Wildlife Photographer of the Year: unforgettable underwater photography

ll the pictures in this collection have been celebrated in the past decades by the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition—the world’s most famous and prestigious event of its kind. They include some of the most exceptional underwater images of animal behavior ever taken. The collection represents the work of more than 50 international photographers and decades of diving experience. A…

Rising Seas : flooding, climate change and our new world

Rising Seas: Flooding, Climate Change and Our New World gives youth an eye-popping view of what the Earth might look like under the rising and falling water levels of climate change. Photographs juxtapose the present-day with that same area's projected future. The shocking images will help them understand the urgency for action. Key issues in today's news will be better understood, such as the …

THE WOLF WHO FELLOUT OF A BOOK

Finding where you belong isn’t easy . . . especially when you’re a storybook wolf. In this illustrated fractured fairy tale for kids, a book falls to the floor and a wolf tumbles out. The wolf needs to get back to his story, but a hungry cat has other ideas. Jumping from book to book, this wolf is on a journey to find a new home (and to avoid becoming dinner). His sharp, pointy teeth don…

A WILD CHILD'S GUIDE TOO ENDANGERED ANIMALS

Highlights the plight of 43 endangered species from around the world: Take a trip through freshwaters, oceans, forests, mountains, tundras, deserts, grasslands, and wetlands while learning about rare and well-known animals and their habitats. • Vivid illustrations bring caribous, axolotls, giraffes, agami herons, and many more to life on these rich and varied pages. • Illuminating text …

CONTINENTAL DRIFT

Explore how the continents have drifted, from the Devonian Era to the Jurassic Period, to form the world as we know it! This beautiful book will take readers through different periods and explore the ecosystems and conditions of each time and how the changes led to where we are now. Learn about sea life, insects, animals, plants, rocks, and more! This book will be sure to capture the attention …

POETRY PROMPTS: ALL SORTS OF WAYS TO START A POEM FROM JOSEPH COELHO

Each fun and engaging prompt for writing a poem helps children discover how to write poems and then read them out loud. This is a book to build confidence and literacy skills through channeling children's imaginations. This is a book for the whole family to enjoy, bright, cheerful but cool illustrations will appeal to children of all primary ages.

Scythe

In a world where disease, war and crime have been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ("gleaned") by professional scythes. Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythes' apprentices, and despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation, they must learn the art of killing and understand the necessity of what they do. Only one of them will be chosen as …

I Who Have Never Known Men

The story starts in an underground bunker where thirty-nine women and one young girl-- our narrator --are imprisoned in a cage. They don't remember how they got there and they have no idea why they are there. The women remember a life before the cage with families, friends and jobs, but the child remembers only their current existence. They are watched over and fed by male guards who tell them …

If I Stay

Simultaneously tragic and hopeful, this is a romantic, riveting and ultimately uplifting story about memory, music, living, and dying.

A River in Borneo : a tale of East Indies

It is the summer of 1964 during the Far Eastern war euphemistically called ‘Confrontation.’ A British Royal Marine patrol has orders to penetrate Indonesian Borneo to locate a river thought by Allied intelligence to be in use by the Indonesians to build up supplies before launching a major attack on Sarawak. Charged with this mission, Lieutenant Charles Kirton makes a most extraordinary dis…

The Hate U Give

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AROUND THE WORLD 80 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Come on a journey around the globe to explore a musical cave, peek inside a piano and find out how to play an instrument without touching it. From ancient instruments made from shells to instruments that make music with lightning, discover an orchestra of instruments you can shake, pluck, scrape, hit and blow-and how you can make your own. Learn how instruments are used in celebrations, ceremon…

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE

In the future, will we teleport from place to place, keep dinosaurs as pets, or 3D-print our dinner? Will we live on Mars or upload our brains to computers? Could we solve climate change by making all our energy from mini stars we build here on earth? In this book, you'll meet the scientists working to bring science fiction to life and learn how soon we might have amazing new technology. You'll…

A Man Called Ove

A word-of-mouth bestseller that has caused a sensation across Europe, Fredrik Backman's irresistible novel about the angry old man next door is an uplifting exploration of the unreliability of first impressions and a gentle reminder that life is sweeter when it is shared with other people.

The Bears Autumn

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The Stationery Shop of Tehran

Roya loves nothing better than to while away the hours in the stationery shop run by Mr Fakhri. The store, stocked with fountain pens, shiny ink bottles, and thick wads of writing paper, also carries translations of literature from all over the world. Bahman, with his burning passion for justice, is like no one else she has ever met. But all around them, as their relationship blossoms, life …

Beartown

Cut-off from everywhere else it experiences the kind of isolation that tears people apart. And each year more and more of the town is swallowed by the forest. Then the town is offered a bright new future. But it is all put in jeopardy by a single, brutal act. It divides the town into those who think it should be hushed up and forgotten, and those who'll risk the future to see justic…

His Dark Materials

Northern Lights introduces Lyra, an orphan, who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Lyra's search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. In The Subtle Knife she is joined on her journey by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows …

A Vindication of the Rights of Women

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman , written by British philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the eighteenth century who did not believe women should receive a rational education. She argues that women ought to have an education…

The Road

The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize–winning postapocalyptic classic, The Road, approved and authorized by McCarthy and illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist Manu Larcenet "Superb. A suitably dark graphic treatment of McCarthy’s postapocalyptic masterpiece." (Kirkus) The story of a nameless father and son trying to survive with their humanity intact in…

Anxious People

Anxious People “captures the messy essence of being human….It’s clever and affecting, as likely to make you laugh out loud as it is to make you cry” (The Washington Post). This “endlessly entertaining mood-booster” (Real Simple) is proof that the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope can save us—even in the most anxious of times.

My Curious World

Do you have a lot of curious questions? Then you've picked up the RIGHT book! Your world is a very curious place. Marvellous illustrations and mighty facts explore all that is magical and mind-blowing about space., earth, animals, science, and much more.

365 WORDS EVERY KID SHOULD KNOW

From the tough to spell to the downrigth funny, this book contains 365 words all kids should know. One for every day of the year. Some words have double meanings; others have strange stories behind them. There are old words, new words, silly words, political words, sporty words, foodie words and words stolen from other languages.

The Emperor's New Clones

Robbie hates being the Emperor. He has so many royal duties to do that he never has time to play his favourite sport, blasterball. If only someone else could do them for him

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear?

A board book edition of this much-loved classic. A sequel to the bestselling Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Bill Martin's playful story combining animals, colours and sounds, is beautifully illustrated by Eric Carle. A simple rhymthic text introduces the reader to a menagerie of wild animals from a roaring lion to a fluting flamingo and a trumpeting elephant.

Overlord 1 - The Undead King

YGGDRASIL. Sebuah gim virtual reality yang memungkinkan pemainnya untuk merasakan dunia gim secara nyata, menjadi gim yang sangat populer sejak dirilis pada tahun 2126. Namun sayangnya, 12 tahun kemudian, gim ini harus berakhir. Pada hari terakhir sebelum server gim ditutup, seorang player bernama Momonga bernostalgia di dalamnya. Momonga memutuskan untuk berada di dalam gim hingga akhir. Ke…

On The Farm

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Malam Seribu Jahanam

Malam Seribu Jahanam adalah novel kedua dari Intan Paramaditha. Mengolah kisah-kisah Islami dan mitos nusantara, novel ini merupakan dongeng gelap tentang sesal, malu, dan hantu—sebuah renungan tentang praktik beragama, retakan dan reruntuhan kelas menengah, serta rapuhnya persaudaraan.

Mind Over Matter

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