Michael Fry Knihy

Mezi Nicka a jeho přátele se postaví nová holka. Je to pro něj skutečně špatná zpráva. A ještě horší věci následují, když se postaví na odpor a dojde to tak daleko, že mu hrozí vyloučení ze školy. Očistí Nick svoje jméno? Nebo se bude muset přece jen zapojit do programu na ochranu dětí, změnit si totožnost a přestěhovat se na Guam?

Nick je nejmenší dvanáctiletý kluk na světě (je si tím naprosto jistý), který nepatří do žádné party ani klubu (kdo je potřebuje?) a tráví více času uvnitř než vně své šatní skříňky (jsou větší, než si myslíte). Když Nicka jeho trýznitel Roy opět nacpe do šatní skříňky, výchovná poradkyně usoudí, že je načase, aby se zařadil do kolektivu. Seznámí ho s dvěma dalšími třídními outsidery Molly a Karlem a tak vznikne Povedená partička. Její členové ze sebe nejdřív nejsou moc nadšení, ale když je přihlouplý Roy šikanuje čím dál víc, začnou společně připravovat past… Text, psaný s jemným humorem a s nadhledem, je doplněn množstvím vtipů a komiksových kreseb.

Nick a Molly musí Karla zastavit, než bude pozdě. Jistá supertajná společnost se totiž rozhodla, že si tohohle naprosto ujetého týpka zvolí do svého čela. Hrozí, že Karl zostudí nejen sebe, ale i celou školu. Všichni budou povinně svačit čipsy z tofu a řepnou šťávu? To teda fakt ne, díky! Nick naštěstí vymyslel naprosto dokonalý záchranný plán… ovšem jestli je opravdu tak dokonalý, jak si myslí, to se teprve ukáže!

"This collection addresses issues of identity as two people find themselves living in an uncommon landscape. Through hybrid narrative prose poems, Hank and an unnamed narrator try to navigate their relationship and understand their identities amid a landscape that offers them almost nothing. The continent at first seems empty, but something emerges in the vacuum of Antarctica. The narrator's gender skips and changes, and the characters' self-awareness grows into a sort of horror. Dennis James Sweeney's poems consider the fullness of emptiness, revealing attempts to love and grow when surrounded by a white and frigid landscape that seems to go on forever. The space of these poems is something beyond the Antarctic of scientific exploration, the icy outpost that has served for so long as a masculine proving ground for polar explorers. This is the Antarctica of domestic disharmony, of love amid loneliness, where two people encounter themselves in the changeless breadth at the end of the world." -- Provided by publisher

Presents the history of two RAF squadrons - 190 and 620 - who shared the task of dropping agents and supplies on behalf of the SOE, took part in the D-Day landings, suffered heavy losses at Arnhem, dropped SAS Troops behind enemy lines and were involved with the Rhine crossing that sealed Germany's fate in 1945.

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Fry analyses the astonishing contribution made by Scots to the development and continued success of the United States. Their philosophy, education and entrepreneurism, as well as their sheer grit, have been central to American history

"The story of modern Britain began 300 years ago, with the Treaty of Union between England and Scotland in 1707. In this fresh and challenging look at the origins of the United Kingdom, the first full study for four decades, Michael Fry focuses on the years which led up to the Union, setting the political history of both countries against the backdrop of war in Europe and the emergence of imperialism. In comparing the fate of Scotland with that of other small nations he reconstructs the human as well as the political story - in the voices of the people, in plots and conspiracies, in reports from battlefields and in the impassioned debates of the Scots Parliament." "In doing so he rejects the long-held assumption that the economy was of overwhelming importance in the Scots' acceptance of the terms of the Treaty, showing how they were in fact able to exploit English ignorance of and indifference to Scotland - as evident now as then - to steer the settlement in their own favour. Thus the future of Scotland, England and Britain remained open, not closed. The implications of this, Fry argues, have influenced the dynamics of the Union ever since, and are only being fully worked out in our own time."--Jacket