This extraordinary, magical first novel is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, a librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people ...
A luxurious anthology of plays written by one of the greatest dramatists of all time, William Shakespeare. With stories of love, loss, joy and heartbreak, this collection will captivate young children with every page. The perfect book for children studying The Bard, or those who simply enjoy reading ...
AutorChristie Golden.VydavateľstvoPocket Star.VäzbaBrožovaná.EAN9781439157602.Strán416 strán.Rozmery 171 x 106 mm.Frostmourne.It was caught in a hovering, jagged chunk of ice, the runes that ran the length of its blade glowing a cool blue. Below it was a dais of some sort, standing on a large gently ...
This is the third novel in Jeffrey Archer\''s compelling saga, the Clifton Chronicles. 1945. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor\''s deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles ...
They find the boy by the swimming pool, dolls floating on its surface. Inside the house, his teacher lies dead. But he claims to remember nothing. June 2010. In the middle of a World Cup match, Martin Servaz receives a call from a long-lost lover. A few miles away in the town of Marsac, Classics professor ...
From the astonishingly talented writer of The Accidental and Hotel World comes Ali Smith’s brilliant retelling of Ovid’s gender-bending myth of Iphis and Ianthe, as seen through the eyes of two Scottish sisters. Girl Meets Boy is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, and the ...
The Communist regime destroyed Jana Matinova´s husband, their love for one another and her daughter´s respect for her. But she has never stopped being a seeker of justice. Now, she has risen to the rank of commander in the Slovak police force. This investigation takes her from Kiev in Ukraine to Strasbourg; ...
It is their first day at Drama Arts, and the circle of huddled, nervous students are told in no uncertain terms that here, unlike at any other drama school, they will be taught to Act. To Be. To exist in their own world on the stage. But outside is the real world - a pitiless, alluring place in which ...
Paul Christopher''''s Valley of the Templars is the next exciting John Holliday novel. Retired Army Ranger John Holliday and his friend Eddie travel to Cuba in search of Eddie''''s mysteriously vanished brother-and find themselves desperately trying to stop a shocking plot of a secret Templar cabal that ...
Heart of Darkness is classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the "100 best novels” and part of the Western canon.Marlow, a man who has spent his life at sea, tells the story of a journey up the River Congo which changed his life. His journey upriver to find Kurtz, the charismatic head ...
We’re going to the land of the dead and we’re going to come back.” Will and Lyra, whose fates are bound together by powers beyond their own worlds, have been violently separated. But they must find each other, for ahead of them lies the greatest war that has ever been – and a journey to a dark place ...
When Shrek’s swamp becomes overrun with fairytale charcters, he is less than happy. Desperate to get his home back to normal, Shrek agrees to rescue a princess of behalf of the unscrupulous Lord Farquaad. But once Shrek meets Princess Fiona, he starts to have doubts about his mission to find Lord Farquaad ...
''Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going'' Gillian Flynn Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates blends sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power in her latest incendiary novel. Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates returns with an incendiary novel that ...
Discover more secrets about the Shadowhunters as they fight to protect the world from demons in the fifth book in the internationally bestselling series. What price is too high to pay, even for love? Jace is now a servant of evil, bound for all eternity to Sebastian. Only a small band of Shadowhunters ...
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize and nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award! Sefia knows what it means to survive. After her father is brutally murdered, she flees into the wilderness with her aunt Nin, who teaches her to hunt, track, and steal. But when Nin is kidnapped, leaving Sefia completely alone, ...
Prostorové leporelo v angličtině, které seznamuje své malé čtenáře s králíčkem. Skvělá pomůcka, pokud chcete děti formou hry seznámit s angličtinou. Look inside for some pop-up fun with Bunny. Discover how he uses his long ears and floppy feet.