Stories we tell our children
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Tell
The co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, Tell is a probing, exuberant and complex examination of the ways in which we make stories of our lives and of
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Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love
A breathtaking collection of stories about our most intimate relationships.
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Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love - Qureshi Huma, Qureshi Huma
Anotace: A breathtaking collection of stories about our most intimate relationships, and the secrets, misunderstandings and silences that haunt them.A daughter asks her mother to shut up, only to shut her up for good; an exhausted wife walks away from the husband who doesn`t understand her; on holiday, lovers no longer make sense to each other away from home.Set across t...
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The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe - Kohn Marek
Anotace: A fascinating journey through Europe`s old towns, exploring why we treasure them-but also what they hide about a continent`s fraught history Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War-some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt, had to be rebuilt almost completely. They are now centers of peace an...
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The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe - Marek Kohn
A fascinating journey through Europe’s old towns, exploring why we treasure them—but also what they hide about a continent’s fraught history Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War—some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt, had to be rebuilt almost completely. They are now centers of peace and civility...
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Reality and Other Stories
In Reality and Other Stories discover how the stories we tell reveal our deepest desires, and point to the meaning of the reality we live in.
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived : The Stories in Our Genes - Rutherford Adam
Anotace: A dazzling tour of the latest genetic discoveries which are blurring the boundaries between science and history - 'Brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating' BRIAN COX 'A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. You'll be spellbound' Brian Cox<br> This is a story about you. It is the...
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There May Be a Castle
A remarkable story about love, loss and the power of the imagination, from an award-winning, celebrated writer for children.On a frozen Christmas Eve, Mouse Mallory and his family set off across a snow-white valley to visit his grandparents.They never arrive.As the wheels skid off the icy road, Mouse is thrown from the car. When he wakes, he finds himself in a magical lan...
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On the Origin of Stories
Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories and how our minds are shaped to understand them. After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examines HomerÂ’s O
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Oxford Discover: Show and Tell 1 Class Audio CDs /2/ - Pritchard Gabby
Anotace: Creating young thinkers with great futures Show and Tell taps into children´s natural curiosity, asking a question such as `who makes you happy?´ or `what do our senses tell us?´ as the focus for each unit. Activities encourage children to explore the question while learning the language they need to think and talk about it. End-of-unit class projects consolidat...
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Nettles
Nettles is a powerful exploration of memory and violence, excavating the stories we tell ourselves to escape our past.
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You Get That From Me
Three women. Three generations. Three secrets... Emotional, hilarious and uplifting, this is a story of mothers and daughters, the stories we tell our
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Incarnation
Poems about children and the stories we tell them, about childbirth, innocence and responsibility and what it means to bring new human beings into thi
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Marseille Tarot
This book aims to cover four basic questions: Why do we read cards? What's so special about the Marseille Tarot? How can the cards uncover our blind spots? What does it mean to live a magical life, when we allow the stories that the cards tell us to offer
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Unstoppable Us, Volume 1 - Yuval Noah Harari
*From the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens comes an incredible new story of the human race, for younger readers.*We humans aren't strong like lions, we don't swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don't have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world?The answer to that is one of the strangest tales you'll ever hear. And it's a true story . . .Have yo...
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Margaret Atwood: Burning Questions - Margaret Atwood
<p>From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?How can we live on our planet?What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?In Burning Questions Atwood aims her prodigiou...
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Atlas of the Heart - Brown Brené
Anotace: In her latest book, five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr Brene Brown, writes, "If we want to find the way back to ourselves and each other, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories, and to be stewards of the stories that we hear. This is the framework for meaningful connection."In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a ...
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Atlas of the Heart
In her latest book, five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr Brene Brown, writes, "If we want to find the way back to ourselves and each other, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories, and to be stewards of the stories that we hear. This is the framework for meaningful connection."In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey th...
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Atlas of the Heart - Brene Brown
<p>In her latest book, five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr Brene Brown, writes, "If we want to find the way back to ourselves and each other, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories, and to be stewards of the stories that we hear. This is the framework for meaningful connection." In Atlas of the Heart, Brown tak...
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Human Animal in Western Art and Science
From the lazy, fiddling grasshopper to the sneaky Big Bad Wolf, children's stories and fables enchant us with their portrayals of animals who act like people. But the comparisons run both ways, as metaphors, stories, and images - as well as scientific theories - throughout history remind us that humans often act like animals, and that the line separating them is not as cl...
