''His first novel is a revelation. the writing is vivid, serious and extraordinary. wonderful''&,nbsp,The Times.The Sea is My Brother&,nbsp,is Jack Kerouac''s very first novel, begun shortly after his tour as a merchant sailor in 1942. Lost during his lifetime, it is an intense portrait of friendship ...
Paris - the most beautiful city in the world! The most romantic! It''s the perfect place for a girl and her grandad to spend the day. Join them as they explore Paris''s iconic landmarks and experience its culture and style first-hand: visit a traditional street market, climb to the top of Notre-Dame, ...
Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1995. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing ...
Delightful and witty, this is a simple story of mistaken identity! Peter and Paul are the best of friends, but when Peter gets lost in a terrible storm he can''t find Paul anywhere. With the help of a big blue whale Puffin Peter sets off to find him. They find all kinds of birds that match Peter''s description ...
It\''s hard work being good all the time. And it\''s especially hard for a dog like George! Harris is off to do some shopping. "Will you be good, George?" he asks. George hopes he can. He really wants to. but chocolate cake is just so very delicious and he does love to chase cat. What will George do ...
Four friends, three big and one little, are out for a walk. Suddenly, they spot it - a beautiful bird perched high in a tree! They simply MUST have it and - SHH! - they have a PLAN. So they tip-toe, tip-toe very slowly, nets poised - "Ready one.ready two.ready three.GO!" But, at the turn of the page, ...
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 ...
From New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling writer Neil Gaiman, comes a novel of memory, magic and survival, about the power of stories and the darkness inside each of us. Dive into a magical novel of memory and the adventure of childhood, from one of the brightest, most brilliant writers of our ...
''What''s so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work''s already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the first place.'' The City Watch needs MEN! But what it''s got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable ...
With the perennial popularity of classic writers like Charlotte Bronte and Lewis Carroll, Baby Lit is a fashionable way to introduce your toddler to the world of classic literature. With clever, simple text by Jennifer Adams, paired with stylish design and illustrations by Sugar''s Alison Oliver, Little ...
When the doors of the lift crank open, the only thing Thomas remembers is his first name. But he\''s not alone. He\''s surrounded by boys who welcome him to the Glade - a walled encampment at the centre of a bizarre and terrible stone maze. Like Thomas, the Gladers don\''t know why or how they came to ...
Kniha - autor Haruki Murakami, 224 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá.What will you get for your birthday this year? A chance to see into the future? Or a reminder of the imperfect past? In this enviable gathering, Haruki Murakami has chosen for his party some of the very best short story ...
Now every kid can write like a Wimpy Kid! An exciting companion to the bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.  “First of all, let me get something straight: This is a journal, not a diary.”  This innovative interactive journal based on Greg Heffley’s own “diary” lets kids express themselves ...
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 ...
Hračka a knížka v jednom, součástí této velké, robusní knihy je i parní vláček na klíček a čtyři skládací části s kolejemi.
