Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger''s New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme. With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE ...
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters is the second exciting adventure in Rick Riordan''s bestselling Percy Jackson series - now with a brand new cover look. Half Boy. Half God. All Hero. You can''t tell by looking at me that my dad is Poseidon, God of the Sea. It''s not easy being a half-blood these ...
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 ...
A New York Times No. 1 best seller §On the New York Times Best Seller List for more than 52 consecutive weeks §Includes an excerpt from the much-anticipated sequel and an interview with author Ransom Riggs §A mysterious island.§An abandoned orphanage.§A strange collection of very curious photographs§It ...
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 ...
This box set presents 8 books of a series about a young boy in middle school facing the troubles and joys of school and writing them down in his diary.1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid.The debut book, it introduces Greg Heffley who discovers that middle school is a battle-field of a sort, what with half the kids ...
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 ...
Autor : E. Lockhart, Popis : We are the Liars. We are beautiful, privileged and live a life of carefree luxury. We are cracked and broken.Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Název : We Were Liars, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet stran : 228.
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners. "I love Olly''s work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers Short Stories in German for Beginners has been written especially for students ...
Christians agree that they are saved through the death and resurrection of Christ. But how is the atonement achieved in these events? This book offers an introduction to the doctrine of the atonement focused on the unity and diversity of the work of Christ. Johnson reorients current patterns of thought ...
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A STORY OF LOVE AFTER DEATH ''A masterpiece'' Zadie Smith ''Extraordinary'' Daily Mail ''Breathtaking'' Observer ''A tour de force'' The Sunday Times The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, ...
Autor : Delia Owens, Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Název : Where the Crawdads Sing, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet stran : 384.
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 ...
Geralt, the witcher of Rivia, is back - and this time he holds the fate of the whole land in his hands.For more than a hundred years, humans, dwarves, gnomes and elves lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over and now the races once again fight each other - and ...
