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Winner of the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, a World Fantasy award, and a BSFA Award
Blending weird fiction with the police procedural, The City & The City is an existential thriller like no other.
’There is no one else writing stuff like this.’ Dazed
When the body of a…
Our Flag Means Death meets Six of Crows in this queer pirate adventure from the author of A Taste of Gold and Iron.
’Come for the irrepressible gremlin of a narrator, stay for the plot-relevant cake competitions! A whip-smart, hilarious and exuberant high seas romp’ – Freya Marske, Sunday Times…
Kategorier: Alternativa trossystem Ämnesområden inom filosofi Ande, kropp och själ Filosofi Filosofi och religion Filosofi: metafysik och ontologi Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Magi, alkemi och ockult tänkande Magi, trollformler och alkemi Mystik, magi och det ockulta Ockulta studier Religion och tro
A central text of occult literature, now for the first time in a deluxe hardcover edition with new ancillary material (a new introduction, corrections to the text, appendices, and other enhancements) by one of the most renowned scholars of occult literature. Discovered in a hidden compartment of an old chest long…
MEET BOOKTOK’S LATEST OBSESSION . . . DARK, FUNNY AND SUPER SPICY, CAN YOU HANDLE THE RIDE?
I want someone with a soul as black as night. Someone who would burn the world down for me and not lose a single minute of sleep over it.
Trauma nurse Aly escapes her hard-working days by thirsting after masked men online.…
Kategorier: Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper Urbana samhällen
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for…
’A story that’s as furious as it is tender’ EMILY HENRY on The Change
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From the author of The Change, comes a novel about book banning and those brave enough to stand up against this censorship.
In Troy, Georgia, Lula Dean has decided to cleanse the town’s reading habits. All banned…
Lonely Planet’s local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the ultimate short trip to New York City – and discover twice the city in half the time!
Discover New York City’s most popular experiences, must-see attractions, and unexpected surprises – neighbourhood by neighbourhood…
Kategorier: Deckare Familjeromaner Hårdkokta deckare Historiska deckare Historiska romaner Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur: allmänt Thrillers
From the author of the international bestseller The German Heiress, a gripping historical drama about a woman determined to avenge the crimes against her family, set at the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair.
“The magnificent Anika Scott has written a lush and beautifully rendered novel that will keep you…
Kategorier: Att hantera personliga problem Att hantera stress Familj och hälsa Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Populärpsykologi och personlig utveckling Självhjälp och praktiska råd
Upptäck Björn Rudmans insiktsfulla bok: Det är inte ditt fel att du är trött: Slipp oro och press i vardagen. I en värld översvämmad av stress, press och ångest erbjuder denna självhjälpsguide en räddningsplanka för dig som kämpar med utmattning eller riskerar att hamna där. Med en unik kombination av personliga…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografi: konst och underhållning Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Kommersiell konst och design Konst Modedesign och textilformgivning Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
From the iconic stylist and fashion provocateur whose designs transformed culture—bringing the glitz of Studio 54 and the sophistication of Sex and the City to the mainstream—comes a playful yet intimate memoir of a life spent challenging conventions.
Carrie Bradshaw’s pairing of a tutu with…
**NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING ROBERT PATTINSON, CHARLIE HUNNAM AND SIENNA MILLER**
’A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure’JOHN GRISHAM
The story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the inspiration behind Conan Doyle’s The Lost World
Fawcett was among the last of a legendary…
This Illustrated book about Shanghai’s weird sights, streets and culture is the perfect accompaniment to a travel guide. Alexander Barrett’s This is Shanghai is a first-hand account of expat life in China’s (and the world’s) largest city. Like a guidebook, it helps newcomers and visitors…
Punk Rock Entrepreneur is a guide to launching your own business using DIY methods that allow you to begin from wherever you are, right now. Caroline Moore talks (and illustrates!) you through the why and how of business operations that she learned over years booking bands, organizing fests, sleeping on couches and…
Curses are made to be broken.THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ’A DARK DREAM . . . WELCOME TO THE CITY OF STARDUST. ENJOY – AND ALSO BEWARE. THIS FAIRY TALE IS DEADLY’ LAINI TAYLOR Filled with magic, stardust, and a shockingly dark heart, this is a stunning standalone fantasy perfect for fans of The Ten…
The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float. Nigeria was like that for me: mostly forgotten, except for those few things that I remembered with outsize intensity. Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his…
EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE – In this stunning debut novel, the first volume in Paul Auster’s acclaimed The New York Trilogy, an author determined to solve a mystery begins to descend into madness.
”Remarkable . . . The book is a pleasure to read, full of suspense and action. . . . [A] strange and powerful…
This is a book about Málaga, the city that the poet and Nobel Laureate Vicente Aleixandre called the City of Paradise, Ciudad del Paraíso. A book about the city’s many sights and beautiful excursion destinations. A guide for the first-time visitor, a flipbook for the returning visitor. A book for the curious…
Kategorier: Sport, idrott och friluftsliv
’The best running book ever’ Bob Anderson, founder of Runner’s World Whether you’re a casual jogger, a beginner looking to train seriously or a seasoned runner hoping to break your PB, there is a better way to train than relentlessly pounding miles. Suitable for runners of any level training for…
Hot on the heels of the ÔÇ£superbÔÇØ (Stephen King) New York Times bestseller City on Fire comes the explosive second novel in an epic crime trilogy from #1 internationally bestselling author Don Winslow.
