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A debut literary thriller from an incredible new voice. What do you do when the man who gave you everything turns out to be a killer? Perfect for fans of STATION ELEVEN by Emily St. John Mandel. Trapper was my family even though I didn't know a sure thing about him... Trapper was the kind a' family you choose for yourself, the kind that gets closer'n blood. He was what I chose and I chose wrong. Lost in the harsh forest as a child, Elka was taken in and raised by the man she calls Trapper, the s

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: Voltaire, the French writer who believed in equality for all Charlotte Brontë, the British novelist who wrote Jane Eyre Mark Twain, the American who wrote Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer Jacques Prévert, the writer known in France as 'the People's Poet' Ayn Rand, whose writing expressed her own philosophical ideas Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn who wrote about life in a Soviet Labour Camp BRITISH ENGLISH Word count: 18,787 Headword cou

Stanley Yelnats' family has a history of bad luck, so when a miscarriage of justice sends him to Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention Centre (which isn't green and doesn't have a lake) he is not surprised. Every day he and the other inmates are told to dig a hole, five foot wide by five foot deep, reporting anything they find. Why? The evil warden claims that it's character building, but this is a lie. It's up to Stanley to dig up the truth. Witty, inventive and completely unique, this is a maste

Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest. For heiresses Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of inheritance and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn from her mother and siblings before slavery's end, the pilgrimage westward reignites an agonizing question. Could her long-lost family still be out there? Louisiana, 1987: Arriving in Augustine, Louisiana, first-year teacher Benedetta Silva fi

An irresistible enemies-to-lovers romance about a girl who suddenly has the power to cast karma on the people around her and the lab partner who thwarts her plans and steals her heart, from New York Times-bestselling author Marissa Meyer. Chronic overachiever Prudence Barnett is always quick to cast judgment on the lazy, rude, and arrogant residents of her coastal town. Her dreams of karmic justice are fulfilled when, after a night out with her friends, she wakes up with the sudden ability to c

Young heiress Scarlett Lancaster is turning eighteen and her dad has promised to hire a famous musician for her party . . . Delight turns to disappointment when it's revealed that her dad hired Tate Ramsey, former lead singer of a band that hasn't been popular for years. Tate, after years of alcohol- and drug-fueled partying, is sober and ready for a comeback and blows the audience away with his performance - though Scarlett herself still isn't impressed. But when they talk after he leaves the

'Calling all cars, calling all cars. Here's the story on the Smoke Rise kidnapping. The missing boy is eight years old, fair hair, wearing a red sweater. His name is Jeffry Reynolds, son of Charles Reynolds, chauffeur to Douglas King.' The police at the 87th Precinct hate kidnappers. And these kidnappers are stupid, too. They took the wrong boy - the chauffeur's son instead of the son of the rich tycoon, Douglas King. And they want a ransom of $500,000. A lot of money. But it's not too much to p

When Detective Balthazar Kovacs is called out before dawn to a brothel owned by his brother, he knows it can only be bad news. A customer has died in the brothel's VIP room. Worse still, he's an Arab financier, a guest of government, connected to a massive investment programme that could transform Hungary. It looks like a heart attack - but why has the brothel's CCTV footage been erased? Kovacs knows only too well the treacherous undercurrents that permeate life in Hungary's capital - the dead

Even having hundreds of closed cases to his credit cant keep LAPD police lieutenant Milo Sturgis from agonizing over the crimes that dont get solvedand the victims who go without justice. Victims like Katherine Hennepin, a young woman strangled and stabbed in her home. A single suspect with a solid alibi leads to a dead endone even Alex Delawares expert insight cant explain. The only thing to do is move on to the next murder casebecause theres always a next one. This time the victim is Ursula Co

Celia used to lie for a living. Henry still does. Can they ever trust each other? Six years ago, Henry and Celia were lovers and colleagues, working for the CIA station in Vienna, until terrorists hijacked a plane at the airport. A rescue attempt, staged from the inside, went terribly wrong. Everyone on board was killed. That night has continued to haunt all of those involved; for Henry and Celia, it brought to an end their relationship. Celia decided she'd had enough; she left the agency, marri

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014 Home is a foreign country: they do things differently there ...In a tiny flat in West London, sixteen-year-old Marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother, Laura, and three ancient Hungarian relatives. Imprisoned by her family's crushing expectations and their fierce unEnglish pride, by their strange traditions and stranger foods, she knows she must escape. But the place she runs to makes her feel even

A 17. FINA Világbajnokság alkalmából újra kiadott angol nyelvű Budapest album az eseményhez kapcsolódó kiegészítéssekkel. Az új fotók megörökítik a világbajnokság tiszteletére átmenetileg látható speciális díszkivilágítás mellett a budapesti helyszíneket és megvalósult fejlesztéseket is. A FINA emblémával ellátott külön kiadás életre szóló emlék lehet a világbajnokságot megtekintő sportrajongók számára. A könyv túlmutat egy fotóalbumon. A szerz

Martha,s Vineyard, 1650s: Bethia Mayfield is a young girl growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor, amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless, bright and curious, but denied the education that her brothers receive, she slips away as often as she can to explore the island,s wild landscapes and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At the age of twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the children form a secret friendship that gradually draws each in

Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?

The Diary of Wimpy Kid series of books, by best-selling author Jeff Kinney, charts the highs and lows of our middle school hero, Greg, as he stumbles and fumbles from childhood to teenhood via school-hood. Sometimes helped by his friends and family, often not helped by himself!

Joel is afraid of the future. Since he was a child he's been haunted by dreams about the people he loves. Visions of what's going to happen - the good and the bad. And the only way to prevent them is to never let anyone close to him again. Callie can't let go of the past. Since her best friend died, Callie's been lost. She knows she needs to be more spontaneous and live a bigger life. She just doesn't know how to find a way back to the person who used to have those dreams. Joel and Callie both

Nyelv: Angol, Kötés: Puha kötésű, Oldalszám: 336, Kiadó: Random House Publishing, Autor: Gwenda Bond, ISBN-13: 9781984819604, Kiadás éve: 2019

Nyelv: Angol, Kötés: Puha kötésű, Oldalszám: 336, Kiadó: Penguin Random House Children's UK, Autor: Kevin van Whye, ISBN-13: 9780241435267, Kiadás éve: 2020

Nyelv: Angol, Kötés: Kemény kötésű, Oldalszám: 288, Kiadó: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780750993210, Kiadás éve: 2020

Nyelv: Német, Kötés: Kemény kötésű, Oldalszám: 208, Kiadó: Frech Verlag GmbH, ISBN-13: 9783772448300, Kiadás éve: 2020