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      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA
        2022

        Blueberries for Andy

        by Khrystia Venhryniuk (Author), Nadiia Kushnir (Illustrator)

        How can we talk to children about problems relating to ecology and the environment? And how can we teach them to be merciful and kind to one another and to all creatures great and small? Psychologists and teachers advise us to discuss such important topics since childhood. The brave and determined Andy the Bunny and his cheerful friends embark on a difficult path, striving for a clear sky without smog , for ponds without filth and plastics, for organic fruit and vegetables without preservatives and chemicals, and much more. How will they do it? Through little steps every day to clean the planet and the minds of its inhabitants. And if you are interesting in reading this book, remember that Blueberries for Andy is not just about ecology: it is also a story of small and brave animals filled with fascinating discoveries and adventures.     From 6 to 8 years, 7783 words Rightsholders: Yulia Lyubka yuliapelepchuk@gmail.com

      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA
        2017

        My Name is Mariam

        by Nadiyka Herbish (Author), Mariya Foya (Illustrator)

        Mariam has lost her home in every sense: she ended up in a foreign country, faced hostility generated by stereotypes, experienced a bitter loss. All the same, she also got the two most valuable gifts, love and her life. When a war starts, those people who manage to escape its flames have nothing but memories, love, and burning desire to protect the people dear to them. Eventually, it is from these seeds that a whole new world can grow. All you need is a bit of “good soil” and support from the people around you.   From 6 to 12 years, 6700 words. Rightsholders: info@vivat.factor.ua or miroshnik@vivat.factor.ua

      • Trusted Partner
        Science & Mathematics
        August 2018

        Tomatoes

        by E Heuvelink

        This new edition of a successful, practical book provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of all aspects of the production of the tomato crop, within the context of the global tomato industry. Tomatoes are one of the most important horticultural crops in both temperate and tropical regions and this book explores our current knowledge of the scientific principles underlying their biology and production.Tomatoes 2nd Edition covers genetics and breeding, developmental processes, crop growth and yield, fruit ripening and quality, irrigation and fertilisation, crop protection, production in the open field, greenhouse production, and postharvest biology and handling. It has been updated to:- reflect advances in the field, such as developments in molecular plant breeding, crop and product physiology, and production systems.- include a new chapter on organic tomato production.- present photos in full colour throughout.Authored by an international team of experts, this book is essential for growers, extension workers, industry personnel, and horticulture students and lecturers.

      • The Blueberry Bear. A calendar for a dreamer

        by Anastasia Volhovska

        The Blueberry Bear is an unusual calendar story. The fun wordplay and bright paintings with lots of details to explore make the Blueberry Bear a perennial favorite for young readers, and this edition is a great stocking stuffer.Little boy and big friendly bear embark on a year-long journey, looking for adventures. It's a true story about nature, seasonal variations and activities, friendship and kindness. With delightful rich illustrations and zany wordplay, the Blueberry Bear is a must-have for every family with kids.

      • Racconti del bosco dei conigli - Il profumo dolce dell'autunno

        by Giuditta Campello

        Summer is ending. Autumn gives the first signs of its silent arrival: evening falls earlier, the leaves change colour, a cooler wind ruffles the fur. Hazel does not want it to be like that, however. She insists on snacking on the lawn and goes to call Alma, her turtle friend, to play together at the pond. But Alma is so sleepy, she is going to hibernate soon. So, she goes to Marta to do a little work. But Marta is about to leave. Like every year, she will go south to her sister. While Blackberry and Blueberry go with their mother and grandfather to gather chestnuts, Hazel, all alone on the swing, feels a melancholy growing inside her. She wishes autumn would not come. Comforting her is her grandmother who sings the song of autumn...  A story of growth, love, friendship. A story of small discoveries in the sweetness of family love, in which we learn, day after day, to care for each other.

      • Children's & YA

        Axel Washes the Rug

        by Tuula Pere, Nyamdorj Lkhaasuren

        By accident, Axel stains his grandmother’s rug with blueberries. During Granny’s afternoon nap, he tries to correct the mistake all by himself. The result is a surprise for both of them!

