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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.'Shipwrecked in a storm at sea, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a remote and desolate island. As he struggles to piece together a life for himself, Crusoe's physical, moral and spiritual values are tested to the limit. For 24 years he remains in solitudeand learns to tame and master the island, until he finally comes across another human being. Considered a classic literary masterpiece, and frequently interpreted as a comment on the British Imperialist approach at the time, Defoe's fable was and stillis revered as the very first English novel.

They are behind bars, but that wont stop them committing crimes. And it wont keep them safe, either.Trumble is a minimum security federal prison, home to drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders - and three former judges who call themselves The Brethren. The Brethren meet each day in the law library, where they spend hours writingletters. They are fine-tuning a mail scam, and it is starting to pay big. The money is pouring in. But when their little scam goes awry and ensnares the wrong victim, a powerful man on the outside, they realise they are in trouble. Because this man hasdangerous friends, and just as the prison failed to protect society from the Brethren, it wont protect them from their victims...

A beautifully illustrated introduction to some of the best-loved Impressionist artists, including Monet, Degas, Pissarro and Manet. Discover their lives, the stories behind their paintings, and how they changed art forever. Published in association withthe National Gallery, London, with over 100 stickers and links to websites to find out more.

In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had solong been his home. His aim was to take stock of the nations public face and private parts (as it were), and to analyse what precisely it was he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite, a military hero whose dying wish was to be kissed bya fellow named Hardy, place names like Farleigh Wallop, Titsey and Shellow Bowells people who said Mustnt grumble, and ?Ooh lovely? at the sight of a cup of tea and a plate of biscuits, and Gardeners Question Time. Notes from a Small Island was a hugenumber-one bestseller when it was first published, and has become the nations most loved book about Britain, going on to sell over two million copies.

Order Jodi Picoult's stunning new novel about life, death, and missed opportunities.THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A writer the world should be reading right now.' IndependentWho would you be, if you hadn't turned out to be the person you are now?Dawn is a death doula, and spends her life helping people make the final transition peacefully.But when the plane she's on plummets, she finds herself thinking not of the perfect life she has, but the life she was forced to abandon fifteen years ago - when she left behind a career in Egyptology, and a man she loved.Against the odds, she survives, and the airline offers her a ticket to wherever she needs to get to - but the answer to that question suddenly seems uncertain.As the path of her life forks in two very different directions, Dawn must confront questions she's never truly asked: what does a well-lived life look like? What do we leave behind when we go? And do we make our choices, or do our choices make us?Two possible futures. One impossible choice.----------------------------------------------------------------'It is hard to exaggerate how well Picoult writes.' Financial Times'A matchless talent for hitting emotional notes.' Irish Times'A wise, cerebral, propulsive adventure . . . eruditely spans the worlds of Egyptology, university physics and end-of-life care, while never losing sight of its high-stakes human story . . . a captivatingly immersive, multilayered, painstakinglyresearched and impressively realised exploration of deeply human geographies.' The Sunday Times'This complex, time-shifting romance combines moral hazard with Wuthering Heights echoes and degree-level Egyptology. And there aren't many books you can say that about.' Daily Mail

Miklós Radnóti (1909-1944), whose work beautifully combines colloquial modernism with Virgilian classicism, is best known internationally as one of the great poets of the Holocaust: his final, harrowing poems were recovered from a notebook found on hisbody upon exhumation from a mass grave in 1946. But while he is certainly one of the key literary chroniclers of the Holocaust, he is also much more than that. All That Still Matters at All spans his entire output, from his carefree early love lyrics tothe increasingly urgent poems written as the clouds of fascism and war descended upon Europe to the poems composed during forced labor and the death march that finally took his life. All of his work, however, was inspired by his wife, muse and literaryexecutor, Fanni Gyarmati Radnóti, who enthusiastically endorsed these new translations by Ridland and Czipott prior to her death in 2014 at the age of 101.

