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Learning Country
A highly designed, colourful picture book aimed at celebrating traditional names of well-known Australian places such as Gadigal (Sydney) and Lunawuni (Bruny Island), from a popular breakthrough Indigenous artist. I wanted to travel this place to hear some of its old stories ... to learn. Laugh joyfully like a kookaburra in Canberra. Watch your toes turn red in Rubibi. And walk soft under the bunya pines in Meeanjin. From Gudanji/Wakaja artist Ryhia Dank comes Learning Country, a vibrant and contemporary picture book that celebrates the traditional names of well-known Australian places.
The Times Elizabeth in Photos
A unique, commemorative portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, published to celebrate the centenary of her birth Take a deep dive into the archives with 100 stunning images captured by Times photographers which present a rich visual narrative of the life of one of the most famous figures of the 20th and 21st centuries. Within the pages of this remarkable collection, readers are offered a rare opportunity to marvel at the treasures of The Times archives. This curated selection features 100 evocative images captured by skilled Times photojournalists, each frame telling the story of Queen Elizabeth II’s extraordinary life. This book not only captures the official duties and most significant events of Queen Elizabeth II's reign, such as state ceremonies, international tours, and historic speeches, but it also reveals candid, intimate moments spent with friends and family. From her early years as a young princess to her decades as a beloved monarch, the images provide a comprehensive visual narrative of her life, highlighting both her public persona and private life. Whether you are a lifelong admirer or a new observer, this photographic portrait provides a fresh perspective and deeper understanding of what made Queen Elizabeth II an iconic figure. It is an essential addition to the collection of anyone who appreciates the art of photography and the timeless legacy of the British monarchy.
Carnivore
In New York’s high-end restaurant scene one chef will do anything, and cook anything, to come out on top. Kash knows what hunger really means. He grew up with nothing. Built a restaurant from nothing. Now he's cooking for men who have everything – billionaires with appetites as twisted as their fortunes. They hunger for what money can't buy, what laws forbid, what no one else dares serve. Kash will give them exactly what they crave. And then some more. *** 'Deliciously dark' Observer ‘A wicked take on the underbelly of the immigrant dream' Vaseem Khan 'A daring and disturbing literary dish' Daily Star 'Fast-paced, deeply disturbing satire … dripping with tension' Hindustan Times 'A rather breathless thriller' CrimeTime 'Bold and satirical' Culturefly
Redemption River
Some mistakes you can’t outrun Others become your reason to stay Brodie Carter thought he’d left his small-town life behind when the band he formed with his brothers became one of the biggest in the world. Now, with fame fading and purpose lost, he’s back in Autumn Falls—only to bump into the girl he’d never quite forgotten. Maeve Dixon. The girl in the silver cowboy boots. But Maeve’s a doctor, wants nothing to do with him, and has a very big secret she’s been hiding from him for the past eight years… It’s time for Brodie to decide: keep running from the life he never planned, or fight for what he never knew he needed. 🌊🌊🌊 Don't miss out on discovering what happens to the Carter brothers in the next books in the series… Book 1: Autumn Falls Book 2: Silver Sky Book 3: Redemption River Book 4: Starlight Mountain Book 5: Midnight Promise
George Falls Through Time
GEORGE FALLS THROUGH TIME IS. . . "Incredibly entertaining and intelligent." —GARRARD CONLEY"Big-hearted and inspired." —STEVEN ROWLEY"Funny, surprising, profound." —GRANT GINDER"Unputdownable." —LUNA MCNAMARALess meets the year 1300 in this exhilarating and thoughtfully genre-defying literary novel about a man transported through time in a moment of extreme stress, whose modern anxieties are replaced by medieval brutalitiesNewly laid off George’s internet bill is in his ex-boyfriend’s name. He’s got a spider-infested apartment, and two of the six dogs he’s walking in London have just escaped. It’s pure undiluted stress that sends him into a spiral, all the way to the year 1300. When he comes to, George recognizes the same rolling hills of Greenwich Park. But the luxuries and phone service of modernity are nowhere. In their place are locals with a bizarre, slanted speech in awe of his foreign clothes, who swiftly toss him in a dungeon. Despite the barbarity of a medieval world, a servant named Simon helps George acclimate to a simpler, easier existence—until a summons from the King threatens to send his life up in flames. George Falls Through Time is as much an inward journey as an outward one: an immersive exploration of identity and dislocation that pits present-day sensibilities against a raw and alien backdrop, a strangely perfect canvas for the absurd anxieties of our modern lives. It's a profound meditation on the nature of desire perfect for fans of Madeline Miller and The Ministry of Time.
The Visit
"The lad is a bit like a stray dog. I keep an eye on him and throw him a few scraps. There are plenty of people in this town who'd just as soon drop him off in the wilderness and hope there's no scent to follow home. The problem is that Patrick could find his way out of any wilderness and they wouldn't like whatever starved thing came back."
