Agatha Christie is the most popular mystery writer of all time. With over two billion copies of her books in print, her genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime. Linnet Ridgeway has almost everything: youth, beauty, style, and wealth. What she doesn''''t ...
Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated ...
With more than 30 million copies sold, The Alchemist" is one of the best loved and bestselling books in the world. "The Zahir", Paulo Coelho's new novel, is a perfect follow-on to "The Alchemist". Paulo picks up the theme of the pilgrimage but tells a very different, gripping story of love, loss ...
Paul West kommt für einen Job von London nach Paris, aber vor allem, weil er herausfinden will, ob Paris wirklich die Hauptstadt der atemberaubenden Unterwäsche ist. Von Tag eins an fühlt er sich wie auf einem anderen Planeten, und ganz und gar nicht wie im Frankreich seiner Lieblingsfilme "Chocolat" ...
Magráta s Verencem mají dceru a připravují velkou oslavu k jejímu křtu. Na oslavu jsou pochopitelně pozvány i čarodějky - Bábi, Stařenka a Anežka Nulíčková. Bábino pozvání ukradnou straky a Bábi, která se cítí tímto domnělým přehlédnutím uražena, se rozhodne opustit Lancre, protože dojde k názoru, že ...
His second major venture into non fiction (after Death in the Afternoon, 1932), Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway''s lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December of 1933. Hemingway''s well-known interest in ...
The possibilities are endless (just be careful what you wish for. 1916: the Western Front, France. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where has the mud, blood and blasted landcape of No man''s Land gone?2015: ...
Extensive reading is essential for improving fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary, low-level reading material for younger learners. The DreamWorks animated films are family classics, popular aroundthe world. Over the Hedge is adapted from the film of the same name and ...
The One Plus One is the beautiful, poignant and utterly compelling new novel by the internationally bestselling author Jojo Moyes.One single mumWith two jobs and two children, Jess Thomas does her best day after day. But it''''s hard on your own. And sometimes you take risks you shouldn''''t. Because ...
Join the world of "Artemis Fowl", the number one bestseller by Eoin Colfer. Rumour has it Artemis Fowl is responsible for every major crime of the new century. Just twelve years old and already he''''s a criminal genius, plotting to restore his family''''s fortune with a spot of corruption and kidnapping. ...
WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN''S BOOK PRIZE 2018 YOUNGER FICTION CATEGORY International bestselling new series. Enter the Wundrous world of Morrigan Crow and Nevermoor - the most fantastical children''s series of the year. ",Exciting, mysterious, marvellous and magical.quite simply one of the ...
In this sequel to A Thousand Pieces of You by New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray, Marguerite races through various dimensions to save the boy she loves. Ever since she used the Firebird, her parents\'' invention, to cross through to alternate dimensions, Marguerite has caught the attention ...
GAME OF THRONES: A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO.In this eagerly awaited sequel to A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. A Clash of Kings transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike any you have ever ...
The fifth volume of A Song of Ice and Fire, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. GAME OF THRONES is now a major TV series from HBO, featuring a stellar cast. The future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance. In the east, Daenerys, last scion of House Targaryen, her dragons grown to terrifying ...
A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO.Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, ...
Redemption is the phenomenal third instalment in Jussi Adler-Olsen''s internationally bestselling department Q series, which follows the Sunday Times smash hit Mercy and its sequel Disgrace. The prefect treat for all fans of the classic Scandinavian crime thriller in the vein of The Killing and Borgen! ...
The book that shone new light on our times: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2009, The Glass Room is being reissued with a new cover alongside other classic titles from the Abacus list in our 40th Anniversary year. Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the ...
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable''''s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, ...
Zemeckisův film je brilantním shrnutím dosavadních režisérových poznatků o možnostech "comicsového" vyprávění. Formálně i obsahově nejméně konvenční z jeho snímků přesvědčuje komediálními gagy i naléhavě patetickým tónem. Jeho hrdinou je prosťáček Forrest Gump, typický obyčejný muž, který od dětství ...
A Discworld Howdunnit Who''s murdering harmless old men? Who''s poisoning the Patrician? As autumn fogs hold Ankh-Morpork in their grip, the City Watch have to track down a murderer who can''t be seen. Maybe the golems know something - but the solemn men of clay, who work all day and night and are never ...
