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This delightful autumn story describes the woodland adventures of two acorn children who get carried away by the blustery autumn wind.
Mr Squirrel and Hazel, the youngest Hazelnut child, go off in search of them and encounter a grumpy troll and the Chestnut boys along the way.
A mini edition of Elsa Beskow’s…
The debut title in Workman’s new sticker book series, featuring 675+ beautifully illustrated, full-colour stickers for every bird enthusiast.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself-and her family history-in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved All Souls series, hailed as ”your next favorite fantasy read” (Harper’s Bazaar).
”The Black Bird Oracle deftly explores the…
A uniquely playful and incisive collection of Zen teaching stories from a beloved American master.A modern classic, now in a new expanded edition. In the tradition of the great koan collections and the records of ancient masters, Robert Aitken distills a lifetime of teaching down to its essence. Intriguing and…
’I was the shadow child no one ever saw…’
From the day she was born until she escaped aged 30, Katy Morgan-Davies knew nothing but a life in captivity. Her father was the deluded and cruel leader of a cult based in South London who convinced himself that he was a god, and the immortal leader of the…
Kategorier: Humor Livsstil, hobby och fritid Modern och samtida skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur: allmänt
A tragicomedy laden with mischief and hilarious goings on – set solely in the canine world. Two very unlikely heroines, Dot and Elsie, meet all kinds of bizarre characters on their quest including Dogo Argentino, Oberman Doberman, JR the Jack Russell and aristocratic Faye with her magical Glastonbury powers of…
We are more than our body and brain; we are all precious beings with souls. You may doubt the existence of your soul, but that may be because you have had little conscious knowledge or experience with it. Your soul is always whispering to you, but its voice is often drowned out in everyday life by a cacophony of…
Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Ande, kropp och själ: tänkande och praktik Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Mystik, magi och det ockulta Shamanism, hednisk religion och druidism
Birds are our strongest allies in the natural world. Revered in Native American spirituality and shamanic traditions around the world, birds are known as teachers, guardians, role models, counsellors, healers, clowns, peacemakers and meteorologists. They carry messages and warnings from loved ones and the spirit world,…
Bird is a woman on the run. One minute, she's in a meeting in her office in Birmingham – the next, she's walking out on her job, her home, her life. It's a day she thought might come, one she's prepared for. But nothing could prepare her for what will happen next. As Bird tries to work out who…
Get an informed yet cheeky perspective on the fascinating language of birds in rural areas with this witty twist on a traditional field guide.
Country Bird gives birdwatching new meaning by pairing scientific insight on the sounds and songs unique to birds inhabiting rural areas of North America with a light-hearted…
A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka – published to commemorate the centenary of his death
*Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, Esquire and the New European*Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the great…
Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself – and her family history – in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved Number One Sunday Times bestselling All Souls series.
Deborah Harkness first introduced the world to Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and witch, and vampire geneticist…
’Glorious. Unforgettable’ Melissa Harrison’Funny, lyrical, deft and devastating’ Amy Sackville’A distinct and poetic new voice’ Clare Pollard
I lived for and loved a bird-heart that summer; I only knew it afterwards.
Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dolly,…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: fåglar Barn och ungdom: naturkunskap Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Faktaböcker barn och ungdom
Meet 25 birds from all over the world! This learn-through-colouring bird book for kids provides children ages 3–7 with hours of colouring fun and teaches them exciting facts about these astonishing creatures at the same time.
Your kids will find surprising and entertaining facts about both common and exotic birds:…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: naturkunskap Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Faktaböcker barn och ungdom
Take to the skies and meet the world’s most amazing birds. Navigate your way across the continents using detailed maps and discover birds of prey, birds of paradise, aquatic birds and more. Fun lift-the-flaps offer kids an immersive experience, revealing surprises, wow-factor facts and a fascinating glimpse into…
A Sunday Times ’Best Historical Fiction Book of 2023’
’A novel that demands you turn the pages’ THE TIMES, BEST HISTORICAL FICTION
’A gothic mystery pulsing with suspense’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
’An intense, memorable tale’ SUNDAY TIMES
’Brilliant’ IRISH TIMES’I…
On hearing her neighbour's body plummet on to her patio, a woman's comfortable life seems to split open. A cab driver's perfectly manicured nails may be concealing grisly secrets. A woman whose partner has left her begins to act out an increasingly deranged set of instructions. In these tense, macabre…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
A beautiful new edition of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, the iconic, beloved and deeply moving first volume of Maya Angelou’s autobiography.