Sergeant Jim Field feels a guilty paternalism for Patrick Hatten, a young man struggling to find a job, a life and a purpose in a small-town Wexford community. Both are used to being on the fringes but while Jim is a romantic with bad health and regret, Patrick is full of anger and action, and his actions could have devastating effects.
The House of Hidden Letters
Skye doesn't make impulsive decisions. But when she sees a derelict Greek cottage for sale by lottery, she enters with dreams of a fresh start.
However, her heart sinks as she pushes open the tattered blue door weeks later. Can this wreck ever be her home?
Then Skye finds a bundle of letters hidden in the fireplace, their faded pages drawing her in with a story of long-forgotten love, tragedy, and unbelievable bravery.
But all the while, Skye's own past is circling. No matter how far she goes, fate is never far behind…
A Kingdom and a Village
Moscow stands at the centre of a nation comprising eleven percent of the globe’s landmass, eleven time zones and nearly one hundred and fifty million people, some thirteen million of whom live in the capital. A Kingdom and a Village vividly brings to life Russia’s heart and soul, tracing its transformation from a ‘big village’ into a metropolis of vast geopolitical import.
It is a stranger-than-fiction arc. The last century alone has featured invasions and battles, the destruction and reconstruction of sacred landmarks, and the collapse of the Soviet republic – not to mention the rise of an authoritarian leader who is a keen student of Russian history. Morrison reaches back to the city’s founding as a fortress on a river nearly a millennium ago. In the following centuries, any number of external forces – from Tatar Mongols and Swedes to Napoleon and Hitler – set their sights on Moscow, bolstering its self-conception as a glittering prize and site of perpetual defence and resurrection.
Understanding Moscow not only unlocks the spellbinding mysteries of Russia’s past, but also the grim logic of its present. A Kingdom and a Village is an essential guide to a people and a nation.
The Algorithm
Jonathan McNeill had already founded and sold six startups when Sheryl Sandberg introduced him to Elon Musk, who was looking for help at Tesla. McNeill was steeped in the lean principles that had made Toyota a global powerhouse principles focused on achieving efficiency and optimization by incrementally improving existing systems and processes. What he learned from Elon at Tesla was its antithesis, an approach that required radical rethinking to explode the status quo, attack complexity, and set seemingly unrealistic goals.
Elon called this five-step framework The Algorithm.
1. Question every requirement.
2. Delete every possible step in the process.
3. Simplify and optimize.
4. Accelerate cycle time.
5. Automate.
In this book, McNeill details this tremendously powerful set of tools, which brought Tesla from a production crisis that threatened to derail it to a period of hypergrowth.
During his tenure, revenue boomed from $2B to $20B in just 30 months. Since his departure from Tesla, McNeill has used The Algorithm in every enterprise he has worked with to supercharge speed, efficiency, innovation, and growth. Featuring case studies from Tesla and SpaceX, as well as from Lululemon, GM, and companies of various sizes across industries, he reveals how any business can do the same and achieve the unimaginable.
Cute n Cozy Colouring World
This chunky little colouring book is a package of cuteness. Make a little time for yourself, and lose yourself in its pages!
Kimchi
Bring the heart and soul of kimchi to your kitchen with a selection of authentic, classic kimchi recipes, plus modern twists for using kimchi in everyday delicious dishes.
In this beautiful book, discover the craft of kimchi through traditional and seasonal recipes, plus delicious ways to use kimchi in your cooking, from Kimchi Grilled Cheese Sandwich and Kimchi Mac and Cheese, to Kimchi Quesadilla, Kimchi Summer Rolls and Stir-Fried Kimchi Udon with Greens.
Detective Hole: The Devil’s Star
Detective Harry Hole can't trust his own memory.
A man is caught on CCTV, shooting dead a cashier at a bank. Detective Hole begins his investigation, but after dinner with an old flame wakes up with no memory of the past 12 hours.
Someone wants him out of this picture...
Then the girl is found dead in mysterious circumstances and he begins to receive threatening emails: is someone trying to frame him for her death?
And they'll stop at nothing to fulfil their bloodlust.
The Pledge
Lawyer Thea has just won the biggest case of her professional life when she receives a mysterious invitation - and finds herself on a jet, being whisked off to a private Caribbean island.
Except this is no holiday.
Thea's fellow guests represent the world's richest individuals and, on arrival, each is challenged to make The Pledge - to give half their fortunes to fight climate change.
But underneath the billionaire lifestyle is a game of survival of the fittest. And, by the morning, their manipulative and misguided host is dead.
Thea must navigate secrets, lies and scandals as the group's suspicions turn on her. Now, she's not just relying on her courtroom wiles to win a case; she's fighting for her life.
Because, when another guest dies, it's clear she's not just stranded on the island - she's trapped with a killer ...
Hot Cross Buns at the Little Cornish Bookshop
Effie has always loved her quiet life in Cornwall - sea swims, beach walks, reading, and knitting. After university in London, she returned home, craving the calm of the coast. But while her friends move forward, Effie feels stuck.
