Following a week in the life of a busy wedding planner, and based entirely on true but anonymous stories, "Wedding Babylon" takes you to the heart of an industry where emotions run high, money flows like champagne and GBP3,000 cakes are made of polystyrene. Why are weddings so expensive? What makes us spend a year`s wages on one Big Day? And just how Big does your Day actually have to be? Hilarious, shocking and full of jaw-dropping true tales of wedding days from hell, here is definitive proof that, sadly, the course of true love never did run entirely
ISBN: 978-0-552-15693-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
The stunning, New York Times bestselling follow-up to The Notebook a story of an ordinary man who goes to extraordinary lengths to win back the love of his life.After thirty years, Wilson Lewis is forced to face a painful truth: the romance has gone out of his marriage. His wife, Jane, has fallen out of love with him, and it is entirely his fault. Despite the shining example of his in-laws, Noah and Allie Calhoun, and their fifty year love affair, Wilson himself is a man unable to express his true feelings. He has spent too little time at home and too much at the office, leaving the responsibility of raising their children to Jane. Now his daughter is about to marry, and his wife is thinking about leaving him. But if Wilson is sure of...
There`s trouble on the Aching farm: monsters in the river, headless horsemen in the lane - and Tiffany Aching`s little brother has been stolen by the Queen of Fairies. Getting him back will require all of Tiffany`s strength and determination (as well as a sturdy skillet) and the help of the rowdy clan of fightin`, stealin`, tiny blue-skinned pictsies known as "The Wee Free Men"!
ISBN: 978-0-06-001238-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Picture a camel playing a clarinet and a squirrel on the sax - these are the images that will help youngsters learn their ABCs. Includes a 20-minute cassette where the letters are spoken and the instrument played, while an infectious melody anchors the concept firmly in the child`s mind. Full color.
These classic Wee Sing titles are now available in the new book-and-CD format packaged in a reusable blister pack. From school yard games to the silliest songs ever sung, these delightful titles include a 60-minute audio CD. Full color. Pkg.
This new Wee Sing musical compilation contains new songs featuring favorite nursery rhymes from Mother Goose. Nursery rhyme favorites like Jack and Jill, Humpty Dumpty, and Simple Simon are set to music with the tried-and-true Wee Sing formula. Wee Sing Mother Goose features one hour of musical sing-along and finger play enjoyment. And best of all, parents and educators can use the suggestions in the book to join in the fun as they develop their child`s imagination. No library would be complete without this treasure!
Go on a magical, musical journey into a forest full of opposites! From up and down to long and short, kids will learn opposites with a little help from some charmingly illustrated forest animals and songs full of playful rhythms and rhymes.
Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop`s Lacey are over - and then beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. But who`d do such a thing, and why? Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than she`s letting on? What about Porson`s charming but erratic assistant? All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can`t solve - without Flavia`s help. But in getting so close to who`s secretly pulling the strings of this dance of death, has our precocious heroine finally gotten in...
London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Seven wintry days to track the lives of seven characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career; a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland; a young lawyer with little work and too much time to speculate; a student who has been led astray by Islamist theory; a hack book-reviewer; a schoolboy hooked on skunk and reality TV; and a Tube driver whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop. With daring skill, the novel pieces together the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life, and the group is forced, one by one, to confront the true nature of the world they inhabit. Sweeping, satirical, Dickensian in...
ISBN: 978-0-09-955169-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton will be invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become their first ever Writer in Residence. He will be installed in the middle of Terminal 5 on a raised platform with a laptop connected to screens, enabling passengers to see what he is writing and to come and share their stories. He will meet travellers from around the world, and will be given unprecedented access to wander the airport and speak with everyone from window cleaners and baggage handlers to air traffic controllers and cabin crew. Working with the renowned documentary photographer Richard Baker, de Botton will produce an extraordinary meditation upon the nature of place, time, and our daily lives. He will explore the magical and...
Dr Katherine Roberts is a lecturer at Oxford University and an expert on all things Austen. But she has a guilty secret; a love of racy Regency novels by Lorna Warwick. She`s even struck up a long-distance friendship with the novelist and the two of them have been sharing their closest confidences. When Katherine gets her yearly invite to a Jane Austen Conference at the magnificent Purley Hall in Hampshire, she sincerely hopes that Lorna will be in attendance as well. She can hardly wait to meet her new friend, but it seems that Lorna may not have been completely honest with her! Meanwhile, hopeless romantic Robyn Love is at her happiest when her head is stuck in one of Jane Austen`s novels - if only her boyfriend Jace Collins could be...
ISBN: 978-1-84756-225-8
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: август 2011
This is a powerful, moving story that details the effects of the infamous Mau Mau war, the African nationalist revolt against colonial oppression in Kenya, on the lives of ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular. Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a rubbish heap and look into their futures. Njoroge is excited; his family has decided that he will attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. Together they will serve their country - the teacher and the craftsman. But this is Kenya and the times are against them. In the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war against the white government, and the two brothers and their family need to decide where their loyalties lie. For the practical Kamau the choice is simple,...
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7331-8
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
