Darkness falls.Despair abounds.Evil reigns.Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in magic and swordsmanship, the ...
This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time. It is sure to be a literary event.§Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student ...
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and ...
I stuck my finger under the edge of the paper and jerked it under the tape. 'Shoot,' I muttered when the paper sliced my finger. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut. It all happened very quickly then. 'No!' Edward roared.Dazed and disorientated, I looked up from the bright ...
The police urgently need Harry Hole.A killer is stalking Oslo’s streets. Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated, but failed to solve. The murders are brutal, the media reaction hysterical.But this time, Harry can’t help anyone.For years, detective Harry Hole has ...
Harry is on a special mission.Detective Harry Hole arrives in a steaming hot Bangkok. The Norwegian ambassador has been found dead in a seedy motel room, and Harry has been sent to investigate. It’s clear that the Ambassador’s family are hiding some secrets of their own, but few people are willing to ...
The Trials are over. WICKED have collected all the information they can. Now it''''s up to the Gladers to complete the blueprint for the cure to the Flare with a final voluntary test. But something has happened that no-one at WICKED has foreseen: Thomas has remembered more than they think. And he knows ...
By the author of THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET, David Mitchell''''s bestselling and Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, one of Richard & Judy''''s 100 Books of the Decade, CLOUD ATLAS has now been adapted for film. The major motion picture, directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, stars Tom Hanks, ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''From that hour we had no further occasion for the exercise of reason, or judgment, or skill, or contrivance. We were henceforth to be hurled along, the playthings of the fierce elements of the deep.'' In Verne''s science-fiction ...
When Helen Fielding first wrote Bridget Jones' Diary, charting the life of a 30-something singleton in London in the 1990s, she introduced readers to one of the most beloved characters in modern literature.The book was published in 40 countries, sold more than 15 million copies worldwide, and spawned ...
Three children and their mother move to a new home because their father gets sent away. They are sad at the beginning of their new life, but they make a new friend along the way and live a lot of adventures.Three children go to live in the country. Their house is near a train station. They go there with ...
THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER The Wilderness Years are over! But for how long? Bridget''s second diary takes us through a year that begins with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy (who never does the washing up) and lurches onwards through a sea of self-help books and lunatic advice from her mad friends. Struggling ...
his perfect indifference, and your pointed dislike, make it so delightfully absurd!'''' Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations of readers with its unforgettable cast of characters, carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertaining view of the world and its absurdities. With the arrival of ...
Have you ever seen a sloth? Jim and his brother and sister meet one in this adventure in the Amazon Rainforest. It is the story of how they team up, with Slowly, the sloth and his friends, helped by Uncle Jack, his daughter Dr Silver and some Amazon Indians to save their habitat. Stage 3 - 300 headwords ...
Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love-she''s lived through it twenty-six times. She crushes hard and crushes often, but always in secret. Because no matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can''t stomach the idea of rejection. So she''s ...
George and his best friend, Annie have been selected as junior astronauts - part of a programme that trains up young people for a trip to Mars in the future. This is everything they\''ve ever wanted - they get to be a part of up-to-the minute space discoveries and meet a bunch of new friends who are ...
Discover mystery and wonder in Tales from the Arabian Nights. The next elegant edition in the Knickerbocker Classic series, Tales from the Arabian Nights is comprised of twenty-one of the most popular tales that were told by Scheherazade to her husband, King Shahryar, in the course of 1,001 nights in ...
Jedna z vrcholných tragédií Williama Shakespeara je drama zločinu, svědomí a trestu a divadelní sonda do hlubin lidské duše, z nichž se rodí zlo. Macbeth, skotský šlechtic a hrdina, člověk obddivovaný a uctívaný všemi, v této hře podlehne ctižádosti a touze po moci natolik, že se dopustí zločinu nejtěžšího ...
Set in 1482, Victor Hugo''s powerful novel of ''imagination, caprice and fantasy'' is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age. In a brilliant reworking of the tale of Beauty and the Beast, Hugo creates ...
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 ...