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1960. The border between East and West Germany has closed.For Elisabeth - a young painter - the GDR is her generation's chance to build an egalitarian socialist future. For her brother Uli, it is a place of stricture and oppression. Separating them is the ever-wider chasm of the party line; over them loom the twin spectres of opportunity and fear, and the shadow of their defector brother Konrad. In prose as bold as a scarlet paint stroke, Brigitte Reimann battles with the cla...

'When you’re living a lie, you find it’s best to avoid close attachments…’Lynch, a burned out con-artist, arrives, broke, in London, trying not to dwell on the mistakes that got him there. When he bumps into Bobbie, a rehab-bound heiress - and when she briefly mistakes him for her missing brother - Lynch senses the opportunity, as well as the danger…Bobbie’s brother, Heydon, was a troubled young man. Five years ago, he walked out of the family home and never went back. His ca...

"Nauka pisania. Liczby od 1 do 20" to zestaw ćwiczeń kształtujących umiejętność pisania cyfr i pozwalających dziecku oswoić się z liczbami od 1 do 20. Książka została wzbogacona kolorowymi ilustracjami i zadaniami sprawdzającymi zdobytą wiedzę.

To niezwykła lektura dla młodych odkrywców przyrody, którzy chcą dowiedzieć się więcej o tajemnicach naszego morza. Ta książka zabierze czytelników w fascynującą podróż – od narodzin Bałtyku, przez świat niesamowitych stworzeń i roślin, aż po historie pełne piratów, zatopionych wraków i morskich legend.Bałtyk to nie tylko plaża i wakacyjny odpoczynek! To morze pełne zagadek i niezwykłych zjawisk. Czy wiedzieliście, że mogą tu występować trzęsienia ziemi i trąby wodne? Albo że...

Sometimes the truth lies in the things you cannot see.In 1830 a young novice called Catherine Labouré was granted a vision of the Virgin Mary. Nearly 200 years later, Sister Anne is also waiting for a sign. Which is why she accepts a mission to go to a tiny community on an island just off the coast of Brittany. Her only companion there is a sceptical, chain-smoking older nun who just wants to be left in peace.On the island she meets Hugo, the son of a devout family who prefer...

Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the McCarthyism which gripped America in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations....

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PAULA HAWKINS, AUTHOR OF GIRL ON A TRAIN"Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?"From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities. The psychologists would call it folie a deux...Strangers on a Train was Patricia Highsmith's first novel, and...

Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published in 1952 when American society was in the cusp of immense change, the powerfully depicted adventures of Ellison's invisible man - from his expulsion from a Southern college to a terrifying Harlem race riot - go far beyond the story of one individual. As John Callahan says, 'In an extraordinary imaginative leap, he hit upon ...

Niedołężny, starzejący się książę Władysław Herman i jego wszechwładny palatyn Sieciech, co do którego są podejrzenia, że syn władcy, Bolesław, jest jego potomkiem, do tego potężny ród Prawdziców, który swego czasu podsunął księciu młodą niewiastę, co zaowocowało przyjściem na świat Zbigniewa, również pretendenta do tronu. Ci właśnie ludzie stanowią podstawę dramatu, jaki rozgrywa się w młodym państwie polskim. Wszystko dzieje się dla nich i przez nich. Synowie buntują się pr...

"To nadal magia, nawet jeśli się odkryje, na czym polega". Sir Terry Pratchett „Pokazać świat Dysku Terry’ego Pratchetta” prowadzi czytelników za kulisy zadziwiającej współpracy Terry’ego Pratchetta i artysty Paula Kidby’ego. Demonstruje, w jaki sposób Dysk został powołany do wizualnego życia – od najwcześniejszych szkiców do ostatecznych arcydzieł – i jak Terry i Paul reagowali na zjawiska kultury popularnej, wplatając je w dyskowy krajobraz. Co prawda Terry b...

HUBERT MEYER - UTALENTOWANY PROFILER POLICYJNY - ZNOWU W AKCJI! Zabytkowa kamienica w centrum Katowic i dwie zbrodnie, których z pozoru nic nie łączy. Hubert Meyer i seksowna pani prokurator próbują rozwikłać zagadkę śmierci śmieciowego barona, a przy okazji stają się sobie coraz bliżsi.

In a world where birth order determines your fate, what if everything you believed about yourself was a lie?Like all second-born daughters of the realm, Cerise Solon has never ventured beyond the temple grounds where she lives in service to the goddess. But unlike her peers, Cerise is a complete failure as an oracle. Her inability to foretell a single tragedy has brought shame upon her family, something she sees reflected in their eyes during their rare visits. Everything cha...

It is now inarguable that climate change threatens the future of life on Earth. But in The Weight of Nature, award-winning journalist and neuroscientist Clayton Page Aldern shows that the warming climate is not just affecting our planet - it is affecting our brains and bodies too.Drawing on six years of ground-breaking research, Aldern documents a burgeoning public health crisis that has gone largely unreported. Eco-anxiety, he shows us, is just the tip of the iceberg. The ra...

