What legacy would you choose to leave behind for your children? When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give \''a last lecture\'' lecture, he didn\''t have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. But the ...
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 ...
An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe.An astonishing truth concealed for centuries... unveiled at last.While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly ...
Waris Dirie (the name means desert flower) lives a double life - by day she is a famous model and UN spokeswoman on women''''s rights in Africa, at night she dreams of her native Somalia. Waris, one of 12 children, was born into a traditional family of desert nomads in East Africa. She remembers her ...
WHAT WAS LOST WILL BE FOUND.Harvard professor Robert Langdon is summoned to deliver an evening lecture in the Capitol Building, Washington DC. But within minutes of his arrival, a gruesome and disturbing discovery is made at the epicentre of the Rotunda. Langdon recognizes it as an ancient invitation, ...
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 ...
The complete fourth novel from Stephenie\''s Meyer\''s bestselling Twilight Saga, now with a gorgeous new cover to match the film artwork. To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her ...
Do prastarého města Ankh-Morporku dorazil fotbal! Ne ten starodávný, plný hrubého okopávání a odstrkování, ale ten nový, rychlý, kde jsou brankové tyče vyznačeny špičatými klobouky, a s míčem, který udělá bummpin! a vyskočí, když s ním udeříte o zem. Teď musí mágové Neviditelné univerzity zvítězit ve ...
Amos Decker, David Baldacci\''s unique special agent with the gift of a remarkable memory, returns in The Fallen. Small towns which have seen better times are not unusual. But the mysterious events in Baronville, Pennsylvania, are raising the highly-tuned antennae of agent Amos Decker and his FBI partner, ...
How I Came to Know Fish (1974) is Ota Pavel\''s magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia. Fishing with his father and his Uncle Prosek - the two finest fishermen in the world - he takes a peaceful pleasure from the rivers and ponds of his country. But when the Nazis invade, his father and two ...
The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring up at the bedroom windows. Round its neck is his ...
Andy Larkham ist zu spät. Er sollte längst auf der Beerdigung seines Lieblingslehrer sein, der ihm einst sagte: "Es ist harte Arbeit, jemand zu sein". Besonders hart ist es für Andy: Stecken geblieben in einem schlechten Job, immer knapp bei Kasse und mit einer Frau verlobt, die im Begriff ist, ihm den ...
This deluxe, illustrated edition celebrates the New York Times-bestselling series, The Kingkiller Chronicle—a masterful epic fantasy saga that has inspired readers worldwide. One: The Name of the Wind. My name is Kvothe. I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town ...
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Little Friend, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list The sunlit rails gleamed like dark mercury, arteries branching out silver from the switch points; the old telegraph poles were shaggy with kudzu and Virginia creeper and, above them, ...
The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of On the Road—typed as a single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper, which he later taped together to form a 120-foot ...
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can''t contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we ...
In the second novel of King''s bestselling fantasy masterpiece, Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger, encounters three doors which open to 1980s America. Here he joins forces with the defiant Eddie Dean and courageous, volatile Odetta Holmes. And confronts deadly serial killer Jack Mort. As the titanic ...
THE OFFICIAL MOVIE TIE-IN EDITION. The major motion picture releases on February 14, Valentine\''s Day 2018, and is based on volume three of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestselling trilogy with more than 150 million copies sold worldwide. When unworldly student Anastasia Steele first encountered ...
The perfect gift for fans of HBO''s Game of Thrones--a boxed set featuring the first five novels!An immersive entertainment experience unlike any other, A Song of Ice and Fire has earned George R. R. Martin--dubbed ",the American Tolkien", by Time magazine--international acclaim and millions ...
Split into two books for the paperback, the third volume in George R.R. Martin''''s superb and highly acclaimed epic fantasy A Song of Ice and Fire continues the richest, most exotic and mesmerising saga since The Lord of the Rings. The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud, and winter ...
