When a suspected Nazi war criminal demands sanctuary from his church, Father Anselm finds his subsequent investigation paralleled by a search by Lucy Aubret, whose grandmother was betrayed by the Nazi criminal when she secretly worked to rescue Jewish children. A first novel. Reprint.
After returning home from their latest adventure, Mallory, Jared, and Simon find Mulgarath, an ogre and leader the goblins, has taken captive their mother along with Uncle Arthur's field guide.
Practice English with the popular Spiderwick Chronicles. Twins Jared and Simon, along with their sister Mallory, discover they're not alone in their aunt's old house. They seek to uncover the mystery, but goblins, trolls, fairies, and elves do everything to stop them. Each volume includes a vocabulary list and a guide for parents and teachers.
A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from international sensation Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You and The Giver of StarsWho are you when you are forced to walk in someone else's shoes?Meet Sam . . .She's not got much, but she's grateful for what she has: a job she's just about clinging on to and a family who depend on her for everything. She knows she's one bad day away from losing it all - and just hopes today isn't it . . .Meet Nisha . . .She's got everything she always dreamed of - and more: a phenomenally rich husband; an international lifestyle; and . . . she's just been locked out of all of it after her husband initiates divorce proceedings . . .Sam and Nisha should never have crossed paths. But after a bag mix-up at the gym, their lives become intertwined - even as they spiral out of control.Each blames the other as they feel increasingly invisible, forgotten, lost - and desperately alone.But they're not.No woman is an island. Look around. Family. Friends. Strangers.Even the woman you believe just ruined your life might turn out to be your best friend.Because together you can do anything - like take back what is yours . . .
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the international bestselling Spiderwick Chronicles and get ready for the series soon to be streaming on Disney+ with the second installment in the adventures of the Grace children. Thanks to the mysterious field guide left behind by their long-lost great-great-uncle, Arthur Spiderwick, life for the Grace kids - Jared, Simon and Mallory - is beyond weird. When Simon goes missing, Jared is certain creatures from the faerie world have something to do with it. Mallory is not convinced. That is, until she and Jared contend with a band of menacing goblins. Simon is clearly in danger, and it's up to Mallory and Jared to save him before it's too late.
Ovo je druga knjiga sage o Amberu. Nakon bijega iz tamnice, Corwin skuplja vojsku za povratak u Amber. No, demonske horde Kaosa, podignute njegovim prokletstvom pretvoriše braću, zaklete neprijatelje, u saveznike. Nakon odlučujuće borbe za Amber, lijepa zagonetna Dara najavljuje Corwinu da teški dani za Amber tek dolaze...
The #1 Sunday Times bestselling author delivers a fresh, contemporary tale centered on a woman and her unruly blended family. Lila, who once wrote a bestseller on marriage, faces the reality of her ex-husband happily co-parenting with another woman she encounters daily at school pick-up. Bill, her stepdad, is kind but drives her nuts after moving in following her mother's death. Lila's eldest daughter, Celie, despises school so much that she's stopped attending, while Violet, her nine-year-old, delights in age-inappropriate rap songs and fart jokes. Their lives take a turn when Gene, Lila's estranged father, unexpectedly shows up, bringing chaos and unexpected changes. His presence sparks a connection with the girls, who find a kindred spirit in him, and even Bill begins to loosen up. Astonishingly, Lila starts dating again. As the Kennedy household transforms, it raises the question of whether these changes will ultimately break or strengthen their family. The story is filled with warmth, humor, and wisdom, showcasing the complexities of family dynamics and the power of female friendship.
With music pulsing on every page, "A Visit from the Goon Squad" is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.
La quatrième de couverture indique : " There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed ...On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt"
Born in East Africa, Yusuf has few qualms about the journey he is to make. It never occurs to him to ask why he is accompanying Uncle Aziz or why the trip has been organised so suddenly, and he does not think to ask when he will be returning. But the truth is that his 'uncle' is a rich and powerful merchant and Yusuf has been pawned to him to pay his father's debts. Paradise is a rich tapestry of myth, dreams and Biblical and Koranic tradition, the story of a young boy's coming of age against the backdrop of an Africa increasingly corrupted by colonialism and violence.
: The Girl You Left Behind is a hauntingly romantic and utterly irresistible new weepy from Jojo Moyes, author of the Richard and Judy bestseller, Me Before You. What happened to the girl you left behind? France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored husband Edouard fights at the front. When she is ordered to serve the German officers who descend on her hotel each evening, her home becomes riven by fierce tensions. And from the moment the new Kommandant sets eyes on Sophie's portrait - painted by Edouard - a dangerous obsession is born, which will lead Sophie to make a dark and terrible decision. Almost a century later, and Sophie's portrait hangs in the home of Liv Halston, a wedding gift from her young husband before he died. A chance encounter reveals the painting's true worth, and its troubled history.
Destined delivers all the romance and action that fans expect as it brings Aprilynne Pike’s Wings series to a deeply satisfying conclusion. Laurel used to think she was an ordinary girl from Crescent City, California. She never would have believed she was truly a faerie from a realm called Avalon. Now Laurel must risk her life to save Avalon from destruction by Yuki—a rare and powerful Winter faerie—and troll-hunter Klea. But Laurel won’t have to fight alone; David and Tamani, two boys she loves in different ways, will be by her side, along with her best friend, Chelsea. Readers of the Need and Graceling series will want to follow Laurel’s story from its beginning in Wings to its heart-stopping end in Destined.
