Livre

Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, miserable, bitter old man with no friends. One cold Christmas Eve, three ghosts take him on a scary journey to show him the error of his nasty ways. By visiting his past, present and future, Scrooge learns to love Christmas and the people all around him.

Return to the extraordinary world of Miss Peregrine''s Peculiar Children . . .A fragile peace.br>An apocryphal warning.br>Chaos waiting in the heart of the storm.With his dying words, H - Jacob''s final connection to his grandfather Abe''s secret life - entrusts Jacob with a mission: Deliver newly contacted peculiar Noor Pradesh to an operative known only as V.Noor is being hunted. She is the subject of an ancient prophecy, one that foretells a looming apocalypse. Save Noor, save the future of all peculiardom. With only a few bewildering clues to follow, time is running out.With enemies behind him and the unknown ahead, Jacob Portman''s story continues as he takes a brave leap forward into The Conference of the Birds, the newest

'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust' (Wall Street Journal) 'A quiet triumph, moving and simple - impossible to describe accurately, and impossible to achieve in any medium but comics' (Washington Post) 'An epic story told in tiny pictures' (New York Times) 'A brutally moving work of art' (Boston Globe)

"After the collapse of France the question which arose in the minds of all our friends and foes was : "Will Britain surrender too?" Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that sweet the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring, compelling work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Their Finest Hour enthrallingly recounts key, events and baffles from May to December 1940 as Britain stood isolated while Nazi Germany pursued its seemingly unconquerable war path: the fall of France, Dunkirk and the Baffle of Britain, the horrors of the Blitz and Hitler's plans to invade and crush Russia. In his introduction, John Keegan discusses Churchill's historical methods and the extraordinary achievement of The Second World War, This volume also includes appendices, an index, maps and diagrams. "This astonishing document ranks among the great classics of history" C. V. Wedgwood