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PRE-ORDER THE FAKE MATCHMAKER, THE HILARIOUS NEW ROMCOM BY SONYA SINGH, OUT SPRING 2025! Manny is a high-flying CEO who runs a company that specializes in other people’s breakups. Happily engaged and often featured in the media she appears to have it all. But when she is photoshopped to look less Asian and her fiancé decries he doesn’t “see race” she decides it’s time to reconnect with her roots. Determining she needs to learn more about her community, she convinces a client to take her to his brother’s big Indian wedding. When they arrive, Manny is instantly thrown into a celebration filled with fashion, food, dancing and family. There she discovers more than she could have ever dreamt of…

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There's a spooky mystery at school, in the sixth hilarious case in the award-winning Anisha, Accidental Detective series!It's Halloween and everyone is excited about the school disco. It's a bit much for me - all that dressing-up and dancing. I'd rather cosy up with a good book, but Milo, Mindy and Manny are all super excited. Or at least, they were excited, until all these strange things started happening - messages appearing on the whiteboard, lights flickering on and off, books flying off the library shelves... Some of the other kids have been whispering that the school is haunted, but Mr Graft says that if the spooky mischief doesn't stop, then the disco will be cancelled. Looks like a mission for me, Anisha, accidental ghost detective!Praise for the Anisha, Accidental Detective series:Winner of the Sainsbury's Children's Book Prize and of the Crimefest Best Crime Novel for ChildrenShortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award, the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, and the Laugh Out Loud Book Award"DELIGHTFUL! Perfect for younger detectives - so funny and clever and sweet" Robin Stevens, author of the Murder Most Unladylike series"An absolute joy" Jennifer Killick, author of Crater Lake"Super funny and packed with lovable characters" Swapna Haddow, author of Dave Pigeon

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In the tradition of the bestselling Workouts from Boxing's Greatest Champs, this sequel volume will KO all boxing/combat sport enthusiasts. Featuring a classic coterie of international boxing legends, this superb anthology is illustrated throughout by some of the best photos of them at work in the ring or training in the gym. Our celebrated present-day fighters and former champions range from the instantly recognisable Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather Jnr, Mike Tyson, Thomas Hearns and Roberto Duran to such respected international figures as Danny Williams and Vitali Klitschko. Incorporating career biographies for every fighter, the reader is introduced to the fitness and training regimes of some of the world's most physically powerful men. Culled from the author's original research and interviews, the greatest ever champion pugilists grant us a fly-on-the-wall look at their 'Typical Day' and their personal workout regimes.

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Winner of The Week Junior Book Awards Children's Book of the Year: Younger FictionThe Mistrys are off on holiday, in the fifth hilarious mystery in the award-winning Anisha, Accidental Detective series!Pack your bags - we're off to a holiday camp! Milo can't wait to see the wildlife, Manny's learning survival skills, and even Granny's going to have a go at archery. Honestly, I just want to read my book, but there's NEVER any time to relax for Anisha, Accidental Detective. The holiday park's mascot, Delilah the duck, has been DESTROYED, and my new friend Cleo is everyone's number one suspect. But I'm sure she's innocent, and I'm going to do whatever it takes to prove it. Let's hope we can find the real culprit, and QUACK the case!!Praise for the Anisha, Accidental Detective series:Winner of the Sainsbury's Children's Book Prize and of the Crimefest Best Crime Novel for ChildrenShortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award, the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, and the Laugh Out Loud Book Award"DELIGHTFUL! Perfect for younger detectives - so funny and clever and sweet" Robin Stevens, author of the Murder Most Unladylike series"An absolute joy" Jennifer Killick, author of Crater Lake"Super funny and packed with lovable characters" Swapna Haddow, author of Dave Pigeon

