Illustrated, fun-to-use dictionary, designed to present and consolidate basic vocabulary. This beautifully illustrated dictionary contains more than 1,500 words most needed by young learners. The book is topic-based and presents vocabulary through attractive pictures and meaningful text. With The Express ...
The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel is now available in a gorgeous, limited clothbound edition, featuring both New York Times bestselling volumes bound as one, new cover art, and special extra content. Now 1,500 people can revel in The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel in a new way with this limited printing ...
Read the original books before you see the How to Train Your Dragon film! This book will be a hit with children and adults alike. THE STORY BEGINS in the first volume of Hiccup''s How to Train Your Dragon memoirs. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the ...
From the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies comes a new tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and ...
The in-crowd wears Gucci but one girl wears her heart on her sleeve. From the bestselling author of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA comes a no-holds barred expose of the world of the Manhattan super-rich.Bette gets paid to party.Well, to plan them, anyway. And she can hardly believe her luck. Running with celebs, ...
Book Four of The Sword of Truth, the series first begun in Wizard''s First Rule, returns listeners to the world of Richard Cypher, a simple woods guide who never dreamed he would be named the Seeker of Truth and become caught up in magic, war, and dangers so extraordinary that the fate of his entire ...
Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station? Why is it impossible to get a foot on the property ladder? How does the Mafia make money from laundries when street gangs pushing drugs don't? Who really benefits from immigration? How can China, in just ...
'Bushnell's beat is that demi-monde of nightclubs, bars, restaurants and parties where the rich come into contact with the infamous, the famous with the wannabes and the publicity-hungry with the gossip-peddlers' EVENING STANDARD Wildly funny, unexpectedly poignant, wickedly observant, SEX ...
Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer and Pen/Faulkner prizes, The Hours is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. A passionate, profound and haunting story of love and inheritance, hope and despair. Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s, taken from her beloved Bloomsbury ...
Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn''s sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name, ''Breakfast at Tiffany''s'' is Truman Capote''s timeless portrait of tragicomic cultural icon Holly Golightly, published in ''Penguin Modern Classics''. It''s New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from ...
Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated ...
Zbierka lyrickej poézie Sonety Gabriely Spustovej Izakovičovej obsahuje dva sonetové vence: Sonet slobody a Sonet túžob a sedem jednotlivých sonetov. Sonet slobody zverejňuje pocity autorky z atmosféry od Nežnej revolúcie po súčasnosť. Od nadšenia, cez mnohé sklamania a tápanie, až po prosbu, aby sme ...
For 17-year-old Rhine Ellery, a daring escape from a suffocating polygamous marriage is only the beginning. Running away brings Rhine and Gabriel right into a trap, in the form of a twisted carnival whose ringmistress keeps watch over a menagerie of girls. Just as Rhine uncovers what plans await her, ...
This book showcases the best and most humorous quotes from George R.R. Martin\''s favourite character Tyrion Lannister, the worldly, jaded, funny, highly intelligent, cynical, womanizing star of the books. A perfect stocking-filler for every fan of the books, and of HBO\''s award-winning television series. ...
"Slam" is a hilarious coming-of-age novel by bestselling author Nick Hornby. ''There was this time when everything seemed to have come together. And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up.'' Sam is sixteen and a skater. Just so there are no terrible misunderstandings: skating = skateboarding. ...
''What''s so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work''s already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the first place.'' The City Watch needs MEN! But what it''s got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable ...
Isabel Archer is an independent, intelligent young woman without much money. When her father dies, her rich aunt takes her to Europe, where Isabel has to make important decisions about money, love and happiness. "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles ...
It came to me first of all, quite suddenly, as a sort of legendary tale, suggested by my recollection of having once, in early childhood, seen a linen-weaver with a bag on his back; but, as my mind dwelt on the subject, I became inclined to a more realistic treatment. Falsely accused, cut off from his ...
Now a major film starring Ciarán Hinds, Charlotte Rampling, Natascha McElhone, Rufus Sewell and Sinéad Cusack. When Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. Mr and Mrs Grace and their twin ...
Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world''s No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake''s inimitable artwork. James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching. ...