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A USA TODAY BEST SELLER! Officially in English for the first time: the modern fantasy danmei/Boys’ Love trilogy about gods, ghosts, and supernatural investigations! Don’t miss the popular live-action drama streaming in English, or Stars of Chaos: Sha Po Lang by the same creator. Zhao Yunlan heads up a covert division of the Ministry of Public Security that deals with the strange and unusual, blurring the line between the mortal realm and the Netherworld. His cocky, casual att...
Ride faster than your angel can fly.Gabriel Wolfe, fallen dark angel and president of the Hounds of Hell motorcycle club, has lived a life shrouded in darkness. Haunted by a traumatic past, chaos is the only way he makes sense of the world.He craves it to feel stable. Whole.But everything changes when he meets Brinley Rose Beaumont. With her raven hair and molten eyes, she ignites a fire within him that he never knew existed. Wolfe's meticulously controlled world soon begins ...
Fall in love between the pages . . .Still grieving the death of her best friend, Erin knows she needs to start living - but has no idea how. Then she loses her favourite book, heavily annotated and containing her friend's final words to her. When James finds Erin's note-filled book in his local community library, he writes his own message back, and soon they are locked in an anonymous book exchange .. . But Erin and James have a shared history that neither of them realise.How...
She rubbed the spoiled clay with her fingertips. Like a wound as it heals, the traces faded, and had soon vanished completely, as if they’d never been there at all.Burnt out by her newswriting job, Jungmin abruptly quits; she’s worked tirelessly for years and she needs to make a change.Now, after months of hibernation, it’s time to put her life back together. Venturing out into the streets near Seoul, she stumbles upon the Soyo pottery workshop. Drawn in by its light and warm...
Lauren Asher is an expert at giving readers everything they could ever want in a romance book' Hannah Grace Meet the Lakefront Billionaires . . . Get ready for the final addictive romance in the Lakefront Billionaires series from Sunday Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation, Lauren Asher Lorenzo Five months. Two people 'in love'. One fake relationship with an expiration date. Sounds simple enough. The problem is, Lily Muńoz and I have history. So, when she volunteer...
‘Brave, shocking, funny and moving,I SWEAR opens our eyes to the reality of living with a complex condition. This is a really important book.’– RACHEL JOYCE, author ofThe Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry andThe Homemade GodFrom the remarkable man whose life inspired the heartstopping film, ‘I Swear’, a book that offers extraordinary insight into what it’s like to live with a severe form of Tourette’s syndrome: a fascinating, complex condition that’s more common than most of ...
'The sleaze of the Stooges, the energy of the Ramones and the glamour of the Cramps - Hot Wax is a pure foot-on-the-monitors, amps-up-to-ten rock 'n' roll classic.' - MAT OSMANA vivid and immersive tale of one woman's reckless mission to make sense of the events that shattered her childhood, and made her who she is.Summer, 1989: ten-year-old Suzanne is drawn like a magnet to her father's forbidden world of electric guitars and tricked-out cars. When her mother remarries, she ...
Snuggle up with Flicker the Dragon in this brand new lift-the-flap adventure, part of the no.1 bestselling Ten Minutes to Bed series!It's time to snooze in the Land of Nod but not everyone is in bed yet... Can you find where Flicker the dragon is hiding before bedtime?This magical lift-the-flap adventure features sturdy, durable flaps on every spread as young children search for Flicker, meeting all their favourite characters from the Ten Minutes to Bed series along the way, ...
It’s an exciting day for Peppa and the children at playgroup when Astronaut Grampy Rabbit arrives. They can’t wait to hear all about his new mission to fly round the moon. What happens when the children are invited to take part in a special space-training mission of their own? Climb aboard the rocket with Peppa and the other space-training astronauts for an out-of-this world adventure!Enjoy this Peppa Pig picture storybook with your little space cadets in-the-making!Peppa lov...
Find all your favourite bedtime rhymes in this cute and colourful board book with 8 tabs. To join in the fun, pick a tab, open the page and sing along with Duggee and all his friends. You'll be ready for bed in no time with these classic nursery rhymes!Don’t miss these other amazing Duggee books:Hey Duggee: Duggee and the Squirrels: Tabbed board bookHey Duggee: Bedtime Little Library: Tabbed board bookHey Duggee: Duggee’s Nursery Rhymes: Tabbed board bookHey Duggee is a BAFTA...
Create your own bedtime adventure with the brand new magical magnet book, based on the no.1 bestselling bedtime series by Rhiannon Fielding and Chris Chatterton. Help sleepy little readers unwind before bed and create a calming interactive bedtime story. Features 10 magnets of your your favourite Ten Minutes to Bed characters to place in familiar backgrounds from around the Land of Nod.With scenes that start of bright and eventually wind down to a calm moonlit sky, his magnet...
"IF I COULD GIVE 6 STARS I WOULD" The perfect cozy, romantic fantasy and USA TODAY BESTSELLER for fans of Gilmore Girls and dragons!When Saphira opens her cafe welcoming pet baby dragons, she isn’t expecting it to be quite so hard to keep the fires burning. But her young dragon patrons keep incinerating her furniture, which means selling coffee isn’t covering all her costs.Local heart-throb Aiden is a gardener, though his disobedient baby dragon is a major distraction from hi...
