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Diary of a Dreadful Dragon
Once upon a time was only the start . . . welcome to the Fairytale Woods. Malc the dragon is on the hunt for treasure in a hilarious secret diary from million-copy bestselling author, comedian and actor Ben Miller. Banished from yet another kingdom, Malgundrax the dragon has arrived in the Fairytale Woods, eager to build up a new hoard of treasures… and when he joins the three bears’ delivery company, it’s the perfect cover for sneaking into homes and stealing shiny things! But when he starts making friends, stealing begins to lose its sparkle. Can this dragon change his ways? Or once a baddie, always a baddi? ome down to the Fairytale Woods and discover what your favourite characters are really thinking in the bestselling series from Ben Miller, illustrated by Elisa Paganelli. Diary of a Big Bad Wolf, Diary of a Puss in Boots and Diary of a Wicked Witch available now.
Nagato-class Battleships 1920–46
An illustrated study of Japan’s Nagato-class battleships: the IJN’s powerful super-dreadnoughts, which were heavily modernized to fight in World War II. Illustrated with the author’s much-acclaimed 3D reconstructions, naval researcher Stefan Draminski offers a technical and operational study of Nagato and Mutsu, Japan’s most powerful battleships of the dreadnought era. They were the world’s first battleships to mount 16-inch guns, and signalled Japan’s determination to build a fleet that qualitatively outmatched the world’s leading navies. Entering service in the 1920s, they would be heavily modernized before the outbreak of the Pacific War, which Nagato would start as Yamamoto’s flagship for the Pearl Harbor attack. Both ships were present at the Battle of Midway, and though Mutsu would be sunk by a magazine explosion in 1943, Nagato fought at Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf, before being modified again and moored at Yokosuka as an antiaircraft battery. The last Japanese battleship afloat on VJ-Day, Nagato was sunk in 1946 at Bikini Atoll in the Crossroads nuclear test. Drawing on Japanese-language sources and original documentation, this is a concisely detailed account of these formidable battleships, superbly illustrated with archive photos and artwork showing the ships through their careers and in action.
Paradiso 17
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026 ‘Miraculous’ OMAR EL AKKAD ‘Stunning’ MAAZA MENGISTE ‘Suffused with tenderness’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘Beautiful and powerful’ LISA OWENS ‘Wondrous’ NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH An extraordinary, sweeping novel following one man's itinerant search for home across the globe, after his childhood exile from Palestine. All his life, exile has been the shadow stitched to the sole of Sufien’s shoe. Born in Palestine on the precipice of 1948’s Nakba, Sufien is forced to leave the only home he’s ever known, the one on the hill with a beautiful blue door. In this moment time stops making sense. He spends the rest of his life propelled forward – although in search of what, he is never quite sure. In the dusty, oil-rich desert of Kuwait, he meets his first love and decides he must leave his family. In a small Italian university town, he spends his youth wrapped up in the forgetful assurance of wine. When life carries him to a gritty New York, he discovers his true vocation and falls in love with a Jewish woman born into a wholly different world. Until finally, he finds himself recalled to the wild, vast open skies of a desert much like his first home. Paradiso 17 is haunted with grief and yet it is also struck through with the dazzling light of a life truly lived and a love that connects us, no matter our distance. Like all of our dead, Sufien still speaks, the book begins. Listen, this is his story. ‘An exquisite novel … unforgettable’ OMAR EL AKKAD, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This ‘I could not put this down … Compassionate, elegiac and suffuse with unflinching wit’ MAAZA MENGISTE, author of The Shadow King ‘A gripping story of a soul in exile’ JUSTIN TORRES, author of Blackouts ‘A miraculous novel’ KASIM ALI, author of Who Will Remain ‘Remarkable … read it, read it, read it’ RABIH ALAMEDDINE, author of The True True Story of Raja the Gullible ‘Lyrical and gorgeously original … reads as poetry’ LITHUB
Lifeboat at the End of the World
'Unflinchingly candid and extraordinarily powerful' DAILY TELEGRAPH ‘Dominic Gregory hasn’t just delivered a survey of courage and determination – Lifeboat at the End of the World is a hymn to human decency, and that makes it a very timely book indeed’ TIM WINTON Do you really think all lives are worth saving? On the empty shingle beach of Dungeness, the volunteer crew of the lifeboat await her next launch. It might come in another week. Or it might even happen in the next few seconds… For two hundred years, the Dungeness lifeboat has launched in storms and heavy seas to frigates and barques, trawlers and dinghies. Like all lifeboat stations in the British Isles, it is led by a coxswain and staffed by volunteers. Dominic Gregory volunteers as part of her crew. Dungeness is itself a place apart. An ever-shifting expanse of shingle jutting into the English Channel, it is overshadowed by its nuclear power station and made famous by Derek Jarman’s flotsam garden. Dungeness also has where millions of migrating birds