Książki

Książka jest relacją z samotnej pieszej pielgrzymki szlakiem Camino z Lourdes do Santiago de Compostela. Przedstawia nie tylko religijny, ale także kulturowy aspekt tej wędrówki, niezwykle ważny dla Autora. Droga biegnie przez miejsca kulturowo i przyrodniczo pasjonujące - zabytki, górskie szlaki, sanktuaria. Dziesiątki kilometrów pielgrzymiego marszu dziennie, przemierzane w intencjach osobistych i powszechnych. W tej książce znajdziemy zapis ostatniego etapu wędrówki Autora...

Kresy to nie tylko historia, legenda, nostalgia. Kresy to także kuchnia - kusząca, pachnąca, pełna niezwykłych aromatów i oryginalnych smaków. Od Wilna do Bakczysaraju rozciąga się wielki obszar kulinarnej swojskości i egzotyki. Pełno tu dań bardziej lub mniej znanych, które - przygotowane według receptur zaskakujących zderzeniem tradycji i nowoczesności - odkrywają przed nami nieznane dotąd smakowe wrażenia. To wyjątkowy zbiór unikalnych przepisów czerpiących pełnymi garścia...

"Pradziadziuś Heniuś" to wzruszająca opowieść o relacji pradziadka i prawnuczka. Mimo że różnica wieku pomiędzy nimi to ponad dziewięćdziesiąt lat, potrafili porozumieć się bez słów. To także opowieść o rodzinie, która jest najważniejsza, i o miłości przekazywanej z pokolenia na pokolenie. Autorka pokazuje, że czas spędzony z bliskimi jest bezcenny, a każda chwila staje się częścią wspólnej historii. Czułe wspomnienia, które tworzymy razem, mogą być źródłem siły i radości w n...

Książeczka sensoryczna – zawiera ELEMENTY DŹWIĘKOWE.Wspiera wszechstronny rozwój dziecka – pobudza ZMYSŁY WZROKU, DOTYKU I SŁUCHU.Prezentuje 6 DŹWIĘKÓW.Zawiera prostą krótką HISTORYJKĘ i mnóstwo WYRAZÓW DŹWIĘKONAŚLADOWCZYCH.Książka zabiera małych czytelników w niezapomnianą PODRÓŻ DO LASU. Dzieci znajdą w niej krótkie HISTORYJKI o tym, jak sarenka spotyka leśne zwierzątka, oraz mnóstwo WYRAZÓW DŹWIĘKONAŚLADOWCZYCH. Wyróżnikiem publikacji jest 6 różnorodnych DŹWIĘKÓW wydawanyc...

Książeczka sensoryczna – zawiera ELEMENTY DŹWIĘKOWE.Wspiera wszechstronny rozwój dziecka – pobudza ZMYSŁY WZROKU, DOTYKU I SŁUCHU.Prezentuje 5 DŹWIĘKÓW. Zawiera proste krótkie WIERSZYKI oraz WYRAZY DŹWIĘKONAŚLADOWCZE.  Książka zabiera małych czytelników w niezapomnianą PODRÓŻ. Dzieci znajdą w niej krótkie WIERSZYKI związane z pracą śmieciarki oraz WYRAZY NAŚLADUJĄCE ODGŁOSY wydawane przez ten pojazd. Wyróżnikiem publikacji jest silikonowy moduł dźwiękowy w kształcie pojazdu p...

READ THE HEARTBREAKING SEQUEL TO THE TIKTOK SENSATION A THOUSAND BOY KISSES . . .A beautiful and life-affirming novel about grief, love and friendship from the international bestselling phenomenon Tillie Cole CAN TWO BROKEN HEARTS MAKE A WHOLE . . .After losing her beloved sister three years ago, Savanna Litchfield has been living half a life. When Savannah's therapist suggests joining a trip around the world for grieving teens she agrees to go clutching tightly to the unread...

Wkrocz w fascynujący świat, gdzie magia przeplata się z codziennością, a dawne podania ożywają w nowoczesnym świecie. "W poszukiwaniu siódmej siostry" to porywająca opowieść o nastoletniej Edycie Gwerskiej, obdarzonej niezwykłymi mocami, które są zarówno jej darem, jak i przekleństwem.Edyta, młoda wiedźma z Podhala, musi stawić czoła nie tylko typowym nastoletnim problemom, ale również wyzwaniom, jakie niesie ze sobą posiadanie nadprzyrodzonych zdolności. Jej życie to nieusta...

With carefully adapted text, 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. The Magic Finger, a Level 2 Reader, is A1+ in the CEFR framework. Sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, introducing the future tenses will and going to, present conti...

In this story, five-year-old Saroo gets on the wrong train in India and is taken thousands of miles to the city of Kolkata. After months of living on the streets, he is adopted by a family in Australia. Many years later, Saroo decides to try and find his Indian family.Our Penguin Readers books include:• Simple text (CEFR-levelled)• Pictures to help you understand the story• Fun exercises to help you learn and practise EnglishWith the print book, you can get even more help onl...

