Henry Chinaski is a lowlife loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial post office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious, Post Office is a landmark in American literature, and over 1 million copies have been sold worldwide. The new ...
Kniha – autor Jo Nesbo, 384 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá.LIE. Clever, wealthy, married to a beautiful woman: Roger Brown has it all. And his sideline as an art thief keeps him busy when his job as a corporate headhunter gets dull. STEAL. Then his wife introduces him to Clas Greve. Ambitious ...
When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, a group of teens is forced to make life and death decisions in this harrowing story of survival from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman, and Jarrod Shusterman. Read a sampler of the latest book by New York Times bestselling ...
Art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to discover the truth behind a bombing which killed an old friend - a Nazi hunter. While there he encounters something that turns his whole life upside down. Each fact he uncovers only leads to more questions until finally a picture emerges which is ...
Autor : Helen Hoang, Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Název : The Kiss Quotient, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet stran : 304.
When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset; a couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's; a woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden; an insomniac wife wakes up to a twilight ...
While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerillas, unfrocked priests and reformed though by no means inactive whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfillment. But for Cardinal Guzman, a man tormented by ...
V revidovaném překladu vychází nejslavnější Welshova kniha. Autorovi se v ní podařilo něco nevídaného: vzít téma zralé pro sociologické studie o deprivované mládeži a napsat zábavný a propracovaný román, s jehož hrdiny musí čtenář sympatizovat, přestože ho jejich jednání často děsí a odpuzuje. Ne nadarmo ...
Readers who have followed Philip Roth\''s hero and alter-ego Nathan Zuckerman through five previous novels will be happy to see him again in American Pastoral, a novel that finds Nathan attending a high school reunion in Newark, New Jersey. But enjoy him while you can. Nathan disappears on page 89 ...
With Omega Point destroyed, Juliette doesn\''t know if the rebels, her friends, or even Adam are alive. But that won\''t keep her from trying to take down The Reestablishment once and for all. Now she must rely on Warner. The one person she never thought she could trust. The same person who saved her ...
The fifth volume of the History of Middle-earth, containing the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien\''s epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. At the end of 1937, J R R Tolkien reluctantly set aside his work on the myths and heroic legends of Valinor and Middle-earth and began The ...
WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT is an incredibly exciting debut from an extraordinary new voice in fiction. Spanning four decades, from 1968 onwards, this is the story of a fabulous but flawed family and the slew of ordinary and extraordinary incidents that sh ape their everyday lives. It is a story about childhood ...
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 ...
The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland during World War II, who hides from the Nazis in the homes of an underground network of foster families, one of them the author''s grandparents Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood never ...
Regarded as a modern fairy tale, L. Frank Baum''s The Wizard of Oz is one of America''s most cherished and enchanting children''s stories. Part of the Macmillan Collector''s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books ...
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 _How to Train Your Dragon_ mov.