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The Underwearwolf
Perfect for fans of Creepy Pair of Underwear, this wolfish picture book romp follows a kid who finds himself in a hairy situation when he dons a pair of not-so-normal undies under the light of the full moon. Do not, under any circumstances, Or for any reason, Wear this underwear under the full moon. Do you understand? Get ready to howl with laughter as one rule-breaking, underwear-loving kid transforms into a—gasp!—UNDERWEARWOLF! Now he’s on an unforgettable nighttime adventure that may or may not include furry paws, sharp claws, uncomfortable wedgies, and an honest-to-goodness wild wolfpack! No butts about it—this is one read-aloud that’ll blow your undies off!
Are You a Running W*nker?
The most honest, outrageous and joyous running book you'll read… Alison Stankard is a Running Wanker. But it didn’t happen overnight. A few morning stumbles around the block in a bid to become pert-bottomed somehow turned into something else: 5ks, 10ks, marathons and even ultra marathons. Then one day, whilst looking at her lack of toenails, embarrassingly large collection of training shoes and buffs, it dawned on her: she had become a Running Wanker. Some people can go out for an occasional run and not obsess over every little detail. They might not think to take a photo of their hill sprints to post on social media or be able to recite their splits from the race that got them a PB to anybody who’ll listen. All impossible if you’re a true Running W*nker. There are a lot of books about running. Serious books with marathon plans, advice on nutrition and injury prevention. This book isn’t that. It’s a sweary, honest celebration of all the things that Running W*nkers new and old get up to: sh*tting in bushes, going down the stairs on your arse because your legs won’t bend the day after a marathon, lying about how much trainers cost and plotting how to rig the London Marathon ballot. The question is: are you a Running W*nker too?
Mutts: You and Me
Enjoy this beautifully illustrated and packaged collection of Mutts comic strips from 2023 by Patrick McDonnell. This brand new Mutts Treasury collects a year's worth of special and sweet moments with Earl, Mooch, and the rest of their four-legged friends. This treasury features an entire year's worth of Mutts comics, including sketch art and illustrations by author Patrick McDonnell. Printed on recycled paper.
All in the Mind
Our brains do some incredible things - they control our moves, thoughts, opinions, personalities and make us who we are! Want to know how? Well, the answers are All in the Mind... Shrink down to discover how messages whizz past at synapses. See neurons deliver signals from our head to our toes and back. Wonder at how our brains are wired differently and marvel at how some creatures have no brain at all... Plus, put your brain to the test with teasers to show how your brain works (and sometimes doesn't) in real time! Featuring text in bite-sized chunks from Gill Arbuthnott and buzzy, bold illustrations from Lauren Humphrey, this book is packed full of mind-bending facts and mind-boggling activities to try that will get your brain burning!
I, Vera
'Vera Gedroits was a true medical heroine: outrageous, intrepid and devoted to saving lives. Miranda Seymour’s genius as a story teller brings this astonishing woman blazing back to life. I shall never forget her' LADY ANTONIA FRASER 'Miranda Seymour has written a wonderful and unputdownable book about an astonishing woman' MEL GIEDROYC Vera Gedroits was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian princess, an ardent supporter of workers’ rights who regularly performed true medical miracles of surgery. On one occasion, she even frogmarched an inquisitive Rasputin out of a ward for wounded officers. While working for César Roux at the world’s best known medical institute in Lausanne, Vera became the world’s first woman surgeon. Off the back of this, she was appointed by the doomed Tsarina to teach the women of the Romanov family how to be nurses. In 1919, Vera was sent to Kyiv, where her hospital reforms, innovative work and academic papers crowned an extraordinary career. During the troubled 1920s, in times of extreme danger, she completed a remarkable series of memoirs. The princess-surgeon’s prose, including a startling candid account of her early years as a revolutionary factory doctor, has been compared to that of Pasternak. Some years later, Vera and her widowed lover Countess Maria Nirod were seized in the middle of the night and taken away at gunpoint during the Soviet purge of scientific intellectuals. Their whereabouts for the next few months were never disclosed. Vera’s pension was cancelled. The hospital and institute were closed. Living in extreme poverty, Vera died two years later of uterine cancer. She was just 61. The princess’s name was removed from official Soviet medical records; her tremendous contribution to medicine and the radical improvements to wartime surgery she pioneered as the first female battlefield surgeon have remained unacknowledged to this day. Now, Miranda Seymour uncovers the riveting story of a daring and brilliant woman who chose to make Ukraine her homeland, someone adored by her friends and patients and whose achievements as an administrator and bold reformer invite comparisons to Florence Nightingale. ‘The extraordinary story of an extraordinary woman, whose unprecedented career as a surgeon, and also as a writer, made her a participant in every aspect of late Tsarist and early Soviet history, and at every level of Russian society … Miranda Seymour tells her story with compelling passion and the most extraordinarily wide understanding of the history and politics, the medicine and literature of the times. A remarkable book’ MICHAEL FRAYN
