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 ...
The new Lean In, from the multi-award-winning Founder and CEO of national non-profit Girls Who Code and New York Times bestselling author Reshma Saujani. ''We are raising our boys to be brave, but our girls to be perfect. And this is holding us back.'' Imagine if you lived without the fear of failure, ...
Usborne Publishing: A vivid introduction to colour, from primary colours and the colour wheel, through to the moods and.
Krásně ilustrovaná kniha s otvíracími obrázky, která děti seznamuje se základy počítání a poznávání číslovek.
This title is second in the "New York Times" bestselling urban fantasy series set in Victorian London. Still reeling from her terrifying confrontation with the Magister and her brother''''s betrayal, Tessa Gray is drawn ever deeper into the Shadowhunter''''s dark underworld of demons and danger. In a ...
In 1960, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover and document his native land; accompanied only by his dog, he travelled all across the United States in a pick-up truck. This "Penguin Classics" edition of "Travels with Charley" includes an introduction by Jay Parini. When he was almost sixty years old, ...
