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Dwaj nastolatkowie, Kei i Masaru, tracą życie podczas próby ratowania pijanego mężczyzny spod kół nadjeżdżającego pociągu. Wkrótce potem budzą się w obcym mieszkaniu wśród innych niedawno zmarłych osób. Na miejscu wita ich enigmatyczna czarna kula, która przekazuje im broń oraz specjalne kombinezony, po czym zleca likwidację obcych istot przebywających w świecie ludzi. Jak poradzą sobie w tak niecodziennej sytuacji i czy ich misja kiedykolwiek dobiegnie końca?

Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry the man she loved, Captain Wentworth. Now circumstances have conspired to bring him back into her social circle and Anne finds her old feelings for him reignited. However, when they meet again Wentworth behaves as if they are strangers and seems more interested in her friend Louisa. In this, her final novel, Jane Austen tells the story of a love that endures the tests of time and ...

The midnight hour approaches. You lie in bed and try to sleep, but there is the howling of the wind outside, the creak of a floorboard, the scream of a cat, the ticking clock...Your heart beats, your skin crawls, and despite yourself you reach for this book and enter a world like a nightmare, haunted by dark fears, guilty secrets and the bloody consequences of rage, revenge and obsession.You cannot tear yourself away, these tales will appall and yet enthrall you, for no mere ...

Rumble is missing somewhere in the Land of Nod! Can you find the little dinosaur before bedtime?This magical lift-the-flap adventure features sturdy, durable flaps on every spread as young children search for Rumble, meeting all their favourite characters from the Ten Minutes to Bed series along the way, from Twinkle the Unicorn to Splash the Mermaid!Weaving a journey from lively beginning to a gentle end, this gorgeous novelty board book is perfect for little ones winding do...

Baby Touch: Shapes is part of Ladybird's best-selling Baby Touch series, designed to help stimulate a baby's senses from birth. Encouraging interaction and play, the Baby Touch books are lots of fun for the very youngest babies, as well as toddlers.Baby Touch: Shapes is a bold, bright board book perfect for little hands to explore. With a big touch-and-feel on every double page, it helps to stimulate your baby's senses as well as gently helping to teach first shapes such as s...

However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there. This beautiful edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum and is perfect for Dahl fans old and new. So, enter a world where invention and mischief can be found on every page and where magic might be at the very tips of your fingers . . .The Roald Dahl Classic Collection reinstates the versions o...

In an unnamed country, on the first day of the New Year, people stop dying. There is great celebration and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Soon, though, the residents begin to suffer. Undertakers face bankruptcy, the church is forced to reinvent its doctrine, and local 'maphia' smuggle those on the brink of death over the border where they can expire naturally.Death does return eventually, but with a new, courteous app...

A favourite childhood classic. What little girl can turn a whole household upside down and breathe new life back into a strange, old manor? The wonderfully contrary, strong-willed, angry, misunderstood Mary Lennox. When Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody says she is the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It is true, too. Mary is pale, spoilt and quite contrary. But she is also horribly lonely. Then one day she hears about a g...

Brilliantly imaginative fiction or the shape of things to come? H.G. Wells's masterpiece still retains its power to provoke and enthral.In the Time Traveller's miraculous new machine, we will be carried from a Victorian dinner table to 802,701 AD, when the Earth is divided between the gentle, ineffective Eloi, and the ape-like Morlocks; forward again by a million years or so to glimpse a dying world of blood-red beaches and menacing shapes; and on again to the last days of ou...

'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and...

Agonia frachtowca trwała trzy kwadranse, ostatecznego dzieła zniszczenia żywioł dokonał dwanaście minut po piątej nad ranem.W nocy z 13 na 14 stycznia Bałtyk pochłonął 55 ofiar. Osamotnili żony, osierocili dzieci, pozostawili po sobie pustkę w sercach bliskich i przyjaciół. Cały kraj wstrzymał oddech przytłoczony bólem i rozpaczą rodzin zmarłych. Jednak by ratować interesy armatora rzucono ich na pożarcie – w Izbie Morskiej ustalono, że zawinił kapitan, który źle manewrował s...

KAŻDA ŚCIEŻKA, KTÓRĄ OBIERAMY, PROWADZI NAS TAM, GDZIE POWINNIŚMY BYĆ, NAWET JEŚLI NIE OD RAZU WSZYSTKO ROZUMIEMY Ludziom się wydaje, że po każdej burzy wychodzi słońce i kiedy ucichną grzmoty, wszystko będzie dobrze. Nic bardziej mylnego. Wichura, pioruny i deszcze przynoszą przecież szkody, które można ocenić dopiero wtedy, kiedy żywioł się uspokoi. Wówczas widać, co przetrwało, a czego nie da się już uratować. W przypadku Haydena straty są ogromne. Gdy kolejny człone...

