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In 1992, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow was enjoying a pint with his brother when he got an idea that would change his life – and radically change the lives of others. After watching a news bulletin about war-torn Bosnia, the two brothers agreed to take a week’s hiatus from work to help. What neither of them expected is that what began as a one-time road trip in a beaten-up Landrover rapidly grew to become Magnus’s life’s work – leading him to leave his job, sell his house and direct all his efforts to feeding thousands of the world’s poorest children. Magnus retells how a series of miraculous circumstances and an overwhelming display of love from those around him led to the creation of Mary’s Meals; an organisation that could hold the key to eradicating child hunger altogether. This humble, heart-warming yet powerful story has never been more relevant in our society of plenty and privilege. It will open your eyes to the extraordinary impact that one person can make.

Stydlivá slečna Lenore vede poklidný život na venkově, svědomitě se stará o otce, organizuje večírky svých bratrů a nic jí ke štěstí neschází. Rozhodně netouží po manželství. Případné nápadníky odrazuje svým nenápadným zevnějškem a nesmělým chováním. Švihácký vévoda Jason, neodolatelný vévoda z Eversleigh, vyhlášený proutník a muž velkého světa, prokoukne Lenořinu přetvářku, odhalí její krásu a začne jí věnovat nežádoucí pozornost. Potřebuje se totiž nutně oženit a má k tomu své důvody – k nimž ale láska rozhodně nepatří.

An entire world of hilariously horrible and delightfully dreadful children in one incredible box set! From the phenomenal number-one bestseller David Walliams, these cautionary tales are illustrated in glorious and gruesome colour by artistic genius, Tony Ross. THE WORLD'S WORST CHILDREN Are you ready to meet the World's Worst Children? Five beastly boys and five gruesome girls! Like Sofia Sofa - a TV super-fan so stuck to the sofa that she's turning into one! Or Dribbling Drew - a boy whose drool gets him into trouble on a school trip! And not forgetting Blubbering Bertha - a girl who bawls and tells terrible tales! THE WORLD'S WORST CHILDREN 2 Ready for more? The beastly boys and gruesome girls in this book are even ruder, even more disgusting and WORSE than you could ever imagine! The gruesome characters will make you snort with laughter and thank your lucky stars that you don't know anyone like Gruesome Griselda or Fussy Frankie in real life. It also features a special appearance from fan-favourite Raj! THE WORLD'S WORST CHILDREN 3 Just when you thought it was safe to go back to your bookshelf, 10 more horrendously hilarious stories about the absolute worst children ever! From ten-year old Hank and his endless pranks on his poor, long-suffering family, to Tandy and her titanic tantrums - this compendium of catastrophically horrid boys and girls is the perfect companion to books 1 and 2.

A bold new history of how botany and global plant collecting - centred at Kew Gardens and driven by Joseph Banks - transformed the earth. Botany was the darling and the powerhouse of the eighteenth century. As European ships ventured across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans, discovery bloomed. Bounties of new plants were brought back, and their arrival meant much more than improved flowerbeds - it offered a new scientific frontier that would transform Europe's industry, medicine, eating and drinking habits, and even fashion. Joseph Banks was the dynamo for this momentous change. As botanist for James Cook's great voyage to the South Pacific on the Endeavour, Banks collected plants on a vast scale, armed with the vision - as a child of the Enlightenment - that to travel physically was to advance intellectually. His thinking was as intrepid as Cook's seafaring: he commissioned radically influential and physically daring expeditions such as those of Francis Masson to the Cape Colony, George Staunton to China, George Caley to Australia, William Bligh to Tahiti and Jamaica, among many others. Jordan Goodman's epic history follows these high seas adventurers and their influence in Europe, as well as taking us back to the early years of Kew Gardens, which Banks developed devotedly across the course of his life, transforming it into one of the world's largest and most diverse botanical gardens. In a rip-roaring global expedition, based on original sources in many languages, Goodman gives a momentous history of how the discoveries made by Banks and his collectors advanced scientific understanding around the world.

