For fans of Hilary Mantel, Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, Elizabeth Fremantle''''s first novel, Queen''''s Gambit, is a riveting account of Katherine Parr, the Tudor queen who married four men and outlived three of them - including Henry VIII. Queen''''s Gambit: "Gripping". (Woman & Home). "Sumptuous". ...
Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is knifed to death in broad daylight on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Clown. The dead man is a World War II Resistance ...
In the early fifteenth century, as winter falls away, the people of Albania know that their fate is sealed. They have refused to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire, and war is now inevitable. Soon enough dust kicked up by Turkish horses is spotted from a citadel. Brightly coloured banners, hastily constructed ...
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveler calling himself \''Mogor dell\''Amore\'', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, ...
Meet Kate Mackenzie. She: works for the T.O.D. (short for TyrannicalOffice Despot, also known as Amy Jenkins, Director of the Human Resources Divisionat the New York Journal) is sleeping on the couch because herboyfriend of ten years refuses to commitcan\''t find an affordable studio apartmentanywhere ...
Since the gripping conclusion of Once a Witch, Tamsin Greene has been haunted by her grandmother’s prophecy that she will soon be forced to make a crucial decision — one so terrible that it could harm her family forever. When she discovers that her enemy, Alistair Knight, went back in time to Victorian-era ...
"The Pale King" is David Foster Wallace''''s final novel - a testament to his enduring brilliance. The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the minutaie of a million daily lives are totted up, audited and accounted for. Here the workers fight a never-ending ...
X-Men meets The Handmaid\''s Tale in this first instalment in an epic and romantic YA fantasy trilogy perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Victoria Aveyard\''s The Red Queen, Netflix\''s Stranger Things and Leigh Bardugo\''s Six of Crows. A fragile young teenage girl is held captive. Locked in a cell by ...
Use language skills to find the matching puzzle pieces with Mudpuppy\''s Spanish to English My First Puzzle Pairs. Each of the 10 puzzle pairs has an animal\''s name written in English on one half and Spanish on the other half. Use the animal illustrations and your knowledge to find the puzzle pair! ...
Zbierka lyrickej poézie Sonety Gabriely Spustovej Izakovičovej obsahuje dva sonetové vence: Sonet slobody a Sonet túžob a sedem jednotlivých sonetov. Sonet slobody zverejňuje pocity autorky z atmosféry od Nežnej revolúcie po súčasnosť. Od nadšenia, cez mnohé sklamania a tápanie, až po prosbu, aby sme ...
The final volume sees gunslinger Roland on a roller-coaster mix of exhilarating triumph and aching loss in his unrelenting quest to reach the dark tower. Roland''''s band of pilgrims remains united, though scattered. Susannah-Mia has been carried off to New York to give birth, Terrified of what may happen, ...
Čo ak by ste nikdy nemuseli spať? Snažím sa žiť normálny život, verte mi. Cez deň mi to ide. Rozdávam úsmevy, podpisy a zmluvy na nové knihy. Keď ale večer všetci odídu do sveta, v ktorom pre mňa nie je miesto, musím si nájsť nejakú zábavu. 25 rokov bez spánku. Viete si to predstaviť? Čo by ste robili ...
100 Schlüsselwerke erzählen die Geschichte des Grafikdesigns im 20. Jahrhundert Kompakte Darstellung eines kompletten Genres im Design- Bereich Inspiration und Wissen für praktische Anwender und historisch Interessierte Dieses zugängliche Buch demonstriert, wie pfiffige Ideen das Grafikdesign geprägt ...
