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When we last saw our heroes, George and Harold, they had been turned into evil zombie nerds doomed to roam a devastated, post-apocalyptic planet for all eternity. But why, you might ask, didn't the amazing Captain Underpants save the boys from this frightening fate? Because Tippy Tinkletrousers and his time-traveling hijinks prevented George and Harold from creating Captain Underpants in the first place! Now, having changed the course of human history forever, they'll have to figure out a way…

حين تحدّثتا عن موضوع السّفر لأوّل مرّة، تكلّمت أمّها فاطمة بشيء من الفلسفة. حدّثتها عن نبات الياسمين الذي أعطتها اسمه. مثل الياسمين، ربّتها على القناعة والاكتفاء بالقليل. فهو نبات لا يحتاج إلى الكثير من العناية. تكفيه دفعة واحدة من السّماد في ربيع كلّ عام، وتربة رطبة دون فيض من السقيا. جميع أنواع الياسمين تفضل النّموّ في مكان مشمس، لكنّها تتحمّل وجود شيء من الظلّ. وشمس تونس كانت مواتية لنضجها وتكوين شخصيّتها، وقد أصبحت جاهزة لتحمّل شيء من ظلالأوروبا ذات المناخ البارد. مثل الياسمين الأبيض…

Teddy bear, teddy bear, turn around...Join in the fun as your all-time favourite children's nursery rhymes are brought to life by Wendy Straw's charming illustrations. This fantastic collection will put the excitement into reading, as well as being an ideal way for children to learn the classics.  

Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship, details of Gatsby's impossible love for amarried woman emerge, until events spiral into tragedy. Regarded as Fitzgerald's masterpiece and one of the greatest…

When an ageing, impoverished nobleman decides to style himself “Don Quixote” and embarks upon a series of daring endeavours, it is clear that his ability to distinguish between reality and the fantasy world of literary romance has broken down. His exploits turn into comic misadventures, in which everyday objects are transformed into the accoutrements of chivalry, peasant girls become princesses and windmills are mistaken for formidable giants, leading the hero and his squire Sancho Panza into…