One of the most cunning and ruthless warriors in the history of the Galactic Empire, Grand Admiral Thrawn is also one of the most captivating characters in the Star Wars universe, from his introduction in bestselling author Timothy Zahn's classic Heir tothe Empire, through his continuing adventures in Dark Force Rising, The Last Command, and beyond. But Thrawn's origins and the story of his rise in the Imperial ranks have remained mysterious. Now, in Star Wars: Thrawn, Timothy Zahn chronicles thefateful events that launched the blue-skinned, red-eyed master of military strategy and lethal warfare into the highest realms of power?and infamy.After Thrawn is rescued from exile by Imperial soldiers, his deadly ingenuity and keen tactical abilities swiftly capture the attention of Emperor Palpatine. And just as quickly, Thrawn proves to be as indispensable to the Empire as he is ambitious

Are you taking your life for granted?Lucy Silchester is. She's busied herself with other stuff: friends' lives, work issues, her deteriorating car, that kind of thing. But she's stuck in a rut - and deluding everyone. Only Lucy knows the real truth.Time for a wake-up call - a meeting with life. And life turns out to be a kindly, rather run-down man in an old suit, who is determined to bring about change - and won't let Lucy off the hook.Sometimes we all need to make time for our life

A collection of speeches, articles, essays and introductions from Sunday Times bestselling author, commentator and craftsman Neil Gaiman.THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman.From Make Good Art, the speech that went viral, to pieces on artists and legends including Terry Pratchett and Lou Reed, the collection offers a glimpse into the head and heart of one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. Literature does not occurin a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation

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When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison.But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with. Decades earlier, he and Emily would listen to jazz when they were alone, and now, as Sarah Vaughan sings through the speakers, he struggles to control everything the sound brings with it.In Kazuo Ishiguro's hands, a snapshot of domestic realism becomes a miniature masterpiece of memory and forgetting.

Zielgruppe: Jugendliche von 12-16 Jahren (Niveaustufe A2)Die Umwelt-AG der Max-Brenner-Schule tagt. Die Projektidee der Klasse 9A Einsatz für die Honigbiene gewinnt die Abstimmung. Die Bienenflüsterer erhalten die Erlaubnis, die ungenutzte alteWeitsprunganlage der Schule in eine blühende Pflanzfläche umzuwandeln.Damit ein neuer Lebensraum für Vögel, Insekten und Bienen entstehen kann, bauen sie Nisthilfen und ein Hochbeet, bepflanzen und wässern die Blühfläche, jäten Unkraut, mähen und legensogar eine weitere Wiesenfläche an.

Képeskönyv gyerekeknek számos érdekességgel a technika világából. Olvashatunk benne tényekről és meglepő eseményekről a történelemből, de a jelenből is. Nem hiányoznak olyan feltalálók nevei sem mint Leonardo da Vinci, Geore Stevenson, A. G. Bell, aWright fivérek és még sokan mások. A szöveget lebilincselő képek és különféle jegyzetek egészítik ki. A technika valóban izgalmas, kalandokkal teli terület.A könyvből választ kaphatunk olyan kérdésekre is, mint például: Milyen gépeket használtak az ókorban az első mérnökök, mire használták a hajtókart? Hogyan jöttek létre az első repülőgépek, és milyen típusú repülőgépek vannak ma? Milyen elvek alapjánműködnek a sugárhajtóművek? Hogyan állítják elő a villamos energiát? Mire használják a nanotechnológiát, vagy hol találunk robotokat? Külön fejezetek szólnak például az autókról, hidakról, felhőkarcolókról vagy a világhírű Eiffel-toronyról.A végén található fogalomtárban megmagyarázunk néhány olyan kifejezést is, amelyek hasznosak lehetnek a technikáról szóló olvasmányok során. Például: mi az a szélcsatorna, a fosszilis tüzelőanyag vagy az optikai kábel?

Filmes borítóval, 8 oldal színes melléklettel: jelenetek a filmből!Lehet, hogy nem lehet megjósolni a jövőt, de azért ezt-azt meg lehet. Például nagyjából biztos vagyok benne, hogy bele fogok szeretni Ollyba. És szinte biztos, hogy annak katasztrófa lesz a vége.Maddy az egész világra allergiás - ha kilépne a sterilizált burokból, amelyben él, az akár az életébe is kerülhetne.Aztán új szomszédja, Olly ráébreszti arra, hogy élni nem ugyanaz, mint életben maradni. Első szerelem pedig csak egyszer van az életben, és Maddy készen áll kockáztatni mindent, hogy kiderüljön, hová vezet majd.Gyönyörű és lírai.New York TimesNicola Yoon Los Angelesben él férjével és lányával. A Minden, minden az első regénye, amelyet már 33 nyelvre fordítottak le.

