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A Day at Fluffyville Port
From sunrise to sunset, the harbor comes to life across seven beautifully illustrated spreads. Children can follow a family as they tour the port, ride the ferry, and even visit a pirate ship. Along the way, familiar faces return—including the mischievous Bandit Badger, who’s back as a stowaway hiding in plain sight. Each detailed scene is packed with playful surprises and whimsical characters, offering countless opportunities to observe, search, and discover. Whether it’s cranes unloading cargo, seagulls swooping overhead, or curious critters peeking from behind barrels, every page invites readers to slow down and explore. With its detailed artwork, interactive format, and irresistible cast of characters, this is a book children will return to again and again—always spotting something new. Perfect for quiet moments or shared reading, this engaging book encourages close looking, storytelling, and curiosity about the world. Fans of the series will delight in the rich illustrations and gentle humor, while newcomers will be instantly charmed by Fluffyville’s playful spirit. A joyful celebration of life by the water, full of warmth, whimsy, and discovery.
What Do We Know About Dragons?
Are dragons winged, fire-breathing beasts or water gods who promise good luck? Across the globe, legends of dragons have varied greatly. Stories and images of dragons can be traced back to the ancient worlds of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In many East and Southeast Asian cultures, dragons were considered friendly, serpent-like creatures, but in Western cultures, they were ferocious, feared, and monstrous. Were dragons slayed by knights in medieval Europe? Or did they bring promises of plentiful rain in Japanese folklore? Both! These are just two examples of historic dragon lore. Today, dragons are in their golden age. They are featured in literature, games, movies, and television and have never been more popular. How to Train Your Dragon shows them as peaceful companions to humans. The Hobbit uses a dragon as a clever and cruel villain. From Norway to Korea, send your curiosity into flight and learn all we know about these mysterious creatures in this exciting book for young readers!
The Opposites Game
AUTHOR OF FIVE POETRY COLLECTIONS • NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED AUTHOR, Brendan Constantine presents his newest collection, The Opposites Game. A playful and profound meditation on language, binaries, and the radical act of seeing each other more clearly. In his fifth collection of verse, The Opposites Game, poet Brendan Constantine inspires us to revel in the abundance of life by reckoning its many astonishments (and antonyms). Through a simple yet profound framework of odes, lists, memoirs, and classroom assignments, Constantine asks us to think critically about how we define and understand each other, urging us to look beyond simplistic binaries and engage with the deeper nuances of meaning. The Opposites Game is a powerful reminder of the intricate relationship between words and the realities they represent, and an invitation to explore the rich, beautiful, and often perilous terrain of human thought and emotion.
Kanga-U: Lost in a Labyrinth
Trapped in the legendary Greek Labyrinth, Jumpa and her friends will face some of mythology s most fearsome creatures and discover several of its greatest magical treasures as they struggle to find a way out. A few months have passed since Bonding Day, when the hardworking young kangas of Themyscira competed to be paired with their future Amazon partners, including Princess Diana the only teenager living on the island. And it is time for the newest recruits to leap into the next steps of their training. Exploring in an isolated part of the woods on Themyscira, best friends Jumpa, Big Red, Goldie, Rooth, and Skippa discover an ancient, overgrown doorway in the side of a hill and Skippa can t wait to jump inside to check it out. But when she doesn t come back out or even respond to her friends shouts, the others follow, only to find themselves lost in the middle of the ancient Greek Labyrinth. And since the Greek gods built their maze as a prison, they re stuck inside with the savage Minotaur and a bevy of other mythological beasts too! Can our ganga kangas stop blaming Skippa and each other long enough to find a way out? Or will they be hopping around the Labyrinth s twisting pathways forever? Unfortunately, the greatest threat may come from the most unexpected source of all.
Lidé ve tmě. Deníky z Terezína 1941-1943
Kniha Lidé ve tmě představuje unikátní soubor autentických deníkových záznamů, básní a povídek Pavla Fischla (později známého jako Gabriel Dagan), které vznikaly v letech 1941 až 1943 v protektorátní Praze a následně v terezínském ghettu. Tento literární poklad, který autorův syn Michael Dagan objevil až v roce 2023 v pozůstalosti svých rodičů patnáct let po otcově smrti, nabízí hluboký vhled do nejniternějších pocitů, úvah o sionismu i tvůrčích procesů mladého muže čelícího kruté realitě holokaustu. Publikace mj. uvádí na pravou míru historickou nepřesnost, kdy byl úryvek z Pavlova terezínského deníku v knize Motýli tady nežijí mylně připsán jeho jmenovci Petru Fischlovi, který zahynul v Osvětimi. Dílo tak slouží nejen jako cenné historické svědectví o životě v ghettu, ale i jako hold nezlomné lidské naději a síle uměleckého vyjádření, které Pavla doprovázelo i v jeho pozdějším životě významného izraelského dramatika a psychoterapeuta.
