wouldn’t matter. She doesn’t care that his leg is less than perfect, it’s his personality she can’t abide. But forced to spend a week in close company they discover that first impressions are not always reliable. And when one kiss leads to two, three, and four, the mathematician may lose count, and the lady may, for the first time, find herself speechless

I'll risk my life for you • On 24 November Yasmin and her ten-year-old daughter Ruby set off on a journey across Northern Alaska. They're searching for Ruby's father, missing in the arctic wilderness • More isolated with each frozen mile they cover, they travel deeper into an endless night. And Ruby, deaf since birth, must brave the darkness where sight cannot guide her • She won't abandon her father. But winter has tightened its grip, and there is somebody out there who wants to stop them • Somebody tracking them through the dark

Айви Эдвардс всего тридцать один год, она смешная, бесстыдная и немного романтичная. Она также пытается не плакать в офисном туалете прямо сейчас • Отчасти из-за того, что у нее закончились деньги на сигареты. И потому что ее мама продолжает докучать ей • Точно не из-за того, что жених только что бросил ее • С Лондонской жизнью в руинах и семьей в милях от нее в Уэльской долине, Айви на самом деле не чувствует, что принадлежит какому-либо месту • По крайней мере, у нее есть друзья и бутылка водки • Отправляясь в путешествие одиночества, Айви предстоит узнать, что иногда жизнь, которая разбивается на части, может быть неожиданно веселой • Иногда разбитое сердце – это лучший урок • Ivy Edwards is thirty-one years old, funny, shameless, and a bit of a romantic

После того как человеческую цивилизацию уничтожил вирус, известный как «Приговор», магия стала обыденным явлением • Фэллон Свифт провела детство и юность, изучая её. Девушкой движет желание освободить тех, на кого охотится правительство или фанатики из культа Праведных воинов; тех, кого преследуют или запирают в лабораториях; тех, кто долгие годы подвергается издевательствам и даже пыткам. Она хочет спасти даже тех, кого страх и слабость толкнули на темную сторону • Фэллон уже помогла многим оборотням, эльфам, магам и обычным людям. Но теперь она должна помочь им исцелиться — и заново открыть в себе свет и веру. Ведь даже Избранная не одолеет силы зла в одиночку. Чтобы восстановить щит, который вновь оградит наш мир от тьмы, Фэллон понадобится армия, что пойдёт за ней в бой… • Роман «Расцвет магии» — 3-я книга и драматичный финал трилогии «Хроники Избранной», захватывающего постапокалиптического фэнтези от королевы бестселлеров New York Times Норы Робертс

Авторы J.M. Jauch & F. Rohrlich. Topics Radiation, Photons, S-Matrix, Divergence, Renormalisation, Positronium, Quantum, Electrodynamics. На английском языке

The first in a gripping new historical fantasy series that intertwines Irish mythology with real-life history, The Children of Gods and Fighting Men is the thrilling debut novel by Shauna Lawless • They think they've killed the last of us • 981 AD. The Viking King of Dublin is dead. His young widow, Gormflaith, has ambitions for her son – and herself – but Ireland is a dangerous place and kings tend not to stay kings for long • Gormflaith also has a secret. She is one of the Fomorians, an immortal race who can do fire-magic. She has kept her powers hidden at all costs, for there are other immortals in this world – like the Tuatha De Danann, a race of warriors who are sworn to kill Fomorians • Fodla is one of the Tuatha De Danann with the gift of healing

The United States asserts the right to use military force against ‘failed states’ around the globe. But as Noam Chomsky argues in this devastating analysis, America shares features with many of the regimes it insists are failing and constitute a danger to their neighbours • Offering a comprehensive and radical examination of America past and present, Chomsky shows how this lone superpower – which topples foreign governments, invades states that threaten its interests and imposes sanctions on regimes it opposes – has stretched its own democratic institutions to breaking point. And how an America in crisis places the world ever closer to the brink of nuclear and environmental disaster

Manuscripts teem with life • They are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only tangible evidence we have of entire lives, long receded • Hidden Hands tells the stories of the artisans, artists, scribes and readers, patrons and collectors who made and kept the beautiful, fragile objects that have survived the ravages of fire, water and deliberate destruction to form a picture of both English culture and the wider European culture of which it is part • Without manuscripts, she shows, many historical figures would be lost to us, as well as those of lower social status, women and people of colour, their stories erased, and the remnants of their labours destroyed • From the Cuthbert Bible, to works including those by the Beowulf poet, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, Sir Thomas Malory, Chaucer, the Paston Letters and Shakespeare, Mary Wellesley describes the production and preservation of these priceless objects

Scruton argues that the tragedies and disasters of the history of the European continent have been the consequences of a false optimism and the fallacies that derive from it. In place of these fallacies, Scruton mounts a passionate defence of both civil society and freedom. He shows that the true legacy of European civilisation is not the false idealisms that have almost destroyed it – in the shapes of Nazism, fascism and communism – but the culture of forgiveness and irony which we must now protect from those whom it offends. The Uses of Pessimism is a passionate plea for reason and responsibility, written at a time of profound change