This text presents the books of Jonah, Micah and Nahum. The book of Jonah shows the people of Nineveh being forgiven, yet this overturns usual biblical narrative such as Micah and Nahum where Israel’s enemies are expected to get their come-uppance. With an introduction by Alasdair Gray.
At first glance, evangelical and Gotham seem like an odd pair. What does a movement of pious converts and reformers have to do with a city notoriously full of temptation and sin? More than you might think, says Kyle B. Roberts, who argues that religion must be considered alongside immigration, commerce, and real estate…
A vivid collage-portrait of Rome – three parts complete in one volume – the most comprehensive anthology of writings by visitors to the eternal city ever compiled.
Chromatius of Aquileia and the Making of a Christian City examines how the increasing authority of institutionalized churches changed late antique urban environments. Aquileia, the third largest city in Italy during late antiquity, presents a case study in the transformation of elite Roman practices in relation to the…
Box Set: 12 Books
Ages: 3 to 5
Stage 1: Starting to Read
A Bob Books boxed set featuring 12 easy-to-read stories!
Great for early readers, this boxed set includes twelve mini-books.
This set is the perfect stepping stone to independent reading
since it contains four level A books,…
Cities in all their diversity. Many are places of anonymity, violence and feelings of god forsakenness. But Steve Brady is convinced that God has an agenda for cities; the Bible is full of significant cities and the biblical story is full of imagery of cities – culminating in God’s ’holy city’,…
One of the great European publishing centers, Venice produced half or more of all books printed in Italy during the sixteenth-century. Drawing on the records of the Venetian Inquisition, which survive almost complete, Paul F. Grendler considers the effectiveness of censorship imposed on the Venetian press by the Index…
Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Häxkonst och wicca Mystik, magi och det ockulta
A gentle book of herbal mythology beautifully illustrated by Prairie Jackson.
Bringing back the original artwork and text for this ’classic’ edition after 35 years.
Since the Stone Age our ancestors have tapped into the natural energies of the planet, building stone circles, standing stones, pyramids and temples in a highly evolved and brilliantly executed network of energy centres around the world. Thousands of years later, this ancient knowledge was brutally suppressed by the…
The three Garima Gospels are the earliest surviving Ethiopian gospel books. They provide glimpses of lost late antique luxury gospel books and art of the fifth to seventh centuries, from the Aksumite kingdom of Ethiopia.
This book reproduces all of the Garima illuminated pages for the first time, and presents extensive…
Amalar of Metz’s On the Liturgy (the Liber officialis, or De ecclesiastico officio) was one of the most widely read and circulated texts of the Carolingian era. The fruit of lifelong reflection and study in the wake of liturgical reform in the early ninth century, Amalar’s commentary inaugurated the Western medieval…
The breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from the internationally bestselling author of 1Q84. A novel about the porous boundary between the real and shadow worlds. After losing his beloved as a teenager, the narrator finds his way to the Town, a mysterious place where he finds…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: fantasy och magisk realism
Daisy Thistledown’s magical adventure continues in The City Beyond the Sea, the spellbinding sequel to Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Year, Greenwild: The World Behind the Door by Pari Thomson.
Across the ocean, a magical adventure awaits . . .
Daisy Thistledown and the Five O’Clock Club…
A vivid collage-portrait of Rome in three volumes – the most comprehensive anthology of writings by visitors to the eternal city ever compiled.
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
Du är en bra vän – 10-böcker innehåller: 1. Maskeradbal 2. Motsägelser 3. Lille vän 4. Nära vänner 5. Ta hand om din lillebror 6. Överraskning på dagis 7. Uppskatta leksaker 8. Liten byggmästare 9. Öva på att städa huset 10. Lek med husdjur
Following the death of her best friend, Erin has to get out of London. Returning home to Belfast, an au pair job provides a partial refuge from her grief and her volatile relationship with her mother. Erin spends late nights at the bar where her childhood friend Declan works. There Erin meets an American academic who…
”A fearless novel that probes ideas of surveillance, misogyny and class. . . . Tsamaase brilliantly tackles ideas of motherhood and autonomy. The author seamlessly blends a body-hopping ghost story about revenge with a narrative about the importance of memory. It’s such an original first novel, and…
A charming collection of quotes about cats from our favourite authors, accompanied by artwork in the trademark style of Paul Magrs (author of The Panda, the Cat and the Dreadful Teddy).
’A story that’s as furious as it is tender’ EMILY HENRY on The Change
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From the author of The Change, comes a novel about book banning and those brave enough to stand up against this censorship.
In Troy, Georgia, Lula Dean has decided to cleanse the town’s reading habits. All banned…
A beautiful hardcover box set collecting all three books in the Crescent City series. Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life-working hard all day and partying all night-until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce…
Jim Willard, former high-school athlete and clean-cut boy-next-door-, is haunted by the memory of a romanctic adolescent encounter with his friend Bob Ford. As Jim pursues his first love, in awe of the very same masculinity he possesses himself, his progresss through the secret gay world of 1940’s America unveils…