Kapibarák szökésben
A három kapibara – Emi, Trisztán és Raul – mindennapjai elég unalmasan telnek az állatkertben. Ám egy napon felmerül bennük a kérdés: mi rejtőzhet a kerítés túloldalán? Vajon sikerül felfedezniük a bőség tengerét és a körülöttük levő világot? Éjszakai kiruccanásaik során megismerik a szomszédos állatokat, és izgalmas kalandokba keverednek. De mit szólnak mindehhez a tengerimalacok?
Hekate - Goddesses of the Underworld 1
Born into a world on fire, Godling Hekate has never known safety. After her parents find themselves on the losing side of the war between the ruling Titans and the new Olympian Gods, Hekate is taken by her mother Asteria to the Underworld, where Styx and Hades agree to raise her. Meanwhile, Asteria is pursued across the world by Zeus and Poseidon and, to escape their clutches, transforms herself into an island in a stormy sea.
Orphaned and alone, Hekate grows up amongst the horrors and beauties of the Underworld, desperate to find her divine purpose and a sense of belonging in the land of the dead.
When she finally uncovers her powers and ascends to Goddess status, she realises that even the most powerful Olympians are terrified of her. But when immortal war breaks out again, threatening to destroy everything from Mount Olympus to the Underworld itself, the Goddess of witchcraft and necromancy is the only one who can bring the deadly conflict to an end...
Adolf Matura
Adolf Matura (1921-1979), výrazná osobnost československého sklářského umění a designu, se zásadně podílel na podobě užitkového a dekorativního skla padesátých až sedmdesátých let minulého století. Studoval v ateliéru profesora Karla Štipla na pražské Uměleckoprůmyslové škole. Po krátkém působení jako samostatný rytec skla začal v roce 1952 působit jako designér v Ústředním výtvarném středisku pro průmysl skla a jemné keramiky. Se svými návrhy se zúčastnil významných mezinárodních přehlídek užitého umění XI. Trienále v Miláně v roce 1957 a světové výstavy Expo 58 v Bruselu. Roku 1959 se stal vedoucím výtvarníkem oboru skla v nově vzniklém Ústavu bytové a oděvní kultury (ÚBOK) v Praze. Jako zkušený designér vytvořil množství návrhů foukaného, broušeného i hutně tvarovaného skla, především se ale zaměřil na sklo lisované, jehož vývoj progresivně ovlivnil jak z výtvarného, tak z technologického hlediska.
Kniha představuje Maturovu tvorbu od raných autorských ryteckých prací, které v letech 1957 až 1960 úspěšně reprezentovaly moderní československé sklo na mezinárodních výstavách užitého umění a skla, po sochařsky řešené lisované vázy z let šedesátých a sedmdesátých, jimiž podstatně ovlivnil a obohatil výtvarnou podobu sériové produkce užitkového i dekorativního skla.
Kniha vychází jako devátý svazek edice Design Profily Osobnosti.
Koncepce knihy a text: Jan Mergl Redakce textů: Kateřina Bendáková, Karolína Hajdíková Překlad resumé: Linda Leffová Fotografie: Gabriel Urbánek, Ondřej Kocourek, Aleš Kosina Reprodukce archivních dokumentů: Jan Mergl Grafický design: Štěpán Malovec
No Matter What
Can love draw them together . . . again?
Roz and Vin can't look each other in the eyes anymore, let alone share a bed. It's been a year since they survived a traumatic car accident and their marriage hasn't been the same.
But Roz has held out hope that they can fix things . . . until she discovers that Vin has signed a new lease.
So she does what any soon-to-be-divorced Manhattanite would do: she signs up for figure drawing class.
Ignoring Vin's impending move-out date would be a lot easier if he wasn't her best-friends brother - and if he hadn't just offered to let her draw him. After all, that's known to make a separation easier, right? Focus on every detail of your estranged spouse's body while drawing them in the nude?
But after the year they've spent avoiding each other, it feels good to see and be seen by one another again. As Roz works to capture the wholeness of the person she fell in love with, will they both be able to draw upon the feelings they buried deep inside to finally heal together?