      • Food & Drink
        May 2022

        Japanese Superfoods

        Learn the Secrets of Healthy Eating and Longevity - the Japanese Way!

        by Yumi Komatsudaira

        Discover the secrets of Japanese superfoods and learn how you can incorporate them in your daily meals!Yumi Komatsudaira grew up in her family's seaweed shop, snacking on the green treats on which her family built their health-based culinary business. Now she shares the secrets of healthy eating that have guided the Japanese for ages.Superfoods are the life-giving ingredients that our bodies need for balance, wellness, healing, and longevity. Cholesterol-reducing, anti-aging, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, gut-healthy—the list of their benefits goes on and on. The Japanese—who face fewer health issues, less obesity, and have longer lifespans than those in other countries—have long known the power of these key ingredients.In this book, Komatsudaira combines her extensive expertise with ocean vegetables and Japanese cooking to show you how to create simple, delicious, and super-healthy Japanese-style meals at home.The power-packed, super-nutritive dishes include: Red Quinoa Salad with Hijiki and Kabocha My Grandma's Scattered Sushi Bowl Napa Cabbage, Potato and Bacon Miso Soup Edamame Hummus Yakitori Grilled Chicken Wings Okinawa-Style Braised Kombu and Pork Matcha Cheesecake Kombu Smoothies with Lemon Yogurt and Blueberries Unlock the power of nature's goodness, Japanese style. Japanese Superfoods allows you to discover a healthier way to eat while opening a whole new world of flavor and power-packed nutrition.

      • Children's & young adult fiction & true stories

        The Garden Dwellers

        by Liliana Stafford

        The Garden Dwellers is an illustrated story book based around a group of little people in a magical garden. The story is suitable for children age six to ren or any child who loves fairies and magic. This book is the first in a series.

      • Food & Drink
        February 2017

        The Mountain Cafe Cookbook

        A Kiwi in the Cairngorms

        by Kirsten Gilmour

        Legendary breakfasts to fuel days on the mountain; inventive, zesty salads and indulgent and luxurious cakes – these are all hallmarks of Aviemore's Mountain Cafe. Owner-chef Kirsten Gilmour draws on her Kiwi roots to turn out contemporary dishes with an antipodean love of fresh and bold favours, and in her debut cookbook she shares her secrets and inspirations with you. The Mountain Cafe Cookbook is packed full of Kirsten's irresistible recipes for the best-loved dishes and drinks at her Highland restaurant, alongside others drawn from her grandparents and infuenced by her travels around the world.This is not diffcult, fancy restaurant cooking, but gutsy, fresh, hearty food that will taste just as good from your kitchen as from hers. With vibrant photography by Paul Masson, The Mountain Cafe Cookbook has over 130 recipes including everything from Smoked Fish Chowder, Cider Sage Barbecue Chicken, Sloe Gin & Bramble Salmon Salad and Butternut Chilli & Coconut Fritters to Chocolate & Coconut Brioche, Cardamom Oranges, Badass Brownies and Passionfruit Melting Moments. All delicious and bursting with flavour.

      • Fiction in translation
        September 2020

        Alindarka's Children

        by Alhierd Bacharevič, Translated by Jim Dingley and Petra Reid

        Alindarka's Children (Dzieci Alindarkiis, 2014) is a contemporary novel about a brother and a sister interned in a camp. Here children are taught to forget their own language and speak the language of the colonizer, aided by the use of drugs as well as surgery on the larynx to cure the 'illness' of using the Belarusian language.   The children escape but are pursued by the camp leaders and left to thrive for themselves in this adventure, which bears a likeness to an adult, literary 'Hansel and Gretel'.   The dialogue translates well to the guttural differences between English Received Pronunciations and Scots. The Russian, translated by Jim Dingley, will become RP and the Belarusian, translated by Macsonnetries author Petra Reid, Scots. This novel has been translated and will be published in September 2020 thanks to the Pen Translates Award, won by Scotland Street Press in May 2019

      • Relationships
        May 2017

        Lover, Killers and Diamonds

        by Angel Jonson

        Lover, Killers and Diamonds is a story of a young and charismatic architect that is focused on establishing his career and enjoying the company of the ladies until the past of his family disrupts his life. He is forced to get involved in a deadly game and a search for diamonds in order to save his life.

      • Children's & YA
        March 2019

        Fantastickle Friend

        by Alexandra Salmela & Linda Bondestam

        Bean-Bean hates miserable Wednesdays. That is when he has to walk through the park alone, and in the park lurks Toughie.   Today things go very wrong. When Toughie bullies Bean-Bean, her essential device is broken. As a punishment, Bean-Bean’s beloved rag bird Stormbeard gets prisoned in the highest branches of a tree. Luckily, in the bus BeanBean bumps into a lion-maned cheetah, a genuine, living, imaginary friend. Together they hasten to save Strombeard.   The atypical adventure takes the friends into a forest to bounce on a trampoline in the appearance of fantastic fruit, and into the drains where they end up at the mercy of mutant monsters and mammoths.   Alexandra Salmela and Linda Bondestam’s book is a crazy, funny and brilliantly colourful story about the power of the imagination and the courage to be yourself –whether you are a child using words in a funny way, an elephant in mammoth’s clothing or a self-absorbed, constantly blabbering cheetah.