The international classic and bestseller, Maya Angelou’s memoir paints a portrait of ’a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman’…
Ann Cleeves Classic Crime – engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet again
A Bird in the Hand is the first novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.
In England’s birdwatching paradise, a new breed has been sighted…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: naturberättelser och djurberättelser
**Nominated for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal and shortlisted for the British Book Design and Production Awards 2018**
A new, beautifully illustrated picture book from the bestselling author of The Fox and the Star, winner of Waterstones Book of the Year 2015.
Deep below the earth, Worm dreams of having more space.…
**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW** OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES OF APPLE TREE YARD SOLD ’Louise Doughty leads her unnerved readers into dark territory.’ HILARY MANTEL ’Doughty is a brilliant storyteller who knows how to build suspense to breaking point.’ The Times The latest from the writer of BBC…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
Bobbo och Pip är ute på vindlande äventyr. Ibland blir de osams och ibland blir det missförstånd, men de gillar varandra väldigt mycket och är bästa vänner.
Boken innehåller fyra fina och roliga berättelser med varma och ömsinta bilder på varje sida. En perfekt bok för dem som just är i färd med att lämna…
’Glorious. Unforgettable’ Melissa Harrison’Funny, lyrical, deft and devastating’ Amy Sackville’A distinct and poetic new voice’ Clare Pollard
I lived for and loved a bird-heart that summer; I only knew it afterwards.
Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dolly,…
A Bird in the Hand is the first novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.
In England’s birdwatching paradise, a new breed has been sighted – a murderer . . .
Young Tom French is found dead, lying in a marsh on the Norfolk coast, with…
A delightfully funny and romantic debut novel from Susanna Hoffs, the celebrated performer and co-founder of The Bangles, that is ’part romcom, part Jane Eyre, and one hundred ’percent enjoyable (Tom Perrotta).
Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit…
’Based on a real-life murder trial in 1897 Virginia, this dazzling debut arrives with a Southern Gothic slant and a feminist spirit’ Daily Mail***A Most Anticipated Book for 2023 in the Daily Mail, Irish Times and Sunday Independent***
West Virginia, 1897. When young Zona Heaster Shue dies only a few…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: naturberättelser och djurberättelser
”Wash your beaks, it’s time for lunch-flies again today,” says Dad.
After lunch the young birds get sent off to play-they sing, hunt mosquitos, compare leg size and poke grubs. This is how birds spend a day.
Eva Lindstroem reflects the familiar and the absurd in human behavior through this funny bird…
On hearing her neighbour’s body plummet on to her patio, a woman’s comfortable life seems to split open. A cab driver’s perfectly manicured nails may be concealing grisly secrets. A woman whose partner has left her begins to act out an increasingly deranged set of instructions.
In these tense, macabre…
A special hardback edition of Murakami’s epic, magical masterpiece, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, now with a new introduction from the authorToru Okada’s cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving.
As…
»Doktor Nylander upprepade det gång på gång. Självmord? En människa som Marianne? Omöjligt.«
Alias Bertil Andersson – som har sina skäl att vara anonym tar tåget till en liten stad där han ska träffa en kvinna. Han hyr ett rum hos musikdirektören Erik Öhrman och hans fru Marianne. Bertil låtsas vara…
In the first book of miniature decorative bird-carving patterns ever published, William Veasey presents intricately detailed designs for the novice carver. This concise practicable guide will help the amateur carver to develop the basic skills necessary to produce his own realistic miniature birds.