Az ördög ölelésében
„Érzi, hogy valami mocorog benne. Nyújtózkodik, ágaskodik a démon. Felébredt a hosszú alvás után, és most áldozatra les. Vissza kell fognia, különben baj lesz.”
Egy nő Firenzébe érkezik, ahol találkozik egy férfival, és hamarosan egymásba szeretnek. Nem telik el sok idő, és mindketten hűtlenné válnak. A nő egyre inkább meg van győződve arról, hogy nem csupán egy erőszakos emberrel van dolga: a férfiban egy démon lakozik – ahogy benne is. Az ördög ölelésében felemelő, nyugtalanító és meglepően humoros, kíméletlenül pontos leírást ad a bántalmazó kapcsolatok világáról. Veszedelmesen sötét és misztikus történet, amely lélegzetelállító utazásra hív az ember legsötétebb énjébe.
Repetition : A Novel
In a Norwegian November, when it is dark at waking and dark at sleeping, a novelist in her sixties sits next to a teenaged girl at the opera, and through their padded jackets feels a dreadfully familiar tension conducted from the parents seated on her far side. She thinks back to her sixteenth year. The year she first got drunk and the year she first had sex with a boy.
A year of being circled by an anxious, hawkish mother and, at a notable distance, her silent father. The year her family made an unspoken decision, and an unspeakable sacrifice.
Tales of the Hundred Monsters Next Door Vol. 2
Katagiri Jinpachi is a man plagued by the uncanny, and Harada Oriza is a famed painter of ghosts and yokai. As Jinpachi attracts strange things like moths to a flame, Oriza uses him for his own amusement. This is a record of their fate entangled with the eerie, the fearful, and the curious!
Darkness
To interrogate darkness at this moment in history is not only timely, but vital and Bonnie Thurston does it with an honesty and precision that holds our attention. From the darkness of a melancholic disposition to darkness that shelters us safely, from sleepless nights and their moons to trusting in the return of the light on the darkest day and longest night, these pieces are poised, precise, full of sensory details, insightful and shot through with hope. There is fear and grief here, but it will not have the last word.
Szláv boszorkányság
Az orosz varázslás az isteneknek, szellemeknek és természeti erőknek az átlagemberek életébe történő beavatkozásán, valamint ezen erők irányításán alapszik. Bizonyossággal mondhatom, hogy az oroszok századok óta alkalmazzák a varázslást céljaik elérése érdekében. A varázslás szerves részét képezte az őseink által gyakorolt pogány hagyományoknak, e varázslás célját pedig az élet megsegítése, a gyógyítás, valamint a negatív energiáktól való megszabadulás jelentette. Őseink mindenféle varázslást alkalmaztak – az igéktől és bűbájoktól kezdve az üzleti és harci sikereket eredményező ráolvasásokig. Az orosz varázslás a pogányság és kereszténység szintézise. Máig élnek olyanok, akik a pogány ünnepségek megtartása mellett keresztény szent napokon varázsolnak. Ma is léteznek csomókra való suttogással átkozó vagy gyógyító boszorkányok. A varázslók valóban rendkívüli dolgokra képesek.
Bronte Journey
Liliana Pasterska is the maven of finding emotional depth in the detail of the everyday. In Brontë Journey we are invited to walk alongside a love story, one that is sundered by loss, yet shines all the more brightly for that. The language is clear and precise. The places resonate with the beauty and grief that unfold in the personal story of Charlotte Brontë and Arthur Bell Nichols at the heart of the collection. The voices of her subjects carry across time, not an act of ventriloquism, but of empathy and immersion. And if for Arthur, grieving as he leaves Yorkshire six years after Charlotte’s early and sudden death, “Roadside fuchsia will greet him / as if nothing had passed.”, the clue is in the ‘as if’. For so much has passed and this exquisite collection has allowed us in, invited us to share a moment with creatures whose lives still touch us. An elegant, heart-stopping collection.
