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The Jewel Keepers
Men would kill for this treasure. The McKenzie women will guard it with their lives. London, 1837. When 25-year-old Araminta McKenzie-Moore is summoned from Richmond to her great aunt's deathbed in Edinburgh, it's the first time she's met her extended family. The McKenzie women, however, have been keeping a close eye on her. For they have a long, secret and dangerous history as Jewel Keepers to the Scottish Crown and they need Araminta to play her part to solve a puzzle which stretches back generations. But the McKenzies are not alone in this high-stakes treasure hunt though history. They're being pursued. The last of her line, if Araminta succeeds, she will uncover something more valuable than mere jewels - a secret that will change the lives of all women living on this, the cusp of the Queen Victoria's rule. Featuring real historical events and places amid its fiction, The Jewel Keepers is an immersive, evocative story tinged with romance and brimming with intrigue. Readers LOVE Sara Sheridan: ? 'This book is a thing of beauty. I wanted to climb inside it' ? 'Clever and extremely entertaining' ? 'An absolute delight' ? 'A story that evokes all of the senses' ? 'Riveting'
Tuck and Tina and the Dinosaur Thief
Meet Tina and Tuck - two unlikely friends ready for adventure! A fun, full-colour series for 6+ children, ideal for readers moving from picture books to chapter stories. Boone School is in trouble! Taps dripping slime, classrooms full of bugs and lots of other disasters mean Principle Bruno might lose his job. Then Tuck and Tina discover that a masked troublemaker is causing mischief, just so he can take over the school and steal rare dinosaur bones buried beneath the building!Cue a high-speed chase across land, sea and air. . . but can the two mice track down the culprit and save the da? raise for the Tuck and Tina series:'Heartwarming and hilarious!' Jeff Kinney, bestselling author of The Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Synchronicities
Learn how to recognise and interpret the signs and symbols appearing in your everyday life so you can trust your intuition and move forward with clarity and confidence. Have you ever noticed the same numbers appearing repeatedly, dreamed of a symbol that stayed with you all day, or encountered an animal or object that felt strangely meaningful? These moments aren’t random. They’re synchronicities – messages meant to guide, reassure, and redirect you when you need it most. This beautiful reference book teaches you how to notice these signs, understand their meanings and apply their wisdom to your daily life. You’ll discover the meanings behind signs found in: Nature, including plants, weather, celestial events and natural phenomena. Animals, from common encounters to rare or symbolic sightings. Numbers and angel numbers, including repeating sequences and timing synchronicities. Dreams, revealing subconscious messages and emotional patterns. Objects and symbols, both ancient and modern. Intuition and conversations where signs often appear unexpectedly. Guided by manifestation expert Carly Klacza (@missintuition_), this intuitive, easy-to-navigate guide explores the deeper meaning behind 340 everyday signs and symbols, helping you decode the language the universe uses to communicate with you. Each entry includes a clear meaning, an interpretive message and a practical affirmation, allowing insight to move beyond understanding into lived experience. Keep this book close, dip in whenever a sign appears and let it become your trusted companion for translating the universe’s quiet messages into meaningful action.
Dispatches from the Piazza
Welcome to the Mediterranean—a world where stilettos are the footwear of choice, athleisure doesn’t exist, aperitivo hour is every hour, and carbohydrates have never been off limits. Why do we dream of wine tasting in Umbria or sunset yachts on the Côte d'Azur? Because we all want to escape somewhere truly fabulous — where everyone looks fantastic, and just gets sexier with age. That place is called the Mediterranean. Author Danielle Pergament transports readers to this sun-drenched world where pleasure is a priority, pairing comedic essays on the Mediterranean lifestyle with tutorials for eyeliner like Penelope Cruz, scarf styling like Grace Kelly, and navigating cobblestones in stilettos—all accompanied by fun, colorful illustrations. With this book by your side, la dolce vita is yours for the taking. Witty and transporting: Comedic essays and sharp observations capture the irresistible allure of Mediterranean life Style tutorials included: Iconic looks from Penelope Cruz eyeliner to Grace Kelly scarf styling made achievable Beautifully illustrated: Playful artwork from celebrated New Yorker illustrator Mokshini on every page Perfect for travelers of all sorts: An escapist read for anyone who loves European culture and dreams of a Mediterranean holiday, or is packing their bags and heading there soon
Pathemata
A profound and deeply personal exploration of pain, the body and loss by the beloved author of Bluets and The Argonauts'Full of warmth, wisdom and weirdness' JENNY MUSTARDThis is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others. As the narrator contends with chronic pain, and with a pandemic raging in the background, she sets out to examine the literal and symbolic role of the mouth in the life of a writer. Pathemata recounts the narrator’s tragicomic search to alleviate her suffering, a search that eventually becomes a reckoning with various forms of loss – the loss of intimacy, the loss of her father and the loss of a pivotal friend and mentor. In exacting, distilled prose, her account blurs the lines between embodied, unconscious and everyday life. Praise for Maggie Nelson‘I remember where I was when I read each of Maggie Nelson’s books in the same way I remember a place where I heard important news’ ANNE ENRIGHT‘Always brilliant’ GEOFF DYER‘Among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation’ OLIVIA LAING
Small Steps for Big Change
Discover practical steps to a more sustainable life, from award-winning author, speaker and activist Patrick ReganIn Small Steps for Big Change, award-winning author, speaker, activist and charity founder Patrick Regan OBE invites you to take a breath and begin again – not with grand gestures or quick fixes, but with small, practical and intentional steps that lead to lasting transformation. Drawing on his own experience of burnout and recovery, Patrick shares three simple but powerful principles that have shaped his life: Start Small, Create Space, Think Differently. Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, searching for balance or longing to live with more purpose, Small Steps for Big Change offers a compassionate roadmap towards a more sustainable way of being – one that helps you not just to survive, but to truly flourish.
