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Join Peggy in her garden adventures in a charming story about curiosity, determination, and the joys of everyday life.Join Peggy and her mother on a delightful day in the garden! Determined to help with every task, Peggy eagerly exclaims, "I'll do it, I'll do it!" as she plants beans, waters seedlings, removes weeds and tastes raspberries. Though the results aren't always perfect, Peggy's cheerful spirit never waivers.This charming book celebrates the small joys of everyday life paired with heart-warming illustrations and endearing messages of persistence and determination.

Marilyn Monroe’s final formal photo session and last interview have never been released in their entirety—until now. Completed in July 1962, just a month before her passing, the interview conducted by Richard Meryman was Marilyn at her most open and honest, and the photos by Allan Grant were the only ones ever taken in her home. Now, for the first time, you can read Marilyn in her own words and see her as the world has never seen her before.In July 1962, Marilyn Monroe was at a crossroads. At thirty-six years old and embroiled in legal battles with the studio of her current picture, Something’s Gotta Give, she was struggling with fame, age, and a studio system in which she no longer fit. When she sat down to give Richard Meryman an interview, she had a lot to say. Originally intended to be an interview about fame, over the course of four hours Marilyn talked about her entire life. Only a small portion of the interview was published in LIFE Magazine. When she died, just two days after t

Celebrate 100 years of Winnie-the-Pooh in 2026! Join Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends for birthday celebrations in this Disney Classic Storybook with a shiny red-foiled cover.

The Booker Prize-shortlisted, exhilarating novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026****SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**AGUARDIAN,INDEPENDENT and NEW STATESMAN Book of the Year'Slick, sharp, strange and singular . . . You’ll gulp this novel down in one in-breath'SAMANTHA HARVEY, Booker Prize-winning author ofOrbital'A lightning bolt of a novel'FINANCIAL TIMES'I’m not sure there’s anyone better writing in America today'ALEX PRESTON,ObserverOne woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilising novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we loveTwo people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young – young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting o

Two outsiders are drawn together in a powerful, emotionally gripping novel of love and war, from the Booker-shortlisted author of FlashlightTwo outsiders are drawn together in a powerful, emotionally gripping story of love and war – the debut novel from Susan Choi‘A major world writer’ New York TimesIn 1955, a new student arrives at a small college in the Tennessee mountains. Chuck is shy, speaks English haltingly, and on the subject of his earlier life in Korea he will not speak at all. Then he meets Katherine, a beautiful and solitary young woman who, like Chuck, is haunted by a dark episode from the past.Without quite knowing why, these two outsiders are drawn together, each sensing in the other the possibility of salvation.‘Epic and intimate’ The New Yorker‘A first novel of extraordinary sensibility and transforming strangeness’ Los Angeles Times‘Elegantly wrought’ Vanity Fair

I'm in your house. I'm your friend. You can trust me. A voice-driven, read-in-one-night suspense thriller now in paperback!I'm your friend. But can you trust me? A voice-driven, read-in-one-night suspense thriller narrated by a compulsive liar, perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Lucy Foley, and Liane Moriarty.* A Good Morning America March book club pick ** Soon to be a HULU television series starring Lindsay Lohan, Kit Harrington and Shailene Woodley*'Utterly intriguing, the pages turned themselves' LIZ NUGENT‘This had me gripped from the first to the last page. I just had to keep reading!’ LIANE MORIARTY‘With its punchy, chatty writing style nothing will stop this from becoming a runaway bestseller’ Daily Mail

