Cloud Atlas meets Orphan Black in this epic dimension-bending trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray about a girl who must chase her father\''s killer through multiple dimensions. Marguerite Caine\''s physicist parents are known for their groundbreaking achievements. Their most astonishing ...
Kniha - autor Haruki Murakami, 224 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá.What will you get for your birthday this year? A chance to see into the future? Or a reminder of the imperfect past? In this enviable gathering, Haruki Murakami has chosen for his party some of the very best short story ...
This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate, the ...
They caught Number One in Malaysia. Number Two in England. And Number Three in Kenya. They tried to catch Number Four in Ohio.and failed. I am Number Seven. And I'm ready to fight. I've seen him on the news. Followed the stories about what happened to John Smith. To the world he's a mystery, ...
Seventeen year old Jonah Daniels has lived in Verona Cove, California, his whole life, and only one thing has ever changed: his father used to be alive, and now he\''s not. Now Jonah must numbly take care of his family as they reel from their tragedy. Cue next change: Vivi Alexander, new girl in town. ...
Harry Bosch is facing the end of the line. He's been put on the DROP - Deferred Retirement Option Plan - and given three years before his retirement is enforced. Seeing the end of the mission coming, he's anxious for cases. He doesn't have to wait long. First a cold case gets a DNA hit for ...
Paperback edition of this short novel of remarkable depth, power and poignancy from the author of }Atonement{, among many other acclaimed novels. In a hotel in Dorset in 1962, a couple who got married that morning are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties ...
The second part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety. The Treason of Isengard continues the account of the creation of The Lord of the Rings ...
Luke Skywalker dreamed of adventures out among the stars and alien worlds. But when he intercepted a message from a beautiful captive princess, he got more than he had bargained for and that was how the adventure of his life began....".
It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers. Through these layers of conflict ...
Perhaps the greatest short story collection in the English language, James Joyce\''s Dubliners is both a vivid and unflinching portrait of "dear dirty Dublin" at the turn of the twentieth century and a moral history of a nation and a people whose "golden age" has passed. His richly drawn characters-at ...
"Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should read The Second Sex". (Guardian). Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote, ''One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman''. In this seminal work of feminism she examines the limits of female freedom and explodes our deeply ingrained beliefs about ...
Wunderschöne Geschichten und Reime für die Zeit vor dem Schlafengehen verzaubern in dieser Jubiläumsausgabe alle kleinen Schlafmützen.
Malcolm Gladwell is the master of playful yet profound insight. His ability to see underneath the surface of the seemingly mundane taps into a fundamental human impulse: curiosity. From criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell takes everyday subjects and shows us surprising ...
This groundbreaking new translation of The Interpretation of Dreams is the first to be based on the original text published in November 1899. It restores Freud''s original argument, unmodified by revisions he made following the book''s critical reception which included, under the influence of his associate ...
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett''s "The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone" is the most influential and talked-about book on society in the last decade - now updated with a new chapter on the controversy the book has ignited. Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why ...
James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era''''s defining quality--the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. We live in the information age. But every era of history ...
Delight your little one with the sounds and sights of a mysterious night in Sherlock Holmes in the Hound of Baskervilles: A BabyLit Sounds Primer. Alison Oliver\''s bold illustrations correspond with Jennifer Adams\'' clever, simple text to create pairings little bibliophiles will love to have read to ...
