Penguin All the Bright Places Нивен Дженнифер

Захватывающая и красивая история о девочке, которая учится жить у мальчика, которого тянет к смерти • Теодор Финч пытается искать в мире хорошие вещи, даже если иногда ему не всегда удается их найти • Вайолет Марки существует ради будущего, считая дни до того, как она сможет сбежать из своего городка в Индиане и его болезненных воспоминаний о своей сестре • Когда они встречаются на выступе башни, то, что могло бы стать их концом, превращается в их начало • Только с Вайолет Финч может по-настоящему быть самим собой - забавным парнем, который на самом деле хочет испытывать радость в жизни • И когда Вайолет с Финчем, она забывает желать, чтобы дни прошли как можно быстрее, и начинает их проживать • Но по мере того, как мир Вайолет растет, мир Финча начинает сжиматься

From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing and powerful sequel • Gretel Fernsby is a quiet woman leading a quiet life. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany seventy years ago or the dark post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, the commandant of one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps • But when a young family moves into the apartment below her, Gretel can't help but befriend their little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back painful memories. One night, she witnesses a violent argument between his parents, which threatens to disturb her hard-won peace • For the second time in her life, Gretel is given the chance to save a young boy

Saul David's All The King's Men is a thrilling history of the British Redcoat from the English Civil War to Waterloo • Between 1660 and 1815 British supremacy on foreign soil was near total. Central to this success was the humble redcoat soldier who showed heroism in battle and stoicism in peace, despite appalling treatment. This is their story: of brutal discipline and inedible food, of loyalty and low pay, of barracks and battlefield - of victory, defeat, life and death

The first girl came back • The next might not be so lucky • A girl is taken from the streets of Oxford. But it's unlike any abduction DI Fawley's seen before • Faith Appleford was attacked, a plastic bag tied over her head, taken to an isolated location . . . and then, by some miracle, she escaped • What's more, when DC Erica Somer interviews Faith, she quickly becomes convinced that Faith knows who her abductor is. Yet Faith refuses to press charges. Without more evidence, it's looking like the police may have to drop the case • But what happens if Faith's attacker strikes again? • The fourth twisty, up-all-night thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling Cara Hunter. For fans of Shari Lapena, Claire Douglas and Lisa Jewell

Eighty-five-year-old Hendrik Groen is fed up to his false teeth with coffee mornings and bingo • Along with fellow members of the Old-But-Not-Dead Club, he embarks on a wild spree of octogenarian anarchy. But the home's director will not stand for any more drunken bar crawls, illicit fireworks or geriatric romance. The good name of the care home will not be disgraced • But when Hendrik learns of a plan to close the home down he realises life outside it could be much worse. He and the gang must stop the closure before it's too late. Or drop dead trying

Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable, quiet life, despite her dark and disturbing past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany over seventy years before. She doesn't talk about the post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, the commandant of one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps • Then, a young family moves into the apartment below her. In spite of herself, Gretel can't help but begin a friendship with the little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back memories she would rather forget. One night, she witnesses a violent argument between Henry's mother and his domineering father, one that threatens Gretel's hard-won, self-contained existence

Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout • I know the part I want to play here at MVB High. I want to be the girl who can do anything • Once dubed 'America's Fattest Teen', she is only seen for her weight. Not the girl underneath • Since her mum's death she's been picking up the pieces in private, alone with her heartbroken father • But now, Libby is ready. She's ready for high school, for new friends, for love and for every possibility life has to offer • Everyone thinks they know Jack Masselin too • Be charming. Be hilarious. Don't get too close to anyone • Yes, he's got swagger, but he's also mastered the art of fitting in • What no one knows is that Jack has a secret: he can't recognize faces. Even his own brothers are strangers to him • He's the guy who can re-engineer and rebuild anything, but he can't understand what's going on with the inner workings of his own brain

The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was perhaps the most ambitious, elaborate and confident of all the British attempts to master the South Pole. Like the others it ended in disaster, with the Endeavour first trapped and then crushed to pieces in the ice and its crew trapped in the Antarctic, seemingly doomed to a slow and horrible death. In the face of extraordinary odds, Shackleton, the expedition's leader, decided on the only course that might just save them: a 700 nautical mile voyage in a small boat across the ferocious Southern Ocean in the forelorn hope of reaching the only human habitation within range: a small whaling station on the rugged, ice-sheeted island of South Georgia • South tells the story both of the whole astonishing expedition and of Shackleton's journey to rescue his men - one of the greatest feats of navigation ever recorded

Everyone is talking about Grace's family • But for all the wrong reasons • Grace wanted to give her daughters the childhood she never had. And with teenage golden girl Lilly she's never had to worry • But when Lilly mysteriously collapses at school, Grace's carefully ordered world crashes down. It turns out Lilly isn't the perfect daughter after all and Grace becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth • Which is when she takes her eyes off her youngest daughter, Mia and learns that the closer the family, the darker the secrets • Beneath the Surface explores the weight of the past upon the present, the burden of keeping secrets and what happens when children get caught in the undercurrents of adult relationships

A ground-breaking book by the world-leading expert in sensory science: Freakonomics for food • Why do we consume 35% more food when eating with one more person, and 75% more when with three? • Why are 27% of drinks bought on aeroplanes tomato juice? • How are chefs and companies planning to transform our dining experiences, and what can we learn from their cutting-edge insights to make memorable meals at home? • These are just some of the ingredients of Gastrophysics, in which the pioneering Oxford professor Charles Spence shows how our senses link up in the most extraordinary ways, and reveals the importance of all the 'off-the-plate' elements of a meal: the weight of cutlery, the placing on the plate, the background music and much more. Whether dining alone or at a dinner party, on a plane or in front of the TV, he reveals how to understand what we're tasting and influence what others experience

'I don't think I'm that unusual, and I don't think I'm crazy either' • Bombed-out Cologne after the war is a strange place to be. The black market in jam and corsets is booming, half-destroyed houses offer opportunities for stealing doors and eggcups, and de-Nazification parties are all the rage. Ferdinand - daydreamer, former prisoner of war, wearer of a curious jerkin - drifts around the city, observing life's absurdities, strenuously avoiding his fiancee and drinking brandy with his fabulous cousin. When he gets a job as a 'cheerful adviser' to those down on their luck, will Ferdinand's fortunes change too? • Irmgard Keun's exuberantly funny and touching final novel takes the tiny moments of triumph and defeat in one man's life, and turns them into a moving portrait of the human spirit

'I always wanted to be friends with both my sisters. Perhaps that was the source, really, of all the troubles of my life...' • It is the summer of 1938 and Phyllis Forrester has returned to England after years abroad. Moving into her sister's grand country house, she soon finds herself entangled in a new world of idealistic beliefs and seemingly innocent friendships. Fevered talk of another war infiltrates their small, privileged circle, giving way to a thrilling solution: a great and charismatic leader, who will restore England to its former glory • At a party hosted by her new friends, Phyllis lets down her guard for a single moment, with devastating consequences. Years later, Phyllis, alone and embittered, recounts the dramatic events which led to her imprisonment and changed the course of her life forever