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Thirteen
"This is writing with the brakes off and the adrenaline pumped to high" - Liz Holiday, SCI-FI NOW"... a cracking thriller which achieves the tricky sci-fi balancing act ... feeling relevant and accessible" - Amazon ReviewerOne hundred years from now, against all odds, Earth has found a new stability; the political order has reached a tentative balance, and the new colony on Mars is growing. But the fraught years of the 21st century have left an uneasy legacy ... As genetically engineered alpha males, Thirteens were designed to be the ultimate military fighting force but, with no wars to fight, they find themselves surplus to requirements. Many of the Thirteens have left for Mars, but now one has returned, killing everyone on the shuttle on which he arrived. Only Carl Marsalis, one of the Thirteen, can hunt him down. So begins a frantic manhunt, a battle of survival, and a search for the truth about what was really done with the world's last soldiers. THIRTEEN (previously published as BLACK MAN) is an unstoppable SF thriller about the ramifications of playing with genetic blueprints. It is also a novel about prejudice, and the human capacity for violence, deceit and corruption.
A River Running Through You
Have you ever lingered on a riverbank watching the water flow, and wondered where it comes from or where it might be goin? mbark on a never-ending voyage in which young readers explore some very old questions - questions so old that they have stories for answers. This mesmerizing journey through mountain springs to vast oceans, from rivers in the sky to streams within our own bodies, guides readers through reflections on nature, life and our place within it. Written by bestselling nature writer Amy-Jane Beer, this enchanting book spirals through time and space to remind us that water is more than just a resource - it is part of who we are. Praise for A River Running Through You:"Science and story, history and hope all mingle in the currents of this wise, beautiful book of rivers, ice and rain, which reminds us that our fate flows with that of water - and always has." -Robert Macfarlane"Told with words of wonder and luminous illustrations, A River Running Through You overflows with love for the natural world." -Guy Shrubsole"...a dreamboat book on thelife, soul and slippery ways of our rivers. The water cycle story just got a makeover " -Sam Lee"Magical and heartfelt" -Melissa Harrison
Our Lady of Blades
'A spirited swashbuckling fantasy about family, revenge and the price of justice' - Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Mexican GothicTwo sisters: divided by tragedy, united by steel. The incredible new novel in the Court of Shadows series by the bestselling author of TRAITOR'S BLADE and THE MALEVOLENT SEVEN!Blood Week may have been banned in Rijou, but the streets still run red - and now murder is being sanctioned by the courts. Only a reckless fool would believe they can beat the system. But then, the Greatcoats have always been more than a little reckless . . . Rijou's notorious Court of Blades is as corrupt as it is cutthroat, destroying lives with impunity. Now the city's all-powerful Ascendant Houses have started buying and selling verdicts to enslave and even execute those who oppose them. Into this depraved world of licensed death comes a mysterious duellist who dares to foil the intrigues of the city's elite. They call her Lady Consequence, but years ago she had a different name, until her family was slaughtered and she was consigned to the hellish prison known as the House of Tears. Lady Consequence means to rescue her idealistic younger brother, restore their House and wreak vengeance upon those who betrayed them. But a far more dangerous game is unfolding in the shadows, one which threatens the freedom of the entire nation.
Henry Upside Down
The fourth book in the Schneider Family Award and Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor-winning series that follows Henry, a boy on the autism spectrum, as he navigates friendships, classroom conundrums, and the ups and downs of daily life as a sweet and sensitive first-grader. It’s Henry’s turn to take care of the school garden. And his best friend, Katie, will help him. But then a new girl named Ivy joins their garden crew. Ivy tells jokes that make Katie laugh. She does handstands, just like Katie. Katie says Ivy is her friend. But Henry is Katie’s friend! Suddenly, Henry’s world feels upside down. Follow along as Henry learns to tend a garden, deal with a big box of worms, and maybe even make a new friend. Readers of all kinds will delight in seeing the world through Henry's eyes in these gentle, classic-feeling stories, delivered with empathy and charm by the award-winning author-illustrator team of Jenn Bailey and Mika Song.