The carved bird decoy is the only truly American folk art – for the decoy as an aid to hunting was devised by the American Indians and has grown as a useful art since the days of the colonists. Decoy-carving was developed and refined to such a degree that now early and well-carved birds are prized by collectors.…
Kategorier: Konst
Upland Game Bird Carving displays all the talent and creativity of Rosalyn Daisey and makes it available to other carvers. In easy to follow, step-by-step instructions and illustrations, the reader will be able to learn the methods of creating these fine and beautiful sculptures. Beginning with accurately detailed…
Kategorier: Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Personliga och sociala frågor barn och ungdom Personliga och sociala frågor barn och ungdom: självkänsla och självförtroende
One night, a bird swallows a star, making him as bright as a diamond. Because of that, nobody wants him around. Except . . . an amazing traveler who crosses the vast desert. Discover how one little bird, who is excluded by all of his fellow animals for being different, is able to find solace and friendship…
The DC-3 is the plane that made civilian transport that made civilian transport a profitable reality, and has become a legend in its own time. It has many names and designations – Skytrain, Spooky, Puff the Magic Dragon, DC-3, C-47, R4D, Li-2 and others. But the name that most pilots know it by is the…
Al Streetman takes devoted readers and beginning carvers alike back to the wonderful world of folk carving, which leaves less to “the rules” and more to the imagination! In older days, folk art was a way of transforming plain everyday objects and materials into decorative accent pieces to brighten the home. Here are 20…
Soar to new heights with this helpful how-to on power-carving a variety of wooden birds. Featuring internationally known woodcarver Frank Russell, this guide offers expert instruction on a wide range of carving techniques and ways to improve your skills. Original patterns for a number of different types of birds are…
Kategorier: Konst
This beautiful book traces the development of bird carving, a distinctly American art form, from the mid-1800s to the present. Displayed in stunning color photos are some of the very best examples of bird carving produced in both the United States and Canada.
This volume focuses on the two generations of bird artists,…
Baby birds are some of the cutest creatures on this earth!” So begins Rosalyn Daisey’s latest adventure into fine carving. In this new book she leads the carver through the creating of the chicks of five birds: the Carolina Chickadee, the Eastern Bluebird, the Bobwhite Quail, the Killdeer, and the Wood Duckling.
Each…
The Atlantic coast, from Maryland north to New England, is part of a major flyway for migrating birds, and therefore an important destination for birdwatchers and other nature lovers. From the great variety of birds found along the shores and wetlands of the Atlantic coast noted bird photographer Roger S. Everett has…
Kategorier: Konst
In the spring of 1994, a bronze sculpture of a little girl standing in scenic Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia, became famous when it was featured on the cover of the popular book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. That demure little girl holding up twin bowls became a national sensation, an object so…
Kategorier: Konst
Best known as one of the wildlife designers for the Hagen-Renaker Pottery Company of California, Maureen Love began her professional career as an artist by painting beautiful portraits of Thoroughbred and Arabian horses for their owners. She quickly moved into the realm of sculpture, creating realistic models that…
The carved bird decoy is the only truly American folk art – for the decoy as an aid to hunting was devised by the American Indians and has grown as a useful art since the days of the colonists. Decoy-carving was developed and refined to such a degree that now early and well-carved birds are prized by collectors.…
Delve into the fascinating origins and contemporary interpretations of Sun Face and Thunderbird/Hopi Bird designs. This thorough study was undertaken to establish the identities of 33 Zuni artists and their interpretations of these traditional designs from the 1940s through the 1960s. Their mosaic stone and shell inlay…
Visions: Earth’s Elements in Bird and Nature Photography contains a varied collection of more than 450 bird and nature photographs that reflect the personal visions of the three authors and eight other wildlife photographers. The theme of the book is set by the elements of the planet (earth, fire, air, and water) and…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: action och äventyr
Isadora Moon, en halv-vampyr och halv-fé, ska åka på camping med sin familj. Men camping är inte så lätt som hon trodde det skulle vara. Tältet är för litet, himlen är för mörk och skogen är för högljudd! Isadora är dock fast besluten att göra resan till en succé och ger sig ut för att utforska skogen. Men när hon går…
Poland, 1941. A mother. A child. An impossible choice. After the Jews in their town are rounded up, Róza and her five-year-old daughter, Shira, seek shelter in a local farmer's barn. They spend their days and nights in silence to avoid being caught. When their safe haven is shattered, Róza faces an impossible…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
Woody and Little Pip, the acorn children, begin an adventure flying through the air on an autumn leaf. When they don’t come home their friend Hazel sets off to find them.
This delightful autumn story by the world-renowned Swedish author–illustrator Elsa Beskow charmingly describes the woodland adventures of…