The star of Northanger Abbey" is seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, Jane Austen''s youngest and most impressionable heroine. Away from home for the first time, on a visit to Bath with family friends, Catherine, a passionate consumer of novels (especially of the gothic variety), encounters a world ...
Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark.Lisey knew it when she first fell for Scott. And now he's dead, she knows it for sure. Lisey was the light to Scott Landon's dark for twenty-five years. As his wife, only she saw the truth behind the public face of the famous author - that ...
originální anglická četba - další ze sci-fi příběhů od známého spisovatele R. RIORDANA - Percy Jackson, syn boha moře, se probouzí z hlubokého spánku.
Paul Christopher''''s Valley of the Templars is the next exciting John Holliday novel. Retired Army Ranger John Holliday and his friend Eddie travel to Cuba in search of Eddie''''s mysteriously vanished brother-and find themselves desperately trying to stop a shocking plot of a secret Templar cabal that ...
The sparkling debut children\''s novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children\''s author in the country, with sparkling new cover look to tie in with later books. Dennis was different. Why was he different, you ask? Well, a small clue might be in the title of this book. ...
Conan the Cimmerian: the boy-thief who became a mercenary, who fought and loved his way across fabled lands to become King of Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nore demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the ...
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 ...
Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, ''A Room of One''s Own'' interweaves Woolf''s personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen and Bronte to Shakespeare''s gifted (and imaginary) sister. ''Three Guineas'', Woolf''s most impassioned polemic, came ...
The thrillingly dark sequel to New York Times bestseller, Divergent- a major motion picture franchise. One choice can transform you - or it can destroy you. Tris Prior\''s initiation day should have been marked by victorious celebrations with her chosen faction; instead it ended with unspeakable horrors. ...
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts I & II - Joanne K. Rowlingová.Vydavateľ: Little Brown Book, Väzba: Knihy viazané, Rok vydania: 2016.The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later. Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne. Based on an original ...
Originální anglická obrázková knížka pro děti - magický příběh o přátelství malého chlapce a tučňáka, který se rozhodne dopravit tučňáka domů na Jižní.
London - the perfect place for a girl and her mother to spend the day! Follow them as they board the classic red bus and begin a whirlwind tour of some of London''s most iconic landmarks. Try to climb the awe-inspiring lions at Trafalgar Square, take in the ritualistic Changing of the Guard, experience ...
From the New York Times bestselling author, Paper Towns is soon to be a major motion picture (summer 2015) starring The Fault in our Stars sensation Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne.Quentin Jacobsen has always loved Margo Roth Spiegelman, for Margo (and her adventures) are the stuff of legend at their high ...
For Fox, Caleb, Gage and the other residents of Hawkins Hollow, the number seven portends doom—ever since, as boys, they freed a demon trapped for centuries when their blood spilled upon The Pagan Stone. Their innocent bonding ritual led to seven days of madness, every seven years. And now, as the dreaded ...
Conner Bailey thinks his fairy-tale adventures are behind him - until he discovers a mysterious clue left by the famous Brothers Grimm. With help from his classmate Bree and the outlandish Mother Goose, Conner sets off on a mission across Europe to crack a two-hundred-year-old code. Meanwhile, Alex Bailey ...
This delightful and engaging introduction to the history of art for children comes in a beautiful oversized format and features intricate illustrations with hidden details. Children love to pore over detailed illustrations, especially when they contain hidden elements for them to find. This endlessly ...
Novela indického autora Sumita Mullicka, která vychází ve dvojjazyčném česko-anglickém vydání, je prvním vykročením tohoto zajímavého spisovatele mezi české čtenáře. Aby mohl být člověk píšícím rebelem, musí mít fantazii. Musí být rebelem s fantazií. Sumit Mullick je takovouto osobností. Zavádí nás do ...
The second book in Hilary Mantel''s award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a stunning new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light An astounding literary accomplishment, Bring Up the Bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one ...
The astonishing international bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist''s own stroke led to enlightenment. On the morning of the 10th December 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left ...
