Frederic Henry is an American Lieutenant serving in the ambulance corps of the Italian army during the First World War. While stationed in northern Italy, he falls in love with Catherine Barkley, an English nurse. Theirs is an intense, tender and passionate love affair overshadowed by the war. Ernest ...
Kathy ist einunddreißig Jahre alt und arbeitet als Betreuerin. Wann immer sie durch England fährt und hinter Pappeln ein halb verborgenes Herrenhaus sieht, muss sie an Hailsham denken, das Internat, in dem sie ihre Kindheit und Jugend verbrachte. Unwillkürlich steigen dann in ihr Erinnerungen an Tommy ...
AutorJ. R. R. TolkienVydavateľstvoHarperCollinsVäzba BrožEAN 9780261102736Strán448Rozmery 111 x 178 mm Designed to take fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings deeper into the myths and legends of Middle-earth The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. ...
"Rodrick Rules" is the hilarious sequel to bestselling and award-winning "Diary of a Wimpy Kid". Perfect for readers of 8+, reluctant readers and all the millions of Wimpy Kid fans out there. "Rodrick Rules" was also a major movie hit at the box-office and the rib-tickling third "Wimpy Kid movie, Dog ...
světová literatura v anglickém překladu - dílo Haruki Murakami vypráví příběh dvou dávných spolužáků Aomame a Tenga, ona je geniální fyzioterapeutka, on vynikající matematik se spisovatelským talentem. Ti dva se celých dvacet let neviděli, v hloubi duše ale nepřestávají myslet jeden na druhého. Oni sami ...
First came the days of the plague. Then came the dreams.Dark dreams that warned of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil.His time is a t hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse ...
Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London in the year AD 2540 (632 A.F.—"After Ford"—in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that combine ...
The House of Hades&,nbsp,is the fourth book in the bestselling Heroes of Olympus series, set in the action-packed world of Percy Jackson.The stakes have never been higher. If Percy Jackson and Annabeth fail in their quest, there''ll be hell on Earth. Literally.Wandering the deadly realm of Tartarus, ...
A condensed guide to life from the bestselling author of "The Black Swan", Nassim Nicholas Taleb''''s "The Bed of Procrustes" is an invaluable collection of aphorisms navigate the modern world. Why are we so often unwilling to accept that life is unpredictable? In this brilliant book Nassim Nicholas ...
Ten years after the horrific murders at Freddy Fazbear\''s Pizza that ripped their town apart, Charlie, whose father owned the restaurant, and her childhood friends reunite on the anniversary of the tragedy and find themselves at the old pizza place which had been locked up and abandoned for years. After ...
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A STORY OF LOVE AFTER DEATH ''A masterpiece'' Zadie Smith ''Extraordinary'' Daily Mail ''Breathtaking'' Observer ''A tour de force'' The Sunday Times The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, ...
Pokud by vás to napadlo, tak tohle není žádná love story. Jmenuju se Tori Springová. Ráda spím a ráda bloguju. Minulý rok – před tím vším, co se stalo s Charliem a předtím, než jsem se musela vypořádat s maturitou a přihláškou na vysokou a faktem, že jednoho dne opravdu budu muset začít s lidmi mluvit ...
Ellery''s never been to Echo Ridge, but she''s heard all about it. It''s where her aunt went missing at age sixteen, never to return. Where a Homecoming Queen''s murder five years ago made national news. And where Ellery now has to live with a grandmother she barely knows, after her failed-actress mother ...
Before he was Ciri''s guardian, Geralt of Rivia was a legendary swordsman. Season of Storms is an adventure set in the world of the Witcher, the book series that inspired the hit Netflix show and bestselling video games. Geralt. The witcher whose mission is to protect ordinary people from the monsters ...
Tabby McTat is purr-fectly happy, singing along all day with Fred the busker. But when Fred gives chase to a thief, the two are separated. Will they ever find each other again? A heart-warming story of friendship, loyalty - and kittens! ''Our five-year-old gave it the thumbs up, and that''s about the ...
Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and increasingly bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer extraordinaire, is trapped in a twisted and broken body - not that he allows it to distract him from his daily routine of torturing smugglers.§Nobleman, dashing officer and would-be fencing ...
It''s the eleventh book in the bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series! The pressure''s really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his ''creative side''. As if that''s not scary enough, Halloween''s ...
Charlie is a freshman. And while he\''s not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his years yet socially awkward, he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it. Charlie is attempting to navigate his way ...
When the doors of the lift crank open, the only thing Thomas remembers is his first name. But he\''s not alone. He\''s surrounded by boys who welcome him to the Glade - a walled encampment at the centre of a bizarre and terrible stone maze. Like Thomas, the Gladers don\''t know why or how they came to ...