and insects first make landfall in the British Isles. As a small place perhaps, but one that finds itself now at the centre of one of the biggest political stories of modern times. At the heart of this wonderful book is the lifeboat crew with whom Dominic Gregory serves, many of them from families who have volunteered for generations. These are remarkable yet ordinary men and women – who serve as shore crew, or boat crew, or who keep the records and brew the tea. All, in their different ways, give up their time, livelihoods and safety to brave wind, tide and storms, not to mention the peril of navigating between the vast floating skyscrapers that make up so much of modern shipping. Then there is coxswain Stuart Adams whose quiet, competent leadership ensures he acts as the still point in a spinning world. Lifeboat at the End of the World is the first book to depict the experience of what it is like to volunteer on a lifeboat: the smells of the water, the little knots when an alarm comes, how the crew is trained, the teamwork and trust, the ethos of the service. But it is when inflatable dinghies – overloaded with people – begin arriving on the shores of Dungeness that the lifeboat crew must face perhaps their greatest test. Dominic Gregory’s non-fiction writing offers extraordinary power and immediacy. While most of us will never serve in a lifeboat, we might find ourselves thankful for their unflinching and fearless assistance at sea.
How to Lose the Lottery
'Heartwarming, nostalgic and poignant' Lucy Clarke 'Both achingly funny and poignant' Sally Page 'Tender and uplifting' Kate Storey Buy a lottery ticket? Win your wildest dreams? Lose everything…? One lucky ticket is about to change everything. Edie and Ron have been together for nearly fifty years, keeping each other afloat by the skin of their teeth. They’ve always been ordinary – until something very extraordinary happens. Winning the lottery is everything they’ve ever wanted – well, almost. Because for the last twenty years, Edie and Ron have been running from a secret that tore their family apart. And when you can suddenly buy everything you’ve ever wanted, you realise that the only thing you really want is the one thing money can’t buy. Join Edie as she finally takes control. She’s had enough of playing the hand she’s been dealt – it’s time to risk it all.
Read All About It!
Extra! Extra! New York Times bestselling author and Fox News senior correspondent Benjamin Hall reminds readers that we all have the power to make a difference in this heartwarming picture book about a hedgehog tasked with warning the forest about a hungry bear. Hedgehog can’t wait to be big enough to report the news like his dad does. So when he notices that a baby owl has fallen out of a tree and is in serious trouble, Hedgehog doesn’t hesitate to spring into action! But can a little hedgehog like him save the day and warn the forest in tim? rom award-winning senior correspondent Benjamin Hall, the New York Times bestselling author of Saved and Resolute, comes a heartwarming story, inspired by the toy his daughters gave him to carry whenever he was reporting away from home, about speaking up and daring to make a difference.
Comparative Musicology
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Why do all human societies make music, but in such different ways? Scientific attempts to answer this question through cross-cultural comparison stalled during the 20th century and have only recently begun to make a resurgence. In this book, Patrick Savage, a leader in this resurgence synthesises recent advances from musicology and related fields including psychology, linguistics, computer science, and evolutionary anthropology to outline ways to understand and compare all the world's music. He applies comparative musicology to longstanding debates including universal and culturally-specific aspects of human music; evolutionary relationships between song, speech, and animal vocalisation; and applications to areas including music copyright, 2nd language acquisition, social bonding, and cultural heritage revitalisation. In doing so, he argues for an inclusive, multidisciplinary field that uplifts traditionally marginalised voices and combines the qualitative methods traditionally employed by musicologists and cultural anthropologists with quantitative methods from the natural sciences. The book is accessibly written using over 50 figures/tables and an interactive tutorial with audio examples, with each chapter designed to be readable/teachable on its own. It is designed to be appreciated by anyone from undergraduate students to senior professors, without requiring any specialised background knowledge.
Hide And Seek
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Kin
Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood, but are fated to live starkly different lives.
Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother’s death, Vernice leaves Atlanta at eighteen for Spelman College, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Black women and marries into an affluent family.
Annie, abandoned by her dissolute mother as a child, and fixated on the idea of finding her and filling the bottomless hole left by her absence, sets off on a journey that will take her into a world of peril and adversity, as well as love and adventure, and culminate in a battle for her life.
A Thousand Perfect Lies
Secrets don't die. They just transfer schools.