Trad Wife
'Trad Wife is terrifying . . . a surreal and slick feminist feast'– Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her EyesYour favourite influencer is about to be exposed . . . . . . for fans of a much darker, more horrifying YesteryearEvery day, millions watch Mia Wright, the "trad wife" queen, on her idyllic 300-acre farm. With her handsome husband, seven perfect children, and a life of from-scratch meals, she's an icon of modern femininity. But behind every perfect image is a lie. Desperate to save her tarnished career, journalist Jenny Kaplan arrives at Black Swan Farm to profile Mia. Jenny is ready to write a scathing exposé, determined to uncover the deception behind Mia's curated life. But there's something wrong at the farmhouse. It slithers through Jenny's dreams when the children sing strange nursery rhymes at night. She's losing time. She's losing her hair. She starts to worry that she's losing her mind. There is a horror at the heart of Black Swan, and it's waiting just for Jenny. ‘Glorious, unhinged and utterly irresistible’– Catriona Ward, bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street'Gripping, unsettling, enthrallingly layered and utterly laced with doom'- Olivie Blake, bestselling author of Girl Dinner
Busy London Guards
Meet the busy London Guards in this bright, rhyming board book, with push, pull and slide pages to play along. Toddlers will love to join in with all the action, as they discover a day in the life of a London guard. Slide the tab to help him put his hat on, pull the page to bring the changing of the guard ceremony to life . . . and more!With colourful illustrations from Marion Billet, a fun rhyming text to share together, and lots of things to spot – from iconic busbies to cups of tea! – this sturdy board book is the perfect London present for little ones who like to play as they read. Discover more London fun with Busy London, Can You Find the King in London? and Whizzy Wheels: My First London Bus.
KPop Saves the World Activity Book
Calling all KPop fans! Design your dream band, defeat magical demons, and unleash your creativity to save the world with this interactive activity book.
Get ready to dance, draw, and dream your way through action-packed KPop challenges, inspired by Korean mythology! In this ultimate KPop activity book you'll create your own superstar squad, write chart-topping lyrics, and battle mythical demons through high-stakes puzzles, character coloring pages, and fun fill-in-the-blank activities. From designing glittery outfits to getting your pump-up playlist ready, this book inspires fans of all ages to let their imagination shine.
Inside you'll find:
60+ engaging puzzles, word searches, mazes, sudoku, and coloring pages
DIY band design, lyric challenges, logo art, and story-building prompts
Kid-safe, screen-free fun for KPop fans and creative readers
Perfect for birthdays, K-drama marathons, or any gift occasion, KPop Saves the World Activity Book is sure to be a hit. A must-have KPop gift for anyone who love art, music, and everything Korean pop culture!
Hvězdná CREW 5: Holoprsý medvědobijec
Když medvědi dostanou na budku! Představte si drsného hrdinu, neohroženého bijce. Jenom téměř nahého… s epickým plnovousem a plátěnými kalhotami, které drží pohromadě pouze silou vzteku. A teď přidejte medvědy. Hordy zuřivých, nepříčetných medvědů, kteří zničehonic začínají útočit na města po celé Americe. Tohle je absolutně šílený, hypermaskulinní akční komiks. Hlavní hrdina, vychovaný medvědy, se jednoho dne obrátí proti svým chlupatým soukmenovcům a začne je mlátit! Proč? Protože musí ochránit svět před medvědí apokalypsou! Nebo to snad má nějaké jiné důvody...?
Poverty Abolitionists
The United States and the world have made dramatic progress against poverty in recent decades, but the second Trump administration has thrown progress into reverse. David Beckmann calls us to push back against MAGA and restore progress against poverty. David is an economist, pastor, and activist. He was awarded the World Food Prize for leadership that led to substantial reductions in hunger. Drawing on stories from his own life and the struggles of poor communities around the world, Beckmann distills five essential insights and ten strategies to get progress against poverty going again. These include legislative advocacy, volunteering and financial contributions to election campaigns, action in defense of democracy, and needed reforms in American spirituality and religion. He invites people of faith, seekers, and skeptics alike to deepen their solidarity with those in need and with a threatened planet. He highlights data that prove poverty is solvable, confronts the problems that our country and the world now face, and calls for a new poverty abolition movement-similar in scale and determination to the movement that ended slavery. At the heart of this book is hope: hope grounded in evidence, history, and the countless efforts of communities and advocates who continue to push for justice. With a foreword by travel writer Rick Steves, Poverty Abolitionists offers both a practical roadmap and a stirring moral challenge. It is a clarion call to action for activists, policy makers, and ordinary citizens who care about the future of humanity and seek to build a fairer, freer, and more just world.
The Art of Biodiversity
Strikingly original and abundantly illustrated, The Art of Biodiversity surveys the golden age of natural history art, exploring the alliance between scientists and artists that first revealed the astonishing diversity of life on Earth.