      • October 2020

        A Great Big Night

        by Kate Inglis (author), Josée Bisaillon (illustrator)

        When three travelling frog musicians roll through the forest on their painted bicycles, the other animals know they’re in for a great big party. Only one of them is not having fun: grumpy old grouse. Just as he’s telling everyone to stop with their foolish racket, their ruckus, their riff-raff, a great big storm rolls through the woods and puts an end to all the fun. When they emerge in the sleepy, dewy dawn, the animals see that grouse’s home is ruined, and quickly band together to help him. Together, the frog musicians and their friends show grouse that music is for more than just a party: a fiddle, a golden guitar, and a drum, when played just right, can do just as much good as the knock-knock-bang of fixing and making brand-new.

      • Business, Economics & Law
        August 2020

        Beyond Confrontation

        Globalists, Nationalists and Their Discontents

        by Phil Mullan

        Reactions to the Coronavirus pandemic have escalated the pre-existing tensions between the US and China and among different Western nations. Confrontations between political globalists and mercantilist nationalists - between supporters of the rules-based international order and proponents of overt protectionism - are fueling ever-stronger international resentments.    Coupling argumentative rigor with a pragmatic, plainspoken approach, Phil Mullan charts out a novel, democratic way past dangerous and self-defeating confrontations towards a future of open international collaboration based on popular participation within nation states. With its clear-eyed assessment of the opportunities and challenges of a more interconnected world - an assessment in which the economic internationalisation underpinning globalisation theories is neither romanticised nor vilified - Beyond Confrontation sets a judicious tone for the big geopolitical themes of our times.

      • October 2020

        Anne of Green Tomatoes

        The right to be safe and secure

        by DUSTIN MILLIGAN

        In the vines of Leamington, Ontario, lives Anne, a green tomato. Every day at the market, the red tomatoes are set out on display. When there is a shortage of red tomatoes, the veggislature orders that green tomatoes be painted red to fill the basket at the market. Anne must learn to outsmart the veggislature or be caught and painted for the market.

      • Food & Drink
        September 2018

        Brick Lane Cookbook

        by Dina Begum

        Brick Lane is famous for many things: for being home to the biggest Bangladeshi community in the UK, for its curry houses and Bengali sweet shops, for its graffiti, its long-running market and its beigel shops. Now, its also increasingly well known for its thriving art and fashion scene and the incredible street food available there. Dina Begum has been a regular visitor since she was a little girl eating lamb kofta rolls with her dad at the Sweet & Spicy cafe. In her first book, she celebrates Brick Lane's diverse food cultures: from the homestyle Bangladeshi curries she grew up eating to her own luscious and indulgent cakes, from Chinese-style burgers to classic Buffalo wings, from smoothie bowls to raw coffee brownies. With contributions from street food traders and restaurants including Gram Bangla, Beigel Bake, Blanchette, Chez Elles, St Sugar of London, Cafe 1001 and Moo Cantina, the Brick Lane Cookbook is a culinary map of the East End's tastiest street and a snapshot of London at its authentic, multi-cultural best.

      • Children's & YA
        May 2020

        Cat learns the colours

        by Emma Martínez

        A new series of sound books for the little ones to learn vocabulary. Cat will show you more than 100 words in your language and also in English! Let’s go!

      • Gelato! Gelato!

        by Massimo Bertonasco and Larissa Bertonasco

        As a little boy, Massimo Bertonasco not only loved ice cream, because his nonna had a latteria on the Ligurian coast, where she sold ice cream that her son Hugo made. But Massimo also loved to learn all the tricks and secrets from his uncle Hugo in order to make the best ice cream. And he has followed in their footsteps and opened his first ice cream parlour in Amsterdam in the year 2017. From the first weekend on people were queuing up for his delicious ice cream creations. And in the summer of 2020 the star gelato maker opened his third branch in Amsterdam.   Two things are very important to him, firstly the Italian sealed stainless-steel cylinders containing the ice. "Ice cream is very fragile and unstable, just like us humans." The hygienc water-cooled cylinders maintain the quality and ensure a minimum temperature shock when the lid is removed. Secondly fresh ingredients are most important. For instance, the organic milk comes from one especially selected farm only, the chocolate is directly from Venezuela, the lemons and pistachios are from Sicily – and of course he roasts these pistachios and all of the nuts himself.   From the enormous list of ice creams and sorbets, Massimo Bertonasco presents the most popular in Gelato! Gelato! All of which can be easily prepared at home. The recipes are accompanied by warm hearted memories and anecdotes from his family. And his niece, the artist Larissa, captures the colourful range of flavours with her sensual illustrations and makes you long not only for the mouth making ice creams, but also for Italy.

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