New York native Billie Vale arrives at Wickham Academy, England's most elite boarding school, with a forged identity as Belinda Winters and one mission: clear her sister's name. Isla lies in a coma, accused of killing her best friend. Billie has one shot to uncover the truth in a school built on privilege and deception. Succeed, and her estranged father will finally help her mother. Fail, and it will tear what's left of her family apart.
But Wickham's secrets run deep, and not everyone wants them exposed. The school's golden prince and its brooding outcast both seem to know more than they'll admit and both have reasons to keep Billie close. As she digs into the lies that built Wickham's empire, she discovers that loyalty is just another currency, every hallway hides a motive, and everyone here protects their own at any cost.
But someone at Wickham knows what really happened…
And they'll bury Billie before they let her find out.
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Skate Obsession
Retrace the history of skateboarding and its iconic brands, meet the legendary riders, and learn all about the skater universe in this fully illustrated book. From fashion to film, music to art, and the Olympics to video games, here-at last!-is a complete guide to all aspects of skateboarding culture. Learn how the activity rose to the heights of cool, decipher the (previously unwritten) skater code of conduct, and discover the trends that have turned skate life into an obsession for the past 75 years.
KPop Demon Hunters: The Official Poster Book
Grab your backstage pass to Netflix's hit animated film KPop Demon Hunters with this glossy full-colour poster book that features foil on the cover and more than 35 posters!
This official poster book is full of exciting artwork featuring the world-renowned girl group HUNTR/X, Saja Boys, Derpy Tiger, and Sussie! Fans of all ages can cover their walls with these full-colour, collectible images. Perfect for fans of K-pop and demon slaying!
The Hobbit
The classic bestseller behind this year's biggest movie, this film tie-in edition features the complete story of Bilbo Baggins' adventures in Middle-earth, with a striking cover image from Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY and drawings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End.
But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey 'there and back again'. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon…
The prelude to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit has sold many millions of copies since its publication in 1937, establishing itself as one of the most beloved and influential books of the twentieth century.
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A hűség összeköt - de az árulás szétszakít
Párizs, 1940. A várost elfoglalták a nácik, három fiatal varrónő a lehetőségekhez képest igyekszik élni mindennapi életét. Mireille-t megsebezte a háború: bekapcsolódik az Ellenállásba; Claire-t elcsábítja egy német tiszt; Vivienne pedig olyasmit tett, amit egyik lakótársának se mer elmondani.
Két generációval később Claire unokája Párizsba érkezik. Angliában nőtt fel, most megpróbálja feltárni, mi történt a háború alatt. Ugyanabban a házban lakik és dolgozik, mint annak idején a nagyanyja, és a tudomására jut valami: a családi múlt fájdalmas titkot rejt.
A három varrónőnek csupa rossz választással kellett szembenéznie. Nem volt kiút. Veszélybe sodorta őket az illegális tevékenység, de a végsőkig kitartottak egymás mellett. Hogyan tudták túlélni ezt a sötét, kilátástalan időszakot?
Rozkvetlá
Jedna věří ve fakta, druhá v hvězdy – obě v sílu přátelství Andrea – organizovaná, zodpovědná workoholička, nedůvěřivá realistka, úzkostlivá matka. Jolanta – nedochvilná, přirozená, otevřená umělkyně spatřující dobro v každém člověku, svobodomyslná matka. Jedna dělá vědecký průzkum před každým životním rozhodnutím – druhá věří v postavení hvězd, homeopatii a sílu přírody. Neslučitelné povahy svede dohromady konflikt jejich potomků.
Román o tom, že otevření srdce navzdory předsudkům může zasít semínko nečekaně silného přátelství. O tom, jak nás mohou v životě ovlivnit lidé, s nimiž bychom za běžných okolností prohodili sotva pár slov. O tom, že zkoušet nové věci se vyplatí. A taky o tom, že nikdy není pozdě
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Brit
Rose Cassidyová nežije, len existuje, pretože jediný spôsob, ako sa dá prežiť v tomto nemilosrdnom svete, je otupiť sa voči bolesti a strachu. Keď sa v smrteľnej hre o moc stáva rukojemníčkou mafiána Dannyho Blacka, narastá v nej záujem, ale aj hlboká túžba. Už počula príbehy o Britovi, o jeho krutosti a bezcitnosti. Nikto jej však nepovedal, že je aj zlovestne príťažlivý. Vidí priamo do jej duše a zároveň v nej vzbudzuje nádej – pocit, ktorý je pre ňu krutejší než všetko ostatné.
Keď si Danny ako záruku vyžiadal krásnu milenku jedného zo svojich nepriateľov, netušil, aké to bude mať následky. Rose ho svojím divokým šarmom tlačí na pokraj šialenstva, až si musí pripomínať, že je len nástrojom, riešením problému. Napriek tomu v Dannym vyvoláva silné city, ktoré by ho mohli stáť život. Najmä keď ho chcú všetci zabiť.
