For gauche young apprentice Miloš Hrma, life at the small but strategic railway station in Bohemia in 1945 is full of complex preoccupations. There is the exacting business of dispatching German troop trains to and from the toppling Eastern front; the problem of ridding himself of his burdensome innocence; ...
Zombie. Zmutovaná zvířata. Biologické zbraně a chirurgicky vylepšená monstra. Tajné laboratoře a rozsáhlá spiknutí. Zdálo se to nemožné, jenže Jill Valentineová a členové jejího týmu S. T. A. R. S. viděli na vlastní oči, když korporace Umbrella proměnila Raccoon City v jeviště nejzákeřnějších genetických ...
Fourteen terrifying ghost stories chosen by the master of the macabre, Roald Dahl. ''''Spookiness is the real purpose of the ghost story. It should give you the creeps and disturb your thoughts.'''' Who better to choose the ultimate in spine-chillers than Roald Dahl, whose own sinister stories have teased ...
Europa im 19. Jahrhundert: Jesuiten verschwören sich gegen Freimaurer, Freimaurer erdrosseln Priester mit ihren eigenen Eingeweiden, die Dreyfus- Affäre, Garibaldi und nicht zuletzt die Entstehung der auf schreckliche Weise geschichtsträchtigen "Protokolle der Weisen von Zion", die später Hitler zu seinen ...
Natural Causes is the first novel from James Oswald in the Detective Inspector McLean series. A young girl''''s mutilated body is discovered in a sealed room. Her remains are carefully arranged, in what seems to have been a cruel and macabre ritual, which appears to have taken place over 60 years ago. ...
Britská spisovatelka J.K. Rowlingová, která se po celém světě proslavila sérií o mladém čaroději Harrym Potterovi, před časem napsala knihu zcela odlišného žánru - detektivku.A aby ji nezatížila vlastním jménem, vydala ji coby "začínající spisovatel Robert Galbraith". Kniha The Cuckoo's Calling ...
Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London in the year AD 2540 (632 A.F.—"After Ford"—in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that combine ...
The Mark of Athena is the explosive third part in Rick Riordan''s number one series - Heroes of Olympus. ONE FATAL PROPHECYSEVEN BRAVE DEMIGODSA QUEST TO FIND - AND CLOSE - THE DOORS OF DEATH. Annabeth felt as if someone had draped a cold washcloth across her neck.She heard that whispering laughter again, ...
Donna Tartt, author of the phenomenal bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend, returns with a breathtaking new novel.Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in ...
From the author of The Architect''s Apprentice and Honour, The Forty Rules of Love is Elif Shafak''s compelling and profound novel following Ella Rubinstein on a journey of self-discovery, examining life and love through Sufi mysticism. Discover the forty rules of love.Ella Rubinstein has a husband, ...
Charlie Davis is in pieces. At seventeen, she’s already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she’s learned how to forget it through cutting; the pain washes out the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. She doesn''t have to think about her father or what happened under the bridge. Her ...
Not many writers introduce a phrase – let alone a whole idea – into the language. In Catch-22, Joseph Heller invented a motif for the modern world. The book shaped everything that came after it, establishing Heller\''s reputation as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. But where ...
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is 6 years old, bullied, resented and alone. And he might be humanity''''s only hope. Ender is recruited to the International Fleet''''s child warriors in training, to fight in defense of the planet. His promise is high, and his teachers are sure he will rise to the test - if Battle ...
Bursting with the imaginative power of Neil Gaiman, this story blends fantasy with humour and drama. Fat Charlie Nancy is not actually fat. He was fat once but he is definitely not fat now. No, right now Fat Charlie Nancy is angry, confused and more than a little scared - right now his life is spinning ...
