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Издание содержит полное собрание сказов Павла Петровича Бажова.

In 2019, emotionally lost foster teen Philo Nockby is suddenly told his dead parents were time-traveling agents and is whisked away to the year 3451. In this complex future, some humans evolved to have triple helix DNA and civilization expanded to live below oceans, in the skies, and rule over Antarctica. Philo and his new friends Raelyn, Alani, and Xendo must investigate human history and the ancient martial art of kineoka at the same academy that destroyed his family, to defend the world's future from the devastating secrets his parents fought to reveal.

"The Fifth Queen" trilogy is a series of connected historical novels by English novelist Ford Madox Ford. It consists of three novels: "The Fifth Queen; And How She Came to Court" (1906), "Privy Seal" (1907) and "The Fifth Queen Crowned" (1908), which present a fictionalized account of Katharine Howard's arrival at the Court of Henry VIII, her eventual marriage to the king, and her death. The "Fifth Queen" trilogy has an omniscient narrator.

"The House of Mirth" (1905), by Edith Wharton, is the story of Lily Bart, a well-born, but penniless woman of the high society of New York City, who was raised and educated to become wife to a rich man, a hothouse flower for conspicuous consumption. As an unmarried woman with gambling debts and an uncertain future, Lily is destroyed by the society who created her.

When a beautiful piece of music stirs mega-tycoon Maximilian West, he remembers the women who have loved him and shaped his life. So begins a dazzling tale, taking us from the streets of London to the suites of New York, from the rise of Nazi Germany to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Strong, powerful, enigmatic, aloof, and adoring - many women made Maximilian the man with everything, but there is only one woman who can make him feel truly alive.

Varsha and her father live near the forest. It has been a hot summer and Varsha is feeling the heat. One day she hears a strange noise and decides to investigate. Only she can hear the sound and wonders what it is. Varsha soon finds out it is a leopard cub, fallen into the water well, but will her father believe her? Digitally narrated using the voice of Alice White. "The Sound of Water" was originally published by Pratham Books on the online platform StoryWeaver. Several of the stories are written by Indian authors and are set on the other side of the world.

A tumultuous childhood taught private investigator Merlene Saunders that police are nothing but trouble. Then her latest surveillance job takes a dangerous turn when her subject is murdered and she becomes the focus of the killer. Like it or not, she's hit the police radar, and in steps sexy detective Cody Warren...trouble of a whole different kind.

I spend my days protecting witnesses in safe houses. But it’s different when Aurora walks through the door. She’s fiery, sassy, and she screams independence. Not to mention she’s curvy, beautiful, and hard to resist. She doesn’t belong here, doesn’t want to be here. But she has to be. I want to keep my hands off of her, I really do. My only job is to protect her. But if she’s got to be here, Aurora knows what she wants.

Evidence continues to increase on the practical and emotional benefits of babywearing, both to parents and their children. Among many other benefits, babywearing can help parents bond with a new baby and facilitate both breastfeeding and the care of the baby's older siblings. Babywearing also has benefits for society at large. Children are more securely emotionally attached, and there is evidence of a link between the reduced incidence of postnatal depression and babywearing.

Unstressable applies Mo Gawdat's brilliant engineering mind and Alice Law's psychology and stress-management expertise to the 'stress pandemic'. This follow up to bestselling Solve For Happy will show you that chronic stress is not an unavoidable part of modern life, but a predictable - and therefore preventable - response, often as much to do with negative thought patterns as external circumstances. Mo explains how he made it through the most acutely stressful times in his own life, and the book touches on the idea of post-traumatic growth.

Rückblick, Bilanz, Ausblick. Nachdem Alice Schwarzer 2011 im "Lebenslauf" ihre Herkunft, ihre Kindheit und Jugend sowie die frühen Jahre als Journalistin geschildert hat, berichtet sie nun über die großen Themen ihres Lebens und ihrer Arbeit, durch die sie über Jahrzehnte ein ganzes Land geprägt hat und noch prägt: Ihre Kämpfe gegen Gewalt an Frauen und Kindern, gegen die Männerjustiz, das Abtreibungsverbot, Sexismus, Pornografie und Prostitution - und für eine "Vermenschlichung der Geschlechter" sowie die Aufhebung der Arbeitsteilung zwischen Frauen und Männern sind legendär.

Unsettling accounts of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary circumstances, the weight of which carry them to an inevitable fate, are presented here by the grim-voiced Father Time. This omniscient and ominous host, portrayed by both Charles Webster and William Conrad, lends the proceedings an appropriate atmosphere of foreboding. The Clock brings you the desperate obsessions, investigations, attractions, nightmares and violence of the underhanded, the unsuspecting, and the insane.

Nicks Costello takes the reader with him from his hard-working roots in the Liberties of Dublin on a search for enlightenment that took him half way around the world to Hong Kong. There he discovered the human face of the Buddha in the friendliness and compassion of everyday people who were quietly and unobtrusively practising ancient eastern traditions of spirit, mind and body, cultivating a connection to the soul of the universe that exists in all of us and giving freely of their knowledge to all who ask so that the healing benefits can be experienced by everyone.

With each story more terrifying than the last, Sinister Delusions is a must-listen for horror fans everywhere. Get ready to experience a journey into the darkest depths of the human psyche, where the line between reality and nightmare is thinner than ever before.

"A Respectable Woman", first published in Vogue in 1894, is quintessential Chopin and shows us the full extent of her skill as a short-story writer. The story centers around Mrs. Baroda, who, somewhat reluctantly, is playing the gracious host to her husband’s surprise guest, Gouvernail, an old friend of her husband’s from college. The story delves into Mrs. Baroda’s psychology as she struggles with her desires versus her self-made image and self-opinion.

An intense story of love, lust, and betrayal set amidst an intense storm in the American South, The Storm is the sequel to At the 'Cadian Ball by American novelist Kate Chopin. Beautifully crafted and a considered a groundbreaking work of fiction when it was published, it candidly discusses sexual passion and extramarital affairs.

The book behind the hit BBC series. "Any other year, summer arrived with the swallows. But this year, the broken body of a bird, left on the porch, serves as an omen of deception, a shadow cast over the days to come"... Beth March’s life seems unexceptional: She and her husband, David, have a conventional, quiet marriage. The opening morning of the nightmare seems like just another day, aside from the unexpected body of the bird...but while Beth showers and prepares for the day, David drives his car at full speed into the path of a lorry.

Fast dreißig Jahre nach dem Sieg der Schurken (bekannt als Tag S) bezieht Helen Black (Maren Kroymann) ihr neues Zuhause, ein Apartment im Onar, einem 161-stöckigen Gebäude-Komplex im ehemaligen Midtown Manhattan. Das Onar wird von S.H.I.E.L.D. betrieben und ist zum Inbegriff von Reichtum und Ungleichheit dystopischen Ausmaßes geworden, worunter New York City seit Tag S leidet. Mehrere superreiche Familien - sowie die Medien-Magnatenfamilie Burge - leben in den opulenten Penthäusern der DecaDomes in den obersten Stockwerken.

Secrets are like vampires. They captivate us with their forbidden mystery and promises of excitement. Yet once inside us, they become toxic; compelling us to infect others, who in turn want nothing more than to be bitten. It's a vicious cycle that ensures nothing remains secret forever.

La felicità non capita per caso. La felicità è una decisione. Perché allora la vita contemporanea è segnata da condizioni di ansia, paura, stress, senso di colpa? Secondo la psichiatra Marian Rojas esiste una spiegazione e, soprattutto, una soluzione. In questo libro, già best seller in Spagna, Rojas traccia un quadro completo del nostro mondo psichico.