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
A charming tale with a touch of monkey mischief by highly-acclaimed author Vivan French, and with glowing, magical illustrations from the best-selling Michael Terry. Ellie and Elvis were best friends. They both liked bananas. They both loved oranges. And they both adored dancing under the light of the But then, one day, things went badly It’s rotten when a misunderstanding threatens to come between two best friends, which is exactly what happens to Ellie and Elvis. When their oranges and bananas go missing, the two elephants start to suspect each other of greedy guzzling. But who is the real culprit? Falling out may be miserable indeed, but how wonderful it is when those valuable friendships are finally restored!
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
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
In this tour de force of interpretative history, David A. Bell explains that Napoleon`s was the first `total` war in European history, when warfare was transformed into the hideous spectacle that seems ever present today. With a historian`s sharp eye for detail, Bell resurrects Napoleonic Europe and brings a new perspective to a period we thought we knew.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
One day, out of the blue, Harriet Bean`s dad says to her, `Your aunts would like to hear about that!` Harriet is shocked - this is the first time she`s heard anything about any aunts, and suddenly, she has five of them! Naturally, she`s very curious to meet them, especially as her dad has told her that they each have a rather special ability (apart from Aunt Majolica who`s just extremely bossy). The trouble is, the family was split up years ago and they all lost touch with one another. Will Harriet be able to reunite her dad with his sisters and enable the family portrait that was started many years ago to finally be completed? She is determined, and starts her quest for the five missing aunts with a trip to the circus.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: март 2012
Violetta and Feste have come to London to rescue the holy relics taken from the church in Illyria by the evil Malvolio. Their journey has been long and their adventures many, but it is not until they meet the playwright William Shakespeare that they get to tell the entire story from beginning to end! But where will this remarkable tale ultimately lead Violetta and her companion? And will they manage to save themselves, and the relics from the very evil intentions of Malvolio.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Dinah and her sister Lisa are growing up in 1950s South Africa, where racial laws are tightening. They are two little girls from a dissenting liberal family. Big sister Lisa is strong and sensible, while Dinah is weedy and arty. At school, the sadistic Mrs Vaughan-Jones is providing instruction in mental arithmetic and racial prejudice. And then there`s the puzzle of lunch break.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2011
It is a sweltering August in Aberystwyth: the bandstand melts, the Pier droops, and Sospan the ice-cream seller experiments with some dangerously avant-garde new flavours. A man wearing a Soviet museum curator`s uniform walks into Louie Knight`s office and spins a wild and impossible tale of love, death, madness and betrayal. Sure, Louie had heard about Hughesovka, the legendary replica of Aberystwyth built in the Ukraine by some crazy nineteenth-century Czar. But he hadn`t believed that it really existed until he met Uncle Vanya. Now the old man`s story catapults him into the neon-drenched wilderness of Aberystwyth Prom in search of a girl who mysteriously disappeared thirty years ago. His life imperilled by snuff philatelists and a...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Jess is in a fix. She has to write a letter to Edouard, her French exchange, before he comes to visit, and her normal ability to write charismatic, charming and seductive letters has deserted her. But there is an even worse problem. She has to send a photo. The idea fills Jess with a special sort of fear. But she has a solution - a digitally enhanced solution - and who better to ask to help than her best mate Fred! Fans will lap up this prequel as it charts Fred and Jess`s relationship - and Jess`s relationships with others - before Fred and Jess actually get together. The whole book sparkles with Sue Limb`s characteristic wit and humour, and will send fans racing to read the rest of the books in the series.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
It`s the Spring break and love is in the air. Or is that a blend of "Chanel No 9" and Gucci Rush? Blair moves in with Serena and they`re back to being best friends. But will the love-fest last or will they end up tearing out one another`s newly highlighted hair? Nate is on the straight and narrow with his crazy girlfriend, Georgie. And Vanessa wait, is that Vanessa shopping at Barneys with a guy in a Lacoste shirt? The long cold winter is over and the sun is finally shining along Fifth Avenue. The trees are in bloom and NYC`s most fabulous are ready for a truly outrageous vacation! Sharp wit, intriguing characters, and high-stakes melodrama drive the action of this wildly popular series.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Also... the moment of truth has finally arrived. Everyone`s back from a week of apres-ski hot tub fun in Sun Valley and cream-coloured envelopes from the Ivy League are beginning to drop all over Fifth Avenue doorsteps. The question is: are the envelopes thick or thin? Has Nate`s devotion to his misbehaving heiress dimmed his chances of getting into Brown? Is Blair too busy daydreaming in Eric`s old pinstriped Oxfords to remember her real mission in life - Yale?? Hopefully Serena can snap her newest-and-oldest best friend out of it. That is, if Serena hasn`t already become too much of a vapid, celery-eating supermodel to even care. But we know that Serena is made of sterner stuff ... don`t we?
