Neil Gaiman

Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city from an ancient evil in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.Every great city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's got six.But every city als...

Katherine Rundell Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children explores how children's books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children's fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playfulness, can awaken old hungers and create new perspectives on the world. This delightful and persuasive es...

First published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town has become a cult classic. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 by a Black River Falls photographer, Charles Van Schaik....

The funny, heart-breaking, wonderfully told story of love, family and overwhelming loss which led Emily Dean to find hope and healing in the dog she always wanted. Growing up with the Deans was a fabulous training ground for many things: ignoring unpaid bills, being the most entertaining guest at dinner, deconstructing poetry. It was never home for...

"There is nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing around in boats."When Mole flees his little underground home he discovers new friends and adventures with Raj, Toad and Badger.This much-loved story has been carefully retold for young children to enjoy. With beautiful illustrations throughout, it provides the perfect introduction to a cl...

The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not ...

Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the ...

Une histoire à lire et 16 musiques à écouter !Paco aime beaucoup jouer la musique de Mozart avec son ami Fonzy et surtout aller écouter les musiciens partout dans la ville. Car aujourd'hui c'est la fête de la musique à Paris !On découvre avec Paco les musiques du grand Mozart : -La Marche turque, -Sonate pour violon, -Symphonie n°25, -Ah vous dirai...

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Une histoire à lire et 16 musiques à écouter !Paco adore le rock ! Il prend sa guitare et il va à Londres, la ville du rock. Et s'il réalisait son rêve : enregistrer son premier disque... ?Au fil de l'histoire, on découvre avec Paco les instruments du rock : la guitare, la guitare électrique, la guitare basse, le piano, le saxophone, la contrebasse...

Une histoire à lire et 16 musiques à écouter !La Nouvelle-Orléans est la ville du jazz. Paco a emporté son saxophone et espère bien se faire quelques amis !Au fil de l'histoire, on découvre les instruments du jazz : le saxophone, la trompette, la clarinette, le trombone, la contrebasse, la guitare manouche, le violon, la batterie, le piano, la voix...

Paco est très content ! Ce soir, il y a un beau concert dans la forêt. Mais où sont donc passés tous les musiciens ? En route pour une balade toute en musique et en malice !En appuyant sur l'icône, l'enfant peut écouter la clarinette , le piano , le violon , la contrebasse , le célesta , le xylophone, le piccolo, le violoncelle, la flûte traversièr...

Lud-in-the-Mist, the capital city of the small country Dorimare, is a port at the confluence of two rivers, the Dapple and the Dawl. The Dapple has its origin beyond the Debatable Hills to the west of Lud-in-the-Mist, in Fairyland. In the days of Duke Aubrey, some centuries earlier, fairy things had been look upon with reverence, and fairy fruit wa...

Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache . . . and a pair of horns growing from his temples.At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory,...

For the first time ever, the pioneering autobiographical comics of master cartoonist Eddie Campbell (From Hell) are collected in a single volume Brilliantly observed and profoundly expressed, the ALEC stories present a version of Campbell's own life, filtered through the alter ego of "Alec MacGarry." Over many years, we witness Alec's (and Eddie's)...

The first two volumes chronicling the unique art and design of Roger Dean met with huge critical and popular success. Views (1975) went straight to number one in the Sunday Times bestseller list and went on to sell over a million copies. Magnetic Storm (1984) sold over 650,000 copies. These new editions, reworked to accompany the publication of the...

"Face the facts! This town is run by seven megalomaniac wizards!" When Howard Sykes comes home to find a giant thug -- the Goon -- in the kitchen, life turns upside down. Archer, one of seven siblings who control everything in their town from electricity to the police, has sent the Goon to collect the two thousand words Howard's father owes him. ...

The Shadow of the Torturer is the tale of young Severian, an apprentice in the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession -- showing mercy toward his victim.The Claw of the Conciliator continues the saga of Severian, banished from his home, as he undertakes a mythic quest to discover the aw...