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Аннотация: Seventeen-year-old Flora Banks has an illness and can't remember anything for very long. She writes notes to herself to help her remember things. But one day, Flora kisses a boy and she remembers it. Flora must find the boy who kissed her and learn why she still has that one memory.

Аннотация: Sisters Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil do not have parents, but they have a very kind uncle. The sisters learn to dance, act and sing at a dancing school. But soon they have no money. What will happen to them?

Аннотация: Oliver Twist's parents are dead, so he grows up in the workhouse, where life is very hard. One day Oliver runs away to London. There, he enters a life of crime with the old man Fagin, the Artful Dodger, frightening Bill Sykes and kind-hearted Nancy. How will Oliver live in this dangerous world?

Аннотация: A geek, a jock, a criminal, a princess. A murder. Everyone has secrets. How far would you go to protect yours? Five students at Bayview High must stay late at school, but only four of them leave alive. Bronwyn, Cooper, Nate, and Addy all become suspects in a murder. Who do you believe?

Аннотация: Rachel Watson catches the same train into London every morning. Every day, Rachel looks at the same row of houses and back gardens where she once used to live. But, one day, she sees something shocking happening in one of the gardens. What will Rachel do about it?

Аннотация: Scientist Jackson Oz has discovered that, all around the world, animals have started attacking humans. Jackson and fellow scientist Chloe set out to warn scientists and politicians about the attacks, before it is too late.

Аннотация: J.R.R. Tolkien’s linguistic invention was a fundamental part of his artistic output, to the extent that later on in life he attributed the existence of his mythology to the desire to give his languages a home and peoples to speak them. In the 1930s, Tolkien composed and delivered two lectures, in which he explored these two key elements of his sub-creative methodology. The second of these, the seminal Andrew Lang Lecture for 1938–9, ‘On Fairy-Stories’, which he delivered at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, is well known. But many years before, in 1931, Tolkien gave a talk to a literary society entitled ‘A Hobby for the Home’, where he unveiled for the first time to a listening public the art that he had both himself encountered and been involved with since his earliest childhood: ‘the construction of imaginary languages in full or outline for amusement’. This new critical edition, which includes previously unpublished notes and drafts by Tolkien connected with the essay, including his ‘Essay on Phonetic Symbolism’, goes some way towards re-opening the debate on the importance of linguistic invention in Tolkien’s mythology and the role of imaginary languages in fantasy literature.

Аннотация: В книге графиня Софья де Сегюр, детская писательница и сказочница, описывает жизнь в своем имении Нуэт, в Нормандии. На каникулы в имение съезжаются внуки и внучки графини, которые обожают слушать бабушкины сказки и с нетерпением ждут летних приключений. Произведения де Сегюр многократно переиздавались, переводились на разные языки, большинство из них были экранизированы. Ее книги, написанные более ста лет назад, продолжают покорять сердца по сей день, ведь они открывают читателю волшебный мир детства. Издание содержит неадаптированный текст, снабженный постраничным комментарием.

Аннотация: В монографии обсуждается проблема неоднозначности понятия «народная культура» и предлагаются два новых ракурса его рассмотрения – социально-информационный и концептуально-цивилизационный. В рамках этих подходов авторы характеризуют разные типы народной культуры (традиционную и массовую) через лингвосемиотику похорон. Материалом исследования выступают диалектная речь жителей сельско-деревенской местности, фольклорные эпитафии на городских кладбищах, а также названия городских ритуальных агентств.