Dive into a world where love and literature collide in Eugene Field's "The Bibliomaniac's Bride." Our bachelor protagonist is a man consumed by a peculiar passion: collecting rare books. He spends his days scouring dusty shops and emptying his pockets for the next first edition. But his life takes an unexpected turn when he meets a woman as captivating as any finely bound volume. Will his bibliomania win out, or can he find a way to balance his love for the written word with the blossoming...

Bloomsbury presents Trix's Tree House by Ewa Jozefkowicz, read by Ellie Daniels.Join the Woodland Explorers Club to solve mysteries and protect the animals and trees of Willow Wish Wood. Six magical stories for 6+ inspiring learning through nature.Trix loves building dens! She is very excited to show the rest of the Woodland Explorers how to build THE BEST tree house, but when they arrive at her favourite building spot, Trix’s notices there are few...

A heartwarming story about Felicity, a cheeky, cheerful fish who loves adventure. She loves playing hide and seek in the coral, synchronised swimming and playing the guitar � but her favourite thing in the world is eating sweets! She, her little sister, Debby, and her friend Ronnie the octopus have lots of fun together, exploring, making music and often getting into trouble.

Felicity and Debby's journey into synchronized swimming at school proves challenging. Despite initial struggles, they refuse to give up, determined to find their own rhythm and style in the pool, pushing boundaries and inspiring others with their perseverance and creativity.

“Another great series.” — San Jose Mercury News**“A dazzlingly tricky mystery.” — Kirkus Reviews“A tremendous skein of red herrings, sharp and thorough police work, [and] mysterious connections.” — Bookgasm**It’s Christmastime in Brighton, and the city is abuzz about magician Max Mephisto’s star turn in Aladdin. But the holiday cheer is lost on DI Edgar Stephens. He’s investigating the murder of two children, Anni...

Following completion of the U.S. air base in Natal, Brazil, in 1942, U.S. airmen departing for North Africa during World War II communicated with Brazilian mechanics with a thumbs-up before starting their engines. This sign soon replaced the Brazilian tradition of touching the earlobe to indicate agreement, friendship, and all that was positive and good—yet another indication of the Americanization of Brazil under way during this period.In this translation of O Imperialismo Sed...

They called me Subject Twelve. I called it survival. Now I'm calling for blood.Eighteen months in the Breeding Halls. Seven Alphas. One desperate escape while pregnant with twins.Seven years later, I'm the Architect—the ghost who destroys Compact families from the shadows. My children are hidden, my past buried, my survival hard-won.Then Kael Vorsik finds me.The Alpha who used me fir...

The frozen wasteland of Snow World—known as Southern California before an alien invasion decimated civilization—is home to warring steampunk clans. Crankshafts, Imperials, Tinskins, Brineboilers, and many more all battle one another for precious supplies, against ravenous mutant beasts for basic survival, and with the mysterious Founders for their very freedom.Through this ruined world soars the Pneumatic Zeppelin, captained by the daring Romulus Buckle. In the wake of a n...

Moonshine Bigfoot has never met a problem he couldn't handle, but now the sheriff is a killer cyborg and the goons have laser guns that turn people into piles of goo...and Big Level makes their move, too. Not everyone makes it out alive! What we're saying is this issue goes to eleven, and things will never be the same.

While all music genres incorporate religious imagery, the blues has its origin in the soil of the church. In its infancy, the blues was often dismissed as undermining the church’s gospel songbook. The initial resistance, however, could not suppress the organic development of a genre of music born from suffering. The great Mississippi Delta bluesman, Muddy Waters, once said, "The blues was born behind a mule." Behind a beast of burden, the working man found in the blues a way to console the...

This highly regarded case-based book focuses on the principles of pre-hospital and retrieval medicine and the continuum of care provided for critically ill or injured patients in the field. The second edition has been extensively re-written and updated to keep up with the rapidly expanding sub-speciality of Pre-Hospital and Retrieval Medicine (PHRM)/Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine (PHEM). Written by leading specialists in PHRM, each question and discussion is usually illustrated with a pho...

Cases in Pre-hospital and Retrieval Medicine is a supplementary case book with a self directed approach, designed to complement core texts such as Cameron, or Sanders.The book focuses on the principles of PHC and Retrieval medicine and the continuum of care of the critically injured trauma patient in the field. It is case based and uses real pre-hospital and retrieval situations, presented in question format followed by an extensive discussion highlighting key areas of the specialty. The q...