Ancient Rome is the setting for the superb new novel from Robert Harris, author of the number one bestsellers Fatherland, Enigma and Archangel.Where else to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples. All along the coast, the Roman Empire’s richest citizens are relaxing in their ...
In Ignorance, set in contemporary Prague, one of the most distinguished writers of our time takes up the complex and emotionally charged theme of exile and creates from it a literary masterpiece. A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years ...
Song of Susannah continues directly from the almost literally cliff-hanging epilogue to Wolves of the Calla. Meanwhile the penultimate instalment in the Dark Tower septet follows three interlocked storylines. Roland and Eddie in New England, where they undergo the firestorm of the book’s only major action ...
Taking to heart his charming, insatiably curious heroine\''s words, Lewis Carroll worked many long hours (days, months.) with illustrator Sir John Tenniel to create the most perfect pictures imaginable for what were to become instant classics: Alice\''s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. ...
Autor : Helen Hoang, Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Název : The Kiss Quotient, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet stran : 304.
AutorJ. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Dixon, Sean DemingVydavateľstvoHarpercollins Children''''s BooksVäzba BrožISBN 978-0007611621Strán144Rozmery 203 x 275 mm A brand new revised edition of the best-selling graphic novel based on the enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings. First published in 1990, David ...
Dionisio Vivo, a young South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policemen in town, the message is all too clear: Dion isios letters to the press, exposing the drug barons, ...
Aria, Emily, Spencer, Hanna and Alison have been best friends since the third grade. They go everywhere together, thinking no-one can come between them. If anyone is the ringleader of the group it is Alison, and the other girls cannot help but confide all their secrets to her. One night, during a sleepover, ...
The stunning new standalone novel from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver. It\''s been five years since Mia and Brynn murdered Summer Marks, their best friend, in the woods. Increasingly obsessed with a novel called The Way into Lovelorn and by their fan-fiction imagining of its sequel, ...
Why is it that we destroy the things we love most? This is the question Paulo Coelho faces in this story of his confrontation with his past. The Valkyries is a compelling account of his journey, as Paulo and his wife embark on a forty day quest into the searing heat of the Mojave Desert, where they encounter ...
The New York Trilogy is perhaps the most astonishing work by one of America''s most consistently astonishing writers. The Trilogy is three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. It ...
Mamie Pétronille met la main dans son petit sac jaune. Qu’estce qu’il y a dedans ? Oh ! C’est un morceau de ruban jaune. Aurélie perd TOUJOURS ses affaires et s….
Lottie Pumpkin is an ordinary girl who longs to be a princess, attending Rosewood Hall on a scholarship. Ellie Wolf is a princess who longs to be ordinary, attending Rosewood Hall to avoid her royal duties in the kingdom of Maradova. When fate puts the two fourteen-year-olds in the same dorm, it seems ...
Thomas Derale, a mild-mannered businessman from Chicago, embodies leadership''''s greatest secret: his companies make fortunes, his people love him, and his customers are willing to wait weeks just to do business with him. At age 55, though, Derale is dying, and through a series of final encounters with ...