An unlikely friendship forms between a sixteen-year-old boy and a seventy-two-year-old woman as they rally the community to save their local library. Tom is invisible. He happily blends into the background of life. But Farah Shah changes everything. Farah makes Tom want to stand up and be seen - at least by her. So Tom quickly decides the best way to learn about women is to delve into romance novels, and he finds himself at the village library where he befriends 72-year-old Maggie. Maggie has been happily alone for ten years, at least this is what she tells herself. When Tom comes to her rescue after a library meeting, ... |
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No matter what, she’ll find her. In this universe or the next. ... Ana Moon’s best friend Bea has vanished. Her house has changed. Her parents have become strangers. She has fallen into a world that is not her own. Guided by the mysterious Malik and his Pathfinders - world-jumping guardians of hidden gateways from one world to the next, including a mute girl with fighting sticks and a boy who moves like smoke - Ana must travel across seven versions of Earth to get Bea back. Lying in wait are the sinister Order, monstrous Reapers and a rogue Pathfinder bent of finding the elusive seventh world, and who will destroy ... |
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If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? ... It;s 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York's Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. The four Gold children, too young for what they're about to hear, sneak out to learn their fortunes. Such prophecies could be dismissed as trickery and nonsense, yet the Golds bury theirs deep. Over the years that follow they might attempt to ignore, embrace, cheat or defy the "knowledge" given to them that day - but it will shape the course of their lives forever. & ... |
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A mythical monster, a kingdom in peril, an adventure that will test two children’s bravery to the limit. Discover a brilliantly original fairy tale about the power of hope and friendship to triumph against all odds, from one of the world’s best storytellers. The kingdom of Cornucopia was once the happiest in the world. It had plenty of gold, a king with the finest moustaches you could possibly imagine, and butchers, bakers and cheesemongers whose exquisite foods made a person dance with delight when they ate them. Everything was perfect – except for the misty Marshlands to the north which, according to legend, were home ... |
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Rowan: I'm in the business of creating fairy tales. Theme parks. Production companies. Five-star hotels. Everything could be all mine if I renovated Dreamland. My initial idea of hiring Zahra was good in theory, but then I kissed her. Things spiraled out of control once I texted her using an alias. By the time I realized where I went wrong, it was too late. People like me don't get happy endings. Not when we're destined to ruin them. Zahra: After submitting a drunk proposal criticizing Dreamland's most expensive ride, I should have been fired. Instead, Rowan Kane offered me a dream job. The catch? I had ... |
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"The Doors" издават тяхната легендарна колекция "Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine" за първи път на двойно CD и в дигитален формат. Първоначално издаден през 1972-ра, този златен двоен албум е първата компилация, пусната след смъртта на Джим Морисън на 1971. 22-те песни, които са част от колекцията, дават разнообразно представяне на музиката, записана между 1967-ма и 1971-ва от оригиналната четворка: Джон Дензмор, Роби Кригър, Рей Манзарек и Джим Морисън. Дългогодишният музикален инженер на групата Брус Ботник ремастерира парчетата в това ново издание, което взима своето заглавие от лириките на " ... |
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Двадесет години след излизането на завладяващия втори албум на групата "Talk On Corners" и две години след обявения за златен албум "White Light", "The Corrs" се завръщат с "Jupiter Calling", амбициозен, земен и искрен албум, който гарантира да поднови вниманието и уважението към групата като музиканти, текстописци и иноватори. В сърцето на "Jupiter Calling" е "SOS" - "Song Of Syria" (песен за Сирия), най-искреният и емоционален запис, който "The Corrs" са правили някога. Обвинение за изселване, съучастие, демонизация и преди всичко израз на ... |
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"The Doors" имат една от най-необикновените дебютни години в музикалната история през 1967 г., с издаването на поредица от хитови сингли и два платинени албума, започвайки през януари с албума с името на групата, последван от "Strange Days" през септември. Вторият достига до трета позиция в класацията за албуми на "Billboard" и включва класики като "Love Me Two Times", "When The Music's Over" и песента с името на албума "Strange Days". Изданието "Strange Days: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition" е продуцирано от Брус Ботник, който е работил по албума ... |
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When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive on her way to a happily ever after was always going to be tough, scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting woman, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees. That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor and well-known ass. ... |