WINNER: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER READER AWARD FOR BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016WINNER: BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER AWARD FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY OR BIOGRAPHY 2016Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation's heart and became thebestselling travel book ever, and was also voted in a BBC poll the book that best represents Britain.Now, to mark the twentieth anniversary of that modern classic, Bryson makes a brand-new journey round Britain to see what has changed.Following (but not too closely) a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis to Cape Wrath, by way of places that many people never get to at all, Bryson sets out to rediscover the wondrously beautiful, magnificently eccentric, endearingly uniquecountry that he thought he knew but doesn't altogether recognize any more. Yet, despite Britain's occasional failings and more or less eternal bewilderments, Bill Bryson is still pleased to call our rainy island home. And not just because of the creamteas, a noble history, and an extra day off at Christmas.Once again, with his matchless homing instinct for the funniest and quirkiest, his unerring eye for the idiotic, the endearing, the ridiculous and the scandalous, Bryson gives us an acute and perceptive insight into all that is best and worst aboutBritain today.

The adopted human daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, Oraya carved her place in a world designed to kill her. Her only chance to become something more than prey is entering the Kejari: a legendary tournament held by the goddess of death herself.But winning won't be easy amongst the most vicious warriors from all three vampire houses. To survive, Oraya is forced to make an alliance with a mysterious rival.Everything about Raihn is dangerous. He is a ruthless vampire, an efficient killer, an enemy to her father's crown and her greatest competition. Yet, what terrifies Oraya most of all is that she finds herself oddly drawn to him.But there's no room for compassion in the Kejari - and nothing more deadly than love.

How I long to sail! said the tiny snail.The Snail and the Whale is a delightful tale of adventure and friendship by the unparalleled picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, creators of The Gruffalo.One little snail longs to see the world and hitches a lift on the tail of an enormous whale. Together they go on an amazing journey, past icebergs and volcanoes, sharks and penguins, and the little snail feels so small in the vastness of the world. Butwhen disaster strikes and the whale is beached in a bay, it's the tiny snail's big plan that saves the day.This edition features the classic story with a stunning, redesigned cover and beautiful finish, making it a must-have addition to the bookshelves of all Donaldson and Scheffler fans - big and small!Also available with redesigned covers are: The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo's Child, Room on the Broom, The Smartest Giant in Town, Monkey Puzzle, Charlie Cook's Favourite Book, and A Squash and a Squeeze.

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER  A riveting account of one of history's most essential and paradoxical figures.-Christopher Nolan#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  PULITZER PRIZE WINNER  The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time ofwar, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.In this magisterial, acclaimed biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War. This is biography and history at its finest, rivetingand deeply informative.A masterful account of Oppenheimer's rise and fall, set in the context of the turbulent decades of America's own transformation. It is a tour de force. -Los Angeles Times Book ReviewA work of voluminous scholarship and lucid insight, unifying its multifaceted portrait with a keen grasp of Oppenheimer's essential nature.... It succeeds in deeply fathoming his most damaging, self-contradictory behavior. -The New York Times

A Vaják (Witcher), Andrzej Sapkowski könyve. A népszerű fantasy regény első kötete, Az utolsó kívánság. A könyvekből a Netflix készített filmsorozatot.Geralt a vajákok közé tartozik: mágikus képességeinek köszönhetően, amelyeket hosszan tartó kiképzése és egy rejtélyes elixír csak még tovább csiszolt, zseniális és könyörtelen harcos hírében áll. Ugyanakkor nem hétköznapi gyilkos: célpontjai vérszomjasszörnyetegek és aljas fenevadak, amelyek mindenütt hatalmas pusztítást végeznek, és megtámadják az ártatlanokat.Hiába tűnik azonban valami gonosznak vagy jónak, nem biztos, hogy valóban az - és minden mesében van egy csipetnyi igazság.

