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Throughout her lifetime, Jane Austen wrote countless letters to her sister. But why did Cassandra burn them all?1840: twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane, Cassandra Austen returns to the village of Kintbury, and the home of her family's friends, the Fowles.She knows that, in some dusty corner of the sprawling vicarage, there is a cache of family letters which hold secrets she can never allow to be revealed.As Cassandra recalls her youth and her relati...

Discover a deliciously dark and piercing story of food and secrets, a Stylist Best Debut Novel.‘A sharp, dark, must-read story about appetite, ambition, secrecy and shame’ Daily Mail‘If I owned a bookstore, I’d hand-sell Piglet to everyone’ New York Times Book Review‘A dark, weird, satisfying tale about greed and desire’ i News-------------------Her life is so full, so why is she hungry?For Piglet – an unshakable childhood nickname – getting married is her opportunity to rein...

Drawing on decades of research, The Extinction of Experience is a philosophical defence of what makes us human – and a powerful, urgent call to reclaim ourselves in a digital world. Human experiences are disappearing.Social media, gaming and dating apps have usurped in-person interaction; handwriting is no longer prioritised in schools; and emotion is sooner expressed through likes and emojis than face-to-face conversations. With headphones in and eyes trained on our phones, ...

How did the world's most remarkable people get that way?This is a book about how the highest-performing people changed their lives - and how you can change yours.Drawing on interviews with record-setting athletes, Olympic coaches and billionaire founders, Jake Humphrey and Professor Damian Hughes introduce the five simple steps that take you from where you are to where you want to be. And they introduce the cutting-edge research that explains why these surprisingly simple too...

Kasia     Na pierwszy rzut oka spełniona narzeczona u boku Michała. Planują wspólną przyszłość, ale odmienność ich charakterów daje się we znaki. Kasia czuje, że czegoś jej brakuje, a jednocześnie ma wrażenie, że Michał coś przed nią ukrywa. Nie zdaje sobie jeszcze sprawy z przyczyny tych niepokojów, ale życie zaczyna prowadzić ją przez pasmo nieszczęść. Pewnego dnia w jej życiu pojawia się mężczyzna, którego myślała, że już nigdy nie zobaczy. Filip     Z pozoru ma wszystko, ...

When snow shuts down Greg Heffley's middle school, his neighbourhood transforms into a wintry battlefield. Rival groups fight over territory, build massive snow forts, and stage epic snowball fights. And in the crosshairs are Greg and his trusty best friend, Rowley Jefferson. It's a fight for survival as Greg and Rowley navigate alliances, betrayals, and warring gangs in a neighbourhood meltdown. When the snow clears, will Greg and Rowley emerge as heroes? Or will they even...

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.The Pursuit of Love, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, pas...

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.Les Misérables, a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of present perfe...

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.The Turn of the Screw, a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, re...

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.Originals, a Level 7 Reader, is B2 in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future perfect simple, mixed condi...

In this story, Ade lives in a tower block in London. One day, something bad happens to Ade's mum. After that, she stays in her bedroom all the time and sleeps. Then buildings start falling down in the night, and there are strange plants on the street. What will happen to Ade and his friend Gaia? Our Penguin Readers books include: • Simple text (CEFR-levelled) • Pictures to help you understand the story • Fun exercises to help you learn and practise English With the print book...

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a Level 2 Reader, is A1+ in the CEFR framework. Sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, introducing the future tenses will and go...

THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, WITH OVER 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD Now a major Apple TV series starring Brie Larson 'The most charming, life-enhancing novel I've read in ages' Sunday Times 'Thought-provoking and stylish' Guardian Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, she would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male te...

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. . . . .

Drugi tomik poezji Magdaleny Mulawy – poetki urodzonej w Zamościu, mieszkającej w Krakowie z ukochanym mężem i kotem Indianą. Wychowana w miłości do książek i do Roztocza. Skończyła filologię romańską. Wyznaje samoświadomość i pracę nad sobą. Miłośniczka piłki nożnej i kawy.„Dzienniki psychiczne” to różne stany uczuć i emocji oraz świadomego ich umysłu wyrażone bogatym słownictwem i zabawą słowem, okraszone humorem.Kamienie szlachetneLimity wyczerpane na róż i czerwień jak ła...

