An unusual girl. An enigmatic man. An ancient castle. What could go wrong?An outcast her entire life, Corvina Clemm is left adrift after losing her mother. When she receives the admission letter from the mysterious University of Verenmore, she accepts it as a sign from the universe. The last thing she ...
Autor : Garth Nix, Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Název : The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet stran : 512.
Vesm�r se m��e zd�t nekone�n�, ale vesm�rn� lod� jsou t�sniv� mal�. Kdy� se Rosemary Harperov� p�ipoj� k pos�dce Poutn�ka, ne�ek� toho moc. Tou�� jen po mal�m, klidn�m m�st�, kter� by mohla na chv�li naz�vat domovem, po dobrodru�stv� v dalek�ch ...
"If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams. And from there, it''s easy to control our entire lives." January is a dying planet - divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other. Humanity clings to life, spread across two archaic cities ...
'The best lives leave a mark.' A bewitching tale of first love, shattering grief, and the dangerous magic that draws us home. Mara's island is one of stories and magic, but every story ends in the same way. She will finish her days on the cliff, turned to stone and gazing out at the horizon like all ...
Vo štvrtom dieli Sprievodcu sa Arthur vracia na planétu, o ktorej bol hlboko presvedčený, že už neexistuje. Stretáva sa tam s dievčinou svojich snov, no kvôli vysoko nepravdepodobnej náhode (vyhrá v tombole a pri prevzatí ceny odovzdá tiket, na ktorý si napísal jej telefónne číslo) ju zasa stráca. Nájde ...
Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Název : In A Garden Burning Gold, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet stran : 568
In this shimmering Chinese-inspired fantasy, debut author Joan He introduces a determined and vulnerable young heroine struggling to do right in a world brimming with deception. Tyrants cut out hearts. Rulers sacrifice their own. Princess Hesina of Yan has always been eager to shirk the responsibilities ...
Oddny and Gunnhild meet as children in tenth century Norway, and they could not be more different: Oddny hopes for a quiet life, while Gunnhild burns for power and longs to escape her cruel mother. But after a visiting wisewoman makes an ominous prophecy that involves Oddny, her sister Signy, and Gunnhild, ...
Temný i čarovný román z "trochu jiné" viktoriánské éry. Anglie je zahalena dýmem a sazemi; ty ale nepocházejí ze začouzených továren a komínů, ale z lidí. Je obecně známo, že hřích, vášeň a další nízké pudy se projevují dýmem, který stoupá z těl těch, kteří se nedovedou ovládat; pouze vyšší třída, trénovaná ...
