Lucy Marinn is a glass artist living in beautiful, inspiring Friday Harbour, Washington. Creatively fulfilled and in love, she is content with her life, until she is stunned by the worst kind of betrayal: her boyfriend Kevin announces he\'s leaving Lucy to be with her younger sister. Facing the disapproval of Lucy\'s parents, Kevin asks his friend Sam Nolan, one of the owners of the Rainshadow vineyard,

When Henrietta Tate lost her first love, Rupert, she fell into the comforting arms of her boss, Marcus. Now married to him and with two children, Henny has always believed the family comes first and is delighted to stay home and prove it. But all too soon Lily and Angus are away at school and home life becomes a little less than stimulating. Popping to London to act as PA to a famous TV historian sounds

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student\'s capabilities. Joe lives in Canada, in a beautiful, quiet place. His peace is interrupted one day by the noise of bulldozers excavating near his house. He is told that it\'s a diamond mine. Joe is a journalist

At a derelict port in Stockholm, two brutally murdered men are found by a security guard. In the same area a young woman, Aida, is on the run from a deranged gunman. Meanwhile, journalist Annika Bengtzon is approached by a woman wanting her story published in the Evening Post. She claims to have founded an organization to erase people\'s pasts - giving vulnerable individuals a completely new identity.

The activities in Dominoes keep students engaged in the stories and help to reinforce their understanding of the key language. They can be completed at home or in class. The project activities in Dominoes build on the themes from the story and encourage s

Rich, witty and moving, I Remember You is for anyone who likes to dream about a new life -- and for anyone who still remembers their first love! For Tess Tennant, spring brings the promise of a fresh start. She\'s moving back to her picture-perfect home to

Five toasts. Five people. One lifetime. \'This is how you tell a story\' Cecelia Ahern \'An extraordinary novel, a poetic writer, and a story that moved me to tears.\' John Boyne \'I\'m here to remember - all that I have been and all that I will never be again.\' At the bar of a grand hotel in a small Irish town sits 84-year-old Maurice Hannigan. He\'s alone, as usual -though tonight is anything but.

\'A kind of magical realism for science fiction... Quite, quite brilliant\' Tor Part pulp adventure, part otherworldly meditation, this is the story of Trafalgar Medrano: intergalactic trader and lover of bitter coffee and black cigarettes. In the bars and cafes of Rosario, Argentina, he recounts tall tales of his space escapades - involving, among other things, time travel and dancing troglodytes.

Richard Misrach, one of today\'s most prolific contemporary masters, is internationally renowned for his carefully considered, beautifully rendered epic works. In On the Beach, a lavishly produced, oversized monograph that features the long-awaited publication of this spectacular series, Misrach hones in on our delicate relationship to the sea.Light, color, and form are crucial components in Misrach\'s

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men in the fictional town of Mugsborough, and socialist journeyman-prophet Frank Owen who attempts to convince his fellow workers that capitalism is the real source of the poverty all around them. Owen\'s spirited attacks on the greed and dishonesty of the capitalist system, and support for a socialist society in which work

This is a collection of 45 Tokyo street fashion portraits from Japan\'s premier fanzine. \"Fruits\" was established in 1994, by photographer Shoich Aoki, initially as a project to document the growing explosion in street fashion within the suburbs of Tokyo. The magazine has since grown to cult status and is now avidly followed by thousands of Japanese teenagers who also use the magazine as an opportunity

This witty and irreverent collection of essays presents Eco\'s playful but unfailingly accurate takes on everything from militarism, computer jargon, Westerns, librarians and bureaucrats to meals on airplanes, Amtrak trains, bad coffee, express mail, fax machines and pornography. An uncanny combination of the profound and the profane.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí,

This is a collection of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons. It contains Yukon Ho! and Weirdos from Another Planet as an omnibus edition, but also a story that has not been in print before. Bill Watterson won the 1986 Reuben Award as Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.

Faith Zanetti doesn\'t much care who put the bomb on flight TAA67, the plane that blew up over the tiny Scottish village of Cairbridge twenty-five years ago. Wasn\'t it those Libyan blokes who went to prison for it? For a woman whose comfort zone is a war zone it seems like the boring assignment from hell. But as the conspiracy theories start seeming less theoretical and the threats get increasingly

Social media platforms do not just circulate political ideas, they support manipulative disinformation campaigns. While some of these disinformation campaigns are carried out directly by individuals, most are waged by software, commonly known as bots, programmed to perform simple, repetitive, robotic tasks. Some social media bots collect and distribute legitimate information, while others communicate

Factfiles\" are a sub-series of \"Bookworms\" with a non-fiction angle, providing factual information for students on a wide variety of themes. Exercises at the back of each book check students\' understanding of the text and provide ideas for activities and project work.\"

THE OFFICIAL NOVELIZATION TO THE MOTION PICTURE \"GHOST IN THE SHELL\" FROM PARAMOUNT PICTURES, DREAMWORKS PICTURES AND RELIANCE ENTERTAINMENT. Based on the internationally-acclaimed sci-fi property, \"GHOST IN THE SHELL\" follows the Major, a special ops one-of-a-kind human-cyborg hybrid, who leads the elite task force Section 9. Devoted to stopping the most dangerous criminals and extremists, Section

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Step into Limehouse Wharf, the new, uber-luxury apartment building in Canary Wharf, where celebrities who have had \'work \'done can hole up until they have healed and which is about to see its most glamorous and scandalous Christmas yet. Staying there over the festive period is Melody Down, an actress whose career is in tatters after too much plastic surgery and who has fled back home from LA to get