As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens. For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but the words would not come. When ...
Frederic Henry is an American Lieutenant serving in the ambulance corps of the Italian army during the First World War. While stationed in northern Italy, he falls in love with Catherine Barkley, an English nurse. Theirs is an intense, tender and passionate love affair overshadowed by the war. Ernest ...
Juliette will not stand alone in a battle that will decide the fate of her world. In Destroy Me, Warner, the ruthless leader of Sector 45, refuses to let her go. In Fracture Me, Adam, Juliette\''s first love, will do anything to get her back. These two explosive novellas are available in print for the ...
In this instant #1 New York Times bestseller: Face your demons.or feed them. Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country’s bloody civil war-and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, the young king must ...
Meet the Flying Doctors: Princess Pearl, Sir Gadabout and, of course, their trusty ''air ambulance'', Zog the dragon, in this fabulously original sequel to the bestselling ZOG, now available in paperback. There''s much to do, as they fly around tending a sunburnt mermaid, a distressed unicorn and a sneezy ...
Penguin Student Editions have been specifically designed for readers who are studying a text in detail. They include a helpful introduction and explanatory notes, character sketches, a text summary, a chronology, language notes, a selection of questi ons and topics for discussion and analysis, as well ...
A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on ...
HOLIDAY ENGLISH - aby sme veľa cez prázdniny nezabudli a dobre sa pri tom zabavili. Vhodné pre deti od 3-10 rokov.Farebná a veselá knižka Prázdninová angličtina je určená na hravé opakovanie angličtiny počas voľných letných dní. Obsahuje množstvo hier + pexeso + nálepky + veselé anglické pesničky.V knižke ...
",A dark jewel of a book...intoxicating", - Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Six of Crows Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019Of course I want to be like them. They''re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.And Cardan is even more ...
Fans of The Gruffalo and Giraffes Can''t Dance will love this feelgood rhyming story portraying a positive message about facing up to change, something that young children can sometimes struggle with. Sometimes change comes along whether we like it or not.but if you let it, change can be the making of ...
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Tess of the D''Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy. "I would be content, ay, glad, to live with you as your servant, if I may not as your wife; so that I could only be near you, and get glimpses of you, and think of you as mine.I long for only one thing in heaven ...
"A Lolita bizonyos értelemben túlságosan nagy regény. Úgy zúdul rá az olvasóra, mint valami kábítószer, amely erősebb, mint bármelyik, amit eddig felfedeztek vagy létrehoztak. A Lolita kegyetlen könyv a kegyetlenségről." Martin Amis írta ezt Nabokov leghíresebb regényéről: egyike annak a számos - vagy ...
The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring up at the bedroom windows. Round its neck is his ...
Kniha - autor Paige Toon, 400 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Nicole Dupre died leaving behind a bestselling novel and an incomplete sequel. Tasked with finishing the book, Bridget is just thankful to have her foot in the publishing door. But as she gets to know Nicole''s grieving family, ...
´But I don´t want to go among mad people,´ Alice remarked. ´Oh, you ca´n´t help that,´ said the Cat. ´We´re all mad here.´ The ´Alice´ books are two of the most translated, most quoted, and best-known books in the world, but what exactly are they? Apparently delightful, innocent fantasies ...
When the Dashwood family estate passes to the eldest son John and his wife, Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret must find a new home. Moving to a cottage in Devonshire, the Dashwood women begin adjusting to a new life and a new social circle. Soon, Elinor is being courted by ...
A 2019 WHSmith Thumping Good Read selection. A debut YA crime thriller as addictive as Serial as compelling as Riverdale and as page-turning as One of Us Is Lying. The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he ...
Concluding the story of The Hobbit, this is the final part of Tolkien\''s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien\''s own design, the definitive text, and a detailed map of Middle-earth. The armies of the Dark Lord Sauron are massing as his evil shadow ...
