Los Angeles, 2012. It’s been five years since the events of the Mortal Instruments when Nephilim stood poised on the brink of oblivion and Shadowhunter Emma Carstairs lost her parents. After the blood and violence she witnessed as a child, Emma has dedicated her life to the eradication of demons and ...
A brand-new historical fantasy from a legend of the genre. Fans of Bernard Cornwall, Conn Iggulden and Joe Abercrombie will love this. Reinmar of Bielawa, sometimes known as Reynevan, is a doctor, a magician and, according to some, a charlatan. Discovered in bed with the wife of a high-born knight, he ...
Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and studen at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend Margot. Before long, Walker ...
The large print, dyslexia-friendly edition of this essential companion to the Harry Potter stories includes the fully updated 2017 text and features a range of magical beasts from the wizarding world, from the harmless Puffskein to the terrifying Thunderbird, brought to life with interior line art by ...
Zatmenie, tretí diel Twilight ságy, by mal vyjsť najneskôr v apríli 2009. Na začiatok septembra 2009 je naplánované vydanie slovenskej verzie štvrtého dielu Twilight ságy, ktorý sa v angličtine nazýva Breaking Dawn a v slovenčine sa bude volať Úsvit. Približne v rovnakom čase by mal vyjsť aj ďalší román ...
When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati. the most ...
The achievement of Stephen King is unlike that of any writer. He has taken a genre which was somewhat moribund when he came to it -- the horror novel -- and transformed it into one of the most phenomenally successful areas for quality popular writing -- what''''s more, his unprecedented sales success ...
When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard? Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is also the ...
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she''''d never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital to be treated for depression. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele ...
Jedinečný humor britského spisovatele Simona Bretta, díky kterému se knihy o Prevítovi staly u nás i ve světě knižními bestsellery. Jste zkušení rodiče a myslíte si, že víte, co vaše milé a roztomilé batole potřebuje? Tato kniha vám otevře oči, ať chcete nebo ne. Teprve díky ní pochopíte, že každé dítě ...
Zemeckisův film je brilantním shrnutím dosavadních režisérových poznatků o možnostech "comicsového" vyprávění. Formálně i obsahově nejméně konvenční z jeho snímků přesvědčuje komediálními gagy i naléhavě patetickým tónem. Jeho hrdinou je prosťáček Forrest Gump, typický obyčejný muž, který od dětství ...
When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder — much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It\''s hard to call the police ...
Historický román Alias Grace je založen na skutečných událostech, vraždách Thomase Kinneara a Nancy Montgomeryové, z nichž byla obviněna mladičká služebná Grace Marksová a sluha James McDermott. Za mladou Grace, trpící ztrátou paměti, přijíždí do věznice po deseti letech mladý psychiatr Simon Jordan, ...
As the wife of a leading paediatric plastic surgeon, Tessa Russo can''t help but contemplate how fragile life can be. She has witnessed, too often, her husband Nick''s sombre mood when he returns from a call-out, knowing that another child has been hurt - damaged, perhaps, beyond repair. Each time, Tessa ...
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 ...
The internationally bestselling love story from Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything. Now a major film starring Yara Shahidi.Natasha:.I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute ...
Fall in love, break the curse. Break the curse, save the kingdom. Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall, is cursed. Forced to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year over and over, he can only be freed by love. But at the end of each autumn he is transformed into a beast hell-bent on destruction, and after ...
The No.1 Bestselling Series Enter a land of wizards, warriors, mythical creatures and powerful magic in an exciting fantasy adventure from the author of How To Train Your Dragon. Witches are creating havoc in the Wildwoods and danger lurks behind every tree trunk. Wish is in possession of a powerful, ...
Zjednodušená francouzská četba pro děti na základní škole. Součástí knihy je poslechové CD, doplňkové aktivity a obrázkový slovník. - příběh PB3 a robota Robina z planety P3, kteří se ocitnou na Zemi. Přátelé Coco a Coralie jim opět pomohou.