Peppa loves adventures with unicorns! Press out and make FIVE huge jigsaw puzzles to find out where she’ll go! Meet all her amazing unicorn friends at the wildflower meadow, in the enchanted woods and even at bedtime!Join Peppa in her magical jigsaw adventure!Peppa loves jigsaw puzzle books. EVERYBODY loves jigsaws!Don't miss these other brilliant Peppa books:Peppa Pig: Peppa’s Jigsaw Puzzle BookPeppa Pig: Fun at the Zoo Jigsaw Puzzle BookPeppa Pig: Peppa the UnicornPeppa Pig...
On Ladybird Lane, the sun's going down. It's bedtime in every house in the town. BUT .. . .. . one little bunny has other ideas! Stanley always seems to have one more good reason why he can't go to bed! Join in by lifting the flaps to help Stanley find his missing slipper, his toothbrush and all the other things he needs before he can go to bed.And look out for Dotty the helpful ladybird who is also hiding on every spread, ready to help Stanley through his bedtime routine. Fo...
One of the Observer's Best Children’s Books of 2024A warm and endearing story about the quiet power of being yourself from Zadie Smith, Nick Laird and Magenta Fox. Maud - a judo-suit wearing guinea pig and proud weirdo - is off into the wild, as is Kit, her owner. Both are slightly nervous about what they'll find in the great outdoors, but with a pinch of bravery - and a few Signature Moves - they'll make new friends and explore new worlds.Praise for Weirdo:"A sweet, tightly ...
‘I’m going to a place called Grand Theatre and I’m going to be a dancer in a pantomime!’Tess loves to dance, even when everything seems grim. After mum dies and pa leaves, she and her brothers and sisters are all alone, with hardly any food or money. With empty stomachs and scrambling for pennies, they’ve got to fend for themselves.When Tess’s big brother and sister go out to look for work, she has to stay in class at The Ragged School and take care of their baby sister Ada. ...
A superbly written work of narrative non-fiction by an exciting new talent, The Anti-Catastrophe League is a brilliant study of the people and their teams who are trying to save the world.Our species has a unique genius for self-imperilment. The ancient dangers - asteroids, super-volcanoes and worse - still stalk us, but the most pressing time-bombs are of our own making. Our knack for self-imperilment, though, is one side of a coin: for we are also developing a knack for amb...
Steal your Fate. Unravel your destiny. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Laini Taylor and Sarah J.Maas, this new fantasy trilogy from Sunday Times bestselling author Julie Kagawa will sweep readers into a bold and exciting new world, where a twisted game of destiny has far-reaching consequences.'Fantastic' SUN'Fateless is a breathless page turner packed with action and adventure and world ending stakes that kept me hooked beginning to end'ALWYN HAMILTON, New York Times bests...
We need to talk about money. Women have been overlooked and underestimated when it comes to finance; we typically earn less, are encouraged to spend more, and have fewer opportunities to build funds. But if we talk about money and share our knowledge, we will grow in confidence and wealth. This is the secret to securing your future and paying for all the things that matter.Whether you want to have children, get married, pay for a mortgage, start your own business or pay for n...
Książka jest dokumentem piśmienniczym, obszernym zazwyczaj zapisem wszelkiej ludzkiej myśli. Występuje w postaci wielostronicowej publikacji o określonej liczbie stron i trwałym charakterze.
Postać dzisiejszej książki drukowanej ma formę kodeksu będącego zbiorem kartek połączonych grzbietem. Taki sposób utrwalania zapisu w momencie upowszechnienia pergaminu zastąpił wcześniejszą formę dokumentu piśmienniczego, jakim był zwój.
Według definicji Słownika języka polskiego PWN książka jest złożonym oraz oprawionym arkuszem papieru zadrukowanym tekstem o charakterze literackim, użytkowym bądź naukowym. Jednak współcześnie definicja ta powinna zostać poszerzona o książki elektroniczne będące cyfrowym odpowiednikiem tych drukowanych. Do książek elektronicznych zaliczane są zarówno ebooki, jak i audiobooki. Treść utrwaloną w formie elektronicznej można odczytać za pomocą odpowiedniego oprogramowania na laptopach, tabletach, smartfonach, a przede wszystkim na przeznaczonych do tego celu czytnikach.
E-książki odgrywają bardzo dużą rolę. Podjęty jakiś czas temu proces digitalizacji książek umożliwia dostęp do światowych zasobów wiedzy znacznie większej liczbie osób. Zbiory ksiąg to niepodważalne światowe dziedzictwo kultury, jednak ze względu na ograniczoną możliwość szybkiego dostępu do przechowywanych w księgozbiorach publikacji, a także brak możliwości jakiegokolwiek dostępu do dzieł o znacznej wartości historycznej proces digitalizacji daje szansę na udostępnianie światowych dzieł szerokiej masie odbiorców.
Okładka to wszystko, co zostało od zewnątrz trwale złączone ze znajdującym się w środku wkładem. Składa się z przedniej i tylnej okładziny (potocznie zwanej okładką), a także z grzbietu okładki. To właśnie okładka definiuje i określa ostateczny wygląd książki, gdyż determinuje między innymi sposób, w jaki łączą się ze sobą wszystkie kartki i jaka jest wewnętrzna budowa książki. Oprawy mogą być miękkie, twarde czy też zintegrowane – różnią się przede wszystkim wielkością, wagą, wytrzymałością oraz ceną. Przykładowo książki w twardej oprawie są większe, cięższe, bardziej wytrzymałe i droższe od tych w miękkiej.