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W surowych katalońskich górach, gdzie żyją łowcy wilków, bandyci, dezerterzy, wiedźmy, duchy i demony, leży mas Clavell. Tam w pokoju na piętrze na śmierć czeka staruszka, a wokół krząta się grupa kobiet. Jedna się modli, druga szykuje posiłek, inna porządkuje kuchnię. A wszystko po to, by godnie odprowadzić umierającą w zaświaty. Ale kim właściwie są osobliwe mieszkanki tego ukrytego domu? Wszystko zaczęło się od Joany, która pragnęła męża. Diabeł spełnił to życzenie, ale...

Kiedy Mo przez przypadek znajduje książkę kucharską pełną przepisów i rodzinnych historii postanawia zacząć gotować. Tworzy bloga, gdzie dzieli się przepisami i historiami, które je otaczają. Ale największym pragnieniem Mo jest znaleźć swój własny, rodzinny przepis. Przepis na rodzinę to opowiedziana listami do ukochanej babci powieść o rodzinie, miłości i gotowaniu. Żadnego czytelnika nie pozostawi obojętnym. Recenzje: Czy można za pomocą listów do ukochanej babci oraz wyjąt...

Legendy rodzą się w ogniu wojnyXVII wiek nie zna litości. Po krwawym napadzie Tatarów na Komarowo, siedemnastoletni Gromi, marzący o wielkich czynach dla ojczyzny, rusza na wojnę, aby walczyć ramię w ramię ze swoimi przyjaciółmi.Los prowadzi go przez pola bitew aż do Kamieńca Podolskiego, gdzie ma rozpocząć służbę jako wartownik twierdzy. To właśnie tu, w trakcie oblężenia, pragnienia Gromiego o chwale zostaną wystawione na próbę."Kamieniec Podolski w ogniu" - drugi tom epick...

NIEWIELKA KSIĄŻKA O WIELKICH EMOCJACH Kto jest ładny, a kto nie? I kto o tym decyduje? Stina Wirsén, szwedzka autorka i ilustratorka książek dla najmłodszych, wyróżnia się niezwykłą umiejętnością obserwacji wszelkich odcieni dziecięcych emocji i przedstawiania ich przy pomocy pozornie prostych rysunków. Jej mikrohistorie niosą w sobie humor, zwroty akcji i nierzadko kończą się zaskakującą puentą. W serii Niewielkich Książek o Wielkich Emocjach do połowy 2025 ro...

Witajcie w krainie, gdzie jednorożce mają swój kolorowy świat! Chwyćcie za dołączoną tęczową kredkę i przekształćcie każdą stronę w prawdziwą bajkową ilustrację. Naklejki w zestawie dodadzą rysunkom blasku i magii.
To idealna książeczka dla dzieci, które kochają jednorożce i marzą o własnej tęczowej krainie!

We had always been rare and mysterious creatures. We’d been taught this ever since we were children.With strong roots in feminist science fiction and fantasy, Roadkill’s exhilarating stories transport us to strange new worlds.In a near future where women are an endangered minority, two young friends try to break free from a facility designed for those few who can still give birth. Every year in a secluded seaside village, a maiden is sacrificed to a divine sea serpent. Elsewh...

Master the art of the cocktail.The Mixology Way contains 100 recipes for the most iconic cocktails, as well as 20 tips and tricks to make the perfect drink, from garnishing to filtering. Each cocktail has a sumptuous illustration, precisely demonstrating its composition of spirits, complete with a beautifully styled photo of the finished drink.Recipes include: Old Fashioned, , Singapore Sling, Fog Cutter, Penicillin, Dry Martini, Flip, Whiskey Sour, Mint Julep, Gin Fizz, Dark...

Discover the page-turning true story of the most iconic Cold War spy killing of all time, perfect for fans of Ben Macintyre, Henry Hemming and the novels of John Le Carre.London, 1978: exiled Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is murdered on Waterloo Bridge with what appears to be a poison-tipped umbrella. It would become the most infamous unsolved killing of the Cold War.Many years later, young journalist Ulrik Skotte is approached with explosive new information about a man a...

Za pomocą tej książki dzieci uczą się czytać metodą sylabową. Wszystkie wyrazy i teksty są więc zapisane dwoma kolorami czcionki, zgodnie z podziałem na sylaby. Na każdej rozkładówce wprowadzona jest jedna litera, dwuznak lub trójznak, zapisany zarówno za pomocą pisma drukowanego, jak i kaligraficznego. Poniżej znajdują się sylaby, wyrazy, zdania i teksty, zbudowane z liter, które zostały już wprowadzone (ze szczególnym naciskiem na literę, której poświęcona jest dana rozkład...

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Carroll's magical masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.Bored on a hot afternoon, Alice, a bright and inquisitive child, follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole, and finds herself in Wonderland, a very odd place indeed. This unique story mixes satire and puzzles, comedy and anxiety, Mock Turtles and Gryphos to provide an astute description of the experience of chil...

BESTSELLEROWA POWIEŚĆ, W KTÓREJ KRÓL HORRORU ZABIERA CZYTELNIKA DO CASTLE ROCK. KSIĄŻKA, NA PODSTAWIE KTÓREJ NAKRĘCONO FILM W GWIAZDORSKIEJ OBSADZIE, M.IN. Z MAXEM VON SYDOWEM I EDEM HARRISEM. Tajemniczy przybysz z Europy, czarujący starszy pan, Leland Gaunt, otwiera w Castle Rock sklep, w którym można kupić wszystko, o czym się zamarzy. Każdy znajdzie tu przedmiot, za który byłby gotowy zapłacić dowolną cenę. A tymczasem za zrealizowanie pragnień płaci się tu tylko częściowo...

