![]() From the publisher of The Invisible Child and The Fir Tree (all proceeds to Oxfam) here's the Moomin gift editions. In this first and most exciting Moomin novel, we meet the wandering Snufkin, the fascinating Snork Maiden and her brother the Snork as they join Moomin in his race to get home to Moominmamma before the comet crashes. Moomin, Sniff and Mee leave for the Observatory on the Lonely Mountains to confirm the Muskrats words: a comet is about to hit Moominvalley and destroy. ![]() Their journey is full of adventures and narrow escapes from crocodiles, giant lizards, eagles and the like, but new friends - soon to become firm friends - help lighten the way. Tales from Moominvalley ebook by Tove Jansson,Tove Jansson,Thomas Warburton Book 6. When signs appear that a comet is heading towards their beloved Moominvalley, Moomin and his friend Sniff set sail to consult with the professors in the distant Lonely Mountains. Read Comet in Moominland Can Moomintroll save his beloved valley. A comet is speeding towards Earth and nobody in Moominvalley knows what to do Will it destroy everything and everyone Moomintroll decides to find out. ![]() Special collectors' hardback editions lovingly restored to original designs 'I love these editions - so beautifully produced, so solid and permanent, just as Tove Jansson deserved.' Philip Pullman A beautiful collectors' edition of this classic Moomin story, using original 50s and 60s cover artwork, newly scanned images and gorgeous endpapers. ![]()
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![]() This volume collects Batman & Robin #1-6. They must also overcome a lethal pair of rival vigilantes with ties to their own tragic pasts - and stay away from each other’s throats long Together, this masked Odd Couple must stop a rising tide of villainy whose savagery and brutality are unlike Tim Drake has laid down the mantle of Robin to search the world for a sign that his mentor can be brought back from oblivion.ĭick Grayson, the original Robin, has taken up the cape and cowl of his former partner, and Damian Wayne, the assassin-raised son of Bruce Wayne, has become a deadly new Robin - ready to fight crime by any means necessary. Written by GRANT MORRISON, Art by FRANK QUITELY, PHILIP TAN and JONATHAN GLAPION The new Dynamic Duo hits the streets. The Dark Knight has fallen, sacrificing himself in the Final Crisis to defeat the ultimate evil. The new Dynamic Duo hit the streets with a bang in their new flying Batmobile to face an assemblage of villains called the Circus of Strange and investigate. Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, the creative team of ALL-STAR SUPERMAN, reunite to tell the adventures of the all-new Batman and Robin. ![]() ![]() 1: Batman Reborn - DC Hardback Graphic Novelįrom the award-winning team behind ALL-STAR SUPERMAN! ![]() ![]() ![]() Like the crush Parker’s always had on the girl next door. His dad may be gone now, but some things haven’t changed. ![]() ![]() If I get free time, I like to read and go for random outdoor activities! I like to write short stories, poetry, draw, paint, and just create stuff. When a devastating car crash dashes Parker Wood’s dreams of being a pro baseball player, he returns to his childhood home to take over the family landscaping company. I have an old soul and a different perspective on most things. So don't judge me for choosing happiness. 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It was hip, modern, lightweight and at $450 expensive, but not as expensive as the stratospherically priced bags made by Herms and Chanel. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Devil Wears Herms (He Bought It at the Caesars Palace Mall in Las Vegas) By MICHIKO KAKUTANI Skip to next paragraph Back in the late 1980s, the Prada backpack made out of black or tobacco-brown parachute fabric trimmed in leather became the it bag for many would-be fashionistas. ![]() ![]() ![]() Utopia Avenue is the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post Making your way through this novel feels like riding a high-end convertible down Hollywood Boulevard.” ( Slate ) “A sheer pleasure to read.Mitchell’s prose is suppler and richer than ever. “Mitchell’s rich imaginative stews bubble with history and drama, and this time the flavor is a blend of Carnaby Street and Chateau Marmont.” ( The Washington Post ) New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice The long-awaited new novel from the best-selling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a move that combines physical endangerment with psychological torment, designed to ruin the boys from the inside out. Yuko reveals the first step in her plot for revenge during the course of a long resignation speech to her rapt middle-school class on the last day of the school year. The couple parted, and Manami became the centerpiece of Yuko’s life. Her engagement to Manami’s father came to an end when he discovered that his adventurous past had left him HIV-positive. Until recently, Yuko was a single mother to a 4-year-old girl named Manami, doing her best to balance her child’s needs with the demands of her job as a middle-school science teacher. ![]() The protagonist is Yuko Moriguchi, a victim and vigilante in ravenous search of revenge. Think of “Confessions” as the “Gone Girl” of Japan - a twisted tale about a girl (OK, woman) who is pretty far gone and going further. It was then adapted into a movie, which also won a bunch of awards, and was selected as Japan’s entry for best foreign language film for the 2010 Oscars. It was published in 2008 to immediate acclaim, becoming a runaway hit and winning a slew of awards. “Confessions” is new to most American readers, but it’s already a literary phenomenon in Japan. ![]() ![]() Somewhere between the laundry and cooking, she wrote her debut, “Confessions,” the most delightfully evil book you will read this year. Before she became a bestselling novelist, Kanae Minato was a Japanese home economics teacher and housewife. