Lucia Barni Książki

Bestsellerowy norweski autor kryminałów Jo Nesbø wkracza w świat książek dla dzieci z "Doktorem Proktorem", pierwszą częścią bardzo zabawnej serii dla dzieci. Pełna magii, dowcipu i humoru toaletowego, historia doktora Proktora zapewni śmiech chłopcom i dziewczynkom aż do samego końca. Jedenastoletni Nilly jest nowy w okolicy, ale szybko nawiązuje przyjaźnie: z doktorem Proktorem, ekscentrycznym profesorem, który wynajduje dziwaczne mikstury i proszki, oraz bystrą Lisą, która zawsze jest dręczona przez bliźniaków Trulsa i Tryma. Wszyscy mają świetną zabawę, gdy Nilly i Lisa pomagają doktorowi Proktorowi w opracowaniu jego najnowszego wynalazku, proszku, który powoduje wydawanie dźwięków. Proszek czyni Nilly'ego i Lisę bardzo popularnymi w szkole, gdy sprzedają go za 50 centów za woreczek. Gdy doktor Proktor tworzy wersję przemysłową, która może wysłać ludzi w kosmos, dzieci muszą podjąć wielkie wysiłki, aby chronić wynalazek i nie dopuścić, by wpadł w ręce sąsiadów, którzy chcą go wykorzystać do złych celów. W duchu Roalda Dahla i Lemony'ego Snicketa, "Doktor Proktor" oferuje zwycięskie połączenie humoru, przygody i absurdu, które dzieci (w każdym wieku) pokochają.

'My father died eleven years ago. I was only four then. I never thought I'd hear from him again, but now we're writing a book together' To Georg Røed, his father is no more than a shadow, a distant memory. But then one day his grandmother discovers some pages stuffed into the lining of an old red pushchair. The pages are a letter to Georg, written just before his father died, and a story, 'The Orange Girl'. But 'The Orange Girl' is no ordinary story - it is a riddle from the past and centres around an incident in his father's youth. One day he boarded a tram and was captivated by a beautiful girl standing in the aisle, clutching a huge paper bag of luscious-looking oranges. Suddenly the tram gave a jolt and he stumbled forward, sending the oranges flying in all directions. The girl simply hopped off the tram leaving Georg's father with arms full of oranges. Now, from beyond the grave, he is asking his son to help him finally solve the puzzle of her identity.

I've planted my feet on Fijian earth and I intend to stay here until the last sunset . Why don't you join me? Leave behind everything that didn't work out! When recently-widowed Kat writes to her four old school friends, inviting them to live with her on a cocoa plantation in the South Pacific, they swap icy pavements and TV dinners for a tropical breeze and an azure-blue ocean. Leaving behind loneliness, dead-end jobs and marriages that have gone sour, they settle into the Women's House, surrounded by palms and cocoa trees; and locals with the puzzling habit of exploding into laughter for no discernible reason. Each of the women has her issues to resolve, and secrets to keep. But together the friends find a new purpose, starting a business making chocolate: bittersweet, succulent pieces of happiness. As they embrace a new culture that views ageing so differently from their own, will they learn to accept and forgive: to discover the value of friendship, and a better way to live?

Charney crafts an intellectual masterpiece--the mystery of three missing masterpieces that sends criminals and curators alike on a rollicking chase through the art galleries and auction houses of Europe.