Preklad z anglického originálu The Brit (2021) Andrea Vargovčíková.
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Divoká láska
Najsladšie ovocie je to zakázané
Ford Grant je podľa časopisu Forbes považovaný za „Najpríťažlivejšieho miliardára na svete“. Pozornosť verejnosti však pre neho nie je vítaná a rád by si otvoril nahrávacie štúdio v nádhernom mestečku Rose Hill. Všetko sa skomplikuje, keď sa pred ním zjaví mladé dievča, ktoré ho označí za svojho biologického otca. Fordov život sa zrazu zmení na balansovanie medzi biznisom a výchovou mrzutej dvanásťročnej pubertiačky – nehovoriac o Rosie Belmontovej, sestre svojho najlepšieho priateľa, od ktorej musí držať ruky preč.
Rose po živote vo veľkomeste vtrhla späť do rodného mestečka ako búrka. Krásna, chaotická a nepredvídateľná. A stačí jedna úpenlivá prosba o prácu, aby ju Ford zamestnal. Síce sa snaží držať si ju od tela protivnými poznámkami a jednoslovnými odpoveďami, každá slovná prestrelka medzi nimi sa stáva akousi predohrou a vyvoláva iskrenie, ktoré rýchlo prerastie v niečo viac.
Ford si uvedomuje, že by nemal prekročiť túto nebezpečne tenkú hranicu, pretože nemôcť a nechcieť sú dve odlišné veci. Ostáva mu len jediné. Pokúsiť sa jej odolať.
Preklad z anglického originálu Wild Love (Bloom Books, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Naperville, Illinois, 2024) Hana Bojmírová.
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Pogrom v Topoľčanoch
Iba niekoľko mesiacov po skončení 2. svetovej vojny sa 24. septembra 1945 v Topoľčanoch odohrali krvavé násilnosti, ktoré sú známe ako ,,topoľčiansky protižidovský pogrom". Jeho priebehom a vyšetrovaním sa zaoberali vtedajšie najvyššie štátne orgány na Slovensku a v ČSR. Udalosť mala veľký ohlas doma aj v zahraničí. Napriek tomu, akoby sa na tieto udalosti zabudlo. Topoľčiansky pogrom nebol podrobnejšie rozpracovaný ani v slovenskej historiografii. V monografii mesta Topoľčany je tejto udalosti venované len niekoľko riadkov. Autorky sa opierajú o archívny výskum a prinášajú osobné výpovede svedkov udalostí. Popisujú príčiny, priebeh pogromu, jeho vyšetrovanie a dôsledky, medzi ktoré patril najmä postupný odchod Židov z Topoľčian.
PhDr. Katarína Beňová (1976) absolvovala štúdium histórie a estetiky na Filozofickej fakulte UKF v Nitre a rozširujúce štúdium psychológie pre učiteľov na Pedagogickej fakulte UMB v Banskej Bystrici. Počas svojej múzejnej a pedagogickej praxe sa venuje regionálnym dejinám, tematike holokaustu a vzdelávaniu o ňom. Je predsedníčkou Krúžku historikov Slovenskej historickej spoločnosti v Topoľčanoch, ktorý pripravuje semináre, prednášky.
Trestný poriadok s komentárom a judikatúrou od 1. júla 2026
Kniha obsahuje úplné znenie zákona NR SR č. 301/2005 Z. z. s komentárom a judikatúrou po poslednej novele vykonanej zákonom NR SR č. 416/2025 Z. z. a zachytáva i uznesenie Ústavného súdu SR č. 41/2026 Z. z. Základným cieľom Trestného poriadku je zefektívnenie, zjednodušenie, zrýchlenie a zhospodárnenie trestného procesu, čím sa zabezpečuje účinnejšia ochrana práv a oprávnených záujmov fyzických a právnických osôb, ako aj ochrana celospoločenských záujmov. Štrukturálne zmeny možno vidieť v presune kompetencií medzi orgánmi činnými v trestnom konaní (policajt a prokurátor) a súdom, ktorý ako nezávislý štátny orgán meritórne rozhoduje vo veci. Zásadná zmena v presune kompetencií sa týka konania pred súdom. Okresný súd je základným článkom súdnej sústavy, pretože konania v prvom stupni sa o všetkých veciach konajú na tomto súde. V poslednom období došlo k podstatným zmenám Trestného poriadku a všetky tieto zmeny sú už zachytené v tejto knihe, ktorá slúži predovšetkým potrebám dennej praxe.
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