This is the film tie-in edition of John Green''s witty yet heart-breaking tour de force. Featuring 7 stills from the hotly anticipated movie from Twentieth Century Fox. "I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once." Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her ...
Titul je novinkaNajde svou skutečnou matku? Dojemné líčení osudů žen z různých světů, jež strhne čtenáře přesvědčivostí a hlubokou pravdivostí. Život doktorky Somer se odvíjí přímo ideálně: Právě se vdala a zahájila lékařskou kariéru v San Francisku. Pak ale přijde rána z čistého nebe – dozví se, že ...
"Kafka on the Shore" follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father''s dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly ...
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 ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ''Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire ...
The thrillingly dark sequel to New York Times bestseller, Divergent- a major motion picture franchise. One choice can transform you - or it can destroy you. Tris Prior\''s initiation day should have been marked by victorious celebrations with her chosen faction; instead it ended with unspeakable horrors. ...
Down the rabbit-hole and through the looking-glass! Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories features all of the best-known works of Lewis Carroll, including the novels Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, with the classic illustrations of John Tenniel. This compilation ...
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 ...
George Orwell''s chilling fable of Soviet Russia''s brutal dictatorship, "Animal Farm" brings to life in lucid, uncomplicated language the disastrous project of Russian Communism. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury. ''All animals are equal - but some are ...
''''It''''s said that a Jack Reacher novel is bought every four seconds somewhere in the world.Lee Child''''s genius has been to create a tough guy hero that men will envy and women will adore". (Daily Express). After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher ...
''''I shall do one thing in this life - one thing for certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.'''' Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy ...
The No.1 bestselling series from current Waterstones Children''s Laureate and author of How To Train Your Dragon, Cressida Cowell.Enter a land of wizards, warriors, mythical creatures and powerful Magic in an exciting fantasy adventure. Wish and Xar are outlaws on the run, hunted by Warriors, Wizards ...
Enter the Grishaverse with book two of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by number one New York Times-bestselling author Leigh Bardugo. Perfect for fans of Laini Taylor and Sarah J. Maas. Now with a stunning new cover and exclusive bonus material: Nikolai Lantsov character art and a Q&A with Leigh Bardugo. ...
When sun flares hit the Earth, intense heat, toxic radiation and flooding followed, wiping out much of the human race. Those who survived live in basic communities in the mountains, hunting for food. For Mark and his friends, surviving is difficult, and then an enemy arrives, infecting people with a ...
The eighth book in the Discworld series. "Of all the cities in the world it could have flown into, it flew into mine.. " Some night-time prowler is turning the citizens of Ankh-Morpork, greatest city of the fantasy Discworld*, into something resembling small charcoal biscuits. And that''''s a real problem ...
Canadians have enjoyed a long history of encounters with Shakespeare, from the visual arts to creative new adaptations, from traditional and nontraditional interpretations to distinguished critical scholarship. We have in over two centuries remade Shakespeare in ways that are distinctly Canadian. The ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Despite dating from the 4th century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as the single most important work on the art of persuasion. As democracy began emerging in 5th-century Athens, public speaking ...
"The Penguin Classics" edition of Anne Bronte''s "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall", her groundbreaking study of a woman''s valiant struggle for independence from an abusive husband is edited with an introduction and notes by Stevie Davis. Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and ...
Grimm''s Complete Fairy Tales collects more than two hundred tales set down by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early decades of the nineteenth century, among them some of the best-loved and most famous fairy tales in all literature: ''Little Red Riding Hood,'' ''Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs'', ''Cinderella'', ...
Forced to move from the rural tranquillity of southern England to the turbulent northern mill town of Milton, Margaret Hale takes an instant dislike to the dirt and noise that seems to characterize her new home and its inhabitants - even the handsome and charismatic cotton mill owner, John Thornton. ...
