What event could unite the world in peace - or in war? From the bestselling author of The Last Templar. A remote shelf in the Arctic circle. A small TV crew is braving the harsh conditions to film the breaking off of a major ice shelf - yet another nail in the planet\''s eco-coffin. Then someone calls ...
Grounded equally in discussions of theater history, literary genre, and theory, Martin Puchner''s Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama explores the conflict between avant-garde theater and modernism. While the avant-garde celebrated all things theatrical, a dominant strain of modernism ...
In Back to Work, Bill Clinton addresses the urgent economic challenges facing the United States and offers a plan to get America "back into the future business." He details how to get out of the current economic crisis and lay a foundation for long-t erm prosperity, offering specific recommendations ...
Summer With My Sister is a fascinating tale of family secrets and hidden rivalries by bestselling author Lucy Diamond. Polly has always been the high-flier of the family, with the glamorous city lifestyle to match. Clare is a single mum with two children, struggling to make ends meet in a ramshackle ...
Danger. Betrayal. Destiny. Passion. The superb sequel to BLOOD RED ROAD, winner of the Costa Children\''s Book Award 2011. Saba has rescued her kidnapped brother and defeated the fanatical Tonton. But the price to be paid for her violent victory is terrible. Jack has disappeared - and can no longer be ...
Thrill hoch 10!- Worte können lügen. Knochen nicht. Das vermisste Mädchen hat Tempe Brennan nie vergessen. Auch wenn es damals noch kein Fall für sie war. Tempe war 13 Jahre alt, als ihre beste Freundin Evangéline ohne Abschied spurlos verschwand. Nun liegen Jahre alte Knochen eines weiblichen Teenagers ...
''''I took up with Hindi at a time when it seemed my life had buckled out from under me - I no longer had the language to describe my own life. So I decided I''''d borrow someone else''''s''''. Having survived a serious illness and now at an impasse in her career, Rich spontaneously accepts a freelance ...
Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summers at Tiger House, the glorious old family estate on the island of Martha''''s Vineyard. As World War II ends they are on the cusp of adulthood, the world seeming to offer itself up to them. Helena is leaving for Hollywood and a new marriage, ...
This pack contains 12 cool vampire stickers from three cutting-edge artists: Nebojsa Matkovic is a freelance graphic designer from Novi Sad, Serbia; Citizen Panic is a skateboarding-inspired illustrator from Belgium; Iain Burke loves classic horror and is based in Brooklyn, New York City. These extra-large ...
This book teaches pre-schoolers how to describe size simply by having them ask the question ‘Who’s the biggest?’ to the pair of objects on every spread. The fun….
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf’s own joyful holidays of her youth. But as ...
Following on from the success of Pom-Pom Puppies (9780545561648), children can make their own fuzzy friends with Mini Pom-Pom Pets! Children can use a fork to make up to 20 perfect petite pets with pom-poms, including a fox, a chick, a kitten and an owl, and adorn them with eyes, ears, noses and tails! ...
Are we living through the great derangement of our times? In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of ''woke'' culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively, razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment: sexuality, gender, technology and race, ...
Zack and Lara have superpowers. Luke has new school shoes and a burning sense of resentment. He KNOWS that aliens disguised as gym teachers are about to attack Earth but will anyone listen? No. So one dodgy pact with a self-styled supervillain later, and Luke is ready to save the world. He just needs ...
This is a fascinating flap book packed with interesting information about cars, from how the first automobiles were invented, to how speedy racing cars get around tracks. Each of the seven double-page spreads have several flaps to lift, many with double flaps, and several of them also have fun paper ...
Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, ''A Room of One''s Own'' interweaves Woolf''s personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen and Bronte to Shakespeare''s gifted (and imaginary) sister. ''Three Guineas'', Woolf''s most impassioned polemic, came ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. \''Fifteen men on the dead man\''s chest -Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!\'' Upon finding a map in his parents\'' inn, young Jim Hawkins joins a crew on route to the Caribbean to find buried treasure. One of his crew, the ...
This book is set in Miami, 1981. When Detective Max Mingus and his partner Joe are called to the scene of a death at Miami''s Primate Park, it looks like another routine - if slightly bizarre - investigation. Until two things turn up: the victim''s family, slaughtered; and a partly digested tarot card ...