The First Kentucky Derby
Today’s Kentucky Derby is a multimillion-dollar spectacle involving corporate sponsorship, worldwide media coverage, and an annual citywide festival in Louisville. Over its nearly century-and-a-half history, the Kentucky Derby has grown to be one of the biggest sporting events of the year, attracting 150,000 spectators at the track and nearly 15 million television viewers on the first Saturday each May.But 1875, the year of the first Derby, was a different time. The Louisville Jockey Club track, which would one day bear the name “Churchill Downs,” was a small structure that might, on its best day, provide seating and standing room for 12,000 spectators. The grandstand was plain and functional and included a section reserved for bookmakers, whose trade was legal and who operated in the open. Perhaps most significantly, the majority of jockeys in the race were Black, in stark contrast to the present-day Derby, where participation by African-American jockeys is rare.In The First Kentucky Derby, racing historian Mark Shrager examines the events leading up to the first “Run for the Roses,” the unsuccessful effort that the winning owner might have made to rig the race for his preferred horse, and the prominent role played by African Americans in Gilded Age racing culture—a holdover from pre-emancipation days, when slaves were trained from birth to ride for their wealthy owners and grew up surrounded by the horses that would be their life’s work.
Facing Illness, Finding Peace
“Facing Illness, Finding Peace: A Poetic Walk with God through Serious Illness by Nancy Groves is a great gift to those struggling with life-threatening illness. Using poetry, biblical verses, and reflective questions, Groves helps navigate readers through difficult terrain. Her book is both insightful and gentle.” - Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, Senior Vice-President for Grief Programs, The Hospice Foundation of AmericaWhen facing a serious diagnosis and challenging treatments, it’s important to know and feel that you are not alone. The poems, reflection questions, and prayers offered in this guide help you process your intense emotions in order to reach understanding and acceptance. You’ll learn how to navigate this new normal and also help caregivers and family members become supportive companions on the journey ahead.
The Hunger Code
THE FOLLOW-UP TO THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER THE OBESITY CODE BY ACCLAIMED NEPHROLOGIST AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, JASON FUNG, MD"Jason Fung nails it again in The Hunger Code. This book clearly and compellingly explains why most Americans are overweight and gives us a concise, evidence-based way to manage our weight with as little hunger as possible."—Dan Buettner, New York Times bestselling author of The Blue ZonesThe Obesity Code helped thousands of people lose weight naturally. The Hunger Code will help thousands more lose weight—and keep it off—in an era of weight-loss drugs and ultra-processed foods…without counting calories. For generations, we've accepted the story that weight loss can never last—that as soon as we go off the diet or stop taking the medication, we revert to our old habits, regain the weight, and the calorie-counting journey starts all over again. Traditional medicine continues to treat the symptom of weight gain rather than addressing its root causes. Too often, healthcare systems intervene with quick fixes and short-term solutions, ignoring the factors that lead to sustainable weight loss that can last a lifetime. What if the secret to long-term weight maintenance and better health isn’t just about what you eat—or even when you eat—but why you ea? ith the food industry's reliance on ultra-processed foods and the popularity of Ozempic and Mounjaro, understanding the forces behind why we eat is more important than ever before. In The Hunger Code, New York Times bestselling author Dr. Jason Fung reveals the three powerful forces that drive us to eat:Physical HungerEmotional HungerSocial HungerDr. Fung also introduces the concept of the body’s “fat thermostat”—a biological “set point” that regulates how much fat your body tries to maintain. Guided by hormones and metabolism, this internal system drives hunger and energy use, explaining why lasting weight loss requires more than just willpower …With three Golden Rules and 50 actionable tips, The Hunger Code empowers you to recognize and respond to hunger appropriately. Learn how to slow digestion, break emotional eating cycles, and overcome social pressures to eat constantly, so you can maintain a healthy weight—from scratch, after fasting, or after using weight-loss drugs.
Climbing Through
In Climbing Through, Melissa Strong, a rock climber and restaurateur, unveils her remarkable journey of survival and resilience in the face of mortality after being horrifically injured by electricity. Transporting readers back to her early days in New England, Strong vividly recounts her transformation from a self-described “C” student in gym class to a sponsored rock climber. She dismantles conventional expectations, forging a distinctive path that culminates in the realization of her own restaurant venture. Navigating her uncertainties about parenthood and grappling with the challenges of infertility, Strong rebounds toward her dreams and weaves them into tangible aspirations. The vision of her restaurant takes shape, but in a fateful twist, a near-fatal encounter with a powerful electric current during the renovation process leaves her confronting the stark reality of her altered hands, once the lifeblood of her livelihood and rock-climbing passion. As she navigates the complex realm of medical intervention, enduring multiple surgeries and an arduous recovery, she discovers within herself an indomitable spirit that propels her through adversity. Climbing Through is a poignant chronicle of unwavering fortitude, an inspiring testament to the triumph of the human spirit over life’s most daunting challenges.
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