No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses", which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic ...
After the gravity of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Immortality," "Slowness" comes as a surprise: It is certainly Kundera''''s lightest novel, a "divertimento," an "opera buffa," with, as the author himself says, "not a single serious word in it"; then, too, it is the first of his novels to ...
Autor : W. Bruce Cameron, Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Název : A Dog''s Promise, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet stran : 384.
The stunning new standalone novel from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver. It\''s been five years since Mia and Brynn murdered Summer Marks, their best friend, in the woods. Increasingly obsessed with a novel called The Way into Lovelorn and by their fan-fiction imagining of its sequel, ...
Nick and Charlie are best friends. Nick knows Charlie''s gay, and Charlie is sure that Nick isn''t. But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is discovering all kinds of things about his friends, his family. and himself. Heartstopper is about friendship, loyalty and mental illness. It encompasses all ...
A companion to the New York Times bestselling Miss Peregrine''s Home for Peculiar Children, now in a deluxe paperback edition with a never-before-seen story! Before Miss Peregrine gave them a home, the story of peculiars was written in the Tales. Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars. ...
A ruthless young assassin continues her journey for revenge in this new epic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Jay Kristoff. WINNER OF THE THE AUREALIS AWARD FOR BEST FANTASY NOVEL Conquer your fear, conquer the world Mia Corvere, destroyer of empires, has found her place among the Blades ...
Andy Larkham ist zu spät. Er sollte längst auf der Beerdigung seines Lieblingslehrer sein, der ihm einst sagte: "Es ist harte Arbeit, jemand zu sein". Besonders hart ist es für Andy: Stecken geblieben in einem schlechten Job, immer knapp bei Kasse und mit einer Frau verlobt, die im Begriff ist, ihm den ...
Discover more secrets about the Shadowhunters as they fight to protect the world from demons in the fifth book in the internationally bestselling series. What price is too high to pay, even for love? Jace is now a servant of evil, bound for all eternity to Sebastian. Only a small band of Shadowhunters ...
Events are building to a climax in Sachaka as Lorkin returns from his exile with the Traitor rebels. The Traitor Queen has given Lorkin the huge task of brokering an alliance between his people and the Traitors. Lorkin has also had to become a feared black magician in order to harness the power of an ...
