Discover a treasure trove of bugs and other invertebrates in this deluxe pop-up book. Packed with multi-layered pop-ups and flaps to lift, this incredible feat of paper-engineering takes a close-up look at insects and arachnids, and their incredible lives. From shiny bright beetles, to giant-winged butterflies, to silk-weaving spiders, this book reveals wonder after wonder, page after page.Written by award-winning wildlife journalist, Ben Hoare, and illustrated in striking co...

Seventeen-year-old June Scott has always dreamt of becoming a novelist. To write the greatest love story ever told. One that would fill hearts and souls with happiness and joy.However, June has never been in love and when she receives some devastating news, there doesn’t feel as if there’s much time left for her own beautiful love story.That’s until she meets Jesse Taylor who treats every day as if it could be his last. Which could be true. For them both.Together their worlds...

Welcome to The Cherry Blossom Bookshop, a haven for book lovers that only appears during the fleeting cherry blossom season. Nestled amidst the bloom of delicate petals, you’ll find a sanctuary for those burdened by regrets and past sorrows. Here, Sakura, the mysterious young owner, and her wise calico cat, Kobako, patiently await the arrival of souls in need of solace and healing.Told over four seasons, each visitor to the bookshop holds a book that bridges their past and pr...

Inspector Maigret is called to the home of the Comte de Saint-Hilaire, a highly respected official who has been found shot dead in the study of his elegant Parisian home. The violent death of this distinguished former ambassador – an old man without political secrets or enemies – confounds the detective. Then a mysterious bundle of old letters leads him closer towards a tragic truth. 

2025 Whiting Award WINNER in FictionKirkus Reviews Best 100 Books of the Century (So Far)New York Times Notable Books of 2024Chicago Public Library Favorite Books of 2024Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Books of 2024NPR Books We Love 2024Forbes Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2024The Guardian Best Graphic Novels of 2024Library Journal Best Graphic Novels of 2024Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two is the eagerly await...

Jeśli chcesz szybko i efektywnie nauczyć się mówić po angielsku, ta książka jest dla Ciebie.ENGLISH FLOW (LEVEL A1) to sprawdzony i skuteczny sposób na opanowanie podstaw języka i przełamanie bariery w mówieniu.Książka została stworzona z myślą o tych, którzy chcą mówić pewnie, poprawnie i naturalnie.Znajdziesz w niej 14 rozdziałów, a w każdym z nich:proste i zwięzłe wyjaśnienie gramatyki,najważniejsze słowa i zwroty do użycia w rozmowie,12 praktycznych dialogów do uzupełnien...

Książki z serii Metoda Edukacyjnego Czytania Ilyi Franka służą do nauki języka angielskiego przy okazji czytania ciekawych książek w języku oryginalnym z wplecionym dosłownym polskim tłumaczeniem. Metoda polega na specjalnej adaptacji treści w taki sposób że cała zawartość książki jest podzielona na akapity. Najpierw czytamy akapit, z wplecionym polskim tłumaczeniem i niektórymi gramatycznymi i fonetycznymi wyjaśnieniami. Następnie ten sam akapit czytamy już bez tłumaczenia, ...

Repetytorium składa się z dwóch części: praktycznej oraz teoretycznej. Część ćwiczeniowa zawiera 160 jednostek obejmujących swym zakresem niemalże każdy aspekt gramatyki języka angielskiego. Każda jednostka ćwiczeniowa posiada odpowiadającą jej jednostkę w repetytorium, gdzie osoba ucząca się odnajdzie gruntowne oraz przystępne objaśnienia dotyczące danego zagadnienia.

Słownik zawiera zbiór starannie wyselekcjonowanych haseł, słów i zwrotów z dziedziny medycyny, niezbędnych podczas pracy pielęgniarki zarówno z pacjentami, lekarzami jak i z pozostałym personelem medycznym.Specjalistyczne słownictwo medyczne zawarte w słowniku czyni go przydatnym dla wszystkich, którzy mają związek z medycyną i posługują się językiem angielskim. Jest również skierowany do osób zainteresowanych problematyką medyczną.Układ haseł umożliwia szybkie znalezienie po...

