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One of the Next Big Idea Club's Favorite Nonfiction BooksA Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2022 A legendary record producer–turned–brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music. This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science…
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE Nearly a century after his murder, Rasputin remains as divisive a figure as ever. Was he really a horse thief and a hard-drinking ruffian in his youth? Was he a a devout Orthodox Christian, or was he in fact…
William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience includes some of the visionary poet's finest and best-loved poems such as 'The Lamb', 'The Chimney-Sweeper' and 'The Tiger'. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound,…
Google. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of us who consume the content that feeds them are farmed for the purposes of being sold ever more products and advertising. Those that…
"I've lost my mum!" It's not too much fun being lost in the jungle, and little monkey wants his mummy. Kindly butterfly is keen to help, but they don't seem to be having much luck as the well-meaning butterfly misunderstands monkey's descriptions and…
From the New York Times number one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah, comes Wild, a remarkable story about the resilience of the human spirit, the triumph of hope and the promise of new beginnings. In the rugged…
As high society's social calendar opens up and the Season draws to a close, London is gripped by fear. Someone has taken to stalking women of the night and painting the town red...in their blood. The name on everyone's lips seems to be 'Jack the Ripper'…
Civilization is dead, but Chito and Yuuri are still alive. So they hop aboard their beloved Kettenkrad motorbike and aimlessly wander the ruins of the world they once knew. Day after hopeless day, they look for their next meal and fuel for their ride.…
Shadows House-a strange mansion that receives no callers, inhabited by a race offaceless shadows who play at being aristocrats and are waited on hand and foot by"living dolls," who also serve as their masters' faces. What goes on inside thisenigmatic…
Yuuma Tsugari is an ordinary high school student whose family runs a public bath house. He leads a peaceful, uneventful life, but all that changes when a beautiful woman from another world appears before him, certain that he's the hero she's been searching…
Nai--a young man who travels in search of another by the name of Karoku, a lone bracelet his only lead. Gareki--a willful young man who earns his daily bread by thieving and picking pockets. Thrown together at an eerie mansion, where they are entrapped…
Basketball players. Bad boys who aren't really bad boys. Roommates. Senpai-kouhaiBL romance. It all started when Kagiura moved into the school dorms with whatseemed to be a bad-boy upperclassman. But after he's left in the tender care of hismother hen…
June, 1781. An unidentified body hangs upon a hook at Deptford Dock - horribly tortured and branded with a slaver's mark. Some days later, Captain Harry Corsham - a war hero embarking upon a promising parliamentary career - is visited by the sister of…
A body is found in the wreckage of a destroyed home. Consumed by the investigation, Inspector Jimmy Perez struggles for the truth in Cold Earth, the seventh Shetland mystery from Ann Cleeves.Now a major BBC One drama, Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall.In…
Introducing Inspector Jimmy Perez. Raven Black is the first book in Ann Cleeves' bestselling Shetland series - now a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall.A remote community with a killer in their midst . . .On New Year's Day, Shetland lies buried…
In this first novel in the internationally bestselling trilogy, One Step to You, two teenagers spend the best days of their lives together, but belonging to opposite worlds may eventually tear them apart forever.Just as in every other place in the world,…
In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron's doctor has died. The Interprovincial Medical Institute sends out a replacement. But when the new physician investigates the cause of death, which appears to be suicide, there's a mystery…
A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's classic historical masterpiece.A MASON WITH A DREAM 1135 and civil war, famine…
"Messzi világ közepén terült el az állatok birodalma. Egy birodalom, amelyben az állatok városok és falvak között élték mindennapjaikat békében és nyugalomban. Ez mind megváltozott amikor a csótányok vezére támadást indított az állatok ellen.…
Eunha Park was just a regular girl desperate to get into college, but when she finallydoes, her elation is cut short as she's pushed off a roof-only to wake up as RaelianaMcMillan, a character from a novel whose death serves as the catalyst for the story'sevents.…
Detective Matthew Venn returns in The Raging Storm, the next captivating novel in the Two Rivers series from Ann Cleeves, the number one bestselling author and creator of Vera and Shetland.When Jem Rosco - sailor, adventurer and local legend - blows…
The second epic fantasy in The Faithful and the Fallen series, Valour by John Gwynne carries all of the excitement of the first. The Banished Lands are torn by war as the army of High King Nathair sweeps the realm challenging all who oppose his holy…
Krasokorčuliarka Anastasia Allenová celý život pracovala na tom, aby sa dostala do reprezentačného tímu USA. Trénuje od svojich piatich rokov, dostáva plné vysokoškolské štipendium vďaka miestu v korčuliarskom tíme Maple Hills a taký rozvrh, ktorý by…
Hry začínajú, pôjde o život Každých sedem rokov sa začína Agon. Ako trest za dávnu vzburu je deväť gréckych bohov prinútených chodiť po zemi v smrteľnej podobe, sú prenasledovaní potomkami dávnych rodov, ktorí bažia po smrti bohov a chcú sa zmocniť ich…
The Hunger Games meets vampires in this heart-wrenching, epic fantasy romance of dark magic and bloodthirsty intrigue from bestselling author Carissa Broadbent.Human or vampire, the rules of survival are the same: never trust, never yield, and always…
Na Valentína som nemala byť na tej streche. Nemal tam byť ani Kellan Marchetti, školský čudák. Stretli sme sa na pokraji konca svojich životov. Roztrhané nitky našich tragédií sa nejakým spôsobom zamotali a zviazali do nepravdepodobného puta. Spoločne…
More ruthless than the Mob, more powerful than the Camorra - a searing insider account of the Calabrian Mafia
Asi každý slyšel o krvavých čarodějnických procesech v Salemu, ale jen málokdo zná legendu o čarodějnici a čaroději z New Jersey, kteří roku 1730 utekli do Hillock Woods, maloměsta, kde v ně věří dodnes. ***** Šestnáctiletá Amy se spolu se svojí matkou…
"Anytime I've been sad or happy or really mad about something, Pokemon have always been there by my side, through it all." ASH KETCHUM Like our heroes Ash and Pikachu, we are all on a road to personal mastery. But life isn't always sunshine and Jigglypuffs.…
Jan Županič působí jako profesor na Ústavu světových dějin Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Karlovy a vedoucí vědecký pracovník v Historickém ústavu Akademie věd České republiky. Hlavním tématem jeho prací je proměna společnosti a její vývoj v moderní…