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The next gripping, must-read, YA crime mystery for readers of Holly Jackson and Karen McManus, and fans of The Secret History and Ace of Spades. Eva has set her sights on studying English at Oxford University. Atmospheric old libraries; secret societies; eccentric professors – it’s the stuff of her dreams.When she and her best friend (who she’s also secretly in love with), George, are invited to Interview Week, it seems like those dreams are coming true. But only a day in, Ge...

W 1888 roku cały kraj żyje ślubem najsłynniejszego polskiego podróżnika Stefana Szolc-Rogozińskiego z młodą pisarką Heleną Janiną Boguską, znaną czytelnikom jako Hajota. Szczególną sensację wywołuje wieść, że młoda para wybiera się do Afryki, gdzie Stefan zamierza po raz kolejny spróbować spełnić swe marzenie i założyć polską kolonię na Czarnym Lądzie.Helena towarzyszy mu jako korespondentka pisma dla pań „Bluszcz”. Jest bujającą w obłokach poetką, bywalczynią salonów literac...

Mam na imię Weronika.Czasem budziłam się w nocy wdzięczna za to, że życie podarowało mi premie. Tak to nazywałam. Miałam przystojnego i zaradnego mężczyznę, który mnie kochał – premia numer jeden. Urodziłam zdrową i śliczną córeczkę – premia numer dwa. Lubiłam swoją pracę, nawet jeśli nie zostałam fotografką światowej sławy – premia numer trzy.Czasem budziłam się w nocy przerażona, że życie podarowało mi premie. Prześladowały mnie koszmary, w których wszystko traciłam. Rano w...

Wiedeń, 1889 rok. Klara von Altenburg mieszka z bratem Ottonem i ojcem Alfredem, sławnymkompozytorem. Klara odziedziczyła po nim talent, ojciec jednak zabiera stworzone przez nią dzieła i przedstawia je jako prace syna, aby uczynić zeń wielkiego muzyka. Pewnego wieczoru Otto niespodziewanie znika, a Alfred, nie chcąc angażować w sprawę policji i wywoływać skandalu, każe córce go odnaleźć. W poszukiwaniach pomaga jej Franz Weber, nauczyciel historii, który niedawno stracił pos...

Musicians have often wanted to change the world. From underground innovators to pop icons, many have believed in the political power of music. Rulers recognise it too.Music has been used to challenge the political and social order—and to prop up the status quo. Sound System is the story of one musician's journey to discover what makes music so powerful. Dave Randall uses his insider's knowledge of the industry to shed light on the secrets of celebrity, commodification and cul...

A fascinating study of the role that music played in Jane Austen's life.Like her much-loved heroine Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen ‘played and sang’. Music occupied a central role in her life, and she made brilliant use of it in her novels to illuminate characters’ personalities and highlight the contrasts between them.Delving into the Austen family music books, Gillian Dooley discovers a treasure trove of evidence that unveils a previously underappreciated facet of Austen's wor...

To ja, Gucio! to seria kartonowych książeczek dla dzieci w wieku 0-2, która pomaga maluchom w odkrywaniu codziennych czynności w sposób prosty i angażujący. Dzięki Guciowi – uroczemu zajączkowi – Twoje dziecko nauczy się empatii, samodzielności oraz budowania codziennych nawyków. Książeczki wspierają rozwój emocjonalny dziecka, a rodzicom zapewniają bezcenne chwile wspólnego czytania i budowania więzi. Idealne do nauki przez zabawę – zarówno w domu, jak i w podróży! ...

Even though it's uncomfortable and sometimes even distressing to us, it's perfectly normal to feel lost, anxious, or overwhelmed at times. It's okay to be a bit of a mess! But none of us wants to stay that way for long. With actionable, evidence-based strategies to handle our most common challenges in life, this practical guide from bestselling author and clinical neuroscientist Dr.Caroline Leaf offers the tools you need to prevent a descent into chaos and instead find peace ...

Dyktanda z naklejkami dla klas 1-3 Dyktanda i ćwiczenia ortograficzne dla uczniów klas 1-3, idealne do pracy w domu. Na każdej stronie znajdują się teksty z lukami do uzupełniania i zadania w formie rebusów, krzyżówek czy rozsypanek wyrazowych.

Dyktanda z naklejkami dla klas 1-3 Dyktanda i ćwiczenia ortograficzne dla uczniów klas 1-3, idealne do pracy w domu. Na każdej stronie znajdują się teksty z lukami do uzupełniania i zadania w formie rebusów, krzyżówek czy rozsypanek wyrazowych.