'Deliciously dark, razor-sharp, and unapologetically wrong in all the right ways' C.J. Skuse, author of SWEETPEAHe wasn’t afraid of me. That was his first mistake.Read the cult word-of-mouth hit readers are obsessed with:‘Such an incredible read!’‘Holy hell this book was fun!’‘Included all the things I like in fiction…vigilantism/revenge, cold, calculating women, themes of obsession, queer desire’‘Amazing twists!’‘You guys NEED TO READ THIS!’Scarlett Clark is an exceptional E...

Robert Langdon returns in Dan Brown's brilliant new thriller, THE SECRET OF SECRETS, available for pre-order now.The astonishing number 1 global bestseller, featuring symbologist Robert Langdon.Florence: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings.A threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, Sienna Broo...

Robert Langdon returns in Dan Brown's brilliant new thriller, THE SECRET OF SECRETS, available for pre-order now.Discover the heart-racing bestseller that first introduced the world to symbologist Robert Langdon.CERN Institute, Switzerland: a world-renowned scientist is found brutally murdered with a mysterious symbol seared onto his chest.The Vatican, Rome: the College of Cardinals assembles for conclave to elect a new pope. Somewhere beneath them, an unstoppable bomb of ter...

PRAISE FOR JAMES PATTERSON'It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most popular thriller writer ... Simply put: nobody does it better.' JEFFERY DEAVER'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades.' LEE CHILD'Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind.' MICHAEL CONNELLY'James ...

Those we think we know best can sometimes surprise us the most . . .After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have a comfortable home, fulfilling jobs, beautiful twin girls, and communicate so seamlessly, they finish each other's sentences. They have a happy marriage and believe they know everything there is to know about each other. Until it's casually mentioned to them that they could be together for anothersixty-eight years... and panic sets in.They quickly decide...

The hilarious romantic comedy from NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Sophie KinsellaLexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking she's twenty-five with crooked teeth and a disastrous love life. But, to her disbelief, she learns it's actually three years later - she's a super-toned twenty-eight-year-old, her teeth are straight, she's the boss of her department - and she's married to a good-looking millionaire!She can't believe her luck - especially when she sees ...

Sometimes pretending to be someone else helps you figure out who you really are…Freshly divorced and in need of a job – Kate Elliot’s life needs a rewrite. So when she unearths an old letter from her ex-talent agent, Jojo Francisco – she takes it as a sign from the universe to brush off her old acting skills and become someone else entirely.Meanwhile, Charlie Francisco is back from LA, leaving his dumpster fire of a life behind. He may be well over his head in filling the sho...

It’s time to put the guns down, Detective Cross. Even if you knew the way out of this place, we would catch you.A serial killer is taking out America’s finest legals minds, and Alex Cross is called to investigate their brutal murders.But during a dangerous mission to track down the killer, his wife, Bree, and best friend, John Sampson, go missing.To save the people he loves most, Cross has only three goals.Number one: Find Bree and John.Number two: Escape.Number three: Surviv...

Prizewinning Yan Lianke returns with a campus novellike no other following a young Buddhist as she journeys through worldly temptationYahui is a young Buddhist at university. But this is no ordinary university. It is populated by every faith in China: Buddhists, Daoists, Catholics, Protestants and Muslims who jostle alongside one another in the corridors of learning, and whose deities are never far from the classroom.Her days are measured out making elaborate religious paperc...

What if you could rewrite your relationship, again and again, until it worked out?‘A cause for celebration’GEORGE SAUNDERS‘A stunner of a debut’NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH'Hilarious, heart-rending, grotesque, delightful, utterly brilliant' DAISY JOHNSON‘Exhilaratingly good’ KELLY LINKWhen Myriam and Allison fall in love at a show in a run-down punk house, their relationship begins to unfold through a series of hypotheticals:What if they became mothers by finding a baby in an all...

Rhetoric once sat at the centre of elite education. Alexander the Great, Shakespeare and Martin Luther King, Jr. used it to build empires, write deathless literature and inspire democracies. Here, Heinrichs shows us how these persuasive tools, invented by the likes of Aristotle and Cicero, and honed over more than three thousand years, can sway your most difficult audience: yourself.Illustrated with examples from history and pop culture – Winston Churchill, Iron Man, Dolly Pa...

What if we could stop cancer in its tracks, prevent cardiovascular disease, lose weight at will and reverse the effects of ageing? With new developments in artificial intelligence, gene editing and robotics, it might all be possible sooner than you think.In Hacking Humanity, technology journalist Lara Lewington takes us to the cutting edge of scientific research to demystify how new innovations are transforming medicine for the better. Drawing us into the science behind the w...

What we experience during adolescence shapes us for life, but psychologist Lucy Foulkes shows that too often we fear, dismiss or even try to prevent aspects of it that are crucial to our development. Drawing on decades of psychological research, and including profoundly moving interviews, Coming of Age gets beneath the recent myths and age-old stereotypes of adolescence to reveal the reasons why teens behave the way they do.Above all, Foulkes shows that adolescents have an ex...