Toddlers will love learning 1000 new words with Peppa in this brilliant new sticker book. Look at the pictures, say the words out loud, then peel off the stickers and play! Explore themes such as family, home, nature, objects, animals, friends, playtime, food, shopping, seasons, travel and adventure. Packed with stickers and hours of fun!

A new fun and interactive 18 button sound book!Peppa and George are going to a talent show! There are bubbles, musical instruments and magic, but what will Peppa's talent be? Press the 18 brilliant sounds and find out what happens at this very noisy talent show! The perfect gift for Peppa fans.Also look out for: Peppa Pig: Peppa's Super Noisy Sound Book Peppa Pig: Police Car Sound Book Peppa Pig: Beep Beep Brrrm!: Noisy Sound Book Peppa Pig: Stomp and Roar! Sound Book...

A big round sun, a whirling swirling kite and . . .
. . . sharp, pointy teeth!
Spot the shapes with Roald Dahl, in this sturdy board book with flaps - perfect for little hands to hold!

Learn your colours with the Enormous Crocodile! This sturdy board book is the perfect introduction to the world of Roald Dahl - and is just right for little hands. Look out for Roald Dahl's ABC too!

SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY RUTH RENDELLM. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a genre. James harnesses the power of suggestion to move from a recognisable world to one that is indefinably strange, and then unforgettably terrifying. Sheets, pictures, carvings, a dolls house, a lonely beach, a branch tapping on a window - ordinary things take on more than a tinge of dread in the hands of the or...

Who would have thought a comedy of manners written more than a hundred years ago would still be so apt and so funny? Oscar Wilde was a genius of play-writing, and his deftness, wit and sharp eye for social satire keep audiences in thrall to this day. Alongside Earnest, discover a biblical tragedy retold, Lady Windermere and her infamous fan and Wilde's take on an ideal husband, in his selection of Wilde's most important plays.

'"Stand firm'" said Peter, "and wave like mad!"' They were not railway children to begin with. When their Father mysteriously leaves home Roberta (everyone calls her Bobbie), Phyllis and Peter must move to a small cottage in the countryside with Mother. It is a bitter blow to leave their London home, but soon they discover the hills and valleys, the canal and of course, the railway. But with the thrilling rush and rattle and roar of the trains comes danger too. Will the brav...

Czy czujesz, że stres i niepewność odbierają ci radość z życia? Ta książka pokaże ci, jak odnaleźć szczęście, osiągnąć spokój wewnętrzny i żyć w zgodzie ze sobą. Dzięki praktycznym wskazówkom rozwoju osobistego, medytacji i świadomej pracy nad emocjami nauczysz się, jak się nie stresować i wzmacniać poczucie własnej wartości. Rozwój duchowy i pozytywne myślenie pomogą ci spełniać marzenia i odnaleźć wewnętrzną harmonię. Poznasz skuteczne techniki, które pomogą ci świadomie ki...

Twoja podświadomość analizuje trudy minionego dnia? A może niepokój nie pozwala ci zasnąć, a twój umysł zamiast odpoczywać, krąży wokół problemów? Autor książki opisuje ćwiczenia przed snem, dzięki którym osiągniesz spokojny umysł, pogłębisz intuicję i zadbasz o rozwój duchowy.Dzięki prostym technikom i medytacjom wzmocnisz duchowość i poprawisz jakość snu. Poznasz metody uzdrawiania emocji, budowania pozytywnych nawyków i harmonijnej komunikacji. Dowiesz się, jak otworzyć si...

„Muszę posłusznie wykonywać jej polecenia. Inaczej upubliczni nagrania. A w międzyczasie robić wszystko, by odkryć, kim jest i dlaczego tak bardzo mnie nienawidzi.” Łukasz zmaga się z problemami w życiu prywatnym i zawodowym. Jego wieloletni związek wisi na włosku, a w pracy zmuszony jest odpierać ataki agresywnej szefowej. Pewnego dnia mężczyzna za namową przyjaciela instaluje aplikację randkową POKAŻ MI. Jej użytkownicy zabiegają o względy tajemniczej Królowej, uczest...

Have fun learning first words with your favourite Dahl characters in this big, bold board book!Chiddlers will have splendiferous fun learning their first words with the help of this sturdy, colourful board book. Look under the flaps to find your favourite characters and some extra gobblefunking words invented by Roald Dahl himself!Look out for more marvellous board books for titchy toddlers:Roald Dahl: WordsRoald Dahl: ShapesRoald Dahl: ColoursRoald Dahl: ABCRoald Dahl: 123Ro...

All Twinkle wants is to be a big sister. When her wish comes true and there's a surprise at the end of the rainbow, Twinkle must get her new baby brother Fizz back home before bedtime.But with the forest filled with so much magic and adventure, will Twinkle and Fizz go to sleep in time?Written specifically with the aim of calming little ones before bedtime, this adorable, heartwarming story is perfect for sleepy unicorns.