![]() ![]() Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, illustrated in brilliant colour by award-winning design studio MinaLima and featuring exclusive interactive paper-engineered elements, including a fold-out Hogwarts letter and more!Īn irresistible new edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone created with ultra-talented designers MinaLima, the design magicians behind the gorgeous visual graphic style of the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films. ![]()
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The titular topper of this rollicking, rhyming read-aloud is indeed magic: when it blows into town one day, it plops down on the head of resident after resident, instantly transforming each person into an animal. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her tastes in most things usually lean towards the quirky and she loves genres like urban fantasy, magic realism, and steampunk.Įmma is also a hopeless sap for any small chubby creature with tiny legs, and can often be found making heart-eyes at things like guinea pigs, wombats, marmots, and human toddlers. She spends her free time writing, reading, daydreaming, working out, and watching whichever television show has the most lesbian subtext at the time. There is no point in saying which city, as they move about once a year. ![]() She lives with her wife and two cats in England. She thought libraries was her thing, because she wanted to work with books, and being an author was just an impossible dream, right? Wrong. One day, she finally emerged with a degree in Library and Information Science. Emma Sterner-Radley spent far too much time hopping from subject to subject at university, back in her native country of Sweden. The Greengage Series, Book 1 By: Emma Sterner-Radley Narrated by: Wendy Wolfson Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins 4.5 (49 ratings) Try for 0. ![]() ![]() The massive empowerment of individuals and societies through the power of global connectivity captures the essence of this trend. Connecting and enabling new innovations, discoveries, solving world challenges, creating new products, solutions, generating economic prosperity - that is what the possibilities are of the Connected Planet in the near future. The most important impact on the world of the Connected Planet Trend will be universal access to all human knowledge by everyone on the planet. The world is moving rapidly toward ubiquitous connectivity that will further accelerate how and where people collaborate, share, gather, do business, and exchange knowledge. Those that are ill-prepared for the seismic shifts set to occur over the next thirty years will be in for a rough ride. ![]() We live in a time of complex and radical change. ![]() ![]() A forecast of the most important game-changing trends-and how to manage and profit from them to improve your life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And this time it won’t be three simple warriors. The long feared invasion is about to begin. Higher in the mountains, a new threat has emerged, and now the Teblor are running out of time. Scarred by the deeds of Karsa Orlong, he intends to confront his god, even if he has to cut a bloody path through the Malazan Empire to do it. Meanwhile, in the high mountains, where dwell the tribes of the Teblor, a new warleader has risen. The marines aren’t quite sure what they’re going to be facing but, while the Malazan military has evolved and these are not the marines of old, one thing hasn’t changed: they’ll handle whatever comes at them. responding to intelligence that indicates the tribes beyond the border are stirring. In truth, many new cults and religions have emerged across the Malazan world, including those who worship Coltaine, the Black-Winged God, and – popular among the Empire’s soldiery – followers of the cult of Iskar Jarak, Guardian of the Dead.Ī legion of Malazan marines is on the march towards Silver Lake. One of those three, Karsa Orlong, is now deemed to be a god, albeit an indifferent one. While the town has recovered, the legacy of that past horror remains, even if the Teblor tribes of the north no longer venture into the southlands. Many years have passed since three Teblor warriors brought carnage and chaos to the small lakeside settlement of Silver Lake. ![]() ![]() For other men I yearn! For you I have no feelings whatsoever. All about you are generous, kind, thoughtful people, who are not like you. I can be forever happy will you let me be yours? ![]() I have no feelings whatsoever when we're apart. