''You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart.'' John Bold has lost his heart to Eleanor Harding but he is a political radical who has launched a campaign against the management of the charity of which her father is ...
In this companion to Alphablock, Countablock, Dinoblock, and Cityblock, readers are introduced to more than 24 construction machines. As in the previous books, Buildablock features die-cut shapes on every other spread and the charming art of British design team Peskimo. Alphablock was chosen one of Parents ...
Tristan Wemyss, Earl of Trentham, never expected he\''d need to wed within a year or forfeit his inheritance. But he is not one to bow to the matchmaking mamas of the ton. No, he will marry a lady of his own choosing. And the lady he chooses is the enchanting neighbour living with her family next door. ...
WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov''s iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari.
The New York Times bestseller that celebrates the dreams, acceptance, and love that parents have for their children... now and forever! From brave and bold to creative and clever, Emily Winfield Martin''s rhythmic rhyme expresses all the loving things that parents think of when they look at their children. ...
Magráta s Verencem mají dceru a připravují velkou oslavu k jejímu křtu. Na oslavu jsou pochopitelně pozvány i čarodějky - Bábi, Stařenka a Anežka Nulíčková. Bábino pozvání ukradnou straky a Bábi, která se cítí tímto domnělým přehlédnutím uražena, se rozhodne opustit Lancre, protože dojde k názoru, že ...
Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up wearing clothes altogether, a spiritualist lives in a cottage with the ghost of her husband, and people think it quite natural to confide in a spider that lives in a potting shed. ...
''Point Omega is a treat: the most satisfying and least cryptic of DeLillo''s late novels'' Sunday Telegraph Reading the fiction of Don DeLillo is an utterly original experience: powerful, prescient, perceptive. Writing in a prose that is both majestic and muscular, his unerringly accurate vision penetrates ...
Following the publication of Anna Gavalda''s international bestseller, "Hunting and Gathering", this book introduces us to Anna Gavalda''s witty and dazzling collection of stories, "I Wish Someone Were Waiting For Me Somewhere", together with her heart breaking and poignant novella, "Someone I Loved" ...
Touch the wooden gate in the wall you never saw before, say ''please'' before you open the latch, go through, walk down the path... The reader is invited on a lyrical journey peopled by a cast of mythical characters, with a set of instructions that is both intriguing and reassuring. The advice for travelling ...
Darren Shan, Mr Crepsley and Vancha Marsch, are the hunters of the dusk. Their quarry - the Vampaneze Lord. But friends old and new may stand in their way! It is six years after Darren was made a Vampire Prince and following a grim prophesy made by Mr Tiny, the vampires know the ascension of the Vampaneze ...
''Of man''s first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world.Sing heavenly muse'' From almost the moment of its first publication in 1667, Paradise Lost was considered a classic. It is difficult now to appreciate both how audacious an undertaking ...
\''Bataille is one of the most important writers of the twentieth century\'' Michel Foucault \''Literature is not innocent,\'' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate ...
Mario Puzo''''s first acclaimed novel, before his creation of the international bestseller, "The Godfather". This is an astounding story of corruption and betrayal. Hardened by the brutality and desceration of three long years of war, Walter Mosca returns to America a changed man. But he has no sooner ...
The book of the major new film starring Nicole Kidman and Matthew Broderick. Photographer Joanne Eberhart has just moved home to Stepford with her family, but for some reason she is having a lot of difficulty making new friends. As far as Joanne is concerned, there’s something peculiar about the women ...
The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man’s search for safety of a man torn beween the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s McCarthyite America. Born in the U.S. and reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salomé. Making himself ...