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.Washington Square, a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of present pe...

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.The Mill on the Floss, a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of presen...

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.Bud, Not Buddy, a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of present perfe...

We all know we should be learning and growing. But how do you make time while under pressure to perform?Too many of us suffer from 'chronic performance': we feel constant pressure to look like we know what we're doing, to always be on, to rack up success after success and have all the answers, all because we assume that greater effort leads to greater success. But this temptation to portray ourselves as infallible is affecting both our work and personal lives and is blocking ...

In these top-secret files, Rick Riordan, Camp Half-Blood's senior scribe, gives you an inside look at the world of demigods that NO regular human child is allowed to see.These highly classified archives include three of Percy Jackson's most perilous adventures, exclusive colour stills from the new film, a Spotter's Guide to Monsters, a Who's Who in Greek mythology, Percy's Summer Camp report and much more.So, if you're armed with this book, you'll have everything you need to ...

Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this thrilling edition of The Extraordinary Cases of Sherlock Holmes.Through the foggy streets of Victorian London to the deepest countryside, Sherlock Holmes uses his unique powers of deduction in eight thrilling investigations, including the mysteries of 'The Speckled Band' and 'The Reigate Puzzle'.

Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this charming edition of Pinocchio. The old wood-carver Geppetto decides to make a wonderful puppet which can dance and turn somersaults, but by chance he chooses an unusual piece of wood - and the finished puppet can talk and misbehave like the liveliest child. But Pinocchio is brave and inquisitive as well as naughty, and after some hair-raising adventures, he earns h...

World War One, and as shells fall in Northern France, a Canadian nurse searches for her brother believed dead in the trenches.January 1918. Laura Iven has been discharged from her nurse duties and sent back to Halifax, Canada. Now home, she receives word of her brother's death on the fields of Passchendaele. Believing he is still alive, and determined to find him, Laura returns to France as a volunteer for a hospital near the front line of battle.She soon hears whispers of gh...

1991Near Checkpoint Zulu, one hundred miles from the Kuwait border, British journalist Thomas Benton meets American private Arwood Hobbes. Desert Storm is over, and peace has been declared. As the two argue about whether it makes sense to cross the nearest border, they become embroiled in a horrific attack in which a young local girl in a green dress is killed under their protection. The two men walk away into their respective lives. But something has cracked in both of them....

Peppa and George want Mummy Pig to have a perfect Mother’s Day! They plan breakfast in bed, a spa day, and a very special dinner but what will they do when there is an emergency call from the fire station?Spend a perfect Mother’s Day with Peppa, George and Mummy Pig!Don’t miss these other brilliant Peppa books:
Peppa Pig: My Amazing Mum
Peppa Pig: I Love You, Mummy Pig!
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A deliciously dark collection of love stories to sink your teeth into, from the prizewinning author of NOW SHE IS WITCHCan 'no' be a declaration of love? What happens when love is savage, dangerous and all-consuming? In this gorgeous and unsettling collection, women navigate the complexities and cruelties of desire across time and place, from a medieval convent to a Victorian parlour to a 1990s high school.* An expectant mother feeds raw meat to the wasp's nest in her shed.* ...

This lost classic, a crystal clear eyewitness account of the Holocaust, has been translated into English for the first time, 70 years after it was first published.'A literary diamond... A holocaust memoir worthy of Primo Levi' The Times'A masterpiece' New Statesman**SELECTED AS ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES**For many years this powerful classic of Holocaust literature was forgotten. József Debreczeni was a journalist and poet who arrived in Auschwitz ...

Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this charming edition of Jo's Boys. Ten years after the school at Plumfield was founded, Jo's boys - including wanderer Dan, sailor Emil and musician Nat - are grown up and discovering more about the world. But life after childhood can be confusing and frightening, and it is Jo and the warm-hearted March family who can comfort and guide the boys when they need it the mo...

A Times 2024 Best Summer ReadThe village of Alvesdon has been home to the Castells for generations. But the year is 1939 and the peace and tranquillity there is about to be shattered once more by the stormclouds of war in Europe. As three generations of the family gather, they must all face the prospect of their lives being transformed beyond recognition the moment Britain declares war on Germany.When the inevitable happens and Britain finds itself at war, the younger members...

Ellen is a single artist living alone on New York’s Upper West Side in the 1970s. She is beset by old boyfriends, paint pigment choices, and, occasionally, by 'radiances' - episodes of joyous, reckless unreality. Under the influence of 'radiances' she becomes Princess Esmeralda, and West 72nd Street becomes the kingdom over which she rules. Life as Esmeralda is a liberating experience for Ellen, who, despite the chaos and stigma these episodes can bring, relishes the respite ...