Darren Shan, the vampire''''s assistant is forced to march to Vampire Mountain where he will be judged by the vampire princes. THE SAGA OF DARREN SHAN BOOK 4 Darren Shan and Mr Crepsley make a long and dangerous trek to the vampire''''s stronghold in the mountains. The trek is a test of skill and endurance ...
Filled with creative, playful activities, This Book Thinks You’re an Artist asks budding artists to imagine their eccentric- artist alter ego before working through seven key topics: observation, drawing, color pattern, design, sculpture, and, crucially, how to steal ideas (Be inspired! Offend the viewer!). ...
Tim Burton is one of the most popular and remarkable filmmakers of the last 30 years, being responsible for such films as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride and Alice in Wonderland. He is famed for the visually arresting style of his films that combine with highly original ...
Shortlisted for the 2018 Waterstones Childrens Book Prize. A dragon with a short temper is not a good combination, as Fergal''s family and friends soon find out. He burns the dinner (literally), reduces the football goal to ashes and absolutely cannot play a nice, quiet board game. It is only when he ...
Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him! O these fashionable people!''Frances Burney''s first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century ...
Jiné děti dostávají na hraní xylofonky. Zuzance stačilo požádat dědečka, aby si vysvlékl vestu. Ano. V té rodině je Smrť. Je težké vyrůstat jako obyčejné děvče, když dědeček jezdí na velkém bílém koni a máchá kosou. Pak najednou musíte z jistých důvodů převzít zavedený rodinný podnik a spousta lidí si ...
Childhood friends Mackensie, Parker, Laurel and Emmaline have formed a very successful wedding-planning business together but, despite helping thousands of happy couples organise the biggest day of their lives, all four women are unlucky in love. Chef Laurel McBane has worked hard all her life to secure ...
Discourses on Livy, written in 1531, is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republican state. Comparing the practice of the ancient Romans with that of his contemporaries provided Machiavelli ...
When tragedy strikes close to home, teenager Mickey Bolitar and his loyal new friends - sharp-witted Ema and the ever-charming Spoon - find themselves at the centre of a murder investigation involving their friend Rachel. Now, not only does Mickey have to continue his quest to uncover the truth about ...
''To love him was not enough for me after the happiness I had felt in falling in love. I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.'''' Leo Tolstoy, known to the world for his famous novels, also created throughout ...
One war waged against one man: RAMBO First came the man: a young wanderer in a fatigue coat and long hair. Then came the legend, as John Rambo sprang from the pages of FIRST BLOOD to take his place on the world s cultural landscape. This remarkable novel pits a young, disillusioned and ragged Vietnam ...
This title comes from the international bestseller of "The Godfather". A story of big-time gamblers in a feverish world where law and organised crime are one and the same.. From New York to Las Vegas, Merlyn and his brother Artie obey their own code of honour in the ferment of contemporary America - ...
The gripping conclusion to the new Darkness Rising YA trilogy from bestselling author Kelley Armstrong. Maya Delaney is a skin-walker - a supernatural who can Shift into the shape of a cougar. But just as she learns this extraordinary truth about herself, she also discovers that Shifting comes with a ...
Pride and Pleasure&,nbsp,- the classic erotic romance - by Sylvia Day - author of the sensational international bestselling&,nbsp,Bared to You, first book in the Crossfire series - is a tale of ambition, love and lust.Pursued by fortune hunters, heiress Eliza Martin is the victim of diabolical ...
A follow up to Over and Under the Snow and Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt, this time focusing on the rich, interconnected ecosystem of a mountain pond. As parent and child launch a canoe from the muddy shore and paddle through water lilies, they see frogs jump and painted turtles slide off logs, ...
"The Pale King" is David Foster Wallace''''s final novel - a testament to his enduring brilliance. The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the minutaie of a million daily lives are totted up, audited and accounted for. Here the workers fight a never-ending ...
