It`s springtime - hundreds of Crows set out on their yearly migration and converge at the Gathering Tree. This sacred Gathering is an opportunity for the six crow Clans of the Family Kinaar to assemble, to make decisions and to celebrate being together. But when young blood is lost, sacred laws are tested as an illegal Mob seeks revenge, and a schism threatens the unity of the flock. The Family`s situation is made yet more precarious when a severe blizzard hits and the Crows are faced with the dilemma of where to find shelter. Breaking age-old decrees and working together may offer their only chance of survival. Here is a startling view of the world from a bird`s-eye perspective, complete with its own set of beliefs, mythologies and...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
I loved my native city, but how I longed to escape, to go to America - a land full of eligible Daria is an intelligent, bilingual secretary who should have her pick of the men in Odessa - except that the only men who are making advances are a dashing mafia gangster and her boss. Fearful that she'll be fired for refusing to sleep her way to the top, she decides to moonlight at Soviet Unions(t), an international marriage broker. But as she bridges the language gap between Odessan beauties and lonely American men she wonders if she will ever escape the trappings of Ukrainian life and find true love. When she intercepts a message from a mild-mannered teacher, e-mails fly back and forth across the Atlantic. Daria soon finds herself much...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Gordon is frustrated that Ted, the school bully, gets away with pushing people around - including Gordon! So when he spots an advertisement for Mr World`s muscle machine, he`s immediately curious and decides to send off for one. `Don`t be impatient` says the instruction booklet that comes with the machine. `Muscles don`t grow in one day. Take it bit by bit and you`ll be surprised at what happens!` And indeed he is. In fact, Gordon`s surprise, as well as his muscles, just keeps on growing!
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
You Can`t Catch Me and You Can`t Put Mustard in the Custard were first published twenty-five years ago and were groundbreaking in that they were full-colour illustrated new poems for children. You Can`t Catch Me won the Signal Poetry Award in 1982. Both books went on to be bestsellers and both poet and artist are stellar names in the world of children`s books. The book includes an introduction by Michael Rosen and an audio CD of the book, with all the poems also read by Michael. Michael`s brilliantly conversational poetry is fantastically matched by Quentin Blake`s loopy yet perfectly detailed art. It is a partnership that Bloomsbury is proud to be making newly available.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
In fin-de-siecle Copenhagen, part-time prostitute Charlotte and her lumpen sidekick, Fru Schleswig, have taken on jobs as cleaning ladies of dubious talent to tide them over the harsh winter of 1897. But the home of their neurotic new employer, the widow Krak, soon reveals itself to be riddled with dark secrets - including the existence of a demonic machine rumoured to swallow people alive. Rudely catapulted into twenty-first-century London, the hapless duo discover a whole new world of glass, labour-saving devices and hectic, impossible romance.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2012
When the young Ian Wharton first meets Mr Broadhurst, he is completely unaware of the influence he will come to exert over his life as `The Fat Controller` - a constant companion and confidant and also the obese, erudite manifestation of Ian` s mental illness. As Ian`s idea of fun becomes increasingly extreme, the reader is taken to a place where morality is eroded by the dull grind of modernity and everything becomes admissable.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Solange has always known she is a vampire. And` as the only female vampire ever born, not initiated, she is surrounded by danger on all sides - from other vampire tribes who want to take her blood into their lineage, and from the bounty hunters who are set on destroying her and her family. When she is kidnapped, it`s up to her elder brother, Nicholas, and best friend, Lucy, to save her. But can Lucy save herself from Nichol as, who tempts with every look - what will be her own fate if she surrenders her heart to a vampire?