This volume is a comprehensive visual history of surfing, marking a major cultural event as much as a publication. Following three and a half years of meticulous research, it brings together hundreds of images to chart the evolution of surfing as a sport, a lifestyle, and a philosophy.The book is arranged into five chronological chapters, tracing surfing culture from the first recorded European contact in 1778 by Captain James Cook to the global and multi-platform phenomenon ...

The full set of 46 glorious prints of Mt Fuji by Japan's most famous artist! This beautiful Japanese-bound volume presents the complete set of prints Thirty-six Views of Fuji, one of the most famous series created by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), including ten prints he added to the series at a later date. Mt Fuji is magnificently represented by the master thanks to his highly personal conception that combines the sacred dimensions of the mountain with earthly views repres...

A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written—Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author`s father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats. Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author`s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history`s most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a dis...

In seven days Jet Mason will be dead.Twenty-seven years old, she’s back living with her parents, waiting for her life to begin. She’ll do it later, she always says. Her parents have their doubts.Until, on the night of Halloween, Jet is violently attacked by an unseen intruder.She suffers a catastrophic brain injury. The doctor is certain that within a week, she’ll suffer a deadly aneurysm.Jet never thought of herself as having enemies. But now she looks at everyone in a new l...

Hans Christian Andersen is the best-loved of all tellers of fairy tales. This collection of over forty of Andersen’s most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Red Shoes, The Little Match Girl, The Snow Queen, The Tinder Box, The Ugly Duckling and many more. It is delightfully illustrated in black-and white by those remarkable brothers, Charles, Thomas and William Heath Robinson...

One of New Scientist’s Best Popular Science Books of 2025Artists have captured the marvels of ocean life throughout history. From fine art to scientific illustrations, these portrayals help us to appreciate and interpret the diversity of shapes, colours and patterns of the remarkable organisms that inhabit the oceans of the world. In Ocean Art, marine biologist and writer Helen Scales takes readers on a tour of ocean art, looking for the most striking and meaningful depiction...

In 1600 English helmsman William Adams washed ashore in Japan and was interrogated by Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japan’s most powerful warlord and soon-to-be shogun. Far from executing Adams as a pirate, Ieyasu made him one of his most trusted advisers. This biography traces Adams’s rise from humble pilot to a position of immense influence in Japan’s foreign relations.It unravels the subsequent diplomatic manoeuvres of the Western powers in the shogun’s empire, and Adams’s eventual dow...

Zestaw kart aktywności „Od ucha do ucha”, poziom IV,  zawiera cztery części kart z ćwiczeniami, które doskonalą umiejętności ze wszystkich obszarów rozwojowych zawartych w podstawie programowej.

Sytuacja polityczna na świecie zaczyna przybierać niespodziewany dla III Rzeszy obrót. Państwa sprzymierzone oraz Związek Radziecki powoli ujarzmiają niezwyciężone dotychczas Niemcy. W Polakach budzi się nadzieja, jednak niektórzy patrzą z niepokojem na poczynania Stalina. Nadchodzi czas powstania warszawskiego i dramatycznych dla Polski konferencji w Teheranie i Jałcie. Bohaterowie kolejny raz stają przed trudnymi wyborami, a ich siłą napędową są miłość i przyjaźń. Czy uda ...

In this epic conclusion to Star Wars: The High Republic, the Jedi face a final confrontation against the Nihil and Marchion Ro.The Force is everything. A single life connected to all life. All things connected to all other things. This is what the Jedi believe, and this is why they fight. For life . . . and the light.For too long, the light has been threatened by Marchion Ro, a sinister despot who will stop at nothing in his quest for power. The conflict with Ro and his marau...

There can be few more important but also more contentious issues than attempting to understand the human propensity for conflict. Our history is inextricably tangled in wave after wave of inter-human fighting from as far back as we have records.How can we make sense of what Einstein called 'the dark places of human will and feeling'? Richard Overy draws on a lifetime's study of conflict to write this challenging, invaluable book. Studying every facet of war from biology to be...

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 ...

Falling in love can be murder…No one in Lily Lennox’s life can understand why, each of the past five summers, she has shut her successful business and chosen instead to be paid minimum wage life-guarding at the exclusive Riovan Wellness Resort in a sun-soaked Caribbean island.Fortunately for her, they also aren’t aware of the mysterious deaths that have occurred on the island every time she’s there.Lily always tries to avoid bringing attention to herself. After all, if your m...

Why can no two people ever see the same rainbow? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? Why does the wake behind a duck always form an angle of exactly 39 degrees? And what did mathematicians have to do with the great pig stampede of 2012? The answer to each of these questions can be found in the triangle.In Love Triangle, stand-up comedian, ex-maths teacher and Sunday Times number one bestselling author Matt Parker is on...