Following weeks of heavy rain, the earth comes sliding down on one of Larvik’s residential areas, burying a handful of houses.Detective William Wisting is quick to join the rescue operation. Luckily, by sunrise the next day, it becomes clear that the landslide has claimed no victims.And yet, just twenty-four hours later, a body is found – a victim who was killed before the landslide.As Wisting opens an investigation into the mysterious murder, he soon discovers this death mig...
Rosie Maxwell has a plan: move to New York, get her creative writing degree from NYU, become a bestselling romance writer. But that plan is derailed when she ends up in class with her archnemesis and ex-crush, Aiden Huntington, an obnoxious, surly, unreasonably gorgeous literary fiction writer who has no patience for romance – or for Rosie.Exhausted by Rosie and Aiden’s constant verbal sparring, their professor gives them an ultimatum: leave her class, or cowrite a novel that...
Ellen is tired of being overshadowed at work. Tired of watching less competent, entitled suits take the promotions she’s earned. But when one of them pushes her too far, things take a murderous turn. And it turns out the darker Ellen goes, the shinier her future starts to look.Business can be murder, but it turns out murder can also be good business for Ellen. Torn between capitalising on her newfound success and desperately covering her tracks she soon discovers that others ...
The fifth book in the bestselling spin off series from Percy Jackson and the Olympians - now a major Disney+ series!Though the Greek and Roman crew members of the Argo II have made progress in their many quests, they still seem no closer to defeating the earth mother, Gaea. Her giants have risen - all of them - and they're stronger than ever.The gods, still suffering from multiple personality disorder, are useless. How can a handful of young demigods hope to persevere against...
Camp Half-Blood FYI will follow on the heels of THE DARK PROPHECY, a treat for readers who want to stay in the world of Apollo and Percy Jackson.This funny insider's guide to the demigod training camp in Long Island will be narrated by none other than Percy Jackson himself, and other favourite characters will be heard from, too. In response to an awful camp orientation video created by the god Apollo, Percy Jackson and other residents of Camp Half-Blood answer such questions ...
Masterpieces by world-famous sculptor Alexander Calder are used to teach quantity in this artful, read-aloud board book. One & Other Numbers accompanies artworks with a conversational and relatable text that encourages readers to notice and count various aspects of the sculptures. Calder's playful abstract shapes add to the richness of the visual arc, allowing readers to build personal connections with the art. Children will not only grow more familiar with numbers and quanti...
Since its humble beginnings as a London food stall, BAO has amassed a cult following of hungry fans with its Taiwanese-inspired cuisine and sleek design sensibility. BAO’s first book reveals the top-secret recipes behind 100 of its most beloved dishes – from the traditional steamed buns of its name to Taiwanese fried chicken, soul-warming beef noodles, snack-size xiao chi, and more.
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.Penguin Readers Level 2: Moomin Shorts, a Level 2 Reader, is A1+ in the CEFR framework. Sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, introducing the future tenses will an...
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.James and the Giant Peach, a Level 3 Reader, is A2 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing first conditional, past cont...
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 Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfe...
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 ...
Half Boy. Half God. ALL Hero.Most people get presents on their sixteenth birthday. I get a prophecy that could save or destroy the world.It happens when you're the son of Poseidon, God of the Sea. According to an ancient prophecy, I turn sixteen and the fate of the entire world is on me. But no pressure.Now Kronos, Lord of the Titans, is beginning his attack on New York City. And the dreaded monster Typhon is also heading our way. So it's me and forty of my demi-god friends v...
Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek god. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. That's when things started really going wrong. Now I spend my time fighting with swords, battling monsters with my friends and generally trying to stay alive. This is the one where Zeus, God of the Sky, thinks I've stolen his lightning bolt - and making Zeus ...
Fans of Rick Riordan will love this on the people, places, gods, and creatures found in the chart-topping Kane Chronicles series.Packed with brand new material - including an easy-to-assemble trading card pyramid and full-color diagrams and maps - this deluxe, lavishly illustrated guide teaches readers how to compile secret messages, read hieroglyphics, and recite ancient magic spells.Featuring enough information and extras to satisfy current fans and budding Egyptologists al...
Small in stature but immense in reputation and talent, there was more to Eric 'Winkle' Brown than met the eye.From shooting down Luftwaffe bombers in the Battle of the Atlantic and narrowly escaping from a torpedoed ship, to a never-to-be-repeated litany of world records as a test pilot, his unparalleled flying career saw him take the controls of over four hundred different kinds of aircraft-more than any other pilot in history.A legend in his own lifetime, and by his death, ...
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...
Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this charming edition of Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she enters a very strange world of chess pieces and nursery rhyme characters such as Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and the angry Red Queen. Nothing is what it seems and, in fact, through the looking-glass, everything is distorted....
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...
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.* ...
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...
Dom Bernard-Marie Maréchaux, benedyktyn, opat klasztoru Św. Franciszki Rzymskiej w Rzymie i autor wielu książek, w tym dziełku stawia pytania i udziela odpowiedzi na frapujące wielu ludzi i nieustannie aktualne kwestie: Dusza ludzka jest duchem, ale czy istnieją inne duchy niż dusze ludzkie? Czy istnieją duchy całkowicie niezależne od materii? Czy pozostają one z nami w relacjach? Jakiej natury są te relacje?
Dla współczesnego świata, a nawet dla wielu katolików Sakramenty są dziś kontrowersyjne. Było już tak, zanim biskup Sheen napisał swoje klasyczne dzieła na ich temat. Fulton Sheen podejmuje tutaj te wszystkie pytania i wątpliwości, przekazując z mocą, w wyjątkowy sposób, prawdę tradycyjnej doktryny Kościoła. Podążając za nim jako przewodnikiem, poznamy:że to sam Chrystus ustanowił każdy sakrament;w jaki sposób Sakramenty mają zarówno "moc, jak i skuteczność”;dlaczego Chrzest ...
Do kategorii „Pozostałe” zostały przypisane wszystkie publikacje, które nie przynależą do żadnej z konkretnych kategorii takich jak: Dla dzieci, Dla młodzieży, Poradniki / Edukacja / Hobby, Powieści i lektury, Dom / Moda / Hobby, Dom / Wnętrze / Ogród, Kolorowanki, Moda i styl, Filozofia, Historia, Historia najnowsza, Historia nowożytna, II wojna światowa, Starożytność i średniowiecze, Internet, komputery, informatyka, Komiks i książka graficzna, Książki obcojęzyczne, Kuchnia / Diety / Fitness, Kultura / Sztuka / Design, Literatura, Fantastyka / Horror, Kryminał / Sensacja / Thriller, Literatura piękna, Poezja / Dramat, Powieść historyczna, Powieść obyczajowa, Romans / Erotyka, Literatura faktu, Biografia / Autobiografia / Wspomnienia, Książki podróżnicze / Przewodniki, Literatura popularnonaukowa, Reportaż, Marketing / Zarządzanie / Finanse, Nauka języków, Nauki ścisłe / Medycyna, Podręczniki / Encyklopedie, Poradniki, Prasa, Prawo, Psychologia / Społeczeństwo / Polityka, Religia, Sport /Rekreacja, Technika / Inżynieria / Rolnictwo oraz Zdrowie / Rodzina / Związki. Kategoria „Pozostałe” zawiera publikacje, których nie da się przypisać tylko do jednej z tych kategorii, gdyż ich granice są bardzo często niewyraźne. To książki znajdujące się zazwyczaj na styku wielu różnych gatunków, wymykające się jednoznacznej klasyfikacji i kategoryzacji.