Сказки
Различные книги в жанре СказкиСлавная Галя, или Новогоднее желание
Девочка Галя прибегает домой из школы разочарованной и даже в слезах. Ее подвел лучший друг, рассказав при всем классе о ее мечтах стать зоологом – профессии, которая не так уж и ценится в современном мире, где все хотят стать супермоделями и банкирами. Однако эта история имела бы другое окончание, если б не случилась в канун Нового года, когда происходят настоящие чудеса. И на помощь Гале приходит ее отражение из лужи слез, которую девочка наплакала от горя. Волшебная Галя предлагает отомстить всем врагам, и они уже решили как. Как вдруг домой с работы возвращается папа Гали, который объясняет дочке, чем отличается настоящая дружба от приятельства. Мести не понадобилось, когда все встало на свои места. Замечательная новогодняя история с волшебной и не только волшебной развязкой.
Сказки на дне расписной пиалы
На дне пиалы нарисованы диковинные узоры – огненная дева обретает крылья, темноглазая дева пляшет со змеями, дева-мастерица прядёт лунный свет. Сколько орнаментов на этой пиале, сколько историй! Расскажет ли она все аль утаит свои древние секреты?
The District Nurses of Victory Walk
The compelling bestseller from the author of The Mersey Daughter and Winter on the Mersey.Alice Lake has arrived in London from Liverpool to start her training as a District Nurse, but her journey has been far from easy. Her parents think that she should settle down and get married, but she has already had her heart broken once and isn’t about to make the same mistake again.Alice and her best friend Edith are based in the East End but before they’ve even got their smart new uniforms on, war breaks out and Hitler’s bombs are raining down on London. Alice must learn to keep calm and carry on as she tends to London’s sick and injured, all the time facing her own heartache and misfortune while keeping up the Spirit of the Blitz…
Summer at the Cornish Cafe
One summer can change everything . . .Perfect for readers who love Debbie Johnson, Cathy Bramley and Trisha Ashley.“Warm and funny and feel-good. The best sort of holiday read.” Katie Fforde"Filled with warm and likeable characters. Great fun!" Jill MansellDemi doesn’t expect her summer in Cornwall to hold anything out of the ordinary. As a waitress, working all hours to make ends meet, washing dishes and serving ice creams seems to be as exciting as the holiday season is about to get.That’s until she meets Cal Penwith. An outsider, like herself, Cal is persuaded to let Demi help him renovate his holiday resort, Kilhallon Park. Set above an idyllic Cornish cove, the once popular destination for tourists has now gone to rack and ruin. During the course of the Cornish summer, Demi makes new friends – and foes – as she helps the dashing and often infuriating Cal in his quest. Working side by side, the pair grow close, but Cal has complications in his past which make Demi wonder if he could ever truly be interested in her.Demi realises that she has finally found a place she can call home. But as the summer draws to a close, and Demi’s own reputation as an up and coming café owner starts to spread, she is faced with a tough decision . . .A gorgeous story exploring new beginnings, new love and new opportunities, set against the stunning background of the Cornish coast – starring a feisty, compelling heroine who leaps off the page and encourages you to live your summer to the full.If you loved Summer at the Cornish Cafe, don’t miss the next in the Penwith Trilogy, Christmas at the Cornish Cafe!
Holiday In The Hamptons
‘The literary equivalent of an ice cream on a summer afternoon’ – Daily Express'An absolute delight.’ – Veronica HenryShe’s moved on…Felicity Knight loves New York. But when she spots her ex-husband in the city, Fliss is desperate to escape!He’s moved back…Vet Set Carlyle is back from California to establish his own practice and settle down. When he learns that his ex Fliss still lives close by, that future is looking a whole lot brighter…Will a perfect escape bring them back together?With the help of his adorable dog Lulu, and a sprinkling of beachside magic, Seth is determined to make Fliss see he’s never stopped loving her!’Wonderfully romantic and sumptuously atmospheric.’ – Alex Brown, author of The Secret Orchard Cottage
The River Maid
The first in the stunning River Maid series by Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly CourtLondon, 1854: twenty-year-old Essie Chapman lives with her father in poverty stricken Limehouse, working on the river as a boatman. Her life seems set before her, never to leave this part of London and forever at her father’s beck and call.Then, one night, she must transport a mysterious man from a foreign ship to the banks of the Thames, a man who ends up renting a room in Essie’s house, identifying himself only as ‘Raven’.When curiosity gets the better of her, Essie follows him and unwittingly becomes involved in something far greater than she could ever have guessed. Finding herself on a ship bound for the penal colonies in Australia with Raven and his cousin Alice, this is only the start of a remarkable journey taking her to the other side of the world and back again…
An Orphan’s War
War rages, but the women and children of Liverpool’s Dr Barnardo’s Home cannot give up hope. An Orphan’s War is a gripping saga about love and loss on the Home Front.LIVERPOOL, 1940 When her childhood sweetheart Johnny is killed in action, Maxine Grey loses more than her husband – she loses her best friend. Desperate to make a difference in this awful war, Maxine takes a nursing job at London’s St Thomas’s Hospital.A BROKEN HEART Maxine takes comfort in the attentions of a handsome surgeon, but Edwin Blake might not be all he seems. And as the Blitz descends on the capital, Maxine returns to Liverpool heartbroken and surrounded by the threat of scandal.A BRAVE SPIRIT When offered a job at a Dr Barnardo’s orphanage, Maxine hopes this is the second chance she has been looking for. And one little boy in particular helps her to realise that she needs the orphans just as much as they need her…A gripping story of love, friendship and hope in the darkest of places. Molly Green is an exciting new voice in saga fiction, perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries and Katie Flynn.
The Children of Húrin
Painstakingly restored from Tolkien’s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, this illustrated paperback of the epic tale of The Children of Húrin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves, dragons, Dwarves and Orcs, and the rich landscape and characters unique to Tolkien.It is a legendary time long before The Lord of the Rings, and Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwells in the vast fortress of Angband in the North; and within the shadow of the fear of Angband, and the war waged by Morgoth against the Elves, the fates of Túrin and his sister Niënor will be tragically entwined.Their brief and passionate lives are dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bears them as the children of Húrin, the man who dared to defy him to his face. Against them Morgoth sends his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire, in an attempt to fulfil the curse of Morgoth, and destroy the children of Húrin.Begun by J.R.R. Tolkien at the end of the First World War, The Children of Húrin became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth. But he could not bring it to a final and finished form. In this book Christopher Tolkien has constructed, after long study of the manuscripts, a coherent narrative without any editorial invention.
Золушка. Реинкарнация
Человечеству известно более 370 историй о Золушке. В этой сказке описано семь, основанных на реальных исторических фактах. От Древней Греции, Египта, до Франции и Германии. Повествование представлено в виде описания 7 жизней одного человека. В каждой из своих жизней Золушка находит своего принца. Где-то это был Фараон, где-то Начальник Корейской Провинции, где-то Китайский Генерал. Но в каждой из своих жизней ей придется пройти много испытаний, прежде чем отыскать свое счастье.
Чудо без фантиков
Когда-то одна девочка, так верила в Деда Мороза, что он взял и пришел к ней в гости! Чтобы лично положить подарок ей под ёлку. Да, настоящий! Прям весь! От головы и до пят! Настоящий Дед Мороз! Пришел и подарил! Не верите? А Дед Мороз в вас очень верит! Поверьте и вы в него…