The first in a spicy and unforgettable rom-com duology from #1 New York Times bestseller and tik tok favorite Tessa Bailey, in which a Hollywood "It Girl" is cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn't belong. Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father's dive bar... in Washington. Piper hasn't even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won't last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So what if Piper can't do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. How bad could it really be? She's determined to show her stepfather-and the hot, grumpy local-that she's more than a pretty face. Except it's a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into Brendan. The fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but there's an undeniable attraction simmering between them. Piper doesn't want any distractions, especially feelings for a man who sails off into the sunset for weeks at a time. Yet as she reconnects with her past and begins to feel at home in Westport, Piper starts to wonder if the cold, glamorous life she knew is what she truly wants. LA is calling her name, but Brendan-and this town full of memories-may have already caught her heart. As seen on E!Online, PopSugar, CNN, EliteDaily, Vulture, Buzzfeed, Bustle, the Nerd Daily, PARADE, LA Magazine, Country Living, USA Today, and more!

This is definitive take on the wildest story of the year- the David-vs.-Goliath GameStop short squeeze, a tale of fortunes won and lost overnight that may end up changing Wall Street forever. Bestselling author Ben Mezrich offers a gripping, beat-by-beat account of how a loosely affiliate group of private investors and internet trolls took down one of the biggest hedge funds on Wall Street, firing the first shot in a revolution that threatens to upend the financial establishment. It started on a subreddit forum called WallStreetBets - a meme-filled, freewheeling place where a disparate group of investors shared their shoot-the-moon investment tips, laughed about big losses, and posted diamond hand emojis. Until some members noticed an opportunity in Game Stop - a flailing bricks and mortar video-game retailer - and somehow rode a rocket ship to tens of millions of dollars in earnings overnight, simultaneously triggering unfathomable losses for one of the most respected funds on the street. In thrilling, pulse-pounding prose, THE ANTISOCIAL NETWORK offers a fascinating, never-before-seen glimpse at the outsize personalities, dizzying swings, corporate drama, and underestimated American heroes and heroines who captivated the world during one of the most volatile weeks in financial history. It's the amazing story of what just happened-and where we go from here.

For over twenty-five years, leadership legend and personal-mastery path-blazer Robin Sharma has mentored billionaires, business titans, professional-sports superstars and entertainment royalty via a revolutionary methodology that led them to accomplish rare-air results. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Sharma makes his transformational system available to anyone who is ready for undefeatable positivity, monumental productivity, deep spiritual freedom and a life of helping others. In The Everyday Hero Manifesto you will discover: · The hidden habits used by many of the world’s most creative and successful people to realize their visionary ambitions · Original techniques to turn fear into fuel, problems into power and past troubles into triumphs · A breakthrough blueprint to battle-proof yourself against distraction and procrastination so that you produce magic that dominates your domain · Pioneering insights on adopting world-class routines that will lead you to achieve superhuman fitness and become the most disciplined person you know · Unusual wisdom to operate with far more simplicity, beauty and peace Part memoir of a life richly lived, part instruction manual for virtuoso-grade performance, and part handbook for spiritual freedom in an age of high-velocity change, The Everyday Hero Manifesto will completely transform your life. Forever.

David Attenborough. Marcus Rashford. Jan Morris. Diana Dors. Bob Geldof. David Olusoga. Elizabeth David. Zaha Hadid. Frank Crichlow. Quentin Crisp. Dusty Springfield. Captain Tom. Who made modern Britain the country it is today? How do we sum up the kind of people we are? What does it mean to be the new Elizabethans? In this wonderfully told history, spanning back to when Queen Elizabeth became queen in 1953, Andrew Marr traces the people who have made Britain the country it is today. From the activists to the artists, the sports heroes to the innovators, these people pushed us forward, changed the conversation, encouraged us to eat better, to sing, think and to protest. They got things done. How will our generation be remembered in a hundred years' time? And when you look back at Britain's toughest moments in the past seventy years, what do you learn about its people and its values? In brilliantly entertaining style and with unexpected insights into some of our sung and unsung heroes, Andrew Marr offers up a first draft of the history we are all living. This is our story as the new Elizabethans - the story of how 1950s Britain evolved into the diverse country we live in today. In short, it is the history of modern Britain.