No Angel
Don't miss this heart-stopping drama from the nation's favourite storyteller! Will the sleeping shadows of a family’s past torment a new generation? Twenty years ago, an unspeakable crime tore Jack’s family apart. An evil that consumed his mother and ripped him away from everything and everyone he knew. Now Jack has worked hard to make a new life for himself. But nothing can keep him sheltered from the nightmares of his past, and he becomes increasingly disturbed by the dark intentions hiding behind his eldest daughter’s smile. Is there a mystery at the heart of his family threatening them in the present? Can he save the people he loves before it’s too late? *No Angel was first published as No Heaven, No Hell by Josephine Cox writing as Jane Brindle
Written on the Dark
'Kay is a genius. I've read him all my life and am always inspired by his work' BRANDON SANDERSONA sweeping new novel of love and war that brilliantly evokes the drama and turbulence of medieval France from the internationally bestselling author of Tigana, All the Seas of the World, and A Brightness Long Ago. Thierry Villar is a well-known - even notorious - tavern poet, intimately familiar with the rogues and shadows of that world, but not at all with courts and power. He is an unlikely person, despite his quickness, to be swept into the deadly contests of ambitious royals, assassins, and invading armies. But he is indeed drawn into all these things on a savagely cold night in his beloved city of Orane. And so Thierry must use all the intelligence and charm he can muster as power struggles merge with a decades-long war to bring his country to the brink of destruction. As he does, he meets his poetic equal in an aristocratic woman and is drawn to more than one unsettling person with a connection to the world beyond this one. He also crosses paths with an extraordinary young woman driven by voices within to try to heal the ailing king - and help his forces in war. A wide and varied set of people from all walks of life take their places in the rich tapestry of this story. Both sweeping and intimate, Written on the Dark is an elegant tour de force about power and ambition playing out amid the equally intense human need for art and beauty, and memories to be left behind. PRAISE FOR GUY GAVRIEL KAY'S NOVELS'Tragic, stirring, romantic, meticulous, comic, rueful, worldly-wise, and written in the intimate, deceptively nonchalant voice of a storyteller offering up his great gift' MICHAEL CHABON'Kay is a genius. I've read him all my life and am always inspired by his work' BRANDON SANDERSON'A wonderful talent. He tells stories in an invented world that is so rich in historical echoes that I found myself smiling with pleasure as I heard the echoes, while engrossed in the story. Warmly recommended' EDWARD RUTHERFORD'History and fantasy rarely come together as gracefully or readably as they do in the novels of Guy Gavriel Kay' THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD'By making the familiar ever so slightly strange, Guy Gavriel Kay breathes new life into historical fantasy. Beautifully faceted, jewel-like scenes carry us beyond the doublets and daggers to create an emotionally charged, high-stakes world of love and hate, threat and reward' DAILY MAIL'An immersive reading experience; readers will taste the dust in their mouths, see the high seas from the deck of a merchant ship, feel the bustle of the city market. What results is necessary sustenance for the starving reader. A masterpiece from a master of the craft' BOOKLIST'Gorgeous, generous, humane and deeply aware of the intricacies of human desire and attachment, All the Seas of the World is another masterpiece from Kay' JAMES BRADLEY'I came away from it with spirits lifted and a smile on my face, whilst feeling a wistful sense of regret that the reading experience was over. You can't ask more from a book than that' PARSEC
Private Inquiries
‘Private Inquiries is a must-read – a riveting mythbuster, with its revelations of the real histories of women PIs.’ – Val McDermidThe female private detective has been a staple of popular culture for over 150 years, from Victorian lady sleuths to ‘busy-body spinsters’ and gun-toting modern PIs. But what about the real-life women behind these fictional tales? Dismissed as ‘Mrs Sherlock Holmes’ or amateurish Miss Marples, mocked as private dicks or honey trappers, they have been investigating crime since the mid-nineteenth century – everything from theft and fraud to romance scams and murder. In Private Inquiries, Caitlin Davies traces the history of the UK’s female investigators, uncovering the truth about their lives and careers from the 1850s to the present day. Women like Victorian private inquiry agent Antonia Moser, the first woman to open her own agency; Annette Kerner, who ran the Mayfair Detective Agency on Baker Street in the 1940s; and Liverpool sleuth Zena Scott-Archer, who became the first woman president of the World Association of Detectives. Caitlin also follows in the footsteps of her subjects, undertaking a professional qualification to become a Private Investigator, and meeting modern PIs to find out the reality behind the fictional image. Female investigators are on the rise in the UK – and despite the industry’s sleazy reputation, nearly a third of new trainees are women. After a century of undercover work, it’s time to reveal the secrets of their trailblazing forebears.