Between 1700 and 1900, an art movement unveiled nature’s great secret: the global diversity of life-forms. Centuries before the word “biodiversity” existed, naturalists began to glimpse the reality that lay behind Charles Darwin’s lyrical evocation of nature’s “endless forms most beautiful.”
The naturalists recruited artists to create a family album of Earth, with every picture a precise drawing of a species of plant or animal, and so science and art, for the first and last time, went exploring together.
The Art of Biodiversity recounts key chapters in the history of scientific nature art, with more than 330 color illustrations of surpassing beauty. It’s a story about art that’s not in the art history books, and a story about science that’s missing from histories of science. Here, such giants as Linnaeus, Buffon, Cuvier, Humboldt, and Darwin cross paths with superb artists, including Merian, Redouté, Audubon, and Haeckel, among many others.
This art first appeared in vividly illustrated books that, in a world without photography or film, offered readers a vastly expanded vision of nature. The Art of Biodiversity introduces the reader to the extraordinary men and women who created these books. They focused exquisite artistic skills on nature, traded in exotic seashells and butterflies, collected bird and monkey specimens in tropical rainforests, dredged strange invertebrates from the depths of the ocean, peered through magnifying lenses at insects, and dug prehistoric bones out of the earth.
After sinking out of sight in the twentieth century, biodiversity art resurfaced in the twenty-first in myriad forms that reach millions of people on the Internet, as the natural history books in the world’s great libraries were digitized and made available to all. The Art of Biodiversity plots a course through this wealth of material to chronicle the only art movement that successfully aligned the goals of art and science, for the transcendent purpose of documenting and understanding the natural world.
Burnout Summer
Camille Luna’s life is not going according to plan. Her corporate job drains her soul, her student loans won’t quit, and her ex is now the wedge between her once-close college friendship group.
When a bad night ends in a holding cell and one phone call, it’s Danny - the charming slacker of their group turned unexpected success story - who answers.
Now running a seaside restaurant in Elswick, Rhode Island, Danny offers her the perfect escape: a summer of waitressing shifts, beach walks and late-night swims. With no five year plan in insight, Cam finds herself reigniting old dreams, and catching serious feelings for Danny…
But summer isn’t forever. With September looming, Cam must choose: return to the safe, burned-out version of herself, or take a risk on the life - and the love - she never saw coming.
Dědictví
Andrea, prostřední sestra, se marně pokouší proniknout do blízkosti, kterou spolu máma a starší Ulrika vždycky měly. Ať se snaží sebevíc, zůstává stranou. Ullis naopak vidí mladší sestru jako tatínkovu oblíbenkyni, která vždycky dostala, co chtěla, pokaždé si prosadila svou, a přesto nikdy není spokojená. A nejmladší Rasmus? Ten celý život stojí ve stínu sester, jež spolu soupeří o pozornost a uznání – a teď si klade otázku, jak moc ho to poznamenalo.
Když se navíc ukáže, že z domu záhadně mizí věci, začínají se množit lži a na povrch vyplouvá nečekané rodinné tajemství, všechno se převrátí naruby. Každý ze tří sourozenců má naprosto odlišné vzpomínky na dětství. Každý z nich je jiný. Kdo z nich však vlastní ten „správný“ obraz minulosti? Co se celá léta tajilo? Kdo nese vinu? A co si jako sourozenci navzájem dlužíme?
Další mistrovsky vystavěný román oceňované švédské autorky, která působivě zpracovává téma mezilidských vztahů a obratně zachycuje různé úhly pohledu.
Vychází v překladu Edity Petrásové.
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A House in Sicily
During WWII, a young Tuscan woman falls in love with a man from the rural depths of southern Italy. As the conflict finally draws to a close, the two travel from Rome to finally meet with his family. But very quickly a dawning realisation breaks: her in-laws and their friends are eccentric in the extreme. They barely leave the house and they rarely speak to their son, fretting instead about their 'daughter' - a loud little dog - and worrying constantly, incessantly, about the weather. And, worst of all, they speak with a nostalgic warmth about the region's recently overthrown fascist regime…
Translated by Ann Goldstein, the world-renowned translator of Elena Ferrante, A House in Sicily is a brilliantly funny, razor sharp examination of family life in the shadow of the darkest period of modern Italian history, and the most exciting rediscovered European classic in decades.