When Kerry arrives to start a new job as the caretaker of a remote motel in the Catskills, she’s excited for a fresh start.But she quickly realises that something is very wrong.Her room is full of the previous caretaker’s belongings – and it looks like she was trying to leave in a hurry.And then, Kerry sees it – the trails of blood. The hand reaching out from the snow…Confused and scared, in the midst of a snowstorm, Kerry goes out to seek help. When the police arrive, though...

Matylda, młoda dziewczyna po studiach, zaczyna swoje dorosłe życie w Kazimierzu. Razem z miłością swojego życia, Rafałem, dążą do spełnienia marzeń i rozwijania swojej pasji, jaką jest malarstwo. Niestety rzeczywistość nie będzie taka kolorowa. Matylda, żeby poradzić sobie ze swoimi emocjami, zaczyna pisać pamiętnik. Powoli wszystko zaczyna się układać, ale do czasu. Pewnego dnia Rafał znika bez śladu. Zrozpaczona dziewczyna szuka ukochanego, ale wszystko wskazuje na to, że m...

Młoda Nowa Kobieta/Nowy Człowiek, urodzona w roku 1910, wraca z krótkiego, ale owocnego pobytu w Bauhausie w Dessau (wśród studentek Bauhausu w Dessau nie było Polki, ale mogła być) z postanowieniem zrealizowania nowoczesnego filmu o Nowej Kobiecie (taki film nigdy nie powstał, ale mógł powstać). Światowy kryzys ekonomiczny, narastający faszyzm, wojna domowa w Hiszpanii i wybuch drugiej wojny światowej nie ułatwiają jej pracy.„To prawdziwe kompendium jest, summa, hipnotyczny ...

Jim Woodford, doskonały pilot i odnoszący sukcesy biznesmen, miał wszystko – kochającą rodzinę, znaczne bogactwo i powodzenie. Ale to nie wystarczało, aby zaspokoić pustkę, którą odczuwał w sercu. Zawsze odczuwał głód czegoś więcej. A potem umarł…Nigdy nie był człowiekiem religijnym. Jeśli chodzi o sprawy Boga i wiary, był mocno ambiwalentny. Ale kiedy przez ponad 11 godzin leżał w łóżku szpitalnym w stanie śmierci klinicznej, jego świadomość została przeniesiona do cudów Nie...

Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this bold edition of The Jungle Book. Saved from the jaws of the evil tiger Shere Khan, young Mowgli is adopted by a wolf pack and taught the law of the jungle by lovable old Baloo the bear and Bhageera the panther. The adventures of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi the snake-fighting mongoose, little Toomai and the elephant's secret dance, and Kotick the white seal are all part of Mow...

‘One of Britain’s top weight-loss experts’ This MorningFor years we’ve been told that successful weight loss is a simple matter of willpower and calorie control. But this argument fails to take into account how our brains and bodies respond to food – in particular, to the ultra-processed foods that seem inescapable in modern life.Bariatric surgeon and Sunday Times bestselling author Dr Andrew Jenkinson gives us a game-changing blueprint to free us from our biological impulses...

Every organisation is plagued by destructive friction. Lengthy and convoluted emails, inefficient processes, and antiquated procedures can all be obstacles to excellence at work.Yet some forms of friction are incredibly useful. Often teams need to slow down, struggle and develop some bad ideas to find that rare good one. And leaders who attempt to improve workplace efficiency often make things even worse.Drawing from seven years of hands-on research, The Friction Project by b...

Things are getting very bad, very fast, for Apollo...The former God Apollo is having a pretty rough time of it. Well, for one thing, he's been turned into a human and banished from Olympus. And he's called Lester. But being an awkward mortal teenager is the least of his worries right now.Though he and some of his friends have emerged from the Burning Maze, they still have a triumvirate to defeat, oracles to rescue and prophecies to decipher, so that the world may be saved, an...