The Spy in the Archive
LONGLISTED for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2026
The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man - Vasili Mitrokhin - turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to the West.
How do you steal a library? Not just any library but the most secret, heavily guarded archive in the world. The answer is to be a librarian. To be so quiet, that no-one knows what you are up to as you toil undercover and deep amongst the files. The work goes on for decades but remains so low key, that even after your escape, aided by MI6, no-one even notices you are gone.
The Spy in the Archive tells the remarkable story of how Vasili Mitrokhin - an introverted archivist who loved nothing more than dusty files - ended up changing the world. As the in-house archivist for the KGB, the secrets he was exposed to inside its walls turned him first into a dissident and then a spy, a traitor to his country but a man determined to expose the truth about the dark forces that had subverted Russia, forces still at work in the country today.
Bestselling writer and historian Gordon Corera tells of the operation to extract this prized asset from Russia for the first time. It is an edge-of-the-seat thriller, with vivid flashbacks to Mitrokhin's earlier time as a KGB idealist prepared to do what it took to serve the Soviet Union and his growing realisation that the communist state was imprisoning its own people. It is the story of what it was like to live in the Soviet Union, to raise a family and then of one man's journey from the heart of the Soviet state to disillusion, betrayal and defection. At its heart is Mitrokhin's determination to take on the most powerful institution in the world by revealing its darkest secrets. This is narrative non-fiction at its absolute best.
Posledný úsvit
Jedno leto. Jedno zničujúce tajomstvo. A láska, ktorá všetko zmení.
Prehnaná starostlivosť matky a vážne zdravotné problémy vytvárajú v dvadsaťtriročnej Oriah Perovej pocit uväznenia. Keď jej matka dostane prácu na Malorke, Oriah vycíti, že toto leto by mohlo byť začiatkom jej vlastného príbehu o dospievaní. Počas svojej prvej malej rebélie sa vyberie sama na pláž, kde stretne charizmatického Španiela Juliána. V jeho prítomnosti sa cíti ešte naivnejšie a neskúsenejšie než zvyčajne, ale rastúca príťažlivosť v nej čoskoro prebudí dávno potlačenú životnú energiu.
Julian postupne vťahuje Oriah do dobrodružstiev, po ktorých vždy túžila. No tajomstvo, ktoré si mladá žena stráži hlboko v srdci a jej blížiaci sa návrat do Ameriky vrhajú tieň na ich spoločne strávené chvíle. Oriah sa musí rozhodnúť: má dosť odvahy, aby konečne nasledovala svoje srdce a začala žiť pre seba?
Zábavné krížovky pre seniorov
Radi relaxujete pri šálke dobrého čaju alebo kávy a lúštite švédske krížovky? Na stránkach tejto knihy nájdete švédske krížovky, ktoré obsahujú zábavné a poučné tajničky a odhaľujú množstvo zaujímavých faktov. Stačí vziať do ruky ceruzku a baviť sa.
Bourbon a lži
V kentuckom meste Fiasco existuje len jedno pravidlo: Nikdy sa nezamiluj do niektorého z bratov Foxxovcov.
Každá žena, ktorá ho neposlúchla, na to doplatila – aspoň tak sa povráva. Miestni to nazývajú kliatbou. Lenže ja som ju pocítil na vlastnej koži. A druhý raz by som to neprežil.
Už nie som policajt, no zažil som dosť nebezpečenstva na to, aby som vedel, že Laney Youngová, krásna cudzinka, ktorá sa zjavila v mojom mestečku, pred ním uteká. Klam? o tom, odkiaľ prišla aj čo tu robí.