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. I want a man who knows what love is all about. Which, I don't know, really makes you think, doesn't it? Here is a popular "Dear Jack" letter that works in much the same fundamentally pointless way: ![]() Instead of "What would you with the king?" you can have someone say in Marlowe's Edward II, "What? Would you? With the king?" The consequences of mispunctuation (and re-punctuation) have appealed to both great and little minds, and in the age of the fancy-that email a popular example is the comparison of two sentences: A woman, without her man, is nothing. It is the basis of all "I'm sorry, I'll read that again" jokes. To be fair, many people who couldn't punctuate their way out of a paper bag are still interested in the way punctuation can alter the sense of a string of words. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This thrilling story of friendship, deception, loyalty, and betrayal is sure to find a passionate audience of readers. Readers will love exploring the rich setting of nineteenth-century London. Schwab's A Darker Shade of Magic and Shelby Mahurin's Serpent & Dove, Dark Rise is more than just high intrigue fantasy-it's fast-paced, action-packed, and completely surprising. Will is thrust into a world of magic, where he starts training for a vital role in the oncoming battle against the Dark.Īs London is threatened and old enmities are awakened, Will must stand with the last heroes of the Light to prevent the fate that destroyed their world from returning to destroy his own. Then an old servant tells him of his destiny to fight beside the Stewards, who have sworn to protect humanity if the Dark King ever returns. Sixteen-year-old dock boy Will is on the run, pursued by the men who killed his mother. This epic fantasy with high-stakes romance will sit perfectly on shelves next to beloved fantasy novels like the Infernal Devices series, the Shadow and Bone trilogy, and the Red Queen series. ![]() Pacat, heroes and villains of a long-forgotten war are reborn and begin to draw new battle lines. Pacat cspacat New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of DARK RISE, CAPTIVE PRINCE and the GLAAD-nominated graphic novel FENCE. In this stunning new fantasy novel from international bestselling author C. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo * Instant New York Times Bestseller * Indie Bestseller * As London is threatened by the Dark Kings return, the reborn heroes and villains of a long-forgotten war begin to draw battle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike the fairy-tale version of this story, she’s kind to the children and does her best to protect them from the horrors of the woods, both natural and manmade. In the dark of the forest, they find Magda - known as Witch in the nearby village - and take refuge in her cottage. From this moment on, they’ll be Hansel and Gretel. When it becomes clear there’s no escape, the children are sent off into the woods with a promise they’ll never again say their real names. ![]() They’re Jewish, and they’re running for their lives. They’re being chased by three Nazis on motorcycles. It draws insightful, poignant parallels between the dark morality of fairy tales and the brutality of war.īut lest that sound too heavy, you should know this: The story starts in the middle of the action with a white-knuckle motorcycle chase.Ī man known as The Mechanic is barreling along a forest road on his motorcycle, his wife on the seat behind him, his two young children strapped into the sidecar. Set in the forests of Poland during the last days of World War II, this is a gripping retelling of the classic fairy tale Hansel and Gretel. ![]() ![]() He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his family. ![]() Mo began his career as a writer and animator for television, garnering 6 Emmy awards for his writing on Sesame Street, creating Nickelodeon's The Off-Beats, Cartoon Network’s Sheep in the Big City and head-writing Codename: Kids Next Door. Mo’s work books have been translated into a myriad of languages, spawned animated shorts and theatrical musical productions, and his illustrations, wire sculpture, and carved ceramics have been exhibited in galleries and museums across the nation. The New York Times Book Review called Mo “the biggest new talent to emerge thus far in the 00's." In addition to such picture books as Leonardo the Terrible Monster, Edwina the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct, and Time to Pee, Mo has created the Elephant and Piggie books, a series of early readers, and published You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When it Monsoons, an annotated cartoon journal sketched during a year-long voyage around the world in 1990-91. ![]() #1 New York Times Bestselling author and illustrator Mo Willems is best known for his Caldecott Honor winning picture books Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and Knuffle Bunny: a cautionary tale. ![]() ![]() ![]() Utilizing a frame story set in then-present Victorian England, Wells’ text focuses on a recount of the otherwise anonymous Time Traveller’s journey into the far future. The term “time machine”, coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time. ![]() From Wikipedia: The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. ![]() |