Ryan Hathaway nechce připustit, aby si jeho kamarádka vzala toho nepravého. A už vůbec ne za situace, kdy tím pravým je on. Přesvědčit Jessii, že mohou být víc než pouzí přátelé, však rozhodně nebude snadné, a navíc tím může ohrozit své plány stát se generálním ředitelem významné investiční společnosti. Přestože po Jessii toužil už od školních let, vůbec netušil, jak krásné může být té touze podlehnout…

Dvakrát se mu nabídla… Poprvé byla ještě příliš mladá, a tak se stal jejím ochráncem. Podruhé ale už to bylo jiné setkání – z Julienne byla žena, a to taková, že jí muž jako Cristiano nemohl odolat. A potřetí, když za ním přišla, převrátila mu život naruby. I když se bránil, seč mu síly stačily! A vždy byla sladká jako čokoláda…  

Ta přitažlivost byla větší a hlavně silnější než rozum. To šejk Sárík věděl už v okamžiku, kdy tu zlatovlasou bohyni požádal, aby k němu sestoupila… A ona to udělala! Pro Daisy byl vládce bohatého exotického království někým, komu by se měla vyhýbat na sto honů. Někým, s kým by se mimo práci vlastně vůbec neměla stýkat. Ale stalo se. A dráhy dvou hvězd dvou zcela odlišných galaxií se proťaly!  

Oba prošli plameny a oba z nich vyšli jiní… Když se v benátském paláci objevila ta drobná dívka čekající dítě s tvrzením, že se stane otcem, Alex nevěděl, co si myslet. Nejenom, že Rosalii, jak se ona neznámá Američanka jmenovala, nikdy neviděl. Tři roky se nedotkl ženy! Ale bylo to tak! A nejenom, že z něho měl být otec. Rozhodl se, že se stane i manželem. Ukázalo se ale, že je to mnohem, mnohem těžší, než si představoval!

This elegant slipcased edition presents for collectors the first ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide range of subjects. Stamped in gold foil, and printed on heavyweight acid-free paper, it includes a ribbon marker and is housed in a custom-built matching slipcase. It is well known that J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit in 1937 and The Lord of the Rings in 1954-5. What may be less known is that he continued to write about Middle-earth in the decades that followed, right up until the years before his death in 1973. For him, Middle-earth was part of an entire world to be explored, and the writings in The Nature of Middle-earth reveal the journeys that he took as he sought to better understand his unique creation. From sweeping themes as complex and profound as the metaphysics of Elvish immortality and reincarnation, and the Powers of the Valar, to the more earth-bound subjects of the lands and beasts of Numenor, the geography of the Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor, and even who had beards! This new collection, which has been edited by Carl F Hostetter, one of the world's leading Tolkien experts, is a veritable treasure-trove offering readers a chance to peer over Professor Tolkien's shoulder at the very moment of discovery: and on every page, Middle-earth is once again brought to extraordinary life.

Anderson Stone se vrátil po deseti letech z vězení za zabití muže, který se zachoval velmi podle k dívce, která byla Stoneovou nejlepší přítelkyní. Alespoň ji vždy za přítelkyni považoval. Teď, po deseti letech odloučení, se mezi ním a Piper objevují city, které si ani jeden z nich nechtěl v minulosti přiznat, ale proti kterým už nejsou schopni bojovat…    

Že by se zamilovala do vévody, Rosalind nenapadlo ani ve snu! V životě to neměla lehké, a teď – po smrti nevlastního otce – se musí postarat nejen o postiženého bratra, ale i o dva nevlastní sourozence. Vyhlídek na manželství se už dávno vzdala. Leo Beauchamp, vévoda z Cheritonu, je na návštěvě u bratrance, svou pravou totožnost však skrývá. Nehodlá totiž čelit nájezdu vdavekchtivých žen. Jediná Rosalind upoutá jeho pozornost. Jenže tahle skromná a opatrná dívka mužům nedůvěřuje… A tak Leovi nezbývá než ji přesvědčit, aby mu otevřela své srdce.  

Ještě těžší rány než drápy a zuby šelmy, která ho málem připravila o život, zasadili Javierovi jeho nejbližší. Otec, matka, bratr… a Scarlett. Scarlett, pro niž zahořel a vzplanul, Scarlett, o které neměl ani tušení, že pod srdcem nosí jeho syna. A stejné rány od svých blízkých utržila i Scarlett. Vždy se dokázala ale vztyčit a jít dále. Jenže pokud mají mít Javiero a Scarlett budoucnost, po níž oba touží, musí si své rány nejdříve vyléčit!