The next in Elizabeth Helen's Amazon top 5 and Sunday Times bestselling Beasts of the Briar series, a spicy Beauty and the Beast retelling filled with enchanted fae, morally gray characters, a stupidly hot villain, and a princess who has found her Prince Charming. All four of them.Nowhere in the Enchanted Vale is safe anymore. Sira, the queen of the Below, has threatened open war, and there are no lengths she won't go to destroy us. But she might not get the chance... we may destroy ourselves first.After months apart, I'm finally reunited with my five mates in the heart of Winter. Our only hope to defeat Sira lies in the shattered remains of an enchanted rose. If my father can restore it, we'll gain control over Sira's creations and end her reign for good.But deep beneath the snow, a new threat stirs, one with vengeance in its heart and Keldarion in its sights.As Winter braces for war, my mates each face their own reckonings. Farron has embraced a terrifying power beyond imagination. D

Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The lives of these and many other men in the greatest epics of ancient Greece have been pored over endlessly in the past three millennia. But these are not just tales about heroic men. There are scores of women as well--complex, fascinating women whose stories have gone unexplored for far too long. In Penelope's Bones, award-winning classicist and historian Emily Hauser pieces together compelling evidence from archaeological excavations and scientific discoveries to unearth the richly textured lives of women in Bronze Age Greece--the era of Homer's heroes. Here, for the first time, we come to understand the everyday lives and experiences of the real women who stand behind the legends of Helen, Briseis, Cassandra, Aphrodite, Circe, Athena, Hera, Calypso, Penelope, and more. In this captivatin

https://youtu.be/sWzTrqVF3oQ 還在為畫圖表浪費時間排版嗎？本書帶你進入「純文字畫圖」的高效境界！本書從零開始，帶你無痛建置開發環境，並熟練掌握基礎語法。只要敲敲鍵盤，就能瞬間生成精準的流程圖，完美適應這個強調敏捷與 Vibe Coding 的開發世代，讓圖表跟程式碼一樣能輕鬆進行版本控制。 ★ Mermaid 圖表繪製實戰指南 ★ 環境建置與基本語法結構 ★ 流程圖：節點形狀、連結線條、子圖 ★ 序列圖：訊息傳遞、控制流程、進階功能 ★ 類別圖：類別關係與進階用法 ★ 狀態圖：複合狀態與進階功能 ★ ER 圖：關係與基數設定 ★ 看板／使用者旅程圖／需求圖 ★ 甘特圖：任務設定與進階功能 ★ 進階分析圖：象限圖、桑基圖、雷達圖、樹狀圖 ★ 架構設計：架構圖、區塊圖、C4 模型 ★ 整合與進階：主題樣式、Mermaid CLI、XY 圖表、ZenUML、平台整合 這本書更是你的軟體工程「圖表軍火庫」。我們深入解析物件導向設計必備的類別圖、展示系統通訊的序列圖，以及精準掌握生命週期的狀態圖。針對資料庫設計師，更詳細拆解 ER 圖的關聯與基數設定。短短幾行語法，就能把複雜的系統邏輯與資料結構表達得清清楚楚，徹底消滅團隊的溝通代溝！ 這不僅是工程師必讀，更是 PM 與架構師的案頭寶典。想追蹤專案或優化體驗？書中教你輕鬆寫出甘特圖、看板與使用者旅程圖。針對進階商業分析，更收錄少見的桑基圖、雷達圖與象限圖。資深大架構師也別錯過專闢的 C4 模型 與架構區塊圖章節，從底層邏輯到高階架構，一本幫你全面打通！ 掌握圖表後，我們教你將 Mermaid 發揮到極致。學習自訂專屬的主題樣式，或是透過 Mermaid CLI 將畫圖流程自動化，無縫整合進專案建置與 CI/CD 流程中。書中更獨家收錄 XY 圖表、ZenUML 語法，以及各大協作平台的高階整合技巧。現在就丟掉滑鼠，享受「Text-to-Diagram」的純粹寫碼樂趣吧！

From Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell comes a cozy, magical nighttime adventure, where a child discovers the mysterious, miniature world beyond his bedroom walls.Sent home from school earlier in the day with a fever, George awakens in the middle of the night to discover a cricket beckoning him on an adventure and soon finds himself shrunken down in size. He follows the insect guide through a crack in his bedroom wall, through the moonlit yard, and into the home of a family of mice at the base of an oak tree. There, in a tiny, cozy kitchen, George discovers the meaning of his quest: he must help the Mama mouse complete her special 102-bean soup for her sick young son.Delightfully sweet as it is fantastic, 102 seamlessly explores the values of curiosity, kindness, and generosity. The simple yet profound conclusion shares a clever wink with readers, encouraging them to believe the unbelievable.

