Raised in isolation and home-schooled by her strict grandparents, the only experience Birdie has had of the outside world is through her favourite crime books. But everything changes when she takes a summer job working the night shift at a historic Seattle hotel. There she meets Daniel Aoki, the hotel's charismatic driver, and together they stumble upon a real-life mystery: a famous reclusive writer-never before seen in public-is secretly meeting someone at the hotel. To uncover the writer's puzzling identity, Birdie must come out of her shell, and in doing so, realize that the most confounding mystery of all ... |
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Life is a whole lot messier than the movies. ... From the bestselling author of "Night Owls" comes a story of summer, first love and hidden identities. Bailey Rydell has met the boy of her dreams. They share a love of films and talk all day - Alex is perfect. Well, apart from the fact that they've never actually met and neither of them knows the other's real name. When Bailey moves to sunny California to live with her dad, who happens to live in the same town as her online crush, she decides to use all her detective skills to track him down. Turns out, it's not easy finding someone when you don' ... |
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Perfect for fans of "Geekerella" and "Jenn Bennett", this charming, sparkly rom-com follows a wish-granting teen forced to question if she's really doing good, and if she has the power to make her own dreams come true. Charity is a fairy godmother. She doesn't wear a poofy dress or go around waving a wand, but she does make sure the deepest desires of the student population at Jack London High School come true. And she knows what they want even better than they do because she can glimpse their perfect futures. But when Charity fulfills a glimpse that gets Vindhya crowned homecoming queen, it ... |
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"Хората винаги са шушукали за съквартирантката ми от гимназията. Най-богатите сред най-богатите изпращаха децата си в академия "Хилкрест", а Брук Бенет стоеше на върха, въпреки че никога не съм знаела защо. Беше забавна и духовита, но станеше ли въпрос за семейството ѝ се затваряше в себе си. Единствено с мен бе споделила снимки на братята си. От всички тях, незнайно защо, най-много бях привлечена от Кай Бенет. Очите му ме изпиваха, а лицето му ме преследваше и в сънищата ми. Четиринайсет години по-късно се взирам в лицето на приятелката си, но през телевизионния екран. Брук е изчезнала. А само два ... |
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Преди броени десетилетия град Воортяштан е бил твърдина на Божеството, олицетворявало войната и смъртта, и средище на страшните пазители, поробили и унищожили милиони хора. Богинята е мъртва. Градът тъне в разруха. А според войниците на новата световна сила, покорила тези земи, тук има само примитивни племена, затънали в кървави междуособици и готови всеки миг за бунт срещу окупаторите. Бълващата сквернословия Тюрин Малагеш, подозирана във военни престъпления, е изпратена в тази неприветлива пустош да дослужва, за да се наслаждава на генералската си пенсия. Такова е прикритието ѝ. Малагеш е дошла да издирва ... |
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Based on the story of Arnold Bennett. Retold by Nick Bullard . ... Every town should have a "card" - someone who gets talked about, someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes you laugh. Bursley in the Five Towns has a "card": Edward Henry Machin (Denry for short). Denry begins life in a poor little house where the rent is twenty-three pence a week. But before he's thirty, he's made a lot of money, and had more adventures than you and I have had hot dinners. The town of Bursley never stops talking about him. Whatever will young Denry do next? Classics, modern fiction, non- ... |
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Мулти-платиненият международен артист и текстописец Джош Гробан ще издаде делукс версия на обичания си коледен албум "Noel". Излезлият на 9 -ти октомври, 2007 г., номиниран за Grammy коледен запис, остава един от най-добре продаваните коледни албуми за всички времена, с продажби над 7.5 милиона копия в целия свят. Новият албум ще съдържа 13 парчета от оригинала, както и 6 допълнителни нови песни, 4 от които са съвсем нови, непоказвани досега записи. Новите песни в албума: "White Christmas" - красива нова песен, записана с оркестър от 70 души, в Abbey Road, Лондон; "Christmas Time Is Here& ... |
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Въпреки, че е част от една от най-успешните рок банди на Великобритания и един от най-големите солови изпълнители в света, Фил Колинс винаги е имал желание да си сътрудничи с редица артисти. Многото таланти на Фил Колинс - барабани, вокали, продукция, писане на текстове и други, му помагат да работи с някои от неговите музикални герои. Колекцията "Plays Well With Others" се състои от 59 парчета. Изданието представя пътя на кариерата му, която започва от "Flaming Youth", и легендарните записи от 70-те с "Brand X", "Brian Eno", "Robert Fripp" и "John Cale", и ... |
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This gorgeous boxed set of all of her classic romantic novels includes "Pride and Prejudice", "Emma", "Sense and Sensibility", "Mansfield Park", "Persuasion" and "Northanger Abbey", and each individual volume is beautifully designed and features a bespoke jacket, introduction or afterword, and Hugh Thomson's timeless, evocative illustrations. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Whether in the electrically charged chemistry of Elizabeth Bennett and ... |
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Selected Poems. Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "Leaves of Grass" is Walt Whitman's glorious poetry collection, first published in 1855, which he revised and expanded throughout his lifetime. It was ground-breaking in its subject matter and in its direct, unembellished style. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library ; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited and introduced by Professor Bridget Bennett. Whitman ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "Malice Aforethought" is one of the earliest and finest examples of the inverted detective story - we know who committed the crime, the question is, will he get away with it? Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library ; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an afterword by crime writing expert and award-winning writer Barry Forshaw. Dr Edmund Bickleigh and his insufferable wife Julia are ... |
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Complete and unabridged. ... Set in rural Nebraska, Willa Cather's My Antonia is both the intricate story of a powerful friendship and a brilliant portrayal of the lives of rural pioneers in the late-nineteenth century. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has an afterword by Bridget Bennett and original illustrations by W. T. Benda. Antonia and her family are from Bohemia and they must endure real hardship and loss to ... |
