Rin, Razo`s little sister, is haunted by the forest she has always loved. When Razo invites her back to the city to be one of Queen Ani`s waiting women, she happily only to end up on the adventure of her lifetime, following the queen, Enna, and Dasha into the countryside in search of a fire-starting enemy that no one can see. As she learns more about the three women`s magical talents, she finds her own strength comes from places both expected the forest and unexpected the sound of her own voice. A brilliant addition to the Books of Bayern`, this book is a treat for fans of this series, and stands alone for readers who might be discovering the joys of Shannon Hale`s writing for the first time.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Cursed! David was only trying to be cool when he helped some other boys steal an old lady`s cane. But when the plan backfires, he is the one whom she `curses`. Now David can`t seem to do anything right. The cool kids taunt him and his only friends are weirdos. He even walks into Spanish class with his fly unzipped! And when he finally gets his nerve up to ask out a cute girl, his trousers fall down midway! But is this the curse at work or is David turning into a total loser? This work is an another witty and very clever tale by the master storyteller Louis Sachar. Other titles in this series are There`s a Boy in the Girls` Bathroom and Dogs Don`t Tell Jokes.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Billy, Nicola and Mr Gopal are off to India in a flying boat to solve a baffling mystery! The gum that comes from the wonderful bubblegum trees that grow in the Indian jungle has not been delivered for two months. Without this secret ingredient, there`ll be no more Gopal`s Best Pink Bubblegum, and even more importantly, no more Bubblegummies - the people who live in the trees and harvest the gum. It`s not an easy mystery to solve - and soon the friends are involved in a bungee-jumping, tiger-trouncing, woodcutter-walloping, bubblegum-blowing adventure!
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, she is twenty-one, in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss. In a split second, the world turns white.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
No matter how hard Annie tries, she just cannot do even the simplest sums. It`s so embarrassing! When she goes to the shops, she can`t work out how much money to hand the shopkeeper, and she always gets 0 for her maths homework. That is, until Annie goes to sleep with a calculator under her pillow, and something very strange happens. Overnight, Annie becomes a maths maestro capable of solving problems so fast it takes people`s breath away. It impresses one world-renowned maths genius so much that he decides to put Annie`s powers to the ultimate test. Will Annie be up to the mathematical challenge, or will she be at sixes and sevens and end up back at square one? Prepare yourself for this brain-teasing adventure.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Zara and her friends knew they hadn`t solved the pixie problem for good. Far from it. The king`s needs grow deeper every day he`s stuck in captivity, while his control over his people gets weaker. It`s made him vulnerable. And now there`s a new king in town. A turf war is imminent. The new pixie king is moving in quickly. He swears that he and Zara are destined to be together, that he`s one of the good guys. Zara isn`t so sure - despite herself, she wants to trust the new king. But there`s a lot more than her relationship with boyfriend Nick at stake. It`s her life - and his.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When Alton`s ageing, blind uncle asks him to attend bridge games with him, he agrees. After all, it`s better than a crappy summer job in the local shopping mall, and Alton`s mother thinks it might secure their way to a good inheritance sometime in the future. But, like all apparently casual choices in any of Louis Sachar`s wonderful books, this choice soon turns out to be a lot more complex than Alton could ever have imagined. As his relationship with his uncle develops, and he meets the very attractive Toni, deeply buried secrets are uncovered and a romance that spans decades is finally brought to a conclusion. Alton`s mother is in for a surprise!
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The "Chartered Management Institute: Dictionary of Business and Management" is the most authoritative business dictionary available. It features: - More than 6,500 jargon-free definitions of key terms. - Entries drawn from the core areas of general management, human resources, marketing, e-commerce, accounting and finance, economics, statistics, and operations and production. - Biographical entries that detail the lives and careers of influential business thinkers and leaders. - Mini-essays to explain complex concepts. - Worked examples of financial ratios. - World English terms to give a global perspective on the practice of management. An essential resource for managers of all levels as well as business students, the Dictionary defines...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: декабрь 2005
Courtney Stone - sassy, smart and suddenly single - has always felt she might have been better suited to life in Jane Austen`s England. One evening, having drifted off to sleep after self-medicating with pizza, Absolut, and Elizabeth and Darcy, Courtney wakes up in nineteenth-century England, in the bed of a girl called Jane Mansfield.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Harriet`s invited to accompany her aunts, Thessalonica and Japonica to America. She`s terribly excited, knowing very well that with two expert detectives for aunts, this is going to be no ordinary trip. She soon discovers, to her enormous surprise, that they`re actually on their way to see her sixth aunt, Formica! And as if this weren`t surprising enough, she finds out that Aunt Formica is a cowgirl, and the reason for their visit is to help her catch some rustlers that have been stealing cattle from her ranch. Harriet and her three aunts must move like greased lightening if they`re to get on the trail of the slippery cattle thieves. It`s time to saddle-up and yee-ha!
