How do you punish an immortal? By making him human. After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world ...
Millions of young readers have loved the World’s Worst Children tales – now they will revel in this delightfully dreadful collection of the most gruesome grown-ups ever: The World’s Worst Teachers. From the phenomenally bestselling David Walliams and illustrated in glorious colour by the artistic genius, ...
Jedna z vrcholných tragédií Williama Shakespeara je drama zločinu, svědomí a trestu a divadelní sonda do hlubin lidské duše, z nichž se rodí zlo. Macbeth, skotský šlechtic a hrdina, člověk obddivovaný a uctívaný všemi, v této hře podlehne ctižádosti a touze po moci natolik, že se dopustí zločinu nejtěžšího ...
Within just a few pages of Neil Gaiman''''s novel American Gods, he commandingly reveals that he is at his considerable best with this disturbing and dark journey into the hidden soul of America. Gaiman, one of the most talented and imaginative writers at work today, achieved nigh-legendary status with ...
Jane Eyre was an immediate bestseller, and most critics liked it. One reviewer wrote: ‘It is one of the most powerful domestic romances which have been published for many years.’ In this Reader you will find: A short biography of Charlotte Brontë | Glossary | Comprehension activities | PET-style activities ...
Presents an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Starting with his shipwreck on this most alien of shores, this novel charts Blackthorne´s rise from the status of reviled foreigner up to the heights of trusted advisor and eventually, ...
he novel that gave birth to the video games ''Metro 2033'' and ''Metro: Last Light'' The breathtaking original story that inspired both the METRO 2033 and METRO: LAST LIGHT video games! An international bestseller, translated into 35 languages. Set in the shattered subway of a post apocalyptic Moscow, ...
This book contains an introduction by Adam Thirlwell. Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, "I Served the King of England" is a story of how the unbelievable came true. Its remarkable hero, Ditie, is a hotel waiter who rises to become a millionaire and then loses it all again against ...
The hotly-anticipated sequel to SIX OF CROWS, this is Game of Thrones meets Ocean''s Eleven in a fantasy epic from the number 1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Leigh Bardugo.
This box set presents 8 books of a series about a young boy in middle school facing the troubles and joys of school and writing them down in his diary.1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid.The debut book, it introduces Greg Heffley who discovers that middle school is a battle-field of a sort, what with half the kids ...
Geralt, the witcher of Rivia, is back - and this time he holds the fate of the whole land in his hands.For more than a hundred years, humans, dwarves, gnomes and elves lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over and now the races once again fight each other - and ...
"The Last Straw" is the rib-tickling, belly-aching and laugh-out-loud third title in the bestselling and award-winning "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series by Jeff Kinney. Perfect for both boys and girls of 8+, reluctant readers and all the millions of devoted Wimpy Kid fans out there. "The Last Straw" was ...
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God''s elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she ...
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 ...
''The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears'' house. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. But the dog was not running or asleep. The dog was dead. There was a garden fork sticking out of the ...
Kniha - 352 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná The Wizards Guild has been shattered by a coup and, in the uproar, Geralt was seriously injured. The Witcher is supposed to be a guardian of the innocent, a protector of those in need, a defender against powerful and dangerous monsters that prey ...
