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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...

First in the bestselling Folk of the Air trilogy. The sequels - The Wicked King and The Queen of Nothing - are the winners of/won the Goodreads YA Best Fantasy in 2019 and 2020. Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019. Winner of the silver INKY for best international YA book. "A dark jewel of a book . . . intoxicating" - Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Six of CrowsOf course I want to be like them. They're beautiful as blades forged in some divine fi...

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...

Is Lady Juvelian at greater risk of dying at the hands of her father’s political enemies… or of falling in love? Desperate to appear unavailable for marriage to the tyrannical Crown Prince Maximillian – the villain of her previous life – Juvelian has proposed a contract relationship with her father’s rebellious protégé. At first glance, he’s the perfect choice, but a veil of misunderstandings hides a dark truth that could challenge Juvelian’s attempts to change her future.Mea...

How did everything start?And how did we come to exist?In one book Oxford Professor Tim Coulson seeks to simply explain what science tells us about the history of the universe from the Big Bang to the existence of humanity, and whether our existence was always inevitable or if we are just incredibly lucky.Coulson's engaging and accessible storytelling will enthral even the most reluctant of readers with its exploration of what thousands of years of study has told us about who ...

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...

Introducing the new 'How To...' series from #Merky Books: unlock your potential with our short, practical pocket-sized guides.How to Move It: Reset Your BodyThis book is about motivating your body through the power of movement, focusing on you as an individual and not the ideal of fitness we see so often. Before you lift a single kettle bell or hit the yoga mat, Nike Master Trainer Joslyn Thompson Rule will break down the stages to moving your body for the better. Starting wi...

352 strony, formatu B6 wydłużonego (11 x 19 cm), 39 panoram górskich, 16 mapek i planów miejscowości. Oprawa miękka z dwoma skrzydełkami, szyta.Wydawnictwo „Trawers” – wyd. XXIV, Latchorzew 2025Przewodnik nie mający odpowiedników w polskiej literaturze krajoznawczej. Od 30 lat stale na rynku, z wydania na wydanie rozszerzany i aktualizowany. Towarzyszy w wędrówkach doświadczonym turystom górskim, wprowadza w Tatry nowicjuszy. Zawiera szczegółowe opisy wszystkich szlaków w Tat...

"Akademia Malucha" to seria zeszytów edukacyjnych przeznaczona dla dzieci w wieku przedszkolnym.
Zeszyty zostały opracowane tak, by zapewnić zrównoważony i prawidłowy rozwój. Dzięki zeszytom dzieci poznają świat, wzbogacają słownictwo, uczą się logicznego myślenia, ćwiczą koncentrację oraz wprawiają rękę przygotowując dziecko do rozpoczęcia procesu edukacji wczesnoszkolnej.
A specjalnie przygotowane naklejki umilają zabawę.

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.

Dwaj młodzi inżynierowie z Warszawy docierają do poniemieckiej fabryczki na Dolnym Śląsku. Mają za zadanie sfinalizować wrogie przejęcie firmy i dopilnować wywiezienia sprzętu przed zwolnieniem załogi. Na miejscu okazuje się, że w fabryce wytwarzającej dermokosmetyki i preparaty ziołowe pracują same kobiety. Wszyscy mężczyźni, oprócz zdziwaczałego wiceprezesa, zniknęli bez śladu, a kobiety zachowują się dziwnie i coś ukrywają. Mieszkańcy niedalekiego miasteczka tw...

An Inspector Calls, first produced in 1946 when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormously successful revival. While holding its audience with the gripping tension of a detective thriller, it is also a philosophical play about social conscience and the crumbling of middle class values. Time and the Conways and I Have Been Here Before belong to Priestley’s ‘time’plays, in which he explores the idea of precognition and pits fate against ...

GOODREADS BEST FANTASY YA 2020. The intoxicating and bloodthirsty finale to the New York Times bestselling The Cruel Prince, nominated for the CARNEGIE MEDAL, and  New York Times bestseller The Wicked King, Best YA Fantasy in the Goodreads Choice Awards 2019. After being pronounced Queen of Faerie and then abruptly exiled by the Wicked King Cardan, Jude finds herself unmoored, the queen of nothing. She spends her time with Vivi and Oak, watching reality television, and doing ...

Second in the bestselling Folk of the Air trilogy. This novel and the sequel The Queen of Nothing - are the winners of/won the Goodreads YA Best Fantasy in 2019 and 2020. An intoxicating and bloodthirsty sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Cruel Prince., nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019. 'Holly Black is the Faerie Queen' - Victoria Aveyard                   I have heard that for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very like the feeling of fear.     ...

A captivating and swashbuckling romantasy for fans of DAUGHTER OF THE PIRATE KING and TO KILL A KINGDOM.Ximena Reale is certain of one thing: the only good pirate is a dead one.     Ximena has spent her life training to become one of the black-cloaked cazadores, seafaring hunters who capture the pirates pillaging the Luzan Empire. But although Ximena is the top candidate at la academia, that will not be enough for a daughter of the notorious Reales - pirate captains who were ...

'All we could see was the dust on the road ahead and ourselves on the bike, devouring kilometers in our flight northward''In late 1951, Guevara and Alberto Granado set off on the 500cc Norton they nicknamed La Poderosa ('The Powerful One') with no other agenda than a lust for life and a desire to see it all. The Motorcycle Diaries offer a unique perspective on what led this would-be doctor from relatively affluent Argentina to become one of the 20th century's most important p...

Versailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a living fairy-tale, Louis XIV's fever dream. It's a place of opulence, beauty, and power. But strip back the lavish exterior of polite society, and you'll find a dark undercurrent of sexual intrigue and vicious gossip. Nobody is safe here - no matter how highly born they are.No one knows this better than Madame Marie d'Aulnoy. Each week, a rogue group of intellectuals gather at her Parisian home to debate, flirt and perform Contes de Fée...

A family completely disappears from their dinghy in the middle of a lake.A man detained in a casino holding cell vanishes.Missing persons investigator David Raker is an expert at solving missing persons puzzles - but these mysteries are unlike anything he’s ever seen.He employs his long-time ally, ex-detective Colm Healy to help him.But the men are in danger. Because buried in the shadows of both cases is a deadly secret that was never meant to come out…...

The perfect gift for any Oasis fanIn early 2025, a mysterious cache of papers was discovered in a skip in Manchester. Although not at first recognised, it was soon discovered to be a secret stash of private papers belonging to Oasis musicians Liam and Noel Gallagher, comprising lost diary entries from the course of the brothers’ lives, plus other correspondence and artefacts including one ‘Gospel According to Liam Gallagher’.Some might say It seems likely that the pages were ...

When schoolteacher Tom Michell pulls a penguin from an oil slick off the coast of Uruguay he has no idea what to do. Back at his apartment, Tom cleans him, but upon returning to the beach the penguin refuses to return to the ocean. Tom has one option: to smuggle the penguin over the Argentinian border to the prestigious boarding school Tom calls home.There follows a heart-warming story of one remarkable penguin, who adapts to boarding school life. Whether it's as team mascot ...

Ancient Rome, AD 50The boy Nero lives. His mother Agrippina has married her way to power, tangling the Emperor Claudius in her skirts.The emperor may have a son and heir of his own, but Agrippina sees no obstacles to her ambition.Rome is a path through a marsh, lit by torches. Those who walk it are always one step from disaster – and the road itself is treacherous, slippery with blood.Claudius may have the world at his feet, but he has Agrippina in his bed....