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
One evening, spying on his Hollywood Hills neighbours through his USD4,000 electronic telescope, Bobby witnesses a beautiful woman making love to a handsome Latin actor called Ramon. As their pillow talk turns ugly, Bobby watches in horror as the woman appears to bludgeon her lover to death with his own acting trophy. Instead of rushing to the cops, Bobby decides to find out more about the events that led up to the crime, and to use the material for his next movie screenplay. However, when he sneaks into the actor`s apartment, the discovery he makes changes his life forever. Empowered by his secret knowledge, Bobby is able to seduce the beautiful woman, while forging a unique friendship with Detective Dennis Farentino, the cop in charge...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Four-year-old Romochka is left alone in a dark, empty Moscow apartment. After a few days, hunger drives him outside, where he sees a large, yellow dog loping past and follows her to her lair on the outskirts of the city. During the seasons that follow, Romochka changes from a boy into something far wilder.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
`Why did the guy eat two dead skunks for breakfast?` `Because dead ones squeal when you stick the fork in.` Gary W. Boone knows he was born to be a stand-up comedian. It is the rest of the kids in the class who think he is a fool. Then the Floyd Hicks Junior High School Talent Show is announced, and he starts practising his routine non-stop to get it just right. Gary`s sure that this will be his big break - he`ll make everyone laugh and will win the $100 prize money. But when an outrageous surprise threatens to turn his debut into a disaster, it looks as if the biggest joke of all may be on Gary himself.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Jim and his friends are upset to hear that their school janitor`s car has been stolen, and just before he`s due to retire too. So Jim comes up with a bright idea for a way to help raise money to buy a new car: selling doughnuts. They start by making their own very delicious doughnuts to sell, but run into problems when demand exceeds supply. That`s when Jim has another brainwave and decides the only way to make enough is to write a chain letter asking people to make more doughnuts. The doughnuts start rolling in and rolling in and soon Jim is up to his ears in them. It takes another inspired business idea to rescue a situation which is rapidly getting out of hand. This is the inspiring story of a boy with a big heart and big business...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Trained in the way of the Samurai, dreaming of the City of Brotherly Love, Hiro Tanaka impetuously jumps ship off the coast of Georgia - only to wash up on a barrier island populated by rednecks, descendants of black slaves, and a colony of crazed artists. Terrifying one islander - literally - to death, and fleeing not only from the Immigration Agents but also an elderly lady convinced he is Seiji Ozawa, Tanaka is unwittingly caught up in a hilarious and irretrievably complicated spider`s web of misunderstandings. His sole refuge on the island, the manipulative and ambiguous novelist Ruth Dershowitz, only draws him in ever deeper.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Elizabeth is in her thirties, settled in a large house with a husband who wants to start a family. But she doesn`t want any of it. A bitter divorce and a rebound fling later, Elizabeth emerges battered yet determined to find what she`s been missing. So begins her quest. In Rome, she indulges herself and gains nearly two stone. In India, she finds enlightenment through scrubbing temple floors. Finally, in Bali, a toothless medicine man reveals a new path to peace, leaving her ready to love again.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
How do you describe Elsewhere? This is a novel so astoundingly original and carefully crafted that its complexities become common place and the common place resounds with poetry. In this delightful novel death is a beginning, a new start. Liz is killed in a hit a run accident and her `life` takes a very unexpected turn. At nearly sixteen she knows she will never get married, never have children, and perhaps never fall in love. But in Elsewhere all things carry on almost as they did on earth except that the inhabitants get younger, dogs and humans can communicate (at last) new relationships are formed and old ones sadly interrupted on earth are renewed. Full of the most ingenious detail and woven around the most touching and charming...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
The international bestseller and winner of the 1992 Booker Prize The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining patient. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is English, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betrayal. The only clue Hana has to his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire — a copy of The Histories by Herodotus, covered with hand-written notes describing a painful and ultimately tragic love affair.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than the art and practice of imbibing. This new volume brings together the best of his three out-of-print works on the subject: Kingsley Amis in Drink, Everyday Drinking and How`s Your Glass? In one handsome package, the book covers a full shelf of the master`s riotous and erudite thoughts on the drinking arts: Along with a series of well-tested recipes (including a cocktail called the Lucky Jim) are Amis`s musings on The Hangover, The Boozing Man`s Diet, The Mean Sod`s Guide, and (presumably as a matter of speculation) How Not to Get Drunk - all leavened with fun quizzes on the making and drinking of alcohol all over the world. Mixing practical...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
As featured in the first year set texts reading list in Harry Potter and the Philosopher`s Stone, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an extensive introduction to the magical beasts that exist in the magical, non-Muggle world. Some of the animals featured in the A-Z you will have already met in the existing Harry Potter books: for example Hippogriff, Flobberworm, Kappa - others you certainly won`t: read on to find out exactly what a Chizpurfle is, or why one should always beware of the sinister Lethifold ...As Albus Dumbledore says in his introduction, this set text book by Newt Scamander has given the perfect grounding to many a Hogwarts student. It will be helpful to all Muggles out there too ...On reading the book you will also...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
