As young Tammo dreams of joining the Long patrol--the legendary army of fighting hares which serves the Lady Cregga Rose Eyes, Ruler of Salamandastron--the brutal reality of a battle with Damug Warfang`s mighty battalion of savage Rapscallions fast approaches. Following in the tradition of the Redwall chronicles, this is the tale of young Tammo and his membership of the Long Patrol - the army of fighting hares of Salamandastron, who serve Lady Cregga Rose Eyes
ISBN: 0-441-00599-3
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Lieutenant David Buckalew and his men had left Texas on a march westward to claim the entire Southwest for the Confederacy. But defeat after humiliating defeat at the hands of the Union army has stranded Buckalew and nineteen battle-weary survivors in the New Mexico Territory-a territory crawling with hostile Comanches and Union Buckalew and his men make a run for their homeland of Texas, they learn the location of a cache of Union weapons and ammunition. If they could seize the weapons before the Union troops arrive to collect them, they might be able to shift the odds in the South`s , those keeping the cache for the North have other ideas . . .
ISBN: 978-0-8125-6159-3
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: август 2011
Harlan Coben`s millions of fans have waited three long years for a new Myron Bolitar novel and soon their patience will be rewarded in spectacular fashion. Myron hasn`t heard from Terese Collins in years. Not since their affair ended without explanation. He`s had no contact with her since, so her call catches him off guard. She`s in Paris, she says, in trouble and only Myron can help. Terese tells him a sad story she`s never before revealed: a good marriage, her struggles to get pregnant, the happiest moment of her life when her only child was born, the day everything she`d ever loved was taken from her. As the years passed Terese heard nothing from her ex-husband, until the phone call that brought her to Paris. But on arrival, Terese...
ISBN: 978-0-451-22849-9
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
2045-2059. After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth, and society, ...
ISBN: 9780552172813
Издательство:
Corgi Books
Дата выхода: январь 2019
In this tender, beautifully wrought love story by the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Demon Rumm," a man and a woman find themselves battling each other for the love of a child, but their heated tug-of-war can only end one way.
ISBN: 9780553589351
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: август 2006
When the animals take over the farm, they think it is the start of a better life. Their dream is of a world where all animals are equal and all property is shared. But soon the pigs take control and one of them. Napoleon, becomes leader of all the animals. One by one the principles of the revolution are abandoned, until the animals have even less freedom than before. "Animal Farm" is one of the classic stories of modern English fiction, and is a powerful study of the use and abuse of political power.
ISBN: 978-0-582-27524-9
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Lift the flaps and learn important maths skills, from adding and subtracting to fractions and shapes. Simple explanations, engaging illustrations and fun puzzles make new concepts easy to grasp.
It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war. It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, eight hundred years later, the light from the first of those ancient mistakes has reached the Culture Orbital, Masaq`.
ISBN: 978-1-84149-059-5
Издательство:
Orbit
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
This playful preschool activity book will unleash your child`s curiosity and creativity as they play their way through amazing STEM projects.Perfect for kids ages 3-6, this early learning children`s book will excite little ones by revealing the everyday ways they can be an engineer. Children are born with everything they need to be great engineers: inquisitive minds, unlimited imagination, and super senses. With Look I`m an Engineer, little readers are encouraged to use their senses to investigate how to make the strongest paper bridges, how to power a tugboat with an elastic band, which materials make the best parachutes, and much more. Every fun project features a mixture of bright photography and charming illustrations which support...
ISBN: 9780241313886
Издательство:
Ladybird
Дата выхода: январь 2023
Discover the magical world of nature in this information book for young children, with over 80 flaps to lift. There are woods, rivers and ponds to explore, and animals to discover under the ground, hiding in trees and rustling in the bushes. There’s information on how plants grow, habitats and nature spotting and links to websites to find out more.
Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny portrait of life in post - World War II America-a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. Here are tales both cautionary and hopeful, each brimming with Vonnegut`s trademark humor and profound humanism. A family learns the downside of confiding their deepest secrets into a magical invention. A...
Look at the Birdie evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. In Confido, a family learns the downside of confiding their deepest secrets into a magical invention. In Ed Luby`s Key Club, a man finds himself in a Kafkaesque world of trouble after he runs afoul of the shady underworld boss who calls the shots in an upstate New York town. In Look at the Birdie, a quack psychiatrist turned `murder counsellor` concocts a novel new outlet for his paranoid patients. The stories are cautionary they also brim with his trademark humour. Wry, ironic, satirical and poignant Look at the Birdie...
ISBN: 978-0-09-954885-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
See behind the scenes at a bustling airport, as planes speed along the runway and soar into the sky in this fascinating book with over 50 flaps to lift. Young children will be fascinated to find out how an airport works, and see the equipment and machines, vehicles and passengers, all colourfully illustrated. Scenes include ‘Handling baggage’, ‘Preparing the plane’, ‘Taking off’ and ‘Carrying cargo’. Richly informative and full of surprises, this book is perfect for little fingers and curious minds.
From the very first bite, your food goes on an incredible journey inside you. Lift the flaps to find out what happens when you eat fat, sugar, carbohydrates and protein, and what vitamins and minerals do for you. With over 80 flaps to lift, advice on healthy eating and links to websites for more information.
Step inside the sun-scorched deserts of Ancient Egypt to visit the magnificent temples by the mighty River Nile, busy towns, and tombs filled with glittering treasure in this fascinating book with intricately cut flaps and holes to peep through. Travel up the Nile in a barge, join a party at a rich man’s house, a funeral for a Pharaoh and lots more.
From brains and blood to senses and skin – children will love exploring the ins-and-outs of the human body with this fantastic interactive book.Young readers’ minds will boggle as they learn about how their brains work, what happens when they eat, how their lungs use oxygen and much more.Full of surprises to keep enquiring minds entertained, including flaps beneath flaps and a cheeky peek inside a toilet cubicle.
