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Two of the bestselling storytellers of all time have created an unforgettable thriller.A once-in-a-century volcanic eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii.But a decades-old military secret could turn the volcano into something even more terrifying...Now it’s up to a handful of brave individuals to save the island – and the entire world. 'As thrilling and jaw-dropping as Jurassic Park' Don Winslow'Heart-pounding storytelling at its finest' T.J. Newman'One of the...

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 ...

A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics. Woolf's blazing writing on female creativity, the role of the writer, and the silent fate of Shakespeare's imaginary sister remains a powerful reminder of a woman's need for financial independence and intellectual freedom.

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...

Emocje, rodzinne niesnaski, miłość i zdrada. W kwietniu 1518 roku po długiej podróży Bona Sforza przybywa do Krakowa. Król Polski zakochuje się w młodej i ślicznej żonie. Tymczasem na Wawelu charyzmatyczna i wykształcona królowa, spokrewniona z Katarzyną Sforzą i spowinowacona z Lukrecją Borgią, budzi dystans, ciekawość, a zarazem lęk. Gdy zaczyna budować stronnictwo antyhabsburskie, niechęć do niej wzrasta. Oczkiem w głowie matki staje się jedyny syn, a córki Bony zostają ze...

Hallie Astor pięć lat temu niemal straciła wszystko.  Zawsze jednak istnieje iskierka nadziei, nawet w najciemniejszą noc.  To był on. Nieznajomy, którego nie potrafiła zapomnieć.  Teraz w końcu kobieta ma szansę na upragniony nowy start. I kiedy pojawia się na spotkaniu w sprawie posady niani w małym, górskim miasteczku, napotyka spojrzenie znajomych niebieskich oczu.  Oczu, które przez ostatnie pięć lat nawiedzały ją w snach. Lawson Hartley zostaje jej szefem. Jest sta...

Region Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej stoi przed wieloma wyzwaniami bezpieczeństwa, które wymagają skoordynowanych działań na poziomie międzynarodowym, regionalnym i krajowym. Dążenie do stabilności wymaga zarówno wzmacniania obronności, jak i dyplomacji, a także rozwiązywania problemów wewnętrznych i strategicznych zależności energetycznych. Książka analizuje wyzwania i zagrożenia bezpieczeństwa w tym obszarze, takie jak: - Geopolityczne uwarunkowania regionu – historia, sojus...

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....

Karty edukacyjne Dbam o emocje pomagają kształtować zdrowe nawyki, wspierają rozwój emocjonalny i zachęcają do troski o zdrowie psychiczne. To świetny punkt wyjścia do mądrych, empatycznych rozmów oraz inspirujące narzędzie, które podpowiada, jak lepiej rozumieć i regulować emocje.Tematyka kart:potrzeby i emocje,odporność psychiczna,samoświadomość i samoakceptacja,relacje interpersonalne.W pudełku znajdziesz 50 kart, które przeznaczone są dla dzieci w wieku 10-15 lat.Wykorzys...

"You're always good on ideas, Tom..."An American art collector is claiming that the expensive masterpiece he bought is a fake. He wants to meet with the artist - but Tom Ripley knows that artist no longer exits.Ripley needs to hide his role in the fraud, and keep his colleague's mouth shut. But not everyone's nerves are as steady as his, especially when it comes to murder.The second in Highsmith's Ripley series, Ripley Under Ground is set six years after the events of The Tal...

Join Peppa and her friends on a magical under-the-sea adventure! Use your water pen to reveal colourful underwater creatures, decorate mermaid tails and bring wonderful watery surprises to life over and over again!Just add water to use your water pen to reveal the colour. Let the pages dry and complete the adventure again with your reusable water pen (included).Don’t miss these other brilliant Peppa books:Peppa Pig: Peppa’s Underwater Friends: Sticker ActivityPeppa Pig: Peppa...

Transform your perception of time and learn to truly live in the present with this practical guide from Himalayan monk and spiritual leader Ishan Shivanand.Born in India, Ishan's formative years were spent in monasteries, learning the importance of achieving Mahakaal - a state where, instead of limiting yourself as a finite being, you infinitely stretch your relationship with the time that you have to create good health, success, happiness and positivity.Rooted in the princip...

The must-read BL webtoon by DOYAK is now in print! In this mature-rated drama, three men collide in a tangled web of love, power, and crime.When a chance encounter brings earnest photographer Jo into the orbit of the aloof and gorgeous Ian, Jo falls hard. An undeniable attraction simmers between them, and Jo is determined to break through Ian’s indifferent façade. But Ian’s life isn’t made for romance. As he works to free himself from his past life as a high-profile member of...

‘This is honestly my dream book… Fascinating’ FERN BRADY ‘Fearlessly honest, funny and uplifting’ JO BRAND ‘Very funny and deeply sympathetic. Really excellent’ HENRY MARSH Most of the psychiatric cases in this book are Benji’s patients. Some of them are his family. One of them is him.Unlocking the doors to the psych ward, NHS psychiatrist Dr Benji Waterhouse provides a fly-on-the-padded-wall account of medicine’s most mysterious and controversial speciality.Why would anyone ...

A new translation by David Horrocks.At first sight Harry Haller seems like a respectable, educated man. In reality he is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from society and repulsed by the modern age. But as he is drawn into a series of dreamlike and sometimes savage encounters - accompanied by, among others, Mozart, Goethe and the bewitching Hermione - the misanthropic Haller discovers a higher truth, and the possibility of happiness. This haunting portrayal of a man ...

In 2009, Simon Sinek ignited a movement to help people find a greater sense of purpose at work and added a new word to the lexicon of business: WHY. People and companies now regularly talk about their WHY. Sinek’s videos have been seen by over a billion people around the world, including more than 65 million who’ve watched his TED Talk based on Start with Why.Sinek starts with a fundamental question: Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential and ...