An irresistible return to the captivating world of Elfhame from bestselling Folk of the Air author Holly Black, with stunning full-colour illustrations by Rovina Cai. Once upon a time, there was a boy with a wicked tongue... Before he was a cruel prince or a wicked king, he was a faerie child with a heart of stone. The No. 1 Bestselling author Holly Black takes a deeper look into the dramatic life of Elfhame's enigmatic High King, Cardan, told only from his perspective. This new instalment in th "Folk of the Air" series is a return to the heart-racing romance, danger, humour and drama that haveenchanted ... |
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A hilarious, groundbreaking young adult novel for anyone who's ever called themselves a feminist and anyone who hasn't. For fans of Louise O'Neill, Holly Bourne and Amy Schumer. Izzy O'Neill here! Impoverished orphan, aspiring comedian and Slut Extraordinaire, if the gossip sites are anything to go by. Izzy never expected to be eighteen and internationally reviled. But when explicit photos involving her, a politician's son and a garden bench are published online, the trolls set out to take her apart. Armed with best friend Ajita and a metric ton of nachos, she tries to laugh it off - but as the daily ... |
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The award-winning author of The hate u give returns with a powerful story about hip hop, freedom of speech and fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are stacked against you. Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri's got massive shoes to fill. But when her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, Bri finds herself at the centre of controversy and portrayed by the media as more menace than MC. And with an eviction notice staring her family down, Bri no longer just wants to make it - she has to. Even if ... |
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Illustrated by Janos Jantner. ... William Shakespeare's romantic comedy about love and marriage. When four young lovers get lost in the forest, the fairies who live there play jokes on them - turning love into hate and hate into love. A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays and is still performed across the world. This Macmillan Reader is written as a playscript and includes original extracts from a Midsummer Night's Dream. This book is in British English. Here you can find: notes about the life of William Shakespeare; notes about the story; points for understanding ... |
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He`s the one, she loves to hate. ... NEMESIS [n]: a long-standing rival; an arch-enemy; a person's undoing; Joshua Templeman. Lucy Hutton, baker-of-cakes, exemplary assistant and professional "nice girl", is waging war. She's got the whole office on her side - except for tall, dark and charmless Joshua Templeman. He's been nothing but hostile since the moment they met and now it feels like nothing matters as much as taking him down. Trapped together under the fluorescent lights, they become entrenched in an addictive rivalry. There's the Staring Game, The Mirror Game, The HR Game. Lucy ... |
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„Емоционалното изнудване” е могъща форма на манипулация, при която близките ни заплашват да ни накажат за това, че не постъпваме, както те искат. Те познавата слабите ни места и най-дълбоките ни тайни. Това може да са родителите или партньорите ни, шефовете или колегите, приятелите или любовниците. Без значение колко им пука за нас, те използват тази вътрешна информация, за да получат това, което искат: нашето подчинение. В книгата авторът на бестселъри С. Форуърд прави дисекция на анатомията на взаимоотношенията, увредени от манипулация, за да даде на жертвите на изнудването инструментите, от които се нуждаят, за да се ... |
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След огромния успех на дебютния си албум "Let Them Talk", в който отдаде почит и съживи класики от света на блуса от Ню Орлиънс, Хю Лор издаде своя втори албум "Didn’t It Rain". В "Didn’t It Rain" Хю Лори се отдалечава от звука на Ню Орлиънс, като следва траекторията на блуса от района на Централна Америка. В албума са включени песни, които връщат назад във времето на пионерите в жанра като W.C. Handy ("St Louis. Blues") и Джели Рол Мортън ("I Hate A Man Like You"), като същевременно хвърля поглед и към някои съвременни изпълнители като Д-р Джон ("Wild Honey") и ... |
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Издаден през септември 1996 г., "Bilingual" е шестият студиен албум на "Pet Shop Boys". Той влиза в топ 5 във Великобритания и включва 5 сингъла, от които всички влизат в топ 20. Както и останали албуми на групата, "Bilingual" е повлиян от различни стилова, включително музиката на Латинска Америка. Албумът е записан от "Pet Shop Boys" с "Danny Tenaglia" и "Chris Porter", и има платинен сертификат в Испания и златен във Великобритания. Това преиздание на албума включва "Further Listening" с бонус парчета и неиздавани досега версии на "Discoteca& ... |
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The greatest war novel of all time. ... Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other - if only he can come out of the war alive. "The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably ... |
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Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles are non-fiction graded readers from the Oxford Bookworms Library available for Levels 1 to 4 (CEFR A1 - B2). Students learn about different countries and cultures, science and nature, history and historical figures all while practising and improving their English. It is more than forty years since the Great Train Robbery. But what happened to the rest of the money that was taken? Two million pounds has never been found. Perhaps some of the robbers would like to know the answer to this question too... Many great crimes end in a question. Who really killed President Kennedy? What happened ... |
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