When Tiffany Aching - young witch - steps into a dance she shouldn\'t, the spirit of winter falls in love with her. He gives her roses and icebergs, says it with avalanches and showers her with snowflakes - and suddenly winter is all around her. All the time. With the help of the Nac Mac Feegle, first met in The Wee Free Men, and a bit of advice from witches Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, Tiffany

A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the imag e of a terrifying beast. As the boys\' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their

Charles Saatchi founded the Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency in 1970, which grew to become the largest of its kind in the world. At the same time he started collecting art and, later, opened his first gallery in London. He championed young British artists, such as Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst, and became a major figure on the international art scene. For someone so influential, he\'s surprisingly

An exotic holiday for Miss Marple is ruined when a retired major is killed...As Jane Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old soldier\'s yarn about a strange coincidence. Infuriatingly, just as he was about to show her an astonishing

The stunning YA debut from internationally bestselling author Cecelia Ahern. Celestine North lives a perfect life. She\'s a model daughter and sister, she\'s well-liked by her classmates and teachers, and she\'s dating the impossibly charming Art Crevan. But then Celestine encounters a situation in which she makes an instinctive decision. She breaks a rule and now faces life-changing repercussions.

Space is a huge topic, but this friendly book breaks it down into bite-sized chunks, making it an accessible introduction for anyone who wants to find out about this fascinating subject. Highly illustrated, in a pictorial, \'infographics\' style, with snippets of information about all aspects of Space exploration and the science of the Universe. Illustrations: Full colour throughout

Retired Detroit police officer Joe Salk was a good cop, but after a little girl\'s murder, his wife left him because of his obsession to find her killers. Now completely alone, his need for revenge might just be helped by the young victim, returned and empowered by the spirit of vengeance, the Crow...

\"Possession\" is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems, they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time.

The place is St Oswald\'s, an old and long-established boys\' grammar school in the north of England. A new year has just begun, and for the staff and boys of the school, a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Suits, paperwork and Information Technology rule the world and Roy Straitley, Latin master, eccentric, and veteran of St Oswald\'s, is finally - reluctantly - contemplating retirement. But beneath

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Als Verfasser von Lyrikbänden hat es Jesper Humlin zu einigem literarischen Ruhm gebracht. Dennoch droht die ultimative Sinnkrise. Dauerfreundin Andrea, ein Derwisch mit Haaren auf den Zähnen, plant die Veröffentlichung ihrer Memoiren, wenn Jesper ihr nicht endlich ein Kind mache. Die Aktien dümpeln im Keller und der Verleger fordert statt Lyrik einen wesentlich verkaufsträchtigeren Krimi. Es ist zum

When his father is arrested in Dubai, Kareem has to move fast. He must show that his father is not a thief and prove that his family is honest. For Kareem is going to marry the beautiful and intelligent Samira Al-Hussain, and she could never marry someone from a bad family. So Kareem and his brother get to work quickly with a little help from Samira.

The people of Tep\'s Town are desperate. Monstrous invaders have emerged from the desert, and people are being slaughtered. Danger on the roads means no trade. No trade means that Tep\'s Town itself will die. The fire god Yangin-Atep has retreated into myth, leaving the town\'s residents unprotected for the first time in its history ? and they now face an army of fearsome birds with blades for wings,

Gaby Hauptmanns dritter Roman ist spritzig-leicht wie ein Glas prickelnder Champagner an einem heißen Sommertag. Nina Wessel, die Heldin des Stückes, ist eine mehr oder minder erfolgreiche Fernsehjournalistin, die in finanzieller Abhängigkeit an ihren Freund Sven gekettet ist. Zu dumm, dass er auch noch ihr Vorgesetzter ist. Nina hat genug und flüchtet zu einem Dreh nach Brasilien. Aber dieser Trip

Starting with the Kitchen Garden, Nick and Bella Ivins discuss designing and planning a plot then move on to choosing and planting fruit and vegetable crops. Next, in The Orchard, they explain how to plant and tend an orchard as well as soft fruit. Animals covers the topic of livestock, including bees, chickens and other small poultry and rearing lambs and pigs. The Garden shows how to make any additional

New in paperback. As cities have grown, housing has had to be provided to accommodate the increasing population. Driven primarily by the need to provide housing as cheaply and efficiently as possible, the ideas developed by the early Modernists have informed housing schemes worldwide. Today, in the context of a very different urban landscape, architects optimistic about high- density living are revisiting

John Bradshaw, one of the world\'s leading dog experts, brings us a compelling insight into what dogs would ask us for, if only they knew how. The dog has been mankind\'s faithful companion for tens of thousands of years, yet today finds itself in cris is throughout the western world. Until just over a hundred years ago, most dogs worked for their living, and each of the many breeds had become well

A devastating earthquake has left Gotham City in ruins, and the government is getting close to completely cutting it off from the rest of civilization. But there\'s one man who\'s vowed to save Gotham from whatever foe it comes up against, and now Bruce Wayne must put aside his life as Batman and put on his suit and tie as he takes his fight for the fate of Gotham to Washington, D.C. In this, the final