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable” cover.Ī black swan, in other words, represents unknown unknowns (a grey swan is referred to known unknown). It becomes explainable only after the fact (prospectively unpredictable, retrospectively predictable).It carries an extreme, disproportionate impact (events of low predictability and high consequence).Nothing that has happened before (no historical information) can point to the possibility of it taking place Or more precisely, for an event to qualify as a black swan it must fulfill the following criteria: Additionally, it is only rationalized as predictable in hindsight after the fact. The term black swan itself has entered the common financial vernacular and is used to describe an outlier event entirely outside of the realm of predictable expectations, which has a disproportionate impact on future developments. ![]() ![]() ![]() As such, it’s more of a book on how NOT to invest rather than how to invest. Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s now popular “ The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable “ is a book about epistemology, probability, risk, and psychological biases. Listen to ‘The Black Swan’ for FREE with Audible Trial HERE. ![]() ![]() ![]() Doyle famously clashed with Harding over several details of the script, but later reconciled with him after the universal success of the play. The role of Sherlock Holmes was played by H. The theatrical adaptation was written and produced by Doyle himself, directed by and starring Lyn Harding as Grimesby Roylott. It is also part of the exhibit at the Sherlock Holmes Museum. It has been adapted for television, film, theatre, radio, and a video game. The story, alongside the rest of the Sherlock Holmes canon, has become a defining part of detective fiction. Tinged with Gothic elements, it is considered by many to be one of Doyle's finest works, with the author himself calling it his best story. "The Speckled Band" is a classic locked-room mystery that deals with the themes of parental greed, inheritance and freedom. ![]() ![]() It was originally published in Strand Magazine in February 1892. " The Adventure of the Speckled Band" is one of 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the eighth story of twelve in the collection The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Roylott (left) confronts Holmes and Watson. ![]() ![]() ![]() First solo female to sell one million copies of two albums in a calendar year (UK) – for 21.First album to sell one million copies on iTunes in Europe – for 21.Biggest-selling digital track in a calendar year (US) – for “Rolling in the Deep”.Most cumulative weeks on UK singles chart by British female in a calendar year – 163 weeks Advertisements.First album to sell three million copies in a calendar year (UK) – for 21.Biggest-selling digital album in US and UK – for 21.The other titles she claimed that day were: Advertisements She also became the first female to have biggest-selling album and single in US and UK in same year thanks to her album 21 and single “Someone Like You”. ![]() ![]() ![]() We can’t list all of her Guinness World Records titles, because quite frankly, we’d be here all day! Advertisementsīut what we can do is have a little run through of our favourites.Īdele first made her way into the record books on 1 January 2011, when she broke a whopping eight records in one go!įirst up, she bagged the record for most albums sold in a calendar year (UK, multiple albums) when 21 sold 3,772,346 copies and 19 sold 1,207,600 – 4,979,946 in total! To celebrate her 35th birthday today, we’re taking a look back at the record-breaking career of the London singer who first burst onto the scene in 2008 with her hit single “Chasing Pavements”. While Ed has a sweet 16 records to his name, Adele has a mammoth 44. We thought Ed Sheeran was a record-breaking machine until we took a closer look at all the titles held by Adele. ![]() ![]() ![]() laws, such as the process for voting on elected officials, how a bill is passed into law, and the “Bill of Rights”. ![]() The writing and illustrations are simple yet effective in bringing understanding to some of the most misunderstood U.S. Hennessey and McConnell adapt the often hard-to-understand document into comic book form so that they can explain its concepts. presidential election, this graphic novel not only provides an easy-to-understand translation of the historical American document, but it presents the struggle our Founding Fathers endured in order to write it, so that elections like the one Obama, the first African-American to be elected Commander-in-Chief, could take place. Published during the sweat-inducing final weeks of the U.S. Writer Jonathan Hennessey, a ten-year veteran of the film and television industry, along with artist Aaron McConnell, a freelance illustrator and author of several of his own comic books, including TheYoung PUPS and Black Gesso, have taken it upon themselves to offer the first lesson: The United States Constitution. Bush’s eight-year term as President of the United States, as President-Elect Barrack Obama assembles his cabinet, perhaps now is a good time for the American people to take a refresher course in United States history. ![]() |