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: январь 2011
Read on to catch up with more gossip-licious pleasure from the anonymous narrator who made her catty debut with Gossip Girl and has enthralled readers in the juicy sequels, You Know You Love Me and All I Want is Everything. In Because I`m Worth It, Gossip Girl dishes up more doses of hefty dirt on all her friends - New York`s wealthiest private school teens. In fact, wintertime has never been hotter in NYC as things steam up all over Fifth Avenue. Sharp wit, intriguing characters, and high-stakes melodrama drive the action of this wildly popular series.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: январь 2011
From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein`s regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran tells the memorable story of this ill-prepared attempt to build American democracy in a war-torn Middle Eastern country, detailing not only the risky disbanding of the Iraqi army and the ludicrous attempt to train the new police force, but absurdities such as the aide who based Baghdad`s new traffic laws on those of the state of Maryland, downloaded from the net, and the twenty-four-year-old who had never worked in finance put in charge of revitalising Baghdad`s stock exchange. This is...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Imagine if you were able to change history. By altering one tiny thing you could start a chain of catastrophic events. Ethan is one of the Named, fated to stop this ever happening, although the forces of chaos have other ideas and Ethan is finding it more and more difficult to stay one step ahead. He is also a normal schoolboy, whose life is rapidly becoming far too confusing. So when Isabel arrives on the scene she is only going to make matters is she? This is history in the making - literally.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
In this ravishing tale of sexual and textual obsession, the young unnamed narrator sets forth from Cambridge on a quest. He is to rescue the subject of his doctoral research, Paul Michel, the brilliant but mad writer, from incarceration in a mental institution in France. What ensues is a drama of terrible intimacy and tenderness played out one hot and humid summer in Paris and in the south of France. Hallucinating Foucault is a literary thriller that explores with consummate mastery the passionate relationship between reader and writer, between the factual and the fictional, between sanity and madness. In blurring these boundaries, Patricia Duncker has written a novel of astonishing power and beauty.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Harriet is invited to help her detective aunts, Thessalonika and Japonica, investigate serious cheating in the world of horse racing. Initially excited by this prospect, Harriet quickly begins to regret getting involved. Will Harriet overcome her fears and find out who is causing Mr Fetlock`s horses to lose all their races? Hold on tight for this bumpy ride!
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Harry can`t wait for his holidays with the dire Dursleys to end. But a small, self-punishing house-elf warns Harry of mortal danger awaiting him at Hogwarts School. Returning to the castle nevertheless, Harry hears a rumour about a chamber of secrets, holding unknown horrors for wizards of Muggle parentage. Now someone is casting spells that paralyse people, making them seem dead, and a terrible warning is found painted on the wall. The chief suspect - and always in the wrong place - is Harry. But something much darker has yet to be unleashed.
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: февраль 2011
Harry Potter, along with his best friends, Ron and Hermione, is about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry can`t wait to get back to school after the summer holidays. (Who wouldn`t if they lived with the horrible Dursleys?) But when Harry gets to Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. There`s an escaped mass murderer on the loose, and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school ... A fantastic story featuring Harry and his friends from the spellbinding
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
