Kniha – autor Karel Jaromír Erben; Božena Němcová; Josef Lada, 120 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá The most beautiful Czech classic fairy tales, such as "Princess Goldie”, "Cook, Mug, Cook!”, "Mr. Long, Mr. Broad and Mr. Sharpeye”, "The Gingerbread House” or "The Seven Ravens”. Josef Lada (1887 ...
Zrcadlový text vám přináší příběh jak v českém tak anglickém jazyce – na levé straně knihy je původní text, na pravé jeho překlad do češtiny. Ideální čtení nejen na dovolenou, u kterého se pobavíte, ale navíc se procvičíte v angličtině! Klasický příběh je převyprávěn pro dnešní čtenáře, s využitím běžné ...
National Bestseller Selected as one of NPR?S Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of All Time The #1 New York Times bestselling authors ultimate edition of his wildly successful first novel featuring his preferred text and including his special Neverwhere tale, How the Marquis Got His Coat Back ...
In the second novel of King''s bestselling fantasy masterpiece, Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger, encounters three doors which open to 1980s America. Here he joins forces with the defiant Eddie Dean and courageous, volatile Odetta Holmes. And confronts deadly serial killer Jack Mort. As the titanic ...
A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring nov el, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World ...
A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on ...
The return of the best-selling, award-winning economist extraordinaire With the same powerful evidence, and range of reference, as his global bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century - and in columns of 700 words, rather than 700 pages - Chronicles sets out Thomas Piketty''s analysis of the financial ...
An internationally bestselling fable about a spiritual journey, littered with powerful life lessons that teach us how to abandon consumerism in order to embrace destiny, live life to the full and discover joy. This inspiring tale is based on the author''''s own search for life''''s true purpose, providing ...
Juliette Ferrars thought she\''d won. She took over Sector 45, was named the new Supreme Commander, and now has Warner by her side. But she\''s still the girl with the ability to kill with a single touch—and now she\''s got the whole world in the palm of her hand. When tragedy hits, who will she become? ...
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Little Friend, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list The sunlit rails gleamed like dark mercury, arteries branching out silver from the switch points; the old telegraph poles were shaggy with kudzu and Virginia creeper and, above them, ...
From the author of The Architect''s Apprentice and Honour, The Forty Rules of Love is Elif Shafak''s compelling and profound novel following Ella Rubinstein on a journey of self-discovery, examining life and love through Sufi mysticism. Discover the forty rules of love.Ella Rubinstein has a husband, ...
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed responds to the heartbreak of the current refugee crisis with this deeply moving, beautifully illustrated short work of fiction for people of all ages, all over the world. A short, powerful, ...
Cujo is so well paced and scary that people tend to read it quickly, so they mostly remember the scene of the mother and son trapped in the hot Pinto and threatened by the rabid Cujo, forgetting the multifaceted story in which that scene is embedded. This is definitely a novel that rewards re-reading. ...
inch.this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken inch. (Oliver James, Contact Magazine) A novel and comprehensive approach to transferring from the C to F instrument. 430 music examples include folk and national ...
The final volume sees gunslinger Roland on a roller-coaster mix of exhilarating triumph and aching loss in his unrelenting quest to reach the dark tower. Roland''''s band of pilgrims remains united, though scattered. Susannah-Mia has been carried off to New York to give birth, Terrified of what may happen, ...
It''s 200 years since Cinderella found her prince, but the fairytale is over. Sophia knows the story though, off by heart. Because every girl has to recite it daily, from when she''s tiny until the night she''s sent to the royal ball for choosing. And every girl knows that she has only one chance. For ...
Winner of the Children''s Book Prize Winner of the Costa Children''s Book Award Winner of the London Book Fair Children''s Travel Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award, Children''s category Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal ''I loved The Explorer'' Jacqueline ...
No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses", which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic ...
Truly deserving of the accolade "Modern Classic", Donna Tartt''''s novel "The Secret History" is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college ...