Granta Publication Haroun and the Sea of Stories Рушди Салман

A glittering, magical fable, the follow-up to the bestselling Haroun and the Sea of Stories • On a beautiful starry night in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay a terrible thing happened: twelve-year-old Luka's storyteller father, Rashid, fell suddenly and inexplicably into a sleep so deep that nothing and no one could rouse him. To save him from slipping away entirely, Luka must embark on a journey through the Magic World, encountering a slew of phantasmagorical obstacles along the way, to steal the Fire of Life, a seemingly impossible and exceedingly dangerous task • With Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie proved that he is one of the best contemporary writers of fables, and it proved to be one of his most popular books with readers of all ages

A collection of all the classic stories about Harry and his bucketful of dinosaurs! • Everyone has their favourite Harry story and here they all are in this roaringly good collection! • This superb collection features Harry and the Snow King, Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs, Harry and the Robots, Romp in the Swamp and Harry and the Dinosuars say 'Raaah!' Read about how Harry first found his beloved dinosaurs, their adventures together in the scary swamp and discover just how brave they all are when they visit the dentist. There are even two stories just about Harry • Having spent much of his life teaching English and drama, Ian Whybrow is now a bestselling author. Among his most popular characters are the hugely successful Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs and the much-loved Little Wolf

You can't tell by looking at me that my dad is Poseidon, God of the Sea. It's not easy being a half-blood these days. Even a simple game of dodgeball becomes a death match against an ugly gang of cannibal giants - and that was only the beginning. Now Camp Half-Blood is under attack, and unless I can get my hands on the Golden Fleece, the whole camp will be invaded by monsters. Big ones... This full-colour graphic novel is adapted by Robert Vendetti, with art by Attila Futaki and colour by Tamas Gaspar

Высокий, светловолосый молодой путешественник из Европы, зовущийся Могор дель Аморе, "Моголом любви", прибывает ко двору настоящего великого могола, владыки Акбара. И он привёз с собой историю, которая прикуёт к себе внимание всей столицы империи. Путешественник утверждает, что он сын бесследно пропавшей принцессы моголов, темноокой красавицы, которой приписывают колдовские способности. Якобы она полюбила некоего Аргалию, флорентийского солдата удачи. Когда наёмник вернулся домой, его пассия не оставила Флоренцию равнодушной, ведь её попытка самостоятельно определить свою судьбу объединила два мира. Но правдива ли история Могора? И какая участь постигла принцессу? • "Флорентийская чародейка" - один из самых досконально проработанных романов классика современной литературы Салмана Рушди

Третья в серии "Современная классика и бестселлеры", посвященной путешествиям по книгам, которая прославляет все лучшее в жизни: книги, приключения, дружбу - и торт • Происходят странные вещи. Мужчина заходит в Pages & Co в поисках книги... и вдруг не может ее вспомнить. Тилли и ее семья чувствуют, что мир меняется, но не могут точно сказать, почему • Тем временем Андервуды расширяют свой контроль над буквоедством – и они по-прежнему нацелены на Тилли. Покинув безопасный книжный магазин, Тилли отправляется в Америку, чтобы найти легендарных архивариусов и спасти книготорговлю… • или, по крайней мере, таков план. Блуждая по слоям истории, Тилли и ее друг Оскар сталкиваются с опасностями, которых они никак не могли ожидать, объединяются с неожиданно знакомым лицом и в конечном счете обнаруживают, что сталкиваются с самой большой угрозой для историй, которая когда–либо существовала, - и только их мужество и изобретательность могут им помочь

Глядя на Перси, и не скажешь, что его отец — Посейдон, бог морей. Перси — наполовину человек и наполовину бог • Полукровкой быть нелегко. Для Перси даже игра в вышибалы превращается в смертельную схватку с гигантами-людоедами. А ведь это только начало… • Лагерь Полукровок подвергся нападению Титанов и защитить его можно, только добыв Золотое руно. Теперь тринадцатилетнему полубогу предстоит пересечь море Чудовищ, и этот путь не будет лёгким • Роман Рика Риордана «Перси Джексон и Море чудовищ» - это вторая книга в цикле «Перси Джексон и боги-олимпийцы», который принёс автору мировую известность. Книга станет отличным подарком для любителей ретеллингов, греческой мифологии и жанра фэнтези. По сюжету произведения был снят одноименный фильм, собравший в прокате 90 миллионов долларов

In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his life while Amy sat with him and held his hand. Brian was terminally ill and for the last year of his life Amy had struggled to find a way to support his wish to take control of his death, to not submerge ‘into the darkness of an expiring existence’ • Written with piercing insight and wit, In Love is Bloom’s intimate, authentic and startling account of losing Brian, first slowly to the disease of Alzheimer’s, and then on becoming a widow. It charts the anxiety and pain of the process that led them to Dignitas, while never avoiding the complex ethical problems that are raised by assisted death. A poignant love letter to Bloom’s husband and a passionate outpouring of grief, In Love reaffirms the power and value of human relationships

In the heart of Mexico City a woman, trapped in a house and a marriage she can neither fully inhabit nor abandon, thinks about her past.She has decided to write a novel about her days at a publishing house in New York; about the strangers who became lovers and the poets and ghosts who once lived in her neighbourhood. In particular, one of the obsessions of her youth – Gilberto Owen – an obscure Mexican poet of the 1920s, a marginal figure of the Harlem Renaissance, a busker on Manhattan’s subway platforms, a friend and an enemy of Federico Garcia Lorca • As she writes, Gilberto Owen comes to life on the page: a solitary, faceless man living on the edges of Harlem’s writing and drinking circles at the beginning of the Great Depression, haunted by the ghostly image of a woman travelling on the New York subway

This is a portrait of Diego Velazquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, to his death 38 years and scores of paintings later. It is a portrait of a relationship that is not quite a friendship, between an artist and his subject. It is a portrait of a ruler, always on duty, and increasingly burdened by a life of public expectation and repeated private grief. And it is a portrait of a court collapsing under the weight of its own excess • Unfolding through series of masterly set-pieces and glancing sketches, this is a novel of brilliance, imagination and sheer style — about what is shown and what is seen, about art and life

Two friends meet across three dinners. In the back room of a pet shop, they snack on dried shrimps and discuss fish-breeding. In a remote new home in the mountains, they look for a solution to a weasel infestation. During a dinner party in a blizzard, a mounting claustrophobia makes way for uneasy dreams. Their conversations often take them in surprising directions, but when one of the men becomes a father, more and more is left unsaid • With emotional acuity and a wry humour, Weasels in the Attic it is an uncanny and striking reflection on fertility, masculinity, and marriage in contemporary Japan

The quote from Karl Marx taken out to the headline treats a person as a rational being realizing the being as a whole and inexhaustible. Hence - the problem of philosophical knowledge and philosophical perception of the whole as a purely philosophical problem. For its solution the author is developing a theory of being, motion, space and time, relying on modern natural, inter alia, on cosmological perceptions of the world, challenging some of them, including the "theory of enlargement of the Universe", "recession of galaxies" et al. Decision of assigned tasks required author to address to the problems associated with a fundamental question of philosophy, as well as the theory of knowledge, consciousness, nature of the ideal and the mechanisms of spiritual production