Strong-willed Genya sets her mind to attending art school in 1980s Ukraine, amidst the turmoil of Soviet control, the Cold War, and the unfolding Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Genya--the nickname of the book's author and story's protagonist, Yevgenia--knows from age five that she wants to be an artist. When she turns eleven, she'll apply to the same prestigious art school that her mother attended. But making the cut won't be easy, especially with the school's open-secret rule that no more than 1% of the student body can be Jewish. The years before Genya's eleventh birthday bring plenty to distract her. Nothing in Soviet Ukraine is quite as it seems; adults mock the government, but only in private; and her classmates are terrified of American bomb strikes. And that's all before April 26, 1986, when Genya's police officer neighbor gets called to an emergency in a town she's never heard of: Chernobyl. A graphic memoir account of creator Yevgenia Nayberg's childhood, Past Perfect Radioactive

For the first time available to read, the screenplays for Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump's award-winning, groundbreaking films Kill List, A Field in England, and In the Earth.

Originating nearly four thousand years ago, Gilgamesh tells the story of a tyrannical king and his wild counterpart, Enkidu, whom the gods spawn to rein in the king's cruel tendencies. Their unlikely friendship leads to adventure, tragedy, and a quest for immortality. This archetypal tale is one of the most compelling and memorable in all of world literature.It's a testament to the story's inherent power that Gilgamesh continues to enthrall readers despite a long line of English translations that have privileged punctiliousness over narrative energy and readability. Now, in the hands of Simon Armitage, poet laureate of the United Kingdom, this profound ancient epic swells and flows in contemporary English with a vitality and immediacy that only a truly poetic rendering can achieve. Grounded in the latest scholarship, (Jacob L. Dahl of Oxford University, an expert in Assyriology, advised Armitage throughout), this version brings the ancient text to new life, offering readers a thrilling

Step into the world of Life is Strange: Double Exposure in this official in-universe guide to Caledon University, packed with hidden secrets and in-world commentary from the characters, including Max Caulfield, Safi, and Moses. Welcome to Caledon University, a prestigious academic institution nestled in the town of Lakeport in Vermont. Thinking of enrolling? Get on the freshman fast-track with this comprehensive look at campus life, notable locations, and the rich history that shapes Max Caulfield's world of Life is Strange: Double Exposure.But you won't just see life at Caledon through Max's camera lens. Explore detailed maps, staff profiles, and student societies, all while uncovering the true stories and hidden sides that make this university unforgettable. Scattered throughout the pages are handwritten notes, photos, doodles, and personal commentary from the students themselves, including Max, Safi, Moses and more, giving you a behind-the-scenes peek at what it's really like to nav

Tracing the origins of Britain's current malaise to the abandonment of social democracy What has happened to Britain? As drivers on its roads can attest, it is the pothole capital of Europe. Once-beautiful towns now feature peeling paint, weeds and broken railings. Public services are no longer fit for purpose. A malaise seems to infect every aspect of British life: its economy, polity, social order, sense of well-being, domestic regional relationships and place in the world. In The Land Where Nothing Works, the distinguished historian A. G. Hopkins offers an explanation, tracing Britain's current problems to decisions made in the 1980s that abandoned its postwar experiment in social democracy and mimicked policies of deregulation and privatisation promoted by the United States. In 1945, the new Labour government's development programme aimed at creating a social democracy that would benefit all members of society. The counterrevolution launched by Margaret Thatcher's government in 197