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A Calling for Charlie Barnes - Joshua Ferris
<p>Charlie Barnes is a mid-century man devoted to his newspaper and his landline. But Charlie is about to get dragged into our troubled age by his storyteller son, who has a different idea of him than he has of himself. Then there are his other children, his ex-wives, present wife, business clients, friends and acquaintances, all of whom have their competing opinion...
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A Calling for Charlie Barnes - Joshua Ferris
<p>Charlie Barnes is a mid-century man devoted to his newspaper and his landline. But Charlie is about to get dragged into our troubled age by his storyteller son, who has a different idea of him than he has of himself. Then there are his other children, his ex-wives, present wife, business clients, friends and acquaintances, all of whom have their competing opinion...
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Macmillan Readers Owl Hall Pre Intermediate Level Readers Pack
The Macmillan Readers series are carefully graded from Starter to Upper Intermediate (A1-B2) to help students choose the right reading material for their ability. Our list of titles includes great stories from both contemporary and classic authors. Owl Hall is the story of Janet, a single mother, who goes to stay in an old farmhouse with her children, Kara and Martin. Bu...
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Cassandra Speaks - Lesser Elizabeth
Anotace: What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her? What if women had been the storytellers?Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women`s voices had been equally heard and respected throughout history, hu...
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Tales of Old Prague Houses (978-80-7428-302-4)
Kniha - autor Magdalena Wagnerová, 180 stran, anglicky, pevná s přebalem lesklá The air of times long past; the strong walls from bygone centuries; narrow portals; a host of house signs and a wealth of architectural styles: these are the houses of old Prague. Small palaces are full of great secrets, the stories hidden inside their walls having long helped shape the cit...
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Tales of Old Prague Houses - Magdalena Wagnerová
Anotace: The air of times long past; the strong walls from bygone centuries; narrow portals; a host of house signs and a wealth of architectural styles: these are the houses of old Prague. Small palaces are full of great secrets, the stories hidden inside their walls having long helped shape the city´s haracter and made it ever more popular. The magic of the Faust House;...
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Tales of Old Prague Houses
The air of times long past; the strong walls from bygone centuries; narrow portals; a host of house signs and a wealth of architectural styles: these are the houses of old Prague. Small palaces are full of great secrets, the stories hidden inside their walls having long helped shape the city’s haracter and made it ever more popular. The magic of the Faust House; the Cubis...
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Tales of Old Prague Houses - Magdalena Wagnerová
<p></p><p> The air of times long past; the strong walls from bygone centuries; narrow portals; a host of house signs and a wealth of architectural styles: these are the houses of old Prague. Small palaces are full of great secrets, the stories hidden inside their walls having long helped shape the city’s haracter and made it ever more popular. The magic...
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Out There Screaming - Jordan Peele
<p>Jordan Peele, the visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us and Nope, curates this anthology of brand new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but also the chilling reality of injustice that haunts our world.'Not only likely to be the best anthology of the year, but one for the ages' – The GuardianFeaturing an introductio...
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Maths of Life and Death
"Kit Yates shows how our private and social lives are suffused by mathematics. Ignorance may bring tragedy or farce. This is an exquisitely interesting book.It's a deeply serious one too and, for those like me who have little maths, it's delightfully readable" - Ian McEwan "Kit Yates is a natural storyteller. Through fascinating stories and examples, he sho...
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Winnie The Pooh A Day at the Natural History Museum - Riordan Jane
Anotace: Join Winnie-the-Pooh and friends for a visit to the Natural History Museum in this beautiful special edition storybook. `The Dippywhat-cus?` asked Pooh. `Is she the one with the teeth?` When Winnie-the-Pooh has an outing to The Natural History Museum, he comes across some very, very old dinosaurs with rather long...
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Tales from the Loop
'Remarkable... beautiful' - National Public Radio These are the tales of an extraordinary journey: from the small towns of Sweden to the deserts of Nevada to the bitter chill of Siberia. A journey where children make friends with abandoned robots...in a world where dinosaurs roam freely. These are the Tales from the Loop. Stories told in both words and haunting illustrati...