Karty edukacyjne Dbam o ciało zachęcają do zachowań prozdrowotnych i promują zdrowy styl życia.Są doskonałą inspiracją do mądrej, empatycznej rozmowy o ciele i zdrowiu z dziećmi oraz nastolatkami.W pudełku znajdziesz 50 kart o tematyce:profilaktyka chorób i zaburzeń,aktywność fizyczna,szacunek do ciała,dieta i odżywianie,profilaktyka uzależnień.Karty przeznaczone są dla dzieci w wieku 10-15 lat.Wykorzystaj je w gabinecie psychologicznym, w klasie i w domowym zaciszu – wszędzi...

Neuroplaner to wyjątkowy organizer, który łączy funkcje planera, dziennika i kart z ćwiczeniami opartymi na technikach związanych z uważnością i samoregulacją emocjonalną. Stworzony z myślą o osobach, które czują się przytłoczone codziennością, mają trudności z koncentracją, planowaniem i realizacją celów – szczególnie pomocny dla osób z ADHD i wszystkich, którzy mierzą się wyzwaniami wynikającymi z neuroróżnorodności.Zalety Neuroplanera:To wielowymiarowe podejście – łączy pl...

'Shocking, timely and - as you’d expect from Danny Wallace - very funny' - Adam Kay'Thrilling, thought-provoking, funny and wise. Danny has an incredible knack for taking the bizarre fringes and rabbit holes of humanity and making them compulsively laugh-out-loud readable.' - Danny Robins, journalist, presenter of Uncanny and writer of 2:22 A Ghost Story'Danny Wallace lightens this dark topic about lies and propaganda with his trademark humour and gets the balance just right'...

'Marvellously, insanely readable... Highsmith has done it again' The Times"There's no such thing as a perfect murder... That's just a parlor game, trying to dream one up."Tom Ripley is enjoying his wealthy lifestyle in France, until an associate asks him to kill someone again. But Ripley detests murder, unless it is absolutely necessary. Someone else should do the dirty work for them - yes, someone with no criminal record could earn a very generous fee for doing a couple of s...

Portia Daniels’ life is sorted. She has a perfect man (Jason, a hot Irish TV producer) a perfect apartment (in lower Manhattan), a perfect job (writing for TV). Best of all, unlike the rest of her family, she lives in perfect peace and obscurity.Because it’s all about the drama for her mother – Kerry-born reality TV queen, Dessie – and sisters – Insta-guru, Vinnie, and TikTok teen sensation, Ariel.But then Jason blows up their idyllic life, and Portia flees to LA to take refu...

With a foreword by Lauren Asher, author of The Fine Print and Love Redesigned‘I dare you to read the first chapter … chances are you won’t be able to stop once you start.’ – Lauren AsherCraving adventure, seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland leaps at the opportunity to step into the dizzying world of British high society in the resort town of Bath.Adventure arrives in the form of handsome clergyman Henry Tilney, and the ominous promise of his family home: Northanger Abbey. Bu...

Malcolm X is a titanic figure in political history, but he is also one of the most misunderstood. So much of what we know about his life and politics is from books, films and documentaries that are all guilty of peddling the Malcolm myth for their own nefarious interests. Forever known as the violent Yang to Martin Luther King’s Yin, in the years since his death he has been co-opted into the American project, punished by his enemies for his radicalism, and marginalised by dec...

AN ENEMIES-TO-LOVERS COFFEE SHOP ROMANCE, SLOW-ROASTED TO PERFECTION. IDEAL FOR FANS OF JENNY HAN AND BETTER THAN THE MOVIES!Meet River Langston-Lee. In the past 24 hours, he's dumped his girlfriend, walked out of his SATs, and quit his job at his parents' Seattle cafe in spectacularly disastrous fashion - even for him.Somehow, he manages to talk his way into a job at a failing Korean cafe, Bingsu for Two. This could be his lucky break - but then he meets grumpy goth Sarang C...

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, security services and professional propagandists. The members of these networks are connected not only within a given country, but among many countries. The corrupt, s...

Do you feel you’re simply going through the motions? Succeeding at work, pulling your weight at home, living an active social life… yet deep down, you feel drained? If so, you may be experiencing High-Functioning Depression.In the first book to uncover this common yet misunderstood condition, Columbia University psychiatrist Dr Judith Joseph combines her experiences with brand-new research and client cases to demystify HFD. She unveils her unique methodology known as the five...

Our human rights are endangered. After the devastation of World War Two the international community united to enshrine fundamental rights to refuge, health, education and living standards. They protected privacy, fair trials and free speech and outlawed torture, slavery and discrimination. Their goal was greater global justice, equality and peace. That settlement is now under attack from opponents on both left and right and populist and authoritarian movements worldwide. Simu...