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2011
It`s 1984 and one of the hottest summers Yorkshire`s seen. It`s the kind of woozy heat to lose your mind in. Mona is fifteen years old. She`s a drinker, a thief and a fruit machine addict. Things are already going badly in the pub where she lives with her obese step-brother PorkChop. But when Mona meets posh Tamsin Fakenham, a sassy girl with beautiful breasts, an actress mother and a sister who`s died of starvation, things very quickly get much worse.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Mr and Mrs Brown are always having great difficulty with their numerous and incredibly naughty children. They try all the agencies but the nurses, governesses and nannies never stay long with the Brown children. `The person you want is Nurse Matilda`, they are told. And when Nurse Matilda does arrive very strange things begin to happen. Brought together in one volume are the three remarkable tales of Nurse Matilda - Nurse Matilda, Nurse Matilda Goes to Town and Nurse Matilda Goes to Hospital. Having delighted generations of readers since their first publication in the sixties, the books have now formed the inspiration for the newly-released and fabulous Nanny McPhee, written and adapted for the big screen by Emma Thompson who stars as...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Zara collects phobias the way other high school girls collect Facebook friends. Little wonder, since she`s had a pretty rough life. Her father left when she was a baby, and her stepfather just died. Her mother`s pretty much checked out - in fact, she`s sent her to live with her grandmother in cold and sleepy Maine to `keep Zara safe`. Whatever that means. Zara doesn`t think she`s in danger; she thinks her mother just can`t deal. Zara`s wrong. The man she sees everywhere - the tall, creepy guy who points at her from the side of the road - is not a figment of her imagination. He`s a pixie. But not the cute, sweet kind with little wings. Maine`s got a whole assortment of unbelievable creatures. And they seem to need something - something from
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2011
We`re nearly done with high school - forever! - but before we head off to the Ivy of our choice we`ve got plenty to keep us busy: В found S kissing N in the shower. Steamy! Even В can see that S and N would make the hottest couple ever, right? Wrong. B`s about to strut down the revenge runway, and I have a front row seat. Time to hide behind my oversized Chanel sunglasses to watch the show...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
When Kate first sees Jarrod she senses that he is special and that like her, he has magical powers. But she also knows he is completely unaware of his gift and will be difficult to persuade. Kate`s grandmother realises that Jarrod and his family have an ancient curse placed upon them which they must tackle before Jarrod`s life, along with the lives of his parents and little brother, can become happy, peaceful and free of the troubles that have plagued them. He must learn to use his gift, and when he does, Kate and Jarrod find themselves in a time hundreds of years old, and very far from home pitched in the greatest battle of their lives. A fabulous book with the perfect combination of pace, intrigue, suspense, utterly entrancing...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
One May evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter and a split-second decision, a young climatologist called Adam Kindred loses everything - home, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, mobile phone - never to get them back. Adam has no choice. The police and a ruthless hit man are after him. So he goes underground, joining the ranks of the disappeared that throng London's lowest levels as he struggles to understand how his life has unravelled so spectacularly. His journey of discovery will take him along the River Thames, from affluent Chelsea to the sink estates of the East End. On the way he will encounter aristocrats, prostitutes, evangelists and a policewoman - and version after new version of himself.
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Hunter Wild, vampire hunter and star pupil at a top secret slayer academy, has a crush on a guy called Quinn. He's tall, dark and very handsome. He's also a vampire, and one of the infamous Drake brothers at that. As if forbidden love wasn't bad enough, something strange is also happening at the Helios-Ra academy. Vampire attacks are increasing, students are mysteriously falling ill and the teachers seem completely clueless. It's up to Hunter and her friends to put things right . . . that is, if she can get a certain immortal out of her head long enough to think about anything else.
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
What drives two young women from such different backgrounds to take to the perilous life of piracy? What has befallen Nancy Kington and Minerva Sharpe that makes this existence better than the one they left behind? In this vivid, exciting and completely gripping novel read the remarkable adventures of two girls, one a merchant`s daughter and the other a runaway slave, as they sail the high seas, fight for their lives and search for their loves.
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: январь 2013
The fictional world of Will Self is unlike any other. In "The Quantity Theory of Insanity" we learn, amongst other things, the dark and terrible secret of Ward 9, why you are right to think that London is full of dead people and that each and every human being is caught up in a colossal balancing act between the sane and the insane. "The Quantity Theory of Insanity" is acerbic, satirical, hilarious and, most of all, utterly unique in imaginative vision.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Did you know that: there are 700 ways of committing a foul in Quidditch? The game first began to evolve on Queerditch Marsh? What Bumphing is? That Puddlemere United is oldest team in the Britain and Ireland league? (founded 1163) All this information and much more could be yours once you have read this book: this is all you could ever need to know about the history, the rules - and the breaking of the rules - of the noble wizarding sport of Quidditch.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox's main concern is to rebuild her career as a psychologist after a shattering car accident. But when she is assigned Bethany Krall - violent, delusional and insistent that she can foresee natural disasters - she begins to fear she has made a terrible mistake. When catastrophes begin to occur on the very dates Bethany has predicted, the apocalyptic puzzle intensifies and the stakes multiply. A haunting story of human passion and burning faith, "The Rapture" is an electrifying psychological thriller that explores the dark extremes of mankind's self-destruction in a world on the brink.
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2011