The Republic of Memory
'This political sci-fi mind-stretcher is destined to be a classic' NICHOLAS BINGE'A breathtaking, textured, wildly imaginative tapestry ... I loved every moment of it' ALIETTE DE BODARD* * * * *The Safina is a city ship, two hundred years into its voyage from the ruins of Earth towards a new habitable world. Its crew maintain the ship, generation after generation, while protecting their 'ancestors' - the final remnants of Earth's doomed Network Empire - by keeping them alive in cryostasis. But a lot can change in two hundred years, and people are starting to ask questions. Why should the crew continue to toil for people none of them remember? What exactly gives Administration its authority over everyone els? nd when the blackouts start, they set in motion a chain of events that will change life on the Safina forever. A reckoning is coming. The system is only secure so long as those in power maintain the obedience of those beneath them. And the crew has had enough. A science fiction odyssey of breathtaking scope, The Republic of Memory is a gripping examination of what divides us, and what brings us together. This is an ambitious work of Arabfuturism, and is perfect for fans of The Expanse, A Memory Called Empire or Children of Time. * * * * *'Those who love the depth and wonder of language, and who see it as the seed of revolution, will find this an essential contribution to the canon'BETHANY JACOBS'Brilliant, timely, and incisive ... This is science fiction at its finest and not to be missed'M.H. AYINDE'A riveting and deeply thoughtful book ... A thrillingly intricate epic - a book to feed the soul'LORRAINE WILSON'Science fiction as it's meant to be - big ideas, big politics and amazing characters'STEWART HOTSTON'THIS is why we read science fiction'SAM J. MILLER'A novel of astounding scale and ambition - an instant classic that deserves to be spoken of in the company of Iain M. Banks' Culture series'GAUTAM BHATIA'Utterly original, full of thrilling plot twists, deeply wise and politically nuanced ... I loved this book with my brain and my heart'ANNALEE NEWITZ
Stories of the Sun
For millennia we have looked to the sun to provide us with light, food and warmth. Yet, in our attempts to increase the productivity of each hour, we have skewed our days and stretched them through the use of candles, electricity and LED bulbs, our faces glowing in the unnatural light of screens and electronic devices. Within the pages of this book lies the chance to reconnect with our primal life force through folklore, exploration of ancient cultures, myths, legends and tales of our past. By understanding the power of our ancient star through the wisdom of those who walked this land before us, we can hope to unplug ourselves from the synthetic glow that surrounds our lives and reconnect with the Stories of the Sun.
Aardvark Day
What can we learn from dragonflies, aardvarks, elephants, weeds and peat? Take a stroll through the natural world with Victoria Gatehouse and let’s find out together. From frogs with superpowers to otters with pockets, Aardvark Day is full of poems that shine a light on the fascinating lives of creatures and wildlife – and it’s all true!As a zoologist and nature lover, Gatehouse shares her passion for quirky creatures and fascinating plants in her debut children’s collection. Beautifully illustrated with organic-feeling, lively line drawings by Kate Lucy Foster, and accompanied by factual notes alongside the poems and poem-writing prompts at the end for budding writers.
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.
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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Dark Agent
‘Balls-to-the-walls levels of exuberance and inventiveness’Locus Magazine on Dark DiamondFORGE A NEW FUTURE. OR BE CONSUMED BY THE PAST. Captain Blite and Agent Cormac thought they had defeated the malevolent AI Straeger. But Straeger’s mission to plunge the galaxy into a devastating war is far from over. With a twisted p-prador army bred from the Spatterjay virus, Straeger sets his plans in motion. Meanwhile, on the war-struck world of Yossander’s Hold, Blite and Cormac are trapped in a maelstrom of betrayal and violence. They must fight their way through the chaos as they seek to repair Blite’s damaged ship. But their escape requires resources from the Bracken, and aboard that ship, a terrifying transformation is underway . . . Recognizing the threat posed by the p-prador, the Prador Kingdom and the human Polity’s ruling AI form an uneasy alliance. But with Straeger’s plans unfolding and reality itself under threat, the galaxy is poised on the brink of destruction. Can Blite and Cormac survive the escalating war and the collapse of time itsel? rom Neal Asher, Dark Agent is the second entry in the Time's Shadow trilogy, following Dark Diamond. Set in Asher's expansive Polity universe, this is unmissable military space opera from a master of the genre. * * *Praise for the series‘The stakes are high, the pacing relentless, and the scale immense . . . Asher delivers again’ – 5* Goodreads Review‘Filled with action, suspense, and mind-wrenching twists. You’ll love it!’ – 5* Goodreads Review‘What the cosmos really needs is more megalomaniac artificial intelligences, belligerent alien crustaceans, and protagonists who treat death like a minor inconvenience’ – 5* Goodreads Review
My Box of Feelings (A Hello!Lucky Book)
From Sabrina and Eunice Moyle—also known as Hello!Lucky—the superstar creators of My Mom Is Magical! and My Dad Is Amazing! comes My Box of Feelings, a collection of six original mini board books all about feelings. How do you react when you feel angry? Or when you feel love? Or when you feel calm, scared, happy, or sad? Featuring Hello!Lucky’s bright, bold art, these six small, sturdy board books explore six big feelings with gentle, guiding text. Perfect for helping little ones identify, describe, and regulate their emotions—Are you furious when you feel mad? Are you focused when you feel calm?—this is a wonderful teaching tool. With one main color per book—red for anger, yellow for happiness, etc.—the bright, graphic treatment of this all-important topic will appeal to young children as much as to their caregivers. Stacked neatly inside a box, these small board books are perfect for little hands and are easy for caretakers to carry or to keep in a classroom or playroom.
