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A loving twist on a favorite Christmas tale! Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, everyone was quiet... including the mouse! • Discover this adorable rendition of a beloved Christmas story, told from bestselling baby and toddler creator Sandra Magsamen. Featuring sweet rhymes and adorable illustrations, this is the latest in Sandra's tall book line

First Stories: 'Twas The Night Before Christmas is the perfect introduction for young children to Clement Clarke Moore's popular poem. Push, pull and slide the pages to see reindeer magically flying through the sky, sugarplum fairies dancing and stockings filling up with presents • This well-loved poem is beautifully imagined for a new generation by illustrator Miriam Bos

Под редакцией Розмари Грей перед вами книга, без которой не обходится ни один рождественский чулок, книга, которая положительно передает дух сезона. Заглавное стихотворение, знакомое детям и взрослым во всем мире, представляет собой сборник рассказов и стихотворений на рождественскую тематику, которые гарантированно заинтересуют и позабавят читателей от мала до велика. Эта праздничная сокровищница, способная вызвать смех, а иногда и сентиментальную слезу на самых сухих глазах, идеально подходит для чтения вслух или для того, чтобы свернуться калачиком в уютном уголке. Самому Скруджу было бы трудно удержаться от распространения копий в рождественское утро! • Книга на английском языке • Edited by Rosemary Gray Here is a book no Christmas stocking should be without, a book that positively distils the spirit of the season

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting • It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. Immersed in the lives of the people who surround him - the immigrants building the city, as well as those who dreamed it into being - Patrick begins to learn, from their stories, the history of the city itself. And he has his own adventures: searching for a missing millionaire, tunnelling beneath Lake Ontario, falling in love • In the Skin of a Lion is Michael Ondaatje's sparkling predecessor to his Booker Prize-winning The English Patient. Here we encounter Hana the orphaned girl and Caravaggio the thief for the first time, as well as a large cast of other characters, all lovingly and intimately portrayed

Добро пожаловать в жизнь молодого врача: 97-часовая рабочая неделя, решения, вопросы жизни и смерти, цунами биологических жидкостей, а парковочный счетчик в больнице зарабатывает больше, чем вы. Книга Адама Кея "Будет больно", написанная втайне от всех после бесконечно тянущихся дней, бессонных ночей и пропущенных выходных, представляет собой бесстрастный отчет о его работе на передовой в NHS - британской Национальной службе здравоохранения. Уморительный, ужасающий и душераздирающий, этот дневник – все, что вы хотели знать о жизни в больничной палате и за ее пределами (и даже больше). Бестселлер номер один по версии Sunday Times на протяжении более восьми месяцев и книга, которой была присуждена Национальная книжная премия в ЧЕТЫРЕХ номинациях (рекордный показатель!): книга года, нонфикшн года, новый писатель года и книга года по версии книжного клуба Зои Болл

Set in a mythical, feudal, Japanese land, a world both beautiful and cruel, the intense love story of two young people takes place against a background of warring clans, secret alliances, high honour and lightning swordplay • Lian Hearn's stunningly powerful bestseller, Across the Nightingale Floor, is an epic story for readers young and old • In his palace at Inuyama, Lord Iida Sadamu, warlord of the Tohan clan, surveys his famous nightingale floor. Its surface sings at the tread of every human foot, and no assassin can cross it. But sixteen-year-old Otori Takeo, his family murdered by Iida's warriors, has the magical skills of the Tribe - preternatural hearing, invisibility, a second self - that enable him to enter the lair of the Tohan. He has love in his heart and death at his fingertips… • The first novel in the epic Tales of the Otori series, Across the Nightingale Floor is followed by Grass For His Pillow and Brilliance of the Moon

One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unravelling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London home. He struggles to place the dishevelled figure carrying a backpack, until he recognizes a friend from his student days, a brilliant man who disappeared years earlier under mysterious circumstances. The friend has resurfaced to make a confession of unsettling power • Theirs is the age-old story of the bond between two men and the betrayal of one by the other. As the friends begin to talk, and as their room becomes a world, a journey begins that is by turns exhilarating, shocking, intimate and strange. Set against the breaking of nations and beneath the clouds of economic crisis, and moving between Kabul, New York, Oxford, London and Islamabad, In the Light of What We Know tells the story of people wrestling with unshakeable legacies of class and culture, and pushes at the great questions of love, origins, science, faith and war

Sara hasn't seen or heard from her childhood best friend, Lejla, in years. She's comfortable with her life in Dublin, with her partner, their avocado plant, and their naturist neighbour. But when Lejla calls her and demands she come home to Bosnia, Sara finds that she can't say no • What begins as a road trip becomes a journey through the past, as the two women set off to find Armin, Lejla's brother who disappeared towards the end of the Bosnian War. Presumed dead by everyone else, only Lejla and Sara believed Armin was still alive • Confronted with the limits of memory, Sara is forced to reconsider the things she thought she understood as a girl: the best friend she loved, the first experiences they shared, but also the social and religious lines that separated them, that brought them such different lives

Sara hasn't seen or heard from her childhood best-friend, Lejla, in years. She's comfortable with her life in Dublin, with her partner, their avocado plant, and their naturist neighbour. But when Lejla calls and demands she come home to Bosnia, Sara finds that she can't say no • What begins as a road trip becomes a journey through the past, as the two women set off to find Armin, Lejla's brother who disappeared towards the end of the Bosnian War. Presumed dead by everyone else, only Lejla and Sara believed Armin was still alive • Confronted with the limits of memory, Sara is forced to reconsider the things she thought she understood as a girl: the best friend she loved, the first experiences they shared, but also the social and religious lines that separated them, that brought them such different lives

When, in 1859, George Hills is pulled from the wreck of the steamship Admella, he carries with him the uneasy memory of a fellow survivor. Someone else - or something else - kept him warm as he lay dying, half-submerged in the freezing Southern Ocean, kept him bound to life • As George adapts to his life back on land, he can't quite escape the feeling that he wasn't alone when he emerged from the ocean that day, that a familiar presence has been watching him ever since. What the creature might want from him - his life? His first-born? Simply to return to its home? - will pursue him, and call him back to the water, where it all began

Rounding the Mark is the seventh darkly humorous novel in Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano series • Increasingly disillusioned with his government and the world in general, Inspector Montalbano is considering retirement. He is starting to feel his age, and even his favourite restaurant has closed. But when he bumps into a dead body during a bracing swim, his detective instincts are aroused once more. Particularly when the most likely identity of the victim is a man already long buried

Young couples gather to participate in an annual 'chainsaw party', cutting down trees for firewood in anticipation of the winter. A group of men spend a weekend in the wilderness where they grew up, and where some still find themselves trapped. An ageing environmentalist takes out his frustration and anger on a singular, unsuspecting target. A woman helps another get revenge against a man whose crime extends to an entire community • In these ten stories, Nickolas Butler demonstrates his talent for portraying a place and its people with unparalleled tenderness, evoking an American landscape that will be instantly recognizable to readers enchanted by his debut novel, Shotgun Lovesongs