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow th...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow th...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow th...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow th...

An absorbing novel. Shafak is a novelist whose interest in mapping the intricately related world and its history goes beyond literary device. Guardian Make place for Elif Shafak on your bookshelf. Make place for her in your heart too. You won't regret it Arundhati Roy It will surprise no one that this is a brutal, elegant and incredible book. Amazing what Elif Shafak has done here - again! Magic. Evie Wyld An odyssey, an epic, a lament, and a tale of redempt...

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.Frankly in Love, a Level 3 Reader, is A2 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing first conditional, past continuous...

Oliver Twist's parents are dead and he grows up in the workhouse, where life is very hard. One day Oliver runs away to London. There, he enters a life of crime with the old man Fagin, the Artful Dodger, frightening Bill Sykes and kind-hearted Nancy. How will Oliver live in this dangerous world? Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully il...

Skuteczna nauka przez czytanie. Let's read!Dorotka mieszka razem z ciocią, wujkiem i pieskiem Toto w szarym domku na prerii. Pewnego dnia tornado porywa domek, a w nim Dorotkę i psa, przenosząc ich do nieznanej, magicznej krainy. Aby wrócić do domu, dziewczynka musi odnaleźć i poprosić o pomoc wielkiego czarnoksiężnika. Pomogą jej w tym poznani po drodze przyjaciele. Czy naprawdę posiada on tak wielką moc, która umożliwi Dorotce powrót do domu?"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"...

Książka adresowana jest do szerokiego grona odbiorców. Z powodzeniem mogą z niej korzystać maturzyści, studenci, kandydaci na studia wyższe, a także inne osoby pragnące podnieść lub też sprawdzić poziom wiedzy o gramatyce oraz leksykonie języka angielskiego. Poziom trudności materiału ćwiczeniowego zawartego w książce oscyluje pomiędzy stopniem średniozaawansowanym (intermediate / upper-intermediate), a zaawansowanym (advanced). Książka składa się z trzech rozdziałów. Każdy z...

If only summer could last forever . . .Belly has only ever loved two boys: Conrad and Jeremiah Fisher. One broke her heart, the other made her happier than she thought she could ever be.And after being with Jeremiah for the last two years, she’s almost positive he is her soul mate. Almost.But each brother is keeping a secret, and this summer Belly must choose between the Fisher boys, once and for all.Who will she choose? And who’s heart will she break?...

From the Los Angeles riots to the Columbine High School massacre, Americans witnessed events and purchased items that reflected the best and worst of the decade. Bill Clinton’s presidency was in jeopardy, the digital age had erupted, and Silicon Valley was affecting everyone on the planet. Meanwhile nudity and sex ruled the pages of magazines, selling everything from haute couture to fragrances and microwave ovens. Nirvana entertained Generation X while the “Greatest Gene...

You may not know the stranger in room six. But they know everything about you.It's been fifteen years since Belinda was convicted of her husband's murder. Now, she's ready for her life to begin again, and she's set on that happening at Sunnyside Home for the Young at Heart.The owner, Mabel, has spent her life here. First as an evacuee during the Blitz and now as the care home's oldest resident, Mabel has held the secrets of this house for as long as she can remember. Secrets ...

Acclaimed on first publication and today considered one of the defining works of the sociology, The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life is Erving Goffman's extraordinary analysis of the structure of our social interactions.Blurring the line between workaday life and theatrical performance, Goffman argues that our behaviour with others is defined by how we wish to be perceived - resulting in displays bearing a startling similarity to those of an actor on the stage. From ...

This selection of Poe's stories, poetry and other writing demonstrates the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. 'The Fall of the House of Usher' describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past. In 'The Tell-Tale Heart', a murderer's insane delusions threaten to betray him, while stories such as 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and 'The Cask of Amontillado' explore extreme states of decade...