La novela en la que se ha inspirado la serie.La trilogía en la que se basa la serie de Prime Video. (Libro 1)Belly nunca ha sido la clase de chica a la que le pasan cosas. Ano tras ano, sus vacaciones transcurren en la casa de la playa pero los chicos apenas se dan cuenta de lo mucho que se fija en ellos. Cada verano, Belly desea que eso cambie. Y, esta vez, lohará: éste será el verano en que Belly se volverá guapa, el verano en que se enamoraráaunque también será el verano en el que todo cambiará. Para bien, y para mal.

THE FUNNY AND SEXY ENEMIES-TO-LOVERS TIKTOK SENSATION'A glimmering, sharp, and delightfully feminist rom com. The Ex Talk just crashed its way onto my forever-rec pile' CHRISTINA LAUREN, author of The Unhoneymooners'I couldn't put this down . . . just such a fun romantic story of enemies to lovers' 5* Reader Review'A very funny book' New York Times Book Review'This was steamy! And funny and feminist' 5* Reader Review________Shay Goldstein has worked at her Seattle radio station for nearly a decade. But lately she's been clashing with her new colleague, Dominic Yun - who's fresh off a journalism course and convinced he knows everything about radio.When the station needs a new concept, Shay proposes 'The Ex Talk', where two exes give relationship advice live on air. Each armed with their own disastrous relationship stories, Shay and Dominic are the perfect co-hosts - even if it does come with alittle tension . . .Their spiky dynamic is an instant hit, and soon 'The Ex Talk' is climbing the charts.But when Shay and Dominic start to fall for each other, is this the start of something amazing . . . or the end of their careers?________An NPR's Best Book of 2021A Buzzfeed Best Romances of 2021A Cosmopolitan Best Romance of 2021A LibraryReads Pick!One of CNN and PopSugar's Best Books of January'Buckle in for a hot ride . . . a MUST READ for fans of The Hating Game' 5* Reader Review'A touching, funny, sexy, entertaining read' 5* Reader Review'More than lives up to the hype' PopSugar

In Athens, crowds flock to witness the most shocking trial of the ancient world. The royal family is mired in scandal. Phaedra, young bride of King Theseus, has accused her stepson, Hippolytus of rape. He's a prince, a talented horseman, a promisingnoble with his whole life ahead of him. She's a young and neglected wife, the youngest in a long line of Cretan women with less than savoury reputations. The men of Athens must determine the truth. Who is guilty, and who is innocent? But the women knowtruth is a slippery thing. After all, this is the age of heroes and the age of monsters. There are two sides to every story, and theirs has gone unheard. Until now.

The new novel from the bestselling author of Icebreaker.... When Russ and Aurora cross paths at a university party, a drinking game ends with them spending the night together. The next day, Aurora slips away before Russ learns her full name. Thisanonymity ends when they both turn up to their first day of work as camp counsellors. A job they had both chosen to escape Maple Hills for the summer. Given their history, there's still an obvious tension between the two but the camp has a strict nostaff fraternizing rule. Russ doesn't want to risk heading home early but Aurora has never been one for rules. As things heat up, they'll have to resist or risk starting something they just can't stop.

This title is presented with a new foreword by Istvan Deak. The battle of Budapest in the bleak winter of 1944-45 was one of the longest and bloodiest city sieges of World War II. From the appearance of the first Soviet tanks on the outskirts of thecapital to the capture of Buda Castle, 102 days elapsed. In terms of human trauma, it comes second only to Stalingrad, comparisons to which were even being made by soldiers, both German and Soviet, fighting at the time. This definitive history coverstheir experiences, and those of the 800,000 non-combatants around whom the battle raged.

Written with complete access to the Queen Mother's personal letters and diaries, William Shawcross's riveting biography is the truly definitive account of this remarkable woman, whose life spanned the twentieth century. Elizabeth Angela Marguerite BowesLyon, the youngest daughter of the Earl of Strathmore, was born on 4 August 1900. Drawing on her private correspondence and other unpublished material from the Royal Archives, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother vividly reveals the witty girl who endearedherself to soldiers convalescing at Glamis in the First World War