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For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain: Winner of the Scottish National First Book Awards 2023 - Victoria MacKenzie
<p>SHORTLISTED FOR SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2023 A SCOTTISH BOOK TRUST BOOK OF THE MONTH THE TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH (HISTORICAL FICTION) A CHURCH HOUSE BOOKSHOP BOOK OF THE WEEK An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives of women - by a major new talent 'Miraculously conjured ... Brilliantly done' THE...
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Nightmare in Yemen
The author is donating his royalties from this book to the Sheba Organisation. NIGHTMARE IN THE YEMEN, written in conjunction with Neil M. C. Sinclair, a well-known local historian and the author, is the true story of what happened to an otherwise well-meaning father of five children who had the misfortune to discover his private life written bold a...
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Becoming Steve Jobs
No.1 New York Times Bestseller§§There have been many books-on a large and small scale-about Steve Jobs, one of the most famous CEOs in history. But this book is different from all the others.§§Becoming Steve Jobs takes on and breaks down the existing myth and stereotypes about Steve Jobs. The conventional, one-dimensional view of Jobs is that he was half-genius, half-jerk...
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Tom Lake: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Dutch House - Patchettová Ann
Anotace: THIS SUMMER, DIVE INTO TOM LAKE - THE BREATH-TAKING NEW NOVEL FROM ANN PATCHETT`One of our greatest living chroniclers of love and marriage ... Expect wonder; Patchett always delivers` ELLEThis is a story about Peter Duke who went on to be a famous actor.This is a story about falling in love with Peter Duke who wasn`t famous at all.It`s about falling so wildly i...
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Tom Lake: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Dutch House - Ann Patchett
<p>THIS SUMMER, DIVE INTO TOM LAKE - THE BREATH-TAKING NEW NOVEL FROM ANN PATCHETT 'One of our greatest living chroniclers of love and marriage ... Expect wonder; Patchett always delivers' ELLE This is a story about Peter Duke who went on to be a famous actor. This is a story about falling in love with Peter Duke who wasn't famous at all. It's about falling so wil...
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Massimo Listri. The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries. 40th Anniversary Edition - Elisabeth Sladek
<p>Bibliophiles, rejoice! In this rapturous photographic journey, Massimo Listri travels to some of the oldest and finest libraries to celebrate their architectural and historical wonder. From medieval to 19th-century, from private to monastic, this is a cultural-historical pilgrimage to the heart of our halls of learning and the stories they tell.</p> <p&g...
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Richard Gerver - Change
Change by Richard Gerver will give you all you need to understand change, to adapt to change, and to inspire others to do the same. "To be successful, you have to be able to adapt to change". (Sir Alex Ferguson). The pace of change is greater than ever. We all face new challenges every day in our jobs and in our personal lives. Those who can handle change are the most ful...
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Brooklyn Crime Novel - Lethem Jonathan
Anotace: 1978 and two14-year-old white boys are creating dubious art by using a hacksaw to cut multiple quarters into pieces. A child who`s just bought ice cream from a Mr. Softee truck witnesses a daylight sidewalk shooting in 1979. At another time, a couple of blocks over, a kid gets caught trying to shoplift an adult magazine from a Puerto Rican hole-in-the-wa...
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Levitation for Beginners - Dunn Suzannah
Anotace: `This is a novel about everything and nothing, sour and melancholy, with elements of sheer comedy and almost unbearable beauty... The older Deborah reflects that "I`m surprised any of us lived to tell the tale", and if this subtle book has a message, it is how alien and yet how relatable the past remains` Guardian Book of the Day`A bittersweet, nostalgia-tinged ...
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Option B
From Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life's inevitable setbacks. After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. "I...
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The Worst Princess - Kemp Anna
Anotace: Forget about all the things you think a princess is SUPPOSED to do - Princess Sue is not that kind of royalty! Princess Sue sits in a tower, waiting for her prince to come. But then she realises . . . she doesn`t need a prince at all! Find out how this feisty princess escapes the clutches of her twit of a prince in this funny, feminist twist on the traditional p...
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Unlocking the Universe - Hawking Stephen William
Anotace: Have you ever wondered how our universe began?Or what it takes to put humans on the moon? Do you know what happens in the microscopic world of a life-saving vaccine? What would you do if you could travel through space and time?Embark on the adventure of a lifetime in this beautiful collection of up-to-the-minute essays, mind-blowing facts and out-of-this-world c...
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