Philip Pullman returns to the world of HIS DARK MATERIALS with this magnificent first volume of THE BOOK OF DUST. Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his d?mon, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near Oxford. Across the River Thames is the Godstow Priory where the nuns live. Malcolm learns ...
Amy, Bella, Chloe, Daisy and Emily are friends at school and have their own Alphabet Club (just look at their initials!). Daisy is the newest member and is desperate to fit in, even though Chloe is distinctly unfriendly to her at times. Throughout Daisy\''s first year at the school, the girls plan ever-more ...
Kniha - autor Matias Faldbakken, 216 stran, česky, Pevná bez přebalu lesklá.Román vypráví číšník fiktivní kavárny v Oslu, již kdysi založil Angličan Hill. Číšník je postava záhadná, nedozvíme se o něm nic, ani jeho jméno, jen to, že, jak sám na sebe prozradí, je hypersenzitivní. Svým profesionálním okem ...
Little ones will love bringing the farmyard to life with this adorable sound book. Press the pages and hear hens clucking, cows mooing and much more, and pore over colourful scenes include a sheepdog rounding up sheep, a piglet playing in the mud and ducks splashing in the pond. With simple text, holes ...
WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless... King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a ...
Fighting alongside the Corellian rebels, Han and Leia are locked in a war against their son Jacen, who grows more powerful and more dangerous with each passing day. Nothing can stop Jacen\''s determination to bring peace with a glorious Galactic Alliance victory-whatever the price. While Luke grieves ...
This is a best-selling classic set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong repackaged for a new generation of readers. Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, "Tai-Pan" is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company ...
George R. R. Martin''''s superb fantasy epic continues in consummate style as bloodshed and alchemy lay waste the Seven Kingdoms in the second volume of A Song of Ice and Fire. The Iron Throne once united the Sunset Lands, but King Robert is dead, his widow is a traitor to his memory, and his surviving ...
The Painted Man, book one of the Demon trilogy, is a captivating and thrilling fantasy adventure, pulling the reader into a world of demons, darkness and heroes. Voted one of the top ten fantasy novels of 2008 by amazon.co.uk. The stunning debut fantasy novel from author Peter V. Brett. The Painted Man, ...
2016 Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet Amanda Lovelace returns in the witch doesn''t burn in this one - the bold second book in her "women are some kind of magic" series. The witch: supernaturally powerful, inscrutably independent, and now-indestructible. These moving, relatable poems encourage resilience ...