The Gods of New York
New York City entered 1986 as a city reborn, with record profits on Wall Street sending waves of money splashing across Manhattan and bringing a once-bankrupt and reeling city back to life. But it also entered 1986 as a city divided. Nearly one-third of the city's Black and Hispanic residents were living below the poverty line. Thousands of New Yorkers were sleeping in the streets - and in many cases addicted to drugs, dying of AIDS, or suffering from mental illness. The manufacturing jobs that had once sustained a thriving middle class had vanished. Long-simmering racial tensions were boiling over.
Over the next four years, a singular confluence of events - involving a cast of outsized, unforgettable characters - would widen those divisions into chasms. Ed Koch. Donald Trump. Al Sharpton. The Central Park Five. Larry Kramer. Spike Lee. Rudy Giuliani. Howard Beach. Tawana Brawley. The Preppy Murder. The Tompkins Square Riots. Jimmy Breslin. Ivan Boesky. Do the Right Thing, Wall Street, crack, the AIDS epidemic, Black Monday and, of course, ready to pour gasoline on every fire - the tabloids.
In The Gods of New York, bestselling author Jonathan Mahler tells the story of these outsized characters and of these convulsive, defining years. It's an exuberant, kaleidoscopic, and deeply immersive portrait of a city in transformation, one whose long-held identity was suddenly up for grabs: Could it be both the great working-class city, drawing in and lifting up immigrants from around the world and the money-soaked capital of global finance? Could it retain a civic culture - a common idea of what it meant to be a New Yorker - when the rich were building a city of their own and vast swaths of its citizens were losing faith in the systems that were intended to protect them? New York was one thing at the dawn of 1986; it would be something very different as 1989 came to a close. This book is the story of how that happened.
A Trick Of The Mind
How does your brain decide what it's seeing, from the physical world to other people? For decades, scientists have tried to understand how our brains work, not realising that the answer lies much closer to home than it seems.
The latest research in neuroscience and psychology suggests that the brain is doing the same thing that the scientists are: using past experiences to build theories of how the world works, and using these models to predict and make sense of it. Through this process, your brain constructs the reality that you live in.
In this book Daniel Yon takes the research one step further, uncovering how your brain colours your perception of the world, the judgements you make about other people and the beliefs you form about yourself. With transformative applications for how we engage with other communities and approach mental illness, A Trick of The Mind will revolutionise the way you think.
Trénink paměti pro seniory: Vzpomínková cvičení
Procvičování mozku rozmanitými způsoby je velmi důležitý faktor v prevenci poruch paměti a je přínosné v každém věku. Kniha obsahuje úkoly nižší až střední úrovně obtížnosti, které jsou založené na předmětech, událostech i místech, které znají senioři možná i ze svých vzpomínek,
z mládí či z vyprávění. Na konci knihy nechybí řešení vybraných úloh.
The Issa Valley
'An idyll of immense charm ... a masterpiece' John Bayley, The New York Review of Books
'Thomas was born in the village of Gine at that time of year when a ripe apple thumps to the ground during an afternoon lull.' So a boy's life begins in a winding river valley on the Polish-Russian border where time is measured by seasonal rhythms and ancient songs. For Thomas, the ghosts in the forest are as real as the magical water-snakes that live in the Issa; in the village he is entranced by the women with their cinched waists and the men in their long boots. But when he is shown a map, he discovers a kingdom all his own and starts to dream of leaving the valley behind.
Nemáme na vybranou, 3. vydání
Jeden den příměří izraelsko-arabského konfliktu: na přistávací ploše letiště v Rechaviahu se chystá večírek pilotů, na kopcích nad Jeruzalémem planou arabské ohně. Je to pár dnů, co se dva piloti nevrátili z průzkumného letu. V hlavě Johnyho Cohena se rodí plán pomsty. Psychologická novela přináší napínavý děj i příběh života a smrti.
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Dangerously Ours - Webs We Weave 3
Honesty comes at a price . . .
Dangerously Ours is a steamy romance from TikTok sensations and authors of the Addicted series, Krista and Becca Ritchie.
Swindling the rich and fleeing to new cities is all con artist Phoebe Graves has ever known - until she started building real relationships in a small but wealthy Connecticut town. But she's worried these new bonds won't hold fast, as more than one enemy threatens those she loves most.
And now more than ever, she has a reason to stay in one place. Among them is Rocky Tinrock, her best friend's older brother, who's been a partner to Phoebe during every daring and exhilarating con. And then of course there's Hailey Tinrock, her best friend, whose precious secret they'll do anything to protect . . .
As Phoebe and her family team up with the Tinrocks to fight for a chance at a home, they confront the demons of their pasts and must do the impossible . . . deceive the most cunning con artist they've ever known.