So when she's offered the chance to open a bookshop in the seaside village of Polcarrow - with a flat above the shop - Effie leaps at the opportunity. A bookshop by the sea? It's the dream.
Adjusting to life on her own is tough at first, but she soon finds friendship in Lola, the local café owner, and her warm circle of friends. Then there's Jake - a globe-trotting photographer - who stirs something in Effie that she didn't expect.
As Easter approaches and the shop's grand opening nears, Effie's new life begins to bloom. But a difficult owner and a misunderstanding with Jake threaten to upend everything. Can Effie find the courage to fight for the life - and love - she's always wanted?
Hrbaté duše
Bochoř u Přerova, léta 1941 a 1942. V lázeňské vesnici se proplétají osudy dvou mužů – Ambrože Ptáčka, který pro vrtkavou lásku opustil rodinu, a Dezidera Horváta, patriarchy cikánské rodiny hledající v době nacistické okupace bezpečí. Zatímco starosta Lanč se snaží chránit vesnici před nacistickými nařízeními, někdo s potěšením píše udání a přilévá olej do ohně nedůvěry. V těžkých časech bojuje i Ambrožova žena Máří, která navzdory rozkladu manželství hledá sílu zachovat svým dětem domov.
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Výšina
Ve městech už se nedá žít a Miina rodina je nucena přestěhovat se do Výšiny, uměle vytvořené kolonie v horách. Je tam bezpečno, vše dokonale funguje, v centru se navíc nachází obrovská květinová archa, která zaručuje záchranu vegetace na zemi. Ale nic není, jak se na první pohled zdá, a nepřátelé se skrývají úplně všude. Zatímco Mia odhaluje pravdu o novém domově, lidé ve Výšině i mimo ni zjišťují, že utéct se dá před vším – kromě vlastní minulosti.
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Hodina predátorů
Od autora světového bestselleru Čaroděj z Kremlu.
Giuliano da Empoli přichází se strhující i mrazivou zprávou ze svých putování po centrech moci, od New Yorku po Rijád, od sídla OSN po Ritz-Carlton Muhammada bin Salmána. Vede nás za zrcadlo, tam, kde se moc dá vydupat hřmotnými a nepromyšlenými činy, kde autokrati bez zábran usilují o co největší chaos a technologičtí rytíři jako by už obývali nový svět, kde umělé inteligenci nestojí nic v cestě... Není pochyb, že přišla hodina predátorů.
Autor světového bestselleru Čaroděj z Kremlu je pozoruje zpříma, s jasnozřivostí Macchiaveliho a odstupem moralisty.
Návraty / Returns
Kniha Návraty je pozvaním vrátiť sa k tomu, čo je nám blízke. Reprezentačná obrazová publikácia Návraty je výnimočnou oslavou slovenskej krajiny a jej neopakovateľnej atmosféry. Renomovaný fotograf Vladimír Bárta v nej prináša pôsobivý súbor umeleckých fotografií, ktoré zachytávajú Slovensko v jeho najkrajších podobách od majestátnych horských panorám, cez tiché lesné zákutia, až po pokojné dediny a zvlnené doliny. Fotografie sprevádzajú krátke literárne reflexie, ktoré citlivo dopĺňajú vizuálny zážitok a premieňajú publikáciu na hlbšie umelecké dielo. Slovo a obraz sa tu spájajú do harmonického celku, ktorý čitateľa vtiahne do atmosféry krajiny a pozýva ho zastaviť sa a vnímať. Návraty sú cestou za krásou Slovenska, ale aj cestou do vlastného vnútra. Autor prostredníctvom objektívu a poetického slova pripomína, že krajina Slovenska nie je len priestorom, ktorý obývame, ale je aj súčasťou našej identity. Fotografie zachytávajú prchavé okamihy svetla, hmlu nad dolinami, ticho horských lúk či dramatické oblohy nad horskými štítmi. Každá stránka knihy je pozvaním k návratu k spomienkam i k miestam, ktoré máme uložené hlboko v srdci. Publikácia osloví milovníkov fotografie aj poetického slova. Je reprezentatívnym obrazom slovenskej krajiny a zároveň citlivou umeleckou výpoveďou o jej kráse. Vďaka výnimočnej obrazovej kvalite a nadčasovému posolstvu je kniha vhodná aj ako hodnotný dar pre všetkých, ktorí majú radi Slovensko. Texty pod fotografiami sú okrem slovenského aj v anglickom jazyku čo ocenia a môžu takto spoznať Slovensko aj čitatelia zo sveta. Kniha na 128 stranách obsahuje 97 fotografií a sprievodné texty k obrázkom v slovenskom a anglickom jazyku. Kniha je vytlačená na exkluzívnom trikrát natieranom matnom kriedovom papieri, reprezentačnej tvrdej väzby, formátu 210×210 mm s matným prebalom a lasetkou. Každá kniha je balená samostatne do priehľadnej fólie.
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