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Peek inside the 3D windows! Peer through forest foliage, a gushing waterfall and the different levels of a crumbling temple as Paola, Manny, Mr Stone and Annie search for Amazonian gold! This title includes three-dimensional layered pages that enable youngsters to explore all the charming illustrations. Features: special finish on the cover and the conclusion of the story enhances children's enjoyment and excitement; and a book for 3- to 7-year-olds to treasure. Deep within the Amazon Rainforest live Paola, her little brother Manny, their parents and their old grandmother, Reina - not forgetting their macaw Falco, a feathered friend with a fondness for figs. Paola's village is very poor, and outsiders are encouraging the inhabitants to sell their homes. Luckily, Paola has a plan: she and Manny will go in search of the lost treasure of Cristobal! However, they get more than they bargained for. An archaeologist called Simon Stone and his young daughter Annie are also hunting for relics - with their pet monkey Mo-Mo. Together they face dangers such as a snarling alligator, temple traps, falling floors and venomous vipers. Will they survive to crack the secret Cristobal code and locate the legendary cache of gold...? Young readers will be enthralled by this gripping tale, and the detailed pop-up illustrations will take them right into the heart of the adventure.

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In seinem Kopf stellte er die mathematische Welt auf den Kopf. Er berechnete Flüssigkeitsströmungen, das Trägheitsmoment, entwickelte die Variationsrechnung und die moderne Zahlentheorie. Als Wissenschaftler steht er auf einer Stufe mit Newton und Einstein. Konstrukteure in aller Welt arbeiten tagtäglich mit seinen Formeln – egal ob es um den Schiffsrumpf der "Alinghi" geht oder um die Schwingungen des "Viaduc de Millau", der Welt höchster Autobahnbrücke. Dabei war er ein Mensch, der bürgerliche Behaglichkeit und Ruhe liebte. Nicht ganz einfach zur Gründungszeit von St. Petersburg inmitten russischer Kaisermorde oder im Berlin zur Zeit der schlesischen Kriege. Und erst recht nicht inmitten einer grossen Kinderschar. Der Comic von Elena Pini (Graphik) und Alice und Andreas K. Heyne (Text) zeichnet das Leben des genialen Baslers nach, der vor 300 Jahren geboren wurde, mit zwanzig Jahren seine Heimatstadt verliess – und nie wieder zurückkehrte.

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Over the last twenty years, critical discussion of Thomas Mann has highlighted the role of his homosexuality for his creative work. This not only is presented as a dynamic underlying Mann's creative work, but also is the supposed reason for the theme of guilt and redemption that grew ever stronger in Mann's fiction.Michael Maar mounts a devastating forensic challenge to this consensus: Mann was remarkably open about his sexual orientation, which he saw as no reason for guilt. But sexuality in Mann's work is inextricably bound up with an eruption of violence. Maar pursues this trail through Mann's writings and traces its origins back to Mann's second visit to Italy, during which the Devil appeared to him in Palestrina. Something happened to the twenty-one-year-old Thomas Mann in Naples that marked him for life with a burdensome sense of guilt...but what exactly was it?

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Wie ein Mann Howlin' Wolf, Ike Turner, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash und Elvis Presley entdeckte, und sein winziges Label Sun Records aus Memphis die Welt auf den Kopf stellte! Der Autor der von Kritikern gefeierten Elvis-Presley-Biografie Last Train to Memphis bringt uns das Leben von Sam Phillips, dem visionaren Genie, das im Alleingang den revolutionaren Weg von Sun Records lenkte. Die Musik, die er in seinem winzigen Studio im Memphis formen wurde mit so unterschiedlichen Kunstlern wie Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Howlin Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis und Johnny Cash -, brachte einen Sound hervor, den man so noch nie zuvor gehoert hatte. Phillips brachte eine einzigartige Mischung aus schwarzen und wei en Stimmen hervor, die voller Leidenschaft die Vitalitat der einheimischen, amerikanischen Tradition verkundeten und gleichzeitig ein fur alle Mal eine neue, integrierte Musikwelt proklamierten. Mit umfangreichen Interviews und persoenlichen Beobachtungen aus erster Hand, die sich uber einen Zeitraum von 25 Jahren mit Phillips erstreckten, sowie umfassenden Interviews mit fast allen legendaren Kunstlern von Sun Records, liefert Guralnick ein leidenschaftliches, vorbehaltloses Portrat eines amerikanischen Originals.

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