Nechcem, aby sa motala okolo mojej rodiny ani narúšala tichý život, čo som si tu vybudoval. Lenže moji bratia majú iné plány.
Teraz ju vídam všade – pracuje v mojom liehovare, býva v našom hosťovskom dome, volá ma „kovboj“ a nahá sa kúpe v mojom napájadle pre kone.
Lenže vďaka jej podrezanému jazyku začínam túžiť po veciach, ktorých som sa zriekol už dávno. Mal by som sa jej vyhýbať, zabudnúť na to, ako chutia jej krásne pery, a ignorovať, že vďaka nej opäť po niečom túžim.
Keď sa do mesta prihrnie jej minulosť a zapletie sa s mojou, jej lži sa začnú odhaľovať. Na pravidlách už nezáleží. Pokašľal som to, priveľmi sa v tom vŕtala a nechal ju, aby sa mi dostala pod kožu.
Teraz ju udržia nažive len dve veci: BOURBON A LŽI
Plavkyňa
DÍVAJ SA LEPŠIE
Spoločensky neobratná Chloe Cooperová trávi čas venčením psov, prácou za barovým pultom, starostlivosťou o svoju chorú matku a z bezpečnej vzdialenosti aj pozorovaním ľudí, pričom si vymýšľa príbehy o ich životoch. Zaujmú ju tiež jej noví susedia: známa influencerka Jemma Spenglerová a jej manžel Adam, renomovaný chirurg. Sú atraktívni, bohatí a ich dom s veľkými oknami bez žalúzií je pre ňu priam neodolateľným lákadlom.
Sťahovanie na severozápad Pacifiku má byť pre Jemmu a Adama novým začiatkom, obnoveným záväzkom manželstva, ktoré narušili problémy a tajomstvá. Šancou vyrovnať sa s tragickými stratami z minulosti. Jemme však tento nový začiatok prináša aj znepokojivý pocit, že ju niekto sleduje.
V jedno hmlisté ráno na pláži sa Chloe stane svedkom vraždy plavkyne. Skrsne v nej podozrenie a na svojich susedov sa začína pozerať v novom, oveľa temnejšom svetle. No keď sa prípadu chopí detektívka a jej kolega, ukáže sa, že nič nie je také, ako sa na prvý pohľad zdá. Pretože nielen Spenglerovci skrývajú tajomstvá. A nielen Chloe niekoho pozoruje.
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Krížovky do kuchyne, 2. vydanie
Vylúštite si zaujímavosti o zázračnom mede a ďalších včelích produktoch a uvarte si niečo dobré podľa receptov dopĺňajúcich švédske krížovky. Veľké písmo tiež zaručí, že sa vám bude dobre a pohodlne lúštiť a malý formát so sebou zároveň ľahko zoberiete na cesty. Prajeme vám veľa zábavy s lúštením!
Krížovky a osemsmerovky pre každého, 2. vydanie
Hľadáte aktívnu zábavu pre voľný čas? Zabavte sa lúštením osemsmeroviek! Hľadaním správnych slov si zároveň cibríte pozornosť a dozviete sa aj mnohé ďalšie zaujímavosti.
Láska s vůní cappuccina
Lence je přes padesát a má jeden zásadní problém: svého manžela už nemůže ani cítit. Rozvod je tedy logickým koncem – nebo možná začátkem. Jenže zatímco si představovala klidný život, realita jí připraví úplně jinou sérii lekcí: stárnoucí matku potřebující péči, bolestivé běhání, pohledného bývalého spolužáka Radka, příliš moderní snachu… a Honzu, který jí obrátí svět naruby. Ukáže se, že nový život nezačíná tehdy, když člověk podepíše rozvodové papíry, ale až když se přestane bát. Lenka zjišťuje, že život po padesátce není poslední kapitolou, ale spíš jen novou startovní čárou. A někdy stojí za to rozběhnout se, i když nohy protestují.
Csipke és kard - Csábító intrikák 1.
A báj a legerősebb fegyverük, a ravaszság a csalhatatlan szövetségesük.
Senki és semmi nem állíthatja meg Medici Katalin udvarhölgyeit.
Fényűzés és nyomor, katolikusok és hugenották, elegáns hölgyek és durva katonák kavargó egyvelege jellemzi a reneszánsz Párizst. Medici Katalin kénytelen a csodálatos Diane de Poitiers-vel osztozni a férjén, II. Henriken, dúl a Habsburgok ellen vívott itáliai háború, és egyre nő a reformáltak száma. Amikor Nostradamus kissé homályos jóslatával előrevetíti a király halálát, Medici Katalin az egyetlen, aki komolyan veszi. A tragédia bekövetkezte után a kétségbeesett királyné összegyűjti legravaszabb és legérzékibb udvarhölgyeit, hogy segítsék kézre keríteni férje gyilkosát.
Olyan nőket gyűjt egybe, akik nem félnek akár a testüket is bevetni a cél érdekében...
Muriel Romana nagy ívű történelmi tetralógiájának, A fűzők és páncélok sorozatnak első része, a Csipke és kard izgalmas és érzéki utazásra invitál bennünket a hatalmi játszmákkal és ármánykodással átszőtt 16. századi francia udvarba.
,,- Hallgatom, gyermekem.
Louise összekulcsolta a kezét, és felnézett rá.
- A paráznaság bűnébe estem Montgomery gróffal, eminenciás uram.
- Élvezetét lelte benne, gyermekem?
A nő az alsó ajkába harapott, mint egy vétket elkövetett kislány.
- Nem, mert önre gondoltam közben, eminenciás uram.
- Rám?! - kérdezte csodálkozva a bíboros.
- Igen! - Louise könyörgő pillantással nézett fel rá. - Csak a szépsége járt a fejemben... a jósága, amelytől átszellemül az arca, eminenciás uram.
- Ez bizony bűnnek hangzik, gyermekem.
A nő megragadta a csuklóját, és lázasan megcsókolta a kezét.
- Megvallom, elkövettem ezt a bűnt, eminenciás uram, és egyetlen pillanatot sem tudnék már elviselni, ha nem kapok feloldozást öntől.
Louise nem értette, hogyan képes továbbra is mosolyogni annak ellenére, hogy az undortól hányinger kerülgette. A teste magától cselekedett, az elméje pedig távolról figyelte ezt.
- Könyörgök, eminenciás uram!
A bíboros csillogó szemmel megsimogatta a haját.
- Olyan feloldozást kap tőlem, amelyet nem egyhamar fog elfelejteni..."
Biologická a cílená léčba, 2., zcela přepracované a doplněné vydání
Klinicky a prakticky zaměřená kniha, s důrazem na využití informací v praxi, pokrývá všechny hlavní medicínské obory, ve kterých se v současné době biologická a cílená léčba terapeuticky využívá (hematologie, onkologie, revmatologie, dermatologie, gastroenterologie, pneumologie, nefrologie, kardiologie, neurologie, oftalmologie a transplantologie). Kniha byla oproti prvnímu vydání zásadně přepracována podle současných poznatků a výsledků studií. Předností je i nové zapojení klinického farmakologa do editorského týmu.
Jednotlivé kapitoly zpracovaly špičky ve svých oborech s důrazem na užití biologické léčby u jednotlivých klinických jednotek.
Vzhledem k dynamickému vývoji v této oblasti a stále širšímu využití cílené léčby v mnoha oborech kniha zaujme internisty, onkology, gastroenterology, revmatology, neurology, oftalmology a další odbornosti.
Slovenský detský rok, 2. vydanie
O ľudových zvykoch a tradíciách s Filipkom, Pripletkom, so Stonohom a Vševedkom
V tejto knihe o dávno minulých a niektorých ešte i súčasných ľudových zvykoch vás, milí čitatelia, budú po celý rok sprevádzať štyri postavičky — Filipko, Vševedko, Stonoha a Pripletko. Stanú sa vašimi kamarátmi na celých dvanásť mesiacov — od januára do decembra.
Vysvetlia vám, ako to bolo s prvým dňom v roku, prezradia, podľa čoho a prečo mesiace dostali mená január, február, marec a tak ďalej, aj, ako ich celkom inak nazývali naši predkovia. Zistíte, aké zvyky ľudia dodržiavali a že takmer všetko bolo čarovné, dokonca aj začiatok.
Povodia vás po Slovensku, ale i po starodávnej dedine Smrekovici, prezradia, ako to bolo s tým čarovaním a zaklínaním, lebo kedysi ľudia verili v bytosti s nadprirodzenými schopnosťami. Okrem toho je v tejto knihe plno kolied, porekadiel, hier, tancov, veršovaniek a krásnych rozprávok. Prajeme vám zaujímavé a zábavné čítanie.
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