After the Feast - A Dance with Dragons 2 (A Song of Ice and Fire).HBO''s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin''s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: AFTER THE FEAST is the SECOND part of the ...
Why does the West rule? Eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing uniquely on 15,000 years of history and archaeology, and the methods of social science. In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepren eurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and ...
You do not mess with the Special Investigators! The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher's drifter life in a practical way. In addition to his folding toothbrush, he now needs to carry photo ID to get around. Yet he is still as close to untraceable as a human being in America can get. So when a member ...
Second in the ground-breaking HUNGER GAMES trilogy, this new foiled edition of CATCHING FIRE is available for a limited period of time. After winning the brutal Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta return to their district, hoping for a peaceful future. But their victory has caused rebellion to break out.and ...
Celebrate Christmas with the ultimate Shopaholic! A Sunday Times bestseller. Longlisted for the Comedy Women In Print Prize 2020The brilliant laugh-out-loud festive novel from the Number One bestselling author. Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) adores Christmas. It''s always the same - Mum and Dad hosting, ...
A fun and interactive way for children to learn and listen to over 100 school words spoken by a native speaker. Children will love selecting a card with illustrations of a topic, slotting it into the books special frame and pressing an illustration to hear the word read aloud. Each of the four double-sided ...
When you''''re as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly-set, freshly-busted nose, patched with silver duct tape - it isn''''t easy to hitch a ride. But Reacher has some unfinished business in Virginia, so he doesn''''t quit. And at last, he''''s picked up by three strangers - two men and ...
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 ...
Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then banned. The seven stories are all concerned with love, or rather with the complex erotic games and stratagems employed by women and especially men as they try to come to terms with needs and impulses ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Tess of the D''Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy. "I would be content, ay, glad, to live with you as your servant, if I may not as your wife; so that I could only be near you, and get glimpses of you, and think of you as mine.I long for only one thing in heaven ...
Toru Okada\''s cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada\''s vague and blameless life, spent ...
Nobel Prize winning author John Steinbeck, one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, offers a powerful but tragic tale in "Of Mice and Men". ''''Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don''''t belong no place''''. George ...
In the vein of The Time Travelers Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwabs genre-defying tour de force. Addie La Rue has learnt the hard way that deals with the devil are tricky things. Immortal but eternally invisible and forgotten ...
Limitovaná edícia s ukážkou z pripravovaného titulu Inferno. When the National Security Agency''s invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock ...
This is Charles Bukowski´s brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a detective story. Packed with wit, invention and Bukowski´s trademark lowlife adventures, it is the final novel of one of the most enjoyable and influential cult writers of the last century. Nicky Belane, private detective and career alcoholic, ...
The New York Times Bestseller ''An addictive Jilly Cooperesque saga'' Guardian ''A fun, fast-paced read packed with drama, scandal and romance'' The Sun Crazy Rich Asians meets The Crown in this completely addictive modern-day royal romance. The Washingtons have ruled America for almost 250 years. They''re ...
Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another. Today, the Soviet Union is no more and the democracies of the European Union reach as far ...