Miles Vorkosigan is the leader of a fast growing mercenary force and the hero of an all-out space battle. At the end of the conflict, he heads a fleet of 19 ships and 3,000 troops. The only problem is, it is treason--as in, a hanging offense--to command a private army.
"Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks is buried in an unmarked grave. Her family did not learn of her "immortality" until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. The story of the Lacks family is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of"--Publisher's description
Myth Conceptions
Books One and Two of Asprin's bestselling Myth series are now together in this two-in-one omnibus. In Another Fine Myth, Skeeve's master is murdered, and now this apprentice magician must deal with Aahz, a powerless demon summoned by the old magician as a joke. And in Myth Conceptions, Skeeve auditions for court magician at the court of Rodrick and, unfortunately, gets the job.
“This book is the real story.” —Robby Krieger“[John] Densmore's is the first Doors biography that feels like it was written for the right reasons, and it is easily the most informed account of the Doors' brief but brilliant life as a group. . . . Densmore is a fluent, articulate writer who both comprehends the Doors' unearthly power and is on familiar terms with their antecdedents in literature, theater, and myth.” — Rolling Stone“Well-written and touching . . . tells it all and tells it honestly.” — The New York Times Book Review“John Densmore's Riders of the Storm is as good an account of the history of the Doors as has been printed to date.” — USA Today“ Riders on the Storm is very enjoyable, especially its homespun and self-experienced insights. John Densmore is a survivor and a seeker.” —Oliver Stone
Nao lives in Tokyo. She is sixteen, and has decided to write a diary before she kills herself. She has plenty of material-school bullies, depressed parents-but she particularly wants to chronicle the life of her great-grandmother, Jiko, a Buddhist nun. And eventually, Nao thinks, her diary will find its reader. Ruth lives with her husband on the Pacific coast of Canada. A few months after the 2010 tsunami she finds a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore. It contains a diary.
Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night that his grandfather leaves it. But not before his grandfather has predicted that there will be five dark days in the life of his grandson - five dates whose terrible events Jimmy will have to prepare himself to face.
The sequel to the million-copy bestseller &i;>The Miniaturist&/i>, &i;>The House of Fortune&/i> returns us to the mysterious Brandt family in Amsterdam in 1705 for a story of fate and ambition, secrets and dreams, and one young womans determination to rule her own destiny.
After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor. Louisa Clark is struggling without him. When an accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she cannot help but feel she is right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life
Nell, at twenty-six, has never visited Paris or gone on a weekend trip with her boyfriend, highlighting her lack of adventurous spirit.
Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on a London housing estate. The second best runner in the whole of Year 7, Harri races through his new life in his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat all around him. With equal fascination for the local gang - the Dell Farm Crew - and the pigeon who visits his balcony, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of his new life in England: watching, listening, and learning the tricks of inner-city survival. But when a boy is knifed to death on the high street and a police appeal for witnesses draws only silence, Harri decides to start a murder investigation of his own. In doing so, he unwittingly endangers the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to try and keep them safe. A story of innocence and experience, hope and harsh reality, Pigeon English is a spellbinding portrayal of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape the way he falls.
This is the story of a donkey named Beatrice and a monkey named Virgil.It is also the story of an extraordinary journey undertaken by a man named Henry. It begins with a mysterious parcel, and it ends in a place that will make you think again about one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. Once you have finished reading it, it is impossible to forget.
Treći nastavak Zelaznyjevih Amberskih kronika otkriva naznake novog paralelnog svijeta koji prijeti uništenjem Ambera. Corwin - glavno lice romana i vladar u Amberu - pokušat će otkriti prirodu nepoznatih uljeza, dok se u isto vrijeme bori protiv zavjere svoje braće i sestara da ga svrgnu s prijestolja.
Zbirka novela Granice vječnosti, u prijevodu Mihaele Velina, Martine Gračanin i Vide Lapaine s ilustracijom Esada T. Ribića sedma je knjiga u seriji Avanture Milesa Vorkosigana u nakladi “Algoritma”. U tri novele koje opisuju ključne događaje iz rane faze pustolovina Milesa Vorkosigana, mladi Miles morat će se prvo suočiti s predrasudama brđana koji obitavaju u zabiti okruga Vorkosigan. Jednog dana Miles će biti njihov nominalni vladar - Vor, ali sada za njih je samo degenerični mutant. Kako riješiti tajnu čedomorstva i istovremeno promijeniti predrasude svojih podanika? Ova novela dobitnik je Huga, Nebule i Locusa. U drugoj avanturi Miles će dobiti nalog da iz dobro čuvanog laboratorija na Jacksonovu Skrovištu izvuče vrhunskog znanstvenika. U toj naizgled jednostavnoj operaciji za Slobodne dendariijske plaćenike Miles će na vlastitoj koži osjetiti kako ni jedan ratni plan ne može izdržati dulje od prvog susreta s neprijateljem. Admiral Naismith naći će se oči u oči sa svojim najlukavijim protivnikom. U trećoj noveli Slobodni dendariijski plaćenici dobit će naizgled nemogući zadatak. Kako iz logora za ratne zarobljenike na Dagooli IV osloboditi deset tisuća zatočenika? Vojni genij admirala Naismitha bit će stavljen na ozbiljnu kušnju. Direktan napad ne dolazi